The Great America Show - The Great America Saturday Show： July 19, 2025

00:00:00.000 I mean you're talking about the auto pen look the auto pen I think is maybe one of the biggest

00:00:07.560 scandals that we've had in 50 to 100 years this is a tremendous scandal and I know the people

00:00:16.240 on the other side of the oh see that desk that resolute desk unfortunately he used it before me

00:00:22.320 but you know we have our choice of seven desks they're all beautiful but I chose the resolute

00:00:28.740 and so did he unfortunately but the people on the other side of the resolute desk I know them

00:00:36.400 Lisa the whole group and they're no good they're sick people and I guarantee he knew nothing about

00:00:45.580 what he was signing I guarantee it hello everybody and welcome to the great America show it's great

00:00:52.280 to have you with us happy Monday thank you all for spending part of your Monday night with us here on

00:00:56.960 the great America show a lot happening over the weekend most of you were probably checked out not

00:01:02.040 paying attention to the news unfortunately I guess fortunately for you it's my job to come here on

00:01:08.080 Monday and tell you what happened over the weekend well as you heard there Joe Biden decided to do

00:01:15.020 an interview with the New York Times now you would think a man who's as complicit and corrupt as Joe

00:01:21.240 Biden and had so much to worry about being exposed for the lies and cheating and stealing that he's

00:01:28.760 done him and his family have done you would think that he would go off into the sunset to never be

00:01:32.700 heard of again but we've got some new information the New York Times all of a sudden deciding now they

00:01:38.720 want to partake in a true honest reporting so the national the New York Times I should say

00:01:44.440 reviewed some of the emails that the National Archives handed over to the Trump DOJ as part of

00:01:50.500 their investigation into this auto pen scandal the emails that they have reviewed revealed that

00:01:56.680 Biden staffers made decisions to sign pardons with the auto pen without directly hearing the order from

00:02:03.080 Joe Biden directly it was revealed that Joe Biden did not approve each name for the pardon and after

00:02:09.560 changes were made about the specific inmates Biden did not sign off on the revised list rather his

00:02:15.960 aides just ran the final version through the auto pen without Biden's approval now this is according to

00:02:21.380 the New York Times quote Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons

00:02:26.920 that apply to large numbers of people's his aides confirmed rather after extensive discussion and

00:02:33.700 different possible criteria he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which

00:02:39.280 convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence even after Mr. Biden made that decision one former

00:02:46.140 aide said the Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates

00:02:50.320 resulting in just small minor changes to that list rather than ask Mr. Biden who's the president of the

00:02:56.920 United States to keep signing revised versions his staff waited and then ran the final version through

00:03:02.660 the auto pen which they saw as a routine procedure routine procedure to issue pardons as a White House

00:03:10.080 staffer I can't say that's something I've ever thought about doing if I were a staffer I think I'd probably end

00:03:17.800 myself in a lot of trouble as I should be if I did something like that now Joe Biden like I said should have just 0.99

00:03:27.060 went off into the sunset and kept his big stupid mouth shut but he's deciding not to do that so now he's got 0.99

00:03:33.720 himself in a little bit of hot water Joe Biden has now hired himself a new personal attorney Amy Jeffress 1.00

00:03:39.180 of Hecker and Fink he has been out one since he and his former personal lawyer Bob Bauer quietly parted

00:03:46.800 a ways months earlier according to people familiar with the matter Ms. Jeffress and Mr. Bauer declined to comment

00:03:54.200 now Bauer's relationship with Joe Biden was significantly cooled over the last year of his presidency in part because

00:04:00.820 of his extended clash with with Hunter Biden and their defense team over the political risks that Joe Biden created

00:04:08.420 by aggressive public relations tactics used to defend Hunter including and not limited to that pardon that he issued

00:04:15.260 first time of course president ever pardoned their son or family member but I guess he had to because he's a criminal

00:04:22.000 right now Rand Paul is absolutely loving the news of all this he's now saying that he will once again

00:04:30.060 submit a criminal referral for Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice after this New York Times

00:04:36.680 piece ran Rand Paul is tired of it he's tired of the lies and it now appears that Fauci may have been signed

00:04:45.840 with that auto pen I believe they said there was only one pardon that was signed by hand and I believe it was the

00:04:50.820 one of Hunter Biden everything else was done with the auto pen so who's going to be responsible for this

00:04:57.620 all who takes the fall why are those pardons legit in the first place you know I guess we're gonna have

00:05:04.640 to soon find out I know everyone's sick of hearing about the Epstein files we got some word this afternoon

00:05:09.660 from Laura Trump on a podcast that the Trump administration will be releasing more documents pertaining

00:05:15.840 to those Epstein files this is a Glenn Maxwell has offered voluntarily to come sit before Congress

00:05:22.960 to give testimony on who and what was involved in these Jeffrey Epstein freak off type things with

00:05:32.800 children now she's voluntarily doing this she's serving a 20-year sentence right now no deal was made

00:05:38.080 for her to come before Congress nothing like that no time off her sentence all voluntarily her doing it

00:05:47.000 but it's being reported that there's some members of Congress who don't want to see that happen and

00:05:51.700 they're doing all they can to block that I think this is something that we should put out in the public

00:05:56.500 domain find out which members of Congress and which senators or which powerful politicians don't want to hear

00:06:02.640 the truth because then I think it tells us all we need to know and who they are protecting just moments ago folks

00:06:10.440 the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with the plan to dismantle the Department of Education

00:06:16.380 President Trump in March signing that executive order to dismantle it saying that we've got to get the federal

00:06:22.080 government out of our education of course back in May after President Trump issued this U.S.

00:06:29.480 District Judge Mayang John a Biden appointee issued one of those I words an injunction blocking the Trump

00:06:37.340 administration from doing just that turns out just another Marxist liberal judge

00:06:43.920 thinking their judge jury and verdict the Trump DOJ appealed Judge George's injunction in the Fifth Circuit

00:06:52.560 Court of Appeals denied their request for an immediate administrative stay so this afternoon the Supreme Court

00:06:58.160 in a 6-3 decision allowed Trump to proceed with the mass firings at the Department of Education

00:07:04.220 Justice Sonia Sotomayor fumed in her dissent quote this case arises out of the president's unilateral

00:07:11.320 efforts to eliminate a cabinet level agency established by Congress nearly a half century ago

00:07:16.820 the Department of Education it's only gonna be the Department of Education for a little bit

00:07:22.120 longer before it's dismantled what these liberals don't realize is nothing changes it's just gonna

00:07:28.540 be given to the states just as Roe v. Wade if you live in a liberal state and they want to

00:07:35.760 indoctrinate your kids that's what's gonna happen now if you want to send your kid for a good education

00:07:40.940 you send them to a place who's got a Republican governor who cares about the well-being safety and 0.90

00:07:45.200 education of our children if you want a shitty education you send them to school right here in New York 0.84

00:07:51.580 and that's just the way it's going to go so it's unclear to me why these these Marxist liberals would be 0.83

00:07:57.420 so against that they should be all for the federal government out of their business if New York wants to

00:08:03.780 run buck wild with their liberal nonsense that's fine they'll continue to be the greatest real estate agents

00:08:11.260 for the state of Florida and North Carolina and South Carolina and other places where you can go live

00:08:17.240 and be free Arizona I mean so many options where you can go to live a free life and not have to worry

00:08:25.480 about the government being down your back so great on President Trump folks in just a few moments we're

00:08:30.920 going to be joined just over the weekend we of course passed the one year of that assassination attempt

00:08:35.880 on President Trump and the death of Corey Campatori that firefighter who was innocently murdered in the

00:08:43.460 stands by that stray bullet we're going to be joined by a real clear politics national political

00:08:49.600 correspondent Susan Crabtree she's got a great new piece out today discussing the secret service and what

00:08:57.300 has really changed since that incident a year ago you're going to be surprised to learn the changes that took

00:09:05.660 place and they weren't for the better we'll tell you that we're going to take a quick break here on the

00:09:10.640 other side Susan Crabtree joins us to take all this up and much much more folks please stay with us

00:09:16.060 Susan I appreciate you taking the time to join us today on the Great America Show I want to start

00:09:25.760 with with first your new article that you have out that I read this morning and I thought was absolutely

00:09:31.060 brilliant and I think it demands some answers the articles on real clear politics.com one year after

00:09:39.280 Butler Secret Service FBI face new questions give us a little bit of first of a background on what

00:09:47.420 prompted you to write this now that we're a year into this thing we still know nothing about Matthew

00:09:52.480 Crooks know nothing about his family his body we know was cremated just days after he did this

00:09:57.260 all the inconsistencies behind us tell us first what prompted you now a year later to to write this

00:10:04.080 well I was I've been one of the reporters if I do to my own home that's been most aggressive on this

00:10:13.280 story because I had sources dating back to the Obama administration during the Cartagena

00:10:19.200 prostitute scandal when agents were found guilty of engaging in legal prostitution in Colombia but it was

00:10:26.180 still a huge scandal so all those sources after Butler came out of the woodwork for me and I started

00:10:32.720 reporting from the plane on the way to the RNC convention and some of the same issues are still

00:10:37.680 relevant today the Jill Biden event in Pittsburgh that had more post standards that I first reported

00:10:42.940 on J-14 of the AGR building not being covered just so so many cascading problems with the

00:10:50.260 communication system uh two separate command centers it just was a complete and utter breakdown so I

00:10:57.000 have been uh pursuing this for months and months and months and breaking stories on along the way so

00:11:02.020 there was no brainer that I was going to do something um on the anniversary now what I had on the

00:11:07.040 anniversary uh broke Thursday beforehand is that these suspensions were coming out I knew about the

00:11:13.540 suspensions two weeks ago the Secret Service was not forthcoming and what they were telling me in fact they

00:11:19.260 were not forthcoming to Senator Rand Paul as we saw in the report that he produced uh he released on

00:11:25.340 Sunday so these suspensions the biggest news out of these suspensions is their slaps on the wrist

00:11:30.620 uh for junior agents except for the Pittsburgh office which is taking the fall the the junior agents uh had

00:11:38.600 supervisors on the Donald Trump detail uh two of the supervisors were on the walkthroughs with this

00:11:45.960 junior agent named Mio Perez Mio Perez was a the wrong person for this it was absolutely had no business

00:11:54.620 leading security heading up devising leading the advanced team for Butler she had she had 3.5 years

00:12:01.860 of experience in the Secret Service but zero experience conducting uh Secret Service uh security

00:12:08.040 for a rally of this magnitude is this the woman who was in the picture with Donald Trump like ducking 0.69

00:12:14.040 no no no no she's a rat that woman is Kate she's a well-respected agent this woman is wasn't pictured 0.99

00:12:22.260 very much in fact the New York Post after I reported this I've reported all the names of the people that 0.96

00:12:27.660 were suspended uh on Thursday morning after they leaked the story after I was trying to get them to

00:12:33.340 produce the story to me they leaked it to CBS News or gave it to them uh the Secret Service did that

00:12:38.460 night then the next morning I decided okay I'm going to go through and tell name names and say all of

00:12:44.520 the stories that I was going to work with you on these this these pieces but if you're going to do

00:12:48.640 this I will go ahead and move forward with the names um but some of these names have been out there in my

00:12:55.260 pieces uh but uh this particular woman is a very junior agent as I mentioned named Mio Perez she's 1.00

00:13:02.800 known for partying she is known for posting from her assignments including those at Mar-a-Lago on social

00:13:10.300 media has had several complaints against her um about that I've written about that before uh she's just 1.00

00:13:17.320 not a serious agent too but there were supervisors too including one that was an inspector assigned from

00:13:24.640 the inspection division because this rally there was such an acute Iranian threat um hanging over this 0.96

00:13:31.060 rally and that they sent counter snipers for the first time and that it was such a big rally uh so

00:13:38.740 those supervisors signed off on the site plan in fact Sean Curran the current director uh signed off

00:13:46.160 on the security plan for Butler even though there was a discrepancy about how that AGR building was going

00:13:52.420 to be covered and so did these other supervisors Nick Menster and Nick Olaszewski they did not get

00:13:58.600 disciplined in fact they got big promotions one of them is number two on Eric and Laura Donald Trump

00:14:04.200 detail um Trump detail right now and the other one is the head of the inspections division which I just

00:14:09.820 said to you is in charge of maintaining accountability and integrity in the secret service this is a huge

00:14:16.160 conflict of interest because Sean Curran is really good friends with these guys and the Pittsburgh

00:14:22.480 field office all four of those agents took the fall they got some form of suspension even though

00:14:27.820 it was a slap on the wrist it does not look good for your career to have an unpaid suspension of

00:14:33.360 10 to 42 days so so you you've got these suspensions you've got I guess it was the deputy director who came 0.88

00:14:40.020 out and said we're not going to fire our way out of this which is probably one of the dumbest things

00:14:44.140 I've ever heard in my entire life uh the secret service is probably the the most well-trained or at least

00:14:50.400 what I believed was the most well-trained organization in this country I would say probably up there with the

00:14:56.280 likes of Navy SEALs being what their job is to protect the most powerful man of the free world

00:15:01.820 yet on that day in Butler you had three or four female agents now I'm not saying there shouldn't

00:15:08.960 be female agents but they shouldn't be a five foot four female agents should not be protecting a man 1.00

00:15:13.960 who's six foot two uh it just makes zero sense to me that's number one so clearly that that's completely

00:15:20.380 ass backwards but then you've got like I said the I guess what is he the assistant deputy director of the

00:15:25.300 FBI who's saying we're not going to fire our way so what accountability do you get you suspend the guy

00:15:30.080 for 10 to whatever you said 10 to 40 days a month whatever it is no pay okay he gets his job back he

00:15:36.680 still gets to accumulate towards his pension if he doesn't leave secret service he'll do his 20 years

00:15:40.960 he'll get his pension he'll get a uh you know 150 200 000 a year private security job when he leaves

00:15:46.320 where is the uh the repercussions here for almost having a man assassinated number one

00:15:51.980 number two how is Donald Trump not outraged by this he has been outraged about it and he has been

00:15:59.760 outraged by the secret service's lack of uh for being a lack of transparency and lack of accountability

00:16:05.660 he has since been briefed and he says he's okay with it he's got a lot of things on his plate right

00:16:09.980 now as you know um there's too many controversies going on but he did say he feels better about it after

00:16:15.860 being briefed it was a complete failure um on many many levels but here's what we need to take away

00:16:21.400 from this if you want to keep Donald Trump safe and have our continuity of government safe

00:16:26.800 and being and people being able to go to rallies without fear of being killed uh assassinated

00:16:32.860 themselves murdered then we need to improve the security uh we need to improve the culture at the

00:16:39.220 secret service and as i'm getting onto your show the news is breaking that a secret service agent was

00:16:46.580 catfished uh by project veritas and that's just to me it's just part and parcel of all the reporting

00:16:54.800 i've done for more than a decade on the secret service these agents the problem is there's a

00:17:01.140 pretension problem at the secret service uh because the after cartagena they were they were dragged

00:17:06.540 through the mud on that and they just have a very difficult job and they're stretched really thin

00:17:11.520 uh and a lot of their job is boring you know they they're not like navy seals where uh they have

00:17:17.340 they're highly trained but they don't get on missions they don't they don't practice all these

00:17:21.920 missions all the time most of their job is standing there waiting for something bad to happen and then

00:17:26.420 they act right but before that most of it's boring and it's a lot of travel on the road there's a lot

00:17:32.860 of divorces it's one of the highest rates of divorces and suicides so the morale has been low for a

00:17:39.080 very long time we need to improve the morale and improve the standards but it's hard when you have

00:17:44.320 a retention problem to prove the standards improve the standards and you layer on top of that this

00:17:49.120 huge dei problem that sean curran inherited from director cheetle who was a debacle and she completely

00:17:58.020 completely changed secret service uh signed on to this 30 by 30 pledge have 30 percent women in the 1.00

00:18:04.580 secret service agents and officers by 2030 and she was at 24 by the time she left so and it's not

00:18:12.820 merit-based i don't care a woman can do it um if she can do the training and if she's the right size 1.00

00:18:18.900 and she can pass all of her tests i'm all for it but it has to be uh a merit-based and it has to

00:18:26.660 in the secret service case you have to be carried be able to carry donald trump horizontal out of a

00:18:32.640 situation uh where there could be fire going off at the it could be like a military type situation

00:18:38.580 so it's it's layers of problems that are still being unwound at the secret service and i do think

00:18:46.400 sean curran has made some improvements but i don't think he's even capable of making all the

00:18:50.500 improvements that need to be made in the year especially because half of what you're saying is

00:18:55.580 these people are his friends how do you go ahead and fire your friends i guess it makes it hard

00:18:59.860 you know i'd realized something was wrong back probably last year around february march i was

00:19:04.320 in mar-a-lago we were doing an interview with president trump and walking in and out of the

00:19:08.380 room no issues no no pat downs nothing and i'm saying to myself i know i'm safe i know i have

00:19:13.780 no ill will towards this man i love him but like how do you know that i'm not coming in here with a gun

00:19:19.860 or something like it's crazy to me to think that you'd let me go in there without any sort of

00:19:25.020 repercussions and i was with lou dobbs and i said to him i said lou this doesn't make any sense

00:19:29.580 how they i know you know you guys are good friends we see him all the time but it's still

00:19:34.540 not a security precaution when you're sitting there with the the former is a former president

00:19:39.340 at that time but still it it rang a weird bell to me then we took a walk with the president around

00:19:44.500 mar-a-lago it was just the president myself lou dobbs and his wife and i said you know this still

00:19:49.120 doesn't seem right to me that that this should be i mean there should be secret service with us

00:19:54.220 just in case they don't know me they don't know you know anything could happen and that's when i

00:20:00.380 really started to think something was really going on but i also realized something different there

00:20:04.880 susan was there was two types of security there he had secret service and then he had his own

00:20:09.380 private security so i don't know if there was some sort of lapse or something that donald trump

00:20:14.100 figured out on why he would have his own security and why he would have secret service there

00:20:18.860 that is so interesting to me because as you read in my story um as of december of last year

00:20:27.060 donald trump was having a christmas party with his detail after they had been through so much

00:20:32.140 turmoil and he said as you can see in this room there's one person that is not with us today and

00:20:38.440 there's a reason for that and everybody knew that that was mio perez the the one with a partying 0.94

00:20:43.480 reputation who was not there because he banned her from his presence to being anywhere near him

00:20:50.600 according to multiple sources who talked to me about that so he had a trust issue at that time

00:20:56.300 and so he was hiring his own uh security that's interesting to me because i've asked about that

00:21:02.120 several times never got a straight answer about it because it was obvious in the in the final days

00:21:06.820 multiple sources who told me about that that there were people around him that were not secret

00:21:10.800 service uh you if you had two assassination attempts okay so they didn't learn from the first

00:21:17.020 one enough the second one they didn't you know they didn't go and sweep the perimeter of that golf course

00:21:24.880 and that should have been a no-brainer and then they tried to blame it on oh it was an off the record

00:21:29.440 so it was like an unannounced event i don't care yeah then you just tell the president we're gonna have

00:21:35.580 to sweep and that's going to take an extra 45 minutes he knows you know he's been down this

00:21:41.200 road a few times before the the reason i was told about the uh part of the reason for the other

00:21:46.780 security was because uh see as as he wasn't still president the united states at the time secret

00:21:52.460 service was only responsible for x y and z and the reason he had the private security was to fill in

00:21:58.120 the laps and i guess it was maybe to guard the grounds of mar-a-lago i'm not entirely sure the silver a year

00:22:02.760 ago but nonetheless it's still very interesting considering uh all the threats that we know

00:22:09.200 were against him let's go back to what you had mentioned uh breaking this afternoon from project

00:22:14.460 veritas uh secret service agent his name is mark hendrickson invited a female project veritas 0.95

00:22:20.820 journalist to the white house without ever meeting her before i assume it was on some sort of dating app

00:22:26.420 uh text messages with hendrickson reveal the agent engaging in egregious violations

00:22:30.440 of secret service safety confidentiality protocols without knowing the identical the identity of the

00:22:35.700 female journalist he invited her to come say hi at the white house a secure facility central to 0.99

00:22:41.120 national security sent the photo from the white house boasting that he works there every day

00:22:45.420 disclosed sensitive operational details stating that quote i'm in protection i travel with protectees

00:22:50.820 and i provide access control wherever they are made disparaging comments about the commander in 0.92

00:22:56.180 chief claiming president trump is quote doing a lot of wacky shit right now 0.88

00:23:00.060 um this is a secret service agent so going back to the assistant director saying we're not going to 0.98

00:23:05.900 fire our way out of this then what are you supposed to do mr uh deputy director whatever your title is

00:23:12.100 yeah i mean another thing is uh you know they you have uh director cheetle and are they yanking her

00:23:20.880 security clearance you know are they is there any repercussions for anybody because ron roe lied to congress

00:23:28.360 several times because i know personally because he lied about questions they were asking citing my

00:23:33.380 reporting and i have the sources and i absolutely trust my sources multiple sources about his role in

00:23:40.060 denying security assets to donald trump too so they're not willing guess where ron roe is right now

00:23:46.340 probably in a really high well-paid position

00:23:49.880 this will blow your mind this is swampy i i broke this story this weekend

00:23:53.900 michael churdoff's uh group he's a group his churdoff worked for uh george w bush as the second

00:24:02.000 homeland security secretary and also worked for president obama uh so he just wrote out his time

00:24:08.100 and in fact ron roe decided he was going to stay on on the government dime as long as he possibly could

00:24:14.900 and was listed as a senior advisor till about a month or so ago um when he first went into private

00:24:20.860 practice as for his own and that put out his own shingle and all of a sudden he gets hired by the

00:24:24.820 churdoff group so it is uh no one's getting there's no accountability and helen comparatori talked about 0.98

00:24:32.680 that and she said it's just to me it's garbage it's just the secret service is garbage well that's sad

00:24:38.460 because there's a lot of dedicated people there who are incensed by that i put out a lot of comments by 0.98

00:24:43.620 uh secret service agents who had messages for helen comparatori over the weekend and said they are

00:24:49.320 incensed and they hope she sues the pants off the secret service and advice gave her some advice on

00:24:54.220 how to do so but they basically said that this is like the the idea that uh that that her husband's 0.77

00:25:01.640 life was only worth 10 to 42 days of unpaid suspension is like a babylon b headline it's ridiculous

00:25:09.060 and it's sad and it would be you know it's not funny at all but it would be slightly funny if it

00:25:14.900 weren't true and he offered his he said we need to do better for the comparatory family um and donald

00:25:20.800 trump of course himself who was you know traumatized and almost died uh with a too close for comfort

00:25:28.040 situation there so if we care about our continuity of government we're going to just stop putting

00:25:32.920 letting the secret service hide behind the word secret you know i am they have they have are spent

00:25:39.320 an inordinate amount of time going after my sources or trying to and putting watermarks on emails and

00:25:46.240 doing witch hunts and hauling people into that they even they don't even know who my sources are but

00:25:52.220 they're trying to find out so they have witch hunts and hauling people in before the inspections 0.73

00:25:56.600 committee and all this business when they can't even provide accountability for their own mistakes

00:26:02.000 i tell this to everybody i tell them i don't lie because then you got to remember your lies and

00:26:11.800 cover your tracks and remember when you're lying and when you're not lying it seems like it's the

00:26:16.560 same thing with these people instead of fixing the culture and and getting this thing on the right path

00:26:20.980 and the right track they just want to go after innocent people who want to make a change people who want

00:26:26.940 to make a difference in society so that this stuff doesn't happen uh i mean this man was brutally

00:26:33.060 murdered i think he was shot in his head uh from that stray bullet i mean helena is going to be on

00:26:39.920 the show this week we're going to have her here so we're going to get her take on this but it's just

00:26:43.920 mind-blowing to me what more has to be done how many more uh botched assassination attempts need to

00:26:51.120 happen how many more innocent people need to be shot in the head for culture to change rather than uh

00:26:57.500 uh coming out after people uh for retribution for them wanting change for the better of the country

00:27:04.540 and for the better protection of the president and it's not just donald trump it's any president you

00:27:09.200 you'd mentioned earlier about the hood rats outside of obama's house that were wrestling each other

00:27:14.280 those two women uh i mean you go down the list it's just the incident down in south america or 0.97

00:27:20.540 there was another one i think last year two years ago where they crashed a car at the white house 0.98

00:27:24.700 it's like time and time again it's they're drafting the dumbest people they could find it's not all of 0.97

00:27:29.220 them but uh what's the saying it all it takes is one to ruin it for the rest of them yeah of course 0.98

00:27:35.060 every organization has bad apples but this is too many too many bad apples are spoiling the whole bunch

00:27:40.580 right now and as we know there as i reported in my story they have lowered the standards so much that

00:27:46.820 only 30 percent of the income in class recent class had college to graduate degrees college degrees

00:27:53.040 compared to the fbi that everybody has to have a bachelor degree so that's just one element when

00:27:59.180 we're talking about their misplaced priorities last year under the old regime you had secret service

00:28:04.940 agents um going to an lgbtq plus event at disney world in the middle of the height in october the

00:28:12.160 height when they were complete of their frenetic campaign schedule and when they were complaining

00:28:17.180 to congress that they needed more money for more resources and manpower um you cannot make this stuff

00:28:22.760 up there's a secret service agent that reported on breastfeeding five minutes before donald trump was

00:28:27.660 supposed to arrive um the five minute mark is a it is a very uh critical time uh for secret service

00:28:34.000 agents and she was in an emergency room that where they would take the president if there was some

00:28:38.540 kind of problem with security we have an iranian threat uh that's acute and it's so acute that last

00:28:45.760 year during the campaign some of the secret service agents shot out of the moonroof of the beast at a

00:28:51.200 drone because they thought it could be uh iran and as you know this week iran is talking about how they

00:28:56.700 have every capability to drone donald trump when he's sunbathing at mar-a-lago now i think that's about a

00:29:02.300 bluster i think the secret service has improved their drone capability but last year it was a joke

00:29:07.140 there's their they couldn't get the drone up the mitigation system they couldn't get their drone

00:29:11.700 up the mitigation system was ridiculous they they were on the helpline of the secret service

00:29:16.680 and they i had one hour of terrible experience before they sent him out to butler uh the their drone

00:29:23.260 operator so they're i just i mean i i probably know too much about the subject but i can just go chapter

00:29:30.340 and verse on what's not happening they are not they did not provide me the retention numbers um from

00:29:36.480 what time when sean current arrived and where we are now uh they wouldn't talk about why they still

00:29:42.220 have trans agents getting special privileges in the secret service um they will they don't want to 1.00

00:29:48.520 address the issues head on they are trying to avoid the inevitable and then things like project

00:29:53.540 veritas uh break and you know i'm not surprised uh i am hardly surprised i just when i saw that i said

00:30:00.480 yeah i quote i could the thing is my writers and i we've had we have tons of tawdry things we could

00:30:07.080 break about the secret service and we've decided not to break every tawdry thing there is to break on

00:30:11.620 them um but you know what project veritas more power to them because this is intrinsic it's an endemic

00:30:18.160 problem in the secret service they have a culture problem and they need to raise their standards and

00:30:22.760 and when they raise their standards the ironic thing is when they do that they're going to get

00:30:26.780 better agents applying the whole it's going to just improve morale and all of the senior agents they

00:30:33.660 have a brain drain going on because the senior male agents especially are just like we're not putting up

00:30:39.400 with this anymore we're going to retire if we can or we're going to go to the dea we're going to go do

00:30:43.640 drug enforcement because we don't want to be at a place where the morale is so low and they're

00:30:48.620 they're stretching us so thin and and we're not we have failures on our record now they don't like

00:30:54.260 that especially the guys that have higher standards yeah you're absolutely right you'd mention the the

00:30:59.720 iranian sunbathing comment i think they got that completely wrong i don't think donald trump sunbathes

00:31:04.620 unless he can wear his suit and tie doing so so i don't think that's entirely true the other thing too

00:31:11.160 is that the thought of secret service shooting their guns i'd be scared to see what will come out

00:31:15.960 sean curran who's now the the head of the secret service was he lead detail for donald trump that

00:31:21.060 day that's right he was and here's that's the problem because he signed off on the security plan

00:31:27.140 the day before the rally along with two other his two other buddies um supervisors and now they have

00:31:33.680 the big promotions he let the phil the pittsburgh office take the fall and the supervisors there were

00:31:40.240 held accountable even though they had much more minor roles in supervising and and here's again

00:31:45.940 we had the same refrain uh we thought that that had been jettisoned a former president doesn't get

00:31:51.540 security assets as as many as a sitting president and vice president even a first lady uh that is a

00:31:59.020 ridiculous statement when it comes to donald trump as we mentioned before and yet if you see the

00:32:03.440 suspension records on the pittsburgh guys the the supervisors it says because he was this was a 0.69

00:32:09.560 former president's uh event then the field office the field office has to be held uh responsible that

00:32:17.080 is a joke the counter sniper there uh if he also the supervisor for the counter snipers the hero of

00:32:23.900 butler uh who took the kill shot on thomas crooks he was actually a supervisor he was actually part of the

00:32:30.080 problem because he didn't recognize there was nobody on the agr building either he didn't tell sean

00:32:34.860 kern on the stage hey i know that we i've just been notified by the local law enforcement that we

00:32:41.120 have a guy with a range finder uh running around and we're looking for him so don't bring donald trump

00:32:46.560 onto the stage when the congress when the senators and uh and the staff in interviewed him the counter

00:32:53.560 sniper his name is david king who took the kill shot they said why didn't you tell when you were looking

00:32:58.520 for thomas crooks why didn't you bother just you know picking up your radio and telling the shift

00:33:03.200 agents including sean kern who was leading the shift obviously he's the boss he was the inner

00:33:08.520 innermost circle around donald trump and he made the decision on whether to bring trump out on the

00:33:13.080 stage and because the counter sniper didn't bother to tell the shift agent nobody knew so they brought

00:33:19.340 him out on stage to be to almost be assassinated it's just unbelievable to backtrack on this um

00:33:25.860 so they they tracked this guy all day from the second he got there they were following him they

00:33:31.580 they knew he was a freak they knew he was up to no good at what point did they lose track of him

00:33:38.080 and what point did they pick him back up again so they lost track of him okay so they're the two

00:33:43.520 counter snipers that were uh positioned themselves inside the agr building instead of on top of the

00:33:48.660 roof uh they actually saw saw him running around and with the range finder so they went down to go find

00:33:54.500 him they took photos of him and they one of them left their post to go down to find him they lost him

00:34:01.040 around the building and that's when he ended up crawling up on the air conditioner and going up

00:34:06.440 on the roof and by that time they were circulating the photo of him but it didn't get to the counter

00:34:13.860 sniper until 5 45 so this started around i believe around five when they were chasing him is around 5 20 ish

00:34:21.600 yeah so 5 45 uh at that point they could have called this counter sniper could have called the

00:34:27.980 shift agent and said hey we have a serious problem do not bring donald trump on the stage until if you

00:34:33.040 look at that testimony from the counter sniper he said oh that was the other people can do that i was

00:34:38.420 just doing my job well no you're a supervisor and your job is to prevent donald trump from being

00:34:43.580 assassinated and the best way to prevent him from being assassinated is not to put him on the stage

00:34:48.100 so it was before the event that was a critical time period and so everybody has blood on their

00:34:53.740 hands um there's so many people even the white house i will tell you this the campaign staff

00:34:59.300 it's not the white house the campaign staff uh from what i what grassley's report points out and i did a

00:35:06.740 little reporting about this last year uh there were farm equipment that the secret service wanted

00:35:11.920 to cover the sight lines uh from the agr building they wanted to obstruct the sight lines but the

00:35:17.280 staff the campaign staff didn't like that bad on optics now this stuff goes on all the time

00:35:21.960 these kind of negotiations go on all the time between optics and security between the campaign

00:35:26.460 staff and the secret service but it looked like the campaign staff won out on that or the secret

00:35:31.500 service didn't push back hard enough uh so that was also an issue let's all you know why don't

00:35:37.980 we err on the side of caution now why don't we err on the side of security who cares about so much

00:35:42.440 about the optics i think that you know when you have an iranian threat hanging over your head

00:35:46.100 and then the campaign i don't know if they knew that uh i think donald trump probably knew it but

00:35:49.740 the campaign staff probably didn't know that so there was a lot of people who weren't read in

00:35:54.500 on that iranian threat um including the person in charge of the security this mio perez that i talked

00:36:01.800 about now that's kind of a cop out because certainly the pittsburgh office wasn't read in on

00:36:06.940 that and that's another problem if you have an iranian threat then you need to tell everybody involved 0.63

00:36:12.500 in the security uh even the leos even the law local law enforcement you should tell everybody

00:36:17.520 uh because maybe you don't they don't get the classified briefing but just tell them there's

00:36:21.660 a heightened threat right now and we need to be very serious about the lines of sight

00:36:25.440 it's just uh just multiple multiple failures that don't change without any repercussions and there's

00:36:32.420 no repercussions so uh i guess we can expect hopefully no assassination attempts but the culture only to get

00:36:38.420 worse so we just passed the one year anniversary over the weekend of the butler shooting uh two years

00:36:44.200 ago around the same time period you had the cocaine in the white house which the secret service somehow

00:36:49.200 managed to screw up that investigation too no no nobody held accountable nothing the cocaine was

00:36:55.560 destroyed they say probably of someone's nostrils um still don't know anything about it

00:37:02.100 i i i actually know we don't know who it is who it was but i know i've written a story about that you

00:37:08.300 can get it on real clear politics.com if you go under writers click my name just about a month ago i wrote

00:37:15.840 a story about the facts versus fiction on the cocaine gate and what happened was they didn't really want

00:37:21.980 to find out who whose it was they knew every single person that went into that door if you believe that

00:37:28.100 the the cocaine was found in this locker and the vestibule with no key if you believe that which i i guess

00:37:34.540 i tend to believe that after really looking and scrutinizing everything and reviewing multiple forensics

00:37:40.840 experts but if you believe that they still knew who was going into that vestibule area and they tell me

00:37:47.480 the secret service tells me it's about 500 people that day because there were vip tours even though it was

00:37:52.400 uh the weekend before the fourth of july okay uh so we don't know if someone was bringing it in for

00:37:58.580 somebody else like hunter biden we don't we don't know hunter biden was there uh that friday uh but say

00:38:05.100 yeah the friday then they went to they went to uh uh away for the weekend and then uh they came back for

00:38:12.100 fourth of july the whole family uh but anyway it doesn't matter i don't expect anybody could have brought

00:38:18.840 it in for somebody else okay it was a very small bag so they did find they said oh we didn't find

00:38:24.100 enough dna on that insufficient dna is what they told me or told but told everybody uh in there when

00:38:30.300 they quickly closed that investigation after 11 days the quickest i've ever seen an investigation close

00:38:35.620 in dc in my lifetime uh i covered it for i've covered dc for 30 years uh so you can't even do the

00:38:42.820 paperwork in that time uh but so they closed it down 11 days and they had insufficient evidence

00:38:48.940 that they found um okay they still could have interviewed people uh they didn't interview

00:38:54.360 anybody in the lineup they didn't like break it down and say oh some some of you are staffers some

00:39:00.720 of you are family members we're not going to interview grandma who's coming in for a vip but let's

00:39:05.260 interview some people they also found dna and the the dna itself was in tubes okay so what's in those

00:39:15.000 tubes they still retain those tubes um i discovered they did i believe destroy the cocaine i saw the

00:39:22.180 foyer document i followed the documents i have all the documents and there's a chain of custody where

00:39:27.380 they send it to the dc fire department um and dc police to incinerate it because they have an

00:39:34.180 incinerator that they use for this that's epa approved and dea approved so i do believe that

00:39:39.880 that took place but cheetle there's a big controversy in the secret service because director cheetle

00:39:45.940 uh wanted that destroyed and there was some pushback in the uniform division and those people who pushed

00:39:51.920 back got punished didn't get promotions and other people did so again it's once again this kind of

00:39:59.620 um yeah they didn't want to find out they closed it quickly and i really want that fbi report

00:40:05.480 about the lab document on how much dna they really did find uh that's what i want and i've been asking

00:40:12.600 the fbi for that and secret service and uh not forthcoming yet yeah i mean if you if you if you do

00:40:18.920 dna test and it comes back inconclusive i say okay you know dump the case do whatever you've got to do and

00:40:24.660 uh and move on with it but it that wasn't the case as you just clearly laid out there just another

00:40:30.680 misstep by um the secret service i want to turn to something before we wrap up we got a 6-3 decision

00:40:37.340 from the supreme court uh on uh president trump now being allowed to start dismantling the department

00:40:43.400 of education you've got a new book out pretty decently new i would say uh a few months but worth

00:40:49.360 the read and we recommend it to you all highly folks you get on amazon wherever you guys get your books

00:40:53.200 fool's gold the radicals con artists and traitors who killed the california dream and now threaten us

00:40:57.980 all forward written by our good friend here on the great america show the great peter schweitzer i want 0.96

00:41:03.100 to get your take on this supreme court ruling 6-3 sotomayor is in fumes absolutely beside herself

00:41:11.280 uh because now trump could start dismantling this organization that's ruined so many states california

00:41:17.240 one of them in particular yeah our you spend the most amount on individual students of one of the

00:41:25.380 most and of any states and we get the worst outcomes yeah so you know to me it's it's great that the

00:41:32.520 department of education is doing a great job in terms of dismantling dei um looking at higher education

00:41:40.420 and going after uh these universities that had these terrible anti-semitic rallies um and they're

00:41:47.600 permitting these students that we allow in this country on visa exchanges and other waivers um and

00:41:53.860 visas special visas and now they're in our country destroying it and also i i really appreciate their 0.87

00:42:00.940 their pushing back on california they have withheld uh on the trans issue in women's sports uh they've

00:42:09.240 really taken an aggressive stance they got pennsylvania to overturn their policies and they're

00:42:14.080 going to apologize to riley gains so we're seeing some big changes california of course is still pushing

00:42:19.480 back um on the trans issue in women's sports uh and so we'll see if they withhold the funds the

00:42:25.900 department of education um there's other funds there's 6.8 billion dollar funds for the next year

00:42:31.500 that the in grants that the department of education's uh holding above many states heads and i wrote about

00:42:38.680 that recently too and some people aren't going to be able to be hired next year in california they're

00:42:44.420 they're freaking out because oh they're going to have to pay for it themselves um well you know my

00:42:49.340 daughter's and it's been in the public schools in california and i'm going to tell you um the woke kind of

00:42:54.520 attitudes and policies in the california public schools and now there's a mandate that you have

00:43:00.760 some type of dei literature to graduate from high school it's just off the charts and they can get

00:43:07.780 in i i just think that the department of education is doing what they should be doing establishing

00:43:13.020 national standards um and block granting some of this money to the states uh to to do with what they

00:43:20.780 will i unfortunately in california it's not going to be a good thing so they're trying to

00:43:24.580 get california to wake up and get rid of some of these woke policies that are just not not doing

00:43:31.600 anything for their students performance it's all about you know social emotional learning and not

00:43:37.640 performance folks that book uh you can get it on amazon wherever you get your book fools golds the 0.84

00:43:42.860 radicals con artists and traitors who killed the california dream and now threaten us all uh by 0.99

00:43:48.380 susan crabtree susan it was a delight talking with you today i have to say uh as i told you before you

00:43:53.600 got on the show i i've been reading your your work for months you do a terrific job uh there's very 0.82

00:43:58.980 few people out there like you it's a lot of the mainstream garbage you just regurgitate the same 0.92

00:44:03.340 old garbage uh someone like you is unique in the sense we get a different perspective and we get 0.97

00:44:09.640 you know a different view on things almost like it's first person like you're there not the same 0.99

00:44:15.400 regurgitated garbage that you read on you know fox news or cnn or msn whatever news organization you go

00:44:21.560 to get your news so uh where can people find your work where can they follow you susan well absolutely

00:44:27.080 thank you so much for that i appreciate you and your dedication so much uh you can get my you can

00:44:33.080 follow me on x at susan crabtree and you can go to real clear politics if you click on writers and

00:44:38.900 click on my name you can see all the stories that i've done over the last 10 years

00:44:42.400 susan crabtree thank you so much we'll talk to you soon thank you so much for having me

00:44:47.280 thanks to susan crabtree folks and thank you all for being with us today you can read all her work

00:44:52.800 real clear politics.com you go over to the writers tab and you click on susan crabtree she does a 0.99

00:44:57.380 terrific job uh in original pieces very very brilliant brilliant brilliant uh author and editor

00:45:04.200 folks we hope to see you back here tomorrow for the great america show where our quest for truth

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