WATCH: Texas Rep. Pat Fal­lon Gets into Scream­ing Match with Secret Ser­vice Act­ing Direc­tor at Trump Assas­si­na­tion Attempt Hear­ing

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WATCH: Texas Rep. Pat Fallon Gets into Screaming Match with Secret Service Acting Director at Trump Assassination Attempt Hearing

Rep. Pat Fal­lon (R‑TX) and Secret Ser­vice Act­ing Direc­tor Ronald Rowe got into a heat­ed yelling match dur­ing a hear­ing Thurs­day on the two assas­si­na­tion attempts on Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump after the con­gress­man implied that there was a secu­ri­ty lapse at a Sep­tem­ber 11 memo­r­i­al ser­vice this year.

Dur­ing the final hear­ing of the House’s bipar­ti­san task force to inves­ti­gate the assas­si­na­tion attempts, Fal­lon dis­played a pho­to of Pres­i­dent Joe Biden and Trump stand­ing at New York City’s Ground Zero dur­ing the cer­e­mo­ny:

Fal­lon said that Rowe, who also attend­ed the event, should have been stand­ing near the pres­i­dent for secu­ri­ty pur­pos­es.

“Who is usu­al­ly at an event like this clos­est to the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States?” he asked, ges­tur­ing at the pho­to. “Were you the spe­cial agent in charge [SAC] of the detail that day?”

“Actu­al­ly, let me address this. … Con­gress­man, what you’re not see­ing is the SAC of detail falls out of the picture’s view,” Rowe shot back, just before the ten­sion bub­bled over.

“That is the day where we remem­ber more than 3,000 peo­ple that have died on 9/11. I actu­al­ly respond­ed to Ground Zero. I was there going through the ash­es of the World Trade Cen­ter,” the act­ing direc­tor con­tin­ued, before he was cut off by an enraged Fal­lon.

“I’m not ask­ing that, I’m ask­ing you, if you were … were you the spe­cial agent in charge?” the con­gress­man shout­ed into his micro­phone. 

“I was there, Con­gress­man! I was there to show respect for a Secret Ser­vice mem­ber that died on 9/11!” Rowe yelled back.

The scream­ing con­tin­ued as the com­mit­tee chair­man banged the gav­el to regain order.

“Do not invoke 9/11 for polit­i­cal pur­pos­es!” Rowe shout­ed at Fal­lon. 

“I’m not,” the law­mak­er shout­ed back.

“You are, sir. You are out of line, con­gress­man! Way out of line,” the secu­ri­ty offi­cial argued.

“Don’t try to bul­ly me,” Fal­lon said, point­ing his fin­ger at Rowe, before accus­ing him of “endan­ger­ing” the lives of Biden and Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris because “you put those agents out of posi­tion.”

“No, I didn’t sir, and you are out of line,” Rowe jabbed, before the floor was giv­en to Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D‑FL). 

Accord­ing to an Octo­ber inter­im report released by the House pan­el, the July assas­si­na­tion attempt against Trump at his But­ler, Penn­syl­va­nia, cam­paign ral­ly occurred after “stun­ning secu­ri­ty fail­ures” that were entire­ly “pre­ventable and should not have hap­pened.”