Speaker 1: Already and this is the Daily This is the Daily OS. Oh,
Speaker 1: now it makes sense. Good morning and welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily OS. It is Tuesday, the seventeenth of September.
Speaker 2: I'm Billy, I'm Zara.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, there appeared to be another assassination attempt on
Speaker 1: former US President Donald Trump, who is also the current
Speaker 1: Republican candidate for the US election in November. It was
Speaker 1: the second time in about two months that a gunman
Speaker 1: had been in shooting distance of the former president. Now
Speaker 1: questions about how this could happen to a man who
Speaker 1: is constantly surrounded by security are intensifying. Well explain how
Speaker 1: it unfolded in today's deep dive. But before we get there, Zara,
Speaker 1: what is making headlines today?
Speaker 2: Murder charges against a New South Wales couple have been
Speaker 2: dropped after they were found not guilt in a high
Speaker 2: profile case. Nineteen year old Amber Haigu, who lived with
Speaker 2: an intellectual impairment, went missing in two thousand and two.
Speaker 2: She lived with Robert and Anne Geeves. The married couple
Speaker 2: were accused of killing haig to take her five month
Speaker 2: old baby after an alleged unofficial surrogacy agreement. Robert Gieves
Speaker 2: is the child's father. The gieves were charged with Haig's
Speaker 2: murder in twenty twenty two, but have now been cleared
Speaker 2: of any wrongdoing. A new South Wales Supreme Court judge
Speaker 2: described Haig as quote vulnerable and said the couple's motive
Speaker 2: to murder her could not be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Speaker 1: An investigation into the conduct of one of Australia's biggest unions,
Speaker 1: the CFMEU, has found continued links to bicky gangs and
Speaker 1: criminal activity. The embattled construction union was placed into administration
Speaker 1: after nine newspapers alleged it had been infiltrated by organized
Speaker 1: crime groups. A preliminary investigation has pointed to quote a
Speaker 1: cycle of lawlessness within the union. The report said CFMEU
Speaker 1: operations were being influenced by Biki gangs and parts of
Speaker 1: the union were vulnerable to corruption. It is recommended the
Speaker 1: CFMEU work with police to handle the alleged criminal activity.
Speaker 2: At least eight people have drowned and at least two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand homes are without power in Central
Speaker 2: Europe due to intense flooding. A storm system called Boris
Speaker 2: brought torrential downpours to Chechia, Romania, Poland and Austria, where
Speaker 2: the body of a firefighter has been recovered. The European
Speaker 2: Union Commission chief shared her quote heartfelt solidarity with all
Speaker 2: affected by the devastating floods on x. The EU stands
Speaker 2: ready to support, she said.
Speaker 1: And today's good news. Australian actor Elizabeth Dipicki has won
Speaker 1: an Emmy for her role as Princess Diana in the
Speaker 1: Netflix series The Crown. This is the Ossy actress's second
Speaker 1: nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, but
Speaker 1: it's her first time winning an Emmy for the role.
Speaker 1: It's also the first time an Australian actress has won
Speaker 1: an Emmy in this category. Debickie called the role of
Speaker 1: Diana a great privilege. This year, The Crown received eighteen
Speaker 1: Emmy nominations and won three, including Debickie's win. Chogun also
Speaker 1: made history with a record eighteen Emmy wins at this
Speaker 1: year's ceremony.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Billy, What's absolutely crazy about this is that
Speaker 2: this is the second time in a matter of months
Speaker 2: that we have dedicated a podcast to talking about an
Speaker 2: attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Completely wild It's been precedented
Speaker 2: completely and I think it raises a whole host of
Speaker 2: questions and we're going to get to those in a second.
Speaker 2: For anyone that needs to catch up on the news
Speaker 2: from yesterday, What do we know about the assassination attempt?
Speaker 1: So this all happened at Trump's golf course that he
Speaker 1: owns in West Palm Beach in the US state of Florida.
Speaker 1: It was on Sunday in the US. It was Monday
Speaker 1: morning in Australia, and so Trump was playing golf there
Speaker 1: and like he always is, he was under the protection
Speaker 1: of the Secret Service. Now they had an agent who
Speaker 1: was one hole ahead of him whilst he was playing golf,
Speaker 1: and it was that agent ahead who spotted a gun
Speaker 1: in the bushes. Here's what authority said about how it
Speaker 1: started to unfold in the press conference after it happened.
Speaker 3: He was able to spot this rifle barrel, stick it
Speaker 3: out of the fence and immediately engage that individual, at
Speaker 3: which time the individual took off.
Speaker 1: They also said that the person was only about three
Speaker 1: hundred to four hundred and fifty meters away from Trump,
Speaker 1: so very much within shooting distance. But they think that
Speaker 1: they were waiting for Trump to just get a bit closer. Now,
Speaker 1: we heard in that audio that we just played that
Speaker 1: they said the suspected tudor was immediately engaged. What we
Speaker 1: know is that that was from the Secret Service. But
Speaker 1: as you hear, the person got away in a vehicle,
Speaker 1: so they weren't injured by those gunshots. When Secret Service
Speaker 1: got to where this man was in the bush, they
Speaker 1: found a few things.
Speaker 3: In the bushes where this guy w Else is an
Speaker 3: eight K forty seven style rifle with a scope, two
Speaker 3: backpacks which were hung on the fist that had a
Speaker 3: ceramic tile at them, and a GoPro which he was
Speaker 3: going to take pictures of.
Speaker 1: So I think authorities could deduce with some level of
Speaker 1: confidence what this person's intentions, at least seemed to be. Now,
Speaker 1: as the person jumped into the car to escape, there
Speaker 1: was a witness who saw him and took a photo
Speaker 1: of the car, which they were then able to send
Speaker 1: out to local police, and that worked in. Local police
Speaker 1: then pulled him over on a highway. Speaking straight after
Speaker 1: the incident, the FBI didn't formally identify the alleged shooter.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: However, over the following hours, anonymous officials told News outlet
Speaker 1: ap that the suspect's name is Ryan Wesley Routh. No
Speaker 1: doubt we will hear more about him in the days
Speaker 1: to come and exactly what his intentions and motivations were.
Speaker 1: But what we do know is that Trump escaped the
Speaker 1: whole thing un injured and is safe.
Speaker 2: I have so much that I want to unpack there,
Speaker 2: like the fact that the alleged shooter was able to
Speaker 2: leave and to get away and only then was pulled
Speaker 2: over is absolutely mind blowing to me. But I know
Speaker 2: that we're going to get there in a second. So
Speaker 2: just quickly, how did Trump respond? Because he came out
Speaker 2: with such a show of strength, and you know, he
Speaker 2: really spoke a lot about that first assassination attempt. What
Speaker 2: did we hear after this second one?
Speaker 1: So quite quickly after, he sent out an email to
Speaker 1: his fundraising list. I'll read out part of it. He said, quote,
Speaker 1: I wanted you to hear this first. I am safe
Speaker 1: and well nothing will slow me down. I will never surrender.
Speaker 1: And he added, unity, peace, make America great again.
Speaker 2: I think the question I keep seeing online, and certainly
Speaker 2: the thing that keeps coming up in my mind is
Speaker 2: how is it possible that people with guns keep getting
Speaker 2: within such close proximity a former president Trump, you know,
Speaker 2: it is just absolutely mind blowing. So that in those
Speaker 2: same conversations we often talk about the Secret Service, and
Speaker 2: here in Australia we don't have a secret service. Can
Speaker 2: you just explain a bit about the US Secret Service?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the Secret Service is a law enforcement agency
Speaker 1: in the US and their main mission is to protect
Speaker 1: the president and also the vice president and then also
Speaker 1: those close to them, and it also includes former presidents
Speaker 1: and their families. And so those who are former presidents
Speaker 1: receive security detail for life. So that's why Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: well that's part of the reason why he has so
Speaker 1: much security because he is a former president. And so
Speaker 1: this extends again to all former presidents. You know, Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: for example, has security surrounding him twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: I think that that's one of the interesting peculiarities of
Speaker 2: this election is that we now have both the vice
Speaker 2: president and the former president.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Because of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's position as former president and because of Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris's position as vice president, they have a lot of
Speaker 1: security surrounding them all the time. And just to give
Speaker 1: you a bit of context. In Australia, you know, we
Speaker 1: don't have officially Secret Service, but we have something similar
Speaker 1: called the Close Personal Protection and they also follow the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister everywhere they go. They also scope out locations
Speaker 1: before the Prime Minister gets anywhere. Even Zara, when we've
Speaker 1: had Anthony Albanesi come to the daily Os, his security
Speaker 1: have come to the locations prior, look to see if
Speaker 1: there are any security risks and then once they've done
Speaker 1: that allowed the Prime Minister to come through.
Speaker 2: So that advancing is done for any high level I mean,
Speaker 2: advancing is done for anyone in political office, but from
Speaker 2: a security sense, especially here for the Prime minister.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's out of recognition that people in these
Speaker 1: positions have a higher level of threat surrounding them because
Speaker 1: of their position. Now that's in Australia. The Secret Service
Speaker 1: in the US is a lot more intense, I think
Speaker 1: for a number of reasons, one of them being that
Speaker 1: guns are obviously legal in the US, so they have
Speaker 1: to be more careful.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So we know that both here and in the US,
Speaker 2: there is this thing that happens where a security detail
Speaker 2: scopes out and them is at an event or wherever
Speaker 2: the leader is to protect them. We've already seen one
Speaker 2: assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life. Has his security detail
Speaker 2: increased since that attempt? Because I think that's the thing
Speaker 2: I can't get over is that it happened once, but
Speaker 2: now it's happened again. Did anything give during that time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So just a quick reminder, on the thirteenth of July,
Speaker 1: So just over two months ago, the former president Donald
Speaker 1: Trump was injured by a gunshot while he was holding
Speaker 1: a rally in Pennsylvania. Now, the gunman was shot and
Speaker 1: he was killed by the Secret Service at that time. Now,
Speaker 1: what we found out after that was that his security
Speaker 1: had actually just been increased in the weeks prior to
Speaker 1: that first assassination attempt because US authorities had learned of
Speaker 1: an Iranian plot to kill him, which I think just
Speaker 1: really paints a picture of the level of direct surrounding
Speaker 1: this matter. In the press conference yesterday, authorities touched on it,
Speaker 1: but they didn't provide too much more detail.
Speaker 3: The threat level is high. We have increased the amount
Speaker 3: of assets that we've supported, so we are we live
Speaker 3: in danger times.
Speaker 1: Yes, so few details there. One thing we do know
Speaker 1: that has changed is that he now only does outdoor
Speaker 1: campaign rallies if he is behind bulletproof glass, but saying
Speaker 1: that he really does all of them inside.
Speaker 2: Now it's so interesting because I imagine that if you
Speaker 2: were in the Secret Service, you know, going to a
Speaker 2: rally or having these huge public you know, mass demonstrations
Speaker 2: would be a really difficult thing to have to deal with.
Speaker 2: But this second attempt was almost in private. It wasn't
Speaker 2: at one of those huge events, And so I wonder how,
Speaker 2: you know, different these two scenarios are, and how that
Speaker 2: would impact what goes on behind closed doors. But if
Speaker 2: we're to go back to that first, I know that
Speaker 2: there was quite a bit of discourse afterwards about should
Speaker 2: the Secret Service have done more? Did they fail? Obviously
Speaker 2: it's in the name secret that we might not know
Speaker 2: a whole heat, But do we know anything about if
Speaker 2: there was a failure or if it was something that
Speaker 2: couldn't be avoided.
Speaker 1: Yeah, investigations are still ongoing, but there has been some
Speaker 1: acknowledgment of shortcomings and there's been a direct consequence of that.
Speaker 1: So shortly after the July shooting, the director of the
Speaker 1: Secret Service, Kimberly Cheedle, resigned and at the time, she
Speaker 1: said the Secret Service fell short of its mission quote
Speaker 1: to protect our nation's leaders, and she called it the
Speaker 1: agency's most significant operational failure in decades, and she took
Speaker 1: full responsibility for what happened.
Speaker 2: Very strong words there, very.
Speaker 1: Strong, and again she stepped aside because of it. In
Speaker 1: terms of what actually went wrong, Cheedle didn't really get
Speaker 1: into the specifics of that. She peered before a committee,
Speaker 1: but said she might not be able to answer every
Speaker 1: question because there were so many investigations ongoing and she
Speaker 1: didn't want to get in the way of those investigations. So,
Speaker 1: whilst those investigations haven't been made public yet, just a
Speaker 1: few days ago, the Washington Post quoted anonymous sources talking
Speaker 1: about what the findings were. So, according to the Post quote,
Speaker 1: the investigation found that agents from Secret Service headquarters and
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Field Office had an alarmingly slipshot, which means
Speaker 1: careless strategy to block a potential shooter. The Post went
Speaker 1: on to say that there were also communications breakdowns that
Speaker 1: allowed the assassination attempt to happen, things like local polices
Speaker 1: alert of a suspicious man at the rally not being
Speaker 1: broadcast widely on Secret Service radio and agents in the
Speaker 1: Secret Service radio room not being able to access real
Speaker 1: time alerts. So again, a number of different shortcomings that
Speaker 1: have been identified. I'll also add again that this is
Speaker 1: just going on anonymous sources, so we will have to
Speaker 1: wait and see if the investigation is released publicly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I think that there's a lot that
Speaker 2: will be happening behind closed doors. You know, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: is not the only person that the Secret Service has
Speaker 2: to protect, and I imagine they wouldn't want to jeopardize
Speaker 2: the safety of anyone else, you know, if there are
Speaker 2: shortcomings or there are failings, if you were someone else
Speaker 2: who had Secret Service protection, I'm not sure how good
Speaker 2: you'd feel reading all of these things. Speaking of other
Speaker 2: people who have Secret Service detail, does Donald Trump have
Speaker 2: less security than someone like Joe Biden, who is the
Speaker 2: sitting president currently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was talked about in the press conference yesterday,
Speaker 1: the fact that because Trump is not the current sitting president,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have as much security as Biden does. So
Speaker 1: even though there could be an assessment that you know,
Speaker 1: based on what we've seen in the past two months
Speaker 1: and knowing that he probably is one of the most
Speaker 1: polarizing figures in the world. That doesn't, based on what
Speaker 1: I could understand from the press conference, mean that he
Speaker 1: gets more security detail, or even mean that he gets
Speaker 1: the same amount of security detail as the current sitting president.
Speaker 1: Here's some of what was said at this.
Speaker 3: Level that he is at right now. He's not the
Speaker 3: city president. If he was, we would have had this
Speaker 3: lower golf course around it. Well, because he's not, the
Speaker 3: security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service
Speaker 3: deems possible. So I would imagine that the next time
Speaker 3: becomes at a golf course, there'll probably be a little
Speaker 3: bit more people around the perimeter. But the Secret Service
Speaker 3: did exactly what they should have.
Speaker 1: Done, So it's absolutely true that if he was the
Speaker 1: sitting president, there would have been more security surrounding him.
Speaker 1: I guess the question now is, because we know of
Speaker 1: these threats on his life, will they increase the security
Speaker 1: detail to mean that he has as much security as
Speaker 1: a current president.
Speaker 2: Is there a push for that to happen, Like, are
Speaker 2: there people who want that to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a push for it to happen, but
Speaker 1: there was also a push for it to happen last time.
Speaker 1: So whether or not there will be more security is
Speaker 1: still a question that is up in the air. One
Speaker 1: thing to note is that this push is coming from
Speaker 1: both so it's coming from Republicans and Democrats. This isn't
Speaker 1: something you know. I think that so much of what
Speaker 1: we see in the US is that everything feels politicized,
Speaker 1: and everything feels like a political attack. I think this
Speaker 1: is one of those rare cases where it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like it's being politicized, if that makes sense. So Joe
Speaker 1: Biden released a statement yesterday saying that he has directed
Speaker 1: his team to quote ensure that Secret Service has every resource,
Speaker 1: capability and protective measure necessary to ensure the former president's
Speaker 1: continued safety. So we'll see what happens. We are less
Speaker 1: than two months out from the election. Now it's clear
Speaker 1: they think that there is a high level of threat
Speaker 1: around Trump. I think the word unprecedented almost feels overused
Speaker 1: after the past few years that we've had for a
Speaker 1: number of different reasons, and especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: the political landscape that we are operating in. But I
Speaker 1: really think that there's no other word to describe two
Speaker 1: apparent assassination attempts in two months on a political candidate
Speaker 1: leading up to the US election. It just is unprecedented,
Speaker 1: it really is.
Speaker 2: And the US right now is just fascinating. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's scary, it's full of threats, and I mean there's
Speaker 2: so much at stake here, so we'll definitely be keeping
Speaker 2: an eye on it.
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