Secret Service Official Asked If There Will Be Increased Security Amid LA Protests

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At a press briefing on Monday, Matt McCool, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service Washington Field Office, was asked about security amid protests in LA.

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00:00Any changes to protocol, the ramping up of additional security?

00:04Thank you very much.

00:05Okay. I'm Jackie with News Nation.

00:08Will there be any additional protocols, ramping up of security,

00:12anything in response to what is currently taking place in L.A. regarding ice raids and protests there?

00:19So given that this is an NSSE, we plan for those things ahead of time.

00:23So since April 22nd, we've been planning for this, which is shorter than normal.

00:26But we're paying attention, obviously, to what is happening there,

00:31and we'll be ready for that if it were to occur here for the Army 250.

00:35Next.

00:45Hi, Hassan Conner with Politico.

00:46Just to kind of follow up on that, what have you guys been expecting or discussing

00:50in terms of whether we see a similar deployment of federal troops,

00:53maybe perhaps the D.C. National Guard, as we've seen in California, in response to protests?

00:57So I'll just say we're not expecting it.

00:59We have no intelligence of that, you know, happening here.

01:03But if it does, we have the resources to handle it.

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