The Most Significant Operational Failure at the Secret Service in Decades.' Secret Service Director Admits Multiple Notifications of Suspicious Person Before Trump Shooting.
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00:03Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheadle acknowledged that there were significant problems with
00:07security at former President Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot.
00:11She said the Secret Service had been notified between two and five times that a suspicious
00:15person was in the area before Trump took the stage.
00:18Cheadle admitted the assassination attempt was the most significant operational failure
00:22at the Secret Service in decades.
00:24She insisted that no requests for additional security from Trump's campaign for the specific
00:28rally were denied.
00:30Cheadle frustrated lawmakers with careful answers and many non-answers to questions
00:34about specific security failures.
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