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How the Hell did the Trump Assassination Attempt Happen? Catastrophic Security Failures-What went wrong? · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is verdict was centered Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with
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Speaker 2: you and center. The big question I think everyone in
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Speaker 2: this country is asking themselves right now and talking about,
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Speaker 2: is how did this happen?
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Speaker 1: What went wrong?
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Speaker 3: Well, we're a day and a half removed from the
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Speaker 3: first presidential assassination attempt since nineteen eighty one, since the
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Speaker 3: assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. A day and a half ago,
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump was shot by a crazed assassin, and I
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Speaker 3: got to say, what millions of Americans are thinking is
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Speaker 3: how in the hell did this happen? What went wrong?
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Speaker 3: Why did Secret Service not stop this? Why was there
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Speaker 3: not additional security? Why was this guy able to get
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Speaker 3: on a damn roof and fire a rifle at the president?
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Speaker 3: And where was where the security protocols to prevent that?
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Speaker 3: We're going to break that down. We're also going to
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Speaker 3: talk about the incessant, violent, hateful, horrifying rhetoric from Democrats
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Speaker 3: that pressed and pressed and pressed and pressed until this happened,
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Speaker 3: have no idea why anyone would look to them as
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Speaker 3: playing a role causing this, This horrific assassination attempt.
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Speaker 4: We're going to talk about that too.
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Speaker 2: Verdict Center. The question that everybody is asking is, and
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Speaker 2: you mentioned it, how did this happen? And not only that,
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Speaker 2: but there's these eyewitness accounts that have come out that
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Speaker 2: lend to that question becoming even more of.
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Speaker 1: An outrage, like, how the hell did this happen?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, it's infuriating. And I want to
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Speaker 3: start by us by a BBC interview with with with
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Speaker 3: a gentleman who was at the rally. He was standing
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Speaker 3: outside the rally, but he witnessed the shooter before the shooting,
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Speaker 3: and he was desperately trying to point him out to
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Speaker 3: law enforcement, and and and it's just that this this
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Speaker 3: cant came out with with within minutes of the shooting happening,
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Speaker 3: and it and it really just defies defies words.
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Speaker 4: Give a listen.
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Speaker 5: See you were inside the event, but you were just outside.
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Speaker 5: Tell us what yes. So, so we had a party
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Speaker 5: here all day due you can see behind us at
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Speaker 5: the Brinkle's Farming greenhouse here. We had a party and
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Speaker 5: we all decided, hey, you know, when when we hear
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Speaker 5: Trump up there, we're going to walk up through the field,
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Speaker 5: stand by the trees out there under the shade and
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Speaker 5: watch the ring and listen to the rally. Right. We
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Speaker 5: couldn't see them, but we could hear him. So we
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Speaker 5: walked up and probably five to seven minutes of Trump's
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Speaker 5: speaking on estimating here, I have no idea, you know.
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Speaker 6: But.
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Speaker 5: We noticed the guy crawling arming, you know, bear crawling
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Speaker 5: up the roof of the building beside us, fifty feet
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Speaker 5: away from us. So we're standing in there, you know,
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Speaker 5: we're pointing. We're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof.
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Speaker 5: And he had a rifle. He could clearly see him
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Speaker 5: with a rifle. Absolutely, we're pointing at him. The police
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Speaker 5: are down there running around on the ground. We're like, hey, man,
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Speaker 5: there's guy on the roof with the rifle. And the
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Speaker 5: police were like, huh what, you know, like like they
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Speaker 5: didn't know what was going on. You know, We're like, hey,
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Speaker 5: right here on the roof, he can see him from
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Speaker 5: right here, we see him, you know, he's crawling. And
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Speaker 5: next thing you know, I'm like, I'm thinking to myself,
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Speaker 5: I'm like, why is Trump still speaking? Why have they
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Speaker 5: not pulled him off the stage. I'm standing there pointing
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Speaker 5: at him for you know, two three minutes. Secrets Service
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Speaker 5: is looking at us from the top of the barn.
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Speaker 5: I'm pointing at that roof, just standing there like this,
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Speaker 5: And next thing, you know, five shots run out. So
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Speaker 5: you'll you're sudden where the shots coming from, not coming
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Speaker 5: on the one hundred, and he was up there for
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Speaker 5: a couple of minutes. He was out there for him
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Speaker 5: there for a couple of minutes, absolutely at least three
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Speaker 5: to four minutes. And you were telling the police in
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Speaker 5: the secret stuff, we were telling the police we were
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Speaker 5: pointing at him. For the Secret Service who were looking
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Speaker 5: at us from the top of the barn. They were
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Speaker 5: looking at us the whole time. When you stand about
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Speaker 5: that tree. Thanks for the oculars. Could they see, Probably
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Speaker 5: not because the roof the way that the slope went,
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Speaker 5: he was behind where they could see. But why is
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Speaker 5: there not secret Service on all of these roofs here?
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Speaker 5: I mean, this is not a big place.
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Speaker 7: Did you see?
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Speaker 5: I mean obviously everyone when the shooting started, everyone was
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Speaker 5: very kind of did you see what I'm saying him
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Speaker 5: at all? Oh? Yeah, they blues head off. Okay, so
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Speaker 5: secret Service blues head on and we'll be okay, we
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Speaker 5: just be carefully because we don't know quite he's watching.
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Speaker 5: But you're pretty sure they show up. The guy absolutely
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Speaker 5: say yep, you saw that happen. Yep, yep, okay, yep.
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Speaker 5: And did you see them go up to him? Off
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Speaker 5: to it? So they yeah, they crawled up on the roof.
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Speaker 5: They had their guns pointed out and make sure he
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Speaker 5: was dead. He was dead, and that was it.
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Speaker 6: It was over.
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Speaker 5: That's incredibly shof. The guy was on the roof right there.
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Speaker 5: You can see the right roof right there. You could
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Speaker 5: to look at him, could you, I know, other.
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Speaker 6: Than he was in.
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Speaker 5: Muted collers, tanned tight clothing. We saw the rifle flinging
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Speaker 5: around as he was trying to crawl. I mean, we
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Speaker 5: saw the rifle one hundred percent? Do you I mean,
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Speaker 5: do you know about couns? Do you know what kind
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Speaker 5: of weapon it was?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, know about guns for sure. Yeah, I mean there
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Speaker 5: is a rifle of some sort. I wouldn't know, you know,
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Speaker 5: I wasn't close enough to read the label on him,
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Speaker 5: but there was a rifle.
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Speaker 6: Of some sort.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely. So what do you how do you process
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Speaker 5: what you've just seen? I don't know what to say, man.
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Speaker 5: I'll tell you is you know if I if I
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Speaker 5: walked up closer there with anything that can Secret Service
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Speaker 5: considered a problem, I wouldn't be standing here talking to
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Speaker 5: you right now. But I don't know why a guy
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Speaker 5: who we're standing there point now to police and Secret
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Speaker 5: Service is crawling up the roof where you're on the
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Speaker 5: side of the spear. Yes, right there by that tree.
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Speaker 5: We were outside the security demy. But my question is,
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Speaker 5: there's only a few buildings around here. Why is Secret
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Speaker 5: Service not in every building here? There's a whole bunch
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Speaker 5: of questions. I think they're going to come. There's a
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Speaker 5: whole bunch of questions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you listen to this guy, he's a concerned citizen. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he says, we're yelling there's a guy on the roof.
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Speaker 2: And I do think it's important because there's been a
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Speaker 2: lot of people that have been critical of the of
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Speaker 2: the snipers that took him out, saying, how do they
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Speaker 2: not see him? You notice he said, I'm sure they
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Speaker 2: couldn't see him on the back part of the roof,
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Speaker 2: right it was slanted from them. And I think that's
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Speaker 2: important that those guys did their job when they saw
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Speaker 2: him from what we understand, and this guy said, look,
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Speaker 2: they couldn't see him.
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Speaker 3: Where he was well, and that really goes to the
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Speaker 3: preparation of Secret Service for the event and for the
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Speaker 3: manpower that it certainly appears there was woefully insufficient manpower
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Speaker 3: to make that rally safe. The snipers on the other
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Speaker 3: side of the roof, from everything, it appears, couldn't see
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Speaker 3: him because the roof was sloped away. Where the sniper
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Speaker 3: was was one hundred and sixty four yards away from
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Speaker 3: President Trump.
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Speaker 4: That is not very far.
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Speaker 3: It's certainly not far with a rifle with a scope.
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Speaker 3: One hundred and sixty four yard.
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Speaker 2: By the way, I talked today to someone that is
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Speaker 2: in Secret Service and he said that is twenty percent
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Speaker 2: of the range that they trained to look for. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: just to put in perspective, so this would be if
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Speaker 2: you were leighing out. Now, Okay, that's ten percent away
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Speaker 2: of what we trained for. This guy was within twenty
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Speaker 2: percent of what they trained for to look for snipers.
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Speaker 3: Well, and a story that all so broke. The Associated
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Speaker 3: pet Press reported yesterday quote a local law enforcement officer
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Speaker 3: climbed to the roof and found crooks the gunman, who
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Speaker 3: pointed the rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down
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Speaker 3: the ladder, and the gunman quickly fired towards Trump. The
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Speaker 3: official said, that's when US Secret Service gunman shot him.
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Speaker 3: The official said, so that's really astonishing. That means law
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Speaker 3: enforcements saw him before he fired. The shots came up
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Speaker 3: the ladder, the guy pointed the rifle at him. Now,
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Speaker 3: presumably we don't know the answer to this right now,
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Speaker 3: but presumably that law enforcement was not in contact with
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Speaker 3: a secret service.
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Speaker 2: Not in the same frequency, which reminds me so much.
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Speaker 2: And my next question he was going to be about
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Speaker 2: what we saw after nine to eleven. After nine to eleven,
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Speaker 2: what we realized was is that there were too many
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Speaker 2: government agencies that weren't able to talk to one another
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Speaker 2: that weren't talking to one another. It was FBI over here,
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Speaker 2: Secret Service over here, and then the CIA over here,
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Speaker 2: and they weren't sharing information the way that they needed to.
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Speaker 1: Is it possible that in.
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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four, we have everyone at this event, but
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Speaker 2: they're not able to speak to one another for whatever reason.
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Speaker 4: It is astonishing. And look at the timing of this.
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Speaker 3: So you've got this guy on the roof, a police
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Speaker 3: officer comes up the ladder, He turns around, points the
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Speaker 3: gun at the police officer.
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Speaker 6: Look.
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Speaker 3: I don't fault the police officer for ducking back down
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Speaker 3: when you get a rifle pointed at you. But it
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Speaker 3: takes a little bit of time for a gunman to
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Speaker 3: turn around then and aim and sight up and fire
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Speaker 3: the shots and fire them close enough that they hit
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Speaker 3: the President's ear. That takes a little bit of time.
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Speaker 3: That doesn't happen in five seconds, presumably if they're on
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Speaker 3: the same frequency. The instant the officer sees him in
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Speaker 3: your microphone, you're yelling gun, gun, gun, and the snipeppers
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Speaker 3: can immediately train on him, so when the guy pokes
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Speaker 3: his head over to shoot, they can take him out
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Speaker 3: right Then, if they were.
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Speaker 4: Talking to each other.
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Speaker 1: Well, and not even that.
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Speaker 2: If you went through it and they said shooter, shooter, shooter,
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Speaker 2: you would immediately grab the president and pull him to
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Speaker 2: the ground or rush him off the stage.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's true. You don't even have you can take it.
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Speaker 3: They didn't pull him down. And that's what that observer
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Speaker 3: was saying. He's like, why is Trump still on the stage,
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Speaker 3: Why is he still talking? This guy's there with a
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Speaker 3: rifle like he's frustrated out of his mind. And let
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Speaker 3: me just pause and say, thank God, I believe God's
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Speaker 3: protection was on Donald Trump amen that day. Thank God
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Speaker 3: he turned his head. Had that bullet been an inch
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Speaker 3: or even a half an inch to the left, we
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Speaker 3: could be dealing with a very different show right now,
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Speaker 3: with a completed assassination. Yeah, and I do believe it
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Speaker 3: was God's providence that made that bullet miss. But we
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Speaker 3: need to ask and I want you to listen. Also,
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Speaker 3: so Dan Bongino was on Fox and Friends, and you
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Speaker 3: and I are both friends with Danny, terrific guy.
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Speaker 1: But former's secret service agent for viewer that may not
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Speaker 1: know that for fifteen years.
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Speaker 3: So what Dan did before he got into radio and
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Speaker 3: began commenting is he was a Secret Service to agent,
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Speaker 3: so he knows Secret Service presidential protection at a level.
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Speaker 3: Frankly that unless you've been done that service for a
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Speaker 3: decade or more, you don't know it. I want you
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Speaker 3: to listen to this interview because it really does highlight
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Speaker 3: the massive, massive security failures that day.
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Speaker 5: I think your thoughts on this, Dan just continue where
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Speaker 5: you left off on the reaction here.
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Speaker 8: So again, open security questions right now. And this is
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Speaker 8: why again I think the Secret Service the pr Anthony
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Speaker 8: googly m. He has to be very careful about what
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Speaker 8: they put out. You know, he says in his in
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Speaker 8: his ex posts and you can read it yourself. You
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Speaker 8: don't need to hear from me that they deployed these
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Speaker 8: extra resources and technology. Okay, well, which ones you're telling me?
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Speaker 8: The best technology you have was deployed? And you missed
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Speaker 8: a shooter one hundred and thirty yards? Say it was
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Speaker 8: two hundred yards. The Secret Service CS team PETE the
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Speaker 8: counter Sniper team, And I'm not sure those two guys
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Speaker 8: are Secret Service. We have to remember that we don't
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Speaker 8: always when we go to New York. Sometimes with high
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Speaker 8: level protectees, we'll use MYPDESU counter sniper. So I'm not
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Speaker 8: really sure they Either way, they'd still be briefed in.
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Speaker 8: The question we have to ask is if that's the
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Speaker 8: best technology we have. And we had a CS team
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Speaker 8: up there with a shooter that you know, we're trained
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Speaker 8: out to one thousand yards in the Secret Service with
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Speaker 8: the counter sniper team, how did they miss someone at most,
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Speaker 8: you know, one fifth of the way there. It doesn't
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Speaker 8: make any sense. And even worse, it's broad daily right
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Speaker 8: on a white roof. So again open questions here. Was
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Speaker 8: there forward looking at infrared deployed? Was there aerial support, drones, helicopters?
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Speaker 8: You know, something happened to you If you go back
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Speaker 8: and listen to the audio. I want you to listen
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Speaker 8: to this after I get off here, when Donald Trump,
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Speaker 8: after this tragic thing happens, you'll see the Secret Service agents.
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Speaker 6: And by the way, I know some of those guys personally.
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Speaker 8: It takes a lot to run into bullets divorcing the
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Speaker 8: security failure. So at least they did that part, you know, correctly,
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Speaker 8: and they knew what they were doing after the security
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Speaker 8: absolutely fail. But you're going to hear something if you
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Speaker 8: listen closely. The guys mentions hawkeye on the scene. He's
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Speaker 8: talking about those two the BLACKBDU with the tactical gear
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Speaker 8: CAT element, that two man CAT element that stands for
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Speaker 8: counter Assault Team. That's a Secret Service special weapons team
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Speaker 8: equivalent to our SWAT. So they're there, they all deployed.
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Speaker 8: The bunting around the front of the stage is probably armor.
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Speaker 8: Donald Trump knew to Duck. I mean most people would.
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Speaker 8: He saved his own life. That's just a fact. The
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Speaker 8: evacuation did not go right. I mean the rule with
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Speaker 8: the Secret Services covered the protect ee and evacuate. The
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Speaker 8: other rule is maximum to the protect ee, minimum to
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Speaker 8: the problem. Why minimum to the problem because you don't
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Speaker 8: know that's the only problem.
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Speaker 6: It could be a distraction.
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Speaker 8: There could be another person in the crowd, so if
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Speaker 8: you don't jump on the protectee, you could be looking
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Speaker 8: at multiple shooters. So at least that part the guys
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Speaker 8: there stepped up there. But the failure here is absolutely catastrophic.
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Speaker 8: And I got to tell you the Secret Service should
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Speaker 8: be very careful. I could tell you and absolutely confirm
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Speaker 8: from the horse's mouth from multiple people, not just one.
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Speaker 8: And I saw Congressman Waltz text this out before on X.
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Speaker 8: There have been repeated requests to increase the security footprint
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Speaker 8: around not just the residences of Donald Trump, but the
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Speaker 8: body itself.
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Speaker 6: They have been rebuffed.
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Speaker 8: Like I said, I can tell you actually quote the
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Speaker 8: Secret Service directors completely failed and candidly should resign today.
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Speaker 8: Kim Cheatle has failed Donald Trump and honestly failed Joe
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Speaker 8: Biden too. He's the president right now. Where's the DHS secretary?
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Speaker 8: I mean, this is you're blaming it on manpower. So
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Speaker 8: just to be clear, we're a four trillion dollar United
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Speaker 8: States government and we can't fork over enough money to
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Speaker 8: keep our people alive. And then you're sending out tweets like, oh,
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Speaker 8: this is the best technology we have really to let
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Speaker 8: a sniper one hundred and fifty yards away from the
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Speaker 8: potential next president shoot a piece.
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Speaker 6: Of a zero off? Did that's your victory lap? Give
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Speaker 6: me a break, man.
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Speaker 2: Let me just stop there. And I want to ask
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Speaker 2: you this because it was the question that I was asked.
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Speaker 2: And I was sitting today at lunch with a guy
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Speaker 2: that has taken out some of the worst terrafs literally
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Speaker 2: in the world, and the question that I was asking
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Speaker 2: him was like, how does this even get happen?
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Speaker 6: He said?
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Speaker 2: Number one, Ben he goes they didn't have enough people.
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Speaker 2: Clearly didn't have enough coverage. He said, I don't know
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Speaker 2: how with the budget that they have, how they didn't
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Speaker 2: have enough money to pay for enough people to cover
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Speaker 2: the president of the United States of America. And I
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Speaker 2: think that's a very valid point that many Americans are
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Speaker 2: asking themselves right now. Forget if you're a Republican or
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Speaker 2: Democrat center. We pay a lot of money in taxes.
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Speaker 2: We have trillions of dollars in debt. You're telling me
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Speaker 2: that we're but we got a line on him here
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Speaker 2: that we're really worried about, and a budget here on
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Speaker 2: Secret Service to protect the president of the United States
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Speaker 2: of America, whether it's a former or current.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 3: As Dan Bongino rightly said, there were clearly catastrophic security failures.
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Speaker 3: And I want to draw a distinction between the individual
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Speaker 3: Secret Service agents.
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Speaker 4: Amen, and I want to praise their heirge.
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Speaker 6: Amen.
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Speaker 3: They put their bodies in front of Donald Trump. They
17:54
Speaker 3: stood up and surrounded him and were there to block
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Speaker 3: a bullet, and they risked their lives to do that,
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Speaker 3: and and and and so the criticism is not of
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Speaker 3: those individual agents who did everything they could, but it
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Speaker 3: is of the leadership of Secret Service, and it is
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Speaker 3: ultimately of the political leadership. It is Alejandro Majorcis who
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Speaker 3: is completely a wall on this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, where's he? How is he not in front of
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Speaker 1: a camera?
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Speaker 3: And listen, Bongino is exactly right that the head of
18:27
Speaker 3: the Secret Service should resign over this.
18:30
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, you believe that the
18:31
Speaker 1: Secret Service, the head should resign.
18:33
Speaker 4: Yes, And I also believe.
18:35
Speaker 3: So I joined with a number of other senators calling
18:38
Speaker 3: on Dick Durbin, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
18:41
Speaker 3: to hold an emergency hearing, bringing together the head of
18:46
Speaker 3: the Secret Service and and the Secretary of Homeland Security
18:49
Speaker 3: and Chris Ray, the director of the FBI, for a
18:52
Speaker 3: hearing to ask them what the hell went what wrong?
18:56
Speaker 4: How did this? How did this happen?
18:59
Speaker 6: And and and it.
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Speaker 4: It's clear.
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Speaker 3: You didn't have manpower on the other roofs, you didn't
19:09
Speaker 3: have enough agents, you didn't scope out. And you know,
19:12
Speaker 3: one of the interesting things, every other security detail, if
19:17
Speaker 3: you have a security detail that is capitol police, if
19:20
Speaker 3: you have security detail that is with a governor or
19:24
Speaker 3: with the mayor, generally speaking, they can't control their environment.
19:29
Speaker 4: So they go into whatever the environment is and.
19:31
Speaker 3: The officers there are trying to protect the protect team,
19:35
Speaker 3: but they can't control their environment. Secret Service is different.
19:38
Speaker 3: When they come in, they control the environment, They set
19:40
Speaker 3: up magnetometers at the event, they take over buildings, they
19:43
Speaker 3: move people out. They have the ability to come in
19:47
Speaker 3: and look at the environment and say, Okay, if there's
19:51
Speaker 3: a vulnerability, who would exploit it? And by the way,
19:54
Speaker 3: you don't have to get crazy hypothetical about a high
19:57
Speaker 3: powered rifle with a scope, because that's how JFK was shot.
20:01
Speaker 3: I mean, we're aware that is one of the principal
20:05
Speaker 3: ways that an assassin will look to take out a president.
20:08
Speaker 3: And and I'll tell you that there was another story
20:12
Speaker 3: that that that that that broke today, uh, which which
20:16
Speaker 3: was was sent out by Real Clear Politics that says
20:21
Speaker 3: and I want to read this, uh.
20:24
Speaker 4: I want to read this.
20:27
Speaker 3: From Susan Crabtree from Real Clear Politics. Here's what she
20:30
Speaker 3: sent out quote. This is the problem that my secret source.
20:34
Speaker 3: Secret sources have cited Secret Services resources were diverted to
20:39
Speaker 3: Jill Biden's event and away from Trump's because they followed
20:45
Speaker 3: agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president. According
20:50
Speaker 3: to two sources within the Secret Service community. There were
20:54
Speaker 3: also many supplemental agents from different field officers, not Trump's
20:59
Speaker 3: regular detail, providing security at the rally because Trump's regular
21:04
Speaker 3: detail has been overworked, some working seven days straight and
21:08
Speaker 3: only two counter snipers. But Trump is not just a
21:14
Speaker 3: former president. He is the first in modern history to
21:18
Speaker 3: have run for president again, and he has been the
21:21
Speaker 3: focus of several prosecutions and controversies. Under statement intentional who
21:28
Speaker 3: made the decision to divert the resources to Jill Biden's
21:33
Speaker 3: event First Lady, doctor Jill Biden and former President Donald
21:38
Speaker 3: Trump campaigning in Pittsburgh today. So the reporting is they
21:42
Speaker 3: pulled Secret Service resources away from Trump's rally to the
21:46
Speaker 3: event with the First Lady. Now, look, the First Lady
21:47
Speaker 3: needs to be protected. But to what extent is Secret
21:53
Speaker 3: Service treating Trump simply as another former president rather than
21:59
Speaker 3: right now now the leading candidate to be president of
22:02
Speaker 3: the United States and someone who has been targeted with
22:05
Speaker 3: vitriol And we're going to get into this more, but
22:07
Speaker 3: as targeted with vitriol such that they're is a threat
22:10
Speaker 3: level against him that any moron should be aware of.
22:15
Speaker 2: I would love to know the threat assessment and I
22:17
Speaker 2: hope that you guys in Congress get this, because I
22:20
Speaker 2: would want to know how many threats are coming in
22:22
Speaker 2: against Donald Trump, even compared to Joe Biden even or
22:25
Speaker 2: are compared to Barack Obama or compared to George W.
22:28
Speaker 1: Bush.
22:29
Speaker 2: I mean, the number has got to be staggering of
22:32
Speaker 2: legitimate threats coming in. And it's not just I hate
22:35
Speaker 2: him on Twitter, I want to kill I'm like, we're
22:37
Speaker 2: talking about actual threats. We're talking about a significant number
22:40
Speaker 2: of active threats. You got to take that into consideration.
22:45
Speaker 2: You would assume if you're doing your job the right way. Look,
22:49
Speaker 2: that's exactly right, real and serious threats. We apparently didn't
22:53
Speaker 2: have drone surveillance. We didn't have helicopters. We didn't have
22:56
Speaker 2: ariel because you would spot a guy.
22:58
Speaker 1: Getting out road on a white roof putting up a ladder, apparently.
23:01
Speaker 3: If you had any aerial surveillance. So I'm assuming they
23:04
Speaker 3: did not play the rest of Dan Boungeina And look,
23:06
Speaker 3: this is a long interview, but his expertise is unusual,
23:10
Speaker 3: and so I want to play the rest of what
23:13
Speaker 3: he had to say.
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Speaker 9: Dan, I mean, you bring up so many amazing points,
23:19
Speaker 9: and I just don't even know where to begin, except
23:21
Speaker 9: to ask you, why with the Secret Service not beef
23:24
Speaker 9: up more security for the man who is most likely
23:27
Speaker 9: to be assassinated in the entire world. Why would they
23:29
Speaker 9: not deploy more resources. Why weren't there drones over? Is
23:32
Speaker 9: it that this woman Kimberly Cheedle the director is incompetent?
23:37
Speaker 9: Could there be something else there? What is happening? Is
23:40
Speaker 9: it DEI? What's going on?
23:44
Speaker 8: Well, you know, Rachel, it's my job if I'm going
23:46
Speaker 8: to give an opinion, to back it up.
23:48
Speaker 5: You know.
23:48
Speaker 8: Opinions are like holes, right, everybody has one. The difference
23:52
Speaker 8: between one opinion over the other in a courtroom and
23:54
Speaker 8: anywhere else.
23:54
Speaker 6: Can you back it up? I want everyone at home.
23:57
Speaker 8: Going down your phone or computer now, and I want
23:59
Speaker 8: you to look up US Secret Service red ties Donald
24:02
Speaker 8: Trump read it. The Secret Service was more concerned about
24:06
Speaker 8: protective agents around Donald Trump. If you think I'm making
24:10
Speaker 8: this up, go to your f go to a left
24:12
Speaker 8: wing search engine. If you think I'm biased, to go
24:14
Speaker 8: to Scrugle and put it.
24:15
Speaker 6: Oh, you're reading a story right now. They were more
24:18
Speaker 6: concerned about the color.
24:19
Speaker 8: Of the Secret Service agent's ties around Donald Trump, given
24:23
Speaker 8: the perception that a red tie with some I've got
24:25
Speaker 8: red ties, I'm a Republican, has nothing to do with it.
24:28
Speaker 8: I just like red ties. They go nice with white shirts.
24:31
Speaker 8: That's an actual saw.
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Speaker 6: You see. You see it right now.
24:34
Speaker 8: I'm not crazy. This is what the Secret Service was
24:36
Speaker 8: concerned about. They put out, you know, a thousand tweets
24:40
Speaker 8: about all of this DEI stuff.
24:42
Speaker 6: Do I know that's related here? I don't.
24:44
Speaker 8: I'm just saying that you have one job, and only
24:48
Speaker 8: one job. Your job is keep the body alive, no
24:52
Speaker 8: matter what Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, the president
24:56
Speaker 8: of Djibouti, it doesn't matter.
24:58
Speaker 6: That is your job.
25:00
Speaker 8: They absolutely, resolutely, one hundred percent failed. Not a single
25:06
Speaker 8: excuse should be made, not a single excuse should be attempted.
25:10
Speaker 8: This should be the subject of congressional hearings and investigations
25:14
Speaker 8: because if they can't do this, and this is the
25:16
Speaker 8: best technology you had, then folks, there's no purpose anymore.
25:21
Speaker 8: This isn't the agency I grew up in. It's not
25:24
Speaker 8: I spent twelve years of my life there, and I'm
25:26
Speaker 8: telling you some of that. I know some of those
25:28
Speaker 8: guys personally. These are good men and women. But this
25:32
Speaker 8: was an apocalyptic security failure, and don't ever forget an.
25:36
Speaker 6: Uneventful failure is never a success.
25:39
Speaker 8: And the fact that Donald Trump didn't die yesterday is
25:42
Speaker 8: no reason for anybody to take some kind of victory lap.
25:45
Speaker 8: And before we start sending out plaudits, we better look
25:47
Speaker 8: and do a hotwash on this and find out exactly
25:50
Speaker 8: how abysmal this security plan was.
25:54
Speaker 2: You listen to Dan there, and there's so many things
25:57
Speaker 2: that he brings up that I think Americans deserve to
26:00
Speaker 2: get an answer to. And I want to bring up
26:03
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26:05
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27:13
Speaker 2: about the the DEI, the PCness, the bureaucracy aspect of
27:20
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's administration. The Secret Service Director a few months
27:24
Speaker 2: ago went on a PR campaign. They were seeking out
27:31
Speaker 2: press and they went on CBS is one of the
27:36
Speaker 2: things that they did, and they deliberately spoke about focusing
27:40
Speaker 2: on hiring more women to be more diverse.
27:42
Speaker 1: It was all about diversity.
27:44
Speaker 2: They have a classic plan that right the leftloves thirty
27:48
Speaker 2: percent female recruits by twenty thirty. This is what it
27:52
Speaker 2: sounded like a few months ago they were asking for this.
27:55
Speaker 10: Press to expand hiring. They're aiming to have thirty percent
27:58
Speaker 10: women recruits by twenty thirty and even allowed YouTube influencer
28:03
Speaker 10: Michelle Carey to train with agents.
28:06
Speaker 11: But I'm very conscious as I sit in this chair
28:10
Speaker 11: now of making sure that we need to attract diverse
28:14
Speaker 11: candidates and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities
28:17
Speaker 11: to everybody in our workforce, and particularly women.
28:21
Speaker 10: That workforce will be pivotal for the twenty twenty four
28:24
Speaker 10: campaign season, which for the first time includes a former
28:28
Speaker 10: president who already has lifetime protection. Agents were there when
28:32
Speaker 10: Donald Trump was arraigned in New York.
28:35
Speaker 11: We were able to work out the details ahead of
28:36
Speaker 11: time of how that particular day was going to go.
28:40
Speaker 11: But we will always ensure the safety of all of
28:43
Speaker 11: our protectees that we have.
28:44
Speaker 10: The Service has a zero fail mission, a mission officers
28:48
Speaker 10: are training to uphold, pretending this field is the most
28:51
Speaker 10: famous address in America.
28:54
Speaker 1: To be clear, I don't care.
28:58
Speaker 2: If a woman is is the person protecting the president,
29:02
Speaker 2: as long as she's the best person to protect the president.
29:07
Speaker 2: I don't care if you're a man or a woman
29:09
Speaker 2: I want the best. But when you listen to that
29:13
Speaker 2: and you look at the Secret Service and what they
29:15
Speaker 2: were beating their chest about, you know, for the last
29:17
Speaker 2: several months about you know, diversity and hiring, you got
29:21
Speaker 2: to ask yourself, do we have the best or are
29:24
Speaker 2: we filling quotas? And if there's any place I don't
29:27
Speaker 2: want a quota to be filled, it would be protecting
29:30
Speaker 2: the President of the United States America, whether that's Joe
29:32
Speaker 2: Biden or Donald Trump. And it shouldn't be a study
29:37
Speaker 2: in society like some sort of university. Hey, all right,
29:40
Speaker 2: we're gonna grab seventeen be whether it or this color,
29:43
Speaker 2: and fifteen they're this color, and twenty three that identify
29:45
Speaker 2: as a sex.
29:47
Speaker 1: That's not what the Secret Service should be am I wrong?
29:49
Speaker 3: Well, this is yet another manifestation of what we've seen
29:52
Speaker 3: throughout the Biden administration, which is an obsessive focus on
29:56
Speaker 3: being counting on quotas on DEI at the expense of
30:00
Speaker 3: the mission. Look, we've covered in this podcast before the
30:03
Speaker 3: CIA doing this and instead of focusing on, for example,
30:08
Speaker 3: getting intelligence on hamas to prevent October seventh, they're they're
30:11
Speaker 3: focused on on on pushing the language police on on
30:15
Speaker 3: ferreting out what what they deem insufficiently inclusive language. You
30:20
Speaker 3: just heard Dan Bongino talking about the damn red ties
30:23
Speaker 3: that they're worried about.
30:24
Speaker 4: Uh oh uh oh.
30:25
Speaker 3: If you wear a red tie, it looks like you
30:27
Speaker 3: may support Donald Trump. So no red ties. And and
30:30
Speaker 3: it's it's losing the mission. And the mission should be
30:36
Speaker 3: front and center focused on protecting the protect tee. And
30:41
Speaker 3: and when you fail, and to be clear, this weekend
30:45
Speaker 3: was not just a mild failure. It was a catastrophic failure.
30:50
Speaker 3: The consequences far too often are catastrophic and and and
30:55
Speaker 3: and listen, one person lost his life, Corey Comparatory, the
31:02
Speaker 3: fire chief. And I want to read read the Facebook
31:07
Speaker 3: post from his daughter that his daughter put up, because
31:11
Speaker 3: this is really powerful. So here's what she put up.
31:15
Speaker 3: This is from Aliston Alison Comparatory. Yesterday time stopped, and
31:21
Speaker 3: when it started again, my family and I started living
31:25
Speaker 3: a real life nightmare. What was supposed to be an
31:28
Speaker 3: exciting day that we had all looked forward to, especially
31:32
Speaker 3: my dad, turned into the most traumatizing experiences someone could imagine.
31:38
Speaker 3: I know the media will cover this event, and I'm
31:41
Speaker 3: going to try my best to stay away from looking
31:44
Speaker 3: at everything, especially because I've already seen and lived through
31:47
Speaker 3: it in real time. But I want everyone to know
31:51
Speaker 3: what the media will not cover and will not say
31:54
Speaker 3: about him. He was the best dad a girl could
31:58
Speaker 3: ever ask for. My sister and I never needed for anything.
32:03
Speaker 3: You call, he would answer and he would do whatever
32:07
Speaker 3: it is you needed, and if he didn't know how,
32:09
Speaker 3: he would figure out how he could talk and make
32:13
Speaker 3: friends with anyone, which he was doing all day yesterday
32:18
Speaker 3: and loved every minute of it. He was a man
32:21
Speaker 3: of God, loved Jesus fiercely, and also looked after our
32:27
Speaker 3: church and our members' family. The media will not tell
32:32
Speaker 3: you that he died a real life superhero. They're not
32:37
Speaker 3: going to tell you how quickly he threw my mom
32:40
Speaker 3: and I to the ground. They're not going to tell
32:43
Speaker 3: you that he shielded my body from the bullet that
32:46
Speaker 3: came at us. He loved his family, He truly loved
32:51
Speaker 3: us enough to take a real bullet for us, And
32:56
Speaker 3: I want nothing more than to cry on him and
32:59
Speaker 3: tell and thank you. I want nothing more than to
33:02
Speaker 3: wake up and for this not to be reality for
33:05
Speaker 3: me and my family. We lost a selfless, loving husband, father, brother.
33:17
Speaker 2: You hear that, and I read that on my show
33:20
Speaker 2: earlier and I barely could get through it because I
33:22
Speaker 2: can't imagine knowing that's what your dad did at the
33:25
Speaker 2: end of his life, which was to keep you safe.
33:27
Speaker 3: It's real and it is Look. Look, the Bible tells
33:31
Speaker 3: us greater love has no man than he lays down
33:33
Speaker 3: his life for another. And Corey Comparatory literally gave his
33:38
Speaker 3: life to save his wife and daughter. Now, if the
33:43
Speaker 3: Secret Service leadership had done their damn job, Chief Comparatory
33:49
Speaker 3: would be home with his family instead.
33:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has consequences when you when you, when the
33:55
Speaker 2: actions have consequences, bad decisions have even bigger consequences. And
34:00
Speaker 2: I go back to something that was said today. I
34:02
Speaker 2: try to surround myself when there's things like this that
34:04
Speaker 2: happen with people that know it better than I do.
34:06
Speaker 2: That's why I had lunch today with a special operator
34:10
Speaker 2: and I had a million questions. There was one comment though,
34:14
Speaker 2: that was made that stuck with me when I left,
34:18
Speaker 2: and that was it is astounding that we are sending
34:23
Speaker 2: blank checks to Ukraine for drones to be used to
34:28
Speaker 2: find Russian soldiers. But we didn't have drones being used
34:32
Speaker 2: apparently in a major way to protect Donald Trump.
34:36
Speaker 3: Listen, I don't know this for a fact, but I
34:39
Speaker 3: have a very strong suspicion that politics played a real
34:42
Speaker 3: role in this well, and that was my next question.
34:44
Speaker 3: And the reason I say that is because politics plays
34:47
Speaker 3: a role in everything this damn administration does. And by
34:51
Speaker 3: the way, this is the same administration, this is the
34:53
Speaker 3: same Joe Biden, this is the same Alejandro Majorcus that
34:57
Speaker 3: still won't give a secret service detail to Robert F.
35:00
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior, which you called for six I don't even
35:03
Speaker 2: know how many months ago, seven eight months ago.
35:04
Speaker 3: On this podcast. Rfk Junior's father was murdered by an assassin.
35:10
Speaker 3: His uncle, the sitting president, was murdered by an assassin.
35:15
Speaker 3: And yet this administration, Joe Biden doesn't want anyone to
35:18
Speaker 3: know that Bobby Kennedy's on the ballot and if he
35:20
Speaker 3: gave him secret service, well that could legitimize him. So no,
35:23
Speaker 3: no secret service for you. And so my very strong
35:27
Speaker 3: suspicion is there's a reason they just treat Trump as
35:32
Speaker 3: a former president and not as the leading candidate for
35:36
Speaker 3: president right now today, because it is political, and so
35:41
Speaker 3: the decisions look One of the things that we've seen
35:44
Speaker 3: multiple reports of is that there have been repeated requests
35:47
Speaker 3: for additional security coverage for Trump. And given the magnitude
35:51
Speaker 3: of the threats, I believe that that's why we need
35:54
Speaker 3: to have a hearing and the Senate Judiciary Committee. We
35:56
Speaker 3: need to have it very rapidly, and we need to
36:00
Speaker 3: know how many threats were there, how many requests for
36:02
Speaker 3: extra coverage were there, how many of them were denied,
36:05
Speaker 3: Who denied them, who made the decision, who made the
36:07
Speaker 3: decision to move agents from the Trump rally to the
36:11
Speaker 3: first Lady? Was that a political appointee, What were the
36:15
Speaker 3: factors in that decision?
36:16
Speaker 2: And what were the teams? Was it a drone team,
36:18
Speaker 2: was it another sniper team? Was it just bodies?
36:21
Speaker 3: And are you telling me in the United States government
36:23
Speaker 3: they don't have any more drones. You're telling me there
36:25
Speaker 3: are no helicopters in the United States government. You're telling
36:28
Speaker 3: me that you don't have additional counter snipers. There were
36:32
Speaker 3: not that many rooftops surrounding that. Why did they not
36:36
Speaker 3: have adequate personnel? Now that again, I want to underscore this,
36:40
Speaker 3: that's not the fault of the Secret Service agents who
36:44
Speaker 3: were risking their lives to protect the president. Amen, that
36:47
Speaker 3: is the fault of leadership, That is the fault of
36:50
Speaker 3: the bureaucrats making the decision. And I think we should
36:54
Speaker 3: get we should have a real urgency to get to
36:57
Speaker 3: the bottom of did partisan politics play a role in
37:01
Speaker 3: saying no, we're not going to protect you. And I
37:06
Speaker 3: think Congress needs to get to the bottle of it.
37:08
Speaker 3: I think the American people deserve to know the answer.
37:10
Speaker 2: To that to back up what you're saying. And I
37:12
Speaker 2: think facts matter now. Democrats actively called members of Congress
37:19
Speaker 2: so that no one thinks he is a conspiracy theory
37:23
Speaker 2: for Donald Trump to lose Secret Service protection if he
37:28
Speaker 2: was convicted of a felony. One of those was my
37:31
Speaker 2: former Congressman, Steve Cohen. He and several other people in
37:36
Speaker 2: Congress said that they should pull Secret Service protection of
37:40
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, which goes back to what you said about
37:42
Speaker 2: it being political. They didn't care if Donald Trump got killed.
37:46
Speaker 2: In fact, they advocated for taking away the safety that
37:49
Speaker 2: protects a president from being killed.
37:51
Speaker 1: And those are members of Congress. And it's amazing to
37:55
Speaker 1: me that.
37:56
Speaker 2: Virtually no, not virtually literally no one in the media
37:59
Speaker 2: has brought that point up that just months ago, we
38:02
Speaker 2: had active Democrats in Congress, not fringe people. Okay, these
38:08
Speaker 2: are elected officials who were demanding that Donald Trump, who's
38:11
Speaker 2: a Secret Service protection if he was convicted of these
38:15
Speaker 2: I'm sorry hoaks, you know, crimes against him, they tried
38:17
Speaker 2: to go after him for to imprison him.
38:20
Speaker 3: Well, and this was legislation that was filed by Congressman
38:24
Speaker 3: Benny Thompson, who is the top Democrat on the Homeland
38:28
Speaker 3: Security Committee.
38:28
Speaker 2: So he's actually can you just say that again, so
38:30
Speaker 2: if you understand how important that job is, and then
38:32
Speaker 2: to understand that Homeland Security how much they have to
38:34
Speaker 2: do with the Secret Service.
38:35
Speaker 3: So they are the committee of jurisdiction. They have authority
38:40
Speaker 3: over the Department of Homeland Security. And Benny Thompson is
38:44
Speaker 3: the senior Democrat, he's called the ranking member, and he
38:47
Speaker 3: filed the legislation. He is the author of the legislation
38:52
Speaker 3: to say, let's pull the Secret Service coverage from Donald
38:55
Speaker 3: Trump entirely if he's convicted. And by the way, it's
38:58
Speaker 3: a complete partisan conviction that is designed to subvert democracy.
39:04
Speaker 3: But let's be clear, if you were to put any
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Speaker 3: former president into general population in a prison they would die, yes,
39:15
Speaker 3: And so he's literally effectively calling for a death sentence.
39:18
Speaker 3: And by the way, Betty Thompson also had a staffer
39:23
Speaker 3: who in the wake of this posted on x saying
39:28
Speaker 3: that she wishes the shooter had taken shooting lessons and
39:31
Speaker 3: that he wouldn't miss next time. Now, Benny Thompson fired
39:34
Speaker 3: that staffer. He put out a statement, I was made
39:37
Speaker 3: aware of a post made by a staff member and
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Speaker 3: she is no longer in my employment. But you know
39:42
Speaker 3: what staff reflects the member, and it reflects the culture
39:47
Speaker 3: that her first reaction is to be angry that this
39:51
Speaker 3: would be assassin did not in fact kill Donald Trump.
39:55
Speaker 3: That's what she wanted and from his legislation, and it
39:59
Speaker 3: was joined by multiple other Democrats, that legislation, if it
40:03
Speaker 3: actually had become law, and if Trump had gone to prison,
40:06
Speaker 3: would have led directly to the death of Donald Trump.
40:09
Speaker 3: And now they're suddenly saying, oh, well, we're very dismayed
40:13
Speaker 3: that there was any violence towards it.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the rewriting of history and move also
40:18
Speaker 2: to the press conference Monday night that Joe Biden had.
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Speaker 2: He opened it went a press conference more of a
40:24
Speaker 2: statement from the over office, I should say because there
40:27
Speaker 2: was no questions and what he said his address to
40:30
Speaker 2: the nation when he opened was certainly rewriting of history.
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Speaker 1: Here he is, in his own words, I want to.
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Speaker 7: Speak you tonight about the need for us to lower
40:41
Speaker 7: the temperature in our politics and to remember, or we
40:44
Speaker 7: may disagree, we are not enemies. We're neighbors. We're friends, coworkers, citizens,
40:51
Speaker 7: and most importantly, we are fellow Americans.
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Speaker 1: Sounds great.
40:56
Speaker 2: The problem is if you go and read the president's
40:59
Speaker 2: own words in the days leading up to this moment,
41:04
Speaker 2: that is not what he was saying at all. He
41:06
Speaker 2: didn't say, hey, I need to tone it down as well.
41:09
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's own tweet was quote, Donald Trump is the
41:12
Speaker 2: greatest threat to our democracy. He tweeted out again, donald
41:17
Speaker 2: Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. Another tweet,
41:23
Speaker 2: he meaning Trump is a threat to our freedom, he
41:28
Speaker 2: is a threat to our democracy. He's literally this is
41:33
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's words on Twitter on x He's literally referring
41:37
Speaker 2: to Trump a threat to everything America stands for. He
41:43
Speaker 2: also said Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy
41:45
Speaker 2: and we cannot let him win. I'm in Madison, Wisconsin
41:50
Speaker 2: talking to the folks about what's its take in this election.
41:53
Speaker 1: We cannot let him win.
41:55
Speaker 2: He also tweeted out Trump poses many threats to our country,
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Speaker 2: the right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and Americans
42:03
Speaker 2: and America city in the world. But the greatest threat
42:06
Speaker 2: he poses is to our democracy. If we lose that,
42:09
Speaker 2: we lose everything. If I read those and I'm a
42:15
Speaker 2: crazy twenty year old lunatic, and you tell me, as
42:19
Speaker 2: the president United State's America that Donald Trump and I'm
42:22
Speaker 2: quoting again, is a threat to our democracy. Quote, He's
42:25
Speaker 2: literally a threat to everything America stands for. Well, then
42:28
Speaker 2: it's not crazy to think that that person would say, well,
42:31
Speaker 2: then we have to stop him at all means, because
42:32
Speaker 2: we've already tried to impeach him.
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Speaker 1: That didn't work. We tried to bankrupt him, that didn't work.
42:37
Speaker 1: We tried to lock him up, that didn't work. What's left.
42:41
Speaker 3: Well, and you're right, and there's some irony with Joe
42:45
Speaker 3: Biden suggesting, you know, we need to tamp down the rhetorical.
42:48
Speaker 3: I'd like to see the rhetoric tamp down, but then
42:51
Speaker 3: taking no responsibility. Listen, it is Democrats for a decade
42:56
Speaker 3: who have been calling Donald Trump eight off Hitler.
42:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the media too, and the media too.
43:03
Speaker 3: And well, I said democrats, and they're one in this
43:06
Speaker 3: in the corporate media is the left wing of the
43:09
Speaker 3: Democrat Party. That is their role, and they call them
43:12
Speaker 3: that over and over and over again. Here play the montage.
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44:35
Speaker 2: and other elect officials explicitly calling for political violence against conservatives.
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Speaker 9: I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all
44:44
Speaker 9: of the country, and maybe there will be.
44:46
Speaker 6: People need to start taking to the streets.
44:48
Speaker 5: This is a dictator. You know.
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Speaker 12: There needs to be unrest in the streets for as
44:52
Speaker 12: long as there's unrest in our lives.
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Speaker 8: Enemies of the state, show me where it says that
44:57
Speaker 8: protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
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Speaker 4: Do something about your dad's immigration practices.
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Speaker 10: Effectless comment they.
45:05
Speaker 8: How do you resist the temptation to run up and
45:07
Speaker 8: bring her neck. The biggest terror threat in this country
45:11
Speaker 8: is white men, most of them radicalized up to the right.
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Speaker 10: I thought he should have punched him in the face.
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Speaker 7: They say, even if you lost, if he insulted to
45:18
Speaker 7: white He's on the escalator and called Mexican's rapist emerged.
45:21
Speaker 5: He said, well, what do you think I should have done?
45:22
Speaker 8: So think you should have.
45:23
Speaker 10: Punsed him in the face and then gotten out of
45:24
Speaker 10: the race.
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Speaker 6: He would have been a hero. I'd like to punch
45:27
Speaker 6: him in the face.
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Speaker 7: I said, if we're in high school, I take you
45:29
Speaker 7: behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
45:31
Speaker 6: Punch some people in the face.
45:34
Speaker 4: When was the last time an actor assassinated in a president?
45:37
Speaker 5: They're still going to have to go out and put
45:39
Speaker 5: a bullet in Donald Trump.
45:40
Speaker 6: And that's a fact.
45:44
Speaker 10: Look is, his character is stabbed to death.
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Speaker 1: Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?
45:50
Speaker 8: In this way?
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Speaker 5: I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the
45:57
Speaker 5: White House of Missouri.
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Speaker 8: States senator is under investigation by the Secret Service after
46:03
Speaker 8: saying she hopes President Trump is assassinated.
46:06
Speaker 6: I will go and take Trump out to night.
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Speaker 13: And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant,
46:14
Speaker 13: in a department store, at a castle stay, you get
46:18
Speaker 13: out and you played a rude and you just based
46:22
Speaker 13: on them, and you tell them that nothing welcome anymore anywhere.
46:28
Speaker 9: And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and
46:32
Speaker 9: are honoring our constitution all right at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Speaker 12: They're not going to stop before election day in November,
46:40
Speaker 12: and they're not going to stop after election day. And
46:43
Speaker 12: that should be everyone should take note of that on
46:45
Speaker 12: both levels, that this is they're not going to let up,
46:48
Speaker 12: and they should not.
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Speaker 13: If you take me a rally, not you ain't say
46:52
Speaker 13: nothing yet.
46:58
Speaker 2: That's what Donald Trump dealt with while he was president
47:03
Speaker 2: and after being the president.
47:06
Speaker 3: Look, the radical left, Donald Trump melted their minds. They
47:12
Speaker 3: hate him and they have spewed invective and hate for years.
47:18
Speaker 3: And listen, there's an invective on both sides. I would
47:24
Speaker 3: like to see the political temperature taken down, but the
47:30
Speaker 3: Democrats intend to go right back to this. This is
47:32
Speaker 3: a brief little pause for about twelve seconds, and by
47:40
Speaker 3: I don't know next week or the week after, they're
47:42
Speaker 3: going to go back to Callingham Hitler because the rage
47:48
Speaker 3: and fury. Look the number of leftists on Twitter who
47:51
Speaker 3: were lamenting that they were sad.
47:54
Speaker 1: That she wasn't good at it.
47:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're basically saying this if any and there were
47:58
Speaker 2: people were literally tweeting out there like, hey this guy,
48:00
Speaker 2: next time, take lessons. Next time, actually do a good job.
48:04
Speaker 3: And let me be clear, as you and I talked about,
48:06
Speaker 3: we did a podcast immediately in the moments after this
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Speaker 3: assassination attempts. I pray for Joe Biden. I don't wish
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Speaker 3: political violence on Democrats or anyone else.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 3: I want Joe Biden defeated at the ballot box. That
48:23
Speaker 3: I believe his policies are harmful. But there's a difference
48:27
Speaker 3: between saying his policies are harmful and saying he's Hitler,
48:31
Speaker 3: saying he's Mussolini, which is what saying he's the devil,
48:36
Speaker 3: which is what the Democrats have been doing literally for
48:40
Speaker 3: a decade, and it's what the media has been doing
48:41
Speaker 3: to I.
48:42
Speaker 2: Said today, how many cities have Republicans tried to destroy
48:46
Speaker 2: after their kin it was almostssassinated. Just so we're clear, zero,
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Speaker 2: what did Republicans say today they said pray, go to church, yes,
48:55
Speaker 2: and pray for the family of those who lost loved ones.
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Speaker 2: There's been no violence. I never want to hear again
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Speaker 2: from the left. Oh, it's the Republicans of the extremists here.
49:04
Speaker 2: There has been nothing but love and compassion. There's anger, and.
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Speaker 3: We also need to fix the damn problem. We need
49:13
Speaker 3: to make sure that there is is adequate protection for
49:19
Speaker 3: Donald Trump and and for others targeted by violence, because
49:23
Speaker 3: this was a catastrophic failure and we got to make
49:28
Speaker 3: sure it doesn't happen again.
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Speaker 2: We're going to keep you updated on this, I can
49:31
Speaker 2: promise you, especially as Congress looks on this, as you've
49:35
Speaker 2: called for these emergency meetings. We are also going to
49:38
Speaker 2: be at the Republican Convention this week with several shows.
49:43
Speaker 2: We will be on more than normal from the convention.
49:46
Speaker 2: It's going to be a very big, important week, and
49:49
Speaker 2: we pray for the safety of the President and everyone
49:51
Speaker 2: in the attendance there, obviously, but we will be back
49:55
Speaker 2: with you from Milwaukee at the Republican Convention as well.
49:59
Speaker 2: Don't forget we share this show. We covered a lot
50:01
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50:12
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50:15
Speaker 2: and the Senator.
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Speaker 1: I will see you from Milwaukee later this week.