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Israel Takes Out Hamas Leader in Tehran and Sec Serv has NO ANSWERS on Trump · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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