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Senate Grills Acting Secret Service Director

The Hill reported that Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe defended not firing agents involved in the response to the assassination attempt on former President Trump. He emphasized the need for a thorough investigation. During heated exchanges, notably with Sen. Josh Hawley, Rowe stated he couldn't “rush to judgment” and needed to “allow the investigation to play out.”

From The Hill:

Hawley demanded the firing of a number of Secret Service personnel, from whoever approved the security plan to whoever failed to pull Trump offstage despite warnings about a suspicious person.

“Isn’t the fact that a former president was shot, that a good American is dead, that other Americans were critically wounded — isn’t that enough mission failure for you to say that the person who decided that building should not be in the security perimeter probably ought to be stepped down?” Hawley said, referencing the AGR building Thomas Matthew Crooks fired from.

Rowe said agents involved were cooperating with an internal investigation.

“I want to be neutral and make sure that we get to the bottom of it and interview everybody in order to determine if there was more than one person who perhaps exercised bad judgment,” Rowe said, adding he did not want to “zero in on one or two individuals.”

Sen. Ted Cruz also pressed Rowe on whether Trump's team had requested more security.

[Rowe said] that “there is a difference between the sitting president of the United States,” and a presidential candidate as far as the resources and number of agents they will receive for events.

“Then what’s the difference?” Cruz shouted, cutting Rowe off.

“The difference [is] national command authority to launch a nuclear strike, sir,” Rowe responded. “There are other assets that travel with the president that the former president will not get.”

“Stop interrupting me,” Cruz yelled. “You are refusing to answer clear and direct questions.”

Cruz also said that he believes “that the Secret Service leadership made a political decision to deny these requests” guided by the Biden administration.

RELATED: Acting Secret Service director tells Senate Trump shooting was 'a failure of the Secret Service' (Fox News)