Chairman Comer: The Secret Service has a zero-fail mission, but it failed on July 14, and on the days leading up to the rally. The Secret Service has thousands of employees and a significant budget, but it has now become the face of incompetence.
Sorry, that is a typo..should say July 13th.
Raskin: Some are calling it a miracle that former President Trump escaped this AR-15 attack, unlike so many thousands of our fellow citizens who have been killed or seriously killed in other AR-15 shootings.
Chairman Comer; At any point Saturday, did the Secret Service have an agent on top of that roof [where the shooter shot from]?
Cheatle: Sir, I'm sure, as you can imagine, that we are just nine days out from this incident, and there's still an ongoing incident.
Comer: Can you answer why the Secret Service did not place a single agent on the roof?
Cheatle: We are still looking into the advance process and the decisions that were made.
Chairman Comer: There were reports that the shooter used na drone just a few hours before the rally start time. Is that accurate?
Cheatle: I have heard those same reports, and again am waiting for the final report.
Comer: Do you know if the shooter used a drone before the shooting?
Cheatle: That information has been passed to us from the FBI.
Raskin: Why was [President Trump] allowed to take the stage with a suspicious person having been identified in the crowd?
Cheatle: If the detail had been passed information that there was a threat, the detail would have never have brought the former president out onto stage.
Raskin: So you distinguish between someone who is suspicious and someone who is threatening?
Cheatle: We do.
Cheatle: For the event in Butler, there were no requests that were denied.
Jordan: Well maybe they got tired of asking. Maybe you turned them down so darm much, they said, 'not worth asking'. How many times did you turn them down ahead of that?
Cheatle: I think that it is important to distinguish between what some people may view as a denial-
Jordan: Is Mr. Gugliemi your spokes person? He acknowledged the Secret Service had turned down some requests? I'm asking how many
Cheatle: A denial of a request is not equal a vulnerability.