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Biden 'playing to the Left' w Extreme Supreme Court Reform · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is day three at the Republican National Convention, life
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  Speaker 2: here in Milwaukee at the Panther Arena.
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  Speaker 1: It is great to be with you.
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  Speaker 2: We have got a lot to talk about, including the
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  Speaker 2: fact now that we're getting some breaking news from the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. Biden is seriously considering a proposal on Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court quote term limits. AP sources are now confirming the
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  Speaker 2: President is quote seriously considering proposal to establish term limits
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  Speaker 2: for the US Supreme Court justice and an ethics code
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  Speaker 2: that would be enforced under law, amid growing concerns the
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  Speaker 2: justice are quote unquote not held accountable.
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  Speaker 1: What is this?
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  Speaker 2: This is about kicking conservatives off the Supreme Court. This
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  Speaker 2: is about getting rid of people like Clarence Thomas, who
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  Speaker 2: they cannot stand because you know, he's not a real
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  Speaker 2: black man. Now that he's a conservative on the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: they want to control the court. They want to have
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  Speaker 2: term limits for the court, and they want to be
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  Speaker 2: able to decide who can be on that court. Also
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  Speaker 2: packed that court. So let me give you a scenario here,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to get to everything that happened night
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  Speaker 2: too last night in a moment, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: go over this because it's important what this proposal would
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  Speaker 2: do for Democrats, and there's no but I want to
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  Speaker 2: also be clear, there's no mistake about the timing of this.
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  Speaker 1: They want this to be moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: As Republicans are in Milwaukee and everyone's talking about Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump and everybody's talking about the assassination attempt that they
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  Speaker 2: are like, okay, never let a crisis go to waste.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that? That's what this administration believes. It's
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  Speaker 2: what Obama preached, never ever let a crisis go to waste.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got a crisis right now.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's talking about the Secret Service protection everbody's talking about
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  Speaker 2: the Secret Service director and what she had to say
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  Speaker 2: about the the roof wasn't it was sloped and therefore
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't get up there, and it was unsafe to
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  Speaker 2: be on top, even though there was a guy that
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  Speaker 2: was clearly had sighted the president and an easy way
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  Speaker 2: to take a shot at the president. That is obviously
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  Speaker 2: the crisis. So what does the White House do? They said, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: now's the time to talk about getting this going. Now's
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  Speaker 2: the time for us to push this moving forward. President
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden again is seriously considering this proposal. For term limits,
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  Speaker 2: and the term limits would be something that I think
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  Speaker 2: are very, very, very significant. The term limits here would
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  Speaker 2: be a way to not only get rid of justices quickly,
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  Speaker 2: but if the court is too conservative for the liking
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  Speaker 2: of the Democrats and they get power, they'll just kick
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  Speaker 2: you off the Supreme Court. That's what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: This would mark a quote major shift for Biden, the
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  Speaker 2: former head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long
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  Speaker 2: reasons it calls to reform the High Court. Since taking office, however,
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  Speaker 2: he has been increasingly vocal, even chastising the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: while they were sitting in front of him in a
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  Speaker 2: State of the Union, about his belief that the Court
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  Speaker 2: is abandoning mainstream constitutional interpretation. I don't believe that he
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  Speaker 2: knows anything about the Constitution right now in his cognitive decline,
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  Speaker 2: but this is what the White House is saying. The
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  Speaker 2: details are first reported by the Washington Post. Any changes
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  Speaker 2: would require Congressional approval, which would be unlikely in a
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  Speaker 2: divided Congress. But the Republican nominee Trump bragging about putting
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  Speaker 2: the three justice on the High Court who are now
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  Speaker 2: part of the conservative majority. Biden is now calling and
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are not calling for major changes that could help
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  Speaker 2: get voters excited. So part of this is about voter outreach.
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  Speaker 2: And let me tie this back into the number one
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  Speaker 2: thing that Democrats are using on the Supreme Court issue,
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  Speaker 2: that is the overturning of Roe v.
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  Speaker 1: Wade.
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  Speaker 2: They have tested this, they have polled it, they have
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  Speaker 2: tested the messaging, and you're going to hear about a
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  Speaker 2: women's right to choose and the attack on women's bodies.
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  Speaker 1: At the Democratic Convention.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a center point for Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: as he travels and his surrogates to say that if
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  Speaker 2: women can't get an abortion on demand, then that is
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  Speaker 2: a use of the constitution abuse the Supreme Court. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: we should overthrow the Supreme Court. We should kick them
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  Speaker 2: off the Supreme Court. Now there's also something else that's happened.
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  Speaker 2: I've talked to you about this guy's several times. There
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  Speaker 2: has been an obsession with the media recently to really
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  Speaker 2: go after Justice Thomas, and they are going after him
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  Speaker 2: for all sorts of things, many of them that are legitimate,
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  Speaker 2: like literally made up, because they're trying to delegitimize the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: When Roe v. Wade happened.
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  Speaker 2: You saw that this is a party that is is
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  Speaker 2: a party of lawlessness.
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  Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is dead.
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  Speaker 2: They are actually socialists, communists, Marxists who have masked themselves
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  Speaker 2: as Democrats because they know they just can't straight up
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  Speaker 2: say I'm a Marxist, I'm a socialist as a party,
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  Speaker 2: as a group. But what did they do when Roe v.
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  Speaker 2: Wade was coming down? Somebody in the Supreme Court and
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  Speaker 2: you and of course you know, our government officials can't
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  Speaker 2: find out who the leaker is. We don't know who
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  Speaker 2: the leaker is, right leaked this opinion beforehand. They then
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic machine made sure that everybody knew where the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court justices actually lived. And there was one person
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  Speaker 2: that was even arrested who had the intent to kill
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  Speaker 2: a conservative justice had was found not far from their
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  Speaker 2: house with am with firearms locked and loaded. Thank goodness
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  Speaker 2: they caught that person. But what they did and is
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  Speaker 2: a federal offense to intimidate a judge, okay, at any level,
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  Speaker 2: much less the Supreme Court justice. As they were hoping
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  Speaker 2: that by releasing the early opinion right that Roe v.
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  Speaker 2: Way was going to be overturned, that there would be
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  Speaker 2: such outrage that one or two of the justices within
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  Speaker 2: you know, bend over and say, hey, it's not worth
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  Speaker 2: my life. Right, it's not worth my life. The public
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  Speaker 2: pressure has gotten to me. I'm going to just let
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  Speaker 2: this thing slide. That is the big problem here now.
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  Speaker 2: Any change, and as I mentioned a moment ago, would
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  Speaker 2: require congressional approval. That is not going to happen in
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  Speaker 2: a divide in Congress. But what this is about is
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  Speaker 2: making election issue. And it's again, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: change how the Supreme Court works, you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: change how the Supreme Court works with the American people
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  Speaker 2: in their mind to convince them, yeah, we should change this. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court shouldn't be lifetime appointments. Yes, Supreme Court should
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  Speaker 2: be have in essence term limits. Like that's what they're
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  Speaker 2: going to want to do here. That's that's how you
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  Speaker 2: soften it up. So you make this a political issue,
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  Speaker 2: You make it an issue for this presidential election with
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  Speaker 2: Roe v. Wade, and then you go out there and
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  Speaker 2: you say, hey, if you elect me, I will get
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  Speaker 2: I will then fundamentally change the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: I will change it. Things are going to be different.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about Trump, you know, putting
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  Speaker 2: three justices on there.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just get rid of them.
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  Speaker 2: And this ethics aspect of this rule is actually about
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  Speaker 2: just straight up kicking people off the Supreme Court. We
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  Speaker 2: don't like you, we gain power, we come after you.
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  Speaker 2: Congress comes after you, and we say, okay, hey, we
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  Speaker 2: don't like Crince Thomas, we don't like Escalia, we don't
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  Speaker 2: like an Alito, we don't like we don't like you know,
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  Speaker 2: whoever the person and whatever the person's name is on
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court, will just start getting the media to
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  Speaker 2: go after you for some ethics thing, which we can,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, make up, right, we can. We can
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  Speaker 2: literally just straight up make it up. We can, and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll go with it, and then we'll say that
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  Speaker 2: everything's terrible now. Biden is also considering calling for a
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  Speaker 2: constitutional moment that would eliminate quote, the broad immunity for presidents.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a two part proposal. Again, never let
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  Speaker 2: a crisis go to waste. So he's considering also calling
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  Speaker 2: for a constantial amendment that would eliminate the broad immunity
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  Speaker 2: for presidents granted by the Court in its most recent term.
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  Speaker 1: Why because they want to.
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  Speaker 2: Go after Donald Trump again, and they want to go
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  Speaker 2: after him if he wins re election. Donald Trump claimed
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  Speaker 2: he was immune from prosecution for his actions on January
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  Speaker 2: the sixth, when a mob of his quote supporters, the
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  Speaker 2: media said violently descended on the US capital. Not exactly accurate,
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  Speaker 2: but hey, let's just go with that narrative for a second,
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  Speaker 2: because that's the narrative that they're going to use to
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  Speaker 2: get this pass. The people were not authorized to speak publicly,
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  Speaker 2: of course, about the proposal that have not been finalized,
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  Speaker 2: and they spoke to the AP again, never letting a
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  Speaker 2: crisis go to waste, to then push two radical agenda
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  Speaker 2: items on the American people the week after Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: was shot.
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  Speaker 1: These people are evil.
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  Speaker 2: I also want to pivot and I want to deal
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  Speaker 2: with another issue, and that is the Secret Service Director.
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  Speaker 2: The Secret Service Director, and this has been a conversation
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  Speaker 2: that I've had with everybody I've seen at this convention,
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  Speaker 2: every elected official. New Gingrich and I were talking about
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  Speaker 2: this last night. It is all that anyone's talking about
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  Speaker 2: as a Secret Service and the interview that the Secret
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  Speaker 2: Service director did. Now, the White House has made it
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  Speaker 2: clear departmenthand Security, my orchist, has made it clear they
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  Speaker 2: have her full backing.
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  Speaker 1: She's their DEI Higher.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to save her at all costs is what
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  Speaker 2: they're going with now. But some of the lies that
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  Speaker 2: are just coming out. And look, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: Secret Service that are here. Obviously there was going to
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  Speaker 2: be a lot here. I think there's even more here
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  Speaker 2: because of what happened. I've talked to a lot of them.
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  Speaker 2: They're upset because they can't believe the incompetence of the leadership.
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  Speaker 2: I talked last night to three different Secret Service individuals
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  Speaker 2: who look they're angry. I want you to understand, they
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  Speaker 2: are very very angry. It makes them look bad. This
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  Speaker 2: is not who they want to be, This is not
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  Speaker 2: how they want to be looked at. They are just
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  Speaker 2: extremely angry and frustrated, and it is one of those
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  Speaker 2: things that just they're really really really really really furious
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  Speaker 2: about and they should be by the way, they should
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  Speaker 2: be angry, they should be frustrated. And it's when you
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  Speaker 2: dedicate yourself and you're willing to take a bullet for
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  Speaker 2: your protectee, and then you watch what happened, and look
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  Speaker 2: they're getting Let's make no mistake, the Secret Service is
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  Speaker 2: getting decimated right now. They are being attacked on a
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  Speaker 2: level that we just haven't seen in a very long time.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's justified for all the questions. But
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  Speaker 2: I said this day one, I don't think the men
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  Speaker 2: and women that were on the ground there we're doing
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  Speaker 2: anything but their job protecting the president. I think that
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  Speaker 2: can be true, while also knowing that the higher ups
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  Speaker 2: who make the decision on how much protection you get
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  Speaker 2: can screw up or this could even be more nefarious
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  Speaker 2: than that.
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  Speaker 1: I am not a.
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  Speaker 2: I say this because I want to be so cautious,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel even more confident in the men and
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  Speaker 2: women at the street level that are actually willing to
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  Speaker 2: risk their lives for a president or a protectee, especially
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  Speaker 2: after talking to a lot of them here at the convention.
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  Speaker 1: And what I have learned.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right now you've got a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who are upset, they're frustrated. They're angry, they're mad, and
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  Speaker 2: they are frustrated that they're being treated this way where
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: they're just being attacked. I want you to listen to
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  Speaker 2: the Secret Service director in part of her interview, take
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  Speaker 2: a listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: The shooter was.
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  Speaker 4: Actually identified as a potential the person of the suspicion.
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  Speaker 4: By the time that individual was eventually located, they were
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  Speaker 4: on the rooftop and were able to fire off at
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  Speaker 4: the former president.
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  Speaker 5: The director of the Secret Service is under pressure following
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  Speaker 5: the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump as lawmakers
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  Speaker 5: demand answers on how this tragedy could have happened. Chat
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  Speaker 5: programs Live on the Hill with more Are they going
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  Speaker 5: to get some answers?
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Dana Well. Bipartisan lawmakers are seething over what
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  Speaker 6: went wrong. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appears for a
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  Speaker 6: hearing Monday before the House Oversight Committee. Cheatle says she
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  Speaker 6: will not resign.
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  Speaker 1: The book stops with me.
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  Speaker 4: I am the director of the Secret Service. It was
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  Speaker 4: unacceptable and it's something that shouldn't happen again. We will
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  Speaker 4: be transparent, both internally with my own folks and externally
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  Speaker 4: with members of Congress and with the American public.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the public deserves.
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  Speaker 6: Two virtual briefings today for two separate House committees, the
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  Speaker 6: Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight Committee. Lawmakers are mystified
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  Speaker 6: at the spectacular level of security failures.
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  Speaker 7: They're all appalled that someone could climb that roof and
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  Speaker 7: be noticed and stay on that route for so long
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  Speaker 7: without anyone doing anything about it, with the President.
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  Speaker 1: United States speaking just one hundred.
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  Speaker 7: And fifty yards from there.
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  Speaker 6: Now, Comer is requesting all documents and recordings related to
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  Speaker 6: the rally. He also wants a list of all personnel
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  Speaker 6: and their responsibilities. Local law enforcement may also face questions.
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  Speaker 8: I want to talk to the local police officer who
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  Speaker 8: confronted the bad guy, who confronted the assassin. I would
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  Speaker 8: love to talk to the Secret Service agent who took
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  Speaker 8: the shot, the counter sniper who took out the bad guy,
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  Speaker 8: because how soon did he know? So I think all
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  Speaker 8: those are important questions that we need answers to to
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  Speaker 8: find out what went wrong here.
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  Speaker 6: Now, the Senate Homeland Security Committee plans a hearing before
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  Speaker 6: August first the House Judiciary Committee. Here's from FBI Director
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  Speaker 6: Christopher Ray next Wednesday that hearing was already planned. But
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  Speaker 6: there will be lots of questions about the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: So you listen to that new report and there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are asking a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 1: This is a.
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  Speaker 2: Just colossal screw up by the FBI leadership and the
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  Speaker 2: director of the Secret Service facing this blistering criticism as
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  Speaker 2: she should, after claiming during this interview that personnel were
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  Speaker 2: not positioned on top of the building where the Trump
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  Speaker 2: rally shooter opened fire because quote, it was a sloped roof,
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  Speaker 2: despite images showing cnyper set up on an exact sloped
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  Speaker 2: roof at the same slope behind the former presidens podium.
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  Speaker 2: The Secret Service director is an idiot. She should resign,
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  Speaker 2: She should be fired. She should actually just be fired.
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  Speaker 2: She shouldn't just she didn't even have the chance to resign.
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  Speaker 2: She's not going anywhere because what the Democrats do well,
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  Speaker 2: they always protect their own. Why did the US Secret
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  Speaker 2: Service Director Kimberly make these remarks during this interview with
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  Speaker 2: ABC News because she expected that she could get away
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  Speaker 2: with the lies. She said, Hey, the agency was aware
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  Speaker 2: of the security vulnerabilities presented by the building that the
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  Speaker 2: shooter took. That sniper position on and aimed at Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 2: That building in particular has a sloped roof at its
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  Speaker 2: highest point, and so you know there's a safety factor
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  Speaker 2: that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 2: put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: the decision was made to secure the building from inside.
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  Speaker 2: She said, So there were law enforcements inside the building. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not seeing a guy climb up on top
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  Speaker 2: of the roof, what good does that do? Now there
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  Speaker 2: are so many people that are just ripping this sloped
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  Speaker 2: roof and it's not safe because the snipe rapers that
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  Speaker 2: took him out were on a sloped roof.
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  Speaker 1: That's where they were. They were on a sloped roof. Quote.
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  Speaker 2: Are snipers used to set in on mountaintops in Afghanistan
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  Speaker 2: on the downslope if needed? That is what former Army
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  Speaker 2: ranger Sean Parnell wrote on Twitter, calling her explanation a
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  Speaker 2: total BS excuse.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 2: The stupidity of this statement explained so much of why
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  Speaker 2: the blank hit the fan that day. Absolute incompetence, This
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  Speaker 2: sad excuse about Defy's believability. The snipers above President Trump
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  Speaker 2: were on a sloped roof, So why couldn't they secure
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  Speaker 2: the slope roof that the assassin was on. That's what
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  Speaker 2: Jim Demant, a former US Senator from South Carolina said, quote,
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  Speaker 2: she should have been fired days ago. We need accountability. Ironically,
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  Speaker 2: the snipers who are behind Trump during the rally.
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  Speaker 1: Again, this is going back to the facts.
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  Speaker 2: We're on a sloped roof, and she says, we can't
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  Speaker 2: put them on a sloped roof. These Secret Service agents
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  Speaker 2: that I've talked to, they are very, very, very very angry.
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  Speaker 2: They are upset. They don't like the fact that they're
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: being drug through the mud. So many of them are
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  Speaker 2: incredible men and women. So many of them love the
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  Speaker 2: job that they do. They love working for the Secret Service.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: They love protecting their protectees. That's what they want to do.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Like that's it. That's what they want to do. And
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: it is truly amazing to me that this excuse is
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: going to stand. But at the same time, no one
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: should be surprised because this is the lack of account
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: ability of the President of the United States of America
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: and his administration. Remember her boss, Mayorcis said to your
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: face over and over again for the last three and
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  Speaker 2: a half years. The border is secure. The border is secure.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: He said that in congressional testimony. The border is secure.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: The border is secure. So if he believes that he
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: can walk out, and as millions are crossing the border,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: tell you the border of secure and there's no accountability.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Why would she believe that she would need to step
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: down from her position after Donald Trump almost gets killed.
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  Speaker 1: Let that sink in.
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  Speaker 2: It was a dangerous roof and Secret Service couldn't get
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: on that roof safely or securely. The same exact slope
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: of that roof is the slope that the sniper team
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: was on that took him out.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: The shooter.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of people that cannot believe that
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: this woman is in charge of se Service after this
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: massive failure, and how she hasn't been fired. She is
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: doing interviews and the Biden administration is protecting her. It
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: is disgusting. The Secret Service Diructor says she will not
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: resign after the Trump assassination attempt. Now, if you can
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: have a security lapse where less than two hundred yards away,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: you have a sniper on a building that can take
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: what many described it as like the perfect shot in
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: the perfect angle to take out a president. If that
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: doesn't get you fired, is there anything in the Biden
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: administration that can get you fired? Remember, my orchis the
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: border is secure, of the border secure, and what has happened,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: he has not had to worry at all about being fired.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. The shooter was.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Actually identified as a potential the version of the suspicion.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: By the time that individual was eventually located, they were
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: on the rooftop and were to fire off at the
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: former president.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: The director of the Secret Service is under pressure following
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, as lawmakers
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: demand answers on how this tragedy could have happened. Chad
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: programs Live on the Hill with more. Are they going
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: to get some answers?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Dana, We'll buy.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: Partisan lawmakers are seething over what went wrong. Secret Service
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Director Kimberly Cheatle appears for a hearing Monday before the
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: House Oversight Committee. Cheatle says she will not resign.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: The book stops with me.
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  Speaker 4: I am the director of the Secret Service. It was
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: unacceptable and it's something that shouldn't happen.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Ken.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: We will be transparent both internally with my own folks
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: and externally with members of Congress and with the American public.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: That's what the public deserves.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Two virtual briefings today for two separate House committees, the
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight Committee. Lawmakers are mystified
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: at the spectacular level of security failures.
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: They're that someone could find that route and be noticed
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: and stay on that roof for so long without anyone
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: doing anything about it, with the President United States speaking
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: just one hundred and fifty yards from it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Comer is requesting all documents and recordings related to the rally.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: He also wants a list of all personnel and their responsibilities.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Local law enforcement may also face questions.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: I want to talk to the local police officer who
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: confronted the bad guy, who confronted the assassin. I would
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: love to talk to the secret Service agent who took
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: the shot, the counter sniper who took out the bad guy,
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: because how soon did he know? So? I think all
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: those are important questions that we need answers to to
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: find out what went wrong here.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Now, the Senate Homeland Security Committee plans a hearing before August. First,
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: the House Judiciary Committee. Here's from FBI Director Christopher Ray. Next, Wednesday,
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: that hearing was already planned, that there will be lots
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: of questions about the shootings.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Dan, you listen to this and the FBI director again,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: she's making excuses what this administration does. There's also reports
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: out that the first thing that they did was crisis management,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: not investigation of how this went wrong, but protection of
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: protecting the administration from criticism. That's not okay, Like if
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: your first instinct here was to actually protect the institution
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and the leadership, because you know it's such a problem
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: that you just you go in the opposite direction here,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: you got to be like crazy, That's not what your
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: job should have been, and they went into pr crisis mode.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: She was also asked in this new interview about law
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: enforcement and those that actually saw the shooter.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 10: When you said that local law enforcement was responsible for
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: that building.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: What did you mean by that?
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: So Secret Service respects local law enforcement, and we could
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: not do our job, either investigatively or on our protective
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: mission without them in Pennsylvania. In fact, on that same
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: day they were also working the first Lady trip and
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: a vice presidential trip. So I understand the constraints that
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: they're under and as I said earlier, we couldn't do
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: our job without them. At that particular site. We divided
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: up areas of responsibility, but the Secret Service is totally
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: responsible for the design and the impliplication and the execution
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: of the site. And that's what I was trying to stress,
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: was that we just divided up areas of responsibility and
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: they provided support to those areas of responsibility.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I mean again, no accountability. No one has been fired.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: You have a president that is shot at from one
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty yards away from a perfect position on
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: roof where they inside the building below. There's law enforcement
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: and zero accountability at all. Zero, zero accountability. Eric Trump
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: saying this about Joe Biden comparing to his father, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: what all has happened in the fight between the two
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: men and the difference between the two men.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Here's Eric Trump in his own words.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: So we're waiting for the investigation. We all want answers
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: to understand how in fact this could have happened. Some
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: of the delegates here are wearing white bandages on their
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: ear on their right ear, in a lighthearted show of
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: solidarity with President Trump. We spoke with Ronnie Jackson, the
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: former physician of the White House physician for three presidents,
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: including President Trump.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: He said, the ear will heal.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: Is President Trump feeling any pain or anything like that?
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: He was saying it was the worst erech he's ever had.
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: Right after it happened. That has some like, how are
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: you going?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: He's like, it's pretty better, right, I couldn't leave.
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: The other day he said, oh, it was like the worst.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Mosquito every But it's he's so tough.
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: You know, you literally see the vapor trail of the
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: bullet in that incredible New York Times picture.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, literally go through the air.
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: But you know that picture will go down as one
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: of the I think most iconic pictures in the United
• 26:19
  Speaker 11: States history. Again, you know, people react in moments like that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: That's pure adrenaline. And he stood up, and he has
• 26:25
  Speaker 11: ten Secret Service ages trying to hold him down, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: he's got blood running down the side of his face,
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: and he puts his hand up. Fight, fight, fight. And
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: I'm not sure if you heard it when my white
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: was speaking last night and during some of the other speeches,
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: but people would just stand up, they put their hand
• 26:37
  Speaker 11: in the air. Fight, fight, fight, And I saw that, Maria,
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: That's what this country needs. And man, we have a
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: guy in there who doesn't fight. I don't know if
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: he knows he's alive. He you know, he can't walk
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: across a room, he can't get through a sentence. He
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: certainly couldn't do an interview like this off the cuff.
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: I mean, you know, we don't have a cheerleader. We
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: don't have a fighter, We don't have anybody who's competent.
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: We don't have people working long hours. You know, it's
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: it's a joke. I mean half the White House is
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: still working remotely based on COVID if you could possibly believe,
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: I mean, think about our White House still working remotely.
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: And why don't we don't have anybody fighting for this
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: country anymore? And you know, I don't care if you're
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: a Republican or a Democrat. I don't care what political
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: affiliation you were. No one in the world can't say
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: that Donald Trump wasn't the hardest worker and hard you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: and best cheerleader the United States has ever happen. I mean,
• 27:21
  Speaker 11: you come back from China, come back from Asia. He'd
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: land on Air Force One at you know, three o'clock
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: in the morning at Andrew's Airporce base, he walk right
• 27:26
  Speaker 11: up to that picket line, and you know, every reporter
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: would be shouting questions at him, and he would land
• 27:31
  Speaker 11: on Marine one back of the White House, same thing,
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: do another press gaggle. Then he'd be up at six
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: o'clock in the morning. I mean, the guy was relentless.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: Do you feel a different tone after the assassination attempt
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: from people? I mean, I think unfortunately it took that
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: for some people to recognize Donald Trump's leadership.
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: Well, I think it's the assassination at tempt. I also
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: think was the debate that it was such a disaster
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: that the media can no longer cover for Biden anymore,
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: and they've lost all their credibility, not shows like yours
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: and not Fox, but you know everybody else. I did MSNBC, Yes,
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: I did CNN yesterday, you know, all the big networks.
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: And I've never been treated with such respect. And by
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: the way, I was going into those interviews knowing that
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: I was just he get savagely attacked because a thousand
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: other times I've done those networks, I've gotten savagely attacked,
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: and I did. I felt a different temperature, and I
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: hope some level of stability can keep up. But I
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: also think the media has realized that he's lost his credibility,
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: and they told the entire world that somebody's credible, you know,
• 28:26
  Speaker 11: that somebody was a great genius, the modern day Albert Einstein,
• 28:30
  Speaker 11: you know, for a four year period of time. Then
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: he goes out there, he can hardly get to the podium,
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: and then when he gets up there, it's just a
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: word salad. And I think they've lost their credibility with
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: the American people, and I think they have to kind
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: of tack over to the center a little bit more
• 28:41
  Speaker 11: than where they've positioned themselves.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I think Eric Trump, in the way he described that
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: and people win the investigation and how his father's doing
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: right now is so vitally important for the context that
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: he was giving in this perspective on his dad now
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: and wanting answers. Yes, but I think it's shell shocked everyone,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: his family, everyone, And that's important. And I also think
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: you can hear it in his voice like, yes, we
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: want answers, but we're also just living this moment where
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: think the Lord that our dad's alive.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: There. I mean, it's just a different tone.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: It's different here at the Republican Convention it is a
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: very very very different tone.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Make sure you share this podcast with your family and friends, please,
• 29:31
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• 29:33
  Speaker 3: not gonna hear on the news.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: And I'll see you back here tomorrow