美国特勤局局长金伯利·谢特尔(Kimberly Cheatle)在美国前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)遇刺后的首次网络采访中表示，宾夕法尼亚州集会枪击事件“不可接受”。
“这是不可接受的，”她在周一接受美国广播公司首席司法记者皮埃尔·托马斯采访时说。“这种事情不应该再发生了。”
周六的暴力事件造成一名集会者死亡，这是自1981年罗纳德·里根(Ronald Reagan)以来，第一次有现任或前任总统在未遂暗杀中受伤。
当她第一次得知枪击事件时，Cheatle说她感到震惊和担忧——对特朗普和应对这一事件的特勤局特工都是如此。
“很明显，作为一名特工，没有人希望在自己的职业生涯中出现这种情况，”她说。
“巴克和我一起停下”
作为该机构的负责人，Cheatle说她有责任调查出了什么问题，并确保类似的事情不会再次发生。
“责任在我，”她说。“我是特勤局局长，我需要确保我们正在进行审查，并在必要时向我们的人员提供资源。”
Cheatle回应了关于嫌疑人在开枪前被看到并被确定为潜在可疑人物的报道，称从那时到开枪之间“过了很短的时间”。
“我还不知道所有的细节，但那是很短的一段时间，”她说。“找出那个人，找到他们，识别他们，并最终压制他们，发生在非常短的时间内，这使得它非常困难。”
Cheatle还表示，地方当局的任务是在被特勤局狙击手击毙之前保护据称枪手开枪的建筑，并确认当枪手在屋顶时，当地警察在场。
“在这种特殊的情况下，我们确实分享了对特定地点的支持，特勤局负责内部周界，”Cheatle说。“然后，我们向当地同行寻求外围援助。那栋大楼里有当地警察——那个地区有当地警察负责大楼的外围。”
谢特尔说，她已经联系了特朗普，但尚未与他交谈。
在袭击发生后的几天里，Cheatle和特勤局因未能阻止事件发生而面临越来越多的审查，甚至有人要求辞职。
谢特尔说她不会辞去她的角色。
预计她将于下周一(7月22日)在共和党领导的众议院监督委员会作证。
局长说要对特勤局有信心
尽管如此，她说，美国人民应该对特勤局保护总统和前总统的能力有信心。
在暗杀企图的余波中，她“立即”开始关注那些在特勤局保护下的人的保护细节。
她说，她联系了前总统的工作人员，并试图联系他，但没有打通。
谢特尔还驳斥了有关暗杀企图的错误信息。
“特勤局与政治无关，”她说。“安全不是政治。人民的安全不是政治。这就是我们作为一个机构所关注的。”
她重申，正如其他官员所说，前总统要求更多资源的谣言是“不真实的”。
她说，干掉枪手的决定是特工在屋顶上做的“瞬间决定”。
“他们有能力自己做出决定。如果他们看到这是一种威胁，他们在这种情况下就这样做了，”她说。
“我很高兴他们做出了这个决定，不需要征求任何人的意见，谢天谢地，他们化解了威胁。”
ABC Exclusive: Trump rally shooting 'unacceptable,' Secret Service director says
In her first network interview since the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said that the Pennsylvania rally shooting was "unacceptable."
"It was unacceptable," she said in an interview Monday with ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. "And it's something that shouldn't happen again."
The violent incident on Saturday, which left one rallygoer dead, marked the first time a current or former president has been wounded in an attempted assassination since Ronald Reagan in 1981.
When she first learned of the shooting, Cheatle said she was shocked and concerned -- both for Trump and for the Secret Service agents who responded to the incident.
"It was obviously a situation that as a Secret Service agent, no one ever wants to occur in their career," she said.
'Buck stops with me'
As the head of the agency, Cheatle said it's her responsibility to investigate what went wrong and make sure nothing like it can happen again.
"The buck stops with me," she said. "I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary."
Cheatle responded to reports that the suspect was seen and identified as potentially suspicious before he opened fire, saying that "a very short period of time" passed between then and the shooting.
"I don't have all the details yet, but it was a very short period of time," she said. "Seeking that person out, finding them, identifying them, and eventually neutralizing them took place in a very short period of time, and it makes it very difficult."
Cheatle also said that local authorities were tasked with securing the building where the alleged shooter fired the shots before being taken out by a Secret Service sniper, and confirmed that local police were present inside the building while the shooter was on the roof.
"In this particular instance, we did share support for that particular site and that the Secret Service was responsible for the inner perimeter," Cheatle said. "And then we sought assistance from our local counterparts for the outer perimeter. There was local police in that building -- there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building."
Cheatle said she has reached out to Trump but has not yet spoken with him.
In the days since the attack, Cheatle and the Secret Service have faced heightening scrutiny for failing to prevent the incident from happening, and even calls from some to resign.
Cheatle said she would not resign from her role.
She is expected to testify before the GOP-led House Oversight Committee next Monday, July 22.
Director says to have confidence in Secret Service
Still, she said, the American people should have confidence in the Secret Service's ability to protect the president and former president.
In the aftermath of the assassination attempt, she “immediately” started looking at the protective details of those under Secret Service protection.
She said she reached out to the former president’s staff and attempted to contact him but hasn’t gotten through.
Cheatle also pushed back on the misinformation that is out there regarding the assassination attempt.
“Secret Service is not political,” she said. “Security is not political. People's safety is not political. And that's what we're focused on as an agency.”
And she reiterated, as other officials have said, that there is “no truth” to the rumors the former president’s detail asked for more resources.
The decision to take out the shooter, she said, was a “split second decision” the agent made while perched on the roof.
“They have the ability to make that decision on their own. If they see that it's a threat and they did that in that instance," she said.
"And I applaud the fact that they made that decision and didn't have to check with anybody and thankfully neutralized the threat."
