Six weeks have passed since the assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the American public’s questions about the nature of the attack and the security failures that led to Trump’s near-death remain largely unanswered.

Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor and former Utah congressman who once chaired the House Oversight Committee, joined The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the apparent security failures and ongoing investigations into what happened in Butler on July 13.

“I thought the extraction was very slow. I thought it was pretty pathetic,” Chaffetz told The Daily Signal. “It’s become clearer now that even though he was the Republican nominee, even though he was the former president, he didn’t get the full protection that a sitting president would get. And I have a problem with that.”

Chaffetz believes the failures are structural in nature. Poor recruitment and training, as well as high workloads, are the perfect conditions for security lapses like the one in Butler on July 13, says Chaffetz. These problems have long plagued the Secret Service.

When Chaffetz served as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, he conducted the largest investigation into Secret Service operations in American history. The investigation culminated in a 400-page report titled “United States Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.”

The former Utah congressman remains “skeptical” that the current congressional investigations will lead to the policy changes needed to improve the Secret Service without Congress using its budgetary powers to “hold it accountable.”

Listen to the podcast here: