Jack Posobiec is a commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran. He is a regular contributor to CNN and the New York Times, and is a frequent guest on Fox News Channel's Hard Knocks.
00:00:51.900I don't think it's accidental that just four days after Harris and Biden repudiated our Israeli allies, Iran's top terrorist group, Hezbollah, fired an Iranian missile to kill 12 innocent children at a soccer field.
00:01:05.840The terrorists did it because they assumed they could get away with it because the United States is weak and ineffective and no longer respected.
00:01:13.580This act of terror is just another manifestation of Israelis decaying long patterns of terrorism and sabotage targeting Palestinians and other supporters and sympathizers of the Palestinian cause across the region and beyond.
00:01:30.100Our intelligence community has made clear that we believe that the Iranians are attempting to kill or injure former high government officials.
00:01:39.580This morning, anger from some families of 9-11 victims after word that the alleged mastermind of the 9-11 attacks and two other defendants have accepted a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
00:01:54.660I bring inflation way down so people can buy bacon again, so people can buy a ham sandwich again, so that people can go to a restaurant and afford it.
00:02:03.740Because right now, people can't buy food.
00:02:05.580It's kind of classic projection, right? The very things he's talking about, virtue, strength, security, family, those are all things that Trump's Republican Party has completely abandoned making any claim to.
00:02:20.360They long ago walked away from any serious claim on being the party of family.
00:02:25.000I want a future where I can look the 47th president of the United States in the eye and say, hello, Madam President.
00:03:01.400Anno Domini, very honored to have on here Senator Roger Marshall, who recently had the opportunity to take part in a pretty fiery hearing at the United States Senate.
00:03:15.000Jack, I'm doing great. Great to be with you. And it was a fiery hearing and glad to have this conversation with you about it.
00:03:25.160Well, and Senator, I have to ask, you know, you really came over the top with some of these questions and the fact that the answers seem to be, and I'll just say as somebody who was watching and like many Americans, it didn't seem like the answers were very forthcoming.
00:03:39.600How did it seem for yourself and for your staff?
00:03:41.920Yeah, either the secret security is incompetent or they're purposely trying to deceive us.
00:03:51.160And I really think the backdrop of this hearing to me is the folks back home don't trust the FBI and they have no confidence in the Secret Service.
00:04:00.900And they sit there and say, here's two great revered agencies of the federal government in charge of law enforcement.
00:04:07.180And if they can't do their job, is my family safe?
00:04:10.920And then they sit there and start thinking about the open border and they think about Kamala Harris policies of defund the police, of cashless bail and on and on here.
00:04:20.100And people are really concerned about their safety and security.
00:04:22.640And that hearing did nothing to relieve their fears.
00:04:45.560And I think some of the more simple questions are, why didn't you have somebody on top of the building where the assassination attempt occurred from?
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00:06:59.680Well, Jack, I think I want to focus on solutions.
00:07:02.440That it'll take months, if not years, for Congress to figure out what went wrong.
00:07:07.100But we realize that there are individual and systemic failures within the Secret Service.
00:07:13.220And that's why I'm pushing for a crisis intervention team to go in there right now.
00:07:18.040Look, if you have a superintendent of schools who's not doing the job, you have a football coach at your college, a university president, you have to clean house, typically.
00:07:27.180So we fired the head coach here, but we got the assistant coach now running the same offense that's still not working.
00:07:34.500And this particular person, there's no way the acting director can be objective.
00:07:50.240So my focus is getting a crisis intervention team to come in there and turn that place upside down.
00:07:56.880And then number two is I think we need to take the investigation outside of the halls of Congress, that we need a non-political commission, people that are experts, people that can dedicate 10 or 12 hours a day for the next three weeks to jump in the middle of this so we don't have a repeat performance of this here in two or three months.
00:08:46.680And then finally, number three is what are we doing to make sure that President Trump has the security that he needs right now?
00:08:53.320And, of course, Senator, this is one of the biggest issues.
00:08:58.280And there's no question that with President Trump, he is probably the most high-profile individual to run for president.
00:09:04.420But more at the point, no one running for political office should have to worry about their physical security in such a way.
00:09:11.700This is something where I think a lot of people had nothing but the utmost respect for the Secret Service right up until this.
00:09:19.300And I know that a lot of people have said since then that this has been something that's really damaged the reputation of the agency and is bringing these questions.
00:09:29.000Senator, I just have to ask, though, you've been someone who's operated in the real world prior to getting into politics.
00:09:36.760You know, is this something where you had a private organization anywhere where you could see these levels of failures and not even be able to get an answer as to who the individual was that's responsible?
00:09:48.500Yeah, I think that's exactly where my experience has come from, being in the military, running a hospital, my dad, a chief of police, is that there would not be time for this nonsense.
00:10:00.320That people, if we had a real commander-in-chief, he would have fired the administrator day one and within day two or three have appointed this crisis intervention team.
00:10:11.580That's what real leadership does in the real world.
00:10:14.100But instead, what we see is the acting administrator trying to protect everybody, trying to blame the local police, of all things, for their failure.
00:10:22.420So what we saw is the current acting administrator saying the local police didn't do their job, but the local police are saying, look, the Secret Service never communicated to us.
00:10:32.000They never even put us all on the same radio channel, for crying out loud.
00:10:36.980In the real world, this would have been all over.
00:10:40.180We would have been starting over weeks ago.
00:10:41.960And that's something that I think the average American back there is trying to ascertain as, look, they want to know what went wrong, what created these horrific images that we saw on our TV screens, that, of course, they're trying to take off our TV screens and our internet searches right now.
00:10:58.580But to get an understanding of what went wrong, who made these decisions.
00:11:04.820And I'll say as well, as also prior on the Navy side, Navy intelligence officer, that, look, you know, if there's a site survey that needs to get done, if there's a concept of operations, a conduct plan that's getting put together, we are going to know specifically whose job was it to set the perimeter, whose job was it to lay down the communications.
00:11:24.480And I understand that you're, you know, what you're doing is not attempting to put all the blame on what person, but you need to know these answers so that you can figure out the solution so that it doesn't happen again.
00:11:36.460That's basically what it seems like to me that you were going for, Senator.
00:11:56.500And I can guarantee you that we've probably been more lucky in the past year than we have been good.
00:12:01.680And here at this one event, we saw this perfect storm where all these mistakes resulted into a 20-year-old kid with really minimal professional experience able to pull this off.
00:12:13.020Running a drone right over where the president was going to be maybe just a couple hours before the president was on stage.
00:12:20.840Just mistake after mistake, never setting.
00:12:25.740Why did they make such a close perimeter with those 10 buildings with a free line of shot?
00:12:31.140Why wasn't there better communication with the radios?
00:12:34.260I mean, how many minutes passed from the time the local police recognized a shooter on the roof and we couldn't get that word to the Secret Service?
00:12:42.600So it's almost, I hate to say, a comedy of errors.
00:12:45.040But there are so many things that went wrong.
00:12:47.600I would describe this as a systemic failure.
00:12:52.340Senator, is there anything that really jumps out at you in terms of this, some of the specifics, any threads that you're pulling?
00:12:59.940I know a lot of people are asking, how was it that he was able to get the rifle so close?
00:13:04.920A lot of questions at the hearing about the drone coverage, the fact that the shooter had a drone and it turns out the Secret Service didn't.
00:13:15.320Is there any one piece or one thread that you or your staff are really focusing and to zero in on?
00:13:24.580Again, the physician in me wants to know the psychological makeup of this kid.
00:13:29.360And I think if we had some really good FBI psychologists involved in this case, that they would be telling us that I bet this kid has a major depressive disorder.