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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 2: The FBI director is gone. That's true.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: But before I get to that, there's other big breaking

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Speaker 1: It's now being reported has been killed in Iran in Tehran.

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Speaker 5: So this was yesterday morning. It was a joint hearing

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

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Speaker 5: It is accurate that the Trump team had not asked

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

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Speaker 5: But you don't know how many requests there were in general?

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Speaker 5: That's a yes or no question, Senator.

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Speaker 3: No, sir, that's not true.

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Speaker 5: And you're using president in a way that is not clear.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you the shift, the close protection shift surrounded Yes,

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Speaker 5: And what's the difference the difference two x three x five?

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Speaker 3: That's our former president.

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Speaker 5: Stop interrupting me. Go ahead, John refusing to answer clear

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Speaker 1: I mean, that might be one of the worst answers

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Speaker 1: I've ever heard Center and the fact that he's confirming

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Speaker 1: what we were terrified of, which is no information regarding

447
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Speaker 1: a weapon on the roof for the shooter on the

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Speaker 1: roof was ever passed to our personnel. Now, when he

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Speaker 1: refers to our personnel, he's clearly referring to those in

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Speaker 1: the Secret Service or the Secret Service sniper team. And

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Speaker 1: Mike Lee's response is spot on right, how is that

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Speaker 1: even possible?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Look, this was as I said, a catastrophic security failure

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Speaker 5: by the leadership of the Secret Service. They are not

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Speaker 5: taking responsibility for that failure. Now, I got to tell

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Speaker 5: you the way this hearing was set up, we had

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Speaker 5: five minute rounds. It is difficult to walk through the

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Speaker 5: details of what you need to get through in five minutes.

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Speaker 5: I ended up taking about seven, which then I went

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Speaker 5: about two minutes over and that always leary. But let

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Speaker 5: me tell you some of the other questions that I

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Speaker 5: had that I was prepared to ask, but because the

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Speaker 5: acting director of the Secret Service was filibustering to some extent,

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Speaker 5: he was interrupting me to some extent, he was belligerent

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Speaker 5: to a significant extent, I didn't get to them. But

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Speaker 5: there are a whole series of questions that need to

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Speaker 5: be answers. And by the way, I'm asking every one

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Speaker 5: of these questions in writing. So in a follow up

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Speaker 5: to hearing, you ask written questions Number one. The shooter

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Speaker 5: when he came into the rally site in Butler, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 5: he was stopped by Secret Service at the metal detectors.

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Speaker 5: He had a rangefinder with him. That was at three pm.

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Speaker 5: Why did Secret Service not detain him? Why did they

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Speaker 5: not question him about the ragefinder. Now, the acting director

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Speaker 5: of the Secret Service, he said, well, it was a

477
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Speaker 5: recreational rangefinder. It was like a golf rangefinder that he

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Speaker 5: used to look the disc to the pin. Now you're

479
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Speaker 5: right now, you're with your son at the World Championship.

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Speaker 5: You probably have a golf rangefinder. Yes, you know what.

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Speaker 5: You know what in Butler, Pennsylvania, they weren't playing golf.

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Speaker 5: They weren't trying to figure out where the pin was.

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Speaker 5: There is no benign or innocious explanation for why someone

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Speaker 5: shows up at a political rally with a rangefinder. So

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Speaker 5: that's question number one. Why didn't you detain him? Why

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Speaker 5: didn't you question him? Why don't you say, why the

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Speaker 5: hell do you have this rangefinder? They didn't. After that,

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Speaker 5: Two and a half hours later, at about five point thirty,

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Speaker 5: the shooter was seen. And by the way, let me

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Speaker 5: make it a side you will notice on this podcast,

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Speaker 5: I will never ever ever say the name of the shooter.

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Speaker 5: I think people that commit heinous acts like this are

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Speaker 5: evil bastards who deserve to be forgotten by history. So

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Speaker 5: I will never I'll call him the shooter, but I

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Speaker 5: will not repeat his name. But the shooter at about

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Speaker 5: five thirty was observed using the rangefinder to measure the

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Speaker 5: distance from where he was to the podium where Donald

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Speaker 5: Trump was. The next obvious question, why did was the

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Speaker 5: shooter not detained? Then question? Then he was observed by

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Speaker 5: law enforcement scoping out the distance. That is obvious and

501
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Speaker 5: highly suspicious activity. Third question, why were there not more agents?

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Speaker 5: We had repeated requests over and over and over again

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Speaker 5: from the Trump team. We need more agents, We need

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Speaker 5: more agents. Why were there not more agents in the

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Speaker 5: outer perimeter? Why there were they not more agents? On

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Speaker 5: another question, why was there not a secret Service agent

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Speaker 5: on that rooftop? It is obvious it was about one

508
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Speaker 5: hundred and forty yards away from the president. That is

509
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Speaker 5: a clean line of sight for a sniper. That is

510
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Speaker 5: not a difficult shot. Why was there not a secret

511
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Speaker 5: Service agent on that roof to ensure that nobody else

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Speaker 5: was there? He did not answer that question either.

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Speaker 2: Why let me ask you this question.

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

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Speaker 1: a lot of people that ask me this, and I

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Speaker 1: want you to answer your perspective. If they didn't have

517
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Speaker 1: a team, right, There's been arguments when maybe they didn't

518
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Speaker 1: have a team to cover that roof, and so it

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Speaker 1: was lack of resources assign the agents. There are four

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Speaker 1: thousand Secret Service agents assign the agents.

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Speaker 5: So one of the fundamental problems is the Secret Service.

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Speaker 5: I believe. I haven't had this confirmed, but here's what

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Speaker 5: I believe was happening. They were treating Donald Trump as

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Speaker 5: a former president. Now, listen, former presidents have Secret Service

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Speaker 5: protection for life. So Jimmy Carter right now, who is

526
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Speaker 5: almost one hundred years old, Jimmy Carter has a Secret

527
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Speaker 5: Service detail now. To be honest, that's right, that's good.

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Speaker 5: But the threats against Jimmy Carter at this point in

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Speaker 5: his life are very low. There are just not a

530
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Speaker 5: lot of Trump. There are not a lot of active

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Speaker 5: murderers seeking to kill Jimmy Carter at the very end

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Speaker 5: of his natural life. We know, by the way, the

533
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Speaker 5: Nation of Iran has hired assassins to murder Trump. So

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Speaker 5: you don't just have crazy ass lunatics who want to

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Speaker 5: shoot him. You literally have a nation state with billions

536
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Speaker 5: of dollars to fund assassins to murder him. And what

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Speaker 5: I believe the Secret Service, here's what I think happened.

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Speaker 5: The Biden administration is political in every decision it makes.

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Speaker 5: I think they didn't want to up Trump's security detail

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Speaker 5: because if they did so, they would have to acknowledge

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Speaker 5: his legitimacy. Listen, Trump is not just a former president

542
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Speaker 5: who's retired and is off like painting paintings and building

543
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Speaker 5: houses for habitat for humanity. He is the Republican nominee

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Speaker 5: to be president right now. He is I think likely

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Speaker 5: the next president of the United States and the Biden administration,

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Speaker 5: I believe this was all politics. The leadership of the

547
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Speaker 5: Secret Service did not want to up his detail because

548
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Speaker 5: it would be according credibility and seriousness to his campaign.

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Speaker 5: It is, I believe, the identical reason they refused repeatedly

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Speaker 5: to give a Secret Service detailed Robert F. Kennedy Junior

551
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Speaker 5: now listen, you and I on this podcast months ago

552
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Speaker 5: called them out and said it is outrageous.

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Speaker 2: Robert F.

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Speaker 5: Kennedy Junior, his father RFK Senior was murdered when he

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Speaker 5: was running for president of the United States. His uncle

556
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Speaker 5: JFK was murdered as the sitting president of the United States.

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Speaker 5: RFK Junior has had multiple death threats. He has had

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Speaker 5: multiple attempts on his life and I believe the reason

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Speaker 5: that the Biden administration didn't give him a Secret Service

560
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Speaker 5: protection is they hate the fact that another Democrat is

561
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Speaker 5: running against what was the Joe Biden now Kamala Harris,

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Speaker 5: and if they gave Secret Services protection to him, it

563
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Speaker 5: would be acknowledging he was legitimate. That is, if that

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Speaker 5: is the basis, it is a purely political decision. It

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Speaker 5: is indefensible and we need to get answers on it.

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Speaker 1: Senata, I want to ask you another couple of quick

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

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

569
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Speaker 1: ago was about Iran, and I want to play this

570
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Speaker 1: because I do think it just shows how shocking how

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

572
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Speaker 1: but maybe at many other events that were supposed to

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Speaker 1: be protecting Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: What is the nature of the Iran threat? The threat

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Speaker 3: to former President Trump that has been mentioned, but we

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Speaker 3: know that. Let me be clear here.

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Speaker 4: The terrorist regime of Iran have been targeting people or

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Speaker 4: country for many, many years now. We've talked about that

579
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Speaker 4: here before. I want to be clear about that. From

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Speaker 4: the FBI stamp we have we know publicly, they've put

581
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Speaker 4: they've targeted former President Trump, they've 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

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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

588
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Speaker 1: have the manpower, get it, Why wouldn't they have used

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

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

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Speaker 5: Roof well, and to some extent, so the Secret Service

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Speaker 5: was trying to pass the blame to local law enforcement.

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Speaker 5: They were saying, well, local law enforcement screwed up. And

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Speaker 5: so they said at one point that there were local

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Speaker 5: SWAT teams that were supposed to be monitoring that roof,

596
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Speaker 5: and there's been testimony that there was a local SWAT

597
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Speaker 5: team there and then they disappeared. Now they won't tell

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Speaker 5: us who it was. They won't tell us who made

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Speaker 5: the decision to leave that post. There has been media

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Speaker 5: reports that there was someone assigned to be on that roof,

601
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Speaker 5: but it was too hot, so they left. We need

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Speaker 5: to know the answer to that that that is they're

603
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Speaker 5: they're not. But what's what the Secret Service is trying

604
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Speaker 5: to do is pass the buck to local law enforcement.

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Speaker 5: Say local law enforcement screwed up. But I'll tell you

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Speaker 5: a couple other questions that I was going to ask

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Speaker 5: and that I am asking and writing. So we know,

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Speaker 5: and we've seen the videos. In fact, we played this

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Speaker 5: on this podcast at the time. There were multiple spectators

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Speaker 5: who were outside the perimeter who saw the shooter on

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Speaker 5: the roof. They saw the shooter on the roof with

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Speaker 5: a gun, with a rifle, and they began screaming and

613
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Speaker 5: yelling and saying, there's a man on the roof, a

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Speaker 5: man on the roof of the gun. They began doing

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Speaker 5: that one minute and fifty seven seconds before the shooting began.

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Speaker 5: That's a lot of time. They told local law enforcement.

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Speaker 5: It was a sign in that outer perimeter there's a

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Speaker 5: man on the roof with the gun. Now, one of

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Speaker 5: the enormous problems is there was apparently zero coordination and

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Speaker 5: communication between local law enforcement and Secret Service. So a

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Speaker 5: natural question a minute in fifty seven seconds before the

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Speaker 5: shooting began spectators observe a man on the roof of

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Speaker 5: a gun. Why did the local police officers who were

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Speaker 5: there not immediately radio Secret Service and say, there's a shooter.

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Speaker 5: Pull President Trump down. That's what you do in that circumstance,

626
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Speaker 5: is you pull them down. If you have the protect

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Speaker 5: tee and you know that there's a potential sniper and

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Speaker 5: it's a dangerous situation, you go up, you pull them down,

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Speaker 5: say miss President, you need to come down for a second,

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Speaker 5: and you just pull them out of the harm's way

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Speaker 5: and then you go and deal with the law enforcement threat.

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Speaker 5: Why did they not do that for a minute in

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Speaker 5: fifty seven second And what appears to be the answer,

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Speaker 5: but the acting director would not answer it is there

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Speaker 5: was no interoperability. There was no communication between local law

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Speaker 5: enforcement and the Secret Service. Now, and it gets even worse,

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Speaker 5: a local police officer climbed up on the shoulders of

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Speaker 5: another local police officer climbed up to the roof. So

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Speaker 5: when the people are yelling, hey, there's a guy with

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Speaker 5: a gun, he climbed up to see it. He climbs

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Speaker 5: up to the roof. He pulls his head up and

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Speaker 5: the shooter turns and points his rifle at the officer's head.

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Speaker 5: Now the officer ducks because he doesn't want to get

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Speaker 5: shot in the head. And the testimony was he fell

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Speaker 5: about eight feet to the ground. That happened twenty four

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Speaker 5: seconds before the first shot was fired. Now, in any

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Speaker 5: ordinary insane situation, the officer as he sees the rifle,

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Speaker 5: as he sees the man on the roof, so he knows.

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Speaker 5: You have a police officer that knows there's a shooter

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Speaker 5: with a rifle on the roof while the president is talking.

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Speaker 5: Here's what should happen. The officer, as he's ducking down,

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Speaker 5: he pulls out his radio and he says gun gun

653
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Speaker 5: gun shooter, shooter, shooter. And if the Secret Service here

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Speaker 5: is that they have twenty four seconds for the detail

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Speaker 5: to run up to grab the president, to pull him

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Speaker 5: down under the podium. And by the way, they also

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Speaker 5: have two counter snipers. If they get over the radio,

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Speaker 5: gun gun gun shooter, shooter shooter, you've got twenty four

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Speaker 5: seconds for the counter snipers to see the sniper, see

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Speaker 5: the shooter, and take him out. If that happens, President

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Speaker 5: Trump is not shot fire Chief Corey Comparatory is not murdered.

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Speaker 5: The two other people who are severely injured or not injured.

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Speaker 5: And what appears to be the case, although the acting

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Speaker 5: director of the Secret Service would not confirm this, is

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Speaker 5: there was no radio interoperability. In other words, what the

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Speaker 5: local police officer saw, he could not communicate with Secret Service,

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Speaker 5: and that is utterly unacceptable and what is infuriating. There

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Speaker 5: was nothing in the hearing yesterday that suggested they've changed

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Speaker 5: what they've done. So if they're relying on local law

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Speaker 5: enforcement for important security and yet they have no way

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Speaker 5: to communicate with local law enforcement about what they're seeing,

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Speaker 5: it is fundamentally ineffective. And the most important question is

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Speaker 5: what are they doing to prevent this from happening again?

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Speaker 5: And there was zero answer to that question in the

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Speaker 5: 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. It says, quote, it's

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Speaker 1: sad that we live in the country now. We're a

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Speaker 1: hard working, regular guy who goes to work from seven

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

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Speaker 1: o'clock put in fifty sixty hour week, will quote face

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Speaker 1: more professional consequences for sharing in a defensive joke online.

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Speaker 2: Then 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 that

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

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Speaker 1: resign after a horrible display on Capitol Hill. But it

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Speaker 1: doesn't 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 5: It's infuriating. So, as best I can tell, in almost

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Speaker 5: four years of Joe Biden Kamala Harris being in the

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Speaker 5: White House, not a single person has been fired from

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Speaker 5: any job whatsoever. You have the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. It

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Speaker 5: was an absolute debacle that was embarrassing. It undermined the

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Speaker 5: US military. It led to the deaths of thirteen servicemen

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Speaker 5: and women. Nobody was fired, there was no accountability. You

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Speaker 5: have here the first shooting of a presidential candidate a

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Speaker 5: former president since nineteen eighty one, since Ronald Reagan, nobody

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Speaker 5: was fired in any sane world. The director of the

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Speaker 5: Secret Service would have resigned that day. In any sane world,

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Speaker 5: the president would have fired the director of the Secret Service.

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Speaker 5: But there's no accountability. Now you now have the acting director.

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Speaker 5: And one question you asked me at the beginning of

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Speaker 5: this pot should the acting director be fired? And I'm

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Speaker 5: going to say, I don't know. I think the proof

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Speaker 5: is in the pudding. So on one level, the acting director,

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Speaker 5: whom I don't know personally, but he's been a longtime

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Speaker 5: career Secret Service agent and officer. His answers demonstrated massively

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Speaker 5: more candor than the old director. The old director was

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Speaker 5: handpicked by Joe Biden and Joe Biden I believe the

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Speaker 5: old director was there. She used to be on Joe

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Speaker 5: Biden's Secret Service detail when he was vice president. I

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Speaker 5: think they handpicked her because they wanted the Secret Service

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Speaker 5: to cover up Joe Biden's massive mental decline, and so

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Speaker 5: they put her in that place as a political decision

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Speaker 5: to protect his political vulnerabilities. That's what I believe. But

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Speaker 5: she was and we talked about this in a prior podcast.

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Speaker 5: When she did on All Senators briefing, she stonewalled she

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Speaker 5: would not answer any questions. She said they did everything

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Speaker 5: perfectly except for the fact that the president was shot,

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Speaker 5: and by the way, to be clear, had the bullet

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Speaker 5: been a half inch to the left, Donald Trump would

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Speaker 5: be dead today. She described this as a success for

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Speaker 5: the Secret Service. It's not a success. It is I

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Speaker 5: think God's providence. I believe God turned Trump's head. But

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Speaker 5: we came within a half inch of the history of

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Speaker 5: the world being changed that day. So compared to the

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Speaker 5: former director, the acting director is at least admitting they

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Speaker 5: screwed it up, they did something wrong. He has some

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Speaker 5: modicum of candor. Here's my answer in terms of whether

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Speaker 5: he should be fired. How does he answer the questions

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Speaker 5: for the record that I and other senators ask him.

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Speaker 5: I believe the Secret Service needs radical transparency. Among the

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Speaker 5: questions I'm asking also is how many threats are directed

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Speaker 5: right now in the last year against Donald Trump, how

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Speaker 5: many threats are directed against Joe Biden, how many threat

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Speaker 5: threats are directed against the first Lady? And had to

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Speaker 5: be clear, all three need to be protected. I'm not

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Speaker 5: saying that Joe or Joe Biden should not be protected.

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Speaker 5: But one of the public press reports is on the

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Speaker 5: day of the Butler rally, they pulled members of Trump's

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Speaker 5: security detail and put them on the First Lady's detail.

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Speaker 5: Now I don't know this, but Secret Service does. But

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Speaker 5: I'm going to venture a guess that the number of

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Speaker 5: threats against Trump versus against the First Lady it is

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Speaker 5: at least one hundred x. And it wouldn't surprise me

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Speaker 5: if it is a thousand x that I think Donald

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Speaker 5: Trump is the most threatened person on the face of

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Speaker 5: the planet. And if it is the case, it is

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Speaker 5: all the more indefensible that the Secret Service political leadership

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Speaker 5: would not provide sufficient agents to keep him safe. And

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Speaker 5: I'm asking them how many threats against Trump? How many

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Speaker 5: threats against Joe Biden? How many threats against Joe Biden.

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Speaker 5: Will see if they answer that, you know, based on

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Speaker 5: the testimony, I'm skeptical that they will.

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Speaker 2: Senator.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: in Iran in Tehran.

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Speaker 5: Well that's exactly right. And there are two huge stories

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Speaker 5: in terms of the war in Israel, the war against

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Speaker 5: Amas and against Hesbela. One story that broke late this

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Speaker 5: afternoon and evening is a story that says IDF kills

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Speaker 5: HESBELA commander behind brutal attack on children's soccer field. And

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Speaker 5: this is a Fox News story that's being reported everywhere.

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Speaker 5: Fuad Shukar, whose death is unconfirmed by Hesbela, was wanted

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Speaker 5: by US government connection to the nineteen ninety nineteen eighty

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Speaker 5: three Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut, and IDF forces on

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Speaker 5: Tuesday announced the death of Fuad Shukar, the HESBELA commander

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Speaker 5: who was behind the drone strike that killed twelve children

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Speaker 5: and teens over the weekend. So over the weekend we

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Speaker 5: saw HESBELA fire rocket in northern Israel. It hit a

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Speaker 5: soccer field and twelve Israeli children were murdered. Continuing back

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Speaker 5: from the Fox News story, Shuker, who was also known

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Speaker 5: as haj Mohsen, joined Hesbel in nineteen eighty five. He

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Speaker 5: was also sought by the US government over his connection

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Speaker 5: to the nineteen eighty three suicide bombing of the marine

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Speaker 5: corpberracks in Beirut that killed two hundred and forty one

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Speaker 5: US service members. Schuker served as a senior advisor to

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Speaker 5: Hesbeli leader Hassan Noasrala at the time of his death

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Speaker 5: in an IDF strike on Tuesday in southern Bey Route.

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Speaker 5: The IDF confirmed the news in a press release announcing

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Speaker 5: that its fighter jets eliminated Hesbela terrorist organization's most senior

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Speaker 5: military commander, Shuker in Lebanon's capital city. Now understand, this

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Speaker 5: is a murderer responsible for murdering two hundred and forty

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Speaker 5: one on US service members. This is a reason to celebrate. Listen,

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Speaker 5: the enemies of Israel are the enemies of America, the

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Speaker 5: enemies of Jews. Those who want to kill Jews want

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Speaker 5: to kill Christians. Hamas and Hesbela. They hate Israel, but

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Speaker 5: they hate America too. And this is an example where

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Speaker 5: Israel fighting the war, fighting the war against Tamas and

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Speaker 5: Hesbela at the same time is defeating someone who has

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Speaker 5: murdered hundreds of Americans. That is an enormous victory for

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Speaker 5: this country. And then let me say secondly, so you

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Speaker 5: and I are recording this podcast, it is eleven forty pm.

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Speaker 5: At eleven forty pm, this news has just broken, so listen.

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Speaker 5: Any time you're dealing with matters of life and death

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Speaker 5: and war in peace, the news can move. So what

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Speaker 5: we're recording right now, it may be different by six

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Speaker 5: am tomorrow. But at eleven forty pm, let me read

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Speaker 5: the AP story. Iran says Hamas leader Ismail Haniya was

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Speaker 5: assassinated in Tehran, and let me just read the AP story.

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Speaker 5: Hamas leader Ismail Haniya was assassinated in Tehran, Iran's perimilitary

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Speaker 5: Revolutionary Guards said early Wednesday, no one immediately claimed responsibility

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Speaker 5: for the assassination, but suspicion immediately fell on Israel No Duh,

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Speaker 5: which is vowed to kill Haniya and other leaders of

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Speaker 5: Hamas over the group's October seventh attack on Israel that

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Speaker 5: killed one two hundred people and saw some two hundred

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Speaker 5: and fifty others taken hostage. Haniya was in Tehran to

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Speaker 5: attend Iran President Masud Pezeshkians swearing in on Tuesday. Iran

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Speaker 5: gave no details on how Haniya was killed, and the

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Speaker 5: Guard said the attack was under investigation. Analysts on Iranian

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Speaker 5: state television immediately began blaming Israel for the attack. Is

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Speaker 5: do not immediately comment, but it often doesn't when it

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Speaker 5: comes to assassinations carried out by their masade intelligence agency.

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Speaker 5: To come up within twenty four hours with number one

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Speaker 5: killing the top military commander of Hesbelah responsible for murdering

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Speaker 5: twelve Israeli children in northern Israel with a rocket attack

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Speaker 5: and also responsible for two hundred and forty one American

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Speaker 5: servicemen and women being killed in Beirut in nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 5: That's a big damn deal. And then this taking out

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Speaker 5: the top leadership of AMAS. It's a big, big victory

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Speaker 5: for Israel and a big, big victory for America.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you share this podcast with your family and

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Speaker 1: your friends. Please share it on social media wherever you are,

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Speaker 1: and I'll see you back here tomorrow