Hawley torches USSS, FBI over lack of answers about Trump rally: 'I don't trust any of these people'

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., joined "Hannity" after grilling the acting Secret Service director for answers on the security failures at the Pennsylvania rally where former President Trump narrowly escaped assassination. Hawley said whistleblowers have since stated that law enforcement was assigned to be on the roof where the gunman fired.

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JOSH HAWLEY: What whistleblowers tell me is that actually there was law enforcement assigned to be on that roof. I asked the Secret Service director about that today, and he said, 'well, gee, I'm not sure.' And I said, how can you not be sure? Seventeen days have gone by. But here's the reason why: Secret Service hasn't even talked to local law enforcement. They've done zero local law enforcement debrief or interviews since the shootings. Zero. I mean, it just begs the question, what is going on? Are they really trying to get the facts or they're just trying to cover their rear ends? And it sure looks a whole lot to me like the second thing, the American people deserve the truth here. Not whitewashing, not stonewalling, not a bunch of bureaucratic gobbledygook. They deserve the truth and I am not going to stop pushing until we actually get it.

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I don't trust any of these people to give us the facts. We saw it today. All we