Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on the Secret Service acting head being grilled in a hearing over security failures during Trump shooting

The acting head of the Secret Service was grilled in a lengthy hearing about the security failures that led to Donald Trump getting wounded during the infamous Pennsylvania rally.

At a lengthy US Senate hearing, Ronald Rowe outlined the ongoing investigation into the incident, including the lapses that led to the shooting.

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson said the hearing became quite tense, with plenty of shouting across the courtroom.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dan Mitchison as US correspondent.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hello Dame, Hello Andrew.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
So we've got this hearing into these secret services completely
not a failure, of course, yes, on the assassination attempt.
It's turned into a shouting match.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Well it has, and it's between the people on the
panel and Ronald Road Junior, who is now the acting
head of this secret service right now, who says I
can't defend what happened or why that roof where the
alleged shooter was was not better secured.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
And thanks.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I did get a little testy at time.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I mean, voices were being raised and the senators were
calling for resignation, and Rose said, you know what, I'm
going to let this investigation play out before I delivered
the punishments. We know this was a failure, and I'm
going to get to the bottom of this.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Okay, Well, look this goes straight to the politics because
we've had Kamala. How do you say Kamala? How do
you say kam Kamala?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Harris?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, I said it Kamala. First time I said name
anyone went wrong and then just Kamala. You just said Kamala.
And then you listen to her audio book and she
starts talking about it name and says, it's Kamala.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's uh.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I mean, we've got a few politicians like that over there.
But you'll you'll hear the President introduce her as Kamala Harris,
Vice President Kamala Harris.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Sweet, which he's taken either. And now we have a
nationwide poll which won't indicate really the result of the
election because of the electric college system, but it says
that basically Kamala and Donald Trump hit hit.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
And again we have to remember we're, you know, six
months out or so, a little less than that, but
they're in a statistical tie at this point. And Harris
has a strong lead among women, which isn't a surprise here,
compared to Trump among Black voters, which again isn't a
surprise there.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Big advantage over.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Donald Trump sixty seven do I think it was something
like twenty two percent. Big gains in the Hispanic vote
over here. And that's what the Republicans have been going
over here for Andrew for some time. They realize, Okay,
we've got this core base right here. That base itself
is not going to expand they've tried to go after
the African American vote and Donald Trump, I think, or
at least his advisors this time around, have tried to

(02:06):
soften his image a little bit more to attract the
female vote.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
But I think really the thing.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
That stands out about this is, you know, nobody's really
excited about his VP choice over here, jd Vance. I mean,
he hasn't even had that honeymoon bump that you expect
when when a new vice president is announced over here.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yes, but I see also that Donald Trump leads with
eighteen to thirty five year old voters, the youth like
from forty five to thirty six. That's not bad.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, it's not.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
The thing is, you've got to get those voters out
to vote. And those are the voters this time around
that have said in a number of polls they're having
the hardest time choosing a candidate. They were not a
fin Now this all came out before you know, Kamala Harris,
you know, through her having into the ring.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
But they weren't excited about Joe Biden.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
And younger voters tend to lean a bit a little
bit more to the left and vote Democrat, and they
weren't excited about Donald Trump over here. What I think
they wanted was a third candidate, and that's just something
that we don't have, and we haven't had over here
serious for some time. That here we go.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
If you pop Robbie F. Kennedy Junior into the poll,
which they did, suddenly he splits the vote on the right,
and suddenly Harris has a one percent lead.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah, which which again is you know, give or
take a margin of error at this point and time.
It'll be interesting to see if this honeymoon phase. And
it has been a good, good week and a half
for Kamala Harris too. I mean, her poll numbers have
gone up, she's raised a gazillion dollars, and more importantly,
at least if you're the Democrat, she's taken away all
the news coverage on the news cycle from Donald Trump,

(03:31):
who was you know, obviously in the headlines for that
attempted assassination attempt and then the Republican convention as well.
But now she's she's got all the limelight over here, very.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Good and is the greatest in the femoment right now
of the sporting world. Somemon biles because she's just stunning
the USA gymnas.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I think so I think you have a handful of
athletes who always stand out at every Olympics, and those
that are here for the first time and those that
are making a return visit. And I think from the
US standpoint, she has captured the attention of a lot
of people again. And I think after the Tokyo Games
were covered under that blanket of COVID that we had
four years ago, We're looking for somebody that's positive. We're

(04:09):
looking for somebody that's familiar, that we feel like we know.
And she's still in a fantastic job and she doesn't
have to prove anything to anyone anymore. I mean, she's
doing it for the love of the game or the sport.
And I think viewers pick up on that. If you've
been watching this Olympics.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh yes we have, and I thank you so much.
That is Dan Minchison out of the United States of American.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
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