C.J.'s starting to get some questions about why the President's exit wasn't covered in Rosslyn.
The Secret Service doesn't comment on procedure.
Yeah. Ron, a few weeks after the President was sworn in, you got a memo about his protection.
Yeah.
It said he wanted to enter and exit in the open air, and he didn't like the feeling of traveling around in an armored tank.
Yeah.
Specifically, it said he wouldn't use the tent or the canopy anymore.
Yeah.
I wrote that memo, and the President signed it at my urging.
I know.
Ron, I don't think it's right that the Secret Service get blamed for what happened last night, I want the Treasury Department to hand over my memo to the Press.
No, we can't do that.
There are going to be a lot of questions.
There are always a lot of questions.
Ron.
Don't worry about it, Toby.
It's not right. You're the guys - look at your hand.
My hand is fine.
Your hand is not fine.
Toby.
Let me go over there and tell them it was my fault.
It wasn't your fault.
Ron.
It wasn't your fault. It wasn't Gina's fault, it wasn't Charlie's fault, it wasn't anybody's fault, Toby. It was an act of madmen. You think a tent was going to stop them? We got the President in the car. We got Zoey in the car. And at a hundred and fifty yards, five stories up, the shooters were down nine point two seconds after the first shot was fired. I would never let you not let me protect the President. You tell us you don't like something, we figure out something else. It was an act of madmen. Anyway, the Secret Service doesn't comment on procedure.
Okay.
[Butterfield walks away.]
Good job last night.
Thank you.
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