multiple lawmakers, latest lindsey graham saying that julia pierson needs to go. in her multihour testimony yesterday, at the she failed to tell the house oversight committee about that incident in the elevator. >> what percentage of the time do you inform the president if his personal security is in any way, shape or form been breached? >> percent of the time, 100% of the time we would advise the president. >> in calendar year 2014, how many times has that happened? >> i have not briefed him with the exception of one occasion for the september 19th incident. >> joining me now, the author of this book "the first family detail" ronald kessler. welcome. >> good to be with you. >> let's begin with this incident in the elevator. the fact that they didn't know until after the fact and until after this guy had a cell phone out and he was trying to take pictures of the president and they told him to put it down did they realize he had a gun. what's protocol if you get in the elevator with the president? >> protocol is you never allow anybody in the elevator with the pres

. >>> i julia pierson -- >> reporter: an historic day in the oval office. julia pierson sworn in as the first female director of the secret service. >> obviously she's breaking the mold in terms of directors of the agency. >> reporter: barbara riggs was the agency's first woman deputy director and pierson's mentor. >> when i did hear the news i obviously was thrilled. >> reporter: an orlando native, pierson, who is 53, studied criminal justice at the university of central florida, worked as a police officer during college and became a secret service agent in miami after graduating. >> she's a go-to person. >> reporter: pierson has worked behind the scenes and in the field for 30 years. most recently serving as chief of staff. in 2007 she told "smithsonian" magazine her most challenging day on the job in washington was 9/11. we didn't know if what was happening was a prelude to more attacks, she said. i was in charge of making sure everyone was accounted for. the appointment comes at a pivotal time for the secret service. last april, several agents were embr

julia pierson, director of the secret service has resigned.urable weeks heading an agency that nobody believes stands up to its historic legacy. it came last night with the "washington post" report that an

>>> by mid afternoon, julia pierson delivered her resignation to jay johnson. in an interview, pierson said i think it's the best interest of the secret service and the american public if i stepped down. congress has lost confidence in my ability to run this agency. the media made it clear that this is what they expected. the president's family woke up to this headline this morning in their local paper. man with gun was feet from obama. that was the latest in a series of stunning revelations by "the washington post." this morning's washington post front page was clearly the last straw for the white house. the white house press briefing was delayed three hours today and began immediately after the secret service director submitted her resignation. >> this afternoon, the president had the opportunity to telephone director pierson to express his appreciation for her service to the agency and to the country. director pierson offered her resignation today because she believed that it was in the best interest of the agency to which she has dedicated her career. the s

as gloria said, look at what got them to julia pierson.chief of staff and also a she and it was coming off of a very big scandal where it looked like it was a boy's club and they wanted to have a woman in there and it didn't work out. ironically for the same reasons that the men had problems because it was a culture of cover-up and not having actual accountability so it was gender neutral. but finding somebody who is going to be appropriate, but not too heavy handed is not easy. >> it will have to come from the outside, i think. they went inside and stuck with the culture, now i think they have to go somewhere else. >> they need somebody with a lot of credibility and experience, someone who can take that secret service and make it what it is supposed to be, the elite organization that protects the president and the first family. all of those who work at the white house. guys, thanks very much. you can follow us on twitter, tweet me at wolf blitzer or tweet the show at cnn sit room. and join us tomorrow right here at the situation room or d

pierson was appointed director in march of last year to the s reputation. question, how's she doing? part of the secret service's leadership since 2008. she served for predecessor mark sullivan who did such a stellar job, he was in charge during the colombian prostitution scandal and two agents were pulled from the president's detail. one for leaving a bullet in a woman's hotel room and another for sending sexually suggestive e-mails to a subordinate. pierson was director in march of this year when the secret service sent three agents home from the netherlands after a night of heavy drinking. how do we know it was heavy drinking? one of the agents slept it off in a hotel hallway! i just love the idea of the united states secret service being represented so brilliantly. >>> and this latest security breakdown is really a much bigger deal, and to allow the residence of office of the president of the united states to be this vulnerable should result in a complete and utter management house cleaning. and homeland security as well as the secret service. at least

for julia pierson, that time came today. the first female director of the secret service was forced out after one security lapse after another, including one that was revealed yesterday even as she was being grilled by congress. we'll begin tonight with senior white house correspondent bill plante. >> reporter: support for julia pierson's leadership of the secret service was already waning after her experience before a house committee yesterday. it evaporated with the revelation that agents were unaware that during a visit last month to the c.d.c. in atlanta, a security contractor who had been previously arrested was allowed on an elevator with the president. it wasn't until he took photos of the president that he was questioned and then fired and agents discovered that he was carrying a gun. in a meeting this afternoon with homeland security secretary jay johnson, pierson resigned. white house press secretary joshua earnest. >> we've seen recent reports raising questions about the performance of the agency. and the presiden

julie pierson might still be running the secret service if not for media. details the white house didn't know. a fence jumper with a knife made it all the way to the east room after he overpowered an agent. the post also disclosed the botching of a probe when seven bullets struck the white house back in 2011 and "the washington examiner" revealed the service had allowed an armed felon to share an elevator ride with president obama two weeks ago. pierson's weak and defensive performance during a house hearing produced a media drum beat for her ouster. >> i didn't hear a complete endorsement of julia pierson. >> it's just a matter of time now before that person will be replaced. >> director pierson should resign today. >> the white house briefly struggled yesterday to defend her. >> so are you telling me this morning that the president of the united states and the first lady have confidence in julie pierson to run an agency that is supposed to protect two daughters. >> yes, joe, they have confidence in them. >> hours later pierson resigned telling bloomberg n

they say he was 18-year-old carol pierson. they say what happened is pierson walked into arapahoe high school yesterday with a shotgun. from all account, was apparently targeting a specific teacher. a librarian who was also a speech and debate coach. apparently pierson was on the speech and debate team. apparently the targeted teacher found out that pierson was inside the school and left immediately. then at some point a 15-year-old girl came in pierson's path. authorities say they was shot and is currently in critical condition. of course, when the shots rang out, they sent the more than 2,000 students in this school into hiding. authorities say at some point pierson turned the gun on himself, taking his own life. now, last night, authorities searched pierson's home in centennial, colorado, of course, looking for the motive here. students say pierson was smart, nice and a gifted debater and, gregg, they say they're shocked this shooting happened. >> how quickly were authorities able to respond, will? >> from all accounts, the

should director pierson step down? does president obama think that's the right course of action at this point? >> the president and the white house have confidence in pierson's ability to do this job. we have confidence in the review that she's undertaking about exactly what happened, the incident that you referred to that happened a couple weeks ago. it's something they're taking seriously. they've upped some of the security procedures already. and she's undertaking that review. we're letting that process go forward. the president has confidence that she has the ability to run the department. and to conduct this review. we'll see what comes of that. >> i know josh continues to say the president has confidence in the secret service. i guess the question is why. because lawmakers on capitol hill yesterday who i was speaking with, just a lot of americans, say they're losing confidence. so why does the president still have confidence, particularly when we're just learning about this breach? atlanta that occurred when he w

everybody is ganging up on pierson, who has just been in the job a little over a year. she came to congress and said i need some tools to have better personnel perform wrans, and she suggested first some changes in educational requirements which she wanted increased. some better changes. she wanted authority for management. people could stay in management positions that are qualified, and then last of all and we saw this with the v.a., we finally gave v.a. the ability to hire and fire people who don't do their jobs. just holding people accountable. whether you have julia pierson or someone else, you've got to have the ability to control your agency and get good people. >> so yes or no, you're not calling for her resignation? yes or no. >> no, inlt. i think at this time it's actually premature. whether she stays or goes, whoever is in charge -- congress has had some of her proposals. we don't need all these commissions. they have the authority. pass the law. do your job. we could give her the tools to clean up the mess. >> there's no time to have a bunch of hearings beca

julia pierson was her name. the first female ever of the secret service. her job to restore confidence. she took the job in march of last year. that hardly put an end to the secret service's trouble. every day now, every hour it brings with it a new troubling revelation, but what we already know about the secret service is worrisome enough. a man wearing a cartoon pikachu hat and carrying a stuffed doll of the pokemon character hopped the fence at the white house. he was stopped by secret service. then a week later secret service agents allowed an armed man with a criminal record to ride in an elevator with the president. he aroused the agent's concerns when he wouldn't stop taking video of the president despite being ordered by the agents not to. he had a gun on him in the elevator with the president. a gun. a man jumped the fence and this time made it all the way into the white house. it turns out he was armed with a knife. there were initial reports that he only made it to the portico of the white house. those reports were wrong. he made it all the way

collectively, these failings prompted director pierson to resign wednesday, but questions persist as the secret service lost its edge in the three decades since the assassination attempt against president ronald reagan. the man ultimately in charge of the secret service is homeland security secretary jeffsonson. darrell. has the length of time since want reagan assassination attempt eroded the secret service's sense of risk. eleanor clift. >> i think it's possible that some come o play senussi -- complacency has set in. it's been penetrated but if you're over there, it's like an armed camp. as a reporter, you have to go through several check points. itst no the easy -- it's not easy to get into. agencies walk around the perimeter, probably their attention wanders sometimes, and that's unacceptable. the secret service as a whole, everybody i have dealt with is very professional. there are a few people not doing their job. i think it's a question of management, and i think it's a question of resources. they don't have enough money, and julia pierson, i think she was installed in that j

julia pierson neglected to tell people any of this stuff. i need to mention the post's writer who owns this story and is responsible for these revelations, and in terms of needing a new director of the secret service, i don't think you need much more than a knife-yielding maniac getting over the fence and into the white house. that's clearly all the president needed. the president just learned just hours it was in the press that he was next to a crazy armed felon guy in an elevator weeks zblag we don't know if he was crazy but he was an armed felon in the elevator with the president. the secret service didn't know about his past and the fact he was armed. that is a big national security concern. >> apparently he was acting, if not crazy, he was giddy just to be next to the president and the secret service didn't discover until later when they pulled him aside and were interviewing him and his boss came in to fire him from the local security detail and said hand me your gun and that's when they learned he was armed. they had been the known un

. >> director pierson should resign today. yords why she has not resigned as a matter of honor and duty and service to their country. she has got to go. >> do you think she should go? >> i think so. >> look at why julia pierson blamed the media. the press pushing back hard against the president, appearing to shift the blame for underestimating isis in his intelligence agencies, but the media also fall short in covering these dire warnings? the nonstop coverage of the ebola virus dominating the news. >>> hat hour, health officials casting a wide net in an effort to track down everyone that was exposed to ebola here in the united states. >> we here are talking about ebola the last few days. do we need to? >> are we reaching the point where the mainstream media are scaring people? >>> plus when the miami harold exposed a fling with diana rice? a new look at that bit of monkey business. i'm howard kurts, and this is media buzz. >>> begin with a series of washington post scoop. the service botched the probe of the white house being

seems as if the president is quite willing to leave director pierson in place. there seems to be no insistence upon accountability in this administration whatsoever even when it comes to the president's own family and his own life! >> it's a delicate position for the president. he doesn't want to say my gosh, my family and i are scared witless because we don't know if anybody is protecting us. publicly i think he's got to make that persona out there. however, first of all when that incident happened and the jumper got inside, not one but several people should have been fired on the spot. and it should have been very clear, oos not just unacceptable, it's abominable to put the president and his family at risk is unconscionable with all the money we pay for what's supposed to be the most secure place on earth. lou, i've been in and out of white house over the course of many times of governor career and stayed there a few times. it used to be pretty darn tough for me to get in even when i was driven by state troopers, and thoroughly checked out. i cannot imagine th

katrina pierson blamed the rise the surge in iraq, during her time as senator. (katrina pierson/ trump spokeswoman) "and barack obama went into afghanistan creating another problem. it was hillary clinton and her incidents in libya which was also a reckless decision to create that vacuum. they armed the rebels and they're even funding them now." (victor blackwell/ cnn correspondent) "ok, so so you're saying barack obama took took the country into afghanistan post 2009 is that that what you're saying?" (katrina pierson/ trump spokeswoman) "what i'm saying is the policies barack obama and hillary clinton, that was obama's war, yes." trums sarcastic, "but not that sarcastic." ((nia wong)) >>> 8 news now is your local election headquarters for all the races and political news that matter to you... on air and online at las vegas now dot com./// ((nia wong)) >>> coming up on 8 news now. >> crazy pita is celebrating their 10 year anniversary with the josh stevens foundation. how you can help right after this break. more heat to come, but a chance of rain and "now, live

i think that was probably the final bro for julia pierson -- blow for julia pierson. gwen: we spent a lot of time on this program talking about the veterans affairs administration and all the terrible things that happened in the v.a. that led to the resignation of the guy at the top, which didn't fix the problems. so i'm wondering if now that we have led to the resignation of the person at the top here at the secret service, whether there's still more digging to be done. >> oh, absolutely. agents have talked to me all the time, they say the problem is called the eighth floor. it's a series of leaders where e meritocriyy doesn't rule up.gets low level rank and file are so demoralized because they get dinged for forgetting to file their paperwork. there is a terrible lack of leadership at that level because of the way they've allowed this agency to be eroded from a budget standpoint. from a staffing stand point. they're flying in field agentses from other offices at huge expense now because they don't have enough guards on the white house grounds to monitor the complex

pierson, julia pierson, the director of course, resigned yesterday, telling bloomberg news, quote, if the secret service of the american public if i step down. congress has lost confidence in my ability to run the agency. the media made it clear this is what they expected. officials say -- officials say -- well, i'll tell you. president obama lost faith after learning he shared an elevator last month at the cdc with an armed man with a criminal record. pierson only told president obama moments before it was reported. >> i can tell you, though, that the white house first learned of that incident yesterday afternoon, shortly before it was reported, before it was publicly reported. >> the agency did foot tell the white house about it. he didn't know about it until yesterday. >> until it was reported publicly, that's correct. we've seen recent and accumulating reports raising questions about the performance the agency. and the president concluded new leadership of that agency was required. >> so what we've gotten from sources close to the white house and the secret service is that there

breaking news tonight, the president fired secret service director julia pierson today. officially president obama accepted pier son's resignation after her disastrous hearing in front of the house oversight committee yesterday. a hearing that saw both republicans and democrats outraged at the failures of the agency charged with guarding the life of the president and his family. the house oversight committee, democrats and republicans blasted pierson for her agency inability to stop an armed white house fence jumper from getting within feet of the president's personal residence within the white house. and they determined that seven shots had been fired from a car four days after that incident dating back to 2011. and the secret service didn't inform the president until yesterday that an armed private security guard who is a multiple fell on was allowed into an elevator while armed with president obama at the centers for disease control during his visit there two weeks ago. to make matters worse, press secretary josh earnest today confirmed that pierson kept the cdc incid

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ed pierson for free.ok in the information pierson gave them after the second deadly crash. >> i was at a loss to understand it >> reporter: is boeing too big to fail, is boeing too big to be regulated? >> that's a possibility. i mean, boeing certainly has received unusually favorable treatment from the faa and from government aviation regulators. >> reporter: pierson says he doesn't know if what he witnessed contributed to the crashes but feels it's imperative that the production line is investigated to make sure >> somewhere in the end of my letter to the board i said no one wants to wake up one morning and hear of another accident, and that's exactly what happened >> reporter: while boeing has previously acknowledged mistakes including that their anti stall system contributed to both crashes, this morning boeing is pushing back strongly saying that the 737 is one of the safest planes flying and they say, quote, the suggestion by mr. pierson of a link between his concerns and the recent max accidents is

police have identified the gunman as 18-year-old karl pierson. we're learning more about where they're looking for clues. today, investigators plan to search the home where he lived. they're also searching his father's home to see if that could give them some ideas into whether this was all planned, how long he had been planning, what his motivation may have been. we spoke with the sheriff that says one of the many things they're focusing in on honing in on is where the gun came from. you may recall he walked into this school behind me, arapahoe high school, with a shotgun. it wasn't even concealed. where did that come from, what hands did it pass. the sheriff hoping to bring more details at a press conference this afternoon. yesterday was a horrifying scene for the students in particular who had to go into lockdown as shots rang out. listen to how it all unfolded. >> school on lockdown, not sure why. there's smoke. the north side of the school. there's a fire in the library. >> chaos and confusion at arapahoe high school. >> i am on the north si

pierson has been completely transparent with us. >> is her job on the line? >> 9 director of the secret service said this -- >> this is unacceptable. and i take full responsibility. >> she then went on to defensively make excuses for every terrible display of utter incompetence the secret service has given us in their protection of the white house and the first family. she tried to give defensive speeches instead of answers to very simple questions. >> your agency previously had reported an indictment against mr. gonzalez, asserted that he was arrested in that entry area. isn't it true that he actually penetrated the cross hall, the east room, and, in fact, was arrested in the vicinity of the green room. >> referring to your map on the wall, as i have been briefed, mr. gonzalez entered the front double doors. >> ma'am, i want a short answer. i have very little time. >> that was the day that i agreed with darrell issa. that's not the darrel issa i have seen in other hearings. that was darrel issa being perfectly reasonable today and final bly losing patience w

pierson's testimony on capitol hill yesterday did her no favors. she was pummeled by questions from members of congress who questioned her about the fence jumper who managed to make his way across the white house lawn and into the executive mansion and into the east room before finally, thankfully being stopped. we are joined by justice correspondent pamela brown and jim acosta and justice reporter evan perez. mr. acosta, let us start with you. how did this all play out? >> according to white house press secretary josh earnest, earlier this morning the white house had confidence in secret service director julia pierson and things changed during the course of the day. senior democratic lawmakers are starting to break ranks with this white house and saying they did not have confidence in julia pierson and it was at a meeting earlier this afternoon with dhs secretary jay johnson that julia pierson offered her resignation and following that meeting the president called her to thank her for her years of service. you mentioned this latest security incide

director julia pierson admits agents did not follow protocol. >> i don't sense from you, director pierson, a sense of outrage about that. >> i wish to god you -- you protected the white house like you're protecting your reputation here today. >> reporter: omar gonzalez is in court today facing three counts for jumping the fence and making it all the way into the east room of the white house. initially the secret service said he was stopped just inside the door. >> were you lying to the american people, or were you misled by your own agents about where the intruder was tackled? >> the secret service is conducting an ongoing investigation. >> tremendous restraint is not what we're looking for. the message should be overwhelming force. >> americans know that the next attempt to take the white house may not be by a crazed solo knife-wielding veteran with ptsd. it could well be a planned attack from a terrorist organization. >> reporter: and there's another concern, too, that agents, the rank-and-file, may be afraid to speak up to their superiors. director pierson tells congress that is unacce

pierson was a member of the team. two. that's why he came to the campus armed with a shotgun and two molotov cocktails. what investigators don't know now is why the 15-year-old girl who remains in critical condition in the hospital was shot. there were initial reports, they say, that she confronted the shooter. they are not sure those reports are accurate. they are still investigating that. there are four separate crime scenes that investigators are looking at. this high school behind me, arapahoe high school, they are looking at the shooter's car and the house where he lived with his mother and his father's house. this investigation will continue throughout the weekend. christi and victor. >> we are expecting, of course, over the next few days, to hear more about what happened inside the school while this was going on. already we heard from some of the students standing outside of the school and crying, reliving what happened. what are they telling you? >> reporter: terrifying experience that these students recount.

katrina pierson back with us now.atrina, you can hear me okay sf. >> i can. >> i was asking about the mix message, the incongruent message coming from donald trump. saying he's not going to release his tax returns yet mike pence said he will. very strange running mates going in different directions on the issue. >> it isn't a mixed message. mike pence doesn't run an international company. and mike pence isn't under an audit. mr. trump has been forward and up front from the beginning he'll release his tax returns after the audit is complete. >> let's talk about a message that donald trump is hoping to drive home starting tomorrow, he'll be releasing his plan on how this country were to battle isis if he's president of the united states. what should we expect? >> i think you should expect the details that everyone has been asking for with regards to the way the mr. trump wants to handle terrorism as commander in chief. we have been at war, this is longest war we have had in u.s. history and it's not doing the country an

publically--it sounds more like a warning to hillary clinton. [[ katrina pierson "donald trump isn't targeting bill clinton, hes pointing out hillary clintons role in trying to silence women who have accused him of horrendous billionaire is aiming his political fire at the democratic frontrunner ...and her husband, who's now scheduled for 3 more campaign stops in new hampshire next week. [[ bill clinton / iowa 184205 hillary has the right temperament and the proven ability to figure out a way to make good things happen. privately, the trump campaign tells nbc news it hopes to force the popular former president off the campaign trail. publically--it sounds more like a warning to hillary clinton. [[ katrina pierson "donald trump isn't targeting bill clinton, hes pointing out hillary clintons role in trying to silence women who have accused him of horrendous things." a point theyre trying to hammer home on instagram. [nat] instagram (different nat than yesterday) [[ pierson 14;16;09 if she is going to continue this line of attack of trying to label republicans as sexist, she needs to tr

>> so you were not satisfied with what the director, julia pierson, had to say today, were you? >> well, i wasn't satisfied because we continue to ask questions and she was saying that it was a budget concern, it was another type of concern. and yet when we asked piercing questions, what we found was that indeed it is probable that she made some of the very decisions to reduce staffing that created this potential concern. and so why were the dogs not released? a lot of still unanswered questions that i think americans deserve. >> so where do you go from here? what can congress do to try to fix this problem? >> well, it is a bipartisan thing. you heard democrats and republicans today very concerned that what we've got is an agency with a culture that must be turned around. the current director has been there for 17 months and yet we can still see that even among some of those that showed up at the hearing today that they acknowledge that they've got a problem. so we need to give our secret service the tools necessary. hearings are not enough. we're probably about to go into an ex

you saidor pierson, this was an operational failure. others talk about salary, number of personnel, budgets. this november 19 failure was in no way related to a lack of funding or personnel, is that accurate to say? is accurate to say that the officers on duty that night failed to execute the security protocols that they should have. isbut you are not saying it 100% operational failure? you are not ruling out that this may be a resource issue, correct? >> i believe we need to look at our training protocols and our staffing protocols, so, yes, that would refer back to resourcing. >> and budgets that have been mentioned, the budget request for fiscal year 2014 the agency $822 million. there's a disconnect here, and i think that -- let me ask you this rating to this. -- relating to this. you have a guy, gonzÁles, all the agents know who is is by this time. he had been arrested in virginia. he had with him and white house map. he was able to leap defense cannot, get deep inside the white house. secret service agents stood between him and pe

julia pierson, director of the secret service has resigned. it turns out unendurable weeks heading an agency that nobody believes stands up to its historic legacy. it came last night with the "washington post" report that an armed man with a criminal record, an armed man was allowed to ride in the elevator with the president of the united states. that must have been an unchallengeable challenge to miss pierson. a bigger challenge confront as bigger fish. how is the president going to get people to follow him through a dimly lit tunnel. endlessly bad news about a spreading terrorism and a spreading disease. it is now part of a trinl of horrors. ebola which we'll go deep entire the next selling sxmt isis which continues reaching for more territory. a land ruled by the harshest of islamist rule. that's what we're facing with the president. he being out on point. all these crisis have no quick fixes. president obama ran on hope and the new. right now everything new is bad. and this right now is the age of containment and it will require him to com

does pierson have to go?nk the president needs to have a long conversation with jay johnson and his security team but there is this pattern, as you've pointed out correctly, chris, of security lapse and then coverup. and it's gone on, this is multiple times. we have the incident in 2011 where you had a shooter shoot at the white house hitting the white house six or seven times, and then four days later, they discovered the white house had been attacked. we picked up mr. gonzalez back in july. he had 11 weapons including several sniper rifles and scopes and red light laser scopes, those were, you know, those were the ideal weapon to go after the president at the white house. they knew he had mental illness. they picked him up several weeks later outside the white house with a hatchet in his belt. >> right. >> and on both occasions they let him go. i mean, where do the red flags start? they don't have to incarcerate the person necessarily, and they discussed the problems dealing with people with mental illness.

and then pierson spoke to bloomburg news. one, she said i think it is in the best interest of the secret service and the american public if i step down. congress has lost confidence in my ability. the media has made it clear this is what they expected. what does the media have to do with it? >> exactly. look, as somebody who is the media, your job in the government is to ignore me. if you start listening to me, you are in trouble. >> that goes for everyone. not just the people in government. >> especially me. >> that means no one should listen to you. >> exactly. i don't listen to me. if you asked mooy what i said earlier i would tell you i don't know. >> if you heard those things you would be out rained. >> i wrote an grie -- an gree letters to myself. >> she did another thing that was worse. she came to her decision after she met with the homeland security chief. she said, quote, we met in person and after that discussion i felt this was the noble thing to do. you can't call your own actions noble. it is like giving yoursel

what happened with director julia pierson on that incident? >> i can tell you we first learned about that incident shortly before was reported lou: we will be talking with louie gohmert on whether the embattled agency is going to go forward from here. also today, benjamin netanyahu urging the president to show leadership and to end the iranian pursuits of weapons. president obama showing more support at the u.n. general assembly. >> the violence engulfing the region has made too many israelis ready to a been in the hard work of peace and that is something where the of reflection within israel. and let's be clear, the status quo in west bank and gossett is not sustainable. >> we also recognize that we have to find ways to change the status quo so that both israeli citizens are safe and school children are safe in their schools from the possibility of rocket fire. lou: an important difference of emphasis. a former israeli ambassador to the united states joins us now on what it feels to face radical islamic terrorists. and new concerns about the

secret service director julia pierson has resigned in the wake of security lapses at the white house. fox's own ed henry is standing by in the briefing room with the very latest tonight. ed. >> reporter: sean, a really dramatic turn of events because as of this morning josh earnest, the press secretary, was doing various television interviews saying the president still had full confidence in julia pierson. what changed in those few hour sns a number of things. one, white house officials say they only learned late yesterday about this second breach in recent days. but this elevator incident where a security guard with a gun who had a criminal record got very close to the president. and it turned out julia pierson while briefing the president recently about the fence jumping incident that really started all this did not disclose what had happened in atlanta. that was a problem. but i've pressed josh earnest on why it took a resignation from the director. why didn't the white house push to get her out if they were so troubled by this? listen. why didn't senior people here at the white ho

we, obviously, this morning have been focusing on julia pierson.ing some questions. them us a bit about who she is. >> well, julia pierson is the first ever female to head up the secret service with a lot of different facets to her career, which started in law enforcement in the 1980s three years later, she was in the secret service as a special agent, herself, with the miami office. she went on to serve as a four-year student with the presidential protective division. that position does not require senate confirmation. pierson held several different titles throughout her 30-year career and comparing to the last, to her predecessor, it's similar. you know the bicker question i guess you can ask, she was brought in to clean up the frat boy culture. but it looks like everybody who leaves has actually been brought up in that culture. and you wonder about the choice for a lot of reasons, but let's get to the news in terms of what has happened and what we have learned since the case of the white house jumper broke and the hearings began, this then we di

apparently pierson was on the speech and debate team.e 15-year-old girl came across pierson's path, that is when authorities say he shot her. and when the shots rang out, it sent more than 2,000 students in the school running to hiding. >> we heard the gunshot and we got in the corner. the lights were off. we heard him yanking on the door. then we all tried to stay as quiet as possible. then we heard a pause and more gunshots farther down. >> authority say the targeted teacher left the school. and apparently a couple of minutes later, pierson turned the gun on himself and took his own life. we tell you that last night authorities searched his home and they look for mote i here to figure out if it was revenge that motivated him to go to the school with the shotgun. we can tell you that students say that pierson was nice, and very smart and a gifted debater and many say they were shocked that he actually went in and started shooting in to their school. as for the response, uma, we can tell you that authorities say things went very well. ev

the shooter has been identified as this guy, 18-year-old karl pierson.re with a shotgun before killing himself, and we know a 15-year-old girl was critically injured and hospitalized now. >> number two, the cause of the death of a woman who vanished from her hospital bed and later found dead in a stairwell has been ruled an accident. according to the medical examiner, 57-year-old lynn spalding died from dehydration and complications from chronic alcoholism. ms. spalding was discovered in the hospital after she went missing, 17 days after she went missing. >>> gunshots and a driver in the hospital. a silver corvette dodged police for an hour and a half before crashing into another car. police apparently shot the driver as he tried to escape. he was taken to a local hospital. do not know, however, his condition right now. >>> number four, china's newest spacecraft has landed on the moon. that makes china only the third country to make a soft landing there. the rover that will be doing all the work is called jade rabbit. people in china voted for that name.