Breaking news good morning. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown in washington, Jim Acosta is off today and we begin this its hour with Breaking News at any moment on Capitol Hill, acting secret Service Director Ronald Rowe will tell senators that he is quote, ashamed of the botched security that led to the near assassination of former President Donald Trump roe took charge last week after the Sniper Attack on the Trump And Trump forced the resignation of embattled director Kimberly Cheatle and his prepared remarks released ahead of his testimony this morning is saying, quote, what i saw made me ashamed as a Career Law Enforcement officer and a 25 Year Veteran with the Secret Service i cannot defend why that roof was not better secured and quote, roe, well discuss how the Secret Service is improving Security And Trump will likely put those new protocols to do it to the test very soon because he is saying that he will continue to hold outdoor rallies and will even hold an e
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump about to begin. The new Acting Director of the Secret Service set to go before two committees. Well bring you that hearing live. Plus battle for the battle thegrounds. Vice president harris heading to georgia for the first time as 2024 President Ial candidate will get the latest on the Harris Veep stakes, including why the governor took himself out of the running. Also ahead, republican reset of the gops j. D. Vance hopes to recalibrate his place in the race. It is 10 00 a. M. Eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart in. We begin with Breaking News on Capitol Hill this morning. A joint Senate Hearing into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is about to get underway. The new Acting Director of the Secret Service and the Deputy Director of the fbi will be taking questions from senators on the Judiciary And Homeland security committees. It comes one day after the fbi revealed that the former president has agreed to sit for a victi
We have to be able to make sure that whenever we come across a situation that everyone has situational awareness of this. I will take this you know, in my time when i was operational on the President S detail, you know, we you know, we were given the explicit instruction, hey, if you are going to pass it, and if its relevant enough you feel like you need to pass that information, do it over the radio. That was the protocol we had and i think over the years, perhaps, with the advent of technology and smart phones, perhaps we have gotten away from that. We need to get people back on the scope, and back on the mission and back focussed on what they need to be responsible for. The next question i will put in writing. Its just that we have seen a rise in threats against members of congress, and 8,000 just last year and more than four times over the past seven years. I want to ask you in writing about the steps the Justice Department is taking to prioritize these cases. I know there has been
Days milestone, lets see how the leaders of the democratic partys crucial campaign arms are working and how thats coming together to turn washington dear i say it, blue . Joining us now Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison. The chairman is in the house, im so happy to see him. Congressional Campaign Chair Suzan delbene, thank you so much for being here and senatorial Campaign Chair Terry peters. We love to see it and lisa and i joke that michael misses beating up on democrats. So its great that he got to read that script. Mr. Chairman, we will start with you, jamie german, obviously yesterday was the deadline for anyone else to file if they intended to run for president because Joe Biden had stepped down off the ticket. Did anyone else put in before the Filing Deadline Yesterday . There were inquiring minds but let me just say this, Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee. She is getting overwhelming support in terms of signatures and we see the excitement that her campaign is bringing n
Notably michigan, a state that had been of significant to bidens reelection bid. In 2020, particularly in the detroit metro area. Also where he made history last september after the United Auto Workers went on strike, he joined them on the picket line, the first time a sitting president had already done that. As a result, he earned the uaws endorsement in january, which bolstered his aspirations to be quote, the most prounion president in american history. While many unions like the american federation of teachers, and the service employees international Union Workweek to back harris this week, the uaw has held off doing so, at least so far. Michigan exposes some of bidens weaknesses. The president aced fierce opposition from the large arab population over his stance toward the war in gaza, which land to the abandoned Biden Movement that called for primary voters to challenge the reelection bid. It was particularly effective in michigan, even though biden still easily won the primary i