‘We failed’: Secret Service boss makes major admission about Trump assassination attempt

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has given her opening statement as the House Oversight Committee holds a hearing into the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Ms Cheatle conceded in her opening statement the shooting at Mr Trump’s Pennsylvania rally is “the most significant operational failure” of the Secret Service in decades. “The Secret Service’s ... mission is to protect our nation’s leaders – on July 13th, we failed,” she told the committee.