carol linning joined me now. welcome back.triking assessment about the agency that is supposed to be protecting the president. how did it get this way? >> there are two major things that brought the downfall of the secret service, where agents are whispering to me they're worried about a president being killed on their watch. the first is the secret service keeps a lot of secrets, and some of the secrets are important to keep like how we protect the president from inhaling anthrax, but the secret part of the secret service has been abused by a subset of agents and especially leadership to cover up vulnerabilities, cover up mistakes, and to cover up gross misconduct that none of us in america would tolerate in any law enforcement team, much less the most ete one that protects our democracy. the second thing tha has happened is the service has been shortchanged, horribly shortchanged since 9/11. our country spent tens of billions of dollars protecting us from terror in the skies so that we fly safely and protecting us from terro