Jamie Raskin Asks Secret Service Director Point Blank How To Prevent Assassination Attempts

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At a House Oversight Committee hearing on Monday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) questioned Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

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00:00Director Cheadle, we don't want to lose a presidential candidate to an AR-15 attack.

00:09We cannot lose a presidential candidate to an AR-15 attack, and we can't lose any more

00:14citizens to AR-15 mass violence, mass shootings.

00:22And we certainly don't want an attempted AR-15 assassination or assassination attempt to

00:30set off political violence or riots in America.

00:35So this is deadly serious business.

00:38The vice ranking member pointed out that a report in 60 days won't do it for us because

00:48we have a responsibility.

00:50Members of Congress have a responsibility to take action now if there's anything we

00:54can do to prevent this.

00:55So my question for you is, what is informing your operational decisions right now that

01:02you've invoked?

01:05Without a report, can you tell us what are the preliminary judgments?

01:09Or if you don't want to foreshadow the report, fine.

01:12What are your personal, professional judgments informing the operational decisions you're

01:17making right now?

01:21Certainly and I appreciate that question.

01:23I don't want to make any preliminary judgments on what happened on this particular day, but

01:28I can tell you that we have looked at, as we did immediately in the aftermath, what

01:33the security plan for the Republican National Convention was going to be, and we made adjustments

01:39to the interior of the perimeter there.

01:41We looked at the protectees that we have here in the Washington, D.C. area and our protective

01:46sites, and we did make some adjustments to their security posture.

01:51And as we continue to move through the next several weeks, even yesterday with the announcement

01:58of the president no longer running, we have made adjustments to the vice president's detail.

02:04We are already prepared for an eventual VP nominee, and we continue to make those assessments.

02:11I think it just shows how dynamic the environment is that this agency works in every day.

02:16So you've made the same kinds of common-sense judgments and intuitive recommendations that

02:23members of the public and members of Congress are asking about right now?

02:27Yes.

02:28Okay, thank you.

02:29I yield back, Mr. Chairman.

02:30And before I recognize Ms. Bates, I have to say, Director, we're pretty close to the half

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