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Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe has a heated exchange with a congressman during a hearing on Capitol Hill by the bipartisan House task force investigating the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life on Thursday. The hearing devolved into a heated yelling match between Rowe and Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas). Fallon pulled out a [...]

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe had a heated exchange with a congressman during a hearing on Capitol Hill by the bipartisan House task force investigating the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life on Thursday. The hearing devolved into a heated yelling match between Rowe and Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas). Fallon pulled out a [...]

Rep. Pat Fallon criticized acting Director Ronald Rowe's presence at a 9/11 memorial.

During the hearing Ronald Rowe was repeatedly asked by flabbergasted lawmakers how problems so obvious in hindsight were allowed to happen.

A congressional hearing on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump earlier this year devolved into a shouting match between acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and Texas Rep. Pat Fallon, a Republican.Sparks began to fly after Fallon presented a photo of Rowe standing behind Trump, President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris at the 9/11 memorial event in New York City. Fallon insinuated that Rowe appeared at the event as a public relations move after the agency received criticism for its handling of the July 13 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and had disrupted the security detail for the 9/11 event.

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During a hearing on the assassination attempt against President-elect Trump, acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, got into a heated shouting match over an appearance Rowe made at a September 11 remembrance event in New York.

It was a hearing on Capitol Hill that could probably have been heard in the hallway. A full-on shouting match erupted Thursday as Texas Rep. Pat Fallon grilled acting Secret [...]The post 'Way Out of Line!': GOP Rep. and Acting Secret Service Director Get Into Full-on Screaming Match appeared first on The Western Journal.

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Sherman) questioned acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe on his decision to attend a 9/11 memorial, accusing him of compromising security.

The final hearing of the House task force that investigated the assassination attempts against Donald Trump devolved into an explosive moment as the acting U.S. Secret Service director engaged in a screaming match with a GOP congressman.

'This is an unacceptable dereliction of your duty'

The multilayered nature of presidential and candidate security is complicating calls for former President Trump to have the same level of protection as a sitting president, prompting a Republican clash with Secret Service, who says Trump’s security is already at the highest level. The sitting president has the support of a vast infrastructure that includes the [...]

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Congressional leaders on Monday named Colorado's U.S. Rep. Jason Crow to a bipartisan House task force charged with investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

There was bipartisan agreement in getting to the bottom of the failures and negligence that led to the attempted assassination of former President Trump upon the naming of a new task force.

The task force will be probing the attempt to kill former President Donald Trump.

The 13 lawmakers appointed to the task force by House leaders have backgrounds in law enforcement, legal affairs and the military.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced the members tapped to serve on the bipartisan task force set to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month. Why it matters: The task force will have jurisdiction of the investigation going forward, after multiple House committees launched individual probes after Trump was shot on July 13. Johnson selected Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), who was in attendance at the rally, to serve its chair, and Reps. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), Clay Higgins (R-La.) and Pat Fallon (R-Texas) to sit on the panel. Jeffries appointed Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) to serve as ranking member, with Reps. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) set to be on the committee. "We have the utmost confidence in this bipartisan group of steady, highly qualified, and capable Members of Congress to move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and help make certain such failures never happen again," Johnson and Jeffries said in a joint statement. Driving the news: The names come after days of talks between leaders, with the House having voted to create the task force last Wednesday.The lawmakers will be tasked with looking into what went wrong and making recommendations on legislation aimed at making necessary reforms to prevent similar instances moving forward. The shooting led to strong concerns on the Secret Service's failures on the day of the rally, with the agency's director ultimately stepping down after both sides of the aisle sounded the alarm on her handling of the matter. The big picture: Both leaders have called for a swift and serious investigation, with the task force set to have subpoena authority to conduct its probe.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday announced the seven Republicans and six Democrats who will sit on the task force to investigate the assassination attempt against former President Trump. The Republican chair of the panel will be Rep. Mike Kelly (Pa.), who represents Butler, Pa., where the shooting [...]

Ex-Director Cheatle’s bewildering comments following the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt, combined with her inept testimony before Congress, have proved troubling for the nation.

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) grilled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at a Monday House Committee hearing over security preparedness concerns at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on June 13, where an assassination attempt was made on former President Donald Trump.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faced a barrage of questions Monday about the assassination attempt of former President Trump but offered few answers, infuriating lawmakers who increased their calls for her resignation. Cheatle took fire from all sides, with Democrats joining the GOP in both their frustration with the director and disbelief over her inability [...]

Kimberly Cheatle said her agency failed in its mission to protect former President Donald Trump, as lawmakers of both major political parties demanded that she resign.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle admitted to Congress on Monday that she and her agency failed when a would-be assassin wounded Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but rebuffed bipartisan calls to resign.