clancy. director clancy: good morning chairman chaffetz's ranking member cummings and distinguished members of the committee to thank you for the opportunity to be here to discuss the recent allegation of misconduct on march 4 of 2015 and agencies progress in fulfilling recommendations of independent u.s. secret service protective mission panel. as director i'm honored to lead the men and women of this import agency through this challenging time. with respect to the recent allegations i personally became aware of the incident on march 9 when i received a phonecall from a former agent informing me of an anonymous e-mail that was circulating. on that same date, i determined the allegation should be referred to the department of homeland security's office of the inspector general. i made this decision because allegations of misconduct involving employees at the gs-15 and higher level must be referred to the oig in accordance with departmental policy. i trust the oig's investigation will be thoro

clancy, for being here. i'm going to ask you a couple of specific questions about the incident we'll discuss here today and talk more generally about the agency. as best i can tell, a layman's summary of this is that a woman dropped off what she said was a bomb at 10:24 on a wednesday night. yet it looks like the be on the lookout order didn't go out until thursday afternoon at 4:15 does that delay surprise you? ordinary course of business? is that unusual? director clancy: i can't confirm. i'll ask my staff the actual time frame for that. mr. mulvaney: let's assume it is. would that be too long? director clancy: it would be too long. mr. mulvaney: i can assure you he it did take that long. i'm looking at the document. have you investigated why that happened? director clancy: our investigative office certainly will investigate why. they are going to look at the whole -- mr. mulvaney: you talked to your folks about this right? you talked to your senior folks about it. you have done perhaps not a formal invest

director clancy: yes. anytime we have an incident of this level, with a look at total calls, policies. are they sufficient? -- we have to look at protocols policies. are they sufficient? they will have to be addressed. even after having one beer or one glass of wine, that is something we will have to address. rep. carter: dui laws are pretty rough. director clancy: yes, sir. rep. carter: it breaks my heart to think that one of the agencies that has been a legend among the american people in the last six years has just come downhill substantially. it's a crime. our people need heroes. you are an agency that was considered heroes that protected every president matter what party they're in and did it in an effective and efficient job. this is heartbreaking to have this continued misconduct. i know you are new but i told you, you have a big job. you'll have to make heads roll. if there's a place to send people, the home hobby desert -- the mojave desert, so they know their behavior is unacceptable. inc. about

director clancy: by name? rep. rogers: bronson? director clancy: brawn. i believe the staff can correct me if i am wrong. rep. rogers: he was in charge at that time? is that correct? director clancy: yes sir. rep. rogers: did he report any of this activity to anyone else? director clancy: no, sir. rep. rogers: have you talked to him? director clancy: i haven't. it is frustrating to me to have to wait to do this. rep. rogers: why do you have to weigh? director clancy: i don't want to interfere with this investigation. in the past when we sought investigations were different people interviewed witnesses stories were perceived differently. i don't want to have any impact on that investigation. rep. rogers: have you asked around on what happened? director clancy: i have asked to see the report and i have seen nothing that indicates any written report indicating that this event as described had occurred. rep. rogers: what kind of their kid was it that they broke -- what kind of barricade was it that they broke? director clancy: an orange type barrier. on 15th

director clancy: yes. anytime we have an incident of this level, we have to look at protocols, policies. are they sufficient? they will have to be addressed. even after having one beer or one glass of wine, that is something we will have to address. rep. carter: dui laws are pretty rough. director clancy: yes, sir. rep. carter: it breaks my heart to think that one of the agencies that has been a legend among the american people in the last six years has just come downhill substantially. it's a crime. our people need heroes. you are an agency that was considered heroes that protected every president matter what party they're in and did it in an effective and efficient job. this is heartbreaking to have this continued misconduct. i know you are new, but i told you, you have a big job. you'll have to make heads roll. if there's a place to send people, the mojave desert, so they know their behavior is unacceptable. think about all that. the chairman has got plenty of hearings to attend. rep. rogers: why did yo

director clancy: i honor that. again, the workforce is listening to this testimony today and i think the message is being broadcast loud and clear that is not acceptable. rep. stewart: thank you director. >> thank you for taking this job in the first place. we offered other directors say we will take care of it. -- have heard other directors say we will take care of it. what will you do that is different? we have heard this before and with all due respect, how do you convince us that what you will do will be different? director clancy: i cannot compare myself to the previous directors but i will tell you that my focus is first accountability. this will be our first task. also, listening and communicating with the workforce. i know that sounds like101 101 leadership but our people want to be heard. that is why there is some of his frustration out there that we have not done a good job of listening to our people and showing them the respect. we have to see what the facts are for this case. in general if a young agent

clancy. congressman joseph chaffetz of utah chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the committee on oversight and government reforma come to order. without objection. without objection the chair chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. appreciate everybody being here. reforming the united states secret service is not a partisan issue. ranking member cummings and i have presented a united front on this issue and i look forward to continuing this important work with him on both sides of the aisle. the most important mission for the secret service is protecting the president and his family however a litany of recent mishaps to raise major concerns. in 2011 nobody recognized shots were fired at the white house until bullets were discovered by maintenance staff. it has been well publicized the secret service agents engaged in misconduct and cartagena amsterdam and miami. in september last year security contractor with an arres

director clancy: thank you. that morning, chairman carter, ranking members, and distinguish members of this committee. i'm pleased to appear before you to discuss the president's 20 16th budget for the secret service. as the newly appointed director, i'm honored to lead the men and women of this important agency through this challenging time despite allegations of miss conduct involving -- misconduct involving two agents, i have been impressed by the selfless dedication of the workforce as a whole and our people's willingness to take on necessary reforms in the betterment of the mission. with respect to these recent allegations, the secret service has turned over the investigation to the department of homeland security office of inspector general to ensure a thorough and independent review of this incident. i have committed full cooperation and eagerly await the oig's findings. turning to the budget, i want to thank all members for your work on the 2015 department of homeland security appropriations act. this su

clancy's response is because. >> clancy's response is ridiculous. he mentioned cartagena. in the case of that, with hiring prostitutes, the secret service put those agents who were not high-ranking, the way these were, on administrative leave. that meant their guns were taken way, the badges, their credentials. they were not allowed access to secret service buildings. their vehicles were taken away. where in this case, you have high-ranking -- host: was that at the direction of the former director? guest: mark sullivan, yeah. whereas in this case, what did clancy do with these high-ranking people? one of them he was on detail with for years. he did not put them on administrative leave. rather, he put them in other as a weapons, their credentials their vehicles. that is the double standard. i said you failed his first test. host:, st. louis missouri, lime for democrats. caller: this is that unless there is an incident 72 hours later, they eliminated to three of what more incident throwing it? -- eliminate the tape. what more incident is there then throwing it? they have the

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director clancy said no. the committee requested the supervisors on duty before and during the incident of march to testify today. but director clancy said no. we asked director clancy to turn over video footage of the incident and again the director said no. in our closed-door briefing last week director clancy was unable to adequately answer questions about the eventses of march 4th. instead, he asserted that by referring the matter to the inspector general, he was unable to ask any questions of his own. but congress is also doing an investigation. to not do an investigation would be malpractice on our part. congress has a role, we have a duty, we have a responsibility to conduct our own investigation. by refusing to allow the witnesses we invited to testify with firsthand knowledge of the incident director clancy is keeping congress and the american people in the dark. on top of that, the secret service has missed every deadline to provide this committee with information, with no legitimate explanation as

guest: i think those part of clancy's cover up. trying to blame everything on stress and having thinking problems. you know, every organization has some people who engage in excessive drinking it these agents, you know, when to a retirement party. they drink the way all of us do. but then the problem is they got into a government vehicle, when into the compound, they were belligerent. essentially disrupting a crime scene. so it goes far beyond drinking. and by claiming that there is a cultural problem involving drinking, clancy is diverging attention from what he should be focusing on, which is this corner cutting culture. and the fact that it took five days before he even learned of this incident did to an anonymous -- incident through an analysis -- and anonymous incident. that shows the cover-up mentality continues. that agents are afraid to report problems. and, you know, this hearing seems to be predicated on the idea that clancy has just taken over. that is not true. he has been acting director since october. on day one, he s

this is joe clancy's first litmus test as director. if he does not get ahead of of this and if disciplinary action is warranted, he'll take it and he'll ensure that proper protocols were followed. >> can i ask you a separate issue, this is a thorn in my side. secret service related but not on this incident. when questions were coming at the director he was at an appropriations committee hearing. he asked in the midst of this that the secret service needs $8 million to build a replica of the white house for training purposes. $8 million in the scope of government funding, not a lot. 8 million to you, me and everyone else is a lot. it was described as my producer said they're asking for an $8 million dollhouse to train in. do they need it? >> absolutely. absolutely. you have to look at the way that the secret service has been funded in the past and what we've done with training. one of the biggest problems with the secret service is that we have not had adequate training year over year. i applaud joe clancy and senior management of the s

director clancy: thank you. good morning chairman carter ranking members, and distinguish members of this committee. i'm pleased to appear before you to discuss the president's 20 16 budget for the secret service. as the newly appointed director, i'm honored to lead the men and women of this important agency through this challenging time despite allegations of misconduct involving two agents, i have been impressed by the selfless dedication of the workforce as a whole and our people's willingness to take on necessary reforms in the betterment of the mission. with respect to these recent allegations, the secret service has turned over the investigation to the department of homeland security office of inspector general to ensure a thorough and independent review of this incident. i have committed full cooperation and eagerly await the oig's findings. turning to the budget, i want to thank all members for your work on the 2015 department of homeland security appropriations act. for a second year in a row, this subc

director clancy said no. the committee requested the supervisors on duty before and during the incident of march to testify today. the director clancy said no. we asked director clancy to turn over video footage and again the director said no. in our closed door briefing last week he was unable to answer questions about the events of march 4th. he was unable to ask any questions of his own. congress has a role we have a duty, we have a responsibility to conduct our own investigation. director clancy is keeping the american people in the dark. they have missed every deadline to provide this committee with an explanation with no reason why. i was hopeful he would assist in understanding how to restore the agency to its prior stature this does not appear to be the case. the march 4th incident is concerning on three major points. number one, the interference of crime scenes by senior secret service personnel. number two allegations involving decisions, communications and dispositions of senior secret service pers

but here's the thing about director clancy. he had retired, he was in the private sector after a long career in the secret service, and he came back at the request of the president. and this is significant. it was the president who decided to override that recommendation of bringing someone from the outside and that's because mr. clancy is someone who headed up the president's detail when he was running for president now almost eight years ago. and when you're talking about secret service, you're talking about protecting the lie of the then-candidate and now-president. and there's a relationship and trust that's built on the most basic thing. keeping the principal alive, keeping that principal's family alive. for the president to choose mr. clancy it's a comfort level which cannot be discounted when it comes to who is going to be running the secret service. now it's incumbent, i think, upon the director to instill some confidence not only in the president but the american people that he's got that place under control. >> that c

$8 million according to clancy. who today had temerity to ask congress for funds to build a replica of white house for its training facility in maryland. high could not answer directly, and honestly questions posed by congress. but he had the guts to ask for money, he knew to penny how much he wanted. but why should president be put up with this? why should americans stan for this? if the secret service is incapable of protects its open reputation how well are they protecting aourb president. president said he is confidence in clancy, why i cannot imagine, does anyone see any reason in world that director should not be fired? and as high suggested fired right on the spot? our quote of the evening. 6american writer. we're coming right back. president obama does not like people. congress or sun light. his own party fumeing over his 6 rhettive trade agreement -- secretive trade you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. t

more problems now that he appointed clancy. the first problem happened to we factor clancy assumed directorship, and believe me there will be much more in the future. host: that is in "the washington post" from march 15. keith is up next on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. i just think until the secret service can get their problems worked out, they need to bring in some military ops, or something. something they already have that won't cost any money. transfer them there and let them be several lines of security until they get all this figured out. guest: that certainly would be an improvement as to someone in charge, from the military. look at the former fbi director, he came from a marine background. the previous director would punish agents who brought him bad news or is agree with them. that's why you had one general after another under him. even a case where he refused to implement polygraphs, which would have the issue some -- have stopped the issue some seven years later. then, another came in and he was ha

clancy? >> as i expressed are earlier, this is lugely important to me and to the agency. >> all right. so why did you -- you said earlier you didn't ask the question what they knew. you're not interfering with an investigation for you to be informed of what they knew. that wouldn't interfere with an investigation. why wouldn't you have asked the question? is it so that you could pull a sergeant schultz here today that you know nothing? i don't understand. >> no, in fact when i pulled that group together this hearing was not scheduled. i did that because, again it's probably hard to understand for this committee -- >> it is very hard for mr. lynch and i to understand how there would be a lack of inquisitive nature on why the director would not want to know. >> to be candid, i compartmentalized this incident. i gave it to the oig so that i could concentrate on -- i have protectees all around the world, classified documents i have tro keep up with president of afghanistan and all these other iss

clancy told congress he's frustrated that he didn't learn about the alleged misconduct of two senior officers until five days after the incident. steve handelsman has the story of the shocking way he learned of the news in our next half hour. >>> house speaker john boehner says he wishes him well republican congressman aaron shock, abruptly resigned this afternoon. he's faced weeks of questions about lavish spending on everything from rereck dek rating his office to resemitbl set of "downton abbey" so using public funds for personal trips. in a statement, he said in his word "the constant questions over the last six weeks have prove an great distraction that has made it too difficult for me to serve." >>> there is growing concern today for a missing prince george's county woman. 72-year-old dorothy fairweather was last seen on friday. that's in upper marlboro. she was wearing a blue shirt, blue pants, no shoes at the time. she has black hair but sometimes wears a red wig. if you have seen fairweather, call prince george's county police. >>> a spotsylvania woman is in jail acued of mu

clancy, and i'm very troubled. i'll yield back. >> thank you. >> now recognize the gentleman from virginia. >> thank you. mr. clancy, welcome to the committee and thank you for your service to your country. i want to white -- first of all, i think there's bipartisan -- a lot of bipartisan agreement on this committee about a problem obviously at secret service and i think that you're going to find those bipartisan in agreement in approach to how we resolve this. my friend mr. gowdy and his questioning raised a very interesting point. i'm pretty sympathetic with this point of view, but i'm opening to hearing a counterargument. you've got an oig investigation going on so they've got the tapes. well, congress has a constitutional role irrespective of what an oig is doing. now the fact that we have the power to compel doesn't always mean we should use it especially with an ongoing investigation. there are plenty of precedents for not doing that, for not dropping that hammer because we don't want to unduly interfere with

clancy. mr. really is engaging in mismanagement judgment which could result in his own assassination. that's what agents tell me. it's really a miracle that there's not already been an assassination. >> that is a big statement to say. that is a sobering thought to even put out there. but none theless, this is another incident in a string of incidents. it is amazing because we keep talking about the culture. sure doesn't seem like anybody has seen any change in that culture right now. always great to have you. thank you very much. >>> just in to cnn, we got some new information. there's a military briefing into that helicopter crash yesterday that killed seven marines, four army personnel. we're told there's a recovery effort now going on. it was a hi impact crash. let's listen to what military officials now say. >> we have retrieved remains, okay. that's all i can say at this point. we have a on service medical examiner on site right now. >> again, seven marines presumed dead, four army personnel

and $8 million according to director clancy. who today, had the tuemerity to ask congress for funds to build a replica for his training facility in maryland. he couldn't honest forth rightly and honestly questions by congress. but he had the guts to ask for money and he knew to the penny how much he wanted. why shz the president and americans stand for this? if the secret service is incapable of protecting its own reputation, how well are they protecting our president? the president says he's none the less confident in clancy. why i frankly can't imagine. but does anyone see any reason in the world that the director shouldn't be fired? and as he himself suggested, fired right on the spot. a quotation of the evening, pertinent i believe to the agents of the secret service to director clancy mr. obama and the congress that has the responsibility of oversight for the agency. eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions. everything we have done and have not done. the words of hubert selby, american

because clancy -- director clancy had a briefing privately with some key lawmakers who have some oversightle over the secret service. hearing about this tuesday night, because director clancy had a private briefing with some key lawmakers who have some oversight role over the secret service. and in that briefing, the members left it very disturbed. the reason was, he said i may not be able to give you any more tape because we have a policy of overtaping, basically writing over surveillance footage every 72 hours. there are hundreds of cameras on the perimeter that are trying to capture all sorts of angles of what's going on. when there's a serious incident, this footage is supposed to be saved, ie, not written over, so that the service can check out what happened, use it possibly in court for evidence and use it for protective intelligence to figure out how did that fence jumper get over the fence, where did we have a weak spot? so this video is retained when there are incidents. what director clancy told lawmakers today was, well, we had an incident that night, but a lot of the tape has b

also important to note that clancy's day on capitol hill continues. this afternoon he has a closed door briefing with members of the house oversight committee. he will undoubtedly get very difficult questions during that briefing as well. tamron, one more point i will make, he is asking for more money to better train agents and officers within the secret service moving forward. >> interesting. kristin welker, live at the white house. thank you. >>> and still ahead, hillary clinton goes after republicans for blocking loretta lynch's nomination as attorney general, calling it quote, a trifecta against women. >>> this as new poll numbers reveal what people think of her e-mail controversy. that's coming up in our first read. >>> united 1074 declaring an emergency due to a passenger disturbance. >> frightening moments mid flight a passenger restrained on a united airlines flight after he ran toward the cockpit. it is one of the stories we are updating around the "newsnation." [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we've always been at the forefront of adv

nbc10's steve handelsman brings us up to speed. >> reporter: joseph clancy has run the secret serviceor just five months but house lawmakers cut him no slack. >> you can't run an agency like this, for god's sake or any other agency, unless you have discipline in the ranks. >> reporter: looking nervous, clancy heard himself revealing that he's let homeland security investigate the latest secret service scandal, doing no probe of his own. >> if these two people were senior management you should be all over them today. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: clancy knows both. mark connolly second in command of president obama's detail and sergeant ogilvie. after a party, they drove to the white house, drove into an active investigation, appeared intoxicated but got sent home without sobriety tests. clancy admitted he was not informed for days and alcohol is a problem. >> it's going to take time to change maybe some of this culture. there's no excuse for this information not to come up the chain. >> with all due respect, i'm just shocked by your testimony. it seems to me it should take time to help pe

craig boswell has more. >> reporter: new secret service director joseph clancy is in the hot seat on capitol hill. >> the service has been beleaguered by a series of embarrassing and unacceptable lapses in security and other missteps. this will not stand. >> reporter: clancy is on capitol hill to talk about his agency's budget, but is facing questions about a march 4 incident when two senior agents allegedly ran their government suv into a white house barrier and disrupted a suspicious package investigation. a supervisor sent them home without making them take a sobriety test. >> it's going to take time to change maybe some of this culture. there's no excuse for this information not to come up the chain. >> reporter: clancy took over as head of the embattled agency less than a month ago. he didn't find out about the incident until several days later. >> why did you not get word from your subordinates about this incident for five or six days? >> reporter: lawmakers are frustrated with a string of embarrassing incidents for the secret service. in 2012, 11 agents were accused of drinkin

clancy acknowledged there is at least one missing camera angle. >> that camera angle we do not have. that's what we're going to go back and hopefully be able to capture. >> reporter: this after several lawmakers complained there are only two tapes of the march 4th incident when two top agents allegedly drove on to the white house grounds after a night of drinking interrupting a bomb investigation. >> that tape should be preserved, and so i am concerned. >> reporter: the supervisor that night allegedly allowed the two agents to go home without taking a breathalyzer. today clancy who was not told of the incident for five days explained surveillance tapes are routinely taped over, but said he understands all the suspicion. >> we don't have a system where someone can erase tapes. but they are by practice 72 hours taped over. and i know that's a concern. >> reporter: at this intersection where the incident occurred, there are at least ten cameras that are visible to the naked eye. what's not clear if they're always recording or if all operated by the secret service, but this checkpoint is

lawmakers told clancy he needs to crack down on his people and fast. clancy says this is doable but it might take while. >> i think deep down within our agency as in others people want to see discipline. people want to be discipline. they want to have people held accountable. i just want to respect the due process as frustrating as that is and let my actions speak for how we'll move forward in this agency. >> reporter: he says the inspector general of the homeland security department is investigateing this crash and get this clancy wasn't even originally scheduled to go to capitol hill to talk about this. he was planning to ask for money for a detailed replica of the white house to train his agents. lucy? >> definitely not. joyce, thank you. >>> talk about dynamic duo a little girl and her dog are doing their absolute best to show appreciation for those who live to serve. fox 29's bruce gordon is live in our newsroom with a story of a mission to thank the real heroes in our community much bruce. >> any parent can tell when you their seven-year-old gets

. >>> secret service director joseph clancy got clobbered on capitol hill today. an angry congress wanted to know what he knows about the scandal that came to light last week and why he hasn't done more about it. steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with the latest. steve? >> thanks pap lot of lawmakers on the hill want somebody bold and take-charge at the agency that protects the president. but they don't believe they got that. still don't have that up here on the hill today. joseph clancy has run the agency just five months. >> you can't run an agency like this, for god's sakes, or any other agency. unless you have discipline in the ranks. >> reporter: looking nervous, clancy hurt himself revealing he's let homeland security investigate the latest secret service scandal, doing no probe of his own. >> if these two people were senior management, you should be all over them today. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: clancy knows both, mark connolly, second in command of president obama's detail, and supervisor george ogilvie. after a party, they drove to the white house,

director joseph clancy was called to testify about the incident before a house committee yesterday. house oversight committee members want to hear from the agents, but that hasn't happened. clancy testified he didn't know anything about the incident until he was alerted by an anonymous e-mail. congressman elijah cummings became infuriated during the hearing. >> i kept reading this e-mail this morning over and over and over. you know what i concluded? it appears that we have an agency at war against itself. the idea that in an organization like this that somebody would create this kind of document to bring this kind of disruption when they are supposed to be guarding the president of the united states of america -- we're better than that. >> last week clancy acknowledged that some of the video of the incident had been recorded over, committee chairman jason chaffetz expressed his disapproval. >> these agents placed themselves, their colleagues, the president and his family in potential danger by driving their government vehicle through a barrier within feet of a potential bomb. under

that's when director joseph clan clancy found out.t he know sooner and why wasn't president obama alerted until monday? part of this is focused on the fact you'll recall there was an independent panel that reviewed all of those series of recent embarrassments that the secret service endured and their determination was president obama should choose someone from the outside. he ignored that recommendation from the independent panel. he decided to appoint joseph clancy and now the question is he too much of an outsider to turn this agency around. they coops tontinue to insist that president obama stands behind joseph clancy. he's put those agents into different positions. the department of homeland security is investigating. they want to let that investigation play itself out before they make a determination about how clancy handles this. he's getting lot of pressure to handle this with a strong arm. they want the very latest on this next week. they are infuriated. i've been on the phone with top lawmakers and they can't believe it's hap

those two agents have been reassigned and director clancy has task the inspector general for security to investigate. >> it has been two months since the deadly smoke incident on metro. today, a follow-up inspection found more than 20 underground jumper cables are in danger. metro will repair and replace those cables and is including better training for operators and personnel, drills for first responders, and signs on emergency doors to make evacuation easier. an officer says he was in the right place at the right time when he saved a man from a burning car. it happened saturday afternoon. he was outside the american legion and police officer sharif issa found a bernie bmw with a man inside. he took action, fast. what i helped him get out of the vehicle and pulled him over to a safe distance. i hope this car does not explode. that was the one thought going through my head. >> the man in the car was intoxicated and now faces a dwi charge. >> a rock musician with ties to our area has died. jimmy greenspoon, keyboard player for the band three dog night died of cancer. he played with the

today clancy who was not told of the incident for five days explained surveillance tapes are routinelyed over but says he understands the suspicion. >> we don't have a system where somebody can erase tapes. but they are by practice in 72 hours tape over. and i know that's a concern. >> reporter: at this intersection where the incident occurred there are at least ten cameras visible to the naked eye. what's not clear is if they're always recording or operated by the secret service. clancy vowed changes. >> it undermines my leadership and i won't stand for it. >> reporter: one change? installing a new fence after a man with a knife made it inside the white house last year. kristin welker nbc news the white house. >>> dramatic images revealed today for the first time at the boston marathon bombing trial, showing the power of a bomb that prosecutors say the tsarnaev brothers threw at police three days after the marathon attack. pete williams is covering the trial for us. >> reporter: during the intention shootout with the tsarnaev brothers in watertown, dzhokhar tsarnaev threw a pressure c

the new director of the secret service appeared before congress today, and joseph clancy had to answer an all-too-familiar issue-- misconduct by his agents. this time it was an incident two weeks ago after a party for a retiring colleague. here's our senior white house correspondent bill plante. >> reporter: director clancy described surveillance video recorded at this security checkpoint that showed two agents in an s.u.v. pulling up to a temporary barrier. >> they drove in a very low rate of speed on to the white house complex. this orange barrel didn't allow the vehicle to go through. it was to the right of the bumper. so they nudged this barrel out of the way. >> reporter: clancy's account of the video was far less sensational than the original story, which had the agents crashing into a white house security barricade. uniformed officers suspected the agents had been drinking, but they were instructed by a spear yoto let them go without a sobriety test. >> there is an element within our agency that does cope with the stresses that many of you have mentioned today by using alcohol.

he just happens to like clancy. clancy was in charge of his detail so he trusts him. i understand that. when you're talking about something as important as the president's life you better take the right action to get this problem fixed. >> let me ask you, ronald about this report in "the new york times." the "times" is reporting that director clancy is going to propose building an $8 million replica of the white house for training purposes. he says it's a more realistic environment. does this seem like the right strategy to you? because some of these instances have had nothing to do with the white house. they've been abroad. they center around agents behaving badly. is this the right call? >> yeah. $8 million when you talk about something this important is nothing. uniformed officers need to be able to train there the way the fbi has so-called hogan's alley where it's a fake town and they train and make an arrest. but the secret service has had this attitude of we make due with less. they are proud to say they don't spend money and that may be fine for most of the res

so this was a really tough day for director clancy. he did shed a little bit of light on what happened that night. there were some reports that the secret service agents who were driving the vehicle crashed into a barricade around a working incident. he told us that it wasn't necessarily that the car crashed into that barricade, rather it kind of nudged the orange cone out of the way and went around the barricade. and so we got a little bit more detail which tracks with some of the law enforcement forces i was talking to last week that this wasn't necessarily some secret service agents careening into a barricade but rather kind of moving around a working investigation. but in any case, ashleigh, this is a very tough day for director clancy. remember, he was in front of the lawmakers who set his budget. and this was one of the first times he's gone in front of them. not a great way to start the relationship. >> well, he's got another committee hearing behind closed doors later this afternoon. so the day won't get much easier. chris frat

joseph clancy a 30 year veteran of the service was reportedly appointed to the job last month. when he was serving as acting cloarkt,actingdirector clancy asked the american people to give the agency another chance. >> we've got a good record. gif us a chance. >> including putting an outsider in charge but clancy himself pushed back. >> we don't have time to train someone in this role. you got to have someone who has some history and knows where we need to go in the future. >> the panel's proposals didn't stop with new management. it called for a number of changes including better agent training and raising the fence around the white house. director clancy has asked that the investigation into this incident be handled by the homeland security inspector general's office, the two agents will be reassigned while the investigation is underway,. >> thank you paul. >>> cheering the news that the city's police chief is resigning, the announcement comes nearly week after the justice department accused his department of discriminating against african americans. thomsthomas jackson is th

clancy was an insider pick.had a previously long standing relationship with the secret service. when the secret service had all these problems over the past few years, a bipartisan group of lawmakers say it's time if r this organization to have real disruption, to be changed up. an outsider would be the best. president obama ignored that. he said i like him. the first lady likes him. he's a good guy. it seems he has been hit over the head one after another in these hearings. maybe that outsider would have been a better call. >> it was the president's choice here. the president knew joseph clancy because he led his personal protective detail. that means everywhere the president went for years, joe clancy was walking through the door before he did. i don't think any of these have called into question clancy's integrity or his willingness to do his job. there's an argument to be made that the insider has an advantage. he wasn't there during the biggest scandals of the last if few years. he's now in front of the sen

clancy made one request of congress during his visit to the hill today.ked for $8 million so the secret service can build a replica of the white house to help train agents. the agency currently has a training facility in beltsville but clancy says it doesn't provide a real enough training experience. we're following a developing story in israel tonight. election results for the prime minister's race appear to be too close to call but that's not stopping current prime minister victory. initial polls show his likud party deadlocked with the center left zionist union. netanyahu said begun to call potential partners to form a ruling government. a leader needs 61 parliamentary seats to form a government. >>> northern virginia democrats are giving an early indication tonight of who they think should be the democratic nominee for the white house. more than a thousand democratic activists and politicians took part in a straw poll tonight. it's become an annual tradition. congressman jerry connolly's st. patrick's day feat. conley says it's a good indication of th

. >>> lawmakers blasted joe clancy after he reportedly drove drunk through the white house grounds. janelle wang joins us with more details. janelle? >> yes, he was supposed to discuss the budget but instead got grilled about the poor job he is doing just five months after becoming the agency's new director. secret service director joe clancy revealed to lawmakers he is not personally investigating the latest security breach but letting homeland security do it. >> i'm disappointed that you have not waged your own vigorous, tough investigation of this -- of what occurred on white house grounds, security agents who appeared to be inebriated. >> after a night of drinking two agents, including a member of president obama's detail drove through barricades during an active bomb investigation. both were sent home without sobriety tests. clancy admitted today alcohol is a problem within the secret service. >> there is an element in our agency that copes with stresses that many of you mentioned today by using alcohol. there is no question. we have that element. >> clancy field agent for deca