The US Secret Service’s acting director got into a shouting match with Texas Representative Pat Fallon during a hearing on Thursday.
Acting Director Ronald Rowe testified to a House task force consisting of seven Republicans and six Democrats that has been investigating two failed assassination attempts on Trump during this year's presidential campaign. Things grew heated at times.
Mr Rowe earned praise from many Republican lawmakers for cooperating with the investigation, but he erupted at Fallon after the congressman questioned Rowe's appearance at a ceremony this year commemorating the anniversary of the attacks on Sep 11 2001.
"Do not invoke 9/11 for political purposes!" Mr Rowe yelled, adding that he responded to the World Trade Center site following the attack and attended the ceremony to represent the Secret Service. "You are out of line, congressman."
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