Latest / Kvetch & Release / United States Secret Service director resigns

Transcript

United States Secret Service director resigns · Kvetch & Release

• 0:00
  Let's shift our focus down south of the border. We know that the US
• 0:07
  Secret Service director resigned. Joining us to talk right now is a reporter with
• 0:13
  NBC News Radio. Aaron Reel joins me right now, erin, how are
• 0:18
  you doing? I'm well, how are you doing? Very well? Thank
• 0:22
  you so much, so really shocking news. Of course, why don't you
• 0:26
  set the stage for us a bit here. This is, of course,
• 0:29
  all following that assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump last weekend, not this
• 0:35
  most recent one, but the one before that, And then yesterday we found
• 0:38
  out about this resignation. What's going on in your part of the world.
• 0:43
  So this designation comes immediately following, well not immediately, a couple weeks following
• 0:48
  the Trump rally where twenty year old gunman Thomas Kirks was able to get off
• 0:52
  several shots at the former president Donald Trump. He killed one man in that
• 0:56
  shooting and he left two other critically injured. Now, the head of the
• 0:59
  Secret Service, if Kim Cheadle, has resigned yesterday. This is following the
• 1:03
  House over Saying Accountability Committee Committee hearing where she blatantly refused to answer many questions
• 1:11
  about the Secret Services actions those days and then the ones that she did answer
• 1:15
  were so evasive and so preposterous that they've been widely mocked. So she has
• 1:19
  gone. Now we now have Secret Service Deputy Director Ronald Roe stepping into service
• 1:25
  acting director of the agency until permanent one is selected by the President. The
• 1:29
  Roe was assigned by Homeland Security Secretary Alijandro Maiorcas. So apparently Secret Service falls
• 1:37
  under the purview of Homeland Security. It used to fall under the purview of
• 1:40
  the Treasury. But the fact of the matter is the questions, the demand
• 1:45
  for more accountability from the Secret Service that should not stop simply because the head
• 1:49
  resigned. And whether or not she fell on her sword because she had to
• 1:53
  because she was strictly incapable of answering these questions, or she was the in
• 1:57
  evasive for more than a few reason. Whatever it may be, it's not
• 2:00
  good and it still needs a deep, thorough examination. So it sounds like
• 2:06
  there are more questions at this point than when thing started out, And there
• 2:08
  was a lot of questions as to how that all happened, But now it's
• 2:12
  a question of why aren't you answering these questions exactly? And when can we
• 2:16
  expect some sort of legitimate answer. So was it bipartisan where Democrats also upset
• 2:23
  with this? I imagine Republicans would have been expressing the most umbrage. Listen,
• 2:30
  there's going to be issues, for sure on both sides, obviously Democrats
• 2:35
  and Republicans. No one wants to see, unless you're seriously sick, the
• 2:38
  president of the United States killed by an assassin. That's not okay. And
• 2:44
  I do not believe that President Biden would ever want that, or any president.
• 2:46
  And by the way, whoever Biden appoints to run this organization will also
• 2:52
  be in charge of his security detail and vice versa. I don't think that
• 2:55
  this one is particularly political. I understand that it intrinsically is, but the
• 3:00
  idea being like no, there is mutually aligned there are mutually aligned interests here.
• 3:06
  Well, certainly some nobody wants to see political violence, of course.
• 3:10
  So what is known at this point, like what is public and you know,
• 3:15
  verifiable fact as to what occurred on that day with the attempted assassination.
• 3:23
  Verifiable fact is that this young individual Crooks was able to scale on top of
• 3:27
  a roof one hundred and fifty yards from the stage where Trump was speaking and
• 3:30
  get a clear line of sight and fire the stage. We also know that
• 3:32
  the former director Chetle, she said that they didn't secure that specific group because
• 3:38
  it was sloped and someone could have gotten hurt. These are not acceptable excuses.
• 3:42
  And also I think it's important to remind everyone that the Secret Service in
• 3:46
  recent years has been the target of a lot of scandals and missteps and criticism,
• 3:51
  all of which are warranted. This is, I mean, this is
• 3:54
  a huge failure for the US Secret Service. I mean this. You haven't
• 4:00
  seen anything like this for decades, a public attempted assassination attempt. No,
• 4:05
  not this public, no, and not this close ever since Ronald Reagan.
• 4:09
  And obviously this is whether it's a degradation of duties or an incompetence, it
• 4:13
  needs to be looked at, which is why the House Oversight Committee needs to
• 4:16
  continue the job. And you don't just you know, yes, she was
• 4:19
  going to have to go. But oftentimes, again, these heads of these
• 4:23
  governmental organizations get too much credit, good or bad. There are probably dozens
• 4:29
  and dozens of individuals that need to attest for what happened that day. It
• 4:33
  still is just unbelievable that it happened. And I wonder then we have this
• 4:39
  resignation. Now there is someone who stepped into the road. Temporarily, I
• 4:43
  imagine that you know, these hearings aren't going to stop these you know,
• 4:46
  lawmakers are going to want to get to the bottom with us to make sure
• 4:48
  that policies can be updated to ensure that this never happens again. So what
• 4:54
  does that look like? What is the what's moving forward looking like? So
• 4:59
  there accountability board. There is no stated date of the next time they're going
• 5:02
  to grill the new head of the Secret Service. They say that they're going
• 5:05
  to continue to demand answers, their honors specifics today. Okay, well,
• 5:11
  Aaron, I want to thank you so much for your time and for breaking
• 5:14
  this down for our listening audience here again we watch here in Windsor, just
• 5:18
  across the river from Detroit, and just you know, mouths agala right now.
• 5:23
  Quite frankly, just amazing and unfortunate, and nobody wants to see political
• 5:27
  violence. So thank you so much for helping to explain it to everybody.
• 5:30
  Thank you, John, Thank you. Aaron Real is a reporter with NBC
• 5:34
  News. Again, the US Secret Service director resigning, new one temporarily in
• 5:42
  place, and we know that President Joe Biden is going to have to appoint
• 5:46
  a successor. We're going to keep our eyes on this one as it continues
• 5:51
  to evolve. What are your thoughts about the breakdown that occurred there? Do
• 5:57
  you think that we need a secret service here in Cana We know that some
• 6:00
  former cabinet ministers have said that they've dealt with threats and they don't feel safe
• 6:04
  and they don't believe that the RCMP is able to deal with the role effectively
• 6:13
  at the moment, wondering what do you think do we need a dedicated organization
• 6:17
  whose only job is to protect our elected officials or do you think, no,
• 6:23
  we don't need it. I want to know your thoughts. Call us
• 6:25
  or text us five one nine seven nine two CKLW. That's five one nine
• 6:30
  seven nine two two five five nine. I'm John Lidkey. You're listening to
• 6:33
  the Dan McDonald show here on AM eight hundred CKLW. We're back after this