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700% Spike in ICE Attacks Sparks Political Firestorm plus Secret Service Faces Backlash Over Security Lapses · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Two Democratic senators now, Corey Booker and Alex Badia have
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  Speaker 1: a new bill out. They want to require CVP and
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  Speaker 1: ICE officers to have legible IDs, and they don't want
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  Speaker 1: CBP or ICE officers covering their faces. Would you ever
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  Speaker 1: sign that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they wouldn't be saying that if they didn't hate
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  Speaker 2: our country. This is the problem with the Democrats have
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  Speaker 2: They have a lot of bad things going on in
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  Speaker 2: their heads. They've lost their confidence number one, and they're
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  Speaker 2: really does it come somewhat deranged?
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Up, Bet, and we've got two
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  Speaker 4: major stories for you that we're going to cover. First up,
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  Speaker 4: the White House blaming Democrats now for a massive spike
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  Speaker 4: and assaults on ICE agents up more than seven hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: Why is this happening? We've got the receipts from Democrats
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  Speaker 4: who have been calling for the assault on ICE agents
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  Speaker 4: and we will expose them in a moment. Also, we
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  Speaker 4: are seeing now some Secret Service agents are being held
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  Speaker 4: accountable for the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and Butler
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  Speaker 4: Pennsylvania sort of why do they hardly get anything. We'll
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  Speaker 4: give you the details on that coming up as well.
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  Speaker 4: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: We are seeing radical mayors and governors around the country
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  Speaker 4: doing everything they can to go after ICE agents, and
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  Speaker 4: we are seeing a massive spike in the number of
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  Speaker 4: ICE agents that have been assaulted. The White House now
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  Speaker 4: stepping out blaming the Democrats for this spike and assaults
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  Speaker 4: on ICE agents nationwide. The White House on Wednesday accusing
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  Speaker 4: Democrats oppose the President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration
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  Speaker 4: of stoking violence directly against immigration and custom enforcement agents.
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  Speaker 4: Quote as ICE agents risk their lives to secure our
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  Speaker 4: borders and protect our communities. They're now facing a seven
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  Speaker 4: one hundred percent surge in assaults a direct consequence of dangerous,
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  Speaker 4: inflammatory rhetoric from Democratic politicians, the White House saying in
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  Speaker 4: a statement titled Democrats inspire vicious, escalating attacks on ICE Now.
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  Speaker 4: The report listed three recent attacks at ICE facilities in
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  Speaker 4: Texas and Oregon, including a July fourth ambush near the
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  Speaker 4: Prairie Land Attention Center in Alvarado, Texas. One officer there
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  Speaker 4: was shot in the neck and multiple armed suspects were
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  Speaker 4: taken into custody. The injured officer was treated at a
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  Speaker 4: Fort Worth hospital. Thank goodness, he was released now. The
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  Speaker 4: documents also list examples of unhinged Democrats in citing rhetoric
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  Speaker 4: and lies. The House Minority Leader Kim Jeffreys of New
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  Speaker 4: York implored people to quote fight the Trump administration in
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  Speaker 4: the streets quote unquote, and declared ICE agents will be
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  Speaker 4: unsuccessful in protecting their identities no matter what it takes,
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  Speaker 4: wanting to docs ICE agents and put them and their
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  Speaker 4: family's lives at risk. Representative Jpel of Washington State called
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  Speaker 4: ICE agents deranged and said it is inspiring quote unquote
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  Speaker 4: to obstruct immigration enforcement. Yes, she's an elected official in Congress.
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  Speaker 4: Representative mc iver of New Jersey, who is arrested and
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  Speaker 4: charged with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers outside
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  Speaker 4: ICE attention facility, incited her supporters to quote shut down
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  Speaker 4: the city because quote we are at war. Minnesota Governor
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  Speaker 4: and former vice presidential candidate Tim Waltz said this, calling
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  Speaker 4: Ice agency modern day gestapo. The Chicago Mayor Johnson accused
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  Speaker 4: I being the quote secret police police and terrorizing our communities.
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  Speaker 4: Representative Eric Swallwell of California said it was his quote
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  Speaker 4: unquote priority to ensure ICE agents are no longer faceless,
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  Speaker 4: comparing them to some eighteen hundreds bank robber or some
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  Speaker 4: KGB officer in Russia. All of the people I just
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  Speaker 4: mentioned are elected officials going after our men and women
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  Speaker 4: in uniform. Now. On Tuesday, Democratic Senator Padilla of California
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  Speaker 4: and Corey Booker of New Jersey also went crazy, introducing
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  Speaker 4: legislation to require immigration enforcement officers to quote display clearly
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  Speaker 4: visible IDs and not wear masks during public enforcement operations,
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  Speaker 4: accusing the Trump administration of quote alarming immigration enforcement tactics
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  Speaker 4: that have terrorized communities across California in the nation. Now,
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  Speaker 4: you may ask why some ICE agents are wearing masks.
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  Speaker 4: One simple reason, to protect themselves and their families from
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  Speaker 4: the radical left who is trying to dock their location,
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  Speaker 4: even having apps to tell you where this is happening,
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  Speaker 4: and people that are then putting their children online. Charles Marino,
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  Speaker 4: a former senior advisor to the Department of Homelanned Security
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  Speaker 4: in Trump's first term, told Newsmax on Wednesday that the
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  Speaker 4: left doesn't care quote unquote that its rhetoric is endangering
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  Speaker 4: the lives of federal law enforcement agents by inciting this
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  Speaker 4: type of violence, saying, quote the rhetoric from the left
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  Speaker 4: is bringing out the crazies. It's as simple as this.
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  Speaker 4: We saw it during the assassination attempts on President Trump,
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  Speaker 4: where this rhetoric about him being a threat to democracy
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  Speaker 4: brought out people that wanted to do him significant harm
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  Speaker 4: and take him out of the picture. And it continues
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  Speaker 4: here now against law enforcement. This goes back to the
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  Speaker 4: original story of those that tried to assassinate people that
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  Speaker 4: work in law enforcement on July fourth at their own headquarters.
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  Speaker 4: President however, is promising to not stop enforcing American laws
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  Speaker 4: no matter what threats are now coming from the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 3: Now, story number two, I want.
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  Speaker 4: To take you back in time to a story that
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  Speaker 4: happened what about a year ago, and that was the
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  Speaker 4: major assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the one where luckily he moved his head a little
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  Speaker 4: bit and that bullet hit his ear instead of taking
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  Speaker 4: his head off. We now know that six Secret Service
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  Speaker 4: agents have been suspended over that Donald Trump assassination attempt.
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  Speaker 4: Now let me give you some of the facts on
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  Speaker 4: this so you understand what this means. The US Secret
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  Speaker 4: Service has placed these six agents on suspension without pay
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  Speaker 4: for durations ranging from ten days to forty five days.
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  Speaker 4: And the accounts slightly vary from what I'm hearing on
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  Speaker 4: Capitol ill why due to security failures. They're now saying
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  Speaker 4: I have been assessed during that assassination attempt July the
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  Speaker 4: thirteenth at that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Now, those discipline
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  Speaker 4: include agents at various ranks, okay, supervisor staff, line agents,
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  Speaker 4: a counter sniper, members of the Pittsburgh Field Office, and
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  Speaker 4: the site walked through coordinator as well. Now, the nature
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  Speaker 4: of the lapse was obviously so egregious that there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people there's shocked that more people haven't been fired.
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  Speaker 4: So what is it's all about. Well, the investigation revealed
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  Speaker 4: serious coordination and communication breakdowns that day, such as unsecured rooftops,
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  Speaker 4: missing radios, wrong drone cables, and poor integration with local
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  Speaker 4: law enforcement. A Senate briefing we also are now being told,
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  Speaker 4: found that the shooter was spotted on the rooftop at
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  Speaker 4: least ten minutes before Trump took the stage, yet preventive
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  Speaker 4: action was taken, which is totally insane. Why so many
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  Speaker 4: people think this could have been a setup, that there
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  Speaker 4: is a real conspiracy theory here and based on what
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  Speaker 4: we know by the way of the RFK assassination, there's
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  Speaker 4: a real legitimacy to asking every question on the table.
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  Speaker 4: I'm one of those, by the way, I want to
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  Speaker 4: make that very clear now, they're also been lack you
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  Speaker 4: could argue of consequences and accountability. Yes, the former Secret
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  Speaker 4: Service director resigned in July of last year, citing responsibility
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  Speaker 4: over the agency's most significant operational failure in decades. But
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  Speaker 4: outside that, what really happened well. The acting leadership under
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  Speaker 4: Deputy Director Matt Quinn and Director Sean Karan, who was
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  Speaker 4: on site and shielded Trump during the shooting, affirm suspensions
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  Speaker 4: are aimed at systemic reform quote unquote, not blame or firings,
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  Speaker 4: Quinn said, saying, quote we are laser focused on fixing
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  Speaker 4: the root cause. We aren't going to fire our way
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  Speaker 4: out of this now. Mat Quinn also emphasize ongoing reform,
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  Speaker 4: saying once inoperative equipment like drones and mobile command centers
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  Speaker 4: are being upgraded and coordination with local law enforce is
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  Speaker 4: being enhanced. There was clearly a major separation that day
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  Speaker 4: where police could even talk to the Secret Service, and
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  Speaker 4: that ten minute lapse from the time they saw him
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  Speaker 4: on the rooftop before Trump took the stage as a
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  Speaker 4: perfect example of that. Now there's also been the public
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  Speaker 4: reaction to this. Many Americans do not believe, for example,
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  Speaker 4: that this was handled appropriately. I'll give you another example.
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  Speaker 4: The widow of the firefighter his name was Corey, who
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  Speaker 4: was killed by a straight bullet, slammed the Secret Service,
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  Speaker 4: labeling their performance as quote a hot mess, and calling
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  Speaker 4: for accountability and explanation because if they would have done
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  Speaker 4: their job, there's a very good chance that her husband,
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  Speaker 4: Corey would still be with us. We also know that
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  Speaker 4: there's been a bipartisan House task force deemed the assassination
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  Speaker 4: attempt quote unquote preventable. Now off into Republicans and Democrats
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  Speaker 4: agree on anything when you are Republicans and Democrats and
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  Speaker 4: you come together, and the assassination Attempt report says that
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  Speaker 4: this was preventable. That happened in December. By the way
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  Speaker 4: of last year, the report was issued about a dozen
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  Speaker 4: recommendations aimed at strengthening the security protocols as well. That
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  Speaker 4: worries me that those recommendations are coming from Congress and
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  Speaker 4: weren't already in place by the Secret Service. Now, various
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  Speaker 4: people have praised the disciplinary measures and reforms, noting the
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  Speaker 4: agency has taken responsibility and implementing structural change that is
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  Speaker 4: in theory good. But the big question is is it
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  Speaker 4: enough saying we're not going to fire our way out
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  Speaker 4: of this? What does that mean? The only way that
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  Speaker 4: you get fired is if there is an actual dead president.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the lack of accountability here is incredible. And
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  Speaker 4: let's just go back to the private sector if you
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  Speaker 4: and look, I've had death threats against me. I've had
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  Speaker 4: security that I've had to have. Unfortunately in my career,
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  Speaker 4: I carry a firearm virtually everywhere I go and when
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  Speaker 4: I do an event and there's security there. If I
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  Speaker 4: was shot the way that Donald Trump was and there
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  Speaker 4: was a line of sight venue, and that's the whole
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  Speaker 4: job of the Secret Service to make sure that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: happen where there's a short range line of sight directly
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  Speaker 4: the president's head. And that's what happened in Butler. The
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  Speaker 4: idea that we're quote not going to fire our way
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  Speaker 4: out of this. I still think is kind of absurd
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not like to fire everyone. What I am
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  Speaker 4: saying is is like, come on outside, the Secret Service
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  Speaker 4: director who resigned. You're telling me basically, no one's been fired.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand that. In the private sector, whether this
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  Speaker 4: is a celebrity, a sports star, a former politician, a
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  Speaker 4: whatever it may be, if this happened in the private sector,
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  Speaker 4: a CEO of a company, there would no doubt be
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  Speaker 4: massive amounts of people that would be fired because of
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  Speaker 4: the event. Why is it in government we don't fire people.
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  Speaker 4: It drives me insane. And if you look at the
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  Speaker 4: six agents that receive these suspensions ranging from ten to
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  Speaker 4: forty two days as part of a quote broader effort
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  Speaker 4: to address serious protective failures, does it get any more
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  Speaker 4: serious than an assassination attempt on the president units it's
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  Speaker 4: America and multiple rounds going at his body, Like this
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  Speaker 4: is the biggest failure you can have without death, and
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  Speaker 4: no one gets fired, and you're like, all right, well,
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  Speaker 4: you're not gonna get paid for ten to forty two days.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the right message that we
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  Speaker 4: should be sending right now now with the prior director's resignation.
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  Speaker 4: They went on to say, and emphasis on root cause
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  Speaker 4: fixes and improved interagency coordination and upgrade equipment. The Secret
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  Speaker 4: Services undergoing reforms intended to prevent such laps as in
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  Speaker 4: the future. That's all great again, Why is it that
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  Speaker 4: no one has been fired in the private sector. You
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  Speaker 4: screw up like this, you are fired, period. You are fired.
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