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Speaker 1: There's instant accountability for anything that isn't perfect in the

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Speaker 1: But what is the accountability like if you're a government employee,

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Speaker 1: former president Donald Trump and the leader to become the

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Speaker 1: president of United States of America, you know, get shot.

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Speaker 1: How many people lose their jobs when there's a building

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Speaker 1: Is there any accountability? The answer is very clearly no.

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Speaker 1: How do we know this because the acting director testified

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Speaker 2: How many people have been fired? Has anyone been fired? Right?

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Speaker 1: Well, we don't have anyone that's been fired. And you

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Speaker 1: that's not true. The FBI director is gone.

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Speaker 1: She resigned. She was not fired by the President of

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Speaker 1: In fact, I'm not sure there's anything you can do

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Speaker 1: on one basic issue, which is the most mind blowing

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Speaker 3: No information regarding a weapon on the roof was ever

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Speaker 4: How is that even possible?

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Speaker 3: Do you want to come to that Senator again? I

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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: How is that even possible? Not only that, but the

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Speaker 2: That director had to say. Listen to this.

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Speaker 5: We don't have definitive evidence yet as to how he

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Speaker 1: We have a answer here. The FBI deputy director admits

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Speaker 2: But you have this big of a.

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Speaker 6: So this was yesterday morning. It was a joint hearing

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Speaker 6: The old director was brazen, she was defiant. Her view

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Speaker 6: Secret Service leadership. Secret Service leadership committed catastrophic security failures, indeed,

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Speaker 6: the worst security failures for the Secret Service since nineteen

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Speaker 6: It is incumbent upon this committee to determine why those

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Speaker 6: security failures happened. Just after the shooting, Secret Service put

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Speaker 4: This is absolutely false. In fact, we.

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Speaker 6: Added protective resources and technology and capabilities as part of

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Speaker 3: Was this tweet accurate with respect to Butler, Pennsylvania. It

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Speaker 6: It is accurate that the Trump team had not asked

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Speaker 3: If you're talking about Butler, Pennsylvania, all assets requested were approved.

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Speaker 6: I'm reading from the Washington Post July twentieth, twenty twenty

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Speaker 6: Top officials of the US Secret Service repeatedly denied requests

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Speaker 3: That is not accurate. Senator assets are requested. There's a

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Speaker 4: You don't know now, so I.

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Speaker 4: But you don't know how many requests there were.

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Speaker 4: He still has a job.

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Speaker 6: Did your predecessor, the former director, does she approve the statement?

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Speaker 3: Senator? Our comms team they send out statements, they do

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Speaker 3: I don't know if she did or did not.

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Speaker 3: I don't recall approving it, Senator.

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Speaker 6: Will you commit to provide this committee in writing every

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Speaker 3: Senator, I will commit to providing responses and getting you

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Speaker 4: Did you make that decision?

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Speaker 4: There is so listening.

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Speaker 6: He engaged in a very deliberate effort at deception. He said,

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Speaker 2: A very simple question. Take a listen.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this question on that because there's

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Speaker 1: If they didn't have a team, right, There's been arguments

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Speaker 1: when maybe they didn't have a team to cover that roof,

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Speaker 1: and so it was lack of resources.

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Speaker 4: Assign the dam agents.

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Speaker 6: There are four thousand Secret Service agents assign the agent.

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Speaker 6: So one of the fundamental problems is the Secret Service.

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Speaker 6: I believe I haven't had this confirmed, but here's what

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Speaker 6: I believe was happening. They were treating Donald Trump as

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Speaker 6: a former president. Now, listen, former presidents have Secret Service

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Speaker 6: protection for life. So jim Carter right now, who is

457
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Speaker 6: almost one hundred years old, Jimmy Carter has a Secret

458
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Speaker 6: Service detail now, to be honest, that's right, that's good.

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Speaker 6: But the threats against Jimmy Carter at this point in

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Speaker 6: his life are very low. There are just not a

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Speaker 6: lot of acting Trump. There are not a lot of

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Speaker 6: active murderers seeking to kill Jimmy Carter at the very

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Speaker 6: end of his natural life. We know by the way

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Speaker 6: the nation of Iran has hired assassins to murder Trump.

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Speaker 6: So you don't just have crazy ass lunatics who want

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Speaker 6: to shoot him. You literally have a nation state with

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Speaker 6: billions of dollars to fund assassins to murder him. And

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Speaker 6: what I believe the Secret Service here's what I think happened.

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Speaker 6: The Biden administration is political in every decision it makes.

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Speaker 6: I think they didn't want to up Trump's security detail

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Speaker 6: because if they did so, they would have to acknowledge

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Speaker 6: his legitimacy. Listen, Trump is not just a former president

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Speaker 6: who's retired and is off like painting paintings and building

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Speaker 6: houses for habitat for humanity. He is the Republican nominee

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Speaker 6: to b president. Right now, he is I think likely

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Speaker 6: the next president of the United States. And the Biden administration,

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Speaker 6: I believe this was all politics. The leadership of the

478
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Speaker 6: Secret Service did not want to up his detail because

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Speaker 6: it would be according credibility and seriousness to his campaign.

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Speaker 6: It is I believe, the identical reason they refused repeatedly

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Speaker 6: to give a Secret Service detailed Robert F. Kennedy Junior,

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Speaker 6: Now listen, you and I on this podcast months ago

483
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Speaker 6: called them out and said it is outrageous.

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Speaker 4: Robert F.

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Speaker 6: Kennedy Junior, his father RFK Senior was murdered when he

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Speaker 6: was running for president of the United States. His uncle

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Speaker 6: JFK was ordered as the sitting president of the United States.

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Speaker 6: RFK Junior has had multiple death threats. He has had

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Speaker 6: multiple attempts on his life, and I believe the reason

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Speaker 6: that the Biden administration didn't give him a Secret Service

491
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Speaker 6: protection is they hate the fact that another Democrat is

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Speaker 6: running against what was then Joe Biden now Kamala Harris,

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Speaker 6: and if they gave Secret Services protection to him, it

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Speaker 6: would be acknowledging he was legitimate. That is, if that

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Speaker 6: is the basis. It is a purely political decision. It

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Speaker 6: is indefensible and we need to get answers on it.

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Speaker 1: Senator, I want to ask you another couple quick questions

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Speaker 1: about this, because there's so much that came out in

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Speaker 1: this hearing. One of them you mentioned a moment ago

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Speaker 1: was about Iran, and I want to play this because

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Speaker 1: I do think it just shows how shocking how unprepared

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Speaker 1: the Secret Service was, not just at this event, but

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Speaker 1: maybe at many other events that were supposed to be

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Speaker 1: protecting Donald Trump.

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Speaker 7: What is the nature of the Iran threat? The threat

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Speaker 7: to former President Trump? That has been mentioned, but we

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Speaker 7: know that.

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Speaker 5: Let me be clear here, the terrorist regime of Iran

509
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Speaker 5: have been targeting people our country for many, many years now.

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Speaker 5: We've talked about that here before. I want to be

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Speaker 5: clear about that. From the FBI stampoint we have, we

512
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Speaker 5: know publicly they've put they've targeted former President Trump, they've

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Speaker 5: called for his assassination.

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Speaker 1: I mean that they know this, and they say they've

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Speaker 1: been doing this for years, and yet you let this

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Speaker 1: building just sit unattended. And I go back to the

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Speaker 1: question I asked you earlier, because it's a question many

518
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Speaker 1: have asked, if let's just say hypothetical center, they didn't

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Speaker 1: have the manpower hypothetical for the Secret Service, and I

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Speaker 1: have the manpower, yet it Why wouldn't they have used

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Speaker 1: those that were on the ground there locally, the squat

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Speaker 1: teams that were there locally to cover that roof.

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Speaker 6: Well and to some ex so the Secret Service was

524
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Speaker 6: trying to pass the blame to local law enforcement. They

525
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Speaker 6: were saying, well, local law enforcement screwed up, and so

526
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Speaker 6: they said at one point that there were local swat

527
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Speaker 6: teams that were supposed to be monitoring that roof, and

528
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Speaker 6: there's been testimony that there was a local swat team

529
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Speaker 6: there and then they disappeared. Now they won't tell us

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Speaker 6: who it was. They won't tell us who made the

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Speaker 6: decision to leave that post. There has been media reports

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Speaker 6: that there was someone assigned to be on that roof

533
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Speaker 6: but it was too hot, so they left. We need

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Speaker 6: to know the answer to that that that is. They're

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Speaker 6: they're they're not. But what's what the Secret Service is

536
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Speaker 6: trying to do is pass the buck to local law enforcement.

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Speaker 6: Say local law enforcement screwed up. But I'll tell you

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Speaker 6: a couple other questions that I was going to ask

539
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Speaker 6: and that I that I am asking and writing. So

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Speaker 6: we know and we've seen the videos. In fact, we

541
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Speaker 6: played this on this podcast at the time. There were

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Speaker 6: multiple spectators who were outside the perimeter who saw the

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Speaker 6: shooter on the roof. They saw the shooter on the

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Speaker 6: roof with a gun with a rifle, and they began

545
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Speaker 6: screaming and yelling and saying there's a man on the roof,

546
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Speaker 6: a man on the roof of the gun. They began

547
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Speaker 6: doing that one minute and fifty seven seconds before the

548
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Speaker 6: shooting began. That's a lot of time they told local

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Speaker 6: law enforcement it was a sign in that outer perimeter

550
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Speaker 6: there's a man on the roof with a gun. Now,

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Speaker 6: one of the enormous problems is there was apparently zero

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Speaker 6: coordination and communication between local law enforcement and secret serpents.

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Speaker 6: So a natural question a minute in fifty seven seconds

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Speaker 6: before the shooting began, spectators observe a man on the

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Speaker 6: roof of a gun.

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Speaker 4: Why did the local police officers who.

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Speaker 6: Were there not immediately radio Secret Service and say there's

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Speaker 6: a shooter. Pull President Trump down. That's what you do

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Speaker 6: in that circumstance, is you pull him down. If you

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Speaker 6: have the protect tee and you know that there's a

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Speaker 6: potential sniper and it's a dangerous situation, you go up,

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Speaker 6: you pull him down, say miss President, you need to

563
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Speaker 6: come down for a second, and you just pull them

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Speaker 6: out of the harm's way and then you go and

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Speaker 6: deal with the law enforcement threat. Why did they not

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Speaker 6: do that for a minute and fifty seven second And

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Speaker 6: what appears to be the answer, but the acting director

568
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Speaker 6: would not answer it is there was no interoperability. There

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Speaker 6: was no communication between local law enforcement and the Secret Service. Now,

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Speaker 6: and it gets even worse, a local police officer climbed

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Speaker 6: up on the shoulders of another local police officer climbed

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Speaker 6: up to the roof. So when the peoplers are yelling, hey,

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Speaker 6: there's a guy with a gun, he climbed up to

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Speaker 6: see it. He climbs up to the roof. He pulls

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Speaker 6: his head up, and the shooter turns and points his

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Speaker 6: rifle at the officer's head. Now, the officer ducks because

577
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Speaker 6: he doesn't want to get shot in the head. And

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Speaker 6: the testimony was he fell about eight feet to the ground.

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Speaker 6: That happened twenty four seconds before the first shot was

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Speaker 6: Now in any ordinary insane situation, the officer as he

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Speaker 6: sees the rifle, as he sees the man on the roof,

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Speaker 6: so he knows. You're a police officer that knows there's

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Speaker 6: a shooter with a rifle on the roof. While the

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Speaker 6: president is talking, here's what should happen. The officer as

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Speaker 6: he's ducking down, he pulls out his radio and he says, gun, gun, gun, shooter.

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Speaker 4: Shooter, shooter.

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Speaker 6: And if the Secret Service here is that, they have

588
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Speaker 6: twenty four seconds for the detail to run up to

589
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Speaker 6: grab the president to pull him down under the podium.

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Speaker 6: And by the way, they also have two counter snipers.

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Speaker 6: If they get over the radio gun gun gun shooter,

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Speaker 6: shooter shooter, you've got twenty four seconds for the counter

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Speaker 6: snipers to see the sniper, see the shooter, and take

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Speaker 6: him out. If that happens, President Trump is not shot,

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Speaker 6: Fire Chief Corey Comparatory is not murdered. The two other

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Speaker 6: people who are severely injured or not injured, And what

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Speaker 6: appears to be the case, although the acting director of

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Speaker 6: the Secret Service would not confirm this, is there was

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Speaker 6: no radio interoperability. In other words, what the local police

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Speaker 6: officer saw, he could not communicate with Secret Service, and

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Speaker 6: that is utterly unacceptable and what is infuriating. There was

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Speaker 6: nothing in the hearing yesterday that suggested they've changed what

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Speaker 6: they've done. So if they're relying on local law enforcement

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Speaker 6: for important security and yet they have no way to

605
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Speaker 6: communicate with local law enforcement about what they're seeing, it

606
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Speaker 6: is fundamentally ineffective. And the most important question is what

607
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Speaker 6: are they doing to prevent this from happening again? And

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Speaker 6: there was zero answer to that question in the hearing yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Final question on this and somebody sent this to me

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Speaker 1: earlier today and I'm just going to read it the

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Speaker 1: way it was sent to me. Quote, it's sad that

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Speaker 1: we live in the country. Now, we're a hard working,

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Speaker 1: regular guy who goes to work from seven in the

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Speaker 1: morning till nine o'clock at night or eight o'clock put

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Speaker 1: in fifty sixty hour week, will quote face more professional

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Speaker 1: consequences for sharing an offensive joke online than the unelected

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Speaker 1: bureaucrats task with protecting our president will face for almost

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Speaker 1: getting the leading candidate killed. Now, according to the acting

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Speaker 1: Secret Service director, he admitted to you guys yesterday that

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Speaker 1: no agent assigned to the Trump July thirteenth rally has

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Speaker 1: been fired. And in fact there's only the secret the

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Speaker 1: head of the Secret Service that was forced to resign

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Speaker 1: after a horrible display on Capitol Hill. But it doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like there's been any other accountability. And that's sad,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 6: It's infuriating. So, as best I can tell, in almost

627
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Speaker 6: four years of Joe Biden Kamala Harris being the White House,

628
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Speaker 6: not a single person has been fired from any job whatsoever.

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Speaker 6: You have the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. It was an absolute debacle.

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Speaker 6: It was embarrassing, it undermined the US military. It led

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Speaker 6: to the deaths of thirteen servicemen and women. Nobody was fired.

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Speaker 6: There was no accountability.

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Speaker 4: You have here the first.

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Speaker 6: Shooting of a presidential candidate, a former president since nineteen

635
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Speaker 6: eighty one.

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Speaker 4: Since Ronald Reagan. Nobody was fired.

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Speaker 6: In any sane world, the director of the Secret Service

638
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Speaker 6: would have resigned that day. In any sane world, the

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Speaker 6: president would have fired the director of the Secret Service.

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Speaker 6: But there's no accountability. Now you now have the acting director.

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Speaker 6: And one question you asked me at the beginning of

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Speaker 6: this pot should the acting director be fired? And I'm

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Speaker 6: going to say, I don't know. I think the proof

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Speaker 6: is in the pudding. So on one level, the acting director,

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Speaker 6: whom I don't know personally, but he's been a long

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Speaker 6: time career Secret Service agent and officer. His answers demonstrated

647
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Speaker 6: massively more candor than the old director. The old director

648
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Speaker 6: was handpicked by Joe Biden and Joe Biden I believe

649
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Speaker 6: the old director was there. She used to be on

650
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Speaker 6: Joe Biden's Secret Service detail when he was vice president.

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Speaker 6: I think they handpicked her because they wanted the Secret

652
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Speaker 6: Service to cover up Joe Biden's massive mental decline, and

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Speaker 6: so they put her in that place as a political

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Speaker 6: decision to protect his political vulnerabilities. That's what I believe.

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Speaker 6: But she was and we talked about this in a

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Speaker 6: prior podcast. When she did on all Senators briefings, she

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Speaker 6: stonewalled she would not answer any questions. She said they

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Speaker 6: did everything perfectly except for the fact that the president

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Speaker 6: was shot. And by the way, to be clear, had

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Speaker 6: the bullet been a half inch to the left, Donald

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Speaker 6: Trump would be dead today. She described this as a

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Speaker 6: success for the Secret Service. It's not a success. It

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Speaker 6: is I think God's providence. I believe God turned Trump's head.

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Speaker 6: But we came within a half inch of the history

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Speaker 6: of the world being changed that day. So compared to

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Speaker 6: the former director, the acting director is at least admitting

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Speaker 6: they screwed it up, they did something wrong. He has

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Speaker 6: some modicum of candor. Here's my answer in terms of

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Speaker 6: whether he should be fired. How does he answer the

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Speaker 6: questions for the record that I and other senators ask him.

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Speaker 6: I believe the Secret Service needs radical transparency. Among the

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Speaker 6: questions I'm asking also is how many threats are directed

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Speaker 6: right now in the last year against Donald Trump, how

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Speaker 6: many threats are directed against Joe Biden? How many threat

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Speaker 6: threats are directed against the First Lady? And had to

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Speaker 6: be clear all three need to be protected. I'm not

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Speaker 6: saying that Joe Biden should not be protected, but one

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Speaker 6: of the public press reports is on the day of

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Speaker 6: the Butler rally, they pulled members of Trump's security detail

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Speaker 6: and put them on the First Lady's detail. Now I

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Speaker 6: don't know this, but Secret Service does. But I'm going

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Speaker 6: to venture a guess that the number of threats against

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Speaker 6: Trump versus against the First Lady, it is at least

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Speaker 6: one hundred x, and it wouldn't surprise me if it

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Speaker 6: is a thousand x that I think Donald Trump is

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Speaker 6: the most threatened person on the face of the planet.

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Speaker 6: And if it is the case, it is all the

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Speaker 6: more indefensible that the Secret Service political leadership would not

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Speaker 6: provide sufficient agents to keep him safe. And I'm asking

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Speaker 6: them how many threats against Trump? How many threats against

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Speaker 6: Joe Biden? How many threats against Joe Biden? Will see

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Speaker 6: if they answer that, you know, based on the testimony,

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Speaker 6: I'm skeptical that they will.

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Speaker 2: Center.

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Speaker 1: Finally, I want to move to some of this breaking

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Speaker 1: news and it is an important moment that's happening in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East right now. Israel is doing everything they

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Speaker 1: can to protect their people, and they're also having success

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Speaker 1: and taking out terrorists and terrorist leaders that have been

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Speaker 1: orchestrating many of these attacks on Israel, including taking out

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Speaker 1: someone in Iran in Tehran.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's exactly right, and they're two huge stories in

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Speaker 6: terms of the war in Israel, the war against Amas

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Speaker 6: and against Hesbela. One story that broke late this afternoon

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Speaker 6: and evening is a story that says IDF kills HESBELA

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Speaker 6: commander behind brutal attack on children's soccer field. And this

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Speaker 6: is a Fox News story that's being reported everywhere. Fud Shuker,

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Speaker 6: whose death is unconfirmed by Hesbela, was wanted by US

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Speaker 6: government connection to the nineteen ninety in nineteen eighty three

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Speaker 6: Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, and IDF forces on Tuesday

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Speaker 6: announced the death of Fuad Shukar, the HESBELA commander who

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Speaker 6: was behind the drone strike that killed twelve children and

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Speaker 6: teens over the weekend. So over the weekend we saw

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Speaker 6: hesbel A fire rocket in northern Israel. It hit a

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Speaker 6: soccer field and twelve Israeli children were murdered. Continuing back

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Speaker 6: from the Fox News story, Shukar, who was also known

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Speaker 6: as haj Mohsen, joined Hesbel in nineteen eighty five. He

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Speaker 6: was also sought by the US government over his connection

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Speaker 6: to the nineteen eighty three suicide bombing of the Marine

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Speaker 6: Corps barracks in Beirut that killed two hundred and forty

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Speaker 6: one US service members. Shuker served as a senior advisor

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Speaker 6: to Hesbeli leader Hassan Nasrala at the time of his

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Speaker 6: death in an IDF strike on Tuesday in southern Bea route.

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Speaker 6: The IDF confirmed the news in a press release announced

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Speaker 6: seeing that it's fighter jets eliminated hesbela terrorist organization's most

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Speaker 6: senior military commanders, Shooker in Lebanon's capital city, now understand

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Speaker 6: this is a murderer responsible for murdering two hundred and

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Speaker 6: forty one US service members. This is a reason to celebrate. Listen,

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Speaker 6: the enemies of Israel are the enemies of America, the

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Speaker 6: enemies of Jews. Those who want to kill Jews want

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Speaker 6: to kill Christians, Hamas and Hesbela. They hate Israel, but

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Speaker 6: they hate America too, and This is an example where

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Speaker 6: Israel fighting the war, fighting the war against Hamas and

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Speaker 6: Hesbel at the same time is defeating someone who has

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Speaker 6: murdered hundreds of Americans. That is an enormous victory for

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Speaker 6: this country. And then let me say secondly, so you

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Speaker 6: and I are recording this podcast, it is eleven forty PM.

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Speaker 6: At eleven forty PM, this news has just broken.

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Speaker 4: So listen.

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Speaker 6: Any time you're dealing with matters of life and death

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Speaker 6: and war in peace, the news can move. So what

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Speaker 6: we're recording right now, it may be different by six

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Speaker 6: am tomorrow, but at eleven forty pm, let me read

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Speaker 6: the AP story. Iran says Hamas leader Ismail Haniya was

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Speaker 6: assassinated in Tehran, And let me just read the AP story.

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Speaker 6: Hamas leader Ismail Haniya was assassinated in Tehran. Iran's peramilitary

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Speaker 6: Revolutionary guards said early Wednesday. No one immediately claimed responsibility

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Speaker 6: for the assassination, but suspicion immediately fell on Israel No duh,

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Speaker 6: which is vowed to kill Haniya and other leaders of

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Speaker 6: Hamas over the group's October seventh attack on Israel that

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Speaker 6: killed one two hundred people and saw some two hundred

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Speaker 6: and fifty others taken hostage. Haniya was in Tehran to

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Speaker 6: attend Iran President Masud Pezeshkians swearing in on Tuesday. Iran

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Speaker 6: gave no details on how Haniya was killed, and the

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Speaker 6: guards said the attack was under investigation. Analysts on Iranian

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Speaker 6: state television immediately began blaming Israel for the attack. Israel

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Speaker 6: did not immediately comment, but it often doesn't when it

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Speaker 6: comes to assassinations carried out by their Massad intelligence agency.

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Speaker 6: To come up within twenty four hours with number one

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Speaker 6: killing the top military commander of Hesbelah responsible for murdering

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Speaker 6: twelve Israeli children in northern Israel with a rocket attack

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Speaker 6: and also responsible for two hundred and forty one American

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Speaker 6: servicemen and women being killed in Beirut in nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 6: That's a big damn deal. And then this taking out

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Speaker 6: the top leadership of AMAS. It's a big, big victory

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Speaker 6: for Israel and a big, big victory for America.

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Speaker 2: Can you share this podcast with your family and your friends.

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Speaker 1: Please share it on social media wherever you are and

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Speaker 1: I'll see it back here tomorrow