(NewsNation) — Senators will be briefed by phone Wednesday regarding Saturday’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office confirmed to NewsNation.
The 30-minute briefing is scheduled to take place at 3 p.m. The senators will hear from Department of Justice, FBI and Secret Service officials.
Wednesday’s meeting request comes one day after the Secret Service briefed the House Oversight Committee on the campaign rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The Saturday attack is the most serious attempt to assassinate a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle confirmed that local police were assigned to cover the building outside the rally perimeter on which Thomas Crooks, who the FBI identified as the shooter, was perched.
Officers were inside the building at the time Crooks was able to scale an outside wall to get to the roof. What isn’t clear is who was watching the outside of the building and how officers missed Crook.
Crooks, 20, was killed by Secret Service agents just seconds into the attempted assassination.
The FBI has not determined the motive behind the shooting, which also killed one attendee and injured two others.
NewsNation’s Tom Dempsey and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
