Welcome back to america reports. Im John Roberts in washington. And this has been quite the afternoon, sandra. Sandra it has. Remember the moment where a reporter didnt have anymore questions . We all have so many more questions especially after what we just heard. Im Sandra Smith in new york, this is america reports. Takeaways from the Secret Services conference, Secret Service has President Trump right now the highest level of protection, Ths President biden. John the first Assassination Attempt on July 13th and butler, pennsylvania, investigation finds Communication Gaps and a lack of diligence from The Agency. Sandra lets get right to david spunt, who was in that room. For the news conference. David, we learned a whole lot more but possibly it is one of those moments where it raises a whole lot more questions. Yeah, sandra, john, i think it really does. I have plenty of more questions to ask Director Rowe and we are waiting on this interim report from internal report from the Secret Service. We got a Summary Today with some observations of things that will be changing. First of all, Director Rowe was candid and came out and said after two plus months since juls now in the disciplinary phase, meaning some people are going to get punished here, watch. This agency has among the most robust table of penalties in the entirety of the federal government. In these penalties will be administered according to our disciplinary process. Last month, five Secret Service employees were placed on administrative Desk Duty following the shooting in butler, pennsylvania. The service have been working on that internal report for two months. Its almost complete but the summary has several highlights. The first says a consistent theme gathered from state and local Law Enforcement personnel who helped secure the Butler Rally was the presence of communications deficiencies. The Agr Building where thomas crooks, the 20yearold took the shots at the former president killing a Husband And Father named corey compare tori. It was not an sapir perimeter. It also was not on the minds of certain Secret Service personnel that day. There was a lack of detailed knowledge by Secret Service personnel regarding the state or local Law Enforcement presence that would be present in and around the agr complex. Not conducive for quickly sharing realtime information. Rowe a said before important information was scared and it was done on Text Messages come on text chains. He said oldfashioned Radio Frequencies were not used and clearly should have been. Now today the house over on Capitol Hill not far from where i am, they voted unanimously, 4050, in the chamber, to give all president ial candidates the same protection as sitting president s. I asked him if he can handle that moving forward. He says they have been handling that moving forward. What was the point of the bill . You have to ask congress what the point is but i thing the point is that moving forward congress wants to have a law in place to make sure that sitting candidates going forward, five, 10, 15, 20 years ago has the exact same protection as the president of united United States. Sandra so david, as far as, i think what a lot of folks at home might be wondering, is anybody going to lose their job over this . What he we did here was a bit more from the Secret Service, fm The Director, saying, as a result of what happened, employees will be held accountable. But there wasnt a lot of detail given on the accountability. And how far they will go for that. You think about what we have heard from the former president since that day come on that day, following that day, he has been incredibly gracious to the many women women who risk their own lives that day, but w will we hear any further detail about accountability . You know, he says we wont here, because federal rules and regulations, not sure the Et Wording he used, prevent him from talking about that. But i suspect we will as we get further down the road, as this report comes out to congress here, this internal secret Service Report. Remember there are two reports on Capitol Hill also that Senator Dick Blumenthal in connecticut, a democrat, said would essentially be shocking, would be appalling for people to learn whats inside that report, so after that comes out i think there is going to be more pressure on the Secret Service to come out and say, i dont want to speculate if he is going to say this person has been let go, this person is on some sort of administrative leave, but as people are punished, i think we are going to hear a little more because this is the first time we have heard him talk about disciplinary procedures and he was very careful on all of his words and in his actual speech it talked about the robust disciplinary procedures that the Secret Service has, and i feel like he wouldnt put that in there if that wasnt Between The Lines saying that people are going to be in serious trouble here. Sandra fair enough. David spunt with the very latest for that, thank you. John questioned her spoon charles moreno, former secret Service Agent and national security advisor. The Secret Service does not have the manpower to be able to protect a sitting president , former president , president shall candidate, all of the same time. I am either fortunately or unfortunately old enough to remember back to the last time we were in this position, when Al Gore was running for president , so you had secret Service Protection on h him, secret Service Protection on george w. Bush and secret Service Protection on bill clinton. Who took it upon himself in that Election Year to fly around the world. He went to places like africa, he went to vietnam, he went to columbia, egypt, among other places, which requires Secret Service teams to leapfrog over Each Other so they can provide security for him at every point along the way. It does involve the military, as well, but what is different between 2000, when they didnt seem to have any problem doing it, and now . The threat level. And i think thats what you were hearing the Acting Director referring to, was this heightened Threat Environment, not only here in the United States, not only from threats abroad like the former president s threats from iran based on the killing of general soleimani. They have found over and over, retribution for that. So how can he sustain that high level of operations for long period of time . That is where you are hearing a little bit of doubt that resources and other types of equipment would burn out rather quickly and need to be replaced. So this is a longterm operation here. As i said, i think the House Bill boxes the Secret Service in regarding what kind of protection they are going to present and provide to these candidates going forward, and it removes all of the discretion that the Secret Service would previously have. Sandra just going through some of the other details that he was able to provide there, he did not the Secret Service did not give clear Guidance Or Direction to local Law Enforcement. I think a big part of this is going to be the review, the ongoing, incomplete so far review on the communications with local Law Enforcement because wherever they go, that is critical. And just talking about coverage in washington and working with the capitol police, if they are not working together, everything can fail so quickly. Well, we really saw a removal of the Best Practices that the Secret Service utilized consistently around the world, and that is the Counterpart System. The Secret Service is paired up with state and local Law Enforcements and command centers, and this was one of the areas that you pointed out rightfully so that failed significantly in butler, pennsylvania. You had two separate command post, state and locals had theirs, and then you had a secret Service Agent with one State Police Officer in another, and because of that, the communications broke down. That should never have happened. That was an error on the part of the advance team. Something that will come out in greater detail in that report by the mission assurance division. But had that Counterpart System been upheld, and he gave an example of it at another site he visited, we wouldnt have had many of these problems in the communication area. John so, you know, if butler was the first time that the Secret Service had tried to mouNt Something like this, you can understand that there might be gaps in communications, somebody dropped the ball here or there and then you use Best Practices to try to solve it going forward. Theyve done this thousands of times. How did they screw up so badly . Well, again, john, you know, you have traveled with us a lot in the past. Look, what i can tell you is its got to be in experience. Thats the only place that i can land in this entire thing. And sandra brought up earlier, rightfully so, the issue of retention. Look, the Secret Service doesnt have the best storied intel in the area of retention. Their numbers are very high, they need to bring that number down. You can do all the hiring you want in the world. If nobody is staying or they are retiring as soon as they can, you are never going to get the numbers that you need, especially now in this new Threat Environment as the Acting Director was referring. Sandra so what is this . Is this a crisis of leadership at the Secret Service . Is it a crisis of consistency . Competency . What would you label this . I think it is the perfect storm, sandra, to be honest with you. Weve got five reviews now underway. You have a Secret Service review. Youve got the department of Homeland Security Review being led by former secretary janet napolitano. Youve got the Fbi Investigation of the shooter himself, of the act. And then you have the dhs Inspector General. And youve got one other outside review. I anticipate, as the Inspector General normally does, he will take that wide Aperture Approach to the review of The Agency, looking at everything, looking at leadership, looking at allocation of manpower, all the way down to the use of technology. I think that will be the big picture. And then what congress will do, that was the fifth, is they will take all of those reports in. They will digest those. And then they will make their own conclusions based on those reports and the interviews and investigations they are conducting on their own, but leadership is certainly going to be an area that gets focused on and rightfully so. Sandra charles, if you could standby with us, we would appreciate that as we continue to cover this Breaking News. John . John charles, thank you very much. Spring shannon bream bream, Fox News sunday anchor. We have the Task Force Lead investigation on this, Republican Democrat tell us what they so far learned. Last Week Senator Blumenthal said going to be shocked and appalled, hes getting outrage over the lack of cooperation he is getting from agencies like dhs to provide the information so they know what is going on. Im hoping that as lawmakers who have seen more than we have they will be able to tell us more because there are some things that became less clear to me today from this presser that we just had, so we will have more quesanswers on sunday. Sandra i referenced it earlier but this is the former President Trump in his own words. He just said this at his Long Island rally. Complementing the efforts of these agents. Listen. This evil would be assassin got within a few hundred yards of where i stood but thankfully our outstanding secret Service Agent, and they are outstanding. I want to express my thanks to the u. S. Secret service and to all of the sheriffs and Law Enforcement out in florida, they are heroes who helped to apprehend the attacker. Sandra its worth pointing out for all the failures that we now happen that day that led to this, shannon, and the gaps in communication that we just heard from The Director detailing the lack of diligence ahead of that shooting, the former president has been incredibly gracious to those agents who were there for him that day. He has and you heard that from the Acting Director today, saying listen the men and the women on the ground, these people are doing these difficult jobs every day and they are executing what we are asking them to do. He talked about their families, too. It is a sacrifice for them to know they are walking into these dangerous situations and living in a constant threat level, but what it said it like he was saying today was the Planning And Execution of those plans is where the real breakdown happened and he kept talking about not having those clear directives to state and local partners while he also praised them today and said we count on them, as you noted sandra, everywhere that we go, but my question is, and that clear directive, we have heard from some local and state Law Enforcement agencies who were involved in butler. I want to hear from them now about that side of that conversation. Did they think the Secret Service was going to handle agr . What were they told . Where was that breakdown . Maybe we will get more from those two members will join us on sunday who have been on site, they have been to butler. They are going to have their first hearing next week too. John likely get more as well from the secret Service Report on all of this. When it eventually comes out. Shannon, we will see you on sunday. Thank you so much. Sandra lets bring in ohio congressman jim jordan, house judiciary chairman. Extra joining us. We are continuing to cover this Breaking News and the briefing that was just given by the Secret Service director. What questions do you have . Well, i mean, i think the first take away, talked about deficiencies, i mean, yeah. The president of the United States got shot in the head. Corey comperatore lost his life and two other americans were injured, course there is deficiencies and complacencys, i think is the word that he used. And then he talked about some Paradigm Shift that is taking place. It seems to be the Paradigm Shift should have taken played before sunday, before the attended assassination on President Trump down in palm beach. The agent is right to commend the agents who have been working hard for him. We understand that. But like so many of these agencies in d. C. something guys on the ground, its the people at the top. Speaking of the top, where is mayorkas . I dont think weve heard one word from him since the attempted Assassination Attempt on President Trump this last weekend. Where is he . After all, Secret Service is part of homeland security. What is this guy doing . I think theyre all of those questions. Lets hope this Task Force, god bless the speaker for putting it together, the Task Force here in the house, who some of those members are going to be on with shannon on sunday, hope this Task Force gets to the bottom of everything. I think they will. John on the subject, congressman, of where is, your colleague in the senate, Richard Blumenthal from connecticut, is really hot about the fact that he feels like dhs is stonewalling the senate investigation. Im sure the House Investigation feels the same way. And to your point, white hasnt mayorkas come out and said boo about this . Why isnt dhs readily handling over information to these investigative Task Forces . I dont know but this guy has been a complete failure. We you know the Border Control issues, and this, i dont know where he is at. The good news is for once in this town you actually have bipartisan agreement. We passed Legislation Today unanimous on the House Floor not one vote against it which said look, lets make sure President Trump has the same kind of enhanced Detail And Protection that Vice President harris has. Just good Common Sense frankly should have been done a while ago. Thats coming together. We have to give these Task Forces a chance to dig in there and get this information. I know what its like. We been going after things, fbi, doj, other agencies, you have to go hard. Sometimes you have to go to subpoenas and told people in contempt i think to get the facts and the truth for the country. Sandra well those questions over what congress would be able to approved here, you tell me. Secret Service Director just said The Agency needs additional personnel, technical assets, equipment for longterm and immediately. So is there money for this . Is there money for more resources . Is there a willingness to give them more . Well, sandra, the first i would ask i guess my guess is you go ask The American people, do you think is a Money Problem or a Leadership Problem . What we just talked about with Secretary Mayorkas. I think most americans probably think it is a Leadership Problem. Im willing to look at everything and say do what they need, additional equipment and assets, im willing to look at that and i assume the Task Forces going to do the same. My initial hunch is we always hear this, its always give us more money. I think its actually the leadership at the top that is probably the primary problem but im willing to look at the facts and see with the Task Force uncovers. John hey, congressman, i want to ask about another piece of news that just crossed, totally unrelated to the Assassination Attempt that does involve the United States. Apparently the Isr