A gunman opened fire at a State of the Union dinner in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night, killing at least 20 people, including the gunman and himself. Suspect identified as an adult male in his mid-twenties.
00:01:49.340Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general,
00:01:51.440and others have made very clear, the Secret Service director, that as far as they're concerned,
00:01:56.700the Secret Service did its job, the system worked. He did not breach the defenses, the perimeter.
00:02:02.720I mean, you can see on that video, he sprinted through an initial tranche of D.C. police officers
00:02:09.060who were milling around. But as soon as he got past them, they all drew their guns. Eventually,
00:02:13.880he was tackled. There was no way he was going to make it into the ballroom because there were other
00:02:17.320Secret Service agents armed outside the doors. So in that sense, the system worked. But the larger
00:02:24.120question around this entire event is the way it's always been structured for decades, which is that
00:02:29.060it's in the Washington Hilton, known as the Hinkley Hilton, because it's where Ronald Reagan was shot
00:02:33.200in 1981. That is a working hotel. They don't close the hotel during the event. And so the members of
00:02:39.760the public can go in and out of the lobby and the ballrooms before they get to this ballroom where
00:02:46.660the dinner takes place, which is down two floors and essentially in the basement in the bowels of
00:02:51.080the building there. And there are lots of members of the cabinet. There were Trump administration
00:02:55.220officials going to pre-parties. There was no security for that. So if this gunman had decided
00:03:00.460that instead of doing what he did, he wanted to walk into the Fox News pre-party and start
00:03:05.380shooting, that would have been an absolute disaster. And that's why this whole thing is
00:03:09.940being reexamined, because does it really make sense to have an open hotel with a dinner like
00:03:15.740this was just essentially a state of the union level gathering of the president, the vice
00:03:19.880president, members of the cabinet, prominent members of the media, business executives.
00:03:24.680That's that's where people are saying that's not the Secret Service's fault. Obviously,
00:03:28.180there's a whole larger question of how do we secure this event? What decisions need to be
00:03:33.020made? I mean, just remind everyone, this was almost the entirety of the president's cabinet,
00:03:39.060the president, vice president himself and 2000 members of the media. This is something the
00:03:44.260Movies don't even write about something like this, this kind of scenario, this kind of tragedy.
00:03:48.360And thankfully, the quick reaction of law enforcement, we're not going to be, we're going to be able to present to the world in less than 36 hours almost exactly what happened.
00:03:57.660This individual's entire background, entire background, who he knew, where he lived, who he was talking to, everything about the firearms, everything about the ballistics.
00:04:06.440Axios is reporting this morning that Iran has proposed a deal to reopen the strait and end the war with nuclear negotiations postponed for a later stage.
00:04:17.820That is according to U.S. officials and two sources with knowledge who spoke to the outlet.
00:04:22.820This comes as another round of talks in Pakistan over the weekend between the United States and Iran did not take place.
00:04:30.500envoy Steve Whitcoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner were supposed to meet
00:04:35.900with Iran's foreign minister in Islamabad before their trip was canceled. Iran's foreign minister
00:04:42.100arrived in Pakistan on Friday night. Soon afterward, a spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry said
00:04:49.160there would be no face-to-face meetings with the American side and that
00:04:53.140messages would be conveyed through intermediaries. On Saturday afternoon, President Trump posted on
00:04:59.500social media that he had called off the meeting, saying it was too much time wasted on traveling
00:05:05.140and too much work. Trump told reporters on Air Force One Saturday that within minutes of the
00:05:11.020trip's cancellation, Iran sent a much better proposal. Quote, how on earth could someone with0.91
00:05:18.260a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak?
00:05:23.660I can answer that. Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. Worse, my colleague
00:05:28.080arrived on saturday at 5 p.m nobody looked at his luggage either no magnometers no hand checks no
00:05:34.240id checks nothing and hugh joins us now so walk us through the timeline of when you realized
00:05:41.820who your next door neighbor was at the washington hilton at least thank you for having me it was
00:05:47.120it was a very strange night for everybody that was involved as you know i'm sure everybody here
00:05:51.940has been covering all day quite rightly and I was in the was in the ballroom along with I think
00:05:58.160some of you and certainly many of your colleagues and eventually we got out and about two hours
00:06:04.400later I decided I had to go upstairs to get the charger for my phone because I was running out of
00:06:09.460running out of charge and when I got upstairs a Hilton security man was standing just beside my
00:06:15.440door in the corridor and three or four uniformed officers and said um can you come back in maybe
00:06:23.12020 minutes uh there's you know just for your own protection and i thought that's a bit odd
00:06:28.160have they got a protectee in there is there somebody in the next room that they've put in
00:06:33.060there for their safety and they don't want me there and it wasn't that urgent so i said well
00:06:37.280sure you know i just just wanted to get my phone charger and i'll come back i went downstairs there
00:06:42.700was a lot to cover that night, as we all know. And it was actually an hour later when I went up
00:06:46.980again. And by this point, far more law enforcement. And I spoke to the security Hilton security
00:06:55.400person again and said, can I get in my room? And thinking, this does not look like I'm getting in
00:07:00.720my room. And he said, I can't really tell you, sir. And I said, what exactly is going on? And
00:07:07.700And he said, I'm sorry, sorry, I just can't tell you.
00:07:09.360And the detective turned to me and said, when did you check in?
00:07:16.320And he said, we're waiting for a judge.
00:07:18.800And obviously at that moment, I realized if you're waiting for a judge, by implication, you're waiting for a warrant.
00:07:24.540And he said, this will be an FBI crime scene.
00:07:27.640So at that point, there were already suggestions from sources.
00:07:30.880I think one of my colleagues at the Daily Beast had had this suggestion.
00:07:34.720I think everybody had had that suggestion by this time.
00:07:37.200three hours after the shooting, that the shooter may have been a guest at the hotel. And this
00:07:41.220confirmed that this was exactly the case. The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read,
00:07:47.200Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this, quote,
00:07:53.220administration officials, they are targets. And he also wrote this. I'm no longer willing to
00:07:59.360permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. What's your reaction?0.99
00:08:05.180Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you're horrible people, horrible people.0.95
00:08:11.660Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.0.99
00:08:17.060Oh, do you think he was referring to you?
00:08:19.200Excuse me, excuse me. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person.
00:08:25.440I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me.1.00
00:08:30.460I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things.
00:08:41.580But I said to myself, you know, I'll do this interview and they'll probably I read the manifesto.0.99
00:08:47.000You know, it's a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of those things.0.76
00:08:53.980Mr. President, I was never. Excuse me. Excuse me.
00:08:57.560You shouldn't be reading that in 60 minutes. You're a disgrace.1.00
00:09:00.920But go ahead. Let's finish the interview.1.00
00:09:04.220Monday, 27 April, in the year of our Lord, 2026.
00:09:08.640Well, President Trump, who is magnanimous after being the target, I think it's 19 assassination attempts.
00:09:14.880Jack Posobiec is here with me this morning by phone.
00:09:19.060Mike Davis is going to join in a while as we've got to work this through.
00:09:23.000Jack, the president, was very magnanimous.
00:09:25.200First off, his courage, his physical courage in the face of this is incredible.
00:09:30.780This is the third time we've had an incident that actually, I think, led to shooting.
00:09:36.760I believe there's been 19, if you count all the kind of quasi threats.
00:09:48.520But then he was very magnanimous at the press briefing at like 10 o'clock in the press briefing room.
00:09:56.600And and then he goes, you know, trying to put the olive branch out to the media, to the White House correspondents, particularly 60 Minutes, Nora O'Donnell, who had already been fired as a CBS anchor.
00:24:08.320I didn't hear her pushing for the which anybody logically like what's the what's the what's the security level here?
00:24:15.360Are we tier one? Because we've got everybody in the frickin United States government.
00:24:19.040You got you got you got national security adviser, secretary of state, secretary of treasury, secretary of war, attorney general of the United States, director of the FBI.
00:24:27.660I could go on the vice president, the president, speaker of the House, other prominent members of the House and Senate.
00:24:37.080Right there. And we're at war. You know, I keep hearing about Hezbollah and how how they have terrorists or how they blew this.
00:24:44.900Because they could have taken, in a time of war, the entire apparatus down Jack Posobiec.0.72
00:30:02.900Number one is the redistricting, and he's just unveiled his new map.
00:30:07.540I'm getting that to my team so I can put it up.0.98
00:30:09.920Four seats, extra four down in Florida, so Democrats suck on that.
00:30:17.140Also, he's going to be coming in with a very tough artificial intelligence bill since the powers that be, the oligarchs are trying to end run everybody, including Mike Davis, who's fighting like hell to make sure that we get the appropriate artificial intelligence regulatory apparatus.
00:30:37.920But, Mike, I got you here for a different topic today.
00:30:40.160this confusion and people think that you can jerk around uh the secret service agents dhs
00:30:47.920mark wayne mullins who's the new head of it it's gotten out of control and it's not that these
00:30:53.440people won't do their job when they're not getting paid but it's just it's just the symbolism
00:30:58.680that we don't think they're worthy enough and they can be a political play thing your thoughts sir
00:31:03.800it's disgraceful it's disgraceful that we have secret service agents we have immigration officials
00:31:12.580who have not been paid for over 70 days more than two months these are people who are working
00:31:19.460paycheck to paycheck they have families they have to pay their bills they put their lives on the
00:31:26.240line every day to protect our border to protect our country and to protect our presidents and
00:31:32.600Senate Democrats are holding them hostage. Senate Democrats are holding law enforcement hostage
00:31:41.960so they can take care of their illegal immigrant voters, people who are illegally voting in our
00:31:51.460elections. And it's sickening that this is happening. And I would say this to the Senate
00:31:55.880Republicans, what the hell are you doing? We just had the third assassination attempt0.91
00:32:03.120against the president of the United States, right? And the Senate Republicans can't force
00:32:11.160the Senate Democrats to pass DHS funding for the Secret Service? Are you kidding me?
00:32:18.140uh maybe it's it's time for the senate republicans to think this way the democrats are literally
00:32:26.460trying to kill us and senate republicans are concerned about the niceties of the filibuster0.61
00:32:34.060they need to get rid of the damn filibuster and go to a simple majority threshold to pass0.98
00:32:40.520legislation and get dhs funded get the secret service funded get our border patrol and immigration0.99
00:32:48.000officials funded. What the hell are Senate Republicans doing? What does John Thune think
00:32:53.480his job is if he can't get the DHS funded right now after a third assassination attempt against
00:33:01.000the president? And has a practical aspect. This is why the Cook Report's saying that from Alaska
00:33:08.260to Maine and everywhere in between, the Senate's in play right now. That was supposed to be
00:33:14.240bulletproof the sentence in play because enough MAGA people are sitting there going what do these
00:33:19.760guys do the Save America acts nowhere they won't uh they won't uh take on they won't go to the
00:33:26.260talking filibuster they won't fund ICE or or or aspects of DHS that we need funded for multiple
00:33:35.560years um and we came very close to having your old boss Senator Grassley I think Senator Grassley's
00:33:42.82090 might be 91 at 9 39 that theoretically could have been president grassley mike davis
00:33:50.640yeah and look i love chuck grassley but he does i don't think he wants to be the president of
00:33:57.200the united states at 91 years old i mean this is in insanity that the democrats have the secret
00:34:03.500service not getting paid right now to have our border patrol not getting paid right now it's
00:34:10.080unacceptable. What's even more unacceptable are Republicans. Senate Republicans are so stupid
00:34:16.380and weak that they think that, oh, if we keep the norms of this 60-vote threshold for legislation,1.00
00:34:24.740it's going to protect Senate Republicans going forward. Are you kidding me? The next time
00:34:29.940Democrats win the White House, the House, and the Senate, which could actually happen in 2028,
00:34:35.800The second that happens, Senate Democrats are going to nuke the legislative filibuster immediately.0.64
00:34:43.240They're going to pack the Supreme Court with left-wing radicals.
00:34:47.740They're going to give amnesty to 50 million illegals, make them citizens.
00:34:55.320They're going to add Democrat states like Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, D.C. with, you know, two, four, six Democrat senators.0.70
00:35:07.240This is our chance right now to secure our border and secure our elections and frankly secure our president.0.99
00:35:15.460And the Senate Republicans can't do the damn job.0.97
00:35:18.540This is the problem, even with all the cabinet guys who wanted to go, the whole construct of this.0.99
00:35:24.480People are still looking at an old model.
00:35:27.100You had a tweet up late on Saturday that I think spoke to what the problem is here.
00:35:33.680You can't play by the old rules. The old model doesn't work. That's how the Republican Party has been the Washington Generals to the Democrats Harlem Globetrotters. They're just there to be performative. It's called controlled opposition. The way Thun and these guys think is controlled opposition. The way that people that want to go to the White House Correspondents dinner. And I realized President Trump was going there like an Old Testament prophet to throw down the tablets and say, hey, I'm going to hold you guys accountable.
00:36:00.860But you put up something. This gets back to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Folks have to understand that the Democrats are running a color revolution on this nation. They are not playing out of the same playbook the Republican Party is. And that's why they're winning.
00:36:16.140Mike, you connected all the dots. This guy that went to Caltech, you know, by all interviews with people that knew him in high school or Caltech, he was not radicalized then.
00:36:28.440If you look at his Twitter feed, he's been radicalized by, wait for it, left-wing media, places like Southern Poverty Law Center, places like things funded by George Soros, all these groups, and mainstream media that is basically run by neo-Marxists, Mike Davis.
00:36:44.000Yeah, I mean, when the Democrat party of today, their entire job is to dehumanize their political opponents, label them as fascists, and then wink, wink, nod, nod, let their rank and file everyday Democrats.
00:37:05.320You know, this guy was a pretty everyday Democrat.
00:37:07.960Let them do the dirty work for them and pretend like, oh, if they actually don't succeed,
00:37:14.080they say it was a hoax, that assassination attempt against Trump was a hoax, according
00:46:16.300And we got an eighth installment about the real pressure on the U.S. on the dollar now with these deficits, 39 train and debt in the war.
00:46:24.820Of course, Scott Besson, our old colleague here, Secretary of Treasurer now, has got a solution.
00:46:30.480The geoeconomic agenda of the Fed's going to get in line with him, so says Jillian Tett of the Financial Times of London, and she's pretty good, says he wants to use these swap lines they're talking about to lock in dollar supremacy, lock in dollar supremacy.
00:46:48.680So we kind of nailed what the issue is.0.86
00:46:51.780They're trying to get a workaround by backing off the BRICS nations.0.84
00:51:48.580We had America Reads the Bible, which was going on for seven full days in D.C.,
00:51:52.540so from Saturday to Saturday we were part of that as well.
00:51:55.540And then this week we actually have an event tomorrow night,
00:51:58.700an event Thursday night celebrating America's 250th right here in Fort Worth, Texas,
00:52:02.960and there's still tickets available if you're interested, Freedom 250.
00:52:08.180And there's a bunch of information on our website,
00:52:10.760but we're hoping to get about 3,000 patriots to come celebrate America's birthday.
00:52:14.740There's going to be a rodeo, a concert, and some amazing speakers as well.
00:52:18.260And then this weekend, we're headed to New York City on Ellis Island to celebrate America's 250 with Mercury One, American Journey Experience, Moms for Liberty.
00:52:27.940So another group of amazing organizations that we work with.
00:52:31.260So that's just kind of a tiny sampling of some of the events that we're working on.
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