WASHINGTON (TNND) -- Newly released audio of 911 calls made in the moments after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13 has provided a fresh perspective of what it was like for rally attendees in the middle of the chaos.
"Gunshots at the Trump rally... Gunshots... Better get over here quick," one woman told a 911 operator.
They just tried to kill President Trump. You might want to make note of that," a man said.
Several news outlets sued Butler County to release the audio of these calls, at least one of which came from someone whose loved one was injured.
"Paramedics serviced him. I called Butler Hospital, he's not there. They told me to call 911 -- Please," the woman said before being told by the operator, "Don't hang up."
This audio comes as multiple investigations, including an independent panel, a Senate committee and a House task force piece together what happened and what needs to be done to prevent another tragedy.
On Monday, the bipartisan task force released its interim findings.
"The local law enforcement did exactly what they were asked to do. They weren't asked the right questions at the right time, nor were they prepared on July 13 for what happened. There was no overall meeting to join all those forces together," said Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., who chairs the task force and whose district includes Butler.
Everything that day, from how the security perimeter was set up to how the Secret Service communicated-or didn't-with state and local law enforcement, Kelly said, was "out of place."
So the first question that comes up is, well, usually you can prevent that by the proper preparation. How could you have failed in every single step?" Kelly said about the Secret Service.
Retired Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Frank Loveridge called his former agency one "in crisis" and "stretched thin."
"I think that there's one thing we need to look at and that is our recruiting standards. We need to go to elite military units, elite law enforcement units, I think that's not an all-inclusive list but that's a great place to start to get the right people with the right mindset that are mentally and physically tough and have the discipline to be a Secret Service agent," Loveridge said.
Loveridge, who served nine years on the president's detail, said he's noticed a serious lack of training.
"Some of these agents have not been to training for six years before they go to the president's detail or the vice president's detail or former detail protective operations," Loveridge said. "And what we see there is, a lack of training is evident when you have some of the errors that were made that day back in Butler on July 13."