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today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) questioned Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle about the assassination attempt on former President Trump.
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from Florida director sheel can you
please give me the names of the individuals who are in charge of your rally I'm not going to release names can you give me the titles and how many individuals no we had a full Advance Team that was responsible for advaning how many people are the final approval Authority there are a number of people that engaged in approving can you me a number no I do not have a firm number can you just confirm whether or not I understand this is open investigation but but in order in order to dispel conspiracy theorist have you guys been able to subpoena the shooters Discord records or has the FBI to your knowledge I believe that the FBI is working on those okay is it factual to say that you have not ruled out that the shooter was working with other people or persons again the FBI is conducting the criminal investigation into the can you at least in an effort to dispel conspiracy theories can you confirm or deny that at this time we do not have that there were any other people engaged so believe he's acting alone I do okay have you been made aware of multiple eyewitness reporting that there was a a second shooter on a water tower I do not have any information related to any second shooter okay uh the reason I asked that is because according to testimony from multiple Witnesses they did report that and again I to my understanding there were over 40 sniper teams that were briefed by the butler ESU and I want to make sure that people are aware if you're saying that there's not another shooter that we are able to clear that information because from this whole entire briefing it doesn't seem like much information has been able to get out to the American people so I'm trying to dispel rumors as understand um was it true that secret service was present at the butler ESU briefing there was a briefing between the uh counter sniper teams that were the yes to my knowledge okay I want to read your report from people that seem to be throwing you under the bus and St that they were in attendance and that secret service was not in attendance at the security briefing according to individuals with knowledge to also include that the AGR building where the shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was located um was actually not a part of their security perimeter for that so there was not Secret Service present um it seems as though that when you were asked earlier from rep Christa morthy about whether or not Secret Service was aware of a threat you had said no they were unaware of a threat and yet according to Communications again from La law enforcement that were in some of these group chats they actually had reported that secret service was made aware of a threat at around 5:59 p.m. as a part of the command including Secret Service aware of messages and requests about in uh information about the suspect's location can you please tell me if you have knowledge of that at all again I think we're conflating the T the difference between the term threat and suspicious but you guys did have knowledge at 5:59 p.m. according to those group chats did you not of a suspicious individual okay um chairman in my opinion According to some of the testimony today I feel that you have perjured yourself in some instances and so I'm going to ask for a full review of the transcripts by staff and if you find that to be the case I do ask that you bring perjury charges against the director um I will say this it is very frustrating and I've talked to my colleagues and we've said it to your face that you have been up here basically stonewalling our ability to get the answers to the American people and what I will also say is that every single member of Congress does not feel safe with you in charge you have heard that and I think that we are all sitting ducks with you and directing the Secret Service currently uh but more importantly it sends a message to our adversaries that we are not protected and we are one of the strongest countries in the world so you have essentially made us a less safe country because of it um as a result of that I'm asking you to formally step down I share my same opinions as my Democrat colleagues and I also think that your efforts to bring forward a full um investigation and report in 60 days is unacceptable and as a result of that I'm going to do everything in my legislative toolkit to ensure that that happens sooner rather than later and I'm sure that you know that we brought a vote on inherent contempt against Garland for essentially blocking a congressional investigation and I don't think that you should be any different so um I will say that I am just completely disgusted by your performance today and I understand that you are probably in a position where you being told not to testify which is why we had to subpoena you I think that goes back to Garland but again that is part of the uh flushing that we need to get out of Washington and I would be happy to assist in that process chairman I yell the rest of my time chair now recognizes Mr Langworthy from New York thank you very much Mr
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