>>> OUR FRIEND CAROL IS OUT WITH >>> OUR FRIEND CAROL IS OUT WITH A STUNNING NEW BOOK ON THE MANY SERIOUS PROBLEMS INSIDE THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE. THE ONES THEY HAVE FACED SECRETLY OVER THE YEARS, INCLUDING DURING THE PAST ADMINISTRATION. IN "ZERO FAIL, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SECRET SERVICE," CAROL DETAILS THE CONCERN ABOUT AGENTS WHO HAD BECOME LOYAL TO DONALD
TRUMP WRITING -- >> WITH US FOR MORE IS THE >> WITH US FOR MORE IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK, OUR FRIEND CAROL LEONNIG, REPORT WE ARE "THE WASHINGTON POST." IM DUTY BOUND TO POINT OUT ONE OF CAROLS PULITZERS WAS AWARDED TO HER FOR HER COVERAGE OF THE SECRET SERVICE BACK IN 2015. CAROL, MAGNIFICENT BOOK, MAGNIFICENT WORK. IS THE -- IS THE HOLDING ABOUT THE MODERN ERA, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, THE REACTION TO 1/6, THAT MAY BE THE BRO CULTURE WHICH YOU CATALOG INSIDE THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE, AND WHICH IS -- HAS BEEN WITH THEM AS LONG AS THEYVE BEEN AROUND, AND THE MAGA CULTURE MESHED A LITTLE BIT TOO EASILY TOGETHER. >> YOU KNOW, YOU SAID THAT PRETTY WELL. YOU WANT TO GO ON THE BOOK TOUR WITH ME? I FEEL LIKE THAT -- >> IM GOOD. >> THAT EXPLAINS A LOT, BRIAN. THERE IS A CULTURE ALPHA MALE IN THIS DNA OF THIS AGENCY, WHICH BASICALLY RESISTS ADMITTING WEAKNESS, ADMITTING FAILURE, AND IT AIRS ON THE SIDE OF COVERING UP WHATS REALLY GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES, INCLUDING SERIAL SCREW-UPS AND MISTAKES AND SECURITY GAPS, AND MISCONDUCT. AND IN THIS INSTANCE, UNDER DONALD TRUMP, RIGHT WHEN THE SECRET SERVICE NEEDED HELP THE MOST TO RECOVER AND REBUILD, THIS PRESIDENT DEPLOYED THIS,
YOU KNOW, NOBLE AGENCY WITH A YOU KNOW, NOBLE AGENCY WITH A YOU KNOW, NOBLE AGENCY WITH A POLITICAL TOOL OR HIS OWN GAIN. THAT IS THE WAY HE TREATED MOST GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN THE EXECUTIVE. SOMETHING THAT WOULD HELP HIM PERSONALLY. AND ESPECIALLY HELP HIM GET RE-ELECTED. SO IT IS NOT A SHOCK TO AGENTS IN THAT WONDERFUL AGENCY THAT MANY MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENTS DETAIL WERE JUDGED ON THEIR LOYALTY AND THEY BECAME VERY LOYAL TO PRESIDENT TRUMP. TO THE POINT THAT THEY SUPPORTED HIS FORCEABLE REMOVAL OF PEACEABLE PROTESTORS OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE ON JUNE 1, WHEN PEOPLE WERE PROTESTING THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD. AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SECRET SERVICE SUPPORTED ALLOWING A SENIOR EXECUTIVE WHO USED TO RUN THE PRESIDENTS DETAIL TO BECOME A POLITICALED A VITZER AND DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF IN DONALD TRUMPS WHITE HOUSE. THE PERSON WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF GETTING HIS POLITICAL MESSAGE OUT, HELPING HIM IN HIS CAMPAIGN, STAGING HIS IMAGE, AND ALSO THIS CLEARING OF THE WHITE HOUSE THAT YOU ARE SEEING ON THE CAMERA NOW. >> YOUR BOOK, THE REPORTING IS SO POWERFUL, THE DIRECTOR OF THE SECRET SERVICE HAS SAID IN A STATEMENT TONIGHT, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN REST ASSURED THAT THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE IS AN APOLITICAL AND NONPARTISAN AGENCY. OUR FOCUS IS NOT ON POLITICS BUT UNCOMPROMISING XE LENS AND CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT PROTECTING NATIONAL AROUNDND WORLD LEADERS SECURITY OF OUR NATIONS FINANCIAL SYSTEM. TWO THINGS ARE TRUE. I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE UNQUESTIONED FAITH IN THIS ORGANIZATION AND WHAT THEY DO, AND I KNOW IT IS TRUE THAT THE SECRET SERVICE CERTAINLY ENJOYS THE FIRST WORD IN THEIR TITLE, AND THAT IS BEING SECRET LARGELY ALL THESE YEARS. THEIR BUDGETS ARE CONSTANTLY BLACKED OUT ON CAPITOL HILL, AS CONSTANTLY AS THEY HAVE BEEN APPROVED OVER THE YEARS. BUT WITH THAT STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTOR HAVING BEEN READ, THE QUESTION TO YOU IS, CAN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, BASED ON ALL YOU KNOW AND HAVE FOUND OUT, REST ASSURED TONIGHT THAT THE TOP OF OUR GOVERNMENT IS PROTECTED TO THE VERY BEST OF OUR ABILITY AS A NATION? >> IM REALLY DEPRESSED TO TELL YOU THEY CANNOT. AND I WANT TO STRESS SOMETHING, BRIAN, TONIGHT WHICH IS I WROTE THIS BOOK BECAUSE IM RINGING AN ALARM BELL FOR THE AGENTS WHO RISK THEIR CAREERS AND JOBS TO TELL THESE TRUTHS THAT THE AGENCY LEADERSHIP DID NOT WANT TOLD, WHICH IS BASICALLY THAT THEY ARE RELYING ON LUCK MORE THAN EVER BEFORE IN PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT. THEIR MISSION IS TOO LARGE. WE ALL THINK THAT THEIR NUMBER ONE MISSION IS PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT. THATS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THEY DO, BUT THEY HAVE A TON OF OTHER ASSIGNMENTS AND NOT ENOUGH TOOLS TO DO THEM. THEY HAD A JUMPER GET INTO THE WHITE HOUSE AND SIT ON THE GROUND UNINTERRUPTED FOR 15 MINUTES, JIGGLE A DOOR ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE MANSION, AND WAS ALLOWED TO WANDER AROUND SO LONG BECAUSE THE ALARMS, THE FENCE SENSORS, THE RADIOS, THE CAMERAS WERE ALL ON THE FRITZ. AND ALLOWED THIS PERSON TO WANDER AROUND. A PERSON WITHOUT A PLAN, DIDNT HAVE AN ASSASSINATION STRATEGY, BUT WHAT IF THEY DID? AND THAT IS NOT ENOUGH. AMERICA SHOULD NOT BE SATISFIED WITH THAT, AND WE OWE THE AGENTS WHO DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO THIS, WHO GIVE AND SACRIFICE SO MUCH OF THEIR OWN PERSONAL LIVES FOR THIS MISSION, WE OWE THEM MORE. WE DESERVE, THEY DESERVE TO HAVE THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO DO THIS JOB AND DELIVER ON THE ZERO FAIL MISSION. THATS WHY I WROTE THE BOOK, BECAUSE AGENTS, AS DEDICATED AS THEY ARE, ARE AFRAID OF CATASTROPHE, AND THEY THINK A CAROL LEONNIG IS WITH US. SHE WROTE THIS BOOK ABOUT THE U.S. SKRTECRET SERVICE. CAROL, IM JUST GOING TO PUT SOME PICTURES ON THE SCREEN THAT ARE BY NOW BURNED INTO EVERYONES MEMORY. A COVID POSITIVE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CHOOSES TO TAKE A VICTORY LAP AND WAVE TO HIS PEOPLE AS HE PUT IT OUTSIDE WALTER REED. INSIDE THE RATHER CRAMPED, STILL, AND AIRLESS SUV, HIS AGENTS WERE FORCED TO RIDE WITH HIM, LOOKING FOR ALL THE WORLD LIKE THEY WERE GOING TO BE EXPOSED TO PLUTONIUM. TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT THE RALLIES, THE DENIALISM, AND THE COVID POSITIVE PRESIDENT WHO PUT HIS AGENTS AT RISK. >> BRIAN, AS THE PRESIDENT REALIZED INTERNALLY AND PRIVATELY THAT HIS POLL NUMBERS WERE SINKING, THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE DISTRUSTFUL OF THE WAY HE HAD HANDLED A CRISIS LIKE NO OTHER, HE GOT MORE AND MORE DESPERATE ABOUT GETTING OUT ON THE ROAD AND CAMPAIGNING. DECEMBER MITESPITE THE FACT THAT SPIKING, IN MANY OF THE PLACES, RED STATE WHERE IS HE WANTED TO TRAVEL. UNFORTUNATELY, 300 SECRET SERVICE OFFICERS AND AGENTS CONTRACTED COVID OR WERE EXPOSED TO A CO-WORKER WHO WAS INFECTED SO THEY HAD TO BE QUARANTINED. AS A RESULT OF THOSE SUMMER RALLIES THAT THE PRESIDENT INSISTED ON. THIS MOMENT THAT YOU ARE SHOWING NOW IN OCTOBER WAS SORT OF THE CREME DE LA CREME OF THE PRESIDENTS INDIFFERENCE TO HOW COVID SPREADS AND THE PEOPLE THAT SERVE HIM AND COULD BE HURT. NOW, I WANT TO STRESS THE TWO AGENTS THIS THAT CAR, THE DRIVER AND HIS DETAILED LEADER, ARE WEARING A LOT OF MEDICAL GEAR, SO THEIR CHANCES ARE RELATIVELY SMALL OF CONTRACTING IT IN THAT CAR. BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF STEPS ON THE WAY TO THAT CAR FROM THE HOSPITAL BED. IT WAS A QUESTION FOR MANY AGENTS I INTERVIEWED, WHY THIS RISK? WHY DO THIS FOR TEN MINUTES OF A JOYRIDE TO MAKE THE PRESIDENT FEEL STRONG, TO MAKE HIM FEEL LIKE HE WAS SHOWING PEOPLE THAT HE WAS HARDY?
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