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HAWLEY: “Has the person who decided not to pull the former president off of stage when you knew that, in your words, the locals were working a serious security situation, has that person been relieved of duty?”
ROWE: “No, sir. Again, I refer you back to my original answer that we are investigating this through a mission assurance, and as opposed to zeroing in on one or two individuals, we want to find out --”
HAWLEY: “What more do you need to investigate to know --”
ROWE: “-- exactly what the decision-making process was?”
HAWLEY: “-- what more do you need to investigate to know that there were critical enough failures that some individuals ought to be held accountable? I mean, what more do you need to know?”
ROWE: “What I need to know is exactly what happened, and I need my investigators to do their job. And I cannot --”
HAWLEY: “A lot of people didn't do their jobs.”
ROWE: “-- I cannot put my thumb on the scale. Otherwise --”
HAWLEY: “What do you mean, put your thumb on the scale?”
ROWE: “-- the objective -- you're asking me, senator, to completely make a rush to judgment about somebody failing. I acknowledge this was a failure of the Secret Service.”
HAWLEY: “Is it not prima facie that somebody has failed? The former president was shot!”
ROWE: “Sir -- sir this could have been our Texas school book depository. I have lost sleep over that for the last 17 days, just like you have.”
HAWLEY: “Then fire somebody to hold them accountable.”