a Fox News Alert house lawmakers are
demanding answers from the Secret
Service on the potential security
failures that led to shots being fired
just a few hundred yards away from the
former president the chair and ranking
member of the Trump assassination
attempt task force releasing this
statement the task force is monitoring
this attempted assassination of former
president Trump in West Palm Beach this
afternoon we have requested a briefing
with the US Secret Service about what
happened and how security responded we
are thankful that the former president
was not harmed but remain deeply
concerned about political violence and
condemn it in all of its forms the task
force will share updates as we learn
more Florida Congressman Greg stuie
joins us now Congressman what answers
are you demanding of secret service and
quite frankly the entire apparatus that
is charged with Protecting President
Trump yeah there's a whole bunch of
questions that Congress has asked and I
don't think the task force has even been
given answers on the last shooting that
happened in Butler Pennsylvania the
names of every single Service uh secret
service agent that was on the ground
that day what is very interesting is the
Trump team has repeatedly asked
secretary mayorcas for more Secret
Service agents to protect president
Trump and had been refused until the
butler shooting multiple different times
why is that why does the Secretary of
Homeland Security not want to provide
security to the former president the
leading nominee for the Republican uh
presidential race here in November why
doesn't he want to give them that assets
that his own team is requesting it's
hard not to believe that this isn't an
effort to give him lower levels of
security at the Palm Beach sheriff even
said that had he been the president they
would had that entire Golf Course shut
down so why are we not treating him uh
like he's the president because there's
already been multiple threats at his
life multiple attempts at his life it's
very frustrating as a member of Congress
one to not get answers from the Secret
Service and two the agency that's
supposed to be deemed the only job to
protect are former and current
presidents and they're not doing it
appropriately yeah what are your what
are your thoughts on the way Secret
Service handled this situation I mean
thank God there was that one agent who
spotted the muzzle of the gun in the
chain link fence but there are questions
about why it got to that level to begin
with yeah how did the guy get there uh
knowing that the president was going to
be there why wasn't that area locked
down it's just like the butler shooting
how did an individual climb up a roof
with a firearm where people around were
saying hey there's a guy over there with
a gun Climbing Up on the Roof how is he
laying up there for like 20 minutes or
something before he took a shot you
can't tell me that the snipers that day
didn't have a a bead or a view on him
before he took a shot why wasn't he
taken out before he was able even to get
on the roof it's there's so many
questions that I have as a former
military guy and looking at tactics and
and the situation there and Butler and
then to and then the the last shooting
uh that the Secret Service is just
refusing to provide answers you saw when
she was before Congress she refused to
provide answers and ended up resigning
after I filed an impeachment resolution
against her uh it's very frustrating to
not get answers from an agency that we
oversee and to the point it's important
to point out again that when you drive
by this course it's not like you can
look in and see the golfers playing
there's Greenery that is blocking
anybody from the road to seeing inside
the course so obviously this individual
had to had some level of planning
involved do you blame Congressman the
constant drum beat from the left that
Trump is a threat to democracy for
yesterday's attempt and yet another
attempt on his
life 100% after January 6 Nancy Pelosi
called All of Us Republican members of
Congress domestic terrorists those words
uh are impactful to people that are
looking to do harm to people so we've
been called domestic terrorists they're
repeated repeated calls that Trump is a
threat to democracy which is actually
the left I mean Camala Harris hasn't had
a single person vote for her for
president and she's the nominee I mean
that if there's not a a more threat to
democracy it's that she was picked
behind closed doors in a democratic
convention and then she's the person
that they put out with a not a single
person voting for her but the rhetoric
from the left every single day that
Trump is a threat to democracy and a
threat to our country uh it drove this
guy to do what he did he already
Facebook's already taken down his uh his
Facebook page that even said that Trump
was was a threat to democracy yeah and
uh after this happened and Donald Trump
got uh whisked away inside after shots
rang out apparently he was in good
spirits and joking and saying it was
unfortunate that it happened at the
fifth hole because he had a birdie Putt
and was doing pretty well so I think his
attitude among all of this uh the drama
and potential life-threatening situation
should be noted as well Congressman we
have to leave it there thank you so much
for joining us I'm Steve duy I'm Brian
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