What we are doing is making sure that we are making steady progress. Heading up the infrastructure that will allow us to compete with massachusetts who are doing some of these things long before we were. In the last two quarters of 2013 when we outgrew every state in new england. Tom has made statements, things like not as many jobs as we said, thats wrong. Total privatesector job growth over the time of our administration is much more than 60,000. At the same time government has gotten smaller. Government has gotten smaller while i have been governor of the state of connecticut. Sure, we should be more efficient. Sure, we should be investing in technologies we did not have in our state previously. When i inherited this state because you elected me governor, the Largest Department spending 18 of our money was operating on a format from the effective age of 1989. Im sorry to cut you off. Now onto the rebuttal phase. Mr. Foley. Im glad the governor brought up his experience in stamford.
My point. As a casual observer to what has happened here, i do not think the circular the secret service is taking their duty to protect the american president and her family at the white house i do not think you are taking it seriously. That is exactly my point. Based on the evidence, and the series of lapses. Unfortunately, that is the conclusion i arrive at, that youre not taking your job seriously. I am sorry. I hate to be critical. But we got a lot at stake here. I know people are dancing around this issue, but i got to call it like it is. Inave very low confidence the secret service under your leadership. I have to say that. That is not an easy thing for me to say. But based on the evidence, that is how we have to call it here. Based on the evidence, my confidence in you protecting the american president right now at the white house, supposed to be one of the most secure buildings of the country, if not the world, a confidence in you doing that is very, very low right now. I than
Questions, please limit your testimony to five minutes. The entire Opening Statement will be made a permanent part of the record. With that, director pearson is recognized. Good morning chairman isaf, Ranking Member cummings and distinguished members of the committee. Im here to address the concern we all share following september 19 at the white house. It is clear the security plan was not properly executed. This is unacceptable, and i take full responsibility and make sure it does not happen again. As director my primary concern is ensuring the operational readiness of the workforce. I have been address it aggressive and injuring professionalism and developing leaders through active engagement with Agency Supervisors and employees i have made it clear my expectations for professionalism and personal accountability. Much of what we do to protect the president that involves information that is highly classified. So i will be limited what i can say in a public hearing. On to number 19 a
These are unanswerables, but as it stands now, the other question is, who did the president come into contact with . Who did hope hicks come into contact with . And who did those contacts come into contact with . These are things we simply do not know and were expecting more information from the white house. A ton of questions about, for example, why the White House Press secretary held a News Conference yesterday not wearing a mask. And did she know, in fact, that hope hicks had tested positive . And a slew of other questions. But for now, the white house remains open, walk through with no problem, no clear indication that anything much has changed. We do know this is a serious situation and were waiting to hear more from the administration. Back to you. Joe, please keep us posted. Please keepposted, what you show happening behind you. Curious to see if people do show up behind you. Several people fwh, including t president and hope hicks have tested positive, im not sure its going to
He will face a judge today over this incident. On saturday, another man arrested for treeing to unlawfully enter the white house. The secret service scrambling to beef up patrols and under surveillance. Lets bring in White House Correspondent michelle ka sin ski. Reporter you know, working at the white house, we are worried about security. Its a matter of junk over the fence an sprint to the front of the residence and walk inside. So now we are going to see more security, more under surveillance, maybe even more bag checks outside, although, thats still being talked about at this point. Security outside the white house now is visible, very visible. But it often is. So all the more dumb founding that Omar Gonzalez was dieblt this around 7 30 friday night. Take a look at this video sprinting 20 seconds some 70 yards to a portico. There a secret Service Agent with gun drawn. In his pants pocket, a folding 95 with a threeandahalf inch blade. In the days of isis, someone concerned about a t