Good day. I am jose diazbalart, in for chris jansing. Foreseeable and preventable mistakes. A brand new bipartisan report lays out Secret Service failures ahead of the attempt on Donald Trumps life in july. The errors at the heart of the report and what it means for The Agency moving forward. Plus, an unprecedented attack appears to be sparking a new phase of war. Israel launching a wave of strikes in lebanon after intercepting a missile fired at Tel Aviv in hezbollahs deepest strike yet. What the idf just said that could signal a Ground Invasion could be coming. And florida bracing for impact as helene intensifies into a hurricane. Millions of people are now under a State Of Emergency as they prepare to grapple with Lifethreatening Storm Surge, damaging winds and heavy rain. Well talk to the head of fema about how they are preparing. And we begin with new details emerging from a bipartisan report on the Security Failures that led to the first Assassination Attempt on former president Donald Trump. The findings are striking. The Secret Service was made aware of a suspicious person with a Range Finder 27 minutes prior to the shooting. And their Command Center knew two minutes before shots were fired that there was a man on the roof, which wasnt communicated to Trumps Detail. While the Secret Service has acknowledged ultimate responsibility for its failure to prevent the attack on trump at the July 13th rally in butler, pennsylvania, the interim report paints a picture of individuals deflecting blame. What we have here really is an accumulation of errors that produced a perfect storm of stunning failure. There was no Chain Of Command, no pinpointing of responsibility, which i think is at the core of these failures. Nbcs Ryan Nobles is reporting on Capitol Hill. Nbcs Ken Dilanian reporting from washington, d. C. Also joining us, jim cavanaugh, Retired Atf Special Agent In Charge, former Hostage Negotiator for atf and an msnbc contributor. So ken, what else are we learning from this report . You know, jose, its important to say the secret Service Director has already acknowledged some of these failures and he has said that agents will face disciplinary action. But this report paints a much more disturbing picture than he was willing to do the other day. It says that agents and officials who were interviewed pointed fingers, Couldnt Say who was in charge of advance planning, and didnt acknowledge how badly they mishandled this. Big picture of the report says the Secret Service didnt communicate to local Law Enforcement that they needed to secure that roof that the sniper used to fire and that the Secret Service knew it was unsecured when trump took the stage. And then because of a series of astonishing Communication Failures the Secret Service agents protecting trump did not learn key information about the threat as local police were discovering it. The report says the secret Service Leadership denied some assets requested by Trumps Detail for the Butler Rally including a Countersurveillance Team that may well have discovered the shooter before he got on that roof. And the report confirmed that local police and the Secret Service were not in radio communication. It said the Secret Service was notified, as you said, about an individual on the roof of the building two minutes before the shooter opened fire but that information was not relaid to the team protecting trump, who could have rushed him off the stage. The Secret Service had counter Drone Technology that might have spotted crooks flying his drone before the rally. But the senate investigators found that the agent in charge of that system on site really didnt know how to operate It And spent hours on the phone with Tech Support trying to get it to work. Its really a cascade of errors. The Secret Service acknowledging some of this and saying that they will work to fix some of it. And this is really one of several investigations. Were going to hear more about this in the coming weeks, jose. So ryan, how are lawmakers reacting to this . Jose, the overwhelming sense that you get from these lawmakers, both republican and democrat, is a sense of frustration. This really wasnt a resources issue. Yes, there were some technological problems. Yes, the secret Service Advance Team had asked for more support to aid them in their protection of Donald Trump. But really at the fundamental core here this was a breakdown in communication and Human Error that led to these vulnerabilities and their security posture. And its something that these senators want to see fixed immediately. Take a listen. There needs to be accountability for what happened because there were a series of failures and all of the failures could have been prevented. The buck definitely stops with the head of The Agency, the department of homeland security, Alexander Mayorkas has to take charge, clean house, replace this leadership and provide full disclosure. All of these failures we found were Human Failures. You dont fix Human Failures by giving the humans more money. You fix Human Failures by so if theres any good news that came out of this report, jose, its that this is not going to require a multibilliondollar investment to fix many of these problems that the Senate Team were able to discover over the course of their investigation. It really just means policy changes. It means a simple fix like making sure local Law Enforcement and Secret Service are on the same Radio Channel when theyre working together to protect either the President Of The United States or one of the main candidates for President Of The United States. The senators are really encouraging the Secret Service to make those changes immediately. And as you heard from these senators, if theyre unwilling to do so, maybe if they are even willing to do so, there needs to be serious changes at all levels within the Secret Service. Jose. And jim, as were showing pictures, these live pictures of the former president in Mint Hill, North Carolina where he is just starting a campaign stop focused on the economy, but that is the images that were getting live from North Carolina at this hour. Jim, and you heard what Senator Paul had to say, more Money Wont Fix Human Errors. Also what Senator Blumenthal says, the Chain Of Command is at the core of these failures. What challenges could there be in fixing all of these problems . Well, jose, its a complete structural Leadership Failure when you read this preliminary report from the senate. Its unbelievable to see that a Special Agent In Charge i mean, thats the title. I held that title. Its the highest Field Command Position in the federal service. Its the senior Executive Service of the government. For example, in the atf theres only 25 in the united states. The Special Agent In Charge is the field commander. And the Special Agent In Charge of this instance says i wasnt in charge, i was a liaison person. But the Secret Service has a structural problem here because when they come in with their detail the detail has a Special Agent In Charge. The most prestigious one of course is they call ppd, president ial protection detail, and theres a Special Agent In Charge. And hes usually the guy you see right behind the president. They often go on to be the director because they get to know the president and they get appointed later or get, you know, an appointment as the director somewhere else. But thats the Special Agent In Charge of the detail. Well, when they go into a city, pittsburgh or dallas or wherever, theres a Special Agent In Charge there. And what Secret Service is not doing is theyre not placing the commander, the Onscene Commander at the site, the Special Agent In Charge, over the joint operations center. And we learned these lessons in Law Enforcement 40 and 50 years ago. Crisis management. We did it in atf. We did it in the fbi. We got a structure for it. Its an onscene command, joint operations center. They need to have the person at the joint operations center, which would have been on site in butler, state police, local police, all their chiefs and commanders, the Special Agent In Charge there is the guy in charge. And hes getting all the information and calling the shots. And hes saying move the principal off the stage, we have a person we cant locate that has i arraignage finder. Weve got somebody on the roof, move him back. We dont have even a person doing that. We have the person supposed to be doing that saying theyre liaison. This is a really terrible failure. The service has to fix this immediately. And just to close, jose yeah, yeah, please go ahead. Just to close, i drummed into my people in all these Crisis Thirngsz we dealt with bombings, snipers, killers, we set up these joint f joint operations centers with the police. And i drummed into everybody all the time, info, flow and go. You get information, you flow Information 360 and then you do your task. And when i read this report i saw that failure everywhere. The sniper gets information, he doesnt flow It Anywhere. He sees cops running to the roof of the barn but he doesnt flow the information. He fails. Youve got to info, flow and then you go. And thats repeatedly happening in that instance. Youve got to inculcate your people with that mindset. At every level, the commanders to the Special Agents has to know that. They have to fix their structural leadership. You have to have the Special Agent In Charge. If youre not going to be in charge, then you dont get the title in charge. You have to do something else there. One thing of course is the massive series of Communication Failures you talk about. Then theres the issue, just thinking of what ken was telling us, about the fact that there was only one drone accessible to the officials there and then this person was on the phone for Tech Support for hours trying to get the drone to work . I mean, this is the kind of stuff in a way youre like this is what we all go through on a daily basis anytime you want to reach Tech Support, youre going to be on hours. But that the Secret Service would have that problem when its the security of a former President Of The United States . And youre exactly right. And the biggest then, ken and i talked about this the other day, and heres the biggest thing the senators left out of their report, but we should all understand. Crooks in butler broke the aura of impenetrable security around a Secret Service protectee. He broke the aura. And thats why we got the shooter in west palm. Because he saw oh, these guys arent impenetrable. I can do this, i can get through this. The problem is other people are seeing that too around the country, disaffected people, political terrorists. Foreign nations, iran. Theyre seeing this weakness. And when they see this weakness they think they can exploit it. And thats a bad thing for the country and this service. Theres the greatest threat i think is coming from Drone Attacks. Theyre ubiquitous in the ukraine war with explosives and firearms. And i know the service is trying to prepare for that. But im telling you, thats a great fear. But theyve got to back those perimeters up and bring in all the agents and officers you need to do it. I dont care if youve got to bring in 30 Border Patrol to secure the Golf Course at maralago. Guess what . Trumps going to play golf there next time hes down there. So get ready. And you need to secure it because weve got four months until the inauguration and its a critical, critical time for america. Those Drone Attacks you refer to in ukraine used by the russians are made in iran. Lets not forget that. Ryan nobles, Ken Dilanian, jim cavanaugh, thank you all so very much. Up next, hezbollah fires a missile deep into israel as tensions mount in the region. Why israel is now saying it is preparing for a potential Ground Invasion. Were back in 90 seconds. Ds you know, when i take the bike out like this, all my stresses just melt away. I hear that. This Bad Boy can fix anything. Yep, tough day at work, nice cruise will sort you right out. 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The forgetyouget migraine medicine. 13 past the hour. Tensions escalating by the Seconds Today in the Middle East as the israeli Defense Force Chief of staff tells troops that they have been striking hezbollah targets in lebanon all day to prepare the ground for, quote, possible entry. The idf now calling up two Reserve Brigades to the border as both Sides Trade serious fire. Earlier Today Israel intercepted the first Hezbollah Missile fired toward Tel Aviv in history. You can see israelis here in the north rushing to a burning home hit by Rocket Fire by the iranianbacked group. Explosions are seen in the sky from above the intersepgs of more rockets, blocked by the iron dome. I want to bring in Nbcs Matt bradley is in beirut today. Former spokesperson for the u. S. Mission to the u. N. And former Syria And Lebanon director at the White House hagar shemali. Also with us retired fourstar General And Msnbc Military Analyst Barry mccaffrey. So matt, a top Israeli Commander now saying the campaign is entering a, quote, new phase. What does that look like and how are things in beirut right now . For all of these days weve been seeing this, the better part of the past week, we havent actually seen any indication that the israelis are preparing a Ground Invasion even though theyve been Pummeling Hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. Now for the first time today weve been hearing from generals, from toplevel israelis saying to prepare for a Ground Invasion. We havent heard yet resolute word that there will be a Ground Invasion. Thats important to note. But as you mentioned, we heard from the Idf Chief of staff, and he said, as you said, theyre preparing the process of a maneuver. And he went on to say to prepare your military boots. Hes speaking to his troops here. Prepare your maneuver boots. And he said well show them what it means to face a professional, highly skilled and battleexperienced force. And he said youre coming in much stronger and far more experienced than they are. You will go in, destroy the enemy there, and decisively destroy their infrastructure. Well, the israelis have spent the past week destroying Hezbollah Infrastructure and killing and maiming hezbollah fighters. Weve seen the death toll spike. Of course last week we saw that very unusual and unprecedented incident where there were looked like thousands of pagers and walkietalkies that blew up across lebanon, especially in hezbollah strongholds in the south of the country. The Bekaa Valley in the east and the southern neighborhood of dahia here in beirut. Here in beirut as you asked, jose, the Situation Hasnt quite reached the level that it has in the south. Weve been Hearing Bombardments for the past several days increasingly frequent. Theyve been quite loud. And ive been here with some regularity for much of the past year. This has been the most frequent and the loudest that weve been hearing ever since the latest offensive, the latest round of fighting started all the way back on october 7th. It looks as though the israelis are very much preparing for a Ground Invasion. But like i said, we havent yet gotten resolute word that theyre going to be doing that. Jose . So general, as this news was developing today i was thinking back over the conversations you and i have had for the last couple of days, weeks on what a Ground Invasion would look like. And general, what the consequences of a Ground Invasion could look like. Well, look, i think at the end of the day the israelis have made an irrevocable decision, theyre going to push the Hezbollah Threat back from the border, theyre going to stop the Rocket Fire. Hezbollahs fired some 9,000 rockets and drones at israel since they initiated attacks on israel on the day after the 7 October massacre. The israelis are going to stop this one way or the other. Theyre not going to pay much attention to outside influences such as the u. S. Talking about twostate solutions. Theyre not yet ready to go in on the ground, calling up two Reserve Brigades isnt nearly enough. This will require a force of a quarter of A Million troops to actually go in and eliminate 150,000 Hezbollah Rockets and the sites. But the israelis have hit 1,600someodd targets. Theyve had a devastating impact on the Chain Of Command of hezbollah, particularly with the pagers and Walkie Booby Trap operation, wounded or killed over 3,000 hezbollah leadership. So were on the edge of an allout Ground Invasion, which would be extremely tough, not just on the ci