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00:00:32.000we're going to get better commentary opinion and fact-based coverage. Okay so last night was again
00:00:37.000night two of the RNC and it was a unity night. Donald Trump promised a unity convention among
00:00:42.000Republicans the unity is obviously materializing and it's materializing because let's be frank
00:00:47.000about this Donald Trump for all those who have sort of a Marxist materialist view of history
00:00:51.000in which figures don't matter that is clearly not true.
00:00:54.000And Donald Trump is proof positive that that is not true.
00:00:57.000That individual figures actually do shape history.
00:01:00.000There's this whole materialist Marxist view that sort of goes back to Hegel actually predating Marx that suggests that we sort of ride the eddies of history.
00:01:09.000That history is a series of impersonal forces and that individual figures don't matter.
00:01:14.000That if there were no Churchill, there would have been somebody kind of like Churchill who would have performed the same function.
00:01:18.000If there were no Hitler, there would have been somebody like Hitler who would have performed that same function.
00:01:22.000And again, it goes for good or for ill.
00:01:24.000Well, there's a countervailing view, which is what's been sort of derisively termed the great man view of history, which is the idea that individuals matter in history.
00:01:33.000Donald Trump is an individual who matters in history.
00:01:35.000Whether you like him or whether you hate him, that is just a reality.
00:01:38.000And when you see the Republican Party come together around Donald Trump at this point, it's something absolutely unique.
00:01:45.000Republicans came together around other candidates.
00:01:46.000They've come together, you know, at every convention around Mitt Romney or John McCain.
00:01:50.000But the level of enthusiasm for Donald Trump on a personal level, the level of adoration, obviously, in the hall for Donald Trump, the ability that Donald Trump has to cobble together a coalition that really is non-ideological.
00:02:17.000It was a fairly conservative administration, ideologically speaking, more conservative than George W. Bush's administration, ideologically speaking, at least when it came to, say, the courts or when it came to foreign policy.
00:02:29.000However, when it comes to his coalition, his coalition is entirely non-ideological.
00:02:33.000And that's why, you know, I do have some disagreements with some people, even people, you know, who I work with at Daily Wire about what the RNC is for.
00:03:57.000By 2024, he's his vice presidential candidate.
00:04:00.000And again, that is because Trump has a unique capacity as a non-ideological, larger-than-life figure to hold together coalitions that include people who are both pro-life and pro-choice, people who are pro-gay marriage and anti-gay marriage.
00:04:12.000He's able to cobble together a coalition between union leaders and people who think that right-to-work is a top priority.
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00:05:51.000And particularly it's a tool for victory for Donald Trump in this election cycle.
00:05:54.000And so what you're seeing is an extraordinarily large tent, a tent that's largely unsupportable ideologically in the sense that the actual tent poles are so far apart than any normal circumstance they would collapse in on themselves.
00:06:07.000But because Donald Trump is at the center of that tent, and he's an extraordinarily large and powerful Supporting and buttressing force in the center of that tent, that tent can hold.
00:06:17.000And that's what you're seeing at the Republican National Convention right now.
00:06:22.000That, of course, has only been exacerbated by the attempted assassination of President Trump on Saturday.
00:06:27.000And we're finding out new details on this now.
00:06:28.000And I gotta tell you, the Secret Service is just, it's beyond insane that anyone is still working at the Secret Service after this in a position of leadership.
00:06:49.000I can't make, I can't reason that out for you.
00:06:53.000For whatever reason, no matter what side you're on, I don't know how you look at this assassination attempt on Trump and you don't see God's hand in the picture.
00:07:01.000I don't, I think that maybe it's because God wants America saved.
00:07:04.000And I don't mean that in terms of God wants Trump to live because he must be president.
00:07:07.000I mean, That if Donald Trump had been assassinated, it may have been the end of America.
00:07:12.000Not because we're going to immediately pick up guns and go to civil war, but because the lack of trust in our civic institutions is so unbelievably high that if Donald Trump had been killed, and we now learn what we have learned about the Secret Service and their complete fail at every possible level, a Secret Service that works for a White House that is currently using the DOJ to target Donald Trump, The levels of trust are so low.
00:07:33.000I'm not sure that the country could have withstood that if Trump had been killed on the stage on Saturday.
00:07:38.000And he came within literally, literally centimeters of being murdered on the stage, his head being turned to mist in front of a national televised audience.
00:07:46.000And so when God spared Donald Trump, I think God was really in some ways trying to spare America.
00:09:28.000Here is CNN's John Miller revealing more details.
00:09:32.000They know that he went to his employer at the nursing home where he works as a dietary specialist before this and said, I need Saturday off.
00:09:43.000We also understand that when he got to the fairgrounds where this rally was being held for Donald Trump, The first thing that puts him on the radar of security people is near the magnetometer area where they're screening people in, he's carrying in his hand a rangefinder.
00:10:01.000It's a device that looks like a small pair of binoculars, but it's used by shooters to measure the distance when they're setting up a long-distance shot.
00:10:10.000The last piece is The search of the car, as we reported last night, two remote controlled IEDs, remote controlled bombs, in the car.
00:10:21.000The remote control for those devices found on his person on the roof, according to sources.
00:10:28.000Three fully loaded magazines with nearly a hundred rounds, a bulletproof vest.
00:10:38.000Okay, and then we find out that according to the Wall Street Journal, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheadle addressed one of the central mysteries in the attempted assassination of former President Trump.
00:10:48.000How the shooter was able to climb onto the top of a nearby building and have a clear sight line to Trump without being stopped.
00:11:18.000These are members of the Secret Service, of the Secret Service, a sloped roof?
00:11:23.000First of all, the roof was plenty not sloped enough for the actual shooter to be on the roof, pointing a gun and shooting at the President of the United States.
00:11:44.000So the police snipers were actually inside the same building on which the shooter was lying, according to the Washington Post.
00:11:53.000Apparently, local PD were inside the building where a gunman had positioned himself on the roof to shoot at the former president.
00:11:59.000From inside the Agra International Building, they spotted a man acting furtively walking back and forth around the building with some gear and radioed a Secret Service command post to alert them.
00:12:41.000And you had him in the sniper sights before?
00:12:44.000And you waited for him to take the shot because you have a rule that until he takes the shot, you wouldn't want to kill an innocent person with a telescope on a roof that is too sloped for your people to be on?
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00:13:59.000One of the things that makes these failures so astonishing is that there was already heightened scrutiny on Trump with regard to a possible assassination attempt.
00:14:07.000We're now learning from the Wall Street Journal that the Biden administration in recent weeks determined there was an increased threat from Iran against former President Donald Trump that was serious enough to prompt additional security measures for the former president.
00:14:17.000A national security official said, On Tuesday.
00:14:19.000Apparently that had nothing to do with the attempted assassination of the former president of Pennsylvania on Saturday.
00:14:51.000But the other issue here is just the Secret Service one.
00:14:54.000If you upped your protection, how did a shooter get three shots off that came within inches of killing the former president of the United States after you upped the security?
00:15:07.000What's even more insane, of course, is that the Secret Service director, a woman named Kimberly Cheadle, as we mentioned, she actually said that the buck stops with her, but she's not going to resign.
00:15:19.000What was your reaction when you saw the events unfold on Saturday?
00:15:23.000Shock and then concern, obviously, for the former president.
00:15:28.000This is an event that should have never happened.
00:15:30.000Who is most responsible for this happening?
00:15:33.000What I would say is the Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former president.
00:15:40.000I am the director of the Secret Service.
00:15:42.000It was unacceptable, and it's something that shouldn't happen again.
00:15:45.000The President and Homeland Security Secretary said today they had 100% confidence in you, but there are some members of Congress calling on you to resign.
00:15:54.000I appreciate the Secretary's comments, and we're going to continue to be transparent and communicate with people.
00:16:59.000Well, Donald Trump Jr., the son of the president, obviously has a lot of reasons to be angry at the Secret Service as well as, for example, the FBI.
00:18:34.000He's a historic figure, no matter what you think of him.
00:18:37.000Okay, so what was the reaction of the left-wing media to Donald Trump's entry?
00:18:40.000Well, Ari Melber over on MSNBC decided that the major issue here is that he has a bandage on his ear, because he got shot in the ear.
00:18:47.000Here's Ari Melber doing what the left media do.
00:18:52.000A placard for delegates to fill in, an image for political mobilization, a spectacle for this candidate who we know is, by his own admission, obsessed with assorted spectacles.
00:19:08.000Whether that makes it abnormal in a way that is either special or abnormal in a way that is bad is what voters will assess because many are watching over the course of these nights along with you and our team here.
00:19:22.000There is a political quest here to mine and use Donald Trump's injury and whether his allies and Republicans or the candidate himself do that in a way that overextends their credibility Will be decided by the voters.
00:19:39.000You see, when someone tries to shoot the president in the head, they're overextending to point out that Donald Trump was almost shot in the head.
00:19:58.000But the people who are really most effective were the normal Americans who got up and talked about life under Joe Biden.
00:20:04.000It was very much of a piece with our series, Divided States of America, which is focused in on things like immigration and fentanyl and crime.
00:20:13.000There was a woman named Ann Funder who came out and talked about the death of her 15-year-old son to fentanyl.
00:20:21.000If you want to know kind of everything you need to know about Joe Biden's open border, about fentanyl traffic in the United States, again, check out our series, Divided States of Biden, over at Daily Wire Plus, and become a subscriber, which you should do anyway, to learn more about this.
00:20:33.000Here is Ann Funder, again, hard not to be moved when you hear a mom talking about the death of her son from fentanyl poisoning.
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00:22:36.000And again, these issues are incredibly real.
00:22:39.000Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for young Americans in terms of sort of medical cause of death at this point.
00:22:48.000Extraordinary numbers of young Americans dying of fentanyl poisoning.
00:22:51.000And it is poisoning, because we explain in the documentary, a grain of fentanyl is enough to kill you.
00:22:55.000And it's being laced into pretty much every illegal drug that's out there.
00:22:58.000Meanwhile, another sort of everyday American named Madeline Brame, she talked about the murder of her retired veteran son.
00:23:08.000My son, Sergeant Hassan Karia, an Afghanistan War retired veteran, He received enemy fire from the Taliban, only to be murdered with a knife on the streets of New York City.
00:23:28.000The four assailants responsible for his death initially were facing justice, but that changed when District Attorney Alvin Bragg was elected.
00:23:43.000Suddenly, Two of the homicidal maniacs responsible for my son's death had their gang assault and murder charges completely dismissed.
00:23:59.000Again, those sorts of stories are going to be very effective for independents and moderates in this particular race.
00:24:05.000Then, of course, there's the cavalcade of various Republican figures, many of whom were sort of up for the VP nod, and then, obviously, J.D.
00:24:12.000One of those people is Representative Elise Stefanik from New York, who's taken a leading role in American minds thanks to her grilling of university presidents.
00:24:20.000Here she was going off on why President Trump is going to win.
00:24:25.000President Trump will once again deliver the most secure border in our nation's history and unleash the American economy.
00:24:32.000And he will bring peace through strength as Commander-in-Chief, standing with our allies and causing our enemies to fear us.
00:24:41.000President Trump has done it before and he will do it again.
00:24:45.000This November, we are counting on you, we the people, to save America by electing President Donald J. Trump.
00:24:54.000It is clear for the whole world to see, nothing, absolutely nothing will stop President Trump from standing and fighting for our great country.
00:25:07.000Perhaps the best speech of the night was actually Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:25:11.000So, Vivek, who ran a shock campaign, obviously.
00:25:14.000He came from literally nowhere to become a national figure in an extraordinarily short period of time.
00:25:37.000That you get ahead in this country, not on the color of your skin, but on the content of your character and your contributions.
00:25:46.000Vivek actually did a speech not all that long ago at the National Conservative Convention, which he discussed what he called national libertarianism, as opposed to sort of national protectionism, which is a much more free market oriented version of some of what JD Vance talks about.
00:25:58.000It's a fascinating speech and it's well worth the read for sure.
00:26:01.000Again, this is a diverse party and that diversity was on display last night.
00:26:05.000Nikki Haley was sort of the big moment of the night.
00:26:08.000She, of course, ran the longest campaign against President Trump in the primary.
00:26:11.000She was the most critical of President Trump in the primary.
00:26:12.000She offered her endorsement on the stage.
00:26:17.000There are a lot of people in the Republican Party who are saying, well, I'm going to hold out because if Nikki's holding out, then I'm going to hold out too.
00:26:22.000But the reality is that Nikki Haley was in Donald Trump's cabinet.
00:26:25.000Nikki Haley knows better than anyone that Donald Trump is going to do a much better job as president of the United States than Joe Biden.
00:26:39.000Nikki Haley coming out and doing the right thing and endorsing Donald Trump is a big moment for Nikki Haley and it is very good for the Republican Party.
00:26:45.000Here's the former governor of South Carolina and UN ambassador.
00:26:49.000President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity.
00:26:55.000It was a gracious invitation and I was happy to accept.
00:27:00.000I'll start by making one thing perfectly clear.
00:27:05.000Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period.
00:27:11.000I'm here tonight because we have a country to save.
00:27:16.000And a unified Republican Party is essential for saving her.
00:27:24.000And Trump's reaction, which is magnanimous there, again, it speaks to the fact that he does actually want to unify the party.
00:27:30.000There are a lot of former rivals who came out of the woodwork to speak about President Trump last night.
00:27:34.000Ted Cruz, of course, was his chief rival in 2016.
00:27:36.000Here was Senator Cruz, who, of course, has become a very, very strong Trump ally in the years since 2016.
00:27:43.000Today, as a result of Joe Biden's presidency, your family is less safe.
00:28:02.000And when Donald Trump is president, we will fix it.
00:28:08.000Well, all these folks flew into the RNC.
00:28:10.000I'll tell you what they could have used.
00:28:11.000They could have used some balance of nature because the reality is when you're flying around the country for work and you're constantly on the go, you have to keep your health at your very best.
00:28:18.000Listen, when I'm traveling around, I exercise or try to get enough sleep.
00:28:59.000I've been using Balance of Nature, so has our staff.
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00:29:08.000Governor Ron DeSantis, of course, was the person who probably had the strongest shot of beating Trump in the primaries very early on.
00:29:14.000He made the right decision to drop out of the race when he didn't win Iowa and did poorly in New Hampshire.
00:29:19.000He's still the most successful governor in America, down in my home state of Florida.
00:29:23.000Again, he was the person I'd picked in the primaries above President Trump, if he'd made it that far in the primaries.
00:29:30.000He, of course, endorsed Trump very early, as soon as he dropped out of the race.
00:29:32.000He spoke last night, at probably the line of the night, talking about how we need somebody who's not a weekend at Bernie's president.
00:29:39.000As a citizen, as a husband and as a father, I am alarmed that the current President of the United States lacks the capability to discharge the duties of his office.
00:29:53.000Our enemies do not confine their designs to between 10 a.m.
00:30:21.000And of course, there were some other jokes that were told about the fact that Joe Biden is no longer sentient.
00:30:26.000Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is the former press secretary for President Trump and now is the governor of Arkansas, she joked about who exactly is the president of the United States.
00:30:37.000I got the chance to take my four-year-old son, Huck, to bring your kid to work day.
00:30:43.000Much like Jill now drags Joe to bring your husband to work day.
00:30:57.000Senator Tom Cotton, again from Arkansas, he went off on immigration.
00:31:01.000Of course, this may be the single platform in the Republican Party plank that everybody agrees on as a stronger position on immigration.
00:31:07.000The party's all over the damn place on a wide variety of issues.
00:31:10.000But on immigration, there is relative policy unity.
00:31:15.000After Joe Biden and the border czar Kamala Harris, Reversed President Trump's immigration policies and welcomed a third world invasion, I traveled to our border.
00:32:38.000And then they tried to bankrupt him, and he's got more money now than he had before.
00:32:44.000And then they tried to put him in prison, and he's freer and has made other people free with him.
00:32:56.000And then, and then last weekend they tried to kill him, and there he is over there, alive and well.
00:33:07.000Now, of course, the quibble here is it's not the same they.
00:33:11.000I mean, some of these theys are actual forces in the government, like the DOJ, right?
00:33:18.000Some of these theys are the Democratic Party trying to twice impeach him.
00:33:21.000We still don't know, there's no evidence the shooter was working for the Democratic Party, God forbid, or that he was working for the White House, God forbid, or anything like that.
00:33:28.000But the generalized point stands, which is Donald Trump has had everything, including bullets thrown at him, and he is still standing.
00:33:34.000That, of course, is a point made by Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the president and current head of the RNC.
00:33:40.000She said, this president does not back down.
00:33:44.000I have seen this man dragged through hell and back, in and out of courtrooms, indictments, impeachments, mugshots, and even an assassination attempt.
00:34:57.000But it is our people who must always matter the most in everything we do.
00:35:05.000Well, coming up, obviously Joe Biden is in serious trouble.
00:35:09.000And folks, if you want all the updates on this, not only that, if you want to be part of the fight, then you really do need to show up over at Daily Wire and subscribe.
00:35:16.000It's your subscriptions that allow us to continue to thrive, continue to cover politics, continue to bring you the actual principles that are the only antidotes to the left's disastrous agenda.
00:35:25.000Those principles are the bedrock values that will propel Donald Trump back to the White House in November.
00:35:30.000And let's be clear, Obviously, I believe this.
00:37:26.000And again, find me a world leader who's an ally of ours who doesn't think I'm the most respected person they've ever...
00:37:34.000Well, yes, it is not breaking through to the voters.
00:37:37.000And not only that, everybody is freaking out.
00:37:39.000So according to the New York Times, resurgent Trump has Democrats in swing districts despondent.
00:37:44.000Adam Frisch, a Democrat trying to flip a Republican House seat in Colorado, was frustrated enough that calls for President Biden to step aside, including his own, were having no impact on the president.
00:37:52.000Then reports came Tuesday that leaders of the DNC were moving to confirm Biden as his party's presidential nominee by the end of July and his anger boiled over.
00:37:59.000It's so frustrating to Democratic voters, to donors, to the double haters who don't like Biden or Trump.
00:38:09.000The virtual roll call vote, having it this month, in order to sort of get past the final point.
00:38:15.000And again, you can see why they're doing this.
00:38:16.000If you're Joe Biden's campaign, what you're figuring is, back in 2016, Donald Trump, very unpopular with large swaths of the Republican Party, consolidates the party, wins.
00:38:24.000Once it's done, it's done, and everybody sort of comes home.
00:38:27.000He's figuring, I'm only losing by three, four points nationally.
00:38:30.000I'm losing by three, two, five points in the swing states.
00:38:32.000Maybe if everybody comes home and stops, Then maybe I can put this thing back together.
00:38:37.000And so they're trying to accelerate the confirmation.
00:38:39.000The problem is that they're doing this in the middle of a news cycle and in the middle of a reality in which Joe Biden is spinning out, in which he is falling apart.
00:38:48.000Vulnerable Democrats have the sinking feeling they could face far-reaching losses in November, according to the New York Times.
00:38:53.000Representative Hillary Shulton, a Democrat who flipped a Republican seat in Western Michigan
00:38:56.000two years ago, said, quote, we're continuing to see polling of a chilling effect on young people
00:39:00.000of decreased enthusiasm. That's why it's incumbent on us to make this change now.
00:39:04.000More and more Democrats are rebelling.
00:39:08.000According to Axios, Democratic members of Congress are reviving a fight over President Biden's candidacy, filing a brief respite in the wake of Saturday's assassination attempt against former President Trump.
00:39:18.000A House Democrat said people are back to being angry at Biden, and a push to sign on to this letter is going around to replace Biden movement is back.
00:39:26.000A letter circulating among congressional Democrats argues there's no legal justification for an early virtual roll call after Ohio moved its filing deadline past the date of the Democratic convention.
00:39:35.000Jamie Harrison has been lying about this.
00:39:38.000He says the suggestion the timeline for the virtual roll call has been accelerated is false.
00:39:43.000Well, then he proceeded to get in a fight with Nate Silver.
00:39:47.000Hey, Nate Silver was like, uh, you're lying.
00:42:54.000Then Joe Biden said he was going to cap raises of rent.
00:42:58.000Now, his proposal, which is insane enough, is that he was going to cap the raises of rent at 5% and then penalize developers and landlords who don't abide by that rule.
00:43:09.000Now he says he's going to cap raises of rent at $55 because he can't read words anymore.
00:43:15.000The idea, the idea that corporate-owned housing is able to raise your rent three, four hundred bucks a month or something, under what I'm about to announce, they can't raise it more
00:44:46.000By the way, there is a new polling memo out from the Democratic Party that shows that he is now running behind every alternative Democratic candidate in the battleground states.
00:44:53.000He made his way back to the microphone, by the way, just to stop by and just say random stuff right there.
00:44:57.000Apparently, the strongest potential candidates are in order.
00:45:00.000Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
00:45:06.000None of them are going to be the nominee.
00:45:11.000By the way, that guy also is so desperate that he is now pitching the possibility of announcing major Supreme Court changes.
00:45:18.000According to the Washington Post, he is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.
00:45:31.000He also is calling for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional office holders.
00:45:50.000Again, this guy is in serious trouble.
00:45:52.000This campaign is in serious trouble, which is why, according to the New York Times, he's been hunkered down with the members of his family.
00:45:57.000Quote, he's relying on members of his family, a tight-knit clan that includes son Hunter and first lady Joe Biden, along with a tiny group of loyalists to sear him through a self-created crisis and call a rising rebellion against his candidacy from within his own party.
00:46:09.000So if you thought that the headlines were going to move away from Joe Biden and he'd be able to kind of quietly sneak through, not so much, not so much.
00:46:17.000Alrighty, folks, joining us on the line, my friend Dan Bongino, host of the Dan Bongino Show.
00:47:00.000But not only does he survive an attempted assassination attempt, Ben, but he gets up and delivers one of the most iconic photos in American political history, telling the crowd to fight that even liberals had to acknowledge.
00:47:13.000I think one of them is afraid it's a free campaign ad.
00:47:44.000So, Dan, obviously your background as a Secret Service agent comes into play in everything that you saw with regard to that assassination attempt.
00:47:51.000I mean, I've been saying on the air since Saturday that the hand of God is on President Trump.
00:47:55.000I mean, there's literally no other way to read the fact that he's alive today.
00:47:59.000And we played a graphic earlier on in the show showing the fact that if Trump does not turn his head at literally the last second, he's dead.
00:48:07.000I mean, his head is turned amiss in front of a national television audience.
00:48:10.000But the real question is, How did the Secret Service fail this badly?
00:48:13.000We've now had the head of the Secret Service acknowledge that they didn't have a person on the roof because it was quote-unquote too sloped.
00:48:20.000I mean, that is not a... Also, I wasn't aware that OSHA violations were the chief concern of the Secret Service.
00:48:27.000Oh my God, somebody might slip and, you know, bruise their knee or something.
00:48:31.000And then we've heard also that there are Secret Service rules in place that suggest that they're not allowed to take a shot at a potential shooter until after the shooter takes a shot because they wouldn't want to kill some innocent person with a telescope lying down on a roof 150 meters away from the President of the United States.
00:48:44.000Can you go through sort of the litany of failures here and what exactly happened?
00:48:51.000So, your first point, I saw that making its way around social media.
00:48:55.000Rules of engagement indicate the shooter has to fire first.
00:48:58.000Ben, the rules of engagement for counter-sniper uniformed division secret service officers are absolutely no different than they are for pretty much any law enforcement officer across the country.
00:49:10.000If you can reasonably assume that this person is trying to cause a serious physical injury or death to another, you are allowed to use lethal force to stop said threat.
00:49:23.000That is the generic kind of bird's eye view of just about every rules of engagement law enforcement policy across the country.
00:49:29.000So I asked all these people, I said, really?
00:49:32.000So you're suggesting a guy on a roof who's not law enforcement with a rifle Scoped in with his finger on the trigger, is not prepared to cause serious physical injury or death while it's pointed at the president?
00:49:45.000That's an obscenity so dumb that I'm sure a lawyer like yourself looked at it and was like, okay, this is just stupid, so let's discredit that immediately.
00:49:53.000On the roof thing, you know, I'll break some news on your show.
00:50:12.000The agents I'm talking to, and there are many, are overwhelmingly saying the same thing.
00:50:20.000This is a colossal apocalyptic embarrassment to an agency I was proud of.
00:50:25.000There is no one, no one defending this thing.
00:50:28.000But one of them fed to me last night, and if this pans out to be true, and I have no reason to believe it isn't based on who told me this, that that was supposed to be a local police department counter-sniper post.
00:50:40.000There were two USSS Secret Service counter-sniper teams.
00:50:43.000That was supposed to be an additional one.
00:50:45.000Apparently, for some reason, I don't care to speculate on, it's not what I do, that post never showed up.
00:50:52.000Now, this is why you had in the beginning that statement, I don't know if you remember it, but it was from a few days ago, where the Secret Service spokesperson appeared to pawn the blame off on the locals.
00:51:32.000So I'm hearing also, this is point number two.
00:51:34.000Again, I think this is the first time we're saying it in detail on the show.
00:51:38.000That there are very strict orders coming from the Biden White House and the DHS to the Secret Service Director to basically shut her mouth about this or she's out.
00:51:46.000And that's why you've seen Mayorkas so vigorously defend this failed Secret Service Director on video because he basically knows she has all the cookies in the cookie jar and there's no excuse for that.
00:52:00.000One more thing, Ben, I just want to throw in that you didn't ask, but I'll just volunteer.
00:52:06.000You know, the golden rule of Secret Service Protection, or any EP, Executive Protection for that matter, is when a threat presents itself, you get off the X. The X is where that protectee's standing, or is in a car, a vehicle gets stopped and they start firing at it with RPGs, you get the hell off the X. Cover and evacuate.