Trump’s assassination attempt squad holds final hearing; The director of the Secret Service will testify

The House panel investigating the two assassination attempts against President-elect Trump will meet for a final hearing on Thursday before releasing its highly anticipated report.

Director of the US Secret Service (USSS) Ronald Rowe will testify before lawmakers. Members of the task force will then meet behind closed doors to consider their final report.

Speaker Mike Kelly, R-Pa., said the hearing was about restoring confidence in law enforcement.

“What we’re working on more than anything else is that the public needs to know what happened that day because there’s still a lot of confusion about it,” Kelly told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.

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“When we look at the Secret Service, that’s always elite. So, I think what we’re trying to do is set up a situation where … we can restore that confidence.”

Trump held a rally in Kelly’s district on July 13, when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire at the event just outside the security compound, injuring Trump and others. Another attendee was killed.

Later in September, USSS agents opened fire on a 58-year-old man who was carrying a gun at Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, golf course where the president-elect was out.

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Acting Director of the US Secret Service Ronald Rowe will testify on Thursday. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

These incidents caused the USSS and its security measures to be scrutinized and led to the dismissal of USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle.

And while Kelly admitted he “would rather have” Cheatle testify in front of his team, he praised Rowe’s handling of the situation since coming after him.

“From the beginning, he said, ‘Look, it was totally our fault. This is the worst situation the Secret Service has ever been in,'” he said.

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Video from James Copenhaver, one of the victims of the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump, shows a figure walking on a rooftop minutes before shots were fired at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa. (James Copenhaver)

Kelly said he expects the final report to be issued on December 13, the “scheduled date” for the team to release the results of its investigation.

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The panel issued an interim report in late October detailing “a lack of planning and coordination between the Secret Service and its law enforcement partners prior to the meeting.”

The USSS staff at the event “did not give clear guidance” to national and local authorities on how to manage security outside of their stronghold, and there was no major meeting between the USSS and the law enforcement agencies that supported them on the morning of the meeting, according to . findings presented as critical failures in a 51-page report.