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But first from fox at 3 o'clock in New York City the Secret Service hooker scandal.
Now we're hearing about the female agent who handled the fiasco is that unfold.
Her name is Paula read multiple news organizations report this is a picture of her from 2001.
The Secret Service would not or would not confirm or deny to Fox News Channel that this is Paul -- We do know she's a 46 year old African American woman in a mostly white male organization.
She's described as the new wish Secret Service boss were the south American region.
One colleague says of her response in Columbia quote.
You did it in her house so you better know she's gonna come down hard.
And Paula reed apparently did come down hard she's the one who gave the agents the boot out of Colombia after the whole prostitute thing broke.
The house speaker John Boehner tells Fox News the biggest issue is the safety of the commander in chief.
Their job is -- to provide.
Security for the president -- states.
And and one of the questions that -- -- -- wanna know us was that chip -- much.
And secondly has this behavior.
The kind of behavior.
Of that we would one of our agents especially.
And there is out there there are unconfirmed reports that one prostitute has hired a lawyer who reportedly has big plans for his client.
A police officer at that lawyer's office says and I quote just wait she'll be on the cover of Playboy magazine.
-- Achilles on fox -- stories live in DC -- what else -- -- learning.
Job.
I can't tell you think about Playboy magazine ship but we have confirmed that investigators for the US Southern Command.
Have now returned from Columbia.
-- missing interviews and at least three bases across the United States we've also learned the senator Charles Grassley the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Is a bit skeptical that the White House can investigate itself.
But he does not believe the White House is covering up anything.
-- have no basis for that now.
But the extent to which they're very transparent is the president promised he would be is going to alleviate.
Any concern about these questions we have.
But I want everybody knows in this country these are legitimate concerns.
Because these people deal with the national security and they deal with the protection of the president.
Grassley sent a letter to White House counsel Catherine -- -- today requesting that she answered fourteen questions among them.
How many hours were spent on the weekend review where civilian employees of -- White House communications agency also examined.
How many White House advance staff had overnight -- how many other White House staff had overnight guest.
Grassley asked for a response to his questions -- April 26 he says.
Says it only took two days for the White House review.
If you take no longer to respond to his question -- We're we're talking about men who protect the president of the United States -- you wonder how difficult this would be for the White House given those relationships.
Yet not only -- Secret Service they've -- agents and officers burdened with this tremendous responsibility of literally taking a bullet for the president.
But they -- an intimate proximity to him to his family they -- private conversations they know private habits.
So it creates a very difficult dynamic for the executive branch to criticize them.
All the more reason ship for officers to behave well when they're behind closed doors.
Definitely the prostitutes out of it that -- Wayne Washington Doug thanks let's get to Judith Miller now.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Fox News contributor also an adjunct fellow at the think tank Manhattan institute are all right give you some context and perspective here why -- you.
Well she is one of the 11%.
Of Secret Service agents -- who are women.
Eleven -- only 11%.
And she said when she got this job.
I can handle it.
Women can and should be promoted if they can do the physical work and she has proven she can do that.
Mental and moral work you know she was 25 years old.
She was an equal opportunity employment officer in the patent office patent and trade office when she went to an NAACP trade fair.
And she always wanted to be in law enforcement she's found out about the Secret Service took the job and she has been a rising star and -- sense now.
She wasn't always easy because she had to file ten years ago she was part of class action suit.
That claim discrimination against blacks African Americans.
And she has since withdrawn her name from that she was also promoted as you said.
To the head the Miami bureau she supervises about a 150 agents operating throughout.
South America.
Many people sad and her colleagues that she was being promoted because she was a woman.
And an African American and I think now -- DC she was promoted because she was good.
The minute she heard that there was a ruckus at the hotel.
She sent agents over there and got the registration records of all the Secret Service people she found that eleven of them.
Had women either with them or had invited and -- -- the rooms she called Mark Sullivan.
The head of the Secret Service and said.
This is egregious these guys got to go and they went they were out in a flash and it was because of her action.
Prompt efficient effective and no no hope no excuses.
That I think the Secret Service is in -- shape and it's and it's a heroine in this case is a heroin.
So you don't think much over -- I'm glad it was a woman gonna hit -- -- -- -- and glad it wasn't women -- -- -- That would have been really fascinating.
She she's single.
And her -- she's devoted her life to the Secret Service she's worked there 21 years.
And everybody said that she quotes the Secret Service ethics manual and administration manual of the way quote fundamentalist quote the Bible while interest and thank you Judith thank you.
