Secret Service 'needs to reconsider' Trump-Vance joint appearances after WHCA gala shooting: McCaul

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday that the Secret Service should “reconsider” whether President Trump and Vice President Vance attend the same events in the wake of Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner. “The takeaway I got was that the line of succession,” McCaul, who attended the Washington event, told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “ State of the Union .” “You had the president and the vice president at the head table, both of them together, and [House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La)]. Had an explosive device gone off, you would have knocked out the president, vice president, Speaker. The three in line of succession,” the Texas Republican noted. When Bash asked McCaul whether he was saying that those three should not be in public together, he replied, “I think the Secret Service needs to reconsider having both the president and vice president together.” If the president cannot carry out his duties, the vice president and House Speaker are next in the line of succession. Next would be the president pro tempore of the Senate, who McCaul noted is 92-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The investigation into Saturday’s shooting is underway, and multiple outlets have identified the suspect as 31-year-old Cole Allen, from Torrance, Calif. The Hill has not independently verified the identity of the suspected gunman. U.S. …