good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news in the secret service sex scandal. cnn has learned the identity of the agent believed to be at the center of the scandal. arthur huntington was the secret service agent who had the payment dispute with colombian escort, dania suarez. that argument in the hotel el caribe in cartegena, colombia, set off a wide-ranging investigation. as a result, nine secret service agents have resigned or being forced out of the agency. the military has launched its own investigation into 12 members also in colombia before the president s visit. drew griffin was the first to break the news tonight and drew, walk us through this. what more can you tell us? how did you figure this out? this was real, on the ground, hard reporting. well, the secret service tried to make sure that none of these names came out, erin, which made it tough. but we knew from hotel security that the dispute happened between two rooms on the seventh floor
the agent believed to be at the center of the scandal. arthur huntington was the secret service agent who had the payment dispute with colombian escort, dania suarez. that argument in the hotel el caribe in cartegena, colombia, set off a wide-ranging investigation. as a result, nine secret service agents have resigned or being forced out of the agency. the military has launched its own investigation into 12 members also in colombia before the president s visit. drew griffin was the first to break the news tonight and drew, walk us through this. what more can you tell us? how did you figure this out? this was real, on the ground, hard reporting. well, the secret service tried to make sure that none of these names came out, erin, which made it tough. but we knew from hotel security that the dispute happened between two rooms on the seventh floor where the agents were staying. we know those two rooms were both occupied by secret service agents. we were then able to obtain a li
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront today breaking news in the secret service sex scandal. just about a few moments ago cnn learning the identity of the act believed to be at the center of the entire scandal. his name, arthur huntington. he s from maryland and he was the secret service agent who had the payment dispute with colombia escort swuarez. that argument in cartagena, colombia, set off a long-ranging investigation into misconduct by president obama s advance team. as a result, right now nine secret service members resigned or are being forced out of the agency. the military launched its own investigation into 12 members also in colombia before the president s visit. now, drew griffin was the first reporteder er to bre reporter to figure this out. real on the ground, hard reporting? reporter: the secret service tried to make sure none of these names came out, erin, which made it tough. wep we knew from security the dispute happened between two rooms on the sev
the former acting solicitor general suggested that mueller may have intervened. when he they see a defendant doing something profoundly dangerous to self-interests. including hiring lawyers with clvgts will raise it with the defendant and suggest rethinking it. is that a real possibility? you know, i think diligent prosecutors do look out sort of for the protection of the system and protecting the rights of the defendant or the person who is maybe the suspect or the subject of an investigation. it s hard to imagine in this case that mueller whose team got involved into the trump lawyer hiring decision and that process and i don t know that they would have necessarily wanted to tip their hand either about potential conflicts that might be out there or the people that they re looking at. so i really don t think that s
groups. that s the president s and the treasury secretary s responsibility. well, as we know, paul, none of the things you described happened. right. they didn t do any of that. that s my point. instead, the idea that because this investigation it was actually an audit. the inspector general doesn t have subpoena power. none of these people are undpre. they weren t hiring lawyers. so they gradually find out it s going on during the campaign, but by doing nothing, they let it rip. they let the audit, the bureau, hold on to these applications from these groups, asked them for all of this information, basically put all these political activist groups who simply wanted to participate, put them on the shelf. some of them quit. that was the that was the practical political effect of saying, we don t want to get involved. well, that doesn t mean nothing was happening. it means the conservative groups were on the shelf. how do we contain yeah. if i could just elaborate on d