Joe Kent

Hey, there was a screw up here.

We need to correct it, which I think is part of any healthy organization.

We do after action reviews in the military.

It's almost a religious requirement in the military to do an after-action review.

And then in after-action reviews, we're usually very critical and very hard on ourselves.

That is not the culture coming from the White House, and that is a leadership issue.

And I think that folks below President Trump, the chief of staff, deputy chiefs of staff, those levels, they could be looking much more critically at this.

And look, the American people aren't dumb.

You don't need to be a security expert or have done protective details before to

to understand that things went very wrong two nights ago and that have gone wrong in the past with Butler and all the other assassination attempts that we talked about.

So I think just being honest with the American people would help in terms of credibility.

But then they've got to break this culture within the White House of we can't ever bring bad news to the boss.

We can't ever bring any friction.

President Trump is a pretty forward-facing individual.

I have no doubt that he wants to get out there all the time.

But I do think he needs someone to say, hey, sir, we're not going to do that.

You cannot do that today.

You can't have this massive event.

Or if you're going to have it, we're going to have to scale back.

We're going to have to put in more security restrictions.