Trump shooting: Cruz HEATED exchange with Secret Service director | LiveNOW from FOX

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and acting US Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, Jr. entered into a heated exchange during Tuesday's joint Senate committee hearing regarding the response to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Trump was nearly assassinated on July 13 while speaking to a crowd at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The FBI on Monday morning told reporters that would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks accessed the roof of a building near the rally by climbing up HVAC equipment and piping.

Crooks then traversed multiple rooftops before he found his shooting position on top of a building owned by American Glass Research (AGR), located near the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds about 150 yards from where the former president spoke at his rally.

The FBI hosted a press conference call with reporters more than two weeks after 20-year-old Crooks fired at Trump with a DPMS AR-15-style firearm with a collapsible stock during the rally in an assassination attempt that nicked the president's ear but left one man dead and two others hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

Leaders on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are making a sweeping request for records as part of the panel’s investigation into the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

The Trump campaign announced the Butler rally on July 3, and three days later, Crooks signed up for the event. That same day — July 6 — he researched how far Lee Henry Oswald was from the late President John F. Kennedy when Oswald assassinated the former president in 1963. On July 7, he traveled to the rally site and spent approximately 20 minutes in the area, Rojak said.

Trump took the podium around 6 p.m. — an hour after he was scheduled to speak. Eleven minutes later, Crooks fired multiple rounds, killing 50-year-old Corey Comperatore and seriously wounding 57-year-old David Dutch and 74-year-old James Copenhaver. Dutch was hospitalized and has since been released, while Copenhaver remains hospitalized.

FBI officials are still working to determine Crooks' motive behind the assassination attempt that rocked Butler and neighboring townships. They are also still working to determine whether Crooks planned with any coconspirators, though the agency clarified on Monday that there are no signs to indicate there were others involved.

Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — the committee chair and ranking member, respectively — and Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who lead a key subcommittee, sent letters on Thursday to the Secret Service, FBI, Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Beaver County District Attorney, Butler County District Attorney, Butler County Sheriff, Butler Township Police Department and Pennsylvania State Police.

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[surfstarcc]

"We investigated ourselves and we found that we've done nothing wrong." -LITERALLY EVERY GOVERNMENT AGENCY

[rocket]

Americans are sick of being "gaslighted" ...

[devinnolan]

Our parents used to punish us all if someone didn’t come forward…just a thought.

[Saylesshomie]

How do they still not have answers after 17 days

[tinyhouse]

How convenient that he doesn't know ANYTHING. Here we go again. 🤬

[cugzhmu]

He’s a male version of the former director

[tracynewberry]

Everyone keep up the heat on this investigation, there's a bad smell here and I don't like it.

[joserojas]

The question that I have is where are all the security camera footage of this event? You’re going to tell me that this building did not have security cameras installed everywhere at each corner of the facility. This is a question. No one is asking “where is the security cameras from that business?

[gyrsriddle]

They knew the shooter was there and they decided to let him take his shot. Simple

[larrymarshall]

The secret service and fbi needs to be cleaned out from the top

[Txdnvdszvhjii]

No money for additional assets. But the next day hundreds of CIA, FBI and local police were on site and security was so tight a flea couldn't even get through.

[RandyMachen]

Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty covering up for each other's criminal democratic treasonous unlawful acts. Refuses to give any names. Unbelievable cover up.

[kmkall]

It’s obvious the Secret Service is political

[qvkxeni]

He is lying his ass off!!! Fire him NOW 👎👎👎

[vicpetrishak]

Rowe, Wray, and Mayorkas need to stand by Cheatle !

In the Unemployment Line !

[ArabianOak]

Tired of all this talk. This country is rotten.

[stratfordbaby]

Rowe is a total liar and failed to answer any question clearly. What a joke.

[tombarry]

NEXT! Obviously this guy is as corrupt as the former head. HOW DEEP DO WE HAVE TO GO TO GET SOMEONE WHO IS NOT CORRUPT IN THIS AGENCY.

[gagamba]

_'I don't know. I don't know. I don't recall. I don't know.'_

[ababoogie]

Amazing how their answer is always “idk” “I don’t have that information at this time” what a joke