At a Senate Republican press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) spoke about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
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00:00Thank you, Roger, for doing this.
00:04You know, this is a world that I used to live in for a little bit, and there's several
00:09questions that have to be answered that's not, and they're really simple, right?
00:13Who is AIC, the agent in charge?
00:16What SOPs are they using, standing operating procedures?
00:19Who set the perimeters up?
00:20Where were the perimeters?
00:22What was the initial plan?
00:24Was the initial plan detailed out?
00:27Did they walk it?
00:29How many meetings did they have with local law enforcement?
00:32Who was in charge of those meetings?
00:34Did the Secret Service attend the 9 o'clock briefing?
00:38If the Secret Service didn't attend the 9 o'clock briefing, the question would be why,
00:42because the Secret Service is leading the entire perimeter and leading the whole detail
00:48for the purpose of protecting President Trump.
00:52If you can't answer those simple questions, then what are you hiding, right?
00:57Most of the time, you start with three perimeters.
00:59The first perimeter would be always protected by local law enforcement.
01:04It always is.
01:05You're using local law enforcement, it's the softer perimeter.
01:08It's the perimeter that's protecting all the buildings, making sure there's no high point
01:12advantages, that everything is clearly being looked at within that first perimeter.
01:18They're watching the people coming in, they're paying attention to the individuals, the crowds,
01:22which way the crowds are moving, who may be an agitator in the crowd.
01:25The second perimeter is a little bit harder of a perimeter.
01:28It's where you get your bags checked, right?
01:30It's where you make sure you have a clear bag.
01:32It's where you go through your metal detectors.
01:34It's where you present your credentials that you're able to be there.
01:37That's going to be local law enforcement.
01:39It'll be some uniformed individuals, it'll also be your bigger SWAT team.
01:43The inner one, which is called the diamond, they had three jobs, to protect the principal
01:50from harassment, embarrassment, and death, harassment, embarrassment, and death.
01:59Out of every single detail you run, you always do a debrief.
02:07You break it down, what went right, what went wrong, how do we improve?
02:15All we're asking is the Secret Service to give us the briefing.
02:18How'd they break down?
02:21What's the simple issues that they dealt with?
02:23Where was the failure points?
02:24Because if you cannot admit you did something wrong, you're destined to do it again.
02:31As Senator Blackburn laid out, there's 31 individuals that's, every single day, they're
02:41depending on the Secret Service to do their jobs.
02:43That means there's 31 individuals that have families that's depending on the Secret Service
02:48to do their job.
02:49They should do their job.
02:50We want them to do their job.
02:51I spoke with President Trump the day after the assassination attempt.
02:56And I'll tell you, the first thing he did is he praised the Secret Service, the ones
03:00that were in his diamond, for doing their job.
03:03He praised them for jumping in and protecting him.
03:06His words was, didn't they do a great job?
03:08Yeah, they did do a great job protecting him.
03:11They did a horrible job with the perimeter in protecting everybody else that was there.
03:16I'm not against the Secret Service, but people need to be held accountable, not just Kimberly,
03:22the former director, other people there that was in charge of the site.
03:28They need to be held accountable also.
03:31And I think that's what Congress is trying to get to.
03:33We want to prevent this from ever happening again.
03:37We want to help them, but they're not being transparent with us.
03:41If they're not, then we'll have to go around them if they're not going to work with us.
03:45Thank you, Roger.