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Chaffetz personally to offer an apology on behalf of the agency. both men, both director clancy and secretary johnson indicated a commitment to holding accountable those who may have improperly handled information. obviously, an agency like the secret service takes soarously the responsibility they have to properly handle sensitive information and the report that was released does raise significant concerns about whether all of the procedures were followed or at least if they were followed properly. so, you know, i think that we, and the president has confidence that the appropriate steps will...

Secret service headed back in the right direction. ultimately it will be up to the director of the secret service. everything that happens or fails to happen as opposed to mr. mulligan. >> okay. the jury is still out but does he have the potential to really change the tone of the agency and all of his agents? >> well i think mr. mulligan coming from the outside brings a fresh perspective, a fresh set of eyes on the scene. i think he's going to be of help. i don't think he will hurt the situation any but, again, ultimately the secret service is going to have to fix its own problems beginning wi...

Some aerial photos of the white house, was his excuse but they'll have to explore that further. >> because it does follow a series of security breaches at the white house, as you well the bottom line question, are you confident that the first family is secure over there? >> i do worry about this wolf. in this case a secret service agent or officer, i'm not sure which one it was, dealt with it immediately, but i do think we have ongoing security concerns. we met with the inspector general today and had a hearing, stalked about four very senior people at the secret service from that march 4th in...

These are, after all, the men and women protecting him. there's loyalty, and certainly you don't want to upset the people responsible for your safety. you're in this oversight position. what do you think? >> i've known about this for months. there are literally millions of dollars of technical problems that now have been rectified. i didn't want to talk about it until they had been solved. want idea that for more than a year a former president is in a residence that doesn't have the basic alarm in place is totally unacceptable. i do appreciate director clancy -- now, he's new to this but i thi...

To take this person down? if they did want to take them down, what were they going to do about that? i have long said that i think that director clancy was the wrong choice by president obama. i have not called for him to be fired at this point or to step down. i have with the case of the dea hearings that we had this week but i got real concerns what are they doing pro actively and what are they going to do in the future. >> i want to pick up on what you just mentioned. you had hearings not just with the secret service but also with the drug enforcement administration and that was over a case...