 obviously this is a this is a huge deal uh the attorney general's statement about this being an attack on american democracy i think reflects that uh as well the the secret service is responsible for protecting the former president who of course is also running for president uh this year um a former secret service director william ralph basham jr told npr that the fact that shots were fired at all was a failure on the secret service's part he says this never should have happened and the agency is going to have to do an in-depth investigation into how this was able to go down