Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) discusses the Secret Service's 'multiple points of failure' at the Trump rally shooting in Butler County, Pennsylvania earlier this month.
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00:00King David his own representation
00:05Well, it's obvious there were multiple points of failure on this day where that resulted in the loss of one life and three
00:13injured individuals
00:15Including the former president the United States and Republican nominee for president in
00:222024
00:24Some of the things that struck me were for example the drone
00:28that was used by the shooter to surveil the grounds to see where everybody was and where they were not and
00:38Amazingly when the Secret Service tried to use their drone they said there was a network congestion
00:46I asked the obvious question why if the shooters drone worked
00:50Why didn't the Secret Service's drone work and they said well, we're we're looking into that
00:57Secondly the as you know, the drones are
01:01Ubiquitous these days and they can also be weaponized. So there might would not have been even the necessity
01:08For the shooter to have a gun if he had an ability to deploy a weaponized drone that day something that the
01:16That the Secret Service was completely unprepared to deal with I asked do you have
01:21Electronic warfare or jamming capability and they said well, we really can't talk about that here
01:27another
01:29one of their multiple points of failure and
01:32Then as you've heard from my colleagues up here the fact that a suspicious individual was identified
01:39The acting director wanted to say well wasn't until we saw the gun that we know knew he would be a problem or
01:48Threat, but the fact the matter is the Secret Service allowed
01:53President Trump to go on the stage without having adequately investigated this suspicious individual
02:00If they had simply asked him to stand down while they investigated they would have discovered the shooter and this shooting
02:08Would never have occurred in the first place
02:11next the
02:12Secret Service simply tried to delegate to local law enforcement their responsibilities which they were to keep their protectees safe
02:22and
02:23the
02:26Acting director made the point of saying Secret Service or the elite in law enforcement and I believe that's true
02:32These are the best of the best
02:34But then for some reason when it came to providing protection for President Trump
02:39They delegated this to local law enforcement
02:42Obviously people less trained to deal with the sorts of threats that they saw that day resulting in another
02:50porn of failure
02:51but finally
02:53The lack of communication or ability to communicate the threat to the agents on the stage with the president
03:00Was another point of failure
03:02Because if they had been able to have simply a walkie-talkie or radio, which would have communicated from the field directly to the agents
03:09They could have asked the president to keep his seat and to stay out of harm's way
03:16So, thanks to thanks to the divine intervention President Trump did not lose his life that day
03:22I told him that it's obvious. God has other plans for him
03:27but the fact the matter is the
03:30that
03:31That the Secret Service has now been transferred since 2003 to the Department of Homeland Security
03:38Now, why should that cause any of us concerns?
03:40Well, you've seen the job that the Department of Homeland Security is doing at the southern border with about 10 million people
03:47Released in the interior of the United States Alejandro Mayorkas should have resigned
03:52years ago
03:54completely incompetent lied to Congress repeatedly and now he's in charge of
03:59The Secret Service because they're part of the Department of Homeland Security
04:04obviously, we need to look at this matter from top to bottom and we need to fix the
04:11Secret Service so no future
04:13Candidates or existing office holders are exposed to this sort of threat again
04:19Thanks, John
04:20Just want to put an explanation point