Trump shooting: Secret Service, FBI directors grilled by Senate Judiciary Committee | FULL

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and the Deputy Director of the FBI Paul Abbate faced questions from a Senate Judiciary Committee over numerous failures the day former president Donald Trump was shot in Butler, Pa.

"As a career law enforcement officer and a 25 year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured," Rowe said during his opening statement.

Meanwhile, Abbate went onto provide a timeline of events that day during his opening statement. Rowe blamed communications between the Secret Service and local law enforcement partners, saying that "if we'd had that information (about a suspicious person with a gun), they would have been able to address it more quickly. It appears that that information, was stuck or siloed in that state and local channel."

In a tense exchange between Rowe and Sen. Hawley, the Secret Service chief was questioned why there has been no accountability thus far. Hawley asked whether the person who made the decision to send Trump onto stage and the person who decided not to pull the former president off of stage despite knowledge of a security situation has "been relieved of duty."

In response to both lines of questioning, Rowe replied in the negative.

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