Episode 4956： DC Terror Attack On National Guard
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Summary
On the eve of Thanksgiving, two members of the National Guard and Department of War were shot and wounded in an attack near the White House in Washington, D.C. on the evening of November 22, a gunman opened fire near the Farragut Metro station on the National Mall. Two National Guardsmen are in critical condition, and the shooter is in custody. Chief Jeff Carroll and Jack Posobiec react to the shooting and give their thoughts and prayers to the families of the fallen.
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and do a reset. I want to play, I want to replay that entire presser because I think it was only
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a couple of minutes, but I think it's got some details in there. So as soon as you guys are
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ready to play it, we'll do it. I also have to say, Jack, I've got a particular problem with
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the thing about all the agencies working together. As I've said many times, we understand they all
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work together. We assume you're all together, but I think we just got to get down to the basics.
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And if we can just put up that photo of the alleged shooter, the one that got wounded
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and they put in the thing, I think that was the alleged shooter, right? I think we put
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that up. And I'd like to play just what Cash and Mayor Bowser and the assistant head of
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what DC Metro has to say, because I'm not saying there's conflicting information, but even that,
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it wasn't, it wasn't tight. It wasn't as tight as you have to have. Let's, we don't have
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it. Okay. Jack. Oh, okay. Oh yeah. We're going to reset Jack. We got a reboot here. What we
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know from this presser is that they called it a targeted shooting. What happened earlier
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this afternoon, I think around 2 15 or so at the Farragut near the Farragut, the Metro
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station, someone came around the, a shooter came around the corner and opened up on National
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Guard elements that were in, that were there. They were supposedly had weapons. They were
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shot. At first it was reported by the governor of West Virginia that they had, they had died.
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Uh, what we do know is that other national from the pressers that other National Guard
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individuals got onto the shooter and, uh, and let him have it. I think there's New York
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posters reporting, uh, five rounds. Um, the, uh, he was hit by five rounds or took five rounds.
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The, um, the ABC news and CBS, excuse me, CBS news is reporting that there is a, uh, there was
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up to 10 to 15 shots coming from the gunman. And they said it was looked like an ambush situation.
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So I don't know if they're, they've got more information than we just heard right there of
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the targeted, uh, of the targeted information. Do we have this ready to play? I'll tell you what,
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we're rebooting Jack Posobiec right now. You're in the five o'clock hour of the war room.
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We obviously had a very different show ready for you on the eve of Thanksgiving, but this is a,
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uh, actually an emergency in the, uh, in the nation's Capitol, very near the white house.
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Let's go ahead. We're going to take it from the top. Let's go ahead and play the, uh, and replay
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the presser. My name is Cash Patel, FBI director. We're here to brief you on the tragic events
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that happened today at approximately two 15 local time in Washington, DC, where two of our brave
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members of the national guard and department of war were brazenly attacked in a horrendous act of
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violence. They were shot. They're in critical condition. As you can see behind me, we have
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assembled the full force of both the federal and state and local law enforcement agencies
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to bring bear all of our resources to make sure we find the perpetrators responsible for this
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heinous act and make no mistake, they will be brought to justice. Since this is an assault on
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a federal law enforcement officer, this will be treated at the federal level as an assault on a
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federal law enforcement officer. The FBI will lead out on that mission with our
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interagency partners to include the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service, ATF, DEA.
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And we're thankful for the mayor's assistance in this matter. The Metropolitan Police Department
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and their skills in investigating homicides and gun shootings in this city is exceptional.
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We will work together collaboratively because this is a matter of national security,
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because it's a matter of pride. President Trump has been informed. We've been in contact with the
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White House. We will bear we will shortchange the American public with no resources to make sure we
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find and safeguard our nation's capital right here in Washington, D.C. and bring anyone responsible
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for this heinous act of violence to justice. I would lastly like to add to the American public in the
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world. Please send your prayers to those brave warriors who are in critical condition and their
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families. They are here serving our country. They are here protecting everyday Americans and citizens
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around the world in our nation's capital. They are the heroes of this day, and we must remember them
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on this day and every day and their families and the sacrifice they have made. I will now turn it
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over to Chief Carroll, the Metropolitan Police Department. Thank you.
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Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jeff Carroll. I'm the Executive Assistant Chief here at the
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Metropolitan Police Department. At approximately 2.15 this afternoon, members of the D.C. National Guard
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were on high visibility patrols in the area of 17th and I Street Northwest. When a suspect came around the
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corner, raised his arm with a firearm and discharged at the National Guard members. The National Guard
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members, there were other members that were in the area. They were able to, after some back and
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forth, able to subdue the individual and bring them into custody. Within moments, members of law
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enforcement in the area were also able to assist and bring that individual into the custody. At this time,
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as the director mentioned, the National Guard members are being treated at a local hospital.
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D.C. Fire and E.M.S. responded to the scene to provide first aid for those individuals and
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transport them to a local hospital. The suspect in this case was also transported for treatment at a local
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hospital. Madam Mayor. I'm Muriel Bowser. I'm the mayor of Washington, D.C., and I too want to send my
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thoughts and prayers to my thoughts and prayers to the families of the guardsmen and to the guardsmen who are in
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critical condition in a local hospital. I am joined by members and leadership from the D.C. National Guard,
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from the West Virginia National Guard, United States Secret Service, Deputy Mayor Pia, Fire Chief Donnelly,
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and Metro's General Manager, Randy Clark. And we join with the FBI Director in ensuring that MPD
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investigates, the U.S. Attorney prosecutes this case to the fullest extent of the law. I've had the
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opportunity to brief U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was speaking to the President when I called,
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as well as the United States Attorney Pirro, who assured me that this case will have her offices
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complete attention. Mayor, was there any other suspect? Chief? Sure. So, no, at this time, there's
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no indication that there was any other suspect. The one suspect that was involved in this incident,
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they were shot during the interaction and they were transported to the hospital for treatment. Mayor,
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does this validate the need for the National Guard here in D.C.? What we know, Andrea, is that this
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is a targeted shooting, one individual who appeared to target these Guardsmen, that individual has been
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taken into custody. You can tell us about a moment. And more details on the condition of the two
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National Guardsmen and whether or not anyone else was injured. And a quick question, follow-up
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for the FBI Director. You said that we'll make sure we find the perpetrators for this act. So,
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just to clarify, the person believed to be responsible is in custody and there are no other
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suspects. Sure. So, I can start out. Again, Chief Carol from MPD. So, both the individuals,
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the Guard members, they are in critical condition at a local hospital at this time being treated.
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At this point, we have no other suspects. We have reviewed video from the area. It appears,
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like I said, to be a lone gunman that raised a firearm and ambushed these members of the National
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Guard. And he was quickly taken into custody by other National Guard members and law enforcement
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agencies. We have the full power of the FBI and our federal partners here in the task force. So,
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we're looking at all those different aspects, but we don't have any motive.
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The National Guard that were shot, I'm told they were armed.
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Do they get off jobs? At this time, that's part of the preliminary investigation.
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Can we explain how the suspect was unremembered?
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Sure. So, how the suspect was apprehended, as I said, the individual, the suspect came around the
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corner. He immediately started firing a firearm at the two National Guard members. So, at that time,
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there were other National Guard members that were in the area. They heard the gunfire. They actually
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were able to intervene and to kind of hold down the suspect after he had been shot on the ground until
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law enforcement got there within moments. And he was shot by a National Guard member?
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At this point, we're still investigating exactly who shot that individual. It's not clear at this
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time. Were there D.C. police in the area? We don't know what kind of weapon. There was D.C.
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police. It happened right in front of the Metro, although there is no indication that the
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perpetrator was on the Metro. So, there's Metro Transit Police in the area. And obviously,
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being on 17th Street by the White House, Uniform Division Secret Service were in the immediate
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area as well. What kind of weapon the alleged perpetrator used? We do not know at this time.
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So, as I said, we're very preliminary in the investigation. So, we're looking to all aspects
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of who the individual is, his connections. At this time, he's still in the hospital receiving
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treatment. And I would just like to hang on. I would just like to add the reason that this
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suspect is in custody is because of the bravery of the men and women of the National Guard
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who responded due to their extensive training to secure American lives today, there was not
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any further injury and any further shootings. We should highlight the fact that the men and
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women of law enforcement, the interagency, the Department of War, and the National Guard
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executed their training with great precision today and prevented an even greater tragedy from
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befalling us. These National Guardsmen are heroes, and we must pray for their safety and
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their speedy recovery. And as the Chief said, we are in the preliminary stages of this investigation.
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We will run down every single lead, every piece of evidence. This is the power of the
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U.S. government at its best at the state, local, and federal level. That is why this interagency
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group is standing behind us to assure America and the world that we will continue to keep
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D.C. safe. And thankfully, we have Metropolitan Police Department, the National Guardsmen, and
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federal agents, and the Department of Justice and Attorney General willing to prosecute the
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mission to keep Americans safe. And President Trump has rightly stated that this heinous act
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will be investigated. And he has thanked the National Guardsmen and women and the men
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Did the suspects say anything? Did the suspects say anything at the time of the shooting?
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Why did the West Virginia governor say that they had been killed?
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So, Jack Posobiec joins me. Jack, you had it right there. Of course, they're in the moment
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also. They've only had a few minutes to prepare for this. So, you're going to have a little
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information maybe not on top of everything. But I do think they can give us more information
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about the shooter, right? I understand he's not cooperating. But you could have said he was
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a male. He didn't have to give us the pronouns. I mean, it's just not acceptable. You can give
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us more basic information about what's going on. Jack Posobiec, your thoughts?
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Well, Steve, are you familiar with the tenets of Coulter's Law and Coulter's Law?
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Oh, the longer it goes, the more you know it's part of the Muslim Brotherhood? Is that Coulter's Law?
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She said, I believe, and I'm paraphrasing of course.
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Well, the longer, right, right. The longer, of course, she is. The longer that it takes
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for them to release a description, the less chance that it was a white male.
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Yeah. You're saying if this guy had a MAGA ball cap on, we would have known his name.
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First off, they would already be scrubbing his social media. You would hear every time he
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Yeah, exactly. You'd have all that. You'd have pictures of him with like, you know,
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me and you or something like that. You'd have everything. So again, you know, it remains
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to be seen. But once again, the tenets of Coulter's Law seem to be holding true. And so in this
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situation, you know, there really does need to be an understanding of what's going on. And I think
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that you look at the way that the right responded to the murder of Charlie Kirk. You've seen
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recriminations. You've seen a lot of backstabbing, a lot of ankle biting, a lot of people pointing
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fingers, a lot of bickering and infighting, rather than actually doing something about the people who
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are shooting and killing patriots, National Guardsmen, schoolchildren in our country. We need
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to do something about that. We don't have time for the bickering and the infighting and then,
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oh, you can't have this person on your podcast. And we've got to tone police. We've got to be really
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careful. No, those are not the people that are it's not podcasters that are stacking bodies in
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the United States of America right now. And I'm sick to death of so many conservatives thinking
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that that's the most important thing in the world. Charlie Kirk's family will have an empty seat at
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their table tomorrow because of a violent leftist. And until we as a country and as a movement actually
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start to get really serious about this, he is not going to be the last one.
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It's the head of the table. And Charlie's not going to be with his family and not going to be
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with the country. I couldn't agree with you more. This is what I'm saying. I think this, hopefully,
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this tragedy will reinforce to the president and his team that America has his back. America wants
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the situation, the situation dealt with. America does not want this thing to devolve in more and more
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violence. And these people are all of our type. They're all outcast. They're not in the normal
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flow of making America great again. We have to be blunt about this. Look at the angry. Charlie
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called them the lost boys of the West. When he spoke about that, he, these are the disaffected,
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disassociated young men. And we also see a lot of the time migrant violence as well. Same, same idea.
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They're disassociated. They're outcast from society. They never really quite fit into society. And then
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they turn on TV and they get told it's Donald Trump. It's MAGA Republicans. It's Charlie Kirk is the
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United States National Guard that is putting you at risk. So you've got to get up and do something
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about it. I tell you what, we're going to take a short commercial break here. Jack, you're going to
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stick around. You're kind of my wingman. We're pulling together some, we're pulling together some
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clips from other channels and also getting more information as we go. I want to thank everybody for
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sticking around. Not the five o'clock show that we had in mind, but we're going to, we're going to
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stick it through and give you all the updated information. A targeted shooting of National Guard
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troops in Washington, D.C. near the White House. Short commercial break. Back in the warm in just a
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Coming out of places like Chicago, it makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see
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people in law enforcement, people in uniformed military get nervous, get stressed, shoot at
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American civilians. It is a very, very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for the
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communities on the ground. So it was basically a warning to say, like, if you're asked to do
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something particularly against American citizens, Ken, what exactly do we know?
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Basically just what you said, Katie. This shooting, I'm told, occurred near the White House in a place
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called Farragut Square in downtown D.C. We're seeing video on social media of police rushing to the scene.
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I checked in with the Secret Service because they protect the White House and was told that
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two uniformed National Guard members were involved in a shooting. At least one of them was struck.
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Their condition is not known. The nature of the incident was not known by this person. It's being
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handled by the D.C. police, not the Secret Service, because they've decided there's no nexus to the
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White House, no threat to the White House. So the circumstances of this incident are unclear.
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Remember, of course, that uniformed National Guard are regularly patrolling the streets of
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Washington, having been deployed there by President Trump. That's subject to a legal fight.
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Actually, five days ago, a judge ordered the Trump administration to halt that deployment.
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That's still being litigated. But again, so all we know is that two uniformed National Guard members
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involved in a shooting. One was struck. The condition of that person is unknown at this time.
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Their presence is also under question whether it's legal. Last week, a federal judge ruled the
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Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard in D.C. was unlawful,
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arguing it lacks authority and is violating the District of Columbia's sovereign powers under the
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Home Rule Act. The Trump administration is appealing that order. They filed their appeal,
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Yeah, that's right. And and that will be ongoing. You know, that's part of the litigation that's
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been happening around the country or various challenges have been made. But the Trump
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administration is standing by this policy of deploying National Guard troops to cities,
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saying that it's necessary to combat crime, as Tom just articulated. There's a lot of dispute about
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that even among the National Guard members themselves. But but in D.C., it's been less
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controversial than in other places. Again, the mayor sort of made a strategic decision to go along
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with it, essentially, initially, although the attorney general is is challenging that deployment in
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court. But again, it hasn't been really much of a subject of contention on the streets because
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oftentimes you'll see them essentially National Guard, Uniform National Guard members gathered in
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groups, scrolling on their phones, chatting. They're not really involved in very much that's
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controversial here in D.C., Katie. The president says and we didn't know much about that third
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person. Now, apparently we do. He says that the shooter was also very severely wounded.
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But regardless, the president says we'll pay a very steep price. J.D. Vance is in Kentucky. He's
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going to be speaking soon. We're going to wait to see if he does address the the shooting and what
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happened in Washington, D.C. today. Again, the president is not in town. He is in Florida.
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J.D. Vance in Kentucky. That being said, it's Washington, D.C., a lot of high value targets.
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It involves two National Guard members. And so much much has been locked down, including the White
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House. And there is a ground stop at Reagan National Airport, which is which is just on the
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outside of the city until four o'clock. Again, this is the busiest travel day of the year.
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So a ground stop at this moment is significant. It's meaningful. We've seen multiple different law
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enforcement agencies on the scene, including D.C. police, Metropolitan Police, including the ATF,
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the U.S. Marshals, the FBI, the Secret Service. The big question we have right now, and Ken Delaney
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pointed this out a moment ago, is was this a targeted attack? Did the person who shot these
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two guardsmen do it intentionally? Was it an ambush or was it something else? Was it caught in
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crossfire, street crime? It is unclear at the moment. Regi, what the governor of West Virginia
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has put out there on social media? This is Governor Patrick Morrissey. He says it's with great sorrow
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that we can confirm both members of the West Virginia National Guard who were shot earlier
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today in Washington, D.C. have passed away from their injuries. These brave West Virginians lost
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their lives in the service of their country. We are in ongoing contact with federal officials as the
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investigation continues. Our entire state grieves with their families, their loved ones, and the
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Guard community. West Virginia will never forget their service or their sacrifice, and we will demand
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full accountability for this horrific act. I'm a bit speechless because it is just so awful,
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Okay, Denver, you got to get quicker on that. Katie Turner was just reporting what the governor
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of West Virginia said. He put out a tweet. He reversed it. He reversed it shortly thereafter
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and said they really didn't know the status. I think now we know from the press conference
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it is they're in critical condition. We have, is it Chris Peyote from a former assistant director
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of the FBI, is with us. Sir, thank you for joining us. What would, what would law enforcement be,
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what would law enforcement be doing right now and going through, and going through their, their evolutions
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Right, what you have is a very large law enforcement presence. So they're figuring out who's going to be
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the lead, who's moving into support functions, who's going to be gathering what information running
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down immediate investigative leads. They're also going to be looking to collect incidental surveillance
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footage, any kind of information that would give them more context and characterization of the
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situation. And as far as, you know, what the circumstances were at the time, they're also
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probably looking right now to make sure they can determine whether this was an isolated incident,
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loan offender, or is this something part of a more widespread attack posture across the nation?
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Yeah, Chris, um, cash said, Hey, we're gonna get the perpetrators. And of course, it just happened
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a few minutes ago. They did say it was a targeted shooting, but the DC Metro, I think assistant
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director really said that this looked like a lone gunman. Is it too, too soon to jump to that
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conclusion? Or it doesn't look like it was a set, you know, ambush from a roof. Uh, but, uh, cash did
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say we're going to get the perpetrators. What would that lead you to believe? Well, right now it's too
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early to put a lot of context around it. It just could have been a random shooting by someone who
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was a disaffected person, saw two uniformed, uh, national guardsmen and, and, and fired upon them.
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I also have seen instances of rhetoric on social media by certain politicians indicating that they
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were saying that national guard members could be firing upon American citizens. It could have caused
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somebody to move from an ideological position to an actual kinetic, kinetic action. So they're
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looking at all of these things right now. I would have to take a broader view of it and say, we want
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to make sure that it's an isolated incident before we call it one. We want to make sure that we have
00:24:05.620
all the suspects in custody before we say we do and make sure that we're not overselling our position
00:24:11.340
on the front end. Did you say, uh, Chris, did you say you actually thought you saw, uh, politicians
00:24:17.060
a day say about this incident that it might've been caused by somebody shooting the crowd? Or is
00:24:21.580
that just some general, that's some general. Yeah. Is that something that generally you've seen in the
00:24:26.500
past? I just saw it earlier today where there was, uh, one of the, I guess the, uh, what are they
00:24:32.240
calling them? The, the six, the people who put out that message saying this in the past few days
00:24:38.400
about the possibility of national guard members taking such action against the American people.
00:24:44.060
I'm not saying it was related to today, but what I'm saying is in my previous life,
00:24:48.960
if you have people that are on that edge of ideological views and action, a statement like
00:24:56.840
that could take someone who is mentally unbalanced and move them to action versus just staying in the
00:25:02.280
ideological position. But by the way, this is the seditious six that Chris is talking about. And
00:25:07.700
there's been a lot of activity about that. In fact, uh, captain Mark Kelly has already come out and
00:25:12.520
said how horrific this is. Uh, Jack, uh, we have Chris, is it pronounced Pai Hota? How do you
00:25:18.160
pronounce your last name? Yes. That's great. Pai Hota? Not close enough. Jack Pasovic, I know
00:25:24.400
you're trying to line up some other guests for us. Do you have any questions for Chris?
00:25:29.900
Well, Chris, I suppose the one thing that we're going to have to start looking at really more now
00:25:35.000
is these, and I spoke about this in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, these asymmetric
00:25:41.000
assassinations, whereby in you can have self-radicalized or radicalized in small groups,
00:25:47.140
um, assassins who go off and commit radical acts and really looking at ways to harden up these soft
00:25:54.200
targets. Obviously, Charlie's campus, um, tour was a soft target places like, uh, as we know,
00:26:00.760
this was a Metro station. We've been told for years, ever since the days of nine 11, that these
00:26:04.880
were soft targets. Uh, but certainly the white house itself, you know, you think with all the
00:26:09.100
security there and all the personnel and surveillance, that there'd be something more
00:26:13.840
that could be done. That being said, an ambush is an ambush, but certainly it's something that I
00:26:18.400
think that a lot of national security is going to end. Safety personnel are going to be focused on.
00:26:24.360
Absolutely. What you're going to see is a change in the national guards posture for force
00:26:29.180
protection, right? They're going to start looking at how they protect their people. And they're going
00:26:33.500
to start looking at their standing rules of engagement. You're also going to see the law
00:26:36.820
enforcement community take up a bit more, maybe of an aggressive posture around certain places,
00:26:42.200
people, places, and things to make sure that, uh, any would be attackers are put off by a show of
00:26:48.060
force. One thing I'll add to what you said is I find that a lot of the, uh, movements right now
00:26:54.400
are practicing what we used to call the, the leaderless resistance model. All of these folks
00:26:59.780
are out there. They're radicalized. They're looking for a reason to take action. They're
00:27:04.660
looking for the adoration of their so-called tribe and rhetoric, any kind of irresponsible talk
00:27:11.840
or agitation could move these people to action. So it's just another way of expanding the threat
00:27:18.000
environment for our law enforcement and national defense personnel. Hey, uh, Chris, can you stick
00:27:24.400
with us? Uh, appreciate it if you could. Absolutely. Sure. Chris Paihota, who's a former assistant
00:27:29.960
director of the FBI. Jack Posobiec is my wingman. We're going to get some other people. I think I'm
00:27:35.300
in communication with Eric Prince, Brian Glenn. We're going to get as much information about this
00:27:39.760
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00:27:47.080
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Okay, thanks. We're going to get John Solomon up here momentarily. Brian Glenn joins us. Jack
00:29:17.180
Posobiec's working a couple of contacts. Make sure we get full information to everyone. Brian Glenn,
00:29:24.120
President Trump is at Mar-a-Lago, so thank God he's not near this today. Vice President Vance is,
00:29:31.260
I think, in Kentucky. Any updates of what you know about White House staff or anyone having any insights
00:29:36.780
about this, sir? Yes, good evening. As of now, no, I don't have any updates from the White House other
00:29:44.580
than the true social posts that President pushed out earlier. I was telling the producer in the
00:29:51.680
break, yesterday I had a great conversation with a foreign National Guardsman from Mississippi at a
00:29:58.520
Starbucks right about a block away from where this incident happened today. They tell me they were going
00:30:04.120
to be here until March, and I asked them what has been the feedback from people on the streets as
00:30:09.820
they often are found picking up trash. They just, I had a video of them picking up trash just two days
00:30:16.060
ago in front of Lafayette Park there. They are excited to be in this city. It's an honor to serve
00:30:21.440
our country and be in our nation's capital. So as soon as I heard about this shooting, I instantly
00:30:27.140
thought about these three young men that so bravely want to serve our community and to see what
00:30:33.500
happened. Now, you know, I also started thinking about, well, is this much of a large, is this a
00:30:39.620
plan of a larger attack? Should we see more of these lone wolves on the streets around D.C.? And I know
00:30:45.920
that Pete Hetseth had announced that we're going to have an additional 500 National Guardsmen around
00:30:52.020
D.C. And I hope, Steve, that every single one of these men and women that are walking these streets
00:30:57.440
with the National Guard have some type of firearm on them. A lot of them don't, Steve. And luckily,
00:31:04.100
from what I understand today, the two gentlemen engaged in the shooting did have some type of
00:31:10.180
weapon on them. But I think it's imperative that we put these men and women on the streets
00:31:15.120
of Washington, D.C. to patrol these neighborhoods, have the ability to defend themselves. Very important.
00:31:22.340
Well, this was people on Capitol Hill that blinked and didn't really have the president's back
00:31:26.880
about the deployment of these troops. You know, you get tremendous blowback on this from all the
00:31:30.780
rhinos. Right now, Jack, I'm going to come to you. Brian, hang on. This is a typical response,
00:31:36.240
Jack. Jane Meyer, who's, you know, one of the worst of the worst. Caitlin Collins had put something out
00:31:41.280
about the Guardsmen being shot. Jane Meyer comes in. This is so tragic, so unnecessary. These poor
00:31:46.520
Guardsmen should never have been deployed. I live in D.C. and watched as they had virtually nothing to do
00:31:51.320
but pick up trash. It was a political show and at what cost. The left has never supported
00:31:58.460
having the National Guard there to back up local police and to back up Ice Age. Remember,
00:32:04.280
the Jane Meyers of the world do not want anybody deported. The only way they're going to win
00:32:08.260
elections is the illegal alien invasion. And of course, you know, just like Mondami won in New York
00:32:14.620
City. And so all they're doing is dumping on. They're not talking about the shooter. They're not
00:32:19.680
talking about, you know, these radical leftists and folks that are taking this in their own hands.
00:32:25.180
What they're doing is they're trashing the National Guard for just being there picking up trash. Your
00:32:30.060
thoughts, Jack Posobiec? Yeah, Steve, I'll say what I said earlier today and earlier in the week. No offense,
00:32:37.400
but it's time to let the men handle this. This idea that, oh, you know, we don't like these raids and
00:32:44.680
we don't like you're scared of the uniforms. These same people that were scared that President Trump
00:32:49.160
was having tanks at the army parade. Yeah, imagine an army parade for their birthday, the 250th,
00:32:55.260
that doesn't have a tank. All right. It's cut me a break. I'm sick of the overt feminization of our
00:33:01.540
culture, the overt feminization of America. You need rough men to commit acts of roughness in order
00:33:10.020
to keep people safe from violent animals, the kind of violent animals that would shoot up Charlie
00:33:15.440
Kirk, that would shoot up a school, that would shoot up National Guardsmen. I'm sorry, lady, but
00:33:20.340
that's just the facts. And if you can't handle it, then guess what? Maybe this line of business isn't
00:33:26.340
for you. Go work in a flower shop or something. That's perfectly fine. But you have no business
00:33:31.720
putting your opinion out there, especially when two members of National Guard who are conducting
00:33:35.820
law enforcement, high profile presence operations in front of the White House, the people's house
00:33:42.120
were just shot. She takes the side of the criminal. This is what they do, Steve, deny attacked and then
00:33:48.660
reverse victim and offender. It's called DARVO. First, they deny what happened. They attack the opposite side
00:33:54.440
and they reverse victim and offender. The victim, in her case, is the people of D.C. The victim is
00:33:59.980
the people who are victimized. It's like Slotkin saying that she was worried about the National
00:34:03.460
Guardsmen were going to be shooting up U.S. citizens. And Gavin Newsom said recently that
00:34:09.420
deploying the National Guard is an act of a dictator. He said it was an act of a dictator. And I remember,
00:34:15.960
Steve, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, we were told, oh, we're going to tone down the rhetoric.
00:34:19.920
We're going to tone down the rhetoric. They didn't tone it down. They toned it up. They ratcheted up
00:34:25.260
against conservatives, against President Trump, and against our National Guardsmen and law
00:34:29.520
enforcement. And what did conservatives do? Conservatives started attacking each other with
00:34:33.420
the infighting and saying, oh, you can't have this guy on this podcast. You can't talk about that. And
00:34:38.700
they're more worried about that than the people being gunned down and the bodies being stacked in
00:34:43.980
America because of asymmetric civil warfare, which is currently ongoing. Steve, I would also like to
00:34:49.940
point out just here that as we're waiting for more confirmation on the description, we also know,
00:34:56.260
and I think it needs to be said, that President Trump just signed that executive order on the
00:35:01.260
Muslim Brotherhood. And the Muslim Brotherhood are known for extreme acts of violence, adherence to
00:35:08.860
their ideology or known for extreme acts of violence. You had Alex Jones and Laura Loomer on
00:35:13.600
earlier today talking about that. And I think as we describe all of the situation, we should also
00:35:19.400
point out that this does happen in the wake of the signing of IDEO.
00:35:24.420
We're going to get back to that. I got Jack Posobiec, my wingman from Human Events Daily. Chris
00:35:28.980
Paihota, former Assistant Director of the FBI, is good enough to join us. Brian Glenn, our White House
00:35:34.740
correspondent. I want to bring in John Solomon. John's joining us, I think, by phone. John, earlier
00:35:40.740
in the day, there was talk about this might be an ambush. CBS News reported that they said it was an
00:35:46.260
ambush. Law enforcement had told them 10 to 15 rounds. We then heard it was a targeted shooting
00:35:53.900
by DC Metro. It looks like the individual took five incoming. Have you got any update from your
00:36:02.720
sources, sir? Yes. What we understand is that as the assailant was coming across 17th Street,
00:36:10.740
turning on to 8th Street, he just opened fire on the guardsmen. Some were able to return fire.
00:36:16.560
He's wounded. He's critically injured. The guardsmen are critically injured. But it does look to be
00:36:21.560
a surprise, unprovoked, ambush-style attack. Literally, they're walking down the street,
00:36:27.940
and all of a sudden, this gentleman comes around the corner and immediately opens fire.
00:36:32.800
There's no provocation, according to the law enforcement officials I've talked to. Just
00:36:36.620
pure hatred, just opening gunfire and trying to wound these American heroes in uniform that have
00:36:43.560
been keeping our Capitol safe. So we don't know a lot. I want to point everybody back to something
00:36:48.220
that I think is really important. On Monday's show, we had Congressman Glenn Grossman. He has played a
00:36:53.860
very large role in helping people understand the Biden border crisis. It was he who discovered
00:36:57.760
tens of thousands of the border children, the unaccompanied minors, have been lost track of by
00:37:03.500
the Biden administration. Some of them ended up in the hands of cartels and traffickers because the
00:37:08.720
government didn't keep a close eye on them. He told me, he is 100% certain, that these six senators,
00:37:15.520
what they were trying to do in that video last week was to provoke people into thinking that the
00:37:22.320
National Guard's deployment to keep illegal aliens off the ground, to keep criminals off the ground
00:37:28.280
was illegal, that that's what they were trying to rile people up on. And if it turns out that this
00:37:33.380
gentleman's motive is somehow related to that, it's going to be a tragedy. And those six senators and
00:37:37.800
others who have been provoking and suggesting that what the National Guard is doing, like you just
00:37:43.240
mentioned, Jane Mayer, is somehow unlawful, unrighteous. These are the people that are provoking and
00:37:49.580
angering people around the country, creating a false narrative that somehow this is an illegal or
00:37:54.020
unrighteous effort to secure a city. And so we won't know the motive for a while. But I do think
00:37:59.700
there is concern that the boiled water that the left has done is in some ways put the National Guard
00:38:06.880
and others like ICE in grave danger. And it's a tragedy that people who are elected in office and hold
00:38:12.940
the highest offices in the land don't realize that their rhetoric contributes to a really unstable
00:38:19.040
and violent situation right now. We'll find out what this man's motive is. But it's so funny on
00:38:23.580
Monday, or tragic, I should say, on Monday, that Glenn Grossman was worried that people would take
00:38:28.520
from these six senators' language that the National Guard were somehow the bad people in this. And
00:38:34.780
that's the tragedy. Even if it's not the motive for this shooting, it shouldn't be the message
00:38:39.200
Americans are getting from their elected leaders. I would love if Denver right now could go ahead and
00:38:44.000
pull that clip from John Solomon's Monday show. I want to play it. Solomon, the evolution,
00:38:51.340
you know, Jane Mayer's mocking the National Guard about picking up trash. There's been this issue.
00:38:56.740
The evolution of this from when President Trump first did it, it was pressure from the left,
00:39:02.260
but you had people on Capitol Hill just weren't prepared to support President Trump. Because the
00:39:07.700
National Guard, from when they first came and had such a dramatic impact on crime,
00:39:12.680
as you remember, in the first couple weeks, there has been a bunch of people texting me now saying
00:39:17.000
a lot of the National Guard even carry weapons, don't have ammo in them. And of course, obviously
00:39:21.680
now some of the National Guard do not carry weapons. How did that happen? Who did not have
00:39:27.600
the president's back in this deployment of the National Guard for the safety and security of the
00:39:33.180
Capitol, sir? Yeah, listen, if you're trying to secure a Capitol where gun violence is frequent
00:39:39.320
and regular, you need to be armed, right? And we know that. And I think that if any guardsmen were
00:39:44.720
not armed, it appears that these guardsmen had at least small arms on them because they were able
00:39:48.740
to return fire or summon the crowd, a son in the group. I think they usually travel in groups of
00:39:53.460
four. Someone was able to get several shots off and wound this assailant. But we'll need to understand
00:39:59.840
who in that group had weapons, who did not. But you can't be a law enforcement official in the 21st
00:40:05.320
century in a city like Washington, D.C. where gun crime is high, where the gangs roam and have roamed
00:40:11.260
freely, though they've been reined in quite a bit the last few weeks, and not be armed. You got to be
00:40:16.240
on equal firepower with the bad guys. And so we'll get into that. I've seen a lot of the guardsmen
00:40:21.500
armed when I've engaged them. I've had some great conversations. I met a couple on 8th Street,
00:40:26.740
right where this happened just about a week ago, two weeks ago. I bought them some coffee. And
00:40:30.100
it's just good people. And they're proud to be defending their country, proud to be making
00:40:36.180
their capital a little safer. They see their work as righteous. And they see the critics as somehow
00:40:43.600
just silly. They don't appreciate what these men and women are doing. And I think at the end of the
00:40:49.360
day, if any of them are unarmed and they're out in the street, that's got to change because
00:40:53.760
anyone is a target these days. That is a sad, sad thing. We learned that tragically with Charlie.
00:40:59.700
And we're learning it again tragically today here on the night and eve when we should be
00:41:03.460
celebrating a holiday. We're mourning the terrible mourning of these two National Guardsmen.
00:41:10.080
And hopefully they're in critical condition. Hopefully they pull through.
00:41:14.600
John, there's a lot of, you know, the people on the left are even being as aggressive right now.
00:41:19.520
They never should have been deployed. This is all a power play by a dictator.
00:41:23.840
This instigation of this constantly by the left-wing politicians. Do you see a reaction
00:41:31.160
coming with President Trump? Is he finally going to say, I've had enough of this, sir?
00:41:35.980
Listen, he's been pretty tough the last several months. And he immediately swats down. Other
00:41:41.340
presidents would have allowed the senators to go unanswered. He didn't let that go unanswered.
00:41:46.660
He immediately called it what he believed it was, which was sedition. And he has ordered
00:41:51.040
investigations of them. He is countering at every step this narrative because he knows any moment
00:41:56.380
you stay silent, an inch is taken off of the debate line. And the left keeps surging in. And
00:42:01.840
it's, I've said this many times, what the left is engaged in is a war on truth. They are trying to
00:42:06.920
eliminate truth. It's, they try to make the bad guys, the good guys, the good guys, the bad guys.
00:42:12.000
They try to make the abnormal normal. They want to put men on women's podium and steal their medals
00:42:16.880
after an athletic competition. But, and the reason they're doing it, the reason they're waging this
00:42:22.320
war, and I've talked to many of the activists on the front lines, is they ultimately want to eradicate
00:42:26.500
the ultimate truth upon which this country is built. And that is that our, our creator endowed us
00:42:32.640
with certain inalienable rights. And they don't want them. They don't want that to be the truth
00:42:36.960
anymore. So as they destroy truth, they're marching towards eradicating that final truth
00:42:40.860
that our liberties come from God and can't be taken from government. I said this a few times
00:42:44.820
in speeches, and my friends on the left mocked me. And then Tim came, came out and said it out loud.
00:42:49.120
Yeah, but no, government gives you rights. You don't get them from anywhere else. You get them from
00:42:52.040
our governor, government. That is the truth that's under this truth on war, in this war on truth.
00:42:57.940
And I think those of us who have the bully pulpit or the bullhorn every day, we have to keep
00:43:06.680
countering the war on truth. We have to keep reminding people that the good guys are the
00:43:12.020
National Guardsmen, not the guy who fired unprovoked on them, that the good guys are the ICE agents.
00:43:17.440
They're not running up grannies and taking kids out of school. They're getting gang bangers and
00:43:22.020
drug traffickers off the street. We have to counter it every step of every day, because right now it's
00:43:27.820
an information war designed to eradicate the many truths that this country is built on.
00:43:33.680
John, before I let you go, I just wanted to end, and we're going to get it booted up as soon as we
00:43:37.300
can, but Reverend Al Sharpton was on MSNBC just moments ago, and he is pretty adamant. Al Sharpton
00:43:44.760
blames President Trump for National Guardsmen being shot in D.C., quote, as Nicole Wallace watches,
00:43:52.120
looks on with tears. She goes, the two people that are fighting for their lives, guardsmen,
00:43:57.820
that this president put there in harm's way. Your thoughts, sir?
00:44:02.800
It's ludicrous. The president did something to make the city safer. Those guardsmen, I know because
00:44:09.520
I've talked so many of them, I bought them coffee several times on the streets, they're proud to be
00:44:14.560
doing that. They don't feel forced and compelled. I mean, they obviously know they've been ordered
00:44:18.220
there, but they don't feel that way. They feel like this is a righteous job, and someone like Al
00:44:23.360
Sharpton or Nicole Wallace, who've imposed so many lies on the American people over the many years,
00:44:28.680
they're doing a disservice to those men and women. They don't even understand those men and women. They
00:44:32.880
don't know what makes them tick. They don't know the patriotism that they feel, and I've never seen
00:44:38.020
Al Sharpton or Nicole Wallace cry for any of the people who were gunned down day in and day out every
00:44:44.120
single day on the streets of Washington, D.C. They didn't shed a tear then, and the body toll is
00:44:49.840
enormous in D.C. People who are wounded and shot in this unlawful, lawless sort of society that the
00:44:56.420
D.C. government created in the nation's capital. They weren't crying then. They only cry when it's
00:45:01.100
convenient to make a case against Donald Trump. The American people are way smarter than Al Sharpton
00:45:06.440
or Nicole Wallace will ever be. They don't view it this way, and by the way, the men and women,
00:45:10.560
the fatigues that I walk by every day, they don't feel compelled by Donald Trump or that this is a
00:45:15.260
miserable job or that they've been put in a wrong place. They think they're in the right place,
00:45:19.700
at the right time, doing the right thing, and MSNBC should maybe wake up and spend a few days on the
00:45:24.340
street and talk to these amazing guardsmen. They'd find an extraordinarily different sentiment.
00:45:30.200
John, thank you for calling in. If you have anything else, let us know. We want to get you
00:45:33.760
back up. John Solomon, what's your, John, just the news and your Twitter handle?
00:45:38.960
Jay Solomon reports. Yeah, Jay Solomon reports on all social platforms.
00:45:45.960
Here's what I'd like to do. Jack Vosobis got a reporter in the street that's going to join
00:45:50.520
some of them. I'd like to play. Do we have the Al Sharpton? Can I play this right now? Let's go
00:45:55.280
ahead and play Al Sharpton. Two people fighting for their lives, guardsmen, that this president put
00:46:01.840
there. And as I said, I was one that was very vocal against that. But I'm not going to belittle the
00:46:07.700
fact that their lives at stake to get into a back and forth with the president. I can say that if I'm a member
00:46:14.980
of their families, I don't want to hear what he's saying about Honduras right now. I want to pray
00:46:19.800
that these two guardsmen who were ordered there and who were being told by the mayor was ambushed,
00:46:26.360
make it through. And all of this about sending in 500 people, what does that have to do with where
00:46:32.380
we are now? I think that we've got to, or those of us that have been opposed to the president's
00:46:37.220
policy, show that we are not going to morally match him by going down to a level of insensitivity.
00:46:43.620
There are two people fighting for their lives on Thanksgiving Eve. And it just seems ironic
00:46:48.820
to me that people that pardoned people assaulting police officers are now talking about how they're
00:46:56.480
going to uphold and look up to the people in the building. People in that building will
00:47:04.580
Jack, you see MSNBC in all his glory. Is Jack Posobiec, do we have him back up? We got Jack?
00:47:12.680
Okay. Hey, Jack, I think you've got, I think we've got WID Lyman up. You want to take it?
00:47:17.660
Yeah, let's do it. So WID Lyman, you're down there at the White House quite a bit. You're
00:47:23.600
covering it for Borderhawk News. You were there on the scene moments after. Tell us what you saw,
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what were the sights and sounds, and talk to us how soon after you arrived.
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Good to be with you guys tonight, and thank you. We got here a few minutes after the situation kind
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of unfolded. Behind me here is Farragut Square. We're a block or two from the White House here,
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and we just finished up a press conference with Mayor of Washington, Mayor Bowser,
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FBI Director Kash Patel, and other officials, and they basically stated what we've heard so far.
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Two National Guard men have been shot, are in critical condition at two different hospitals.
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The suspect is also in critical condition. There is one suspect at this time that did not release
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any further details about it. Basically, going forward, they're going to be investigating this
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to the fullest extent of the law. I have a quote here from the D.C. Police Union.
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The shooting of two National Guardsmen in D.C. is a despicable act. Our homicide detectives will
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ensure that whoever has perpetrated this violence is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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And just this area, Jack, as you know, is very close to the White House. What we were told was
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these National Guard men who move around in small groups, four to six, sometimes two,
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were basically ambushed. The shooter came around a corner, opened fire right away in what appears to
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be a very targeted attack on the National Guard here in Washington.
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Witt, are you—now, we know there's been some photos that have gone around online about a potential
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shooter. Are you able to confirm any of that? I'm sure you've seen them. Did you get a chance to see
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the suspected shooter at all as they were loading him in? Any information on description regarding
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this third individual who was shot, purportedly the shooter?
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I can't confirm the photos that are going around, but oftentimes Twitter is ahead of the officials
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in some ways. They did not confirm the photos during the press conference,
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so we don't have more information about the suspect. What we do know is there appears to be
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Hey, Witt, a question. There was an earlier report this might be an ambush. The D.C. Metro did say it
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was targeted. Do you have any other details when they say targeted? He just came around the corner
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as soon as he saw the National Guard, he unloaded. Do we have any other backup or description about
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when they say it was a targeted shooting, what that means?
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That verbiage denotes, I think, that they didn't see the assailant coming, so more of an ambush.
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What we were told was the guardsmen were going around a corner, and then the assailant came forwards
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and opened fire. Targeted meaning that he's going after the National Guardsmen themselves.
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This is not stopping another crime that does happen here in D.C. or another incident. It sounds
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like he was going after or she was going after the National Guardsmen in this attack, and you see them
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all over the place. As both of you know, guardsmen are walking around this part of D.C. in groups.
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There are many, many of them, and there should be more coming in according to what the administration
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is saying 500 more should be on the ground. But targeted in the sense of going after the guardsmen,
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an ambush in the sense of they did not know it was coming.
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Hey, Witt, can you hang on a second and stick with us? I want to go to Chris Pai-Hota,
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a former assistant director of the FBI. Chris, the same question to you. Any thoughts on this,
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what they're calling a targeted shooting or a targeted event here?
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Again, hard to say, Steve. Here's what I would be looking at right now. The National Guard folks,
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they generally will walk on a routine, patterned patrol. This individual could have watched them
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for a few days, could have known when they were going to be coming around, could have been lying
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in wait for them, and then opened fire. It's hard to tell right now what the word targeted means.
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And I think what they're saying is that maybe this individual specifically opened fire on the
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National Guard folks, and it wasn't a spray of bullets all around the area. It was a targeted,
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Hey, Witt, when you said that the shooter's in critical condition, was that said at the press
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conference? Did the DC Metro mention that? I don't remember Cash saying that. I know the two
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guardsmen are critical, but you also picked up that the shooter himself, the assailant himself,
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is in critical condition? That is correct. I believe the White House has also stated that
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President Trump has a tweet that he posted, looks like on Truth Social, and then back over to his main
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account where he says, is also severely wounded. So I believe they're indicating that the shooter was
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injured of some capacity during this escalation. I did hear reports of other guardsmen getting
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involved. We know Metro Police were on the scene very quickly. I wasn't sure how he was injured at
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this time, but it does appear that he has suffered some injury.
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Witt, can you hang with us? We're going to take a short commercial break at the top of the hour to
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reset here. I've got Jack Posobiec with us. Jack is the host of Human Events Daily,
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our two o'clock show, and often the wingman for the team out at Turning Point. I used to do thought
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crimes with Charlie Kirk every week. Chris Paihota, former assistant director of the FBI,
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has been kind enough to join us for trying to get Eric Prince on. Brian Glenn is going to reboot and
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be back up in a moment. And of course, we have Wid Lyman. Wid, is it Border Hawks reporting,
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Border Hawks News? Is that what your network is, your channel?
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Thank you. Singular, borderhawk.news is the website, and then borderhawknews on Twitter.
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But just a singular, although there are many borderhawks, I'll admit that.
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But you're the hawk of the hawks. Wid, stick around with us. A big tragedy today,
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two National Guardsmen gunned down in a targeted shooting, according to DC Metro and Cash Patel,
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the head of the FBI. We're going to take a short commercial break. We're going to roll into the
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six o'clock hour here on Real America's Voice. Be back in a moment.
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies.
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Because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot at all these networks lying
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about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know
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you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
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And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any
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of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that
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answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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Okay. Well, I want to thank John Solomon and the team. We're here in the studio. So we will take
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the six o'clock hour. We have Chris Paiota, former assistant director of the FBI is with us. The
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border hawk is with us. He's in the streets near the shooting itself. Of course, Jack Posobiec is with
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us. What I'd like to do right now for the audience who are just coming into the show,
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is I want to play, there's a very short press avail by the director of the FBI, by Mayor Bowser,
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by the acting assistant of DC Metro. Let's go ahead and play that and I'll get commentary
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Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Cash Patel, FBI director.
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We're here to brief you on the tragic events that happened today at approximately 2.15 local time
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in Washington, D.C., where two of our brave members of the National Guard and Department of War
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were brazenly attacked in a horrendous act of violence. They were shot. They're in critical
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condition. As you can see behind me, we have assembled the full force of both the federal
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and state and local law enforcement agencies to bring bear all of our resources to make sure
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we find the perpetrators responsible for this heinous act. And make no mistake,
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they will be brought to justice. Since this is an assault on a federal law enforcement officer,
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this will be treated at the federal level as an assault on a federal law enforcement officer.
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The FBI will lead out on that mission with our interagency partners,
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to include the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service, ATF, DEA.
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And we're thankful for the mayor's assistance in this matter. The Metropolitan Police Department
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and their skills in investigating homicides and gun shootings in this city is exceptional.
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We will work together collaboratively because this is a matter of national security,
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because it's a matter of pride. President Trump has been informed. We've been in contact with the
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White House. We will shortchange the American public with no resources to make sure we find and safeguard
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our nation's capital right here in Washington, D.C., and bring anyone responsible for this heinous act
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of violence to justice. I would lastly like to add to the American public and the world,
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please send your prayers to those brave warriors who are in critical condition and their families.
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They are here serving our country. They are here protecting everyday Americans and citizens around
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the world in our nation's capital. They are the heroes of this day, and we must remember them on
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this day and every day and their families and the sacrifice they have made. I will now turn it over to
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Chief Carroll of the Metropolitan Police Department. Thank you.
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Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jeff Carroll. I'm the Executive Assistant Chief here at the Metropolitan Police
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Department. At approximately 2.15 this afternoon, members of the D.C. National Guard were on high
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visibility patrols in the area of 17th and I Street Northwest when a suspect came around the corner,
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raised his arm with a firearm, and discharged at the National Guard members.
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The National Guard members, there were other members that were in the area. They were able to,
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after some back and forth, able to subdue the individual and bring them into custody. Within moments,
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members of law enforcement in the area were also able to assist and bring that individual into
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custody. At this time, as the director mentioned, the National Guard members are being treated at a
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local hospital. D.C. Fire and EMS respond to the scene to provide first aid for those individuals and
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transport them to a local hospital. The suspect in this case was also transported for treatment at a
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local hospital. Madam Mayor. I'm Muriel Bowser. I'm the Mayor of Washington, D.C.,
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and I too want to send my thoughts and prayers to the families of the guardsmen and to the guardsmen who
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are in critical condition in a local hospital. I am joined by members and leadership from the D.C. National Guard,
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from the West Virginia National Guard, United States Secret Service, Deputy Mayor Pea, Fire Chief Donnelly,
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and Metro's General Manager, Randy Clark. And we join with the FBI Director in ensuring that MPD
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investigates, the U.S. Attorney prosecutes this case to the fullest extent of the law. I've had the
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opportunity to brief U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was speaking to the President when I called,
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as well as the United States Attorney Pirro, who assured me that this case will have her office's
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complete attention. Mayor, was there any other suspect? Chief? Sure. So no, at this time there's
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no indication that there was any other suspect. The one suspect that was involved in this incident,
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they were shot during the interaction and they were transported to the hospital for treatment.
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Mayor, does this validate the need for the National Guard here in D.C.?
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What we know, Andrea, is that this is a targeted shooting. One individual who appeared to target
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these guardsmen, that individual has been taken into custody.
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You can tell us more details on the condition of the two National Guardsmen and whether or not
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anyone else was injured. And a quick question, follow-up for the FBI Director. You said that
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we'll make sure we find the perpetrators for this act. So just to clarify, the person believed to be
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responsible is in custody and there are no other suspects. Sure. So I can start out. Again, Chief
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Carroll from MPD. So both the individuals, the guard members, they are in critical condition at local
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hospital at this time being treated. At this point, we have no other suspects. We have reviewed video from
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the area. It appears, like I said, to be a lone gunman that raised the firearm and ambushed these members
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of the National Guard. And he was quickly taken into custody by other National Guard members and
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No. At this time, obviously, we're very in the preliminary stages of investigation. You know,
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there's a lot of things, a lot of agents that are here from various federal agencies,
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law enforcement agencies. We have the full power of the FBI and our federal partners here,
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the task force. So we're looking at all those different aspects, but we don't have any motive.
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The National Guardsmen that were shot, I'm told they were armed.
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At this time, that's part of the preliminary investigation.
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Sure. So how the suspect was apprehended, as I said, the individual, the suspect came
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around the corner. He immediately started firing a firearm at the two National Guard members.
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So at that time, there were other National Guard members that were in the area.
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They heard the gunfire. They actually were able to intervene and to kind of hold down the suspect
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after he had been shot on the ground until law enforcement got there within moments.
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At this point, we're still investigating exactly who shot that individual. It's not clear at this
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We don't know what kind of weapon. There was D.C. police. It happened right in front of the metro,
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although there is no indication that the perpetrator was on the metro. So there's
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Metro Transit police in the area, and obviously being on 17th Street by the White House,
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Uniform Division Secret Service were in the immediate area as well.
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What kind of weapon the alleged perpetrator used?
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We do not know at this time. We're going to be able to take a couple more.
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The law enforcement has been able to question the suspect, or is his condition so severe that
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Sure. And so as I said, we're very preliminary in the investigation,
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so we're looking to all aspects of who the individual is,
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his connections. At this time, he's still in the hospital receiving treatment.
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And I would just like to, hang on. I would just like to add the reason that this-
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Chris, I want to ask you, because you've been with the FBI for many decades. The headline,
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breaking news from NBC, authorities still working to identify the shooter. Now,
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we understand that the shooter was not cooperating with authorities, but Tom Warner's reporting,
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authorities believe they are close to identifying the man they believe is responsible for today's
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targeted attack. Two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation, say,
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how would the FBI go? If the guy's not cooperating, he's taking a couple of slugs,
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Well, you could take his fingerprints, first of all, make sure he's not in any of our
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biometric databases. You'd also be able to do facial recognition, see if he comes up in any
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social media or internet channels. And there are other court-ordered activities that the FBI could
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do to match identity. So they would start that right away. If the guy's not cooperating, that's
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not going to, that's only going to slow him down so much and trying to identify
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the shooter and any type of networks or any type of relationships he has going to social media, all of
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that? That's correct. They're going to start doing that immediately. If he is uncooperative,
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meaning he won't give his own biographic information for them to check, they'll start
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running other ways to validate his identity. And again, as you said, to see if he has a network
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of friends around him that warrant investigation. If someone was not cooperating, but you had the
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ability to take fingerprints, you do the facial recognition, other technical aspects the FBI had,
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how long would that take the FBI? Is that a matter of minutes? Is it 30 minutes, an hour? How long,
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how, you know, we keep hearing about Palantir and all these databases, how sophisticated these
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databases and how accessible they are to agents in a hospital with a guy that's probably in ICU?
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Well, what you have right now is, I hate to say a willing participant. He is unconscious,
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right? He may not be fully conscious. He may be under the influence of pain medication,
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or he may be just coming out of an operation. What they can do is access all available FBI
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national asset databases. The FBI maintains all of the National Criminal Information Center
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data. They maintain all the biometric information for the FBI, and they also have access to other,
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I would just say, repositories of information that they can check in their own internal records,
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as well as across the law enforcement and intelligence communities.
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Jack Posobiec. Chris, thanks. Just hang with us. Posobiec, any updates on what you're hearing? I know
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there's a lot of rumors going around, a ton of information. I don't know if you had a chance
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Well, Steve, of course, we are digging in more on this individual. As you mentioned before,
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already no ID been made, but I do know from contacts within the government that that's
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exactly what they're doing right now. They're running his facial identification, trying to see
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if he can match in, not only for the law enforcement databases, but also with recent arrivals
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at points of entry, airports to the United States, international travel, trying to see if any of his
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his photo was taken at any aircraft or airport in recent times, see if it matches using that facial
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recognition database through the Department of Homeland Security. So, of course, there's a lot
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that's coming in. Still hearing word on the National Guardsmen that they're not out of the woods yet,
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and that we do want to keep everyone praying for them. The other piece that I'm hearing aside from
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that is that tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, there's going to be a group of people that are gathering
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at the National Mall calling for a candlelight vigil. So if anyone wants to reach out to that,
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it's the National Mall, excuse me, the Washington Monument on the National Mall. So the Washington
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Monument, 8 p.m. is where people are gathering for a candlelight vigil.
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Okay, 8 p.m., that is right. If you're at the White House, just look right down. You see the rise,
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and you see the Washington Monument, hard to miss. We're going to take a short commercial break.
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Black Borderhawk is down there right near the scene of the shooting where we get him to put it in
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context of how actually close this was to the White House. I want to thank everybody who's helped us
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with the broadcast so far and all the information's coming in. We're trying to glean right now what's
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going on with the two heroes, the two National Guardsmen that were shot. Also with the perpetrator,
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it looks like the FBI is with a witness who is not working with the FBI, coming to some conclusion
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about who this is. I'm sure we'll hear about that hopefully not too long. Short commercial break.
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We're going to return to this horrific tragedy right near the White House today in Washington, D.C.