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Bombshell Secret Service Testimony about Trump Assassination Attempt plus Israel Taking Out Hezbollah & Hamas Senior Leadership! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: my oh my, was in an interesting day on Capitol Hill.
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  Speaker 1: And let's start with the headline.
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  Speaker 2: We were supposed to get some answers about the assassination
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  Speaker 2: intend on Donald Trump. You asked direct questions to the
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  Speaker 2: acting director. Did we find out anything about how this happened?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we had a blockbuster hearing yesterday in the Senate
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  Speaker 3: Judiciary Committee with the acting Director of the Secret Service
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  Speaker 3: and the Deputy Director of the FBI, and it was
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  Speaker 3: designed to really get to the bottom of what went
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  Speaker 3: wrong in Butler, Pennsylvania, what the Secret Service did wrong,
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  Speaker 3: and how do we fix it? And I got to say,
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  Speaker 3: it was frustrating, it was maddening. We saw an enormous
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  Speaker 3: amount of stonewalling. We're going to walk through exactly what
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  Speaker 3: happened in that hearing. Also, we've got major breaking news
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  Speaker 3: out by Israel in the last twenty four hours. A big,
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  Speaker 1: So set the stage for us real quick. I want
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  Speaker 1: to play.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, you're back and forth with the acting director as
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  Speaker 2: you got to ask a lot of questions and it
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  Speaker 2: didn't go well for him.
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  Speaker 1: It's made a lot of headlines.
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  Speaker 2: But set the stage of how important this hearing was
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  Speaker 2: and why it was taking place.
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  Speaker 4: So this was yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 3: It was a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee
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  Speaker 3: and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, and we had
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  Speaker 3: the acting Director.
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  Speaker 4: Of the Secret Service.
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  Speaker 3: The former director has finally resigned given the catastrophic failures
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  Speaker 3: we saw and the deputy director of the FBI. And
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  Speaker 3: so it was a hearing that went all morning, and
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  Speaker 3: I got to say there was enormous concerned, enormous skepticism.
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  Speaker 3: We saw it from both Republicans and Democrats who were
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  Speaker 3: asking about the disastrous failures of the Secret Service. And listen,
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  Speaker 3: the acting director, he is somewhat better than the old director.
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  Speaker 3: The old director was brazen, she was defiant. Her view
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  Speaker 3: was we owe nothing, we owe no accountability, We will
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  Speaker 3: not answer any question. We did everything right. To his credit,
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  Speaker 3: the acting director began his testimony by saying, we screwed up.
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  Speaker 3: We screwed up really badly. And the fact that there
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  Speaker 3: was not an agent on the roof where the shooter
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  Speaker 3: was was utterly indefensible. That's a step in the right direction.
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  Speaker 3: That being said, he's stonewalled, and he's stonewalled in a
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  Speaker 3: way that was infuriating. And look, rather than meet describe
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  Speaker 3: it to you, just give a listen. Here's my questioning
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  Speaker 3: of the acting Director of the Secret Service yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, miss chairman, misterro thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with what you said at the outset that
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  Speaker 3: the individual Secret Service agents demonstrated remarkable personal courage putting
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  Speaker 3: their bodies in between the line of sight of the
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  Speaker 3: shooter and the president. That being said, the bravery of
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  Speaker 3: the line agents is quite different from the decisions of
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  Speaker 3: Secret Service leadership. Secret Service leadership committed catastrophic security failures,
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  Speaker 3: indeed the worst security failures for the Secret Service since
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  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty one, since the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.
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  Speaker 3: It is incumbent upon this committee to determine why those
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  Speaker 3: security failures happened. Just after the shooting, Secret Service put
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  Speaker 3: out an official statement from your spokesperson that says, there's
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  Speaker 3: an untrue assertion that a member of the former president's
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  Speaker 3: team requested additional security resources that those were rebuffed.
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  Speaker 4: This is absolutely false.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, we added protective resources and technology and capabilities
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  Speaker 3: as part of the increased campaign travel tempo.
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  Speaker 5: Was this tweet accurate with respect to Butler, Pennsylvania. It
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  Speaker 5: is accurate, sir.
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  Speaker 3: It is accurate that the Trump team had not add
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  Speaker 3: asked for additional security and had not been rebuffed.
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  Speaker 5: If you're talking about Butler, Pennsylvania, all assets requested were approved.
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  Speaker 5: If you're talking about the media reporting of assets requested.
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  Speaker 5: There were times when assets were unavailable and not able
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  Speaker 5: to be filled, and those gaps were staffed with state
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  Speaker 5: and local law enforcement tactical assets.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm reading from the Washington Post July twentieth, twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four secret Services denied requests for more security at
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  Speaker 3: Trump events the opening paragraph. Top officials of the US
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  Speaker 3: Secret Service repeatedly denied requests for additional resources and personnel
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  Speaker 3: sought by Donald Trump's security detail in the two years
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  Speaker 3: leading up to his attempted assassination, according to four people
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  Speaker 3: familiar with the requests. Is that right that repeatedly the
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  Speaker 3: Trump detail asked for more resources and repeatedly Secret Service
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  Speaker 3: leadership turned that down.
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  Speaker 5: That is not accurate, Senator, assets are requested. There's a
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  Speaker 5: process that has made.
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  Speaker 3: How many requests did the Trump team or the Trump.
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  Speaker 4: Detail ask for? I can get you that number in
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  Speaker 4: a Q.
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  Speaker 5: You don't You don't know now, so I can speak
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  Speaker 5: to the ones that reported in the Washington Post and
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  Speaker 5: we can go through them if you like.
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  Speaker 3: But you don't know how many requests there were in general?
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  Speaker 5: How many requests since twenty twenty one that the former
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  Speaker 5: Trump detail has made a request for asking.
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  Speaker 3: You've had two weeks you had a spokesperson put something
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  Speaker 3: out that is false on its face. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: did you approve the statement when it went out?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I did or didn't. Say.
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  Speaker 3: Has this spokesperson is he still employed?
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  Speaker 4: Does he still have still employed? Center?
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  Speaker 3: So he lied on behalf of the Secret Service? He
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  Speaker 3: still has a job. Did your predecessor, the former director,
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  Speaker 3: does she approve the statement?
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  Speaker 4: Senator?
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  Speaker 5: Our comms team they send out statements, they do deconflict them,
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  Speaker 5: and they put them out.
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  Speaker 4: Did she approve this statement?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if she did or did not. And
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  Speaker 3: you don't know if you did either.
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  Speaker 4: I don't recall approving it. Senator.
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  Speaker 3: Will you commit to provide this committee and write every
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  Speaker 3: written request for additional resources from the Trump campaign or
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  Speaker 3: the Trump Detail and every response from Secret Service?
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  Speaker 5: Senator, I will commit to providing responses and getting you
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  Speaker 5: the information that you're seeking.
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  Speaker 6: Me.
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  Speaker 3: Ask you something, and who makes the decision to deny
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  Speaker 3: those requests?
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  Speaker 4: Did you make that decision?
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  Speaker 5: Which requests are you telling about the ones that want
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  Speaker 5: us in the post?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: The processor is that a detail will make a request
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  Speaker 5: for either staffing, technical assets that is handled between the
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  Speaker 5: field office and the detail. It goes up to a
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  Speaker 5: logistics office between our.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so there's a bureaucracy. Is there a decision maker?
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  Speaker 4: It's not a bureaucracy, Senator. That's a person that's a
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  Speaker 4: decision maker.
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  Speaker 5: Is there one, Senator, it's a conversation.
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  Speaker 4: It's not just an absolute yet. So let me tell
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  Speaker 4: you what I believe.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that the Secret Service leadership made a political
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  Speaker 3: decision to deny these quests, and I think the Biden
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  Speaker 3: administration has been suffused with partisan politics. Did the same
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  Speaker 3: person who denied the request for additional security to President
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  Speaker 3: Trump also repeatedly deny the request for security to Robert F.
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy Junior, whose father was murdered by an assassin and
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  Speaker 3: whose uncle was murdered by an assassin? Did the same
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  Speaker 3: person make that decision?
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  Speaker 4: Senator?
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  Speaker 5: What I will tell you is that Secret Service agents
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  Speaker 5: are not political.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you're not answering you know what. Leadership by the president,
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  Speaker 3: leadership appointed by the president is political. I have a
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  Speaker 3: simple question, yes or no. Did the same person deny
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  Speaker 3: the Trump requests that also denied the RFK request.
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  Speaker 4: That's a yes or no question. Senator. That is not
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  Speaker 4: a yes or no question one.
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  Speaker 5: There is a process for a candidate nominee to receive protection.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a by Cameron? Does the bike stop budy
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  Speaker 4: artisan process?
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  Speaker 3: That they all say by cameral bipartisan process?
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  Speaker 4: What can candidate not a chack? Do you have a Cameron?
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  Speaker 5: Mister Kennedy submitted a request that was referred over to
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  Speaker 5: the Sea pack.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you're refusing to answer the question. Let me ask
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  Speaker 3: because because the failures on that day were catastrophic. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, is it true that on the day of
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  Speaker 3: the of the Butler event that Secret Service transferred agent
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  Speaker 3: from President Trump to.
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  Speaker 4: The First Lady. No, sir, that's not true. That's been
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  Speaker 4: widely reported. It's not true.
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  Speaker 5: There was one airport agent that actually went on the
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  Speaker 5: MANPI request for the Trump detail.
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  Speaker 4: They handled the arrival at the airport.
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  Speaker 3: What is the What was the relative size of the
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  Speaker 3: Trump detail compared to the detail that is assigned to
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  Speaker 3: the president of the First Lady?
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  Speaker 5: Senator, the former president travels with a full shift just
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  Speaker 5: like the president.
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  Speaker 3: What's the red so the exact same size? Is that
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  Speaker 3: your testimony that the President Trump had the same size
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  Speaker 3: detail that President Biden has on.
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  Speaker 5: The day of in Butler, the agent surrounding him. It
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  Speaker 5: is the same number of agents surrounding the president today.
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  Speaker 5: There is a difference between a sitting president who also
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  Speaker 5: not only.
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  Speaker 3: All on using president in a way that is not clear.
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  Speaker 3: Is it your testimony that in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: had the same number of agents protecting him that Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden has at a comparable event.
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling you the shift, the close protection shift surrounded yes,
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  Speaker 5: or you ask me, Senator, I'm trying to answer it.
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  Speaker 3: You are not answering it. Is it the same number
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  Speaker 3: of agents or not?
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  Speaker 5: Senator, there is a difference between the sitting president of
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  Speaker 5: the United States.
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  Speaker 4: And what's the difference?
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  Speaker 5: The difference two x three x five national demand authority
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  Speaker 5: to launch a nuclear strike.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not over assets.
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  Speaker 3: How many more with the president that's a former president.
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  Speaker 4: You're refusing to.
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  Speaker 3: Add a number of Secret Service I'm interrupting him. Stop
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  Speaker 3: interrupting me, go ahead, refusing to answer clear and direct questions.
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  Speaker 3: I am asking the relative difference in the number of
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  Speaker 3: agents between those assigned to Donald Trump and those assigned
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  Speaker 3: to Joe Biden. I'm not asking why you assign more
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  Speaker 3: to Joe Biden. I'm asking is the difference? Is it
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  Speaker 3: two X?
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  Speaker 4: Is it three X? Is it five X? Is it
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  Speaker 4: ten X?
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  Speaker 5: Senator I will get you that number so you can
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  Speaker 5: see it with your own eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Senator number one, let's start at the end. He says,
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  Speaker 2: he will get you those numbers. This is not a
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  Speaker 2: hard question. You asked about the difference in the details,
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  Speaker 2: and yet he clearly didn't want to answer that question.
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  Speaker 2: Is that because we're going to be so shocked by
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  Speaker 2: what that answer is?
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  Speaker 3: So listening He engaged in a very deliberate effort at deception.
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  Speaker 3: He said, the close protective detail is identical. Now understand
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  Speaker 3: a secret service detail that is protecting someone. You have
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  Speaker 3: the close protective detail, which are the agents that actually surround.
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  Speaker 4: The protect tea.
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  Speaker 3: You also have typically a perimeter that is often at
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  Speaker 3: three levels, the close protection, a second perimeter level that's
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  Speaker 3: often where you see magnetometers, that's often when you see
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  Speaker 3: people execs, and then you have the furthest out perimeter.
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  Speaker 3: What he did not want to answer is how many
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  Speaker 3: agents we're protecting Donald Trump? How many agents typically protect
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  Speaker 3: Joe Biden? And by the way, how many agents protect
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  Speaker 3: the first lady, Jill Biden. Now I can tell you
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  Speaker 3: following up this cross examination, we have what are called
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  Speaker 3: QFRS questions.
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  Speaker 4: For the record.
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  Speaker 3: So I am submitting written questions. I am asking the
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  Speaker 3: Acting Director of the Secret Service number one, how many
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  Speaker 3: agents were assigned to Donald Trump? Number two, how many
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  Speaker 3: are typically assigned to Joe Biden? Number three, how many
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  Speaker 3: are typically assigned the first lady. Now, to be clear,
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  Speaker 3: and this is where, listen, there's some strategy in terms
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  Speaker 3: of how you approach across examination like this in public hearing.
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  Speaker 3: I did not ask him this in a public hearing
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  Speaker 3: why because he would refuse to answer. What he would
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  Speaker 3: say is I'm not going to disclose to you how
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  Speaker 3: many agents are as signed to Donald Trump because that
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  Speaker 3: would endanger the security of the protective detail, and that
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  Speaker 3: that's a reasonable response. It's why I didn't ask the question.
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  Speaker 3: Because there's there's something that is known as law enforcement confidential.
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  Speaker 3: So when I ask him a question for the record, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I have TSSCI clearance. I have the top level of
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  Speaker 3: security clearance there exists in the government. I want to
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  Speaker 3: know the exact number how many friggin agents were assigned
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  Speaker 3: to Trump? How many were assigned to the first lady.
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  Speaker 3: How many were assigned to the president. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to reveal those numbers, so when I get them, I'm
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  Speaker 3: assuming he will tell me. If he tells me their
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement confidential. I'm not going to repeat them on
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  Speaker 3: this podcast. But what I am going to repeat is
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  Speaker 3: what I asked him that he refused to answer. What
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  Speaker 3: is the relative difference? I understand, Joe Biden, the sitting
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  Speaker 3: president's detail is larger than Trump's, but by what margin?
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  Speaker 4: Is it double? Is it triple? Is it five X?
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  Speaker 4: Is it ten x?
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  Speaker 3: He did not want to answer that question. The American
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  Speaker 3: people are entitled to know that question.
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  Speaker 2: Let's also go back to some other questions that were
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  Speaker 2: asked of him, and I think these are important. One
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  Speaker 2: of them came from one of your good friends and colleagues,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Lee.
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  Speaker 1: A very simple question. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: No information regarding a weapon on the roof was ever
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  Speaker 5: passed to our personnel.
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  Speaker 4: How is that even possible? Do you want to comment
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  Speaker 4: to that senator again?
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  Speaker 5: I believe that information and this is probably something my
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  Speaker 5: colleague can expound on. Information that was in law enforcement
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  Speaker 5: local law enforcement channels but did not cross over and
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  Speaker 5: make it to Secret Service awareness.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that might be one of the worst answers
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  Speaker 2: I've ever heard. Center and the fact that he's confirming
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  Speaker 2: what we were terrified of, which is no information regarding
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  Speaker 2: a way up on the roof for the shooter on
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  Speaker 2: the roof was ever passed to our personnel. Now, when
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  Speaker 2: he refers to our personnel, he's clearly referring to those
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  Speaker 2: in the Secret Service or the Secret Service Sniper Team.
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  Speaker 2: And Mike Lee's response is spot on right. How is
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  Speaker 2: that even possible?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, this was, as I said, a catastrophic security
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  Speaker 3: failure by the leadership of the Secret Service. They are
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  Speaker 3: not taking responsibility for that failure. Now, I got to
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  Speaker 3: tell you, the way this hearing was set up, we
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  Speaker 3: had five minute rounds. It is difficult to walk through
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  Speaker 3: the details of what you need to get through in
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  Speaker 3: five minutes. I ended up taking about seven, which meant
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  Speaker 3: I went about two minutes over and that's always leary.
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  Speaker 3: But let me tell you some of the other questions
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  Speaker 3: that I had that I was prepared to ask, but
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  Speaker 3: because the acting director of the Secret Service was filibustering
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  Speaker 3: to some extent, he was interrupting me to some extent.
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  Speaker 3: He was belligerent to a significant extent. I didn't get
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  Speaker 3: to them, but they are a whole series of questions
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  Speaker 3: that need to be answers. And by the way, I'm
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  Speaker 3: asking every one of these questions in writing. So in
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  Speaker 3: a follow up to hearing, you ask written questions Number one,
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  Speaker 3: the shooter when he came into the rally site in Butler, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 3: he was stopped by Secret Service at the metal detectors.
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  Speaker 3: He had a rangefinder with him. That was at three pm.
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  Speaker 3: Why did Secret Service not detain him? Why did they
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  Speaker 3: not question him about the ragefinder? Now, the acting director
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  Speaker 3: of the Secret Service, he said, well, it was a
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  Speaker 3: recreational rangefinder. It was like a golf rangefinder that you
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  Speaker 3: used to look the distance of the pen. Now you're
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  Speaker 3: right now, you're with your son at the World Championship.
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  Speaker 3: You probably have a golf rangefinder. Yes, you know what.
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  Speaker 3: You know what in Butler, Pennsylvania, they weren't playing golf.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: They weren't trying to figure out where the was. There
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: is no benign or innocious explanation for why someone shows
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: up at a political rally with a rangefinder. So that's
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: question number one. Why didn't you detain him. Why didn't
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: you question him? Why don't you say why the hell
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: do you have this rangefinder? They didn't after that, Two
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: and a half hours later, at about five point thirty,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: the shooter was seen. And by the way, let me
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: make it aside, you will notice on this podcast, I
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: will never ever ever say the name of the shooter.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I think people that commit heinous acts like this are
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: evil bastards who deserve to be forgotten by history. So
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I will never I'll call him the shooter, but I
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: will not repeat his name. But the shooter at about
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: five thirty was observed using the rangefinder to measure the
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: distance from where he was to the podium where Donald
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Trump was. The next obvious question why did the was
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: the shooter not detained? Then?
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Question?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Then he was observed by law enforcement scoping out the distance.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: That is obvious and highly suspicious activity. Third question, why
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: were there not more agents? We had repeated requests over
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: and over and over again from the Trump team. We
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: need more agents, We need more agents. Why were there
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: not more agents in the outer perimeter? Why there were
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: there not more agents? On another question, why was there
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: not a Secret Service agent on that rooftop? It is obvious.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: It was about one hundred and forty yards away from
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: the president. That is a clean line of sight for
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: a sniper. That is not a difficult shot. Why was
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: there not a Secret Service agent on that roof to
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: ensure that nobody else was there?
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: He did not answer that question either.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Why let me ask you this question.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this question on that because there's
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: a lot of people that ask me this, and I
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: want you to.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Answer your perspective.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: If they didn't have a team, right, There's been arguments
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: when maybe they didn't have a team to cover that roof,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: and so it was lack of resources.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Assign the damn agents. There are four thousand Secret Service
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: agents assign the agents. So one of the fundamental problems
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: is the Secret Service.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I believe.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I haven't had this confirmed, but here's what I believe
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: was happening. They were treating Donald Trump as a former president. Now, listen,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: former presidents have Secret Service protection for life. So Jimmy
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Carter right now, who is almost one hundred years old,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter has a Secret Service detail now, to be honest,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: that's right, that's good. But the threats against Jimmy Carter
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: at this point in his life are very low. There
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: are just not a lot of acting Trump. There are
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: not a lot of active murderers seeking to kill Jimmy
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Carter at the very end of his natural life. We know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: by the way, the nation of Iran has hired assassins
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: to murder Trump. So you don't just have crazy ass
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: lunatics who want to shoot him. You literally have a
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: nation state with billions of dollars to fund assassins to
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: murder him. And what I believe the Secret Service here's
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: what I think happened. The Biden administration is political in
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: every decision it makes. I think they didn't want to
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: up Trump's security detail because if they did so, they
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: would have to acknowledge his legitimacy. Listen, Trump is not
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: just a former president who's retired and is off like
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: painting paintings and building houses for habitat for humanity. He
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: is the Republican nominee to be president right now. He
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: is I think likely the next president of the United States.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: And the Biden administration, I believe this was all politics.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: The leadership of the Secret Service did not want to
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: up his detail because it would be according credibility and
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: seriousness to his campaign. It is I believe the identical
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: reason they refuse repeatedly to give a Secret Service detailed
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Robert F. Kennedy Junior now listen, you and I on
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: this podcast months ago called them out and said it
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: is outrageous.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Robert F.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Kennedy Junior, his father RFK Senior was murdered when he
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: was running for president of the United States. His uncle
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: JFK was murdered as the sitting president of the United States.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: RFK Junior has had multiple death threats, He has had
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: multiple attempts on his life. And I believe the reason
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: that the Biden administration didn't give him a Secret Service
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: protection is they hate the fact that another Democrat is
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: running against what was then Joe Biden now Kamala Harris,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: and if they gave Secret Services protection to him, it
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: would be acknowledging he was legitimate. That is if that
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: is the basis, It is a purely political decision. It
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: is indefensible and we need to get answers on it.
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  Speaker 2: much that came out in this hearing. One of them
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: you mentioned a moment ago was about Iran and I
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  Speaker 2: want to play this because I do think it just
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: shows how shocking how unprepared the Secret Service was, not
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: just at this event, but maybe at many other events
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  Speaker 2: that were supposed to be protecting Donald Trump.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: What is the nature of the Iran threat? The threat
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: to former President Trump? That has been mentioned, but we
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: know that.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Let me be clear here.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: The terrorist regime of Iran have been targeting people our
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: country for many, many years now. We've talked about that
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: here before. I want to be clear about that from
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: the FBI stamp. Have we know publicly they've put they've
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: targeted former President Trump, They've called for his assassination.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I mean that they know this, and they say they've
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: been doing this for years, and yet you let this
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: building just sit unattended. And I go back to the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: question I asked you earlier, because it's a question many
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: have asked if was just say hypothetical center, they didn't
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: have the manpower hypothetical for the Secret Service.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: And I have the manpower, get it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't they have used those that were on the
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: ground there locally, the SWAT teams that were there locally
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: to cover that roof.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Well and to some extent, so the Secret Service was
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: trying to pass the blame to local law enforcement. They
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: were saying, well, local law enforcement screwed up. And so
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: they said at one point that there were local swat
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: teams that were supposed to be monitoring that roof, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: there's been testimony that there was a local swat team
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: there and then they disappeared. Now they won't tell us
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: who it was. They won't tell us who made the
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: decision to leave that post. There has been media reports
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: that there was someone assigned to be on that roof
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: but it was too hot, so they left. We need
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: to know the answer to that that that is. They're
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: they're they're not. But what's what the Secret Service is
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: trying to do is pass the buck to local law enforcement,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: say local law enforcement screwed up. But I'll tell you
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: a couple other questions that I was going to ask
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: and that I that I am asking and writing. So
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: we know and we've seen the videos. In fact, we
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: played this on this podcast at the time. There were
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: multiple spectators who were outside the perimeter who saw the
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: shooter on the roof. They saw the shooter on the
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: roof with a gun with a rifle, and they began
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: screaming and yelling and saying there's a man on the roof,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: a man on the roof of the gun. They began
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: doing that one minute and fifty seven seconds before the
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: shooting began. That's a lot of time. They told local
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: law enforcement. It was a sign in that outer perimeter
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: there's a man on the roof with a gun. Now,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: one of the enormous problems is there was apparently zero
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: coordination communication between local law enforcement and Secret Service. So
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: a natural question a minute in fifty seven seconds before
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: the shooting began, spectators observe a man on the roof
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: of a gun, why do the local police officers who
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: were there not immediately radio Secret Service and say there's
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: a shooter. Pull President Trump down. That's what you do
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: in that circumstance, is you pull them down. If you
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: have the protect tee and you know that there's a
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: potential sniper and it's a dangerous situation, you go up,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: you pull them down, say miss President, you need to
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: come down for a second, and you just pull them
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: out of the harm's way and then you go and
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: deal with the law enforcement threat. Why did they not
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: do that for a minute and fifty seven second and
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: what appears to be the answer, but the acting director
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: would not answer. It is there was no interoperability. There
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: was no communication between local law enforcement and the Secret Service.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Now it gets even worse. A local police officer climbed
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: up on the shoulders of another local police officer climbed
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: up to the roof. So when the people are yelling, hey,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: there's a guy with a gun, he climbed up to
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: see it.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: He climbs up.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: To the roof, He pulls his head up, and the
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: shooter turns and points his rifle at the officer's head. Now,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the officer ducks because he doesn't want to get shot
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: in the head. And the testimony was he fell about
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: eight feet to the ground. That happened twenty four seconds
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: before the first shot was fired. Now, in any ordinary
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: insane situation, the officer as he sees the rifle, as
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: he sees the man on the roof, so he knows.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: You have a police officer that knows there's a shooter
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: with a rifle on the roof. While the president is talking,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: here's what should happen. The officer, as he's ducking down,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: he pulls out his radio and he says, gun, gun, gun, shooter, shooter, shooter,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: And if the Seat Service here is that they have
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: twenty four seconds for the detail to run up to
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: grab the president, to pull him down under the podium.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: And by the way, they also have two counter snipers.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: If they get over the radio gun gun gun shooter,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: shooter shooter, you've got twenty four seconds for the counter
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: snipers to see the sniper, see the shooter, and take
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: him out. If that happens, President Trump is not shot.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Fire Chief Corey Comparatory is not murdered. The two other
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: people who were severely injured or not injured, And what
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: appears to be the case, although the acting director of
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: the Secret Service would not confirm this, is there was
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: no radio interoperability. In other words, what the local police
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: officer saw he could not communicate with Secret Service, and
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: that is utterly unacceptable and what is infuriating. There was
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: nothing in the hearing yesterday that suggested they've changed what
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: they've done. So if they're relying on local law enforcement
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: for important security and yet they have no way to
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: communicate with local law enforcement about what they're seeing, it
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: is fundamentally ineffective. And the most important question is what
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: are they doing to prevent this from happening again? And
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: there was zero answer to that question in the hearing.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Yesterday, final question on this And somebody sent this to
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: me earlier today, and I'm just going to read it
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the way it was sent to me. It says, quote,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: it's sad that we live in a country now. We're
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: a hard working, regular guy who goes to work from
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: seven in the morning till nine o'clock at night or
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: eight o'clock put in fifty sixty hour week, will quote
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: face more professional consequences for sharing an offensive joke online.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Then the unoected.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Bureaucrats task with protecting our president will face for almost
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: getting the leading candidate killed. Now, according to the acting
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Secret Service director, he admitted to you guys yesterday that
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: no agent assigned to the Trump July thirteenth rally has
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: been fired. And in fact there's only the secret the
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: head of the Secret Service that was forced to resign
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: after a horrible display on Capitol Hill. But it doesn't
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: seem like there's been any other accountability. And that's sad,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: isn't it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: It's infuriating. So, as best I can tell, in almost
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: four years of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris being in the
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: White House, not a single person has been fired from
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: any job whatsoever. You have the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. It
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: was an absolute debacle that was embarrassing. It undermined the
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: US military. It led to the deaths of thirteen servicemen
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: and women. Nobody was fired. There was no accountability. You
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: have here the first shooting of a presidential candidate, a
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: former president since nineteen eighty one, since Ronald Reagan. Nobody
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: was fired. In any sane world, the director of the
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Secret Service would have resigned that day. In any sane world,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: the president would have fired the director of the Secret Service.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: But there's no accountability. Now you now have the acting director.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: And one question you asked me at the beginning of
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: this pod, should the acting director be fired? And I'm
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: going to say, I don't know. I think the proof
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: is in the pudding. So on one level, the acting director,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: whom I don't know personally, but he's been a longtime
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: career Secret Service agent and officer, his answers demonstrated massively
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: more candor than the old director. The old director was
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: handpicked by Joe Biden, and Joe Biden I believe the
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: old director was there. She used to be on Joe
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Biden's Secret Service detail when he was vice president. I
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: think they handpicked her because they wanted the Secret Service
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: to cover up Joe Biden's massive mental decline, and so
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: they put her in that place as a political decision
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: to protect his political vulnerabilities. That's what I believe. But
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: she was and we talked about this in a prior podcast.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: When she did on All Senators briefing, she stonewalled she
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: would not answer any questions. She said they did everything
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: perfectly except for the fact that the president was shot
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: and by the way, to be clear, had the bullet
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: been a half inch to the left, Donald Trump would
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: be dead today. She described this as a success for
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: the Secret Service. It's not a success. It is I
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: think God's providence. I believe God turned Trump's head. But
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: we came within a half inch of the history of
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: the world being changed that day. So compared to the
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: former director, the acting director is at least admitting they
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: screwed it up, they did something wrong. He has some
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: modicum of candor. Here's my answer in terms of whether
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: he should be fired. How does he answer the questions
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: for the record that I and other senators ask him.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I believe the Secret Service needs radical transparency. Among the
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: questions I'm asking also is how many threats are directed
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: right now in the last year against Donald Trump? How
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: many threats are directed against Joe Biden? How many threat
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: threats are directed against the First Lady? And had to
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: be clear, all three need to be protected. I'm not
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: saying that Joe or Joe Biden should not be protected.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: But one of the public press reports is on the
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: day of the Butler rally, they pulled members of Trump's
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: security detail and put them on the First Lady's detail.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Now I don't know this, but Secret Service does. But
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I'm going to venture a guess that the number of
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: threats against Trump versus against the First Lady, it is
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: at least one hundred cks, And it wouldn't surprise me
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: if it is a thousand x that I think Donald
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Trump is the most threatened person on the face of
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: the planet. And if it is the case, it is
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: all the more indefensible that the Secret Service political leadership
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: would not provide sufficient agents to keep him safe. And
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: I'm asking them how many threats against Trump, how many
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: threats against Joe Biden? How many threats against Joe Biden
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: will see if they answer that, you know, based on
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: the testimony, I'm skeptical that they will.
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  Speaker 2: I want to move to some of this breaking news,
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  Speaker 2: and it is an important moment that's happening in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East right now. Israel is doing everything they can
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  Speaker 2: to protect their people, and they're also having success and
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  Speaker 2: taking out terrorists and terrorist leaders that have been orchestrating
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  Speaker 2: many of these attacks on Israel, including taking out someone
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  Speaker 2: in Iran in Tehran.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right, and they're two huge stories in
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  Speaker 3: terms of the war in Israel, the war against Amas
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  Speaker 3: and against Hesbela. One story that broke late this afternoon
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  Speaker 3: and evening is a story that says IDF kills Hesbela
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  Speaker 3: commander behind brutal attack on children's soccer field. And this
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  Speaker 3: is a Fox News story that's being reported everywhere. Fued Shuker,
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  Speaker 3: who's death is unconfirmed by Hesbela, was wanted by US
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  Speaker 3: government connection to the nineteen ninety nineteen eighty three Marine
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  Speaker 3: Barracks bombing in Beirut. And IDF forces on Tuesday announced
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  Speaker 3: the death of Fuad Shukar, the hesbela commander who was
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  Speaker 3: behind the drone strike that killed twelve children and teens
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend. So over the weekend we saw hesbela
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  Speaker 3: fire rocket in northern Israel. It hit a soccer field
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  Speaker 3: and twelve Israeli children were murdered. Continuing back from the
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  Speaker 3: Fox News story, Shukar, who was also known as haj Mohsen,
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  Speaker 3: joined Hesbel in nineteen eighty five. He was also sought
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  Speaker 3: by the US government over his connection to the nineteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty three suicide bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in
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  Speaker 3: Beirut that killed two hundred and forty one US service members.
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  Speaker 3: Shuker served as a senior advisor to Hesbeli leader Hassan
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  Speaker 3: Nasrala at the time of his death in an IDF
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  Speaker 3: strike on Tuesday in southern Bey Route. The IDF confirmed
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  Speaker 3: the news in a press release announcing that it's fighter
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  Speaker 3: jets eliminated hesbela terrorist organization's most senior military commanders. Shooker
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  Speaker 3: in Lebanon's capital city, now understand this is a murderer
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  Speaker 3: responsible for murdering two hundred and forty one US service members.
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  Speaker 3: This is a reason to celebrate. Listen, the enemies of
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  Speaker 3: Israel are the enemies of America, the enemies of Jews.
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  Speaker 3: Those who want to kill Jews want to kill Christians.
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  Speaker 3: Hamas and Hesbela they hate Israel, but they hate America too.
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  Speaker 3: And this is an example where Israel fighting the war,
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  Speaker 3: fighting the war against Hamas and hesbel at the same
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  Speaker 3: time is defeating someone who has murdered hundreds of Americans.
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  Speaker 3: That is an enormous victory for this country. And then
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  Speaker 3: let me say secondly, so you and I are recording
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  Speaker 3: this podcast, it is eleven forty pm. At eleven forty pm,
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  Speaker 3: this news has just broken.
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  Speaker 4: So listen.
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  Speaker 3: Any time you're dealing with matters of life and death
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  Speaker 3: and war in peace, the news can move. So what
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  Speaker 3: we're recording right now, it may be different by six
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  Speaker 3: am tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: But at eleven forty pm, let me read the AP story.
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  Speaker 3: Iran says Hamas leader Ismail Haniya was assassinated in Tehran.
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  Speaker 3: And let me just read the AP story. Hamas leader
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  Speaker 3: Ismail Haniya was assassinated in Tehran. Iran's peramilitary Revolutionary guards
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  Speaker 3: said early Wednesday, no one immediately claimed responsibility for the assassination,
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  Speaker 3: but suspicion immediately fell on Israel No Duh, which is
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  Speaker 3: vowed to kill Haniya and other leaders of Hamas over
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  Speaker 3: the group's October seventh attack on Israel that killed one
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  Speaker 3: two hundred people and saw some two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 3: others taken high hostage. Haniya was in Tehran to attend
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  Speaker 3: Iran President Masud Pezeshkians swearing in on Tuesday. Iran gave
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  Speaker 3: no details on how Haniya was killed, and the guards
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  Speaker 3: said the attack was under investigation. Analysts on Iranian state
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  Speaker 3: television immediately began blaming Israel for the attack. Israel did
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  Speaker 3: not immediately comment, but it often doesn't when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to assassinations carried out by their Massad intelligence agency. To
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  Speaker 3: come up within twenty four hours with number one killing
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  Speaker 3: the top military commander of Hesbola, responsible for murdering twelve
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  Speaker 3: Israeli children in northern Israel with a rocket attack and
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  Speaker 3: also responsible for two hundred and forty one American servicemen
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  Speaker 3: and women being killed in Beirut in nineteen eighty three.
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  Speaker 3: That's a big damn deal. And then this taking out
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  Speaker 3: the top leadership of amas it a big, big victory
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  Speaker 3: for Israel and a big, big victory for America.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna keep monitoring this.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, we're getting this breaking news as we're
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  Speaker 1: And the Senator. I will see you back here in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days.