Did the SS/Congress Yelling Match Lead to Changes?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're joined for a few minutes here by twenty four
to seven News National correspondent Rory O'Neil. On the heels
of that very contentious Senate hearing yesterday with the Secret Service.
The acting head was up there getting grilled, and they have,
Rory now decided they're going to do better, and one
of the ways they're going to do better is a
new series of protocols. Is that right, Yeah, some.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
New protocols to improve communication from the Secret Service down
to local law enforcement. One of the things we heard
yesterday from the acting director was that while local police
and some of the people attending that rally for former
President Trump may have been aware of a gunman on
a rooftop, that information, he says, never got to the

(00:44):
protective detail that was supposed to be protecting Donald Trump.
So there's a big gap there. That's still part of
this ongoing investigation. Also trying to make sure that when
you do these new security plans, multiple sets of eyes
give them. A press review learn was that anyone who
looks at the security plan should have seen that that

(01:05):
someone should have been on that rooftop to secure it.
The fact that that slipped through is a major problem
moving forward.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm a little concerned about the idea that a communication
plan with local law enforcement is a new idea. I
thought that was standard.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well right, And I guess what's happened over the years
is that things may have broken down a little bit.
Now we're getting people who send text messages to one another,
and we heard from the Secret Service Director saying that's
not as good as a radio transmission that everyone gets
to hear. Because if everyone had heard that the local
police were responding to the suspected gunman on a rooftop nearby,

(01:43):
if everyone heard there had heard that on a radio call,
there may have been a different reaction compared to some
text messages that were exchanged among locals.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah. Also, President Biden has this pipe dream about making
several Supreme Court reforms, none of which, of course, will
happen because of the political realities. But what do Americans
think of the Supreme Court? Rory?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, you know, our opinion of the court is mere
rock bottom. This latest Gallop survey was taken just after
this latest session of the Court came to an end
this latest term. About forty three percent of Americans approve
of the job the Court is doing. Fifty two percent disapproved,
and this goes right down party lines fifty Let me

(02:32):
get these numbers, right, Sixty six percent of Republicans approve
of the way the Court is doing its job, only
fifteen percent of Democrats. Obviously, this reflects the now conservative
majority in the voices and the opinions they're putting out
to wrap up this latest term.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Right, I would point out that their rating is still
pretty good compared to a lot of a lot of
politicians that we see.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
But yeah, just to put in perspective, highest ever rating
for the Supreme Court was sixty two percent, so it's
never been like in the nineties, and right now we're
at forty three versus sixty two. So at twenty point
fall in the past quarter century, though, it's not something to.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Be proud of. Yeah, yeah, interesting, Rory. Thanks Rory on
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