Lawmakers tour Trump's assassination attempt site in Butler

A bipartisan group of lawmakers visited Butler, Pennsylvania on Monday to look at the attempted assassination site of former President Donald Trump. 

The group is part of a task force investigating what went wrong on July 13, as security measures strengthen leading up to November's presidential election.  

"We're going to conduct a full, thorough, robust investigation and it's going to be done in a bipartisan way," said Jared Crow, (D-CO) U.S. Representative.

"We want our candidates to speak their minds," explained Lou Correa, (D-CA) U.S. Representative. "We want our candidates to make their opinions, their thoughts known to the American public, to the voters. We don't want them to be afraid to speak their minds."

A handful of lawmakers make up a task force working to learn how the former president was shot at and where security measures went wrong at the Butler Farm Show Grounds.

"It is so important that this task force has the opportunity to do what we did here," explained Laurel Lee (R-FL) U.S. Representative. "To actually walk these grounds, to see this area, to get an understanding of the physical space and where this security shortcoming took place."

"I took note today that there were a lot of lines of sight that appear to have been unsecured that day that didn't have eyes on or that weren't secured and certainly at this point a lot more questions than answers," Crow added. 

"What's impressive to me is the proximity of everything here," said Madeleine Dean, (D-PA) U.S. Representative. "Particularly the position of the shooter and the position of the president."

"What I'm going to be spending my time on is trying to understand what happened in terms of procedures and protocols," explained Chrissy Houlahan, (D-PA) U.S. Representative. "To make sure that we understand that and specifically also we'll be focusing on some new technologies such as the drone that was involved in this particular situation."

The task force's visit is the groundwork to ensure such an event does not happen again.

"The most important thing is to recognize that we are U.S. Representatives, not democrats, not republicans but both searching for the answers and reassuring the American people that we can work together," said Mike Kelly, (R-PA) U.S. Representative. "And we can get the right answers so this doesn't happen again."

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle stepped down last month, following calls for her to resign.

The Secret Service is also working to strengthen security measures as tensions continue to build up to November 5th.