Jordan [Oversight of Homeland Security Investigation hearing]: So you had agents at both of he assassination attempts on the former president, and the individuals at the FBI conducting the investigations have not talked to you, in one case, that's been over two months ago?

Berger [Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Investigations]: Correct.

Jordan: I find that troubling…I find it kind of astonishing that the people doing the investigation haven't talked to the individual who is in charge of so many of these agents who've been supplementing President Trump's security detail.

Gaetz: You can confirm just the news reporting, that the suspected Trump attempted assassin was flagged by CBP, and was referred to HSI?

Berger: Yes.

Gaetz: Is it legal or someone to go recruit for a foreign military? Does that break any laws?

Berger: I don't know, sir. I would have to look into that a little bit further.

Gaetz: [reading from CBP memo] "Suspect is a US citizen who traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, for three months to help recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova, and Taiwan, to fight in the Ukrainian war against Russia. Subject stated that he does not get paid for his recruiting efforts, and all his work for the Ukrainian government is strictly volunteer work. The subject stated that he obtains money from his wife to help fund his trips to Ukraine." So when this guys shows up with a business card, and this story about how he's recruiting fighters in Ukraine and his wife is paying for it, CBP says this is a little odd and they send it to HIS, HSI declines to further investigate, and what you're saying is based on the facts you are aware of now, that was the right decision by DHS?

Berger: No, the statements that day would not rise to the level to take him into immediate custody.

Gaetz: When CBP refers this to HSI; what I believe happened is HSI declined, not only to incarcerate this person, but to further investigate this person. Are you saying that they declined to investigate, or that that investigation went forward, and the attempted assassination occurred during the pendency of that investigation?

Berger: I would have to look into that a little bit further.

Gaetz; I think that's going to be a really important second thing to get back to us on, is whether or not HSI made an active decision in real time to decline further investigation of that person.

Nehls: The UN General Assembly; did you say you're sending twelve hundred of your agents up there?

Berger [[HSI]: That's correct.

Nehls: So you're going to send twelve hundred, twenty-five percent of your workforce is going to visit New York for a couple weeks, is that the assignment, to augment the Secret Service?

Berger: That's correct.

Nehls: Do you ever just raise your hand, or just stop and say, 'I can't send you twelve hundred agents. The hell am am I going to do that for?' We've got a border; we're losing a hundred thousand people to drug trafficking, the sex trafficking, everything taking place, and you're up there at the UN with twenty-five percent of your workforce.

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Cohen: Does it make any sense whatsoever for Jimmy Carter to have the same number of Secret Service agents as Mr. Trump?

Berger: I'd have to defer that to Secret Service, sir. That's rally a question for them.

Cohen: No, it's a question for you. I'm asking you. A man who is a hundred years old, infirmed in a bed, can hardly get up; does he need Secret Service protection the same as Mr. Trump who plays golf and goes around and speaks, and President Biden goes around and speaks?

Berger: I wouldn't like to make judgements.

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