'This was a security breakdown from start to finish': Chris Swecker

>> I KNOW YOU ARE HEADING TO MILWAUKEE VERY SOON TO BE WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT. IT WILL BE A JAMPACKED BUSY WEEK AND WE WILL ALL BE WATCHING. CONGRESSMAN, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. >> MY PLEASURE. >> LET'S BRING IN FORMER FBI DIRECTOR. WE HAVE THIS INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFIED. THE PRESUMPTIVE SHOOTER. 4:54 A.M. ON A SUNDAY MORNING. TEN HOURS AFTER THIS ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION TOOK PLACE. WHAT IS THE FBI DOING RIGHT NOW TO FIGURE OUT WHY THIS GUY ACTED LIKE THIS? >> THEY ARE DISSECTING EVERY ASPECT OF THIS PERSON'S LIFE. I'M A LITTLE SURPRISED IT TOOK HIM THAT LONG TO IDENTIFY HIM. THEY ARE LOOKING AT WHETHER HE HAS IDEOLOGY OR WAS DRIVEN BY IDEOLOGY WHICH WOULD MAKE THIS NOT JUST AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, BUT DOMESTIC TERRORISM. IF THERE IS ANYONE ELSE IN HIS NETWORK THAT MAY HAVE SHARED THAT IDEOLOGY. ARE THERE OTHERS? CARLY MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT RECONCILING THIS DISCREPANCY. THERE IS NO THREAT, BUT YET WE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED THIS PERSON. YOU CANNOT RECONCILE THOSE TWO THINGS. I ALSO WANT TO COMMENT ABOUT WHAT JONATHAN SAID EARLIER. HE WAS SPOT ON. THIS WAS A SECURITY BREAKDOWN FROM START TO FINISH. THIS WAS, THE PRIMARY GOAL, THE PRIMARY MISSION OF THE SECRET SERVICE IS TO PREVENT THIS TYPE OF ACTION. REACT AS SWIFTLY AS THEY CAN TO GET HIM OUT OF THE DANGER ZONE. NEITHER HAPPENED HERE. I DON'T WANT TO ISSUE HEART -- HARSH JUDGMENTS BUT IT WAS DEFINITELY A SECURITY BREAKDOWN . >> THE IMAGE WE WILL ALL REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT. YOU CAN SEE HIS FACE, YOU CAN SEE HIS FIST. HE WAS SAYING FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT. THERE ARE QUESTIONS OF WHETHER THAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. IF HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO BE THAT VISIBLE FOLLOWING THIS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIM. >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED WITH REAGAN WHEN HE WAS SHOT, THEY HAD HIM IN THE CAR WITHIN SECONDS. AS JONATHAN SAID, IT WAS A LIFETIME BEFORE THEY GOT HIM OFF THAT STAGE. IT WAS A GREAT MOMENT WHEN HE PUMPED HIS FIST, THAT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC MOMENTS IN THIS COUNTRY'S HISTORY, I THINK, BUT IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO HAPPEN. THEY SHOULD'VE WHISKED HIM OUT OF THERE IN SECONDS. NO MATTER WHAT HE WANTED TO DO WHETHER HE WANTED ISSUES ARE PUMPED HIS FIST, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN OFF THAT STAGE IN THE CAR AND OUT OF THERE IN SECONDS. IT WAS A LIFETIME. IF THERE WOULD'VE BEEN A SECOND SHOOTER, THEY WOULD'VE TAKEN THEM OUT. IT WAS ALMOST A KILL SHOT. I HATE TO PUT IT THIS WAY, BUT IT WAS ALMOST A KILL SHOT AS IT WAS. IF THERE WOULD'VE BEEN A SECOND SHOOTER THERE WOULD'VE BEEN PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE HIM OUT AGAIN. THIS BREAKS EVERY ROLE OF THE SECRET SERVICE PROTOCOL AND JUST GENERAL EXECUTIVE PROTECTION IN GENERAL. >> WHAT CAN THE FBI DO NOW TO PREVENT A COPYCAT OR IS THERE NOTHING THEY CAN DO BECAUSE THIS IS A LOAN WOLF ACTING ALONE? JUST DECIDED I WILL HOP ON TOP OF THE BUILDING AND FIRE AT THE PRESIDENT. >> THE SECRET SERVICE HAS A PRIMARY ABILITY TO PROTECT. THE FBI IS TO PREVENT THIS SORT OF THING WITH SECRET SERVICE AND GET OUT IN FRONT OF IT. I SAID THIS YESTERDAY VERY EARLY IN THE PROCESS. THE FBI WOULD STEP IN. THEIR JURISDICTION TO INVESTIGATE THIS TYPE OF INCIDENT. LESSONS LEARNED IMMEDIATELY WHICH I THINK WILL BE PUT IN PLAY AT THE DNC, AT THE RNC. IN THIS CASE THE FB IS NOT JUST INVESTIGATING THE INCIDENT, THEY ARE INVESTIGATING THE SECURITY STRATEGY AROUND IT. THEY HAVE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST THEY CANNOT BE PART OF THE INVESTIGATION EVEN THOUGH THE FBI IS PLAYING NICE ABOUT THAT PART OF IT. THE FBI HAS EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION IN THIS CASE. THEY WILL TEAR THIS THING APART. THEY WILL BRING EVERY RESOURCE THAT THEY HAVE. THEY WILL GO THROUGH THIS AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER. OBVIOUSLY DISSECTING THIS PERSON 'S LIFE, HIS HOME, SOCIAL MEDIA, ELECTRONIC DEVICES, FRIENDS, ET CETERA. THERE WILL BE LESSONS LEARNED AND THEY WILL COME OUT PRETTY QUICK. >> WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS WITH THE CONGRESSMAN. IN TERMS OF QUESTIONS ASKED IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD, HE SAYS I'VE A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE TELLING ME THERE BEEN REPEATED REQUESTS FOR STRONGER SECRET SERVICE. CAN YOU GET YOUR REACTION TO THAT IN THE MINUTE REMAINING? THEY NEED TO LOOK AT THEPOLITIC. I MEAN, ANYONE WHO CALLS THIS FORMER PRESIDENT EX HE EXTEND EL THREAT HAS BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. THAT'S PRESIDENT BIDEN. THAT WOULD INCLUDE FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA. ANYONE ELSE WHO HE DEMONIZES SOMEONE IN THE MANNER HE'S BEEN DEMONIZED HAS PUT A BULL'S-EYE ON HIS BACK FOR EVERY LITTLE 20-YEAR-OLD, EVERY WING NUT OUT THERE WHO IS DRIVEN, WHIPPED INTO A FRENZY BY THAT SORT OF RHETORIC. >> THIS IS A STUNNING TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THERE'S WAS ALREADY GOING ON WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BEFORE THIS. THE LANDSCAPE HAS COMPLETELY CHANGED IN THE AFTERMATH OF

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Length: 5min 44sec (344 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 14 2024