WEBVTT - Governor Ron DeSantis - September 18th, Hour 3 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.600 All right, News, round up, Information overload, hour toll free. 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:04.560 Our number is Hey one hundred and nine to four 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:06.720 one sean if you want to be a part of 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.680 the program. It is only forty eight days until election day. 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.920 Early voting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Ballots being sent 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:16.880 out now in numerous states around the country. In light 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.279 of the assassination attempt, I started making phone calls to 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.959 people that I thought may have played Trump International in 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.000 West Palm Beach, Florida. I never have played the course before. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:29.880 I I kind of gave up playing golf, as I've 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:31.920 been saying a number of years ago, because i just 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.840 don't have time. I'm working way too many hours and 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.680 I'm a complete loser, as everybody on my staff will 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.680 attest to, because I'm sending out articles at any hour 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.760 of the day. And one of the people that I 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.280 did speak to was Florida Governor Ron De Santis. I 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.400 knew he had played this course, and I wanted to 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.400 get his take on it. I got Eric Trump's take 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.800 on it, Lindsey Graham's take on it, Steve Whitcoff's take 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:59.000 on it, and they all described this area around holes four, 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.200 five and six, and you know this, This was known 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.319 to be a very vulnerable area of the golf course 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.440 because of its close proximity to both the fair way 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.240 and the holes, and literally you're just you know, one 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.880 hundred two hundred, three hundred four hundred yards away depending 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:23.880 on the location from where a golfer may actually be 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.759 playing on the course. And it was a known area 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:31.000 where paparazzi and photographers and people with video cameras would 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.399 be taking videos of Donald Trump with him or his 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.920 guests playing golf. And they were known to hide in 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.319 the bushes there and get those videos and then they 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.480 sell them. And yet it was not swept by the 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.680 Secret Service at all. And now we're learning that this 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:52.120 would be assassinate had been in that location from sometime 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.240 around one point thirty the night before, and I know 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.480 from Steve woodcoff Is he didn't hear from President Trump. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.040 He had been out in Salt Lake City given I guess, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.760 holding a rally out there. He didn't hear from him 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.840 util about two thirty in the morning when he arrived 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.800 back in Palm Beach, that he even wanted to play 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.720 golf that next day. So the guy, I guess was 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.480 just betting on the fact that it might be a 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.160 day that Donald Trump might be playing golf or you know, 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.200 or God forbid, there's somebody that would would be tipping 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:27.360 off somebody that was lying in wait to attempt an 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.640 assassination on President Trump, this being the second and two months, 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.440 and it's pretty unbelievable. I was very happy to hear 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.960 that Governor Desanta says he doesn't trust the federal government 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:45.639 that is doing investigation after investigation after investigation on Donald 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.919 Trump to be the same people that should be involved 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.760 in this investigation in this case, and Florida is going 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.400 to do its own assassination probe, and he wants the 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.920 shooter to face more serious charges, including life in prison. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:06.000 Now there's a report Homeland Security refuse to approb of 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.280 this suspect. But anyway, Governor Rondo Santis, my governor here 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.200 in the Free State of Florida, is with us now. Governor, 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.240 thank you so much for being with us, and thanks 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:16.960 for taking the time when I reached out to you 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.920 the other night. I really do appreciate it. You shed 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.560 a lot of light on this for me. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.640 Oh yeah, no, We're happy to do it. I just 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.600 have to say at the outset though, Sean, Yeah, you 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.960 say you're not involved in golf, You're now a Floridian, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.200 and so as a Floridian, you either need to start 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.399 playing golf, you need to fish, you need to vote. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.760 You got to do something of that, because I think 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.640 that would probably be about ninety five percent of the 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.080 males in the state of Florida do at least one 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:42.200 of those three things. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.480 Listen, I want to do all three things, and I 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.040 would actually I've been to the range to prepare myself 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.160 post election that I've made a commitment that I'm going 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.240 to try to get my golf game back. I wasn't 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.200 too bad when I used to play. I definitely like 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.360 to fish, but for short periods of time. And I 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.240 see people fishing every day and I see the fish 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.400 that they're catching. It's pretty it's pretty amazing. You just 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.320 I will say this, it was the best decision of 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.640 my life to move to the state. And I've had 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.880 threatened it for a long time, and I'm very grateful 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.040 to you and everybody else that has been so warm 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:15.960 inviting me here. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.320 Yeah. No, no, for sure, but listen on this. So 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.600 you know, you pointed out about the golf course, you 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.600 kind of have the you know, the fifth green, sixty 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.640 sixth hole, seventh tee right there. When I used to 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.839 play with him when he was president. That was just 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.080 something that you just think about because you see that 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.520 the dogs are in front of you, there's two or 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.599 three holes shut down, and behind and in front of 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.320 the group there's a massive flotilla of golf carts. And 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.039 when you get to that point of the property, it's 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.479 still a busy street just right beyond the hedges. And 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.280 so I think back to Butler, Pennsylvania, to have somebody 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.440 have a roof top, which would be a perfect vantage 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.200 point for someone that wanted to attempt an assassination, to 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.760 leave that to where nobody was policing it. And this 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.000 guy gets up there and gets off shots. And that 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.440 was a massive failure of secret service. I mean, the 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.560 fact that Donald Trump survived was a miracle. But then 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.120 to think about this golf course, that is the spot. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.599 I mean, there's a lot of different potential threats out there, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.159 but that was the soft underbelly and this guy apparently 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.960 had been burrowed in there from the middle of the 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.640 night all the way until the former president was rounding 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.480 those holes. And so yes, I mean that should not 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:37.719 have happened. That was an obvious place where somebody that 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.640 wanted to do Donald Trump harm would want to go. Now, 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.560 the state of Florida, we have multiple violations of Florida 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.600 law that are an issue here. It took place, the 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:54.200 suspect has committed offenses we believe in multiple jurisdictions in Florida, 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.880 which is important because if he only committed offenses in 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.800 Palm Beach County, that would go to the local Palm 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.560 Beach state attorney who said he didn't want to do 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.920 the case. He wanted to just let the Feds have it. Well, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.400 because there's multiple circuits. We have Broward County potential violations 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.960 with the tag Palm Beach obviously with the attempted assassination, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.400 and then Martin County when he was fleeing, and we 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.680 may have some other things about his time in Florida 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.000 that gives us the jurisdiction at the state level to 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.560 assign it to the Attorney General with our Office of 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.240 Statewide Prosecutor, who does these multi jurisdictional things. And I 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.200 just think it's important for the State of Florida that 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:37.800 we follow through and prosecute all available offenses and that 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:42.400 we get the unvarnished truth about what happened. There's nothing 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.400 when you're talking about Secret Service and the federal ations. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.800 The State of Florida is not involved in any of that. Now, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.599 when we're asked to provide support, we always do. We 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.520 want to be helpful, but this was a federal responsibility 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.520 to keep him safe. So if there were failures by 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:01.400 the Secret Service or DHS, that's not something we're going 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.839 to have any incentive to cover up. We want the 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.800 people to know, we want there to be accountability. I 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.040 don't think there are the the federal government's the right 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.000 agencies to be doing it. One, they've had a history 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.720 of doing these investigations and not giving the truth. It's 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.560 almost like a black hole once it goes and then 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.520 we don't hear anything. Then you also have this very 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.680 odd set of circumstances where these same federal agencies that 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.120 we're supposed to trust to conduct this investigation are the 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.800 same agencies that are trying to put Donald Trump in 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.280 prison for the rest of his life. If you look 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.440 at the January sixth case in DC and the Document's 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.680 case in South Florida, federal cases which they're trying to 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:47.040 appeal to get reinstated. As we speak, they're basically saying 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.360 that Donald Trump is an enemy of the state the 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.600 way they're doing the charges. So they're very serious as 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.960 to what these people are trying to do. I just 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.200 don't to me, that's a conflict if you're doing that. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:00.960 On the other hand, say you're going to try to 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.720 figure out, you know, what happened. So we're going forward 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.160 with our investigation. I hope to see charges generated, and 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.760 I hope to see the truth revealed. I'm not sure 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.280 how much cooperation we may get from the federal government. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.400 Hopefully we do, because I think there are a lot 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.800 of rank and file people in those agencies that do 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.360 want the truth. Unfortunately, I think that we're likely not 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.880 going to get the full story if differs. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.280 We were first told that the reason that they didn't 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.160 have anybody on the roof and Butler PA was because 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.160 it was a slope roof. It turned out it wasn't 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:41.240 sloped at all, and they had agents on other buildings 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.480 with a much deeper slope. And now we find out 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.040 in this holy report that came out on Monday, that 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.559 the real reason they weren't on the roof was quote 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.680 it was too hot. And when I did roofing back 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.680 in the day, trust me, and I fell off of 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.880 nearly three stories. I fell off a roof. I can 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.720 tell you there was no there was no heat rule 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.959 that said it's too hot to do roofing today. Let 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.199 me play for you the head of the Secret Service, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.199 because the Secret Service lied about that part at that time. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.200 But this is now. Ronald Rowe is the acting Secret 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.880 Service director and he says, the plan for Trump worked 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.160 on Sunday. If this is success, you know, tell me 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:20.920 what failure is. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.720 Listen, yesterday was an off the record movement, off the record, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.400 and the President wasn't even really supposed to go there. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.640 It was not on his official schedule, and so we 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.320 put together a security plan and that security plan worked. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:37.120 Okay, the security plan worked. Would you say that this 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.680 plan in any way worked if somebody can get within 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.280 three hundred plus yards of the president with a AK 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.880 forty seven and a scope of course not. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.959 I mean, I think the individual agent responded appropriately, and 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.520 the former president has said that he's very thankful for 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.120 what happened there and thanked the Secret Service for kind 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.800 of that on the spot response that prevented this guy 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.320 from getting any shots off. But the fact that he 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.800 was there and came very close to being able to 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.880 get shots off, clearly that's a failure because this was 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.480 the number one soft underbelly of the perimeter of that 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.679 golf course. As you pointed out, paparazzi have burrowed themselves 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.560 into those bushes and taken pictures of Donald Trump when 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.640 he was president in particular, and so that would have 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.839 been something that you would have known. So they say 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.760 it was an off the record movement, But the minute 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.360 that he's on his way to that golf club, of 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.360 any place that you look, that would be the place 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.720 that you would want to want to sweep holes five, six, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.120 and seven right there along South Congress Avenue. But here's 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:45.480 the thing. Our federal agencies, for whatever reason, over the years, 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.400 and I think it's because they're never held accountable. Congress 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:49.760 hasn't used the power of the perse. I think there's 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.760 a lot of reasons why. But they've definitely developed the 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:58.520 culture of always passing the buck and never accepting responsibility 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.760 for anything. And I think there's a lot of good 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.839 people on the rank and file, and Donald Trump has 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.880 praised people that have been in his detail, and I 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.960 think that's true. But I think the overall culture of 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.880 these agencies is really messed up. And unfortunately, you know, 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.640 I don't have confidence we're going to get one hundred 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:15.760 percent of the truth from them. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.520 I do have confidence in the well. First of all, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.680 I'm very fond of all the sheriff's departments down in Florida, 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.280 law enforcement in Florida compared and the Palm Beach Police 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.920 Department and all the West Palm Beach Police Department and 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.760 everybody in the local area where this all took place. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.079 I think did a phenomenal job, but it was not 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.600 their job to sweep that area. By the way, you 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.080 make a kick out of this story about the debate 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.240 the other night, And anyway, I see Gavin Newsom, your 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.400 old buddy is, has a big gaggle and he's surrounded 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.080 by all the people in the state run media mob. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.600 So I see his people and I walk in behind him. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.080 I'm totally trolling him, by the way, and I just like, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.320 you know, say, can you just tap on his shoulder? 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.360 I just went away even put a smile on my face, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:02.800 and a way even and this is this is what 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.640 these keyboard Warriors in there underwear set. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.520 Kennedy's really good best friends with Gavin Newsom. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.440 And the funny thing is, and you know this to 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.400 be true, he was not exactly happy with you or 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:16.760 me after that debate. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.800 No fat We were going to do another segment, and 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.719 his campaign called it off. They did not want to 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.360 do additional segments after we did the first ninety minutes 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.720 or so. But I think it was just because he 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.600 was exposed to the truth about his record. He's not 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.520 exposed to that in California. It's a one party state. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.240 You have basically state run media, you have super majority 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.760 dem there's just not potent opposition. So he's kind of 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.840 able to get away from it. When we were in 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.840 Georgia doing the debate on your show, he had to 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.040 answer for the homelessness. He had to answer for this, 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.480 He had to answer for why his own in laws 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.760 fled the state of California, and that was a lot 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.240 more difficult for him, and it wasn't anything that he 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:01.160 was comfortable doing. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.240 Yeah, the funny thing is that people saying I, meanwhile, 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.280 I have a smile on my face. He did not 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.480 want to see me in any way, and I figured, 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.439 you know, it might just mess with him a little bit, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.560 and again because he's he's been kind of dodging and 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:19.160 ducking and not wanting to ever come back on the show. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.320 And I think I was fair and it's not my 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.720 fault that the statistics on crime and on the economy, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.199 on basic issues that impact people's lives, the price of energy, 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.960 are so much better in the free state of Florida. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:36.600 Let me ask you one last question. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.480 President Trump said that he would allow the salt deduction 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.360 to come back if he's president, with that impact for 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.240 example of Florida property taxes. If in fact that did. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.880 Come back, well, we you know, we typically do better 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.559 with no salt because it gives us a comparative advantage 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.920 versus the high tax states. And so I think when 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.600 he signed his tax bill in twenty seven to effectively 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.920 eliminate the salt deduction, the argument was, why are we 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:09.120 bailing out spendthrift, tax and spend politicians in New York 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:13.240 In California, they raised taxes, but then the deductions mean 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.600 that taxpayers don't get hit with the full effect of 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.680 their bad policies, and so not having that was more 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.760 of a level playing field than Florida had a competitive advantage, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.360 and so that was what it was there. I would 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.560 imagine that you would definitely see a lot of the 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.920 sun Belt low tax sun Belt states in particular, their 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.720 representatives would probably not want to do away with They 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.800 probably would not want to reinstate salt. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.080 Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida, Thank you, Gumner. Great to have you. 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.720 We appreciate your time. Eight hundred and nine four one, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.040 Shawn is a number if you want to be a 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.400 part of the program. All right, click break right back, 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.720 we'll continue. Let's go to my interview. This was the 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:54.280 first interview with President Trump post the second assassination attempt, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.560 and this took place yesterday. Let me play it for you, 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:58.680 showing us. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.840 Now on the phone to react to the most recent 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.760 assassination attempt on his life two in two months, Former 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.120 President Donald Trump, mister President, thank you for being with 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.800 us tonight. This is the second assassination attempt in two months. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.560 I would imagine the. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.400 Average person could be pretty shaken up by that. Tell 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.960 us what happened? How are you doing? And I have 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.480 a few other follow up questions as it relates. 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.520 To this, Well, I'm doing fine. 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:30.120 It was Sunday and just very briefly, because I think 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.320 most people have heard it. I want to start talking 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.840 about the borders and the economy and inflation and all 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.560 of the things we want to talk about. But it 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:42.280 was on a golf course Trump International in West Palm 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.920 and we heard shots ring out around the fifth dollar 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.880 or so. We heard shots ring out, and they were 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:54.000 pretty obviously shots, but the Secret Service said they were 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.480 definitely shots. And it turned out to be the Secret 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.240 Service agent who had caught somebody a couple of holes 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.760 in advance and caught him by the fence which protects 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.280 the property. He was on the other side of the fence. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:12.880 He saw a gun barrel hanging outside of the fence, which. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:13.600 Is pretty amazing. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.960 She met's a great job, did really a great job. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.280 Frankly, I think the Secret Service did a great job. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.160 And they got me out of there quickly, and they 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.280 then went after him and they were lucky enough to 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.240 have somebody that took the license plate, which was genius, 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:29.920 and they nabbed him on the highway. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.920 But it was another day. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.280 It was very interesting. I want to get we want 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:37.880 to get to business. We want to get to the 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.280 business of running the country. Our country has never done 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.600 this badly shown we're like a laughing stock around the 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.000 world that we have to get back to running the 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.760 border properly. What's happening in Ohio, Colorado and every other. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:51.960 State is just crazy. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.000 It's like a takeover of our country by people that 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:56.960 are coming in and they're coming in with guns or 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.240 they're getting guns after they get in. They have the 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:00.920 most powerful weapons you can have. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.560 Let me ask you this, sir, if you don't mine 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.560 and Steve Whitkoff, your golf partner, he happens to be 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.240 a mutual friend of ours, and I'd gone to lunch 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.520 with him that morning. He described in great specificity the 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:19.560 incredible reaction time heroism of these secret service agents that 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.560 were surrounding you that day, and how quickly they got 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.720 on top of you got you out of the situation. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.040 A flawless operation in terms of those agents. And they 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.000 deserve so much credit for what they do that they 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.640 would risk their lives. No greater love had some man 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.680 to lay down their life for another, and they're willing 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:39.600 to do that for you. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.720 And that part of the story, I. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.320 Mean, the fact that you have that this country has 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.520 such incredible people as a great story. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:51.399 But here's what troubles me. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.119 In Butler, PA, we had a sniper who was able 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.119 to get on a roof within one hundred and thirty 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:01.760 yards and come within a millimeter, taking your life. In 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.840 this situation, it is a well known area that is treated, 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.080 as you pointed out, with a fence on it. And 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.080 this guy, according to reports, might have been there for 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.040 twelve hours or the phone pinged in the area for 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.119 twelve with twelve hours ahead of time one point thirty 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.639 in the morning, and so obviously there's some type of 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.840 coordinated planned attack or anticipation you'd be playing golf for 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.200 or something happened. But the problem is is he got 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.439 within three hundred yards of you with an AK forty 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.360 seven with a scope. Now what I don't understand, and Eric, 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.320 your son doesn't understand, and Laura doesn't understand, and many 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.879 of your family members don't understand, is when you have 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:45.520 a treed area that is known for paparazzi taking videos 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.600 and pictures of you when you're playing golf, because that's 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.640 the only area in the golf course they would ever 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.040 have the ability to do that. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:53.960 Why wasn't that. 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:58.480 Area swept, Why weren't there agents on the outside making 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.359 sure nobody would go in the bushes. 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:01.800 Why weren't the bushes checked? 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:07.320 To me, that is a colossal failure, and that concerns 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.240 not just me, but every one of your supporters and 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:11.560 every one of your family members. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:16.240 Sir well, I understand that, and in this particular case, 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.359 you had a very sharp agent, as good as you 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.560 could find, and did a fantastic job. But somebody could 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:26.399 have missed the barrel of that rifle. Somebody of lesser talents, 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:30.200 or somebody that was distracted could have missed or could 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.560 have been shot. I mean, frankly, if you know, could 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.959 have also been shot. But in this case, it was 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.680 something that worked out very well. As to whether or 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.040 not they should know this two days in advance. You know, 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:46.120 I can't say I just said, let's let's go play 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:47.040 a quick round. 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:48.159 Because it's all business for me. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.000 It's very it's my only a little bit of a 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.719 form of exercise, so I like it. It's something that 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.960 is good, but it's it's also shown very important that 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.200 you know you'd be able to go and do what. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:04.160 You want in safety. 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.680 I just find the secret service that Butler's a very 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.040 different story. You know, somebody should have been on that building, 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.280 and that's a different story. But they also showed great 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.040 They were very brave because when those bullets were flying. 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.840 They were they were they would diving and protect me. 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.280 But they were literally. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.639 But don't you think a treed area leading into a 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:30.000 fence three hundred plus yards away from you, that area, 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.000 as a matter of standard operating procedure would need to 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.760 be swept and we would need to have eyes on 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.800 it to make sure that nobody be a paparazzi or 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.760 in this case it would be assassin has access to 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.760 being close to you with an AK forty seven with 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.640 a scope. Your sons can tell you because they're both 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:54.280