ellen gilmer joins us now with the ongoing investigations into the assassination attempt on donald trump. between the secret service, the fbi, start off with an overview on who is investigating what aspect of this right now? guest: it's a huge landscape of an investigation and the fbi is investigating the actual shooter's motive. the secret service is investigating itself, what went wrong. they call it mission assurance review, how to make sure this doesn't happen again. president biden ordered an independent review, it is being done by a former secretary under obama, janet napolitano, and it has had officials from both sides of the aisle. and then congress is doing its thing with bipartisan task forces and those are probably the biggest ones. host: which one should we pay the most attention to and which ones are you paying the most attention to? guest: i'm closely tracking the independent review ordered by the president and we will start to see results from that later this month. ot of people hav

ellen gilmer is our guest, talking about these various investigations. if you have questions about where these are, start calling in. taking viewers back to late july, ronald rowe testified about the shooting. a bit of a tense exchange. i will let you fill in the details. [video clip] >> you knew you had a security situation in the person who has sent to trump on stage, have they been released? >> no. >> when you knew that the locals were working serious security, that person who knew that, have they been relieved of duty? >> sir, i refer you back to my original answer that we are investigating this on mission assurance -- >> what more do you need to investigate to know that there were critical enough failures that some individuals ought to be held accountable? what more do you need to know? >> exactly what happened and i need my investigators to do their job. >> people didn't do their job. >> i cannot put my thumb on the scale. >> what do you mean? >> you are asking me to make a rush to judgment about somebody failing. i acknowledge -- >> is it not prim

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ellen gilmer is a senior reporter there. guest: thank you so much. thank you -- thank you so much. guest: thank you. host: that does it for us here on "washington journal," if you stick around we will take you over to the center for global development at the university of chicago for a discussion on pandemic and climate preparedness. that's already underway, we will join it in progress. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] >> two seminal reports came out. the first one was convened by the g20, where we seemed to play a big role. the second one, the independent was convened by the who. both have similar recommendations in relation to how you finance spots and how you act with medical countermeasures. unfortunately, if you look at 2024 and a few years out, the progress had not been great. i will not get into the specifics of the problems with governance and political leadership, i'm going to focus on two key elements that i assoc

host: bloomberg govert reporter ellen gilmer joins us now with the ongoing investigations into the assassinationttempt on donald trump. between the secret service, the fbi, start off with an overview on who is investigating what aspect of this right now? guest: