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The Department of Homeland Security inspector general on Friday briefed all nine members of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack about the Secret Service
Nightmare. the problem is they can't alienate their base as we go into the midterm elections. they want to keep the trump base so they're in a good position for the midterm elections. so a donald trump announcement to them is probably not the best scenario. but in donald trump's head, i'm sure he's thinking, you know, he wants to detract from the work of the investigation. he knows this is not good for him so he can flip it and say this is politically motivated, which he's already said. and so i think we'll probably see him announce sooner rather than later, likely. >> olivia troy, jonathan wa...
>> jessica schneider following it for us in washington. thank you very much. joining us now, olivia troy, who served as homeland security counterterrorism and covid task force adviser to then vice president pence, and a former secret service agent and cnn law enforcement analyst. jonathan, of course i'm starting with you on this one. are you suspicious of this erasure. >> let me take a quick step back. i think the whole situation is really odd. we have two entities within the same department, the secret service department of homeland security, and the inspector general. we have two conflicti...
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Secret service agent jonathan wackrow and gordon chang author of "nuclear showdown: north korea takes on the world." jonathan, if i can, i want to start with you and the security aspect of this and how glaring it was to see in broad daylight in a public campaign event -- and i think we have the video again here where you see this recently retired japanese leader gunned down in public. how did this happen? what went wrong in terms of security? >> well, john, i mean, this is a stark reminder that threats against political leaders around the world do not end when they leave office. they typically...