Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator,
Speaker 2: we were right. I hate to say it, but a
Speaker 2: convention bomp does not exist anymore. With the new candidate,
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: We've got a serious fight at the top of the
Speaker 3: ticket for who's going to be the next president. Now,
Speaker 3: borders are Kamala Harris was in Texas yesterday. She was
Speaker 3: in Houston, you're in my hometown. Of course, she didn't
Speaker 3: go to the southern border. Instead, she went to talk
Speaker 3: to the teachers' unions. We're going to break that down
Speaker 3: and really underscore what this election is all about, which
Speaker 3: is the open borders and the threat to safety and
Speaker 3: security of every family in America. We're going to break
Speaker 3: that down in depth. We're also going to talk about
Speaker 3: the director of the Secret Service finally finally resigned. Of course,
Speaker 3: nobody gets fired in the Joe Biden administration, but she
Speaker 3: finally resigned after disastrous testimony before the House of Representatives.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about that and the catastrophic security
Speaker 3: failures that led to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: An assassination attempt that came within a half inch of
Speaker 3: being successful and changing the entire course of history. And
Speaker 3: why those security failures happen, what we need to do
Speaker 3: to prevent them going forward. We're gonna get into that
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's certainly important, especially with those security failures, and
Speaker 2: what we now know will break that down.
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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, she's in Houston. I just saw our motorcade
Speaker 2: about twenty minutes ago. I kid you not as you
Speaker 2: and I are recording this. She's all about coming to Houston.
Speaker 2: But dead, gummet. She still won't go to the border.
Speaker 1: Will she?
Speaker 3: So borders are Kamala Harris when she comes to Texas.
Speaker 3: She never ever ever goes to the border. In her
Speaker 3: entire tenure as Vice president. She's been to the border once.
Speaker 3: She went to El Paso for like twelve minutes. They
Speaker 3: cleaned it up so she didn't see illegal immigrants, and
Speaker 3: then she left. She did not go to the Rio
Speaker 3: Grande Valley. She did not go to Eagle Pass, she
Speaker 3: did not go to Del Rio.
Speaker 4: Instead.
Speaker 3: She is utterly a wall. She is nowhere to be found.
Speaker 3: But she did go to Houston to talk to the
Speaker 3: American Federation of Teachers, the big teachers unions gathering now.
Speaker 3: Randy Widgarden, who runs the AFT, is a hard left
Speaker 3: Democrat activist, and it is striking. I'll tell you two
Speaker 3: words Kamala Harris did not say when she spoke to
Speaker 3: the Teachers Union in Houston, learning loss. She did not
Speaker 3: accept even one iota of responsibility for the school shutdowns
Speaker 3: that Kamala Harris champion, that Randy Wigarden champion, that shut
Speaker 3: schools down in the wake of COVID Tens of millions
Speaker 3: of school kids across this country had their schools shut
Speaker 3: down for over a year, and it had devastating learning loss.
Speaker 3: And in fact, the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris shutdowns
Speaker 3: of schools resulted in the single greatest increase in the
Speaker 3: racial divide on reading tests and math tests ever recorded
Speaker 3: in this country since we began taking those tests. In
Speaker 3: other words, what did the policies of the Democrats do?
Speaker 3: What did the policies of the Teachers' union do? It
Speaker 3: dramatically hurt especially low income African American kids and low
Speaker 3: income Hispanic kids. And when Kamala Harris is in Houston
Speaker 3: to address the Teachers' union, not one word about it. Instead,
Speaker 3: she was screaming about the need for more gun control
Speaker 3: and the need to control our children. I mean, it is,
Speaker 3: it's frightening. It's a manifestation of just how extreme she is.
Speaker 3: And again, not a word about the invasion playing out
Speaker 3: at a southern border that Kamala Harris was ostensibly in
Speaker 3: charge of preventing.
Speaker 2: You know, there's also something else that really makes me laugh.
Speaker 2: I just got done doing Fox News and they're talking
Speaker 2: about Democrats are now are trying to convince the public
Speaker 2: that she actually wasn't the borders are. She was more
Speaker 2: just kind of like an ambassador for the for the administration,
Speaker 2: so she really wasn't in charge of the border. It
Speaker 2: was more like an honorary kind of thing, not reality.
Speaker 2: To try to separate her from the disaster at the border,
Speaker 2: which includes a policy of wanting to get rid of
Speaker 2: ice all together and saying in her own words that
Speaker 2: illegal immigrants should not be looked at as someone illegal
Speaker 2: and they shouldn't be charged with a crime. When you
Speaker 2: come into this country illegally, it should not be a crime.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, her policies and immigration have been a disaster from
Speaker 3: day I served with Kamala in the Senate, and she
Speaker 3: was extremely liberal. She was the most liberal senator when
Speaker 3: she was in the Senate. And when it comes to immigration,
Speaker 3: she's always supported open borders. She's been vocal about wanting
Speaker 3: to abolish ice. She's been vocal about wanting to make
Speaker 3: it not a crime to cross into this country illegally,
Speaker 3: and the policies we've seen under the Biden Harris administration
Speaker 3: have reflected her open border political priorities. She's not concerned
Speaker 3: at all about the people who are losing their lives
Speaker 3: as they cross illegally into this country. She's not concerned
Speaker 3: at all about the children who are brutalized by human traffickers.
Speaker 3: We know this because she won't do anything to help
Speaker 3: those children. She's not concerned about the women who are
Speaker 3: brutalized and raped by human traffickers. She's not concerned about
Speaker 3: the hundreds of thousands of Americans who've died from fentanyl
Speaker 3: overdoses because of her open borders. And I'll tell you,
Speaker 3: she has no concern for the Americans who are being
Speaker 3: murdered day after after day after day, for the children
Speaker 3: who are being raped day after day after day, every
Speaker 3: damn day.
Speaker 4: It is happening.
Speaker 3: And it sounds harsh to say she has no concern
Speaker 3: about that, but it is the only conclusion you can reach,
Speaker 3: because if she did care about them, this administration would
Speaker 3: change their policies. They would stop releasing illegal immigrants. And listen,
Speaker 3: I want to take a chance you and I did
Speaker 3: two live podcasts from the RNC in Milwaukee last week,
Speaker 3: but my entire speech to the RNC was on exactly
Speaker 3: this topic. It was entitled every damn Day, and it's
Speaker 3: not very long, It's only seven minutes. So I want
Speaker 3: to play it right now on the podcast so you
Speaker 3: can hear what I said at the RNC, because it
Speaker 3: really does underscore what the stakes are in this elections
Speaker 3: and what the very real human costs are of the
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden open borders we've had the
Speaker 3: last three and a half years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an incredible speech.
Speaker 2: I was on the four watching it as you were
Speaker 2: giving it, and it was amazing the reception of people
Speaker 2: with the facts you're bringing here.
Speaker 4: It is God bless Donald J. Trump.
Speaker 3: And let me start by giving thanks to God Almighty
Speaker 3: for protecting President Trump and for turning his head on
Speaker 3: Saturday as the shot was fired. Together we lift up
Speaker 3: in prayer all of our leaders for protection, and our
Speaker 3: prayers are in particular with the family of fire Chief
Speaker 3: Corey Comparatory and the others injured on Saturday. Never before
Speaker 3: has an election mattered so much. We are facing an
Speaker 3: v Asian on our southern border, not figuratively, a literal invasion.
Speaker 4: Eleven point five million.
Speaker 3: People have crossed our border illegally under Joe Biden.
Speaker 4: Look around you.
Speaker 3: This arena holds about eighteen thousand souls. Now imagine six
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty nine arenas just like this, filled to
Speaker 3: the brim. That is eleven point five million people, larger
Speaker 3: than all but eight states in the nation. But the
Speaker 3: numbers don't show us the true price that our country
Speaker 3: is paying.
Speaker 4: Every day.
Speaker 3: Americans are dying, murdered, assaulted, rapes by the illegal immigrants
Speaker 3: that the Democrats have released. Teenage girls and boys wearing
Speaker 3: colored wristbands are being sold into a life of sex slavery.
Speaker 3: This is evil, and it's wrong, and it is happening
Speaker 3: every damn day. Think of Kate Steinley. She was thirty
Speaker 3: two walking with her father on a San Francisco pier
Speaker 3: when a bullet tore through her heart. The man who
Speaker 3: fired that gun he'd been deported five times. Every damn day.
Speaker 3: Think of Lake and Riley, just twenty two years old,
Speaker 3: a nurse with dreams of healing others. She went for
Speaker 3: a job and never came home, her life taken by
Speaker 3: someone who should have never been here. Every damn day.
Speaker 3: Or Rachel Morin, a beautiful mother of five, raped and
Speaker 3: murdered in suburban Maryland by an illegal immigrant the Democrats released,
Speaker 3: every damn day. Or Joscelyn Nungary, only twelve years old.
Speaker 3: It was just one month ago today that she was
Speaker 3: brutally raped and murdered in Houston by two men who
Speaker 3: were supposed to be detained and monitored, but instead released
Speaker 3: and allowed to roam free every damn day. These aren't
Speaker 3: just stories or statistics. There are daughters, our sisters, our friends.
Speaker 3: The families don't care about the empty numbers. They care
Speaker 3: about the empty chairs at the dinner table, about the
Speaker 3: voices they'll never hear again, about the laughter lost, and
Speaker 3: about the dreams that will never be fulfilled. I've sat
Speaker 3: with these families in living rooms where the silence is
Speaker 3: so loud that it hurts, where photo albums are opened
Speaker 3: with trembling hands. How did we get here? It happened
Speaker 3: because Democrats cynically decided they wanted votes from illegals more
Speaker 3: than they wanted to protect our children. Today, as a
Speaker 3: result of Joe Biden's presidency, your family is less safe,
Speaker 3: Your children are less safe, The country is less safe.
Speaker 3: But here's the good news. We can fix it. And
Speaker 3: when Donald Trump is president, we will fix it. We
Speaker 3: know this because he's done it before. I know this
Speaker 3: because I worked hand in hand with President Trump to
Speaker 3: secure our border, and we achieve the lowest rate of
Speaker 3: illegal immigration in forty five years. It's real simple. He's
Speaker 3: done it before and he'll do it again. So tonight
Speaker 3: I speak for Kate and Laken and Rachel. Tonight I
Speaker 3: speak for Jocelyn, and let us go forward together and
Speaker 3: keep our sacred oath to defend the Constitution and to
Speaker 3: protect the American people. Let us secure our borders, enforce
Speaker 3: our laws, protect our children, and restore the future.
Speaker 2: Sinner, you hear that, and your speech, I think actually
Speaker 2: is even more important now than it was when you
Speaker 2: gave it, because this is going to be the election
Speaker 2: With Kamala Harris, she wants an open border. She believes
Speaker 2: people coming across are are should not be prosecuted. She
Speaker 2: believes that ice is the enemy, the agents, and they
Speaker 2: should be abolished. She wants to give healthcare that we
Speaker 2: pay for as taxpayers to every illegal immigrant, which is
Speaker 2: on giving them another incentive to come here. And she
Speaker 2: doesn't believe in the rule of law when it comes
Speaker 2: to people that break in the United States of America.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump is going to have to make this a
Speaker 2: hardcore election issue, so is everybody else in my opinion,
Speaker 2: on the ballot.
Speaker 3: Look, this is I think the number one issue. If
Speaker 3: you look at American families across this country, your family
Speaker 3: is less safe today because day after day after day,
Speaker 3: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are releasing illegal immigrants, They're
Speaker 3: releasing murderers, they're releasing rapists, they're releasing child molesters. And
Speaker 3: the risk every single day of terrorists coming across the
Speaker 3: southern border goes up and up and up. We will
Speaker 3: tragically another major terrorist attack. It is all but inevitable
Speaker 3: given the Biden administration's weakness number one and open borders
Speaker 3: number two, and that is front and center. There is
Speaker 3: a reason that this election is very much about safety
Speaker 3: and security, and I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: that's why Donald Trump will be reelected because people want
Speaker 3: their families to be safe.
Speaker 2: Will there be accountability for the fact that Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: also is just now they're trying to act like she
Speaker 2: wasn't the borders are. I mean, she has to own
Speaker 2: this right and trying to say she's not really in charge,
Speaker 2: she was never really in charge after saying she was
Speaker 2: in charge seems a certain insulting the American people.
Speaker 3: It is ludicrous. I will give the Democrats credit. They
Speaker 3: have remarkable hutspot. They're just shameless. I told a number
Speaker 3: of Republican senators yesterday, I said, listen, any time we
Speaker 3: do not refer to her as borders are Kamala Harris,
Speaker 3: we're committing political malpractice. That needs to be her title
Speaker 3: and she and she needs to have it every single
Speaker 3: time we reference her. Now, what is amazing is in
Speaker 3: the last forty eight hours the media that there's been
Speaker 3: a whole spin job on almost every media cycle say no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: she wasn't technically the borders are. She wasn't really in charge.
Speaker 3: It was just sort of theoretical. The funniest was Axios,
Speaker 3: which is, you know, a big political news outlet that
Speaker 3: every politico reads regularly. Well, Axios had this whole story
Speaker 3: about how she wasn't really borders are. Their own publication
Speaker 3: Axios three years ago referred to her as borders are
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris. And then what they did it was beyond hysterical.
Speaker 3: They issued a correction. You know what, they corrected their
Speaker 3: story from three years ago. Yeah, the story from three
Speaker 3: years ago. They issued a correction. Ooh, sorry, we acknowledged
Speaker 3: she was borders are when it actually happened, but now
Speaker 3: it's politically inconvenient, so we are I mean, it's out
Speaker 3: of Pravda, so we're just gonna erase it out of
Speaker 3: the record, so it never happened. The good thing is
Speaker 3: the American people aren't stupid. Thinks they're stupid. The Democrats
Speaker 3: think they're stupid, but everyone knows she was. The borders
Speaker 3: are and no amount of dissembling can hide that.
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Speaker 2: I want to move on to the other big news
Speaker 2: and that includes Secret Service director has resigned. We've had
Speaker 2: so much going on, lack of you know, is Joe
Speaker 2: Biden alive as he well, can he talk to the
Speaker 2: country after he went to hiding. Is he going to
Speaker 2: resign from office or is he going to stay friend
Speaker 2: of the six months we've now gone through that. This story, though,
Speaker 2: continues to unravel about just the shocking malpractice by the
Speaker 2: leadership of the Secret Service.
Speaker 1: She has resigned.
Speaker 2: The FBI director testified before Congress, but there are still
Speaker 2: a significant number of questions that remain about the Secret
Speaker 2: services failure to secure Trump. I want to get your
Speaker 2: reaction to Fox News on this report just on the
Speaker 2: issue of the BODYCM foot and it was bodycam footage
Speaker 2: is showing I think even more shocking Grassy talking about this,
Speaker 2: take a listen.
Speaker 5: And new bodycam video obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley shows
Speaker 5: events immediately after the shooting and Brian Yennis has more
Speaker 5: on this.
Speaker 6: New body camera video shows Beaver County Emergency Services Unit
Speaker 6: officers running toward the shooter after the assassination attempt against
Speaker 6: former President Trump for your host here. The officers then
Speaker 6: try to figure out how to access the roof of
Speaker 6: the AGR building from where the shooter fired.
Speaker 4: That's the ladder right here.
Speaker 3: We use the ladder.
Speaker 6: Yeah, once up the ladder and on the roof, and
Speaker 6: a parent Secret Service agent is overheard.
Speaker 1: Here's a roof outside of the fence SAT.
Speaker 6: And a trail of blood leads to the body of
Speaker 6: twenty year old Thomas Crooks. An AR fifteen style rifle
Speaker 6: is also seen laying next to him, as well as shell.
Speaker 4: Casings perfect long.
Speaker 6: Those gunshots captured in new video from that horrifying day.
Speaker 6: An officer begins to search Crook's body, finding a cell
Speaker 6: phone and a transmitter.
Speaker 4: Is the device?
Speaker 1: Great colored?
Speaker 4: Tall?
Speaker 6: Officers responding concerned about whether there's an active device?
Speaker 7: I feel like gaad Kelly get.
Speaker 6: The video also confirms accounts of pictures of Crooks and
Speaker 6: his possessions being shared with the Secret Service before the shooting.
Speaker 6: This is the guy, yes said, Yes County is in
Speaker 6: These videos given to Fox were exclusively given to Senator
Speaker 6: Chuck Grassley's office from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit
Speaker 6: and compliance with congressional requests and you On Wednesday, a
Speaker 6: medical update on the two survivors of that shooting. David
Speaker 6: Dutch has been discharged from the hospital and James Copenhaveer
Speaker 6: remains in serious but stable condition.
Speaker 2: You listen to this report, and the whistleblowers are coming forward,
Speaker 2: Chuck Grassey getting this video. A Hawley, for example, has
Speaker 2: gotten apparently whistleblowers that are also exposing information to him
Speaker 2: about the fact that drones were offered a Secret Service locally,
Speaker 2: but apparently we're turned down saying now we don't need those.
Speaker 2: The more we find out, the more terrified am I
Speaker 2: am for the safety of anybody under Secret Service protection.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, and this is an ongoing problem. This is a
Speaker 3: problem going forward. Sadly, this was not the only threat
Speaker 3: directed at Donald Trump and Secret Service. It was a
Speaker 3: catastrophic failure. There were clearly insufficient numbers of agents. There
Speaker 3: needed to be more agents. They needed to cover the
Speaker 3: full perimeter, They needed to cover the full distance from
Speaker 3: which a sniper could fire. There was nobody on that
Speaker 3: that roof was an obvious site line for the risk
Speaker 3: of a sniper. There should have been at least one
Speaker 3: agent on that roof. There were not enough counter snipers.
Speaker 3: There were no counter snipers that had visibility to that
Speaker 3: roof on the side where the sniper was hiding and
Speaker 3: crawling up on the slanted part of the roof that
Speaker 3: There was also no aerial support. There were no drones,
Speaker 3: there were no helicopters. And we also have the report
Speaker 3: that on the day of the rally, the Secret Service
Speaker 3: pulled off members of Trump's regular detail reassigned agents to
Speaker 3: protect First Lady Jill Biden. Now, the First Lady should
Speaker 3: be protected, but the magnitude of threats directed at Donald
Speaker 3: Trump in almost any universe, I would venture to say,
Speaker 3: is hundreds, if not thousands of times greater than the
Speaker 3: magnitude of the threats directed at the First Lady. And
Speaker 3: I think it is likely that it was a political
Speaker 3: decision to turn down repeated requests from the Trump campaign
Speaker 3: from the Trump Protective Detail for more recent sources. They
Speaker 3: saw the degree of the threats they were facing, they
Speaker 3: knew they were understaffed, and yet the Secret Service director
Speaker 3: listened she was hand picked by First Lady Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why I think they picked her. I
Speaker 3: think a big part of the reason they picked her
Speaker 3: she used to be on Biden's detail when he was
Speaker 3: vice president. I think they picked her because they wanted
Speaker 3: the Secret Service to do everything they could to help
Speaker 3: cover up Joe Biden's enormous mental diminishment. They wanted to
Speaker 3: put you know, there are multiple reports about how even
Speaker 3: White House staff and how even like the Service staff
Speaker 3: and the White House residents were not allowed to get
Speaker 3: close to Joe Biden. And it was the Secret Service
Speaker 3: really trying to keep this secret from America. And I
Speaker 3: think they trust, They trusted the Director Cheatle to be
Speaker 3: part of their press operation. Kimberly Cheatle was I think
Speaker 3: picked because of her political loyalty to Joe Biden. But
Speaker 3: you look at the decision number one to turn down
Speaker 3: Secret Service protect to Robert F. Kennedy Junior, completely indefensible.
Speaker 3: I believe that was made for partisan political reasons, and
Speaker 3: number two not to adequately provide coverage for Donald Trump. Again,
Speaker 3: I believe that was made for partisan political reasons, and
Speaker 3: it speaks volumes that she didn't resign the day it happened.
Speaker 3: She didn't resign two days after it happened. She didn't
Speaker 3: resign even a week after it happened. And of course
Speaker 3: Joe Biden and nobody in the administration fired her. Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris didn't step up and say she needs to be fired.
Speaker 3: Alejandro Majorcis, the head of Homeland Security, didn't step up
Speaker 3: and say she needs to be fired. She finally resigned
Speaker 3: when it became unbearable. And it was only after her disastrous,
Speaker 3: disastrous performance testifying before the House that she was shamed
Speaker 3: into resigning. But even now we don't have any confirmation
Speaker 3: that there is the protection that is needed to ensure
Speaker 3: that another attempt is not made on Donald Trump's life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was brutal for her in the House, and
Speaker 2: also so just showed how incompetent she was as a leader.
Speaker 2: I want to play representative Mace. One of the things
Speaker 2: she said to her, take a listen.
Speaker 8: Would you say leaking your opening statement to punch Bowl News,
Speaker 8: Politico's Playbook, and Washington Post several hours before you sent
Speaker 8: it to this committee as being political?
Speaker 3: Yes or no?
Speaker 5: I have no idea how my statement got out.
Speaker 9: Well, that's bullshit.
Speaker 8: So, mister Chairman, I would like to ask unanimous consent
Speaker 8: to enter into the record. Articles by punch Bowl News,
Speaker 8: Political Playbook, Washington Post all done at five twenty four am,
Speaker 8: six twelve am, six thirty four am, a solid three
Speaker 8: to four hours before this committee got your statement with.
Speaker 4: That object to ordered.
Speaker 2: Okay, they cared more about getting her statement out to
Speaker 2: try to cover their ables's center to the press, friendly
Speaker 2: press that she was going to make than actually testifying
Speaker 2: about the President of the United States of America for
Speaker 2: President Trump almost being murdered in front of the American
Speaker 2: people in the world.
Speaker 4: Look, this was all a pr battle.
Speaker 3: And in this administration everything is partisan politics. Why was
Speaker 3: the withdrawal from Afghanistan so disastrous because the White House
Speaker 3: said a partisan political deadline, we must have everyone out
Speaker 3: by the anniversary of September eleventh, because that's a political
Speaker 3: victory we want to claim. Never mind if American servicemen
Speaker 3: and women might have to die to do that. Never
Speaker 3: mind the military advice that we cannot pull out a
Speaker 3: bagra Mayfield until we've evacuated everyone.
Speaker 4: That advice doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: We've got a political objective when it comes to every
Speaker 3: decision they make. Why Why did Joe Biden and Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris allow American citizens to be murdered and children to
Speaker 3: be raped every day by illegal immigrants? They release why
Speaker 3: because they've got a partisan political objective. They want to
Speaker 3: let in as many illegals as possible, some of whom
Speaker 3: they hope will vote illegally in this election, the rest
Speaker 3: of whom one day they hope to grant amnesty and
Speaker 3: make them citizens. They hope they'll vote in later election.
Speaker 3: But it's all about votes, and that partisan view trumps
Speaker 3: actually keeping people safe. You look at the response of
Speaker 3: the Secret Service. You know, Kimberly Cheedle didn't admit they
Speaker 3: did anything wrong. That The New York Times reported that,
Speaker 3: and this is that. There are also Jonathan Martin, who's
Speaker 3: a reporter for Politico and it is one of the
Speaker 3: top political reporters in Washington.
Speaker 4: Here's what he tweeted.
Speaker 3: The Secret Service quote expected the sizeable contingent of officers
Speaker 3: from local law enforcement agents to contain any threats outside
Speaker 3: of the secured zone, but assigned almost all those officers
Speaker 3: to work inside it. According to numerous interviews with local
Speaker 3: law enforcement and then Jonathan Martin continues, this is his tweet,
Speaker 3: My God. With law enforcement focused elsewhere, a would be
Speaker 3: assassin roamed freely outside the perimeter. The only officers who
Speaker 3: got close to him were the ones who left their
Speaker 3: designated posts to do so. Their job had been to
Speaker 3: direct traffic. That's stunning. It is manifest in competence. I
Speaker 3: think it is in competence at the top from political
Speaker 3: leadership that is more focused on partisan political objectives than
Speaker 3: on the solemn job of keeping their protectees safe. And
Speaker 3: the result was a catastrophic failure.
Speaker 2: You talk about just the bureaucratic bs whether or and
Speaker 2: this reminds me of what happened in our pull out
Speaker 2: in Afghanistan at the airport that cost American soldiers their lives.
Speaker 2: We knew we had apparently a bomber there, right they
Speaker 2: saw somebody, There was a call that went out. No
Speaker 2: one apparently could make the decision on how to deal
Speaker 2: with them. Game over suicide. Bomber decides to do it
Speaker 2: and it cost American their lives. You'll look at this guy.
Speaker 2: There was so many I would say, dumb criminal moves
Speaker 2: that this guy, as a criminal did before he ever
Speaker 2: got up on that roof. That was warnings that any
Speaker 2: logical person would know, don't let this guy in around
Speaker 2: this venue. Example of that is the damn range finder
Speaker 2: which she was asked about.
Speaker 9: Did he have a rangefinder? There were some reports that
Speaker 9: the individual had a rangefinder that would certainly raise my suspicion.
Speaker 9: Did he have a rangefinder?
Speaker 5: Yes he did, But may I explain that at a
Speaker 5: number of our sites, especially when you're at outdoor venues,
Speaker 5: a rangefinder is not a prohibited item. It is sometimes
Speaker 5: an item that is brought in by individuals are going.
Speaker 4: To be anybody.
Speaker 9: Anybody confront him on that, Anybody ask him questions, what
Speaker 9: are you doing with the rangefinder? Anybody confront him on
Speaker 9: his presence where he was in proximity to the president.
Speaker 5: So, again, to my knowledge, I believe that that was
Speaker 5: the process that was taking place, was to locate the individual.
Speaker 9: Did they confront him?
Speaker 2: I mean they would know he had it to then
Speaker 2: be able to confront him. It's a very simple question.
Speaker 2: So the guy's got a range finder. Apparently no one
Speaker 2: confronts him on that. They then start putting out pictures
Speaker 2: that the FBI everybody has of this guy they can't find.
Speaker 2: They put the president up on the stage, they get
Speaker 2: on top of the roof and they're like, oh, hey,
Speaker 2: look you here, we got the guy that we sent
Speaker 2: the pictures out about. And then if you go back
Speaker 2: in time to what I mentioned a moment ago center,
Speaker 2: you also had the other concern, and that is from
Speaker 2: this whistleblower that said, hey, law enforcement partners offered drones
Speaker 2: to the Secret Service before Butler Pennsylvania Trump rally. This
Speaker 2: Secret Service decline. But this twenty year old shooter he
Speaker 2: used on the day of the rally. Really, you see
Speaker 2: a drone in the air and you're good with it.
Speaker 2: You see a range final, you're good with it. You
Speaker 2: lose the guy you put the president on stage.
Speaker 3: Look, my assumption is that the person was vastly undermanned,
Speaker 3: and that the senior leadership of the Secret Service was
Speaker 3: not treating Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee as
Speaker 3: the next president of the United States, and they were
Speaker 3: undermanning him for partisan political reasons. Not only that, so
Speaker 3: The Washington Post on July twentieth wrote a bombshell story.
Speaker 3: The headline was Secret Service said to have denied requests
Speaker 3: for more security at Trump events. Top officials repeatedly rejected
Speaker 3: requests from Trump's security detail for more manpower and gear
Speaker 3: at events before attempted assassination, at times citing lack of resources,
Speaker 3: people familiar with the asks say, and here's what the
Speaker 3: Washington Post reported quote. Top officials at the US Secret
Speaker 3: Service repeatedly denied requests for additional resources and personnel sought
Speaker 3: by Donald Trump's security detail in the two years leading
Speaker 3: up to his attempted assassination at I rally in Pennsylvania
Speaker 3: last Saturday. According to four people familiar with the requests,
Speaker 3: agents charged with protecting the former president requested magnetometers and
Speaker 3: more agents to screen attendees at sporting events and other
Speaker 3: large public gatherings Trump attended, as well as additional snipers
Speaker 3: and specialty items at other outdoor events, said the people,
Speaker 3: who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss secret
Speaker 3: security discussions. The requests, which have not been previously reported,
Speaker 3: were sometimes denied by senior officials at the agency, who
Speaker 3: cited various regions, including a lack of resources at an
Speaker 3: agency that has long struggled with staffing shortages. These rejections,
Speaker 3: in response to requests that were several times made in writing,
Speaker 3: led to long standing tensions that pitted Trump his top
Speaker 3: aid set his security detail against Secret Service leadership, as
Speaker 3: Trump advisors privately fretted that the vaunted security agency was
Speaker 3: not doing enough to protect the former president. Now, what
Speaker 3: did the Secret Service say in the wake of the
Speaker 3: attempt as set fascination. Well, that they put out Here's
Speaker 3: what the Secret Service spokesman said on July fourteenth. Quote,
Speaker 3: there's an untrue assertion that a member of the former
Speaker 3: president's team requested additional security resources and that those were rebuffed.
Speaker 3: This is absolutely false. In fact, we added protective resources
Speaker 3: and technology and capabilities as part of the increased campaign
Speaker 3: travel tempo. Now that's a tweet by Anthony goog Lemi,
Speaker 3: who is the Secret Service spokesperson. It was an official tweet,
Speaker 3: and it was a flat out lie. And by the way,
Speaker 3: it wasn't an assertion that a member requested additional security.
Speaker 3: What the Washington Post reported was that his protective detail,
Speaker 3: the Secret Service agents on the detail repeatedly requested additional
Speaker 3: security and repeat heatedly, they were turned down. Why is
Speaker 3: it that the Secret Service is publicly lying on the
Speaker 3: record and trying to cover up their disastrous failures.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the excuses are getting truly incredible. Before I
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Speaker 2: even got to say there were some Democrats that were
Speaker 2: even shocked over just the absurdity of the Secret Service
Speaker 2: screwing this up. One of them was a Democrat on
Speaker 2: the House Oversight Committee that was questioning the Secret Service
Speaker 2: director before she resigned. And this was just about the
Speaker 2: roof and where the shooter was. It is shocking, Listen.
Speaker 7: Pri Cheetel. As you know, the shooter began shooting at
Speaker 7: six eleven pm Eastern on July thirteenth. NBC reported that
Speaker 7: at five point fifty one pm, twenty minutes before the
Speaker 7: shooting began, the State police informed the Secret Service of
Speaker 7: their concern. Now, the rally was not pause at that point, correct, No,
Speaker 7: And according to NBC, just two minutes later, at five
Speaker 7: point fifty three pm, the Secret Service notified it's snipers
Speaker 7: about the gunman. The rally wasn't paused at that point either, correct.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 7: Let me show you some video footage by rally goers.
Speaker 7: If you could play the video on the screen up here,
Speaker 7: This was taken two minutes before the shooting start. If
Speaker 7: you could turn up the volume.
Speaker 1: Dangerous, ma'am.
Speaker 7: That doesn't look like suspicious behavior. That looks like threatening
Speaker 7: behavior to me. And the rally wasn't pause at that
Speaker 7: point either.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 5: I can tell you, as I stated earlier, sir, that
Speaker 5: the moment that the shift surrounding the president were aware
Speaker 5: of an actual threat.
Speaker 4: That's a threat right there.
Speaker 7: The guy's on the roof and everybody's yelling at him
Speaker 7: yes and directing the officer's attention to him. The rally
Speaker 7: was not pause at that point. Correct.
Speaker 5: We are currently still combing through communications and when communications
Speaker 5: were passed.
Speaker 7: Well, I can point you to this communication. It's two
Speaker 7: minutes before the shots started ringing out director title, Yes
Speaker 7: or no? Was there ever a moment where the Secret
Speaker 7: Service actually considered pausing the rally.
Speaker 5: The Secret Service would have paused the rally had they
Speaker 5: known or been so.
Speaker 7: The answer is no, an actual threat, the answer is no.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 5: I can speak to you in generalities.
Speaker 7: No, No, I don't want general communication. The answer is no,
Speaker 7: you did not consider pausing the rally. Correct.
Speaker 5: The people that are in charge of protecting the president
Speaker 5: on that day would never bring the former president out
Speaker 5: if there was a threat that had been identified.
Speaker 7: Well they did, because we've now identified three points and
Speaker 7: the twenty minutes before the shooting that the threat emerged.
Speaker 2: I mean, Senator, you listened to this, and I worry
Speaker 2: final question for you about not just the incumbency of
Speaker 2: the directors resigned, but the people that she's hired in
Speaker 2: the bureaucracy underneath her. She may be gone, but if
Speaker 2: there's others that trick all the way down to the
Speaker 2: events level and this is allowed to happen, I mean,
Speaker 2: for goodness sake, their excuse about the roof being too
Speaker 2: sloped to put people up there, well, guess what where
Speaker 2: the counter sniper team was. We found out that roof
Speaker 2: was actually sloped at a higher degree of angle than
Speaker 2: the roof where the shooters shot from, So she was
Speaker 2: lying to us.
Speaker 3: Then it was all pr it was all spin. This
Speaker 3: was astonishing incompetence combined with a partisan political gross negligence,
Speaker 3: which is because her partisan political loyalties are to Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: They devalued protecting Donald Trump. They also devalued protecting RFK Junior.
Speaker 3: And that security detail should have been granted long ago,
Speaker 3: and I think it is. There is a very good
Speaker 3: question to ask next about who's next, What are they
Speaker 3: doing now, What are they doing today? What are they
Speaker 3: doing tomorrow to prevent the next lunatic from doing this?
Speaker 3: And we need to make sure they're adequate resources. We
Speaker 3: need to make sure the site is secured. We need
Speaker 3: to make sure they had procedures in place. There were
Speaker 3: multiple junctures at which this assassin, this attempted assassin, could
Speaker 3: have been stopped, could have been apprehended. President Trump could
Speaker 3: have been delayed from going up on that stage and
Speaker 3: never subjected to the risk of the sniper fire. He
Speaker 3: could have been removed from that stage once they realized
Speaker 3: there was a potential sniper there. There were a series
Speaker 3: of catastrophic mistakes and to date Secret Service leadership has
Speaker 3: still taken responsibility for none of them, accountability for none
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 4: As Harry S.
Speaker 3: Truman famously said, the buck stops here, Well, the buck
Speaker 3: doesn't stop anywhere because they're all passing the buck and
Speaker 3: they're not even admitting that there was a problem. It
Speaker 3: is a huge problem going forward and it needs to
Speaker 3: be fixed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. Don't forget to center and
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Speaker 2: you updated on this because it's not over yet. There
Speaker 2: are still far too many questions that need to be
Speaker 2: answered about those beneath the Secret Service director. We'll keep
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