808 to 14000 welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper this hour, a new interview with a republican who says hes worried that hell be on the public end and these lists, if Donald Trump gets reelected and even musing about whether or not he might need to flee the country, blossom. Stunning failures by the us Secret Service detailed in a new report from the lawmakers investigating the first now to assassinate Donald Trump, an allegations that so many of those failures were not only called preventable, but The Agency has not done anything to address them in leading this hour, a brand new update just in to cnn as Hurricane Helene Gains Strength in barrels toward the united states with landfall expected tomorrow. Its a massive update lets get straight to Meteorologist Chad myers and Cnns Hurricane Headquarters and chad, you tell you tell us this is pretty serious it is. Now were up to cat four. We are category four Hurricane Making Landfall in that big Bend Area of florida. And i know theres not a lot of population there, but you dont have to go more than 20 miles inland to get to tap ill see a big Population Center with big trees, lots of areas there that are going to have Power Outages and the continues to move to the north from there. It is right now and 85 mile per hour storm, the same real Hurricane Warnings are in effect. Jake, the water is 85, 87 degrees there. This thing will well still gain strength and there you see 100 130, 130 miles per hour with still more runway to get there more water, even to get before we get to Landfall Tomorrow Night there will be Wind Gusts across all of florida and even northern parts of georgia and the carolinas that exceed 60 to 70 miles per hour, there will be likely millions of Power Outages with this Storm Driving across it would be virtually impossible. He shouldnt even do it. And i hope they shut It Down because when you get wins like this going across the red and thats how much of the entire state of florida covered in tropical Storm Warnings and tropical storm winds. And then we can have winds here in atlanta to 60 or 70 miles per hour after going through make an after going through statesboro, after going through all those other little towns in South Georgia and then into the carolinas i looked at one of the models shake and i saw a Wind Gust in asheville, the possibility of a 71 mile per hour Wind Gusts in asheville in the mountains that far away. What does that . 500 miles away from landfall. And youre going to get almost Hurricane Force gusts this is going to be a big event for all of the southeast. Yes, i know florida, but for georgia, the carolinas, even toward tennessee, and its going to rain for a lot of the time, even into parts of kentucky, there will be places that will have a foot of Rain Chad myers, thanks so much. Back to Capitol Hill now where were following another major breaking story. The director of national intelligence is briefing senators on what the united States Government knows about hostile actors trying to influence the 2024 election, trying to influence your vote. Cnns manu raja is back with us, manu, what are the same senators . Lauren yeah theyre, actually parties are deeply concerned about what theyre learning from top National Security officials at this classified briefing. In fact, Senator Mark Warner who chairs the senate intelligence committee, just came out and brief reporters about what theyre saying is foreign interference in this novembers elections. He went, he said, Russias Goal is to undermine harris, Irans Goal is to undermine trump in china is more focused on downballot races. He says that is a challenge. He believes the Election Integrity System that the united states has put in place can withstand some of these efforts to interfere in the elections. But there are still some deep concerns. What warner said he is in particularly concerned is the moments after the November Elections to try to sow some distrust about the election results. He told reporters he is especially concerned about that 48 i mean. Two Hour Period after the election. He said, unlike in the past, this kind of misinformation will probably not end on election night. There is that concern that this misinformation that that has occurred throughout this Election Season could intensify in october in the runup. But as you heard from what i just said about from Mark One right there, concern about what may happen afterwards as well, this grieving though jake still ongoing as members trying to learn about efforts to try to safeguard the election in trying to prevent those adversaries from influencing voters in the runup to november all right. Manu raju on Capitol Hill for us. Thanks so much and embarrassing report out today revealing new details. At the moments right before that gunman in the first attempted Assassination Hit former President Trump in the ear during a rally in butler, pennsylvania. This was just in july, a us Senate Subcommittee found several security failures, including one countersniper who saw local Law Enforcement running with guns drawn shortly before the shots rang out. But quote did not alert former President Trumps protective detail to remove him from the stage. This is trump just announced he is going to return to butler, pennsylvania for a rally in october. And the Secret Service is scrambling to respond to multiple breaking stories about other possible incidents cnns Paula Reid filed this report take a look what happened stunning Secret Service failures around the first Trump Assassination Attempt details in a newly released by police Partisans Senate Report citing interviews with top Secret Service officials and local Law Enforcement who provided security at the july rally, the report concludes failures were foreseeable and preventable and found that many of the problems identified remain unaddressed by the Secret Service. It was nobody in on the ground in pennsylvania. Democratic senator richard blumenthal, Heads Of Committee that worked on the report. He says change needs to come from the top the buck definitely stops with the head of The Agency, the department of Homeland Security Andrew mayorkas has to take charge, clean house, replace this leadership. And provide full disclosure among the failures highlighted in the Report Failure to set a visual barriers, lack of a plan for how to secure the building where the shooter took aim in General Chaos Up Communications around the shooters movements. The united states secret Service Lead advanced planning agent, could not answer questions about who specifically was responsible for determining the perimeter and who approved the designation of the perimeter and at least two documents, the secret Service Created Details hailing security for the event contained errors regarding the positions of the local counter snipers at the event multiple officials, including acting secret Service Director ronald rowe, have acknowledged the issues that day. Its important that we hold ourselves accountable for the failures of july 13. And then well use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another failure like this. Again as criticism of the response that day has been aware area of bipartisan consensus. There were multiple failures of the Secret Service and things have to be better we were the ink was not even dry on the report until there was a second assassination attempt, even as former President Trump continues to praise those responsible for his security by gifts, Secret Service, a hell of a lot of credit well criticizing the justice department, which has brought criminal cases against him over his handling of classified documents and efforts to subvert the 2020 election the upper echelon of the fbi is all talk. While they focus on the sitting president s political opponents. Thats what theyre doing cnn has learned that several high ranking Secret Service officials plan to step down in the coming weeks. Sources tell us the retirements were planned before the July Assassination attempt. These departures will leave a gap in the experienced leadership of the services top ranks at a critical time, jake, paula, while i have you here, what can you tell us about the story that cnn has reported . But Susan Crabtree broke earlier today that a us secret Service Staffer is under investigation for an alleged Sexual Assault on a Campaign Staffer for the Harris Campaign. Will Jake Cnn has confirmed that a secret Service Agent is on administrative leave over alleged Sexual Misconduct against a staffer for Vice President harris. The incident allegedly occurred during an advance at Security Planning Trip for visit to wisconsin. And cnn is working to confirm details about exactly what happened. The office of the Vice President said they have a zero Tolerance Policy for Sexual Misconduct, but they will not be releasing any further information. A secret Service Spokesman said in a statement that theyre Office Of Professional Responsibility is investigating this alleged incident. All right. Paula reid. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. One of the senator to attended that Election Security Briefing is going to join us in just moments. Hes going to share what he learned today and what you need to know as you decide who youre going to vote for a plus, the new response from Mark Robinson that republican candidate for governor in North Carolina after that, Cnn Report, stick with us with Jake Tapper brought to you by empower, take control of your financial future and empower whats next . Get your free dashboard and empower docx. Awkward question is there could be anything left over oh, absolutely. My kids dont know what they want you know, who knows what she wants with empower. We get all of our financial questions so you dont have to worry in power whats next by the time this is over karen will know if that feeling in her chest is afib or just the end of a stressful day that easy peace of mind that fits in your Wallet Cardia Mobile card is on sale now at cardia. 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Now for the last two days in multiple briefings, while were finding out is that we have multiple actors from outside of the united states that have been trying to influence our election the same as they have in the past. They use propaganda to influence the american public trying to get them to sway the election one way or another. But in most cases, more to cause problems with the election, to make less trust in the elections thats the primary purpose here is this is just to make us Question Whether or not democracy works. American people can fall for this our elections are safe. That they are working we do have safeguards in place, but theyd love to have the american public lose confidence in democracy. In the last 24 hours, weve heard former President Trump repeatedly warned about the threat that iran poses in this collection. Take a listen i want to make that statement because we are under threat. I have been threatened very directly and i appreciate the agencies that weve been meeting with, but weve been threatened very directly by iran. And i think you have to let them know because the best way to do it is through the office of the president that you do any attacks on former president s are candidates for president , your country gets blown to smithereens, as we say not of course, is not just a threat about a threat to the election thats also about a physical threat to President Trump himself on his campaign has been briefed by the office of the director of national intelligence belgians what do you know about what hes talking about President Trump when most of it is public knowledge now, i feel comfortable talking about it around has very clearly targeted american officials primarily in past administrations. But nonetheless, they have also threatened the president , the former president of the united states. And he is absolutely correct in a way that you take care of this, you sent a very clear message thanks to the ayatollah and his people that this simply will not be tolerated. And that if they ever want to have hell to pay, they should continue down this course of action. That message has got to be sent very, very clearly and directly lets turn to the new Senate Report out today that identified sweeping failures by the us Secret Service ahead of that first attempt to assassinate former President Trump in butler, pennsylvania. These failures include not properly planning, poor communication at the actual rally and not executing crucial decisionmaking in the moment. If you can narrow It Down, what is your primary concern from this report . It would appear that they did not have a Chain Of Command and with someone who was in charge, someone on the site that had been briefed beforehand, that had done his Due Diligence. That was being communicated to buy by local Law Enforcement officers. And by their own staff. It seems to me that they had a breakdown in communicatiOn And a real breakdown in the Chain Of Command we know that they probably he did some additional individuals there. We know that the drones that normally they would use, they wanted more was pretty clear that theyd asked for that and that that response its wasnt denied and that they had someone on who apparently did not have a lot of Knowledge Or Understanding of how to use a drone, even though it was part of the plan to keep the former president safe so theyve got a number of issues here that theyve got to be addressed and if this is the way theyre running the safety and the operations for other candidates. Weve got real serious problems in protecting all of our candidates. Then theyve got to get to the bottom of this thing here, but theyve got to talk about that Chain Of Command that clearly failed in this particular case. We also learned today that is seeking but Service Agent is now on administrative leave as The Agency investigates these alleged Sexual Misconduct allegations that he conducted against a staffer for the Kamala Harris campaign, pain others, an investigation underway. Have you been briefed at all about that . What have you learned i have not been briefed out and im aware of the News Article and i can just tell you that there has to be a Zero Tolerance for this type of behavior the Secret Service has got to be beyond reproach. We need Team Members who country crossed one another and who are capable of doing the job at all times. And even when they are offduty, they still have to have a higher standard that they need to hold themselves to. Im sure that there are other members of the Secret Service that are ashamed of what this individual did what i want to know is is why did he get away with at this time how did he get in that position in the first place and why wasnt he singled out and eliminated a long time ago, if you were president right now now, what would you do to improve the u. S. Secret service you have to go to the top and you have to say, look, you have to tell us what your plan is. Now in order to bring this back up to speed, what are you going to do . To with the resources necessary to see that this has not happened. And i want to know with every single candidate, tell me who it is that youve got to be protecting. Tell me what your plans are shared here with us. The Due Diligence that you are doing. And then i woul