agents on assignment hiring prost toouts. tarnished the career and put pressure on the president to clean it up. we re representing the people of the united states. and when we travel to another country, i expect us to observe the highest standards because we re not just representing ourselves. we re here on behalf of our people. reporter: so where did pierson come from? according to an interview she gave, six years ago, pierson s childhood interest in police work gained traction in a high school job at disney world saying i wore one of those character outfits to this day i think the experience of dealing with large crowds at the park had a good influence on my ability to do that sort of work with the secret service. during college, she worked for the orlando police department and she joined the secret service in 1983. beginning with investigations in to credit card fraud. since then, she s been on security details for several
service for 30 years working her way steadily up the ladder to become chief of staff building what many describe as an exemplary record along the way. what helped open the door for her appointment, however, was a scandal. one year ago the secret service came under fire amid allegations of agents on assignment in colombia pirg prostitutes. a half dozen were forced out. and the whole affair tarnished the record of mark sullivan who left the secret service last month. so where did pierson come from? six years ago pierson s childhood interest in police work got traction during a high school job at disneyworld where she says, quote, i wore one of those character outfits. to this day i think the experience of dealing with large crowds at the park had a good influence on my ability to do that sort of thing with the secret service. during college she worked for the orlando police department
we re representing the people of the united states. and when we travel to another country, i expect us to observe the highest standards because we re not just representing ourselves. we re here on behalf of our people. reporter: so where did pierson come from? according to an interview she gave, six years ago, pierson s childhood interest in police work gained traction in a high school job at disney world saying i wore one of those character outfits to this day i think the experience of dealing with large crowds at the park had a good influence on my ability to do that sort of work with the secret service. during college, she worked for the orlando police department and she joined the secret service in 1983. beginning with investigations in to credit card fraud. since then, she s been on security details for several presidents and experienced virtually every aspect of secret
then there s the mchot dogs, mcspaghetti. arch delux. a mcblt. they kept the lettuce and tomato in a separate container so it would be cold. and the burger would be hot. who cares, right? and the mcpizza. i loved the mcpizza. there you go. but i didn t even remember. how about you? check it out. there it is. was that your high school job? yes. my husband talk about a confidence nonbooster, my husband said he applied for mcdonald s and didn t get the job. wow. poor guy. there s a fast food place called roy rogers, i used to make hamburgers at roy rogers in high school. i worked the grill. come on, roy rogers, send us pictures of john muller. they called us ranch hands. i was a ranch hand. very nice. up next, a story from our dumb criminals file. you ve got to hear this one. a butt dial that puts a drug
and that the republican ideas about medicare have been misrepresented in order to scare voters. what is your response to that? i think his plan scared voters before i even was on the scene. the idea of breaking the promise that we made to our seniors over 45 years ago, doesn t sit well with people. people paid into this program since their high school job. it s not a charity program. i understand the need to get the underlying cost driving health care up under control. that does not mean you touch the beneficiaries. it means you go after the underlying cost of health care, and that is another topic and i have ideas to that and so do thoughtful people in washington, but the bottom line is that there is room for agreement here and i m the type of democrat who represents a republican area that can come to washington and say i have a lot of support from individuals who don t vote democrat and i can t tell you how many times people said that i m the first democrat they voted for in their