secretary jey johnson promised to inform the secret service after julie pierson resigned earlier thisek. less than two weeks after a man with a knife jumped the fence at the white house and made it deep inside the building. molly is in washington with the details. molly? >> reporter: jey johnson says he's focused on rebuilding the country's, quote, trust and confidence in the secret service and part of that process is not just replacing julie pierson as the director but opening up the secret service to external scrutiny. >> the secret service has never been the subje(u of an outside, independent review. and so we're going to look at the security around the white house compound and i'm invited this panel to look at the broader issues. >> reporter: this follows a series of security breaches, including september 19th incident when a fence jumper with a knife made it into the east room of the white house. three days before that, an armed private security guard with felony convictions rode on an elevator with president only. and just last week, someone made it backstage after a speech by t

julie pierson was appointed by the president to turn the secret service around. a year and a half later it's time to try again. >> while white house fence jumper omar gonzalez was pleading not guilty to federal crimes for storming the mansion armed with a knife. >> back, everybody into the park. >> reporter: it's not even clear if he's aware of the fallout he leaves behind. >> stop, please. >> reporter: julie pierson resigned as director of the secret service. answerless answers to an angry committee only riled congress even more. >> is the president of the united states informed. >> i would assume the president of the united states is informed. i don't know. >> reporter: details came from whistle blowers that she didn't even mention. now we know one of those newly revealed incidents, a security guard guard with a gun in an elevator with the president, the white house wasn't even told about it until just before it became unpleasantly public tuesday. >> director pier son offered her resignation because she believed it was in the best interest of the agency to whic

that was the tipping point, it appears, particularly because julie pierson talked to the president lasteek about the incident. she did not disclose that to the president when they met face-to-face last week. it's very clear that was the final straw here. >> ed henry, thank you very much. >>> well, also happy birthday for obamacare. one year after the rocky roll-out, a federal judge in oklahoma rocking it against, ruling against the white house over those subsidies and who gets them. for this guy, republican oklahoma scott pruitt, it's a defining issue. if people who thought they were going to get a subsidy, they might not be able to afford that coverage, so they really aren't counted into those who have coverage, right? >> i think what we're seeing is a continued exercise in the white house to use the pen and the phone that the president has made reference to, to instruct agencies to change the law or alter it after the fact. yesterday we had a court say to the i.r.s. that they don't have the authority to change the law after the fact, that their job is to administer the law. i know tha

secret service director julie pierson has resigned. >> new leadership of that agency was required. >> pireserson's departure stems from a series of blunders by the secret service. gonzalez appeared in court for the first time this afternoon. >> that is where we join scott thuman. what was the outcome? >> let's just note that pierson's resignation, incredibly fast. the calls were getting loud very quickly. today in court, omar gonzalez pled not guilty. he waved it attention hearing, meaning he will be held until trial. the biggest moment, the strangest moment with his attorney arguing he should not have to undergo a mental health evaluation and telling the court to back off. attorneysistening as argued over the court's push for a mental health screening, omar gonzalez said almost nothing, his lawyer insisting the accused white house intruder and war veteran is quote, doing just fine, and the judge has no right to order one. >> it the screening is done, we would like to have a screening done by our experts, not by the court. the arguing just a block away . million a year, and the door w

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 news the media has made it clear that this is what they expected. she was hit with more leaks today sources telling the post. she wanted security to be more friendly and inviting, along the lines of disney world where she had had worked in high school. president obama's usual style is not to fire anyone who screws up, at least not right away. the barrage of embarrassing media disclosures left him little choice, brit? >> howie, thanks. >> how worried are you about ebola in your city or town despite the assurances from the cdc. deadly disease has come to america. we will discuss with the panel when we come back. arthrit. before you and your rheumatologist decide on a biologic, ask if xeljanz is right for you. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate

oversight committee took a different perspective on the secret service when they grilled its director, julie pierson about the security breach. despite the security lapses which allowed intruder gonzalez armed with a knife to reach deep inside the white house to the thresholds of the green room, the secret service nevertheless issued a press release praising its handling of the intrusion as exhibiting quote tremendous restraint and discipline. unnote. and there's more tremendous restraint. three days before gonzalez's fence jumping excubs, the secret service led an armed security guard board an elevator with president obama. the man a contract employee at the centers for disease control proceeded to take pictures in the elevator and did not obey when told to desist. the secret service did not realize the man had a loaded weapon with him in the elevator until later. 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

. >> director, julie pierson, admits agents did not follow protocol. >>> 4:44. news na the ebola virus arrived in the u.s. helped out medical companies, sending stocks soaring overnight. courtney reagan live at cnbc world headquarters with details for us. good morning. >> good morning. let's keep watch of shares of biotech companies because several firms working on drugs to treat the ebola virus spiking last night on news of the first confirmed u.s. case. biggest mover jumped 30% after hours. the fda allowed the company to use experimental drug on patients with the virus. tkm ebola was the drug taken by the u.s. doctor infected working in lie beer yap he recovered returning to the u.s. for treatment. >>> wall street, futures are mixed after stocks ended lower to close out september. for the month, doubt had its worst percentage drop since july. the nasdaq, worst drop since april. we'll get data today on private sector job growth, manufacturing and construction spending. the dow falling 28 points. the nasdaq down 12 to 4493. >>> amazon and disney may be friends a

. >>> more fall out is likely at secret service, julie pierson is out and man from our area is taking over for now. the pierson's resignation follows revelations of have white house security breaches and eroding confident following her testimony before congress. now we have learn president obama shared an elevate the or last month in atlanta with an armed guard not authorized to be around him. >> over the last days we have sceneries event and accumulating reports raising questions about the performance of the the agency and the president conclude that had new leadership of an agency was required. >> new temporary head of the secret service is joseph chance friday a havertown delaware county. clancy work for secret service before and served as head of the president's protective division until 2011 and then became director of corporate security at comcast. clancy is a graduate of villanova university and teacher at father judge high school in fill. >>> there is much more to cover on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" pro democracy protesters in hong kong raisee steaks in the standoff against autho

the show, a serious question asking about the leadership change at the secret service now that julie pierson will this change at the top be enough to restore public confidence? our producer justine has some of the responses. >> good morning. tina says it's way too early to know, depends on who gets the job and the changes they put in place. maybe it's time to pull the agency from the department of homeland security. paul tweets, public confidence in the united states secret service is almost irrelevant. the only opinion that matters belongs to potus. >> it will be interesting to see the new director take over. >>> we did get extra special tweets about my pen and my tie, right? >> we did. somebody says you need to get a new neck tie knot. john points out you should use the quad color pen especially on throw back thursday. >> look at this. straight from my trapper keeper. >>> coming up next on "way too early," a look at the stories we'll be covering in the day ahead. "morning joe" is just moments away, live from d.c., back in a moment. i know... this third shift is rough... it's just a few mor

director julie pierson stepped down yesterday after a series of white house breaches and pressure from congress. comcast executive vice president david cohen talked about the new director of the secret service. >> he was a consummate security professional and knows this business inside and out. he has spent his entire career with unquestioned ethics and integrity. joe clancy is the ideal candidate to be head of the secret service at this time. >> comcast is the parent company of nbc 10. >>> 5:15 now. happening later today, a bill that would improve taxi access for the disabled and others will be up for final approval in philadelphia city council. the bill's sponsors is asking state lawmakers to approve 30 taxi licenses for upgraded service. the cabs would be wheelchair accessible and be equipped with bike racks. proceeds from the new taxis would be used to reduce the city wage tax. >>> also happening today, a multimillion-dollar makeover in center city will get under way. it's stage one of market east. that's a redevelopment project that focuses on the block between market and chestnut

. >> in the end, secret service director julie pierson could not protect her own job. >> over the last days we've seen recent and accumulating reports, raising questions about the performance of the agency. and the president concluded that new leadership of the agency was required. >> peterson could not survive the devastating security breach when an intruder with a knife jumped the fence, ran across the north lawn, burst into the door and made it all the way through the east room before being tackled. the president and his daughters had left the building only four months earlier. the intruder, omar gonzales, was in court today and pled not guilty. >> i believe that you have done a disservice to the president of the united states. >> reporter: just hours after being grilled on capitol hill yesterday about that fiasco, another secret service problem was revealed. as mr. obama arrived at the cdc two weeks ago he and the secret service entered the elevator with a plain clothes security guard. a guard, sources say, began to act star struck, taking pictures. caught off guard, the secret ser

he replaces julie pierson who was on the job for just 18 months. tenure cut short after a series of major security lapses, including an intruder who made it to the east room of the white house with a knife in his pocket. a source tells me the final straw came when she did not tell anyone in the white house that a man with a gun had managed to get onto an elevator with the president three days before that jumper in atlanta. so there may be a new director but the question still remains, are the president and first family safe? joining me to discuss all of this is ralph bashin who headed the secret service. ralph, thank you for being here sources tell me that the final straw came with the elevator breach, that the armed man, who may have had a criminal record, i'm still not clear about that fact, getting on an elevator with president obama. the source says there are three items that made this the final straw for pierson. one, that it happened. and then there were two weeks of discussions with secret service because of the security with the fence jumpe

but julie pierson just supposedly asked one person, a top agent to look into the matter but there was no paperwork filed whatsoever. these people, everybody who comes into close proximity with the president including waiters, anybody, any staffers, they have background checks on them cleared. the secret does this beforehand. and law enforcement officers are allowed to carry guns but only if they're cleared. and security contractors, as this man was a security contractor, he did not work for the cdc. he worked for a security contractor and i'll have that story tomorrow. but he was not cleared and they were very, very surprised to see that he had a gun. >> and michael, julia pierson is the director because of failures of the advance teams. in this case, the advance teams in colombia where they were caught with prostitutes. >> the testimony this morning, lawrence, when a hearing begins with one of the members of congress saying, and then there was the prostitution scandal, you know it's not going to go too well. >> this incredible failure of the advance team and then the horrible failure

julie pierson tendered her resignation to jay johnson and to president obama. after an 18-month tenure that was born itself in the wake of a secret sex scandal she was brought in to clean up. her tenure began after one of the major incidents now under close scrutiny, the 2011 of the white house iks tear your, but she was at the helm of two key security related incidents including the white house fence jumper, and while the white house press secretary relayed president obama's gratitude for pierson's years of service, the president believes her resignation is necessary. >> over the last several days we've seen recent and accumulating reports raising questions about the agency and the president concluded that new leadership was required. >> today joseph clancy was named as the interim acting director. he was formerly a special agent in charge of the presidential protective division of the secret service. he's most recently served as the corporate director for comcast which is msnbc's parent corporation. the deputy security along with general counsel placed in cha

where white house spokesman josh earnest expressed full confidence in secret service director julie piersonn the morning and hours later said he sways out. >> she's more than qualified to do her job. she is somebody who has a difficult responsibility. >> over the last several days we've seen recent and accumulating reports raising questions, and the president concluded that new leadership of that agency was require. >> again that is a difference between thursday morning and thursday afternoon -- or rather, wednesday. dan, is there a basic lack of accountability inside the secret service? >> there is with the upper-level managed. the ombudsman program, chris, to give you a tangible evidence, where they can go to air concerns -- the program is a disaster. you would see people in that program and information would slip out, so you really weren't anonymous. they could use an outside independent op putsman and should take the inspections program out from within the secret service, so the agents will be like they have a voice when they see an obvious security failure. >> senator, i want to switch

director julie pierson admits agents didn't follow protocol. >>> 5:57 right now on your wednesday morningwhen you steps outside you felt cooler air. but that's not going to be a permanent thing, at least i don't think, for the next couple of days, right? let me steal your thunder. >> take it. takes it nicely in his hand. >> he touched it. 5:57 now. good morning. happy wednesday. you know what? you made it to the middle of the week. it's going to be warm out there for today. noticeably warmer than yesterday, talking 10 to 15 degrees. yeah, a spike from yesterday's highs. just keep that in mind. we are going to return to summer-like levels. i was looking at a lot of data yesterday and i can tell you now, we didn't hit the triple digits, not one time in san jose all summer long. so it was really mild overall which is part of the reason we didn't have a severe fire season. we're still in it right now. and we are going to bring up the fire danger for the next couple of days. keep that in mind and beyond the best of safety. 58 on the peninsula. 56 on the east shore kick off the day. it's comfor

today julie pierson, director of the united states secret service offered her resignation and i accepted it. i salute her 30 years of distinguished service to the secret service and the nation. i know evan perez, our justice correspondent, reporting already you hear they are in the process of vetting someone else. how long do you think this kind of process would take? the president obviously needs security and to ronald's point there are many phenomenal agent and officer working to protect the white house and also the president. how long could this take? >> i don't think -- >> go ahead, evan. to you. >> brooke, i think it's the highest priority. this is also an example of homeland security secretary jeh johnson taking the reigns here of an agency that frankly has always not really worked well with the homeland security department. he's basically making them heel to his rule basically. this is an agency, the secret service, that in some ways is like the fbi. the fbi is like the justice department but they do their own thing. secret service has had a lot of independence from homeland secur

. >> julie pierson telling bloomberg news, quote, congress has lost confidence in my ability to run theia has made it clear that this is what they expected. i can be pretty sewic about it, but not really. it's painful to leave as the agency is reeling from a significant security breach. joseph clancy is now running the shop for now. he's serving as the interim director, a former special agent in charge of the presidential protective division. we have andrew o'connell, a former secret service agent, now a security consultant. nice to see you again. you were with us here on "new day." good to have you here. right decision for her to step down? is this a step in the right direction? do you feel hopeful that the agency can move in a new direction now? >> i think as it relates to the director, i think she might the right decision given congress apparently has made it clear that they lost faith in her. i don't think she should have stepped down because of the recent security incidents. i think she was a great special agent, a great supervisor. when people lose confidence, i think she made the

our attention turns to miss julie pierson who resigned as head of the secret service this week, onlyesident expressed confidence in her. democrats alike greeted her testimony, which was, to put it mildly, morbidly evasive and suspect. the media forced her hand and exposed a number of scary security failures. one that allowed a man with a knife into the white house on september 19th. reaching the last line of defense at the mansion's entrance, he easily overcame a female agent manning the is it the job of an agent to stop intruders for the white house? not if you're from the tuuh factory. the assumption is, they are all wonder women. how does this failure átup)e with the feminist code that a woman can do anything a man does? and why did his secret service spokesman initially say the intruder was arrested and unarmed just inside the doors? thoroughly lacking candor, miss pierson must have known that her agency had blown the would-be assassin. liberals prefer talking to someone rather than shooting them. it's clear miss pierson wanted a less confrontational secret service, more like dis

. >> i julie pierson -- >> after three decades with the secret service, now the interim director, joseph clancy is, a long-timer who headed the presidential protection division and retired three years ago. it's the culture within the agency that seems stubborn to change. one former secret service agent told us things like the front door alarm being turned off because white house ushers didn't like the occasional loud noise points to what he calls a dangerous acquiescence at the upper levels of the service, a desire to please the boss. he said few supervisors were willing to insist on things being tougher when they should have been and it infuriated officers below them. leaving some to turn whistleblowers, finding willing ears in congress. >> agents in this agency said they were hesitant to raise security concerns with their supervisors. ladies and gentlemen, something is awfully wrong with that picture. >> we heard pierson repeatedly detail the prong she felt she made at the agency, videoing to stay on and lead and fix the problems. suddenly she resigned as more details kept coming out.

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pierson and then in the afternoon -- >> julie, who like a lot, was a dedicated public servant. came to me and offered her resignation, given where the secret service is right now and given the hard questions we need to ask, i accepted the resignation, so we move forward from here. >> she also pointed out that dhs and secret service are still boys clubs. >> just two weeks ago the secret service protected 140 visiting heads of state at the u.n. general assembly. like they do every year and they did it without incident. but i do believe that we need to ask the hard questions. the secret service has never been the subject of an outside, independent review, and so we're going to look at the security around the white house compound and i have invited this panel to look at the broader issues that they feel it's appropriate. >> and we'll follow that. finally, steve hayes who is a regular on the all-star panel, was told last week he was on the terror watch list and has been subject to he says advanced csa screenings and pat downs five times in the last month. do you all think steve is a

pierson. the former head of president obama's security detail is acting director. >>> we have learned that adesanya was arrested july 27th for getting over the fence at the white house. then just a couple of days later he was arrested at the treasury department building and charged with assaulting and interfering with a police officer. his father says his son is suffering from mental problems. >>> the prince georges county sheriffs office says a deputy shot and killed a man this morning. this all started when they went to investigate a domestic dispute in the 2200 block of huston street. while they were questioning a woman, a male suspect appeared at the front door. he reportedly confronted the officers and one of them shot him. the suspect died later at the hospital. the sheriff's deputy involved in the shooting is a four year veteran assigned to domestic intervention division. , maryland lawmakers are demanding answers after a murder suspect was mistakenly released from prison. serving time in baltimore for assaulting a corrections officer and he was also waiting to go on trial on murder charges when he was releas