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Oversight and reform and he has been very concerned about what joe clancy knew and when he knew it. and those questions will come out in the coming days michael. but there are some details we just can't know because obviously at this point there cannot be a sobriety test because it's ten dais later. >> the image that was created at least in my mind by the initial reporting of this incident is these individuals had had way too much came barreling out of play the white house, smashed into a barricade and interrupted what was then an active crime scene. that might not be the case. that's the take...

Ron, what do you make of this latest development? >> i think this is a typical cover-up by the secret service, and i'm very used to seeing that because they've tried to cover up revelations in my book "the first family detail." "the washington post" reporting on the secret service problems has been very accurate and why is it that these two very high-ranking individuals were removed from their posts and put in nonoperational positions? obviously something very serious happened there. and this so-called -- >> you used the word cover-up and perhaps that's what the evidence will show. i'm far mor...

Fact they were involved in wrongdoing. and joe clancy, the new director appointed by president obama despite all the recommendations of his own panel that he get an outside director to shake-up the secret service, is very good at covering up. i'll give you one example, there are many at a hearing on the house -- in the house he was asked why is that the secret service issued false information about the intrusion by mr. gonzalez at the white house? why is it that the secret service said he'd been apprehended at the door? that was not true. he went all the way into the white house. why did they ...

The secret service and the role they play? >> i think that's a very good point. he is mesmerized by the agents who are very impressive. and he thinks well the whole secret service must be like that. but somehow the rest of the world knows this agency has become an embarrassment. and really at this point there's one person responsible for the problems at the secret service and that is obama because over and over again going back to the intrusion at the state dinner at the white house by the party crashers obama keeps saying i have full confidence in the secret service and over and over again he...

Why did they say that he was not armed. that was not true he was armed. and is anybody going to be held accountable? and the answer from clancey was oh there was no problem there. >> ron, respectfully in this case he wasn't told for five days. the criticism is that he was out of the loop so how can you possibly say that he's been involved in some degree of cover-up. >> because of the so-called -- >> may i share with you what most troubles me about this that hasn't been reported on in the media. i think our attention is diverted to what happened at the quote unquote crash scene which apparently...