Rand Paul on USSS: Why Don’t We Replace the People Who Didn’t Do Their Job, Instead of Giving Them More Money?

BARTIROMO: “Joining me now is Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship and Help Committees. Senator, thanks very much for being here. You just heard that about a subpoena from Richard Blumenthal. Should Alejandro Mayorkas be subpoenaed to start giving us some answers on these things which he is overseeing? Not just the wide open border where 10 million illegals have come on his watch, but also overseeing the Secret Service, where we’re getting no information on these assassination attempts.”
Paul: “Well, Secretary Mayorkas has a history of not being very forthcoming. I will say one of the most important things that we’ve asked the Secret Service for was denials of security. So the Trump security detail, Secret Service detail, as well as the Trump campaign for months and months requested more security, and this was denied by the Secret Service. They know it. I’ve asked the director. They’ve looked into it, but they haven’t shared any of it with us. We know that in Butler County was the first time that they had counter snipers there. Thank God. If they had not had the counter snipers there, that shooter would have continued, and Donald Trump would have surely been killed, as well as many more people. He was taken down pretty quickly, but there was a host of errors. He never should have gotten on the roof. They saw him for 90 minutes, but never stopped the proceeding in order to interview him or interdict him. They knew he was on the roof, man on a roof, man on a roof for three minutes. That was broadcast to the control tent, and yet Trump was still not taken from the stage. So the first assassination attempt, error after error after error, but these were errors of willpower, not manpower. Now, like Washington, everything else, somebody fails at their job, you give them more money. No, Why Don’t We replace the people who didn’t do their job and have better people in those positions? With the most recent attack — what kind of security is it that doesn’t sweep a fence?”
BARTIROMO: “It’s unbelievable.”
Paul: “It doesn’t go around and sweep the perimeter. Now, local law enforcement had said if he had been president, there would be sufficient perimeter set up for him. So it is a different type of security. We’re a big country. The Secret Service has lots of people and lots of money. They can provide better service, but it requires more intelligent analysis of what he needs for security.”