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Questions on capitol hill. >> this is unacceptable and i had take full responsibility and make sure it does not happen again. >> americans know the next attempt to take the white house could well be a planned attack from a terrorist organization. >> this recent incident, unfortunately, causes many people to ask whether there is a much broader problem with the secret service. >> reporter: among the most persistent questions, how omar gonzalez got deep inside the executive mansion while the first ...

The man who jumped the white house security fence made it farther in inside than the secret service originally revealed. omar gonzalez was armed with a knife and was able to actually not only get across the white house lawn into the main building, but he got all the way into the east room of the white house. >> you hate to even imagine what could have happened if gonzalez had been carrying a gun instead of a knife when he burst inside the white house. that possibility is extremely unsettling. >>...

Armed with a knife didnt just make it over the white house fence all the way across the north lawn and through the front doors, but according to sources familiar with the incident, gonzales overpowered the guard inside those doors, ran past the stairway leading up to the family res ease dense, through the first floor and east room being tack ed at the green room. none of this revealed publicly by the secret service but by whistleblowers by chairman of the subcommittee. >> i got deep concerns tha...

It was a serrated edge, a serrated knife. and also brought up in this hearing there were five rings of security broken at the white house that allowed this man to get inside the white house. so this fence jumper. this omar gonzalez, was able to evade plain-clothed surveillance teams outside the fence, he was able to evade officers in the guard booth on the north lawn, he was able to evade attack dogs, he was able to evade a swat team, he was able to evade a guard at the front door, he actually t...

Doors, now, again, not true. more details are coming out. some from whistle-blowers making a story that was bad enough look even worse. >> right now, go back. >> it was the 70-yard dash seen around the world. and now we know omar gonzales, an arc war veteran with ptsd and armed with a knife didnt just make it over the white house fence all the way across the north lawn, up the stairs, and through the front doors -- but according to sources familiar with the incident, gonzales overpowered the gua...

But people all over the country were talking about the possibility of a race war. in most of the major cities blacks and whites were at one anothers throats. to think there would be an all-out apocalyptic race war kind of made sense to a lot of people. it wasnt as crazy as it might seem today. >> it was a real racial thing he was saying. but the way he was saying it made sense. it was almost like, yeah, they should rise up and they should have their time. we were all given buck knives. it was al...

Were keeping them honest tonight. we begin with breaking news. new details about the harm that this man might have been capable of. for starters, omar gonzalez did more than jump the fence at the white house. he made it through the front door of the white house. he was armed and had a troubling recent past that authorities say suggested he may have intended to harm the president. a whole lot of questions. more from jim acosta. >> reporter: investigators say they found 800 round of ammunition i...

Initially like one of those reports we get every few months. in some ways, its sadly typical in which his family says he was struggling with depression and paranoia which may have been aggravated or caused from post-traumatic stress from tours in iraq. mental illness is the thread that runs through almost all white house intruder stories. it is sad but it is true. and that fits this large, rare pattern. we have since learned things from the initial arrest. since that initial arrest, the things t...

Appear to be armed. do they appear to be carrying, for example, explosive material. theyre going to look very carefully at how this was allowed to happen. never before has one of these fence jumpers gotten into the white house, into the front doors of the white house, which were unlocked, also raising questions. >> striking that it turns out he was armed. chris janicing on the north lawn right now. >> with the knife. >> thats right, with the knife. appreciate you keeping track. turning now to ...

Omar gone s omar gonzalez who jumped the fence on friday was called by a federal prosecutor a danger to the president and we are just learning that he was known to officials here. on august 21 this year, he was stopped while walking along the south fence of the white house and according to process dupros thatted a hatchet inside his rear waistband. he was not arrested. he was allowed to go to his car where he agreed to let police search it but they found dogs, camping gear, nothing else. and he ...