With the task force on the attempted assassination of President-elect Donald Trump done with hearings and interviews, the Congressional leaders on the committee are weighing in on what they’ve learned.
Congressman Mike Kelly of Butler chaired the task force. He sat down with CBS’s Face the Nation over the weekend, where he said the Secret Service had multiple failures that day.
“I would’ve said keep the President back until we clear the area. That’s what doesn’t make any sense,” Kelly said. “They failed from the picking of the site, preparing the site, to coordinating the site, the ability to communicate. Every step of the way [the Secret Service] failed.”
Democratic ranking member Jason Crow of Colorado said he believes the Secret Service had a cultural problem.
“That is my concern. There is a cultural of silence and that individual officers and agents are not empowered to say something is wrong,” Crow said.
Both men said the task force still doesn’t have answer as to why Thomas Crooks shot the president that day.
