"My badge didn’t work, the officer asked me to hand it over."

I arrived here as I do many days of the week, many weekends, and I walked through the first entrance gate. I said good morning to the officers. I was able to walk through freely. Then I entered the second gate where we have magnetometers. I attempted to scan my badge, which we have to do to enable to get into the White House grounds. It did not work. There was a red beeping light and so the officer asked me to hand over my badge. He said that it was disabled. And so I asked why it was disabled and he said that it was above him and then