Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle sits at a microphone.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifying to Congress.
  • Trump shooting was Secret Service's worst failure in decades, director says.
  • Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle declined to answer specific questions about what went wrong.
  • She said an investigation would take 60 days — far longer than the 1981 Reagan shooting report.

The director of the US Secret Service admitted in a House of Representatives committee hearing Monday that the shooting of former President Donald Trump was a disaster for the agency.

"The assassination attempt of former President Trump on July 13th is the most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades," Kimberly Cheatle said Monday morning.