LIVE: US Secret Service News Conference on Donald Trump Assassination Attempt | Ronald Rowe | N18G

Washington, D.C. - White House protective service holds a news conference on the Trump assassination attempt. The U.S. Secret Service will hold news briefing on Friday on its response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The event is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. ET. Watch in the player above. The briefing comes as more Americans express doubt about the Secret Service’s ability to keep presidential candidates safe, a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds. Only around 3 in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident that the Secret Service can keep the presidential candidates safe from violence before the election, according to the poll. The survey also found that about 7 in 10 Americans think the Secret Service bears at least a moderate amount of responsibility for the assassination attempt. The law enforcement agency tasked with protecting presidents for more than a century is under intense scrutiny after a gunman got withi