his life and injured two other men. when an agency fails spectacular in its mission those responsible must be held accountable and the problems must be fixed so they cannot happen again. why should the american people or the officials you are responsible for protecting have confidence in your ability to lead the secret service after such a spectacular failure? i appreciate the question and i am committed to finding answers so that we can make the agency stronger after this. you said on july 15th that the buck stops with me. how are you taking accountability for the secret services failures during the july 13th assassination attempt on president trump? i have taken accountability and i will continue to take accountability. i am responsible for leading the agency and responsible for finding the answers to how this event occurred and making sure that it doesn t happen again. so i would like to explore how you got the job as director of the united states secret service. i
investigators say he was thomas mathew crux, a 20-year-old from bethel park, pennsylvania. public records show he was a registered to vote as a republican, and he made a small donation to a democratic aligned group. the fbi says he opened fire on trump at a rally in butler, pennsylvania before counter snipers shot and killed him now as for trump, he says the bullet pierced his ear and a spokesperson said shortly after the attack that he was doing fine it all happened while cameras were rolling. have a look at this. you said take a look what happened when you re ready on. you you ready good to know let me get much let. me get my shoes your head got it well, as you heard, there there was a series of pumps and you saw the former president raised his hand to the side of his head the secret service rushed to the stage and eventually moved trump from the stage to the armored limousine. as you can see there. and as he was being taken from the stage, you could see there was blood o
hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington, clive myrie is in london. police in northern ireland say last night s violence in west belfast was the worst they ve seen in years, a return to the rioting that so many hoped was behind them. during an emergency session of the northern ireland assembly, politicians on all sides condemned the violence, which has been going on for over a week now. the white house joined the chorus calling for calm. the worst of the rioting was in the west of the city, on either side of a wall dividing the largely protestant loyalist and mainly catholic nationalist communities. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy, looks at the roots of the violence. sirens blare. on an already febrile situation, more fuel on the fire. shouting. at one of belfast s peace lines last night, the peace was broken. in the hands of teenagers, petrol bombs, thrown in both directions over the wall. each evening, these gates are locked to keep the mainly protestant and catholic
everyone trusts the plan, like dr. grouchy. i think that s a bit overly optimistic. and the demon state governors. folks, that would kill people. it would absolutely kill people. and now for a counterpoint. you know what, staying at home leads to death also. yes, like if you re accidentally drink bleach. luckily trump can circumvent these nay sayers with something called twitter. sleek new gizmo to spread twitter bugs to all his supporters who eat them right up. fire grouchy. fire grouchy. look at these smiling faces. thank you, president trump. and your amazing metric system. this has been this week in covid history. [ cheers and applause ]. wow. never forget. never forget. weirdly funny but also painful because they re not old movie clips and made up little shows. that all happened in the last administration. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, april 14th. along with willie and me, we have the host of msnbc s politic s nation and p
feel for his wife and his kids, and i wish them well. yeah. and i just hope, part of his legacy is to remind people that this sickness is killing us. it affects everyone, everywhere. no one is immune, and it is a life sentence. yeah. we just lost so much of our talent and greatness. people think it s just kids. it isn t. people have it their whole lives, they struggle with addiction. a lot of people get it, in mid-life. think about what happened in minneapolis, right? yeah. we talk about george floyd and and what his girlfriend said about about how they, both, had pain issues. and then, became addicted. you think about so many artists. i mean, you know, artists of all different genres of music who lost their lives and who who struggle with addiction. some of them, you didn t even know. did we know that prince had an addiction issue? i never heard it. no, i never heard it. but so many people do, and that s the reason why, you know, we keep saying people