Secret Service director denies that Trump rally perimeter was too small

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said in an interview Tuesday that her agency was "solely responsible" for the implementation and execution of security at former President Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

Cheatle told CNN that no assets from the rally were diverted on the day Trump was shot, even though other events in the state required Secret Service protection.

“At that particular site, we divided up areas of responsibility, but the Secret Service is totally responsible for the design and implementation and the execution of the site,” Cheatle said. 

Previously, the Secret Service director told ABC News that local law enforcement was responsible for the building where 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto the roof and fired a rifle at Trump, killing one spectator and injuring the Republican presidential candidate and two others. 

“What I was trying to stress was that we just divided up areas of responsibility, and they provided support to those areas of responsibility,” Cheatle said, adding that the Secret Service "couldn't do our job without" local law enforcement.