Trump shooting: Secret Service, FBI directors grilled by Senate Judiciary Committee | FULL

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and the Deputy Director of the FBI Paul Abbate faced questions from a Senate Judiciary Committee over numerous failures the day former president Donald Trump was shot in Butler, Pa.

"As a career law enforcement officer and a 25 year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured," Rowe said during his opening statement.

Meanwhile, Abbate went onto provide a timeline of events that day during his opening statement. Rowe blamed communications between the Secret Service and local law enforcement partners, saying that "if we'd had that information (about a suspicious person with a gun), they would have been able to address it more quickly. It appears that that information, was stuck or siloed in that state and local channel."

In a tense exchange between Rowe and Sen. Hawley, the Secret Service chief was questioned why there has been no accountability thus far. Hawley asked whether the person who made the decision to send Trump onto stage and the person who decided not to pull the former president off of stage despite knowledge of a security situation has "been relieved of duty."

In response to both lines of questioning, Rowe replied in the negative.

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[justinah]

Josh Hawley is the man. He always brings up the kost important points and asks the most direct and important questions. Hawley is the best at exposing corruot bastards in the Fed government

[elvarg]

Mind boggling, incompetency taken to a totally different level😁

[attybong]

rowe is arrogant .. if it was the philippine senate that investigated him, he would have been cited in contempt and sent to jail 😢😮😅

[rustylingenfelter]

I think that Sen Hirono forgot to name global warming as related to the shooting of President Trump. She hit every other liberal talking point. What an embarrassment

[rhondamccardle]

Paul abbate was the only one there that answered honestly at all. The difference in willingness to be honest between him and the secret service director was astounding. Paul abbate at least answered.

[TheFatdog]

How is Hirono on the panel? shes absurd.

[attybong]

having admitted failure the part of his office, he should have resigned on command responsibility 😢😮

[peadenl]

Director Rowe showed a picture to blame local police for not looking left to see the shooter. The picture was taken with a camera extended out the window. Unless the local police had a camera extended out the window, they couldn’t see the shooter. He was not forthcoming with the facts in order to pass blame. He should tender his resignation and let someone with more integrity run the investigation.

[ivansalazar]

To say the least, Former Cief Kimberly Cheatle's testimony, before a similar committee was contemptous...

[AnnZCashner]

Just a suggestion Director. Then we need to hand out radios that have a priority frequency, instead of multiple radio frequencies. Take a box of radios for your grounds staff, to command staff, and SS Agents. That way all of agencies can communicate on one frequency and SS Agents can go to Channel 2 for sensitive information. All parties need to monitor chatter on the radios. A SS service command center personnel needs to be with the command center on the ground with the police department. Maybe there was and if I am misinformed, please forgive me.. Maybe even two agents in case one has to leave for a reason. Just a suggestion. I have helped with Emergency Command situations and I do have some level of understanding what goes on. Again, thank you to all of the agencies, and again, I believe this was a systems miscommunication breakdown! PHILLY HOLD YOUR HEAD UP as well as the rest of you agencies.

[Aaron-rwlv]

Cowardly trump ran away 😂 I wonder why he couldn’t negotiate a deal with his aggressor 🤔