Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Dan Bongino & Rep. Anna Paulina Luna ｜ 7⧸23⧸24
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Former Navy SEAL Dan Bongino resigns as head of the Secret Service. Congresswoman Ana Polina Luna says she is more convinced than ever that Jared Lee Crook wasn't working alone. Glenn Beck explains why.
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Well, we broke the news on the program today with Dan Bongino of the resignation of the head of the
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Secret Service. We went through her testimony yesterday. It is abysmal. But we also talked to
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a couple of congressmen. One was there yesterday, and what she said is really astonishing. And also
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another congressman from Arizona that was on the roof yesterday. He's a former Navy SEAL and now a
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congressman from Arizona. He was on the roof where the sniper was, where they were supposed to be,
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and the would-be assassin was lying. And the things that he saw, something is very, very,
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From the state of Florida, Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna joins us now. She was in the oversight
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briefing yesterday, and she said, after leaving the briefing this morning, I am more convinced than
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ever that Crooks wasn't working alone. That is the shooter. She's here to talk about that now.
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Sure. So what did you hear yesterday that made you come to this conclusion? I mean, I think we all
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listened to the testimony yesterday and thought there's something very, very wrong here. But what
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did you hear that made you say he wasn't alone? We were actually told directly that
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specifically with the investigation that they haven't been able, they have not ruled out the
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fact that he was working alone, meaning, and I've thought this all along based on what we've been
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seeing with testimony, evidence coming forward is that he had a handler. I don't know how many people
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he's working with, but I definitely based on that. And then also, I think it's just really, really
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mind-blowing that in the hearing yesterday, I actually asked the very same question to the Secret
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Service Secretary. And she actually, again, not just on my question, but on a number of questions where we
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had the evidence right in front of us, conflicting statements or wrong statements, just not even
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prepared to answer those questions. So I still hold by that opinion. And I think that it's really,
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really insane that the media itself is not picking up on the fact that this Crooks character was on
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social media gaming apps where you can communicate. I'm hoping that they have subpoenaed those records
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with Discord in order to see who exactly he was chatting with, maybe even flagging the IP addresses.
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You know, I found out something from the FBI. My son was, somebody tried to
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groom and grab my son, and we caught him at the last minute. Yeah. And the FBI was in my house,
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and they took his gaming system. And they told me something that I didn't know. Gaming systems record
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everything. Everything. I did not know that either. So I didn't know that either. So who has this guy's
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gaming system? And what gaming system was it? Because the information the FBI said that they
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could get from his gaming system was mind-blowing. So who has this gaming system?
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It's interesting because I had seen some information come out. So I was actually just kind of bouncing
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questions off of Capitol Police, actually, all my way back from the convention, just kind of seeing if
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they knew about digital forensics, all of that. And to my understanding, that one of these games
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that he was allegedly on actually was on a system that's specific for PCs. So I think, and it's very
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likely, obviously, that the FBI already has that. But I mean, either which way, the reason why I and a
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number of my colleagues have been pushing for this task force and select committee with full subpoena
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power to conduct a parallel investigation is because I have zero faith and confidence in the
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FBI. And you're seeing that even come out right now, they won't share information with members of
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Congress, especially on this attempted assassination attempt. You see that the Department of Homeland
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Security is actually stonewalling Congress as well, and had to have subpoenaed communications between
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Secret Service and, and, you know, other law enforcement area, they weren't willing to give that
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information up to us. So I just, if there's nothing to hide, and they're not being shady,
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why are they hiding everything? Why do they want it done in secret? Why did they push so hard to
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prevent us from actually having this hearing in the public? That's why that that's, that really
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bothers me. Let's just say that it is all what it seems to be on the surface. Okay, he acted alone,
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it was just really bad, you know, secret service policies, etc, etc. Let's just say that's what it is.
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You know, the country is at a tipping point, and at a boiling point. And you also keep saying you
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despise disinformation, conspiracy theories, etc, etc. Why in the world would you keep everything quiet?
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Why wouldn't you become overly transparent to turn the temperature of the country down?
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Exactly. I literally, I literally asked her this yesterday in the hearing. And also to the one thing
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I was specifically concerned about, and I also too, was trying to get questions for the American people
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on is, I had looked at this video and theory that there was a second shooter on a water tower.
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Well, while I was digging through information before the hearing, it comes to find out not from
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not from secret service, but from our sourcing and testimony from law enforcement in the area,
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that there was actually 40 sniper teams. And so according to the ESU Butler emergency response
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coordinator system team, secret service never actually even showed up to get the briefing with
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the other snipers. So what is this person? Is this individual who's on the water tower? Was that
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an individual? Was that a shadow? Is it someone who's one of these 40 sniper teams? I mean, we need
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to ask and answer those questions. And she couldn't even do that, the basics. And so we are left with
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the vote for holding her accountable is going to come to the floor. We have Nancy Mace that just filed
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to impeach her. I think that'll pass. But in the event that it doesn't, we have some other mechanisms.
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And there's been bipartisan calls at this point for her to resign. So that's how bad she did to put in
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perspective, bipartisan for her to resign. Well, somebody, I mean, you guys are the oversight and
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somebody has to answer. It's like walking into your boss's office and being belligerent. You fire that
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person. You fire that person until you get answers on something. Let me ask you this. There was a story
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that came out from Mike Waltz, the Congressman Mike Waltz last week, and he just said it. And then I never
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heard it again that Crooks had three encrypted overseas accounts. He never said that they were
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phone or banking, and it's not usual for a 20-year-old. Is that true? Do we know anything
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about that? I haven't been able to follow up on that information either. But what I will say is based
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on what we're being told, and what I can say is that I do believe that he had handlers. And I think
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that he was using actually these systems to communicate with people, potentially preventing
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there from actually being a record of communication, because some of these apps will only store for X
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amount of time. But if you're saying it's on the gaming system, I mean, again, the FBI is not sharing
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any information with us. So that's been shady also, too. Let's not forget, he had very advanced
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detonation systems. He had surveilled. He learned to use a rangefinder. There's no way that this,
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you know, 20-something-year-old went from being just some quiet kid to being a trained assassin,
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So I hate to even ask this question, because I don't know if I want the answer.
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Do you believe, at this point, it's more likely the handler was American or foreign?
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I honestly don't know. But what I will, I guess, based on what I'm seeing weigh in on and say is
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that they were reporting right after this, and I don't know if this was Secret Service just putting
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up these reports only to throw us off on their complete failure, but they were reporting that
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there were foreign nations that had attempted or were talking about assassination attempts on
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President Trump. And so part of me is like, is it that, or is it actually something, you know,
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President hasn't been seen in a few days, and he was really sick. We're now hearing that
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it was more than COVID in Las Vegas, that there was a medical team that he went and saw,
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I think, at the hospital, and it was significant, but we don't know because nobody's really telling us.
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Then we haven't seen him at all. And now, yesterday, he began delegating his presidential powers
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to the Secretary of the Treasury and State Department when it comes to Ukraine. I've never
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seen a president delegate his presidential authorities to other agencies. Have you?
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I have not. And to just put some context in that as well, I was actually walking back from my office
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a couple, maybe about three weeks ago, and I had run into Senator Mike Lee. And we were chatting,
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and he goes, you know, something along the lines of, you know, I think they know that Biden's going
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to lose this election and that we're going to take back, you know, House, Senate, President. So
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they're trying to handcuff a presidential administration on Ukraine. And so, to my knowledge,
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back then, they were actually even trying to figure out ways to prevent or even treat Ukraine
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like a NATO ally so that we would not be able to, to my understanding, like defund them in any capacity.
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And so, I think that's what you're starting to see. And that's exactly why they delegated like that.
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But I think, you know, going back to your point, we haven't even seen the president. I think
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everyone knows that he's cognitively not there. And I think that's why he needs to resign. And I think
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it's very ironic that Democrats are saying, well, he's not fit to seek re-election, but he needs to
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That's insane. So who oversees the administration? I mean, you have oversight of, you know, of all of
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the cabinet, but they're not doing anything about it. I don't, I really don't think anything's going
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to happen this term to the Secret Service. I'd be shocked if it did. And I'd be happy if it did.
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Um, but nobody ever is held accountable. Who oversees, who can tell me who is running the
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Well, it's supposed to be Congress and Senate that would have a check power on, on the executive
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branch. But as you're seeing Senate right now is blocking anything that would even allow us to
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impeach Biden based on what he's done that would, I would argue is criminal. Um, so it would then be
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up to his cabinet. And what we're seeing is that his cabinet seems very much so to be in the influencer
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or circle of likely Obama holdovers, Pelosi and Schumer. And also I think that it's, you know,
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timing wise, very convenient that we were hearing from great sourcing that Biden was doubling down.
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He was not going to get out. He was in this literally until he breathes his life. He'd not
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want to give up the presidency. And it appears that he was forced out or likely threatened with
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These are remarkable times that we're living in. I just, it's every day is another page in the
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history book. I know. And you've got a front row seat to it. Uh, Anna, thank you so much. Um, and
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please stay in touch with us. Let us know how we can help and, uh, any information that you want to
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get out, please, uh, let us know. We'll stay in touch. Thank you so much, guys.
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You bet. Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna, uh, the representative from Florida.
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to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really want to thank you for
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listening. Dan Bongino, good friend. Welcome to the program. How are you, sir? Hey, good to talk to
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you, Glenn. Doing okay. Dan, uh, I remember when we first met, you were still on presidential detail
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and, uh, you said that you were standing in the room with these guys while I was on the air and they,
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they hated me. And because of their reaction, you started really paying attention to what was being said in
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those rooms. And I told you, I'm really concerned about the security of the president because I was on the
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outside looking at you and you people like you and seeing the secret service being completely
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inept from the top, not necessarily the agents. It has gotten so bad now, Dan, and I'm not sure that
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it is. They're being inept. I'm not sure what the hell's going on. Yeah. These, these problems aren't,
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you know, new. And, uh, there's a lot of kind of, uh, Johnny come lately commentary on this from the
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left-wing media goons, but the reality is, you know, people like me were calling attention to
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this problem over a decade ago. And, you know, I've got the receipts to back it up. I mean, you can
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go look at interviews I gave to the Washingtonian, a book I wrote called, uh, Protecting the President,
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um, all diagnosing all the problems with the secret service. You're going to read the book.
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You're going to think, gosh, did he write this 10 minutes ago? No, I wrote it 10 years ago. And what
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wound up happening and, uh, you know, a subject you're probably unfortunately familiar with is
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the left-wing media, rather than analyzing with Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Hannity, and Dan Bongino say,
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uh, they go on attack mode right away because of the messenger. They just don't like us.
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See, I don't think the same with them. If I hear something from the left-wing media,
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I can independently vet. It doesn't mean it's naturally false. Unfortunately, a lot of times it
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is, but, but the irony is they claim to be journalists. They attacked me as a conspiracy theorist
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for telling, uh, for telling folks on my show in August of 2023, it's episode 2079. If anyone
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wants to listen from last year, uh, where I said that Donald Trump was likely going to be hurt or
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killed, I was getting that information from high ranking secret service sources who were very
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troubled by the, by the, uh, minimal security posture applied to Donald Trump and the repeated,
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uh, requests for enhanced security that were being rebuffed. And Daniel Arkin from NBC wrote a piece
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you can still read because it's embarrassingly still up calling me a conspiracy theorist saying,
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I was stating this without evidence, without ever having, speaking to me or asking me what my
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evidence was. So, you know, if you're listening to shows like this and your program, you know,
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you're, you're six weeks, six months, six years ahead of the news cycle. If you're listening to
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liberal media, you're consistently stunned by attempts like this on Donald Trump's live thinking
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what happened. So tell me your gut at this point. Um, and I know I'm asking you to go on limited
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facts because they're not releasing everything, but you have inside, uh, connections. Um, is your
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gut, does your gut tell you this is just more of the same incompetence times a thousand or is
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something nefarious going on? Well, listen, the latter, I can't answer. One thing I never do is
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I never go down roads where I don't know if it ends off a cliff because then you wind up like the
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left-wing media. Oh, look, there's a PP tape out there. Really? Have you seen it? No. Um, I don't
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know. I can tell you the level of incompetence leads naturally to the second question. You're
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not crazy to ask it, but the level of incompetence here is stunning. Listen, because people think in
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threes and nuggets and pieces of information, I'm going to give you a couple of chunks of
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information here from over 10 years of experience and having worked with three presidents, two Democrats
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and the Republican having done hundreds of advances and haven't actually done four foreign lead advances
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too. So, you know, I know what I'm talking about to number one, why was president Trump on the X that
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we would call the X, uh, why was he out on the podium at all? It's a question nobody can answer.
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And it's also the reason in the hearing yesterday, if you go back and listen to it, the director,
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Tim Cheadle, a failed human being who disgracefully is still sitting in her job, putting the nation at
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risk from her incompetence. It's why she won't answer the timeline question. Did you notice
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how cryptic she was? Yes. You won't answer the timeline question because if she gives you a time
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that the threat was recognized, you're there. Then the obvious next question is, well, if you knew
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there was a threat up to an hour out, potentially 18 minutes out, depending on who you believe,
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why was president Trump walked on the stage in the middle of, uh, getting, you know, scoped out
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and range located by a sniper? And she can't answer it.
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So Dan, so, but her answer will seem to be in the coming days that, well, yes, but we didn't have
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communications open with the people that were there. Those were local where that cat, don't
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you have a command center that? Yes. Don't waste your time. You just said it. Don't even, I don't
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care what her answer is. It's called the command post. You're Glenn, you, you know, you have zero
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experience as a secret service agent. You're a, you're a very talented radio media guy. Even you
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knew that I actually worked. You never worked in the secret service. You're like, wait,
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no, they have a command center. Here's the answer. Yes. It's called the CP, the command post to every
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single, uh, law enforcement entity working that operation had either a representative or a radio
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in there. There is absolutely zero chance. The command post did not get information that they
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were working a suspicious male surveilling the outside of the perimeter with a range finder.
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There's zero chance. So when, you know, you ask questions like, well, how has he walked out on
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stage? The answer is such incredible, gross incompetence. I don't blame people for saying
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there's gotta be something more here. I just don't know that. All I'm telling you is that the failure
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here was so apocalyptic. Everyone on that advanced team should have resigned the next day.
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The director, the deputy director, all of them, how they still have jobs is incredible. Let me throw
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one more thing out at you too. Let's just say all of the director's stupid stories are accurate.
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They're not, but say they are. They, the roof was sloped. It was hot that day. Whatever ridiculous
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excuse you may have. I've run into, yeah, I've run into problems in the past where we could not secure
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a line of sight problem. We didn't have enough bodies, whatever. I had a site with Hillary Clinton.
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Just didn't have enough bodies to secure a dorm room looking out on her speech site at Hofstra
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University. You know what I did? I had them go out and get a $5 can of that snow spray, that fake
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snow. Why would I do that? Because I sprayed the windows. Because I figured, listen, if we can't
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mitigate this line of sight threat and this potential sniper, at least we can block the line of sight so
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they can't see what they're shooting. Sometimes it's the best you can do. They didn't even do that.
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They didn't even do that. They just let the line of sight threat exist. And the counter surveillance
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vulnerability assessment, which is a piece of paperwork, the counter surveillance team looks
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at, that'll show that they knew that was a vulnerability and yet they did nothing about
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it. They basically let him get shot. They haven't released that though, have they? That document?
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No, they're going to claim it's classified. It's not. The site is over. And here's another two pieces
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of paperwork. There's a survey called the CS survey, the counter sniper survey. That counter sniper
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survey will point out every single elevated high point in the area. That'll have been on there and
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you're going to see something. I'm going to break this later on my show. I'm not trying to be cryptic
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or funny about it with your show. I'm just working the angle right now and I want to be sure I'm
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correct. But that specific high point, there's a major, major fiasco that happened there. There was a
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communication lapse that is totally unforgivable. But the counter surveillance and counter sniper survey
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will show that that high point was a vulnerability. And then they're going to have to answer questions
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like when that wasn't posted, when he was on stage and allowed that person to get up there
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because there was no post there or nothing. Why didn't you guys follow up? The secret service
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is ultimately responsible. Why didn't the site agent that they noticed that one of the posts they had
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wasn't there? I mean, this is an unforgivable, unfortunate series of events that basically
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caused this. There's no other explanation. So I had Eli Crane on a congressman from Arizona that
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was up on the roof and posted a video of it yesterday. And he was standing in the barn,
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if you will, right behind where the shooter was. And he's on the second floor inside air conditioning
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in an office. And it has a window that looks right out on that roof. If it was too hot or dangerous,
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why were they on the first floor, not on the second floor, looking at the roof?
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Glenn, again, the incompetence here. These are hard interviews for me to give because the questions
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you're asking, again, as a guy with no secret service experience at all, my wife asked me the
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same question. She was the database developer. They're not explainable other than absolute abject
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ignorance and stupidity. Whoever did the advance that day, I don't know how they still have a job.
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I really don't. And, you know, here's another thing that here's the third question. So I brought
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up the line of sight. I brought up the paperwork I brought. Why was he on the X up? There's another
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question that needs to be asked. How did you not employ? We have an aerial surveillance branch in the
00:25:10.020
secret service. Why was the aerial surveillance, a drone, a helicopter, a FLIR, an infrared, you know,
00:25:17.160
forward looking infrared, a thermal. Why would these, why would these simple tools we use over
00:25:22.880
and over not employed that day? You would have seen the guy on the roof the second he got up there
00:25:28.420
from, you know, Kim Cheadle, the failed director said yesterday in the beginning of the hearing,
00:25:33.100
if you go back and listen, we employ a 360 degree security coverage. Well, 360 is a three
00:25:39.640
dimensional sphere. That means above and below. Well, where the hell was the above coverage?
00:25:44.480
He lied in the hearing. There was nothing above. There was no drone. He had a drone, the bad guy.
00:25:49.580
We didn't have a drone. Glenn, go to Amazon right now. You get a drone for 40 bucks.
00:25:53.380
We couldn't send a drone up in the air. There's a $6 trillion federal budget. Is this,
00:25:58.320
what the hell is the federal government good for? Why was there no drone? The answer is again,
00:26:03.500
absolute stupidity and how these people have not been fired or resigned is, is really deeply
00:26:10.760
disturbing. At this point, the government has no accountability whatsoever.
00:26:16.380
Dan, um, when I heard the Congressman yesterday, hold on, I'm hearing breaking news that she may be
00:26:23.260
leaving, that the director may be leaving very soon. So I'm just getting this now. So we may be
00:26:28.480
breaking out. I'm hearing she, I predicted this last night. So we'll, we'll see what happens. Yeah.
00:26:33.440
She has no political support, but the Biden Harris team doesn't want the headache. The Democrats have
00:26:39.000
bailed on her. Uh, this woman needs to go. She is a disgrace. I'm getting this from a secret service
00:26:43.360
friend right now said, and she's out. So whether he's got something, we're breaking on your show or
00:26:48.040
not. But, uh, this guy has been a reliable source for me. Tell me when I heard the Congressman
00:26:54.700
yesterday say that, uh, have you used any kind of encrypted apps to communicate with anyone? I was
00:27:04.260
shocked to hear her say yes, but when, when, I mean, I don't know if congressmen are, you know,
00:27:13.460
smart enough to think this way, but I know I really try not to ask a question, especially if I'm,
00:27:23.120
if I am in a situation where I'm trying to prove somebody wrong, I make sure I kind of know the
00:27:30.760
answer to the question before I ask it that way. When we come back to it later, I've got her on the
00:27:38.740
record. What the hell is on her private phone? That's against the law. Well, because we've been
00:27:47.360
friends for a long time. I, I'm not going to spin your wheels. Um, there are two people on this phone
00:27:54.040
call and one of them may have, uh, contributed to the asking of that question. So, uh, you could
00:27:59.540
probably figure out by the population. So yeah, there are, Cheadle has no friends anymore in the
00:28:06.160
secret service. They're horrified by our leadership. Let's just say a friend of a friend of a friend of a
00:28:11.220
friend of a friend may have sent to a friend. Um, exactly that question who passed to a friend of a
00:28:16.460
friend of another friend and it made it into the hearing. So, um, that's how that, and what was,
00:28:21.980
what was the friend of a friend of a friend, uh, saying that we should get that on the record for,
00:28:29.260
because the communications may, may have involved communications with significant
00:28:34.780
White House officials on messaging. Um, and it may have involved, uh, some, yes. So we'll just, uh,
00:28:42.160
we'll, we'll see what comes out in the wash. Now keep in mind, did it, wait, did it maybe involve
00:28:47.240
this, this event? Oh, oh yeah. That's, that's a distinct possibility. I mean, we're going to have
00:28:54.600
to find out. I don't know the exact content cause I don't have her phone, but her agreeing to turn
00:29:01.200
over her personal phone for forensic analysis to Lauren Boebert, who has all the right questions,
00:29:06.080
by the way, uh, they should take her up on that offer. I can almost guarantee you she's going to bail
00:29:11.180
and lawyer up if she's asked to turn her personal phone over or she's probably deleting messages
00:29:16.480
right now. Unbelievable. Dan, as always, great, great to talk to you. And I'm so happy for your
00:29:23.740
success. Um, it's just, nobody deserves it more than you, Dan. Well, you were a good friend. I love
00:29:29.740
you, Dan. And a mentor. So I'd love you too, brother. Thanks, man. Thanks for having me. Thanks.
00:29:33.760
All right. You bet. Dan Bongino, host of the Dan Bongino show. You're listening to the best
00:29:40.180
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00:29:45.800
Let me just give you a story here. This is from the wall street journal yesterday. Okay. Uh,
00:29:51.380
how the bet on an 81 year old Joe Biden turned into an epic miscalculation. It's from the wall
00:29:58.900
street journal. It was the first time I remember people pretty jarred by what they had seen recalled
00:30:05.160
representative Dean Phillips from Minnesota, a Democrat who went on to mount an unsuccessful
00:30:11.120
primary challenge against the president. That was in October, 2021.
00:30:20.300
That was the month that was the last time Biden met with the house democratic caucus on the Hill
00:30:26.280
regarding any legislation. Nearly three years later, concerns about the 81 year old president's age and
00:30:32.780
mental acuity have put an abrupt cap on his half century political career. They had grown from
00:30:40.180
a murmur among allies who said they believed or hope they were catching the president on a bad day
00:30:45.700
to a deafening roar as many of those same allies called a name to step aside in the wake of his
00:30:51.220
disastrous June 27th debate performance. On Sunday, Biden announced he was withdrawing from the
00:30:57.780
presidential race, an unparalleled, unparalleled step that leaves Democrats without a nominee
00:31:03.280
less than four months before election day. Biden endorsed vice president Kamala Harris to take his
00:31:09.700
place, but it remains to be seen if the voters will rally behind her. How the democratic party came to
00:31:15.860
the brink of nominating a candidate with an obvious flaw is a story of allies eager to look the other way.
00:31:24.320
Biden advisors who worked to stamp out doubts about his vigor and a party apparatus that boxed out all
00:31:31.720
alternative candidates. The result is an epic years long miscalculation that has Democrats racing to mount an
00:31:40.340
uncertain reboot of their campaign against Donald Trump. Now, this happened in 2021 that he was so bad that
00:31:52.720
lawmakers on the hill Democrats said, what the hell? What, what is that? That was three years ago,
00:32:00.120
three years ago, Pat, who was the guy that was, uh, up in France for the D-Day, uh, uh, memorial service?
00:32:12.480
He was a long-term advisor, right? And mentor. Um, yeah, he considered Biden a friend, a mentor and a
00:32:21.060
mentor. Yeah. And, uh, he helped him with his campaign. He's known him since 2014. They've been
00:32:26.300
friends all this time. Biden helped him along, actually campaigned for him. And at the D-Day
00:32:33.760
celebration this summer, he said, Biden didn't even know who he was. And so he thought, well,
00:32:40.080
okay, I, you know, it's a senior moment that happens to old people. Uh, no, not if they're
00:32:46.420
president of the United States, at least it shouldn't. And if it does, uh, you might want
00:32:50.920
to say something, not wait till after the disastrous debate performance. And then say, oh yeah, yeah. I saw
00:32:57.300
that a while ago. So yeah, I, to me, and that's what they're all doing. I mean, it does gotta say
00:33:04.700
something. Yeah. You are to protect and defend the constitution of the United States. Yeah. You
00:33:11.000
don't have a constitution of the United States. If your president is senile and you don't do anything
00:33:18.440
about it. He is the commander in chief. And I can't believe these people are that half the country
00:33:28.020
is still okay with being lied to for this long. And everyone who ever said anything about it was
00:33:37.220
smeared and destroyed. You're a conspiracy. I mean, up to two weeks before the, the debate,
00:33:43.240
they were still smearing people for saying that he was not all there. The guy has clearly, he has
00:33:51.220
Parkinson's. He clearly, I mean, I was with a bunch of doctors cause I'm, I'm kidney stones anyway. Um,
00:34:01.260
so I'm with a bunch of doctors and you know, we're, we're talking and I said, okay, guys,
00:34:06.820
if this guy walked into your clinic or your hospital, what would you say? And all of them
00:34:15.080
at the same time said Parkinson's and I said, wow, what did you guys rehearse that? And they're
00:34:20.560
like, no, he has every sign of Parkinson's and they went through them and I was like that that's,
00:34:27.460
I mean, he's exhibiting classic Parkinson's disease. Right. I didn't realize until recently that,
00:34:34.220
that, uh, the, the mental, the cognition was part of that was part of Parkinson's. Did you, I,
00:34:40.740
I didn't know that until recently. Um, so apparently that, that is, uh, one of the,
00:34:47.760
one of the signs. So scary. So now he is, now he hasn't been seen since Vegas. And I, I didn't put
00:34:58.040
any thought into this at all until I've now heard reports that people who were there at the hospital
00:35:06.160
facility that he was brought to for COVID said that it was a medical incident that they, he had,
00:35:13.120
it wasn't COVID. It was something else. They didn't say what it was, but they said it was a significant
00:35:18.940
event. Yeah. They, they even called it a medical emergency. Yeah. We need to know. We need to,
00:35:26.620
because we have to know he's, he's intending to serve out his term. And I don't think he's
00:35:34.100
capable. No, he cannot serve out his term. Listen to what he did, uh, yesterday. And I,
00:35:41.160
when I say, look, look what he did, I put that in air quotes, um, memorandum for the secretary of
00:35:47.840
state and the secretary of treasury subject delegation of certain functions and authorities
00:35:55.060
under the rebuilding economic prosperity and opportunity for Ukrainians act by the authority
00:36:00.680
vested in me as president, by the constitution and the law of the United States of America,
00:36:05.700
including section 301 title three United States code, I hereby order as follows section one a,
00:36:12.540
I hereby delegate to the secretary of the treasury, the functions and authorities vested in the president
00:36:21.440
of the United States by section one Oh four a one and one Oh four a two a of the rebuilding economic
00:36:28.880
prosperity and opportunity for Ukrainians act division F of public law, blah, blah, blah. Uh,
00:36:35.180
B I hereby delegate to the secretary of state in consultation with the secretary of treasury,
00:36:40.920
the functions and authorities vested in the president by sections one Oh four G one Oh four I one Oh five C
00:36:48.040
one Oh five E one Oh five G of the act. The delegations in this memorandum shall apply to any provisions
00:36:55.040
of any future public laws that are the same or substantially the same as those provisions
00:37:01.240
referenced in this memorandum. The secretary of treasury is authorized and directed to publish this
00:37:06.440
memorandum in the federal register, Joseph Biden jr. So he's giving the power for this particular thing,
00:37:15.960
the power of the presidency to the secretary of the treasury and the secretary of state.
00:37:25.080
Have you ever heard that being done before Pat ever? No, no. If it's happened before, I've never heard of it.
00:37:31.960
I can't imagine why you would do that. Why? Unless you're incapacitated and you want to make sure that
00:37:38.600
money keeps flowing to Ukraine, uh, that, and you can't do that. You're incapable. So you delegate that
00:37:46.140
authority, but you would be incapable. If you were incapable, you would be so incapable. You wouldn't
00:37:53.360
come up with this. You wouldn't go, you know what? Right. Uh, if I remember section three Oh one of title
00:37:58.240
three, no, that's I can delegate you. You wouldn't do that. Somebody is doing this. Dr. Jill,
00:38:04.200
who is running our country? Dr. Jill, Barack Obama. It's Barack Obama. Yeah. It's not Jill anymore.
00:38:13.640
No. It's Barack Obama. Yeah. Yep. Hi, you know, do we have the audio of him calling in to support
00:38:21.440
Kamala yesterday? Do we have this audio? Yeah, we do have that. Um, yeah, we, I think it's cut 15 from,
00:38:29.500
from, um, from my, the earlier one. Yeah. Okay. Biden calls in former campaign headquarters prior to
00:38:39.060
Now we're working on it. Now, now we've got to, you know, the name has changed the top of the
00:38:48.220
ticket, but the mission hasn't changed at all. And by the way, I'm not going anywhere. I'm going
00:38:52.600
to be out there in a campaign with her, with Kamala. I'm going to be working like hell, both as a sitting
00:38:57.700
president, getting legislation passed, as well as in campaigning. You know, what we still need to
00:39:04.700
save this democracy. And Trump, Trump is still a danger to the community. He's a danger to the
00:39:10.160
nation. And, uh, just, just ask my foreign policy colleagues, my counterparts and other people around
00:39:16.720
the world and at home. Look, so I'm hoping you'll give every bit of your heart and soul that you gave
00:39:23.120
to me to Kamala. Do you notice the thing that's going on with his, uh, teeth? Uh, sure. He's got
00:39:29.700
sort of a slurring of his essays going on there. She doesn't usually have. I, I, I don't know.
00:39:38.800
There's people who suspect that might be AI. I don't know. We haven't seen the guy in five days.
00:39:45.800
I know, but, and I mean, it's, it did sound like him, but I mean, you could pull this off in
00:39:51.640
today's world. You could pull this off. Sure you could. Yeah. Yeah. Without much trouble.
00:39:56.500
Let's play cut 16 and 17, please. Here's Kamala asking Joe Biden if he's, if he's watching still
00:40:05.080
cut 16. Joe, are you watching? Do you hear this clapping? Can you see it? I'm watching. I'm
00:40:13.340
watching. I know it. Okay. That's just fine. Okay. Cut 17. It is so good to hear our president's voice.
00:40:23.420
Joe, I know you're still on the, on the call and we've been talking every day. Um, you probably,
00:40:29.440
you guys heard it from Doug's voice. We love Joe and Jill. We really do. They truly are like
00:40:35.000
family to us. And we do. Everybody here does it. It's neutral. I know you were still there. You're not
00:40:44.200
going anywhere, Joe. I'm watching you, kid. I'm watching you, kid. I love you. I love you, Joe.
00:40:51.020
Oh, wow. That was a moment. Wasn't that a sweet moment? Oh boy. Yeah, it was. Do you still hear the clapping?
00:40:57.840
Uh, no. Do you hear the clapping, Joe? Like he's four. Yeah, clapping. I mean, wow.
00:41:07.120
Amazing. Amazing. It's a lot like, uh, after the debate when Dr. Jill was treating him the same way,
00:41:15.960
you answered every question. That was so good. That was really good. Good for you. Who can talk?
00:41:25.260
You can. Who can answer questions? You do. Who can, who can translate speech incoming and outgoing?
00:41:35.680
You can. You can sometimes. Good job. Here's a biscuit. It was embarrassing. It's embarrassing.
00:41:44.600
It's a leader of the free world. It's embarrassing. And, and much worse. It's detrimental to the country.
00:41:49.840
Let me just ask this of every American right now. Every American. Do you believe that our country
00:41:57.300
is safe right now? Do you believe that there's no one in Russia, no one in China, Turkey, Iran,
00:42:08.220
North Korea, that they are not right now going, look at this country. It is takeable.
00:42:16.220
Right now. We could destroy it right now. Yep. Who's in charge? Who's in charge? I mean,
00:42:24.880
they can't keep the secret service to, to protect Donald Trump. They can't, they, they, they,
00:42:32.500
you have no idea who's even running the country. If you ask that, I mean, we just, of Democrats,
00:42:38.840
don't you think the answer is no, I'm not comfortable with it. I'm, I think rank and file Democrats are
00:42:46.560
worried about this too. They have to be. I agree. And they, they need the, to exercise the 24th
00:42:54.040
amendment. It just, we, this guy has got to go from the button. He has to go.