GOP senators get into furious talks with the new Secret Service chief

Hawley, 44, shouted at Rowe as he demanded to know why no officers have been fired over the massive security breach that led to 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opening fire from a rooftop near Trump’s rally in Butler , Pennsylvania.

He snapped, “Isn’t the fact that a former president was shot, that a good American is dead, that other Americans were seriously injured, enough of a mission failure to say that the person who decided that construction should not be allowed to be built? are in the safety zone should probably be withdrawn?”

Rowe stood his ground and pushed back against Hawley, saying, “I want to be neutral and make sure we get to the bottom of it and interview everyone to determine if there was more than one person who may have had poor judgment… What I need to know exactly what happened, and I need my investigators to do their job, and I can’t put my thumb on the scale.”

He said, “This could have been our Texas School Book Depository,” a reference to where Lee Harvey Oswald was sitting when he shot President John F. Kennedy in 1963, and added, “I have been doing my work there for the past seventeen days.” lost sleep, just like you. to have. Let me tell you, people will be held accountable. And I will do that with integrity and not rush to judgment and unfairly prosecute people… We need to be able to do a proper investigation into this, Senator.’