Why did President Trump shut down a reporter's question about Jeffrey Epstein yesterday? Also, the author of Butler, the untold story of the near assassination of Donald Trump, dives into the life of the kid that tried to assassinate Trump in Pennsylvania. Plus, were the floods in central Texas and New Mexico due to an act of cloud seeding?
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00:07:06.780Now, what do I think possibly happened?
00:07:11.560I personally believe that he was an operative.
00:07:14.520I think he was an intelligence operative.
00:07:16.520And, you know, you can say all you want.
00:07:20.020But when you're president of the United States and the intelligence agencies come to you and sit you down and say, OK, here's what happens, Mr. President, when you release this.
00:07:27.960You have, let's just say there wasn't 5,000 people involved.
00:10:53.540Now, let me change to another story that has been brewing since July 4th that is really important.
00:11:00.580And as the days go on, it gets more and more important.
00:11:03.260There was an attack on July 4th on ICE, and this is looking more and more well-coordinated.
00:11:14.260And there are three stories that I want to tie together that will show you what is coming.
00:11:19.320We can talk about Epstein, and I think it's very important that we do.
00:11:25.000We can talk about Epstein, but that is only going to solve what was in the past as well as what is still in Intel.
00:11:34.000But this one is on the near horizon, and I think we need to talk about this one in depth today so you are prepared because I think we're on the verge of a massive change in tactics here in the United States.
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00:12:52.080I'm sorry to, you know, drag you over into two days here, but I appreciate your willingness to do so yesterday.
00:12:59.000I want to now talk about, I mean, the first part of your book is stunning.
00:13:05.300What you saw personally just five feet away from the president.
00:13:09.420You're on the ground covered by a Secret Service agent while he's on the ground covered by a Secret Service agent.
00:13:14.920And you can hear everything he's saying.
00:13:17.440And then you see him, you know, you saw him before.
00:13:20.880Then he calls you the next day because you were supposed to go on the plane with him.
00:13:24.320And he calls you the next day like seven or eight times.
00:13:28.780In your book, you really explain what happened afterwards with the crowd, which I've never seen anywhere else.
00:13:35.740And you explain red state America in a way that if people cared to know the truth about who we really are, they would read it and they would understand.
00:13:45.840And they would see, oh, my gosh, they're not monsters.
00:13:48.780They really do believe some of these things, you know, about America.
00:14:08.120Yeah, you know, Thomas Matthew Crooks, in many ways, Glenn, is very symbolic of the collapse of very once trusted institutions in our country that have failed us all the way around.
00:14:26.500So this was not, first of all, when it comes to my profession, this is not something that has been deeply investigated in the way that shiny objects are given to detail by some of the best investigative journalists in this country.
00:14:45.540There was no, there was a complete void of intellectual curiosity to get to the bottom of this.
00:14:54.420The other problem is, is the collapse of our trust.
00:14:59.080And at one time, one of the most vaunted parts of our government, and that is our Secret Service, right?
00:15:08.120The competency, the incompetency of that day, the failure to loop everyone together, which, by the way, was one of the most important instructions from 9-11, right?
00:15:20.680We didn't, our agencies didn't talk to each other, right?
00:15:24.880That's why we created the Patriot Act.
00:15:27.940So how in the heck can you, knowing that there's going to be 50,000 people there in a wide open farm field with trees, a water tower, and outbuildings all surrounding the perimeter and very close range of the stage?
00:15:50.220How is it that there was no communication set up between the different agencies?
00:15:55.920How is it that it wasn't fully and robustly staffed?
00:16:00.400And given that they know this information, that he is already the target of Iran, how is this even possible?
00:16:09.900So he's also symbolic of that, but he's also symbolic, and we don't talk about this enough in a meaningful way, in how we handle mental illness in this country.
00:17:09.700And he's there not just on, during, you know, a regular day, but he's also there on days like Thanksgiving and Christmas and Valentine's Day.
00:17:21.340That tells you this is someone that is lonely, and this is someone that is isolated, and this is someone who has no support system around him.
00:17:54.220I spent it, and you could say, well, he's isolated, he's lonely.
00:17:57.900Or you could say, he's just really into this, and he is, you know, doing something about it.
00:18:03.580And it's what he loves, and let's let him get him through this period.
00:18:08.560So why is this a sign of mental illness?
00:18:11.720Well, it's a sign of isolation and loneliness, and that means there's a vulnerability there, right?
00:18:22.500And as a parent, we're always keenly aware of vulnerabilities in our children, or if we have friends.
00:18:33.000And they may even mean nothing, but they also may mean something profound.
00:18:38.640And that gets to my fourth problem, is just the sort of collapse of the American family and how we take care of our children and how we watch our children.
00:18:53.080And do we put a screen in front of them, right?
00:20:10.100You know, in the book, I have the transcript of his father calling the police.
00:20:17.800And you can tell in that conversation and in the details that he is giving the 911 operator, that he had a feeling something was going on with his son.
00:20:33.180And every parent will read that and say, and every parent that's had a child that they've been concerned about will read that and say, he knew something was wrong.
00:20:43.900And this is a young man, by the way, his grandfather was a Vietnam War, not just a Vietnam War veteran.
00:20:51.620He was a Vietnam War officer in the military.
00:20:55.060Very highly respected, a man in the community, very involved in the community.
00:21:00.320When he passed away 10 years before last year, you know, he wrote in the obituary his great love for his grandson.
00:21:12.200And you fast forward to today where his wife, Thomas Matthew Crook's grandmother, says she wants nothing to do with this family and hasn't for a while.
00:21:27.400So what happened, you know, and and and part of the challenge in in reporting about him is that the family lawyered up.
00:21:40.400He was cremated and and and and the Secret Service was giving absolutely no information.
00:22:07.760That's not, you know, my my biggest skill set.
00:22:10.760But, you know, going into the community, talking to the neighbors, talking to people, you know, reexamining this life, it paints a picture that, you know, in hindsight, you could say, well, the warning signs were there.
00:22:46.840I have gone back and forth in my in my head and in conversations with people.
00:22:51.860It could be as simple in his decline in mental health that he was laughed off of the rifle team because his shot was so bad and he didn't make the team just a couple years earlier.
00:23:07.840And he wanted to prove to everyone that he was a good shot.
00:23:11.760And and there doesn't seem to be any evidence that this was politically motivated because he he was he had registered as a Republican, but he also demonstrated or gave money to Democrats.
00:23:29.120So it doesn't appear to be ideological as much as I'm going to to me.