. >> jonathan, joe clancy was brought in to fix things.s hands after they've had another go-around and other stuff that had been going well for them recently. he's supposed to fix it. he hasn't. can anyone? >> joe clancy can. he's the director of the secret service. he's driving this bus right now. he has to send a very serious message right now this type of, you know, activity by his senior management is not going to be tolerated. listen, this just solidifies the fact there is management by reprisal within the secret service. a long-stand thing that's been known by agents and officers. so joe clancy has to get ahead of this problem and say that i will not tolerate this type of behavior. >> one of the things that's probably not a good idea is to tick off the congressman who has oversight over your agency. thank you for being with us. >> thank you all so much for joining us "at this hour." >> "legal view" starts right now. >>> hurricane joaquin getting bigger and badder by the minute. the category 3 storm bearing down on the bahamas right n

thanks to a friday afternoon news dump, we now know that director joe clancy himself both knew of the chaffetz matter at the time and misrepresented the facts that the inspector general. in the report, director clancy states that he didn't learn about the matter until a week after the congressional hearing, on the eve of a "washington post" story about the matter. as we've seen, this would have made him a notable exception among the secret service's top leaders. but director clancy confronted with this report is now singing a different tune. he now admits that he heard a -- quote -- "speculative rumor" the day after the hearing and a week before "the washington post" story. yet director clancy says he considered the rumor not cebled and not indicative of wrongful conduct. that omission alone is damning and -- that admission alone is a damning and ironic confession of a degrees leadership failure. let's put this in context. director clancy was specifically hired just months earlier to clean up the secret service's leadership culture after a string of embarrassing incidents. at the very

last week on friday the secret member joe clancy said he was changing the narrative. is it acceptable to the president? changing his story on this? josh earnest: i think what director clancy indicated, after reviewing the a port, he had better information to provide them. to his credit, he proactively reached out to both of the inspector general and to to love them no. that is what he did. i will say the president takes this seriously. this is sensitive information we are talking about and the fact that something like this will be politicized is wrong. the president does have confidence that following up on the information included within the inspector general report that secretary johnson and director clancy will ensure steps are taken, both to prevent the disclosure of this kind of information in the future, but hold accountable those who have engaged in this kind of wrongdoing. the congressman spoke with cnn this morning. he said he would like to see a criminal investigation open into this. he says he feels violated. if the white house open to that? -- is the white

he expressed confidence in director joe clancy who according to the report didn't know this was going on. lester. >> kristen welker tonight, thank you. >>> a stunning turn today in syria. russian air strikes coming just two days after the war in syria was topic a for president obama and putin at the u.n. but the question this evening is whether russia is targeting isis or syrian rebels supported by the u.s., adding to anxiety surrounding one of the most dangerous places on earth. here's senior white house correspondent chris jansing. >> reporter: thick black smoke billowing in the skies over syria. death and destruction on the ground after russian air strikes opened a dangerous new phase in an already complicated and bloody war. >> this kind of action by the russians is ill advised and will backfire. that approach is tantamount to pouring gasoline on the fire. >> reporter: vladimir putin today saying the target is isis. russia releasing a video claiming terrorist targets were destroyed, but the real target appears to be opponents of syrian president assad, russia's ally. a direct chal

. >> reporter: not only did secret service director joe clancy call the event's organizer to say he was sorry after last month's incident, he showed up in person tonight to apologize directly to the children and their families. >> it's a huge honor to be here. >> reporter: natasha gould is a spunky 11-year-old. >> some mornings i wake up not even knowing i have cancer. >> we have a love/hate relationship. >> reporter: but natasha learned in may she has inoperable brain cancer. >> she puts on a smile. there's low days where she has to drag herself out, but overall she approaches it in such a positive way. >> reporter: for their family and others, cancer has changed everything. >> you're thinking, how does this happen to our family? like, why us? why our family? but then you realize it can happen to anyone. and everyone needs to come together to stop it. >> reporter: the crowd was quick to forgive the secret service for abruptly canceling last month's vigil. in fact, many were thrilled by the international attention that it attracted, along with an apology from the secret service director

scott, the director of the secret service, joe clancy, apologized to chaffetz and said he will take appropriate disciplinary action. >> pelley: jeff pegues reporting from washington. jeff, thank you. early today the state of georgia executed kelly gissendaner, turning aside pope francis' plea for mercy. gissendaner conspired to kill her husband in 1997. she sang "amazing grace" as the lethal drug was administered. the pope also asked oklahoma to spare murderer richard glossip. he did get a reprieve today because of questions about a new lethal injection drug. also in oklahoma today, the tulsa county sheriff resigned after he was indicted. the charges stem from the fatal shooting of eric harris by reserve deputy robert bates last april. bates, who says he meant to use his taser, is a friend of sheriff stanley glanz. the sheriff is accused of covering up a report that questioned whether bates was fit for duty. today, exxonmobil said it is selling its refinery in torrance, california. it's been shut since a tremendous explosion last february. our anna werner has found that that disaster was nearly

all had the opportunity to discuss at some length some days but that is why the president asked joe clancy to serve as his director because he believed that the agency needed new leadership, new strong leadership. bill: secret service officials object to the report saying evidence shows the officer's work schedule had nothing to do with it. both agents have been disciplined. abby: president obama taking a rare step of vetoing a defense bill. the white house accusing republicans of sidestepping spending limits while failing to address the military's long-term budget concerns. here is the reaction from senator john mccain. >> this authorizes the military's ability to defend the nation. so what the president is doing is putting his priority over the budgetary process, this way that we are funding things, over the welfare of the men and women in the military and their ability to defend this nation. abby: let's bring in lieutenant colonel oliver north. retired member about the united states marine corps, a fox news military analyst and the author of the book, "counterfeit lies." the colonel, th

. >> reporter: just as representative jason chaffetz was grilling joe clancy, the inspector general someher up were expecting to embarrass the congressman. >> they think saef a bomb, believe them. take them down. >> reporter: he has become a frequent krk critic of the agency and investigating when agents allegedly drove drunk on white house grounds next to an active bomb investigation. the report says in retaliation, some at the secret service thought to access chaffetz 2003 application to be an agent, a violation of the privacy act. assistant director ed lowery allegedly wrote in an e-mail some information he might find embarrassing needs to get out. just to be fair. according to the report, the file was viewed 60 times by at least 45 agents. 18 senior level supervisors knew about the unauthorized access. by the time it leaked to the media, the report scolded the secret service concluding it doesn't take a lawyer to know what happened was simply wrong. clancy was hired to clean up the secret service. in a statement, he said any employee, regardless of rank or seniority who has committed

. >>> the probe has reopened after secret service joe clancy changed his story after he first heard the agency was looking into the congress' background. that was a retaliation on a hearing on agents' misconduct. >>> they have agreed to a highly controversial trade pact that is already facing criticism from some of president obama's own supporters. kevin has the story from the white house. >> reporter: white house officials today welcomed the historic agreement with optimism and confidence, that it passed the trans-pacific partnership known as tpp, will be a game changer for the world economy. >> the president continues to be confident that if we can do more to level the playing field for american goods and services that american businesses will win. >> eight years in the making, tpp represents 12 countries, representing 40% of the world's economy, an agreement spanning the globe from canada to chile to japan to australia. proponents say the partnership will help america better compete abroad, sell more cars, make stronger environmental protections and wipe out 18,000 taxes on u.s. good

. >>> the probe has reopened after secret service joe clancy changed his story after he first heard the agency was looking into the congress' background. that was a retaliation on a hearing on agents' misconduct. >>> they have agreed to a highly controversial trade pact that is already facing criticism from some of president obama's own supporters. kevin has the story from the white house. >> reporter: white house officials today welcomed the historic agreement with optimism and confidence, that it passed tpp, will be a game rtnership changer for the world economy. >> the president continues to be confident that if we can do more to level the playing field for american goods and services that american businesses will win. >> eight years in the making, tpp represents 12 countries, representing 40% of the world's economy, an agreement spanning the globe from canada to chile to japan to australia. proponents say the partnership will help america better compete abroad, sell more cars, make stronger environmental protections and wipe out 18,000 taxes on u.s. goods sold overseas. but the plan

secret service director joe clancy issued a statement saying quote any employee regardless of rank or seniority who committed misconduct will be held accountable. this incident will be no different and i will assure that the appropriate disciplinary actions are taken. homeland secretary jeh johnson has personally apologized. >>> republican lawmakers will vote on a replacement for outgoing house speaker john boehner next thursday. the full house is expected to decide in a few weeks. majority leader kevin mccarthy is considered the front-runner. stocks rallied today. the dow gained 236. the s&p 500 was up 36. the nasdaq finished ahead 103. >>> yesterday, the head of planned parenthood underwent some grilling by republican lawmakers on capitol hill, part of their ongoing effort to defund her organization. tonight correspondent doug mckelway is here to tell us that there's more at issue here with many lawmakers defending planned parenthood. >> it's not just the graphic videos to try to try to strip planned parenthood of its funding. it's that planned parenthood is partis partisan. its pol

here today with me are of course the director of the secret service joe clancy, director of immigration and custom enforcement, the director of hsi committee administrator of tsa, pete eppinger, the deputy director chris klein, mike fisher of the board of patrol, the deputy administrator, the admiral of the united states coast guard and in front of me are the senior agents and personnel of the service who were involved in a massive security effort and led the effort in washington in philadelphia and new york and including for the last week or so while the pope was in the country the second-most photographed man in america who was the leader of the pope's secret service detail while he was here. as the president noted, far too often the press and public are captivated by episodes of bad news. as leaders it is our responsibility to ensure the public doesn't lose sight of the extraordinary and successful good work of our dedicated to public service so that it is never taken for granted. over the last two weeks the secret service was flawlessly successful in orchestrating one of the largest

do you believe joe clancy should be fired? >> i don't want to prejudge any outcome in workplace discipline or criminal investigation but it's worse than a leak. 45 different employees of the secret service, we know, thanks to the report, illegally accessed their files to discover jason chaffetz' file. this is a case in which the american's people elected representatives doing their job of oversight of past misconduct by the secret service. that should frighten most americans, it could happen to them if it could happen to a powerful chairman of a committee and interfere with representatives doing their job to hole the executive branch accountable. >> senator tom cotton, appreciate it. >>> the mind of a killer. the mother of the oregon shooter describes her son's fascination with guns and she even bragged about the loaded semiautomatic weapon she kept in the home. that's next. the republicans finally admit it. >>"republican kevin mccarthy saying ...the committee investigating benghazi and clinton's emails was created to destroy

service agent and someone leaked the fact that your application had been rejected and director joe clancy is now revising his original account to the inspector general when he said back then that he didn't know people in the agency were looking at your file. be taken at the secret service and should director clancy step down? >> the secret service is demonstrating why we started to investigate them and that i shenanigans. i think the question is really for the department of justice. you had 45 secret service agents violate federal law according to the inspector general? why isn't there a special prosecutor over there? it's kind of scary. i fear that these people -- if they do this to me, i'm sure it's probably not the first time. i'm a sitting member of congress. nobody should have that done. it's a violation of federal law. >> do you still have confidence in director clancy? >> i lose it every day. again this is why almost two years ago we started investigating the secret service. they've had a series of mishaps and they're entrusted with guns near the president, the most sensitive class

he grilled joe clancy. >> you are the director of the secret service. it's almost three weeks after the incident and you don't know why it takes three minutes to pick up the phone and say metro police department, we have a problem and need your help. it takes 27 minutes to secure the scene. what if there was a real bombing? >> it started 18 minutes into that congressional hearing on the secret service scandal. as congressman jason chaffetz was grilling clancy a secret service employee looked into his record and saw that he unsuccessfully applied to the secret service. as they continued their investigation into the secret service, an assistant director into the agency ed lowery suggested leaking embarrassing information about the congressman just to be fair. >> the inspector general found every employee who shared or viewed congressman chaffetz file and didn't report it may have violated the secret service secrecy act. any employee who has violated the policy k will face appropriate disciplinary action, according to clancy. bill: hurricane joaquin packin

. >> speaking of congress, last week on friday, secret service joe clancy acknowledged that he was changing his story, his recollection of when he first learned of people inside the agency looking into congressman chaffetz's personal information. is that acceptable to the president, the fact that the director is now changing his story on this? >> jim, i think what director clancy indicated is that after reviewing the report, he remembered that he had better information to provide them. and so to his credit, he proactively reached out to both the inspector general and to congressman chaffetz to let them know. and that's what he did. i will say that the president certainly takes it this issue very serious will he. is this sensitive information and the thought that something like this would be politicized is wrong 37 frgs and the president does have confidence that following p on the information included in the inspector general's report, that secretary johnson and director clancy will ensure that steps are taken to prevent the disclosure of this kind of information in the future but also hold

as you said, an extraordinary apology from the director of secret service to joe clancy to jason chaffetzthat apology on screen. it says the secret service takes employee conduct seriously. any employee, regardless of rank or seniority who has committed misconduct will be held accountable. this incident will be no different. i assure the appropriate disciplinary actions are taken on behalf of the men and women of the united states secret service. i again apologize to representative chaffetz for this wholly avoidable and embarrassing misconduct. to give you a sense of what the director is looking into, we'll put an e-mail up on screen because this dates back to something that was happening in march and april. there was a statement that came out about chairman chaffetz, applied for the secret service in 2003 and was declined. this was an e-mail that was dredged up, some information, the e-mail says, he might find embarrassing, needs to get out just to be fair from edward lowery, assistant director, so a very top official. as you said at the top, one of a slew embarrassing episodes. last fal

joe clancy, the man that planed to reform the agency is accused of being one of the problems by top republicansut director clancy knowingly misled the inspector general, he should resign or be fired. he was hired to cleanup wrongdoing, not perpetrate it. >> inspector general's office found last march more than 40 secret service employees were inapp prep yitly snooping around in the chairman of the committee that oversees the agency. one e-mail revealed from ed lawry said information he might find embarrassing needs to get days before news reports said he was rejected for a job with the secret service. >> it's a little bit scary, secret service diving into my background as a city member of congress. it's not about me but it is about what are they doing over there? these people entrusted with guns by the president. >> clancy said he learned of it in early april but last friday changed that to march 25th. >> you have to consider i was interviewed four months after these events took place and my memory was incorrect. >> clancy blamed the discrept see on his memory. >> chaffetz said both men called

this has been planned for months, joe clancy the director of the secret service visited the vatican.isited the vatican. we visited philadelphia. we visited new york countless times. we went over every denail washington. the secret service is responsible for the security of all these people. primarily. which involves planning, the traffic patterns, the arrival times, dealing with their own security details, and the relationship between ours and theirs. dealing with our own president, our own vice president, who was in new york yesterday. and, dealing with the pope, who very much wanted to be with the people, wanted to be able to kiss the babies. and this happened all at the same time. it was secret service, homeland security investigations, my department, lent a couple of hundred, if not several thousand people, as well as the koegs guard doing maritime security, tsa, the magnetometers, we screened several hundred thousand people in the philadelphia alone for the public events there, and it was, so far as i could see, flawless in its execution. it was successful and it was a safe even

joe clancy is not the guy who is going to do that.t: we want to thank ronald kessler for joining us. it is "in the president's secret service." booksn check out all his on these many topics. thank you so much. that is our show today. we want to make sure you join us tomorrow morning starting at 7 a.m. eastern, four clock a.m. pacific -- 4:00 a.m. pacific. we will take a look at the presidential campaigns in iowa and new hampshire. we will also be joined by michael o'hanlon to discuss the action in syria. it we will be joined by day -- daniel that all happens tomorrow starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern, four clock a.m. pacific. in the meantime, we take you live where the million man march , the 20th anniversary of the million man march is happening today. we are showing you live pictures . you can watch that now on c-span.

amy clancy of our seattle affiliate kiro has the latest. >> reporter: assistant coach joe kennedy was in the stands not on the sidelines after being suspended with pay on wednesday because he refused to imply with the school district's order to quit praying after games as he did at this recent game. the bremerton school district believes the prayers violate the separation of church and state and could get the district in legal trouble. now, kennedy's lawyer is preparing to file a discrimination lawsuit on his behalf. meanwhile, students and parents have had enough of all the attention being paid to an issue and not the game itself. >> a lot of people aren't thinking about the football game. they are thinking about coach kennedy. i 100% support coach kennedy but i think the media is too much and blown it all out of proportion. >> it all needs to stop. not just the praying but the controversy. let people have freedom of choice what they want to do. >> reporter: this grandfather of a senior player also supported the coach until lawyers got involved. >> i understand what he is doing. and