The Great America Show - July 14, 2025


Trump was nearly assassinated and this all that has happened to those involved!?


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

187.57314

Word Count

8,495

Sentence Count

15

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

The scandal surrounding Joe Biden's use of the Autopilot pen and the pardons he issued on behalf of his son and daughter-in-law, Hunter Biden, is the latest in a growing list of scandals involving Joe Biden and his family.


Transcript

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
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
00:03:33.720 himself in a little bit of hot water Joe Biden has now hired himself a new personal attorney Amy Jeffress
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
00:07:45.200 education of our children if you want a shitty education you send them to school right here in New York
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:22:56.180 chief claiming president trump is quote doing a lot of wacky shit right now
00:23:00.060 um this is a secret service agent so going back to the assistant director saying we're not going to
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
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
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
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
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
00:27:20.540 there was another one i think last year two years ago where they crashed a car at the white house
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:43:42.860 radicals con artists and traitors who killed the california dream and now threaten us all uh by
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
00:43:58.980 few people out there like you it's a lot of the mainstream garbage you just regurgitate the same
00:44:03.340 old garbage uh someone like you is unique in the sense we get a different perspective and we get
00:44:09.640 you know a different view on things almost like it's first person like you're there not the same
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
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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00:45:12.460 may god bless you may god bless america and may god bless the great who dobs good night everybody