WEBVTT - The Scott Jennings Podcast, April 27, 2026 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:07.120 The voice of free speech, the truth delivered, common sense 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:08.800 for the American people. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.240 Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:13.960 Weekend. 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:18.000 Terror in Washington reminds us that, yes, in fact, the 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.599 American left has a violence problem. We'll discuss in just 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.880 a moment what is the security fallout from Saturday night's 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.160 attack on President Trump At the White House correspondence dinner. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.000 We'll talk to a former deputy director of the Secret 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.559 Service for his opinion, and we get the latest on 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:38.000 Iran today as the details of diplomacy remain murky as 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.920 we enter a new week of ceasefire and blockade. It 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.640 is Monday, April the twenty seventh. This is common sense 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.519 for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings, broadcasting for Salem 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.519 from your nation's capital. On this day in history, twelve 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.200 ninety six, King Edward the First of England invaded Scotland, 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.600 setting off years of warfare between the two nations. And 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.959 as for today's news, the present King of England, King 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.400 Charles the Third, arrives in Washington, d C. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.360 For a state visit the British Royals. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.840 We'll meet with President Trump host a garden party at 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.760 which yours truly is expected to be present and deliver 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.080 and addressed to Congress. These two great nations have been 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:22.319 the protectors of Western civilization in decades past. Perhaps the 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.240 King will leave here imbued with and reminded of that 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.080 spirit as his own nation grapples with an immigration crisis 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.240 that has warped its domestic politics and jeopardized its standing 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.320 as a pillar of the West. Now to the weekends 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.399 events in Washington, d C. The annual White House Correspondent's 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.559 Dinner was to take place Saturday night at the Washington Hilton, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.440 site of an attempted assassination of President Reagan in nineteen 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.240 eighty one. This dinner takes place at this location every year. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:58.560 All of Washington's journalists, powerbrokers, special interests, government officials, even 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.680 if you celebrities, gat to celebrate the First Amendment. Other 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.320 presidents have routine lee attended this dinner, but not President Trump, 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.360 who hasn't been since twenty eleven, when President Obama famously 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.440 made fun of him, leading Washington's elite to laugh at 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.960 the one day, forty fifth and forty seventh president. Those 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.040 are jokes, I'm sure the elite wish they could have back. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.080 Since then, Trump has snubbed the dinner, but this year, 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:28.400 for some reason, he decided to attend and then terror struck. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.280 Thirty one year old Cole Thomas Allen of Torrance, California 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.079 rushed the security checkpoint with a shotgun, two handguns, and 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.760 multiple knives. He was taken down by Secret Service, but 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.720 shockingly avoided being shot himself. Allan did hit a Secret 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.160 Service agent in the bulletproof vest. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.000 Thank goodness, he'll be okay. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.760 Thomas the shooter is now under arrest and faces several 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:57.520 federal charges. He's appearing in district court in Washington today. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.000 In the hours that followed the dinner, which was postponed, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.280 a clear picture emerged. This man, a school teacher with 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.560 a PhD from Caltech, had been marinating in standard issue 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.600 left wing talking points, things you hear every day on 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.519 cable news and on the left's favorite social media websites. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.280 He also attended a No King's rally, apparently where people 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.920 routinely hold signs and call for Trump's death. Trump is hitler, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.520 Trump is a fascist. Trump is a racist, Trump is 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.120 a threat to democracy. Trump is a pedophile. That is 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.720 what Cole Allen was marinating in on a regular basis, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.760 and he was programmed by people like Congressman Ted lu 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.400 Take a listen to Cut seventeen. 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.720 Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:46.360 of times. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.960 In those files, there's highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:56.880 raping children, of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:03.320 Obviously, the shooter believed Ted Luw's lies and decided to 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.000 do something about it. I mean, if you believed all 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.800 the things they say about Trump, you could see how 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.080 someone might get the idea that killing him is a 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.440 good idea. Would it be a good idea to kill Hitler? 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.440 After all? But when violent action occurs, we get Democrats 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.920 immediately claiming they have no idea what you're talking about. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.239 Listen to Congressman Jamie Raskin on Sunday morning, the morning 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:27.600 after this on CNN. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.279 It's jaw dropping cut eighteen. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.159 And you have, as many of your fellow Democrats have 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.680 used some heated rhetoric against the president. And do you 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.640 think twice about that when something like this happened. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:44.000 What rhetoric do you have in mind? What a complete 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.839 and total joke of a human being, The idea that 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.080 he doesn't know what is said on the left about 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.280 Trump that incites all these lunatics to violence. This sort 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.359 of feigned ignorance is a permission structure to keep it going. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.240 But it isn't confined to a clown like Raskin. None 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.720 other than the former President of the United States, Barack Obama, 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.640 on late Sunday afternoon, well after we knew the motivations 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.960 of the left wing lunatic shooter, issued a statement about 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.440 the matter. I'll read you the first sentence and I quote, 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.080 although we don't yet have the details about the motives 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:22.880 behind last night shooting end quote. This is insidious, it 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.360 is sick, and it is what the left does to 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.599 keep the violence in the violent rhetoric going. They have 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.719 no ability to control their radical base, and so people 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.120 like Raskin and Obama have just decided to excuse it 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.800 by pretending to ignore it. And guess what, six months 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.440 from now, six years from now, some Democrat talking head 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.359 on cable TV will say, oh, we don't really know 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.480 why that guy shot up the White House Correspondence dinner. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.080 Even Obama said so. Just a couple of days before 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.240 the dinner, the most hateful man in America, Jimmy Kimmel, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.599 gave this mock dinner speech. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.760 Listen to this cut eleven our first left, dy Malania 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:01.320 is here. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.080 Look at more's so beautiful, missus Trump. You have a 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.520 glow like an expectant widow, you. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:12.240 Know, laughing laughing at that, they were, Do you get it? 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.960 Do you understand? This isn't Kimmel being funny. This is 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:22.520 wish casting, This is dreaming, this is hoping. This is 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.279 Jimmy Kimmel trying to will into existence the death of 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.080 Donald Trump. And he pretty much does this on a 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.000 nightly basis. Three weeks ago, Saturday Night Live joked about 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.000 Trump being assassinated cut nineteen. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.640 President Trump attended the opening night of Chicago at the 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.880 Kennedy Center. And I think that's cool that the president 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:42.880 is going to the theater. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.760 I mean, what's the worst that could happen? 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.680 The liberals have decided that the trouble was subtlety is 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.000 that not everyone gets it. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.680 So they just pretty much say out loud. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.120 Now their preferred outcomes and hope for someone to take 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.279 them up on it. Last September, the biggest buffoon in 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.680 American politics, Tim Walls was hoping to wake up to 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.960 news that Trump had died. Cut twenty you get up 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.360 in the morning and you doom scroll through things. And 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.840 although I will say this, the last few days. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.840 You woke up thinking there might be news. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.640 Just saying, just saying, there will be news sometime, just 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:23.720 so you know there will be. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.680 News, folks. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.200 They aren't hiding it and they aren't sorry about it either. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.440 Democratic candidates know what time it is in their party. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.040 They know exactly what their radical base wants to hear, 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.840 listen to Abdel al sayed, the leading Democrat candidate for 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:38.920 send it Up in Michigan. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:39.680 Cut twenty one. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.360 We don't knock down, with all due respect that they 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:44.520 go low, we don't go high. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.480 We take them to the mud and choke them out. 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.160 And last week Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries issued orders to 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.000 the nation's radicals cut fourteen. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:54.640 We are in an era. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:04.560 Of maximum warfare everywhere, all the time, and we're going 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:09.119 to keep the pressure on Republicans in every single state 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.600 in the Union to ensure at the end of the 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:18.560 day that there is a fair national map, because we 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.240 believe that it's the people who should decide who's in 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:27.080 the majority in the next Congress, not Donald Trump. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:33.520 Maximum warfare, folks, we have a left wing violence problem 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.600 in America. As I had to explain to a CNN 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.920 panel on Sunday Afternoon Cut twenty two, you can understand 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.760 why we're on edge as conservative zough three times the President, 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.480 Steve Scalise, Brett Kavanaugh, Charlie Kirk. Heck, there was even 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.960 a plot against Russ Volt the other day. Who's the 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.040 head of the Office of Management and Budget. I mean, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.080 Conservatives are I think rightfully on edge because this keeps 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.600 happening over and over and over again, and people keep 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.520 calling the Donald Trump and Nazi, and they keep calling 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.079 him a fascist, and they keep repeating lies about him 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.760 that are not true, yet they keep getting repeated regarding Epstein. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.040 And other things. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.720 Well, I'm just telling you as a Conservative who lives 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.839 in this every day. My friend was murdered last year, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.560 My presidents had three assassination attempts. I have a notot 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.760 in my stomach about it every day that I wake up. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:26.040 We have a left wing violence problem in this country. Media, comedians, politicians, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.520 even some of the left wings supposed religious leaders, all 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:34.160 of them creating permission structures and excuses and motivations for 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.880 violence against President Trump and his party. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:37.760 It is disgusting. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.120 It is dangerous, and to be honest, I cannot believe 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.840 how calm the President himself is about all of it. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.040 We have a great show for you today, lots of 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.960 breaking news. 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We'll grab some sound from Caroline. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.400 See what she has to say. I suspect she's got 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.760 some harsh words for Jimmy Kimmel and others who've been 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.560 inciting violence against President Trump and the President today will 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.480 reportedly meet with his national security team in the Situation 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.040 Room talking about Iran. It comes after some peace talks 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.520 we're canceled in Pakistan over the weekend. Someone who's been 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.920 in the situation room and in these kinds of meetings 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.880 is Victoria Coach. She joins us now. She's at the 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.559 Heritage Foundation and she's a former deputy National Security Advisor 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.559 to the President. Victoria, thanks for coming on the Scott 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:48.600 Jennings Show today. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:49.640 Let's start here. 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.280 Give us your impression of where we stand with Iran 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.360 and the prospect of peace talks occurring. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:54.800 This week. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.920 Well, I'll tell you, Scott, this is the darnedest thing. 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.440 It's like the Tales two Wars. On the one hand, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.640 you have this narrative that's being pushed by the New 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.319 York Times, Washington Posts, maybe even by some of your 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:15.160 colleagues on another news network, that we are losing this war, 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.880 that Garan is playing masterfully being Chairman Chancellor Mertz of 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.440 Germany came out today and said that the United States 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:27.240 is being humiliated by Iran, and it runs in the 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.760 base of every fact we know about this war, in 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.200 which we have crushed them militarily. They're going into day 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.240 fifty nine with no Internet for ninety nine percent of 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:41.240 their citizens. They're dragging junk ships out of dry dock 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.319 to stuff whale into them because they're running out of storage. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.920 Their currency has no value, and the president has all 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.319 the cards. He can just sit there and watch that 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.439 whole country implode. So I think they'll be talking about 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.839 how they can exploit the very real leverage that they have. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.679 Can it's the Iranians not to listen to the New 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.520 York Times in the Washington Post and to look at 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.640 the reality of what they face and come to the 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.120 table and make a decent deal. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:12.880 Victoria Coach is our guest. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:17.280 Victoria, tell us what you think Iran's immediate future is 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.640 when it comes to their economy. We still have this 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.000 naval blockade going on, and even though a lot of 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.520 people in the media want to argue that Iran has 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.000 more time here than the United States, I tend to 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.720 think it's the opposite. The Iranian economy is being choked 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.960 off from this oil revenue and other shipping revenue on 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.000 a daily basis. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:38.800 Is it days, is it weeks? 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.920 How much longer can the Iranian economy withstand the US 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.840 naval blockade, which I think has been extremely successful. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.400 It really has been, and it's broke old paradigm that 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.160 we have to be held hostage by the Iranians because 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.920 of the strait of hormotes. That's not true anymore. And 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.280 so there are going to be a couple of benchmarks. 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.840 The first is this storage issue they have for oil 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.200 that they probably have another five six days that they 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.360 can pump at normal capacity and store it. And after 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.320 that they're going to have to make some really hard 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.320 decisions about potentially capping wells, which can be as I'm 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.280 sure you know, very damaging to that precious resource for them. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.960 Then there is the issue of the currency. They announced 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.360 before the war they were going to print five million 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.440 reale notes. They're now up to ten million real notes. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.320 So I don't know if we're going to go to 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.960 twenty you know, what's what they're going to do about 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.920 their currency. And then there is the issue of when 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.320 they turn their stock market back on, which has been 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.000 shuttered since early March. I mean, will we see historic 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.200 They have to do it at some point, and what 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.320 we see historic capital flight out of Irun. So I 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.440 think this is going to be a rolling situation rather 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.120 than a single, you know, a single episode pushing it 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.720 over the edge. But it's very hard to see how 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.520 they solve those systemic problems. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.920 Victoria Coats, thanks for your commentary on a RAN before 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.960 we go. I didn't want to find out if you 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.480 had any reaction to the attempted assassination the third time 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.880 of President Trump. This weekend, I was doing coverage on 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.840 CNN as I usually do for the White House Correspondent's Dinner. 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.120 What did you think when you saw that news? 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.160 It was just shocking. Each of these episodes over the 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.840 last couple of years where President Trump has been directly targeted. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.680 Has been a real shock to the political system, and 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.600 I think shows us how dangerous the vitriol is that 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:37.080 is boiling on the left towards him, very personally and 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.680 towards anyone who associates with him. I mean, I've been 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.560 on the receiving end of it. I'm sure you have. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:47.000 It is ugly, it's divisive, and it is beholden on 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.160 Democrat leadership to call it out and put an end 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:51.920 to it before somebody really gets hurt. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:53.320 Yeah. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.040 The Democratic leadership, I'm afraid though, has just decided to 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.680 ignore it or pretend it isn't happening, because, honestly, Victoria, 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.400 I think radical base has. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.160 Control of them and not the other way around. 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.720 Victoria Coates is vice president at the Heritage Foundation. She's 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.520 a national security expert, and she's former deputy National Security 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.840 advisor to President Trump. Thanks for coming on today. I'm 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.159 sure we'll have you back soon as we watch the 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:19.400 unfolding developments in the Middle East. When we return after 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.600 the next commercial break, I have on with me my 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.480 friend and author and journalist Selena Zito as she covered 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.399 the president in Butler, Pennsylvania. The last time there was 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.800 an assassination attempt against him. I want to talk to 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.280 her about her views on what happened at the White 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.159 House Correspondence dinner this weekend. It's common sense for the 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:38.880 American people. I'm Scott Jennings. 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.800 Stay with us, the man who made CNN that's safe 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.200 for conservatives again. Here Scott Jennings. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.800 It is Monday, April the twenty seventh. We're tracking breaking news. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.880 Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, has just finished 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:54.920 a briefing from the podium. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.399 She wasn't even supposed to brief anymore. She was gonna 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:58.200 wrap up her. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.000 Duties on Friday, but because of Saturday night's events, she 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.159 went back to the podium today. We'll bring some of 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.480 that to you in just a little bit, and coming 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.440 up in sixty seconds, we have the great journalist Selena 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.320 Zito here to discuss what happened on Saturday. First, though, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.400 I do need to deliver a message. 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If something doesn't feel right, you don't have 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.239 to be certain about it to just reach out and 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.879 make the call. One call can help save a child's life. 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.280 Visit childhelp dot org to learn the signs, find support, 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.080 and be part of the solution. Our view here is 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.800 that every child deserves a safe childhood and that every 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.320 voice matters. It's common sense for the American people. Scott 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.760 Jennings Broadcasting for Salem Joining us now. Selena Zito, author 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.080 of the number one New York Times bestseller Butler, The 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.800 Untold story of the near assassination of Donald Trump and 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.960 the fight for America's Heartland. She also writes for The 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.840 DC Examiner and for The Washington Post. Selena, Welcome back 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.119 to the Scott Jennings Show. I thought of you this 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.320 weekend as I was doing coverage on CNN of the 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.080 White House Correspondence Dinner, because you literally wrote the book, 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.119 the most thorough and detailed book and journalism about what 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:55.000 happened to the president in Butler, Pennsylvania as you watched 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:59.000 Saturday Nights events. What was going through your mind given 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.160 what you experience yourself and Butler. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.919 Well, Scott, first of all, thank you so much for 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.639 having me on. You know, I have to say I 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.919 never I didn't realize how much I didn't process what 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:16.160 happened in Butler. To me. If people read my book 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.440 or know me, they know those shots went right over 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:20.760 my head and that my daughter was right beside me. 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.720 But I didn't. I didn't realize I hadn't processed it 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:30.679 appropriately because I kept working, right, and you just you 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:35.160 just keep working. And when I heard those shots that 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:38.359 really sort of hit me and hit me hard. 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:40.359 It was. 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:42.560 I think. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.920 The first thing that strikes me, though, is President Trump's comportment. 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:53.520 He was calm, he was a matter of fact. He 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:57.040 took it in stride. And what's so important about that 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:02.000 is that accept the tone for the room and just 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.800 in the way that it set the tone at the 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:09.640 at the rally in Butler, people often comment like, look, 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.200 how calm the crowd is. Where aren't they freaking out? 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:13.600 You know? 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.960 And when he did what he did in Butler, when 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.000 he got off and said fight by fight, when he 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.160 made sure he had his shoes on when he left, 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.840 when he made sure he didn't go out in a stretcher. 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:30.480 He told me the next day that was because he 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.919 had an obligation, not as Donald Trump the man, but 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:37.280 as someone who is representing the presidency for over two 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:41.679 hundred years. He had to show that the country goes on, 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:44.480 that the country is strong, that nothing breaks us down. 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:47.639 That was his obligation and I saw that again on 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:48.520 Saturday night. 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:54.360 Selena, as you watch what happened Saturday, I'm curious about 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:58.040 what you're thinking regarding the Secret Service and the security 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.560