Mitch McConnell Decries Lack Of Senate Hearings On Secret Service Oversight After Trump Shooting

5 months ago

During remarks on the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spoke about the lack of Senate hearings dedicated to investigating the shooting of former President Trump.

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00:00Since the Senate last convened, our nation has seen two attempts to circumvent the American

00:09people's right to choose their leaders.

00:13The first, of course, was the first time in more than a century that a former president

00:18of the United States was shot in an attempted assassination.

00:24That happened at Theodore Roosevelt.

00:27This murderous assault on our democratic process very nearly robbed millions of Americans

00:36of their choice for the next president.

00:40It's been reassuring to see Americans united in their horror at this brazen act of political

00:48violence.

00:51The new disaster on July 13th violated the trust of the American public, and restoring

00:58that trust will require transparency and accountability.

01:06I said at the outset that the resignation of the Director of Secret Service would be

01:09an important step in that direction, and I'm encouraged she's taken that step today.

01:19The Director is on record describing her agent's responsibilities as, quote, a zero-fail

01:26mission, end quote.

01:28Clearly, on July 13th, the Secret Service did fail the mission.

01:35The important questions now are why and how, and how, apart from internal inquiries and

01:44FBI investigations, Congress' Oversight Authority entitles us to answers.

01:52Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee spent hours questioning the Director of the Secret

01:56Service.

01:57Unfortunately, the Senate majority hasn't yet showed any intention of conducting oversight

02:05of its own.

02:08Democrats who so often express concern about threats to a democracy have yet to look seriously

02:14at the failures of the Secret Service.

02:19The Judiciary Committee, for its part, appeared to be more concerned with resurrecting failed

02:25judicial nominations than in getting to the bottom of the first near-assassination of

02:32a former president in 100 years.

02:36Until earlier today, Chairman Durbin apparently intended to spend the committee's time taking

02:41another look at Radical Judge Sarah Nipper, a nominee his own committee rejected once

02:48for engaging in political activism from the bench and lying about her actions under oath.

02:56It's crickets at the Homeland Security Committee as well.

03:01Chairman Peters has three meetings on the calendar for this week, but not one about

03:06the near-assassination of a former president.

03:12Former President of the United States came within an inch of his life just days ago.

03:17An innocent participant in the great tradition of American campaigns was killed, and two

03:24other attendees were seriously wounded.

03:28The American people deserve to know how this happened and what steps are being taken to

03:34ensure that it won't happen again.

Mitch McConnell Decries Lack Of Senate Hearings On Secret Service Oversight After Trump Shooting

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