"Full of s**t": Secret Service director grilled over Trump rally shooting

• "It is my firm belief, Director Cheatle, that you should resign," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said at the outset of Monday's hearing.
• Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the panel, also called for her resignation, saying the Secret Service chief has "lost the confidence of Congress at a very urgent and tender moment in the history of the country."
• "Director Cheatle, because Donald Trump is alive, and thank God he is, you look incompetent," said Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio). "If Donald Trump had been killed, you would have looked culpable."

The latest: Comer and Raskin issued a letter calling for Cheatle's resignation shortly after the hearing ended.

• In the letter, the two congressmen said Cheatle should resign to allow "new leadership to swiftly address this crisis and rebuild the trust of a truly concerned Congress and the American people."

Tempers flared during the heated hearing as Cheatle repeatedly declined to elaborate on key details, citing the ongoing FBI investigation.

• Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) told Cheatle that she's "full of s**t" and "completely dishonest" for not giving a direct answer to a question about providing the committee materials they requested ahead of the hearing.
• Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) called Cheatle a "DEI horror story." He and other Republicans on the panel slammed the Secret Service chief over her emphasis on diversifying the agency, in an attempt to draw a connection between that effort and what happened at the rally.
• Cheatle, the second woman to lead the agency, said the shooting had nothing to do with DEI.

Zoom in: Republicans pressed Cheatle over U.S. intelligence of an Iranian threat to Trump, to which she said she believed the security plan was sufficient to protect Trump from that threat.

• Cheatle told lawmakers that "no requests" were denied for the rally.
• She said Secret Service was informed "somewhere between two and five times" about a suspicious individual at the site of the Pennsylvania rally.
• Cheatle said she has spoken with the counter-sniper who killed Crooks. However, she refused to disclose details of their conversation, citing an ongoing investigation.

• Asked if she had visited the rally site over a week after the shooting, Cheatle said she has not.

Catch up quick: In her opening statement, Cheatle said she accepted "full responsibility" for the security lapses that preceded the shooting and characterized the assassination attempt as the "most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades."

• "Our mission is not political: It is literally a matter of life and death, and the tragic events on July 13 remind us of that," she said.

The big picture: In the aftermath of the shooting, Republicans and Democrats alike called on Cheatle to resign. More did so Monday.

• Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told Cheatle she should resign. "I just don't think this is partisan. If you have an assassination attempt on a president, a former president or a candidate, you need to resign."
• Despite that and blistering criticism from the panel Monday, Cheatle said: "I think that I am the best person to lead the Secret Service at this time."
• Cheatle said she expects the Secret Service's internal investigation to be completed in 60 days, a timeline Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed as "unacceptable."

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Editor's note: This story was updated to include Comer and Raskin calling on Cheatle to resign.