CNN: Trump Revokes Kamala Harris’ Secret Service Protection

BERMAN: “All right, we do have new CNN reporting this morning that President Trump has revoked the Secret Service protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Now, according to a letter sent by the president, the order will go into effect on September 1st. It comes after then-President Biden, when he was president, President Biden signed a previously undisclosed directive just before leaving office, which extended the Secret Service detail for Vice President Harris for an additional year. Let‘s get right to CNN‘s Isaac Dovere breaking this story. What have you learned, Isaac?”
DOVERE: “Hi, John. Well, as you point out, vice presidents are entitled by law to receive protection for six months after leaving office. That would have taken Harris to July 21st. But in this previously undisclosed directive, Joe Biden, shortly before leaving office, signed an extension of her protection. That was as there was a threat assessment continuing to be around her. And what happened yesterday is President Trump personally signed a letter revoking that. He wrote in the letter, ‘You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by executive memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1st, 2025: former Vice President Kamala D. Harris.’ So that is it. She will lose her protection now. And of course, that comes right as she‘s about to go out on a book tour. It‘s the most public-facing stuff that she‘s done since leaving office. That book tour is for her book about the campaign. It‘s out later this month. And what comes with Secret Service protection is not just the people who are around her, but all sorts of things, of monitoring email threats, guarding her home in Los Angeles, all of these things that are now going to very quickly disappear as of this weekend, September 1st. And the comment from the former vice president‘s senior adviser, Kirsten Allen, to me, was just, ‘The Vice President is grateful to the United States Secret Service for their professionalism, dedication and unwavering commitment to safety.’ No comment from the White House explaining this decision and why it came now.”
BERMAN: “No, no information about whether they had done a new assessment, if they thought there was no more threat? Just the statement from the president?”
DOVERE: “Just the letter from the president that was sent.”
BERMAN: “All right. Isaac Dovere, again, breaking this story for us on this Friday morning. We‘ll let you get back to reporting. Thank you very much for that.”
DOVERE: “Thank you.”