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Speaker 1: Have you seen the story floating around in the last

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Speaker 1: couple of days about the US Secret Service after that

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Speaker 1: assassination attempt on President Trump? The internet's been going nuts,

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Speaker 1: not because how did it happen? What a cockup? Who's responsible?

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Speaker 1: But also because a number of the agents trying to

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Speaker 1: protect the president were women. According to Time magazine, this

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Speaker 1: is based on video of the shooting. One of these

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Speaker 1: agents looked quite frazzled and couldn't get a gun back

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Speaker 1: into its holster. Another apparently frantically shouted what are we doing?

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Speaker 1: Where are we going? After the shots were fired, and

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Speaker 1: Meghan McCain, the daughter of John McCain, the former presidential nominee, tweeted,

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Speaker 1: this is why the notion of men and women being

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Speaker 1: that's the same is just absurd. You need to be

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Speaker 1: taller than the candidate to protect them with your body.

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Speaker 1: Why do they have these short women guarding Trump? Quite

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Speaker 1: an explosive opinion from Meghan McCain. Some are blaming the

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Speaker 1: diversity inclusion targets. Apparently they've got a target of having

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Speaker 1: thirty percent of the Secret Service agents as women, and

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Speaker 1: I can remember similar acts from some firefighters male firefighters

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Speaker 1: a few years back. They didn't trust women, well smaller

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Speaker 1: women to be able to pull them out of a

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Speaker 1: burning building should the need arise, And others say that

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Speaker 1: these arguments are sexist, that women can and should do anything, etc.

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Speaker 1: Both of these arguments I think kind of have merit.

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Speaker 1: It's a fact that men are generally taller and bigger

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Speaker 1: than women, but that doesn't mean all men are. I

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Speaker 1: can think of many women who are taller and bigger

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Speaker 1: than me who could frankly beat the crap out of

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Speaker 1: me if I needed a bodyguard or saving from a

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Speaker 1: burning building. Their sex wouldn't be an issue to me.

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Speaker 1: But if the person is smaller and not as strong,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a Secret Service agent or whether it's a firefighter,

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Speaker 1: shouldn't there be minimum standards that apply to ensure safety.

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Speaker 1: Surely safety would be top of mind when it comes

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Speaker 1: to both of those occupations. Fighters end to the Secret Service,

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Speaker 1: So perhaps Meghan McCain, no matter how outrageous, has a

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