Senate Hearing LIVE: Local Officer Saw Crooks with a Firearm Just Before Shooting, says FBI | N18G

Trump Shooting Hearing LIVE: Secret Service Head 'Ashamed' Over Trump Assassination Attempt | USA News Live | CNBC TV18
FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate provided more details about how a local police officer communicated with other officers about seeing Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof with a firearm seconds before he began shooting toward former President Donald Trump.
“At approximately 6:11 p.m., a local police officer was lifted to the roof by another officer, saw the shooter and radioed that he was armed with ‘a long gun.’ Within approximately the next 30 seconds, the shots were fired,” Abbate said.
According to previous testimony from officials, one officer hoisted up another officer, who saw Crooks with a rifle. Crooks then turned his weapon to the officer, who then let go of his grip on the roof and fell back to the ground.
Abbate also said Tuesday that recently discovered video from a local business showed Crooks getting onto the roof of the building from which he staged his shooting “at approximately 6:06 p.m.”
“And at approximately 6:08 p.m. the subject was observed on the roof by local law enforcement,” he said.
LIVE: Secret Service and FBI Officials Testify on Trump Assassination Attempt Hearing | USA News Live | N18G
Acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe Jr tells Congress one of his first actions in the job was to visit Butler, Pennsylvania to assess the mistakes made by security officials at the rally on 13 July.
Rowe, a Secret Service veteran, took over from his predecessor, Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned last week.
WASHINGTON DC - Acting Director of the U.S. Secret Service, Ronald L. Rowe, Jr, and Deputy Director of the FBI, Paul Abbate, testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Senior officials from the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI testify before a joint session of the Senate Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Senate lawmakers are expected Tuesday to grill the acting director of the Secret Service about law enforcement lapses in the hours before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in the latest in a series of congressional hearings dedicated to the shooting.
Ronald Rowe became acting director of the agency last week after Kimberly Cheatle resigned in the aftermath of a House hearing in which she was berated by lawmakers and failed to answer specific questions about the communication failures preceding the July 13 shooting.
Rowe will be joined by FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate at a joint hearing of the Senate committees on the Judiciary and Homeland Security.
The hearing comes one day after the FBI released new details about its investigation into the shooting, revealing that the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, had looked online for information about mass shootings, power plants, improvised explosive devices and the May assassination attempt of the Slovakian prime minister.
The FBI also said that Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, has agreed to be interviewed by agents as a crime victim. The bureau said last week that the former president had been struck in the ear by a bullet or fragment of one. Trump said Monday evening that he expected that interview to take place on Thursday.

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[fabianmurray]

I feel something very fishy ! They are fumbling for words !

[georgenorton]

We are supposed to believe, they don't have the technology to talk to each other. Come on, that's rediculous!

[EricSchumann]

Seem like a lot of excuses to deflect by management

[noahhope]

How long do we have to be subjected to these lies from the SS & FBI

[GayleAnderson-inkg]

So your telling me 2 snipers sitting up on a roof, and watching for trouble in the crowd, didn't see all those people yelling and pointing to Crooks ?
And when the shots rang out that sniper never shifted his gun to shoot Crooks, he already had his sight on him.
Oh Please give us all a break, it was an inside job !
Go get them Josh !!!

[sheilamorgan]

Heard it plenty of times from the people in the crowd.

[angeldipuccio]

Why aren't Security cameras installed days prior to ANY SECRET SERVICE EVENNTS In order to Monitor the area BEFORE DURING AND AFTER ? ??
My Goodness EVEN BUSINESSES HOTELS APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND PRIVATE HOMES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF EVERY AREA!! HOW HAS THIS SIMPLE WAY TO MONITOR NOT BEEN MADE AN ESSENTIAL AND ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT FOR EVERY EVENT ???

[waynesguitar]

Why is local law enforcement at the rally not required to be grilled at this hearing?

[peterandsusanlemay]

Local police say they have been held to account for the building where the shooter took his shot, when they claim that they did not meet with the SS in advance, as would have been appropriate, and just ask the question why not? It seems that this gross oversight seems to have a means to an end. This is not over!

[dwightparish]

When arriving at a wildland or forest fire, everyone brings their radios from different states, different parts of the country and all these radios are cloned within minutes after our early morning briefing.
All the different law enforcement radios should be cloned so communication is instant and everyone on the same frequency.
They don't want transparency.

[scove]

does the SS have radio recordings from other events or is it only the Butler rally that has no recordings?

[johnnyfreezze]

This is bullshit! Tell us who did this! Tell us now God dammit! Which one of you put Crooks up to this?

[alfredpeters]

Wow almost 2 minutes they knew he had a gun.

[patriciadorner]

THE FACTS THAT HAVE COME OUT SHOWS THE SENATES COMPLICITY IN THE HEARING!

[georgenorton]

8 round over 15 seconds is a long time

[israelblanco]

They are all stonewalling, so no one can get to the bottom off who is behind the assination attack.Just go back 11/22/1963 as of today it's still unsolved.

[MattSocoski]

We need Trump to overhaul this whole Government. No ands, ifs, or buts, this is what the American people want.

[BryanBoland]

The CIA needs their own mobile hand held radios to give to local police

[bonnie]

This Senator has the right questions. These hearings keep focusing on where do we go from here, focusing on where do we go from here, but the public wants to know how all of this happened. The security failures at every level. The head of the fbi, Secret Service, Homeland security, etc etc I'll need to be replaced. It's those at the top! They are lazy and incompetent and good at answering in double talk! Trump continually accused of being a threat to democracy but there is no larger threat to democracy than what happened on July 13th 2024.

[Eaglesandhonor]

Simple solution to the radio issue. Have a set of radios supplied to field offices and state/local police offices that are all on the same channel so when a call goes out from one member of a team, all the members of the team will get the same information at the same time. Situation awareness would be kept in sync by implementing this protocol asap. This would eliminate the need to text or relay information and would improve the response time when a "suspicious person" comes to the attention of any part of the team. Preventing things like this from happening again should be the top of any team mates agenda. This should never have happened in the first place. I don't care who the person is, if there is a Secret Service detail for ANY INDIVIDUAL, the team needs to have instant communication with all other elements of the team to facilitate the best form of Protection from the top down and left to right at all times.