text:  Well, this is obviously a huge deal. The attorney general last night called this an attack on American democracy. The Secret Service is responsible for protecting the former president, who, of course, is also a presidential candidate this year. A former Secret Service director, William Ralph Basham Jr., told NPR that the fact that these shots were fired at all was a failure on the Secret Service's part. He says this never should have happened, and the agency is going to have to dig deep and take a close look at what went wrong. Now, the Secret Service falls under the Department of Homeland Security.