Butler Secret Service Agents Disciplined, Crockett Eyes Senate, Why Walz Was Picked： AM Update 7⧸11
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On July 10th, 2017, a gunman opened fire at a pro-Trump rally in Pennsylvania, narrowly missing President Donald Trump. Six Secret Service agents have been disciplined for the failures of the day, a day after the attack.
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It's Friday, July 11th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler.
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Nearly one year after President Trump narrowly dodged an assassination attempt,
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the Secret Service says six agents were disciplined for the failures of that day.
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If there is a change of heart at any point in time on my end,
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it will only be because I truly believe that we collectively can get this done.
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Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett potentially eyeing a run for U.S. Senate in Texas.
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And a behind-the-scenes look at how Vice President Kamala Harris chose Governor Tim Walz as her 2024 running mate.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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This weekend marking one year since the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on then-candidate
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The shooter firing eight shots toward Mr. Trump just minutes into his speech.
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President Trump pumping his fist in the air, shouting fight, fight, fight to the crowd,
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later saying he wanted everyone to know he was okay.
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A single bullet miraculously hitting Mr. Trump's ear, millimeters from his brain,
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thanks to Trump turning his head a split second beforehand.
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Firefighter Corey Compertori fatally shot while using his body to shield his wife and daughter
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Compertori's widow, Helen, speaking out Wednesday morning on Fox News.
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Their blood, our blood is all over their hands.
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Why did they think that that roof didn't need covered?
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Do you think Thomas Crooks did this all by himself?
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I do believe, I mean, kids can do those things when they're mentally not right.
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The Secret Service, Homeland Security, both chambers of Congress, all releasing scathing
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reports on the catastrophic failures of the Secret Service leading up to that moment,
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outlining communication breakdowns, insufficient manpower, and unclear coordination.
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Then-Secret Service Director Kim Cheadle resigning 10 days after the shooting,
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one day after a House hearing in which she called the incident, quote,
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the most significant operational failure in decades.
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On Wednesday evening, for the first time, Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn
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confirming six agents have been suspended over the failures of that day.
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CBS News reporting the penalties ranging from 10 to 42 days of leave without pay or benefits.
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Quinn, handpicked by Trump-appointed Secret Service Director Sean Curran, telling CBS, quote,
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We're going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.
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The answer is that Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler.
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Butler was an operational failure, and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again
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and executing our strategic plan to increase technology, to improve communications,
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to make sure our personnel are well-trained, equipped, and deployed.
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In a one-year-later update released on Thursday,
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the Secret Service announcing it is instituting sweeping reforms and emphasizing the importance
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However, Real Clear Politics national political correspondent Susan Crabtree reporting Thursday,
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quote, key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were working
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on the final walkthroughs before the rally were never disciplined but instead received big promotions.
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Going on to report that, quote, rank-and-file agents are incensed over the decision not to hold the
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supervisors accountable, further sinking already low morale, end quote.
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We reached out to Secret Service for a comment on this reporting.
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They referred us back to their one-year update.
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Democrat Congresswoman from Texas, Jasmine Crockett, not ruling out a Senate run after two new polls show
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her leading the pack in a hypothetical Democrat primary.
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In a poll first obtained by The Daily Caller, the National Republican Senatorial Committee,
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surveying 566 likely Democrat primary voters in Texas, finding Ms. Crockett leading with 35 percent
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support, followed by former NFL player Colin Allred, who just lost a race for Senator Ted Cruz's seat
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Perpetual election loser Beto O'Rourke tying Congressman Joaquin Castro for third place at 13 percent.
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Republican Senator John Cornyn currently occupying the seat is up for re-election in November 2026.
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A University of Texas at Tyler poll released last month asking Texas Democratic voters
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Congresswoman Crockett leading with 30 percent.
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Many on the left viewing Congresswoman Crockett as a rising star within the Democrat Party
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since taking office in 2023, quickly becoming known for her fiery rhetoric and
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You randomly kidnapping folk and you throwing them out of the country
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against their civil rights, against their constitutional rights.
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If there's anyone that I am concerned about their mental acuity, it is the current occupant.
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Violence doesn't come from Democrats, just to be clear.
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I mean, obviously anyone can be a criminal, but it is MAGA.
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Instead of publicly calling us the N-word, they use racist epithets and suggest that we're ghetto
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Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there.
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That last reference to wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
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She claimed the nickname was due to him bussing migrants out of the state.
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In the upcoming election, Democrats aiming to flip a seat held by Republicans since 1961.
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Congresswoman Crockett on Wednesday on Instagram reacting to speculation on whether she may run.
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There have been a lot of questions about what's going to happen in the Senate race in Texas.
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There have been two different polls that have come out that have somehow thrown my name into them.
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And one of them was released today that the Republicans put into the field, the Republican Senate Committee, allegedly.
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And allegedly, it has me as topping the field for the Senate.
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Listen, I have been so busy in the House, because that's where I am.
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Depending on how many people reach out, we'll determine if there's something to actually consider.
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But as of now, I am proudly serving Texas' 30th Congressional District.
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And if there is a change of heart at any point in time on my end, it will only be because I truly believe that we collectively can get this done.
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It means traversing a very, very, very large state.
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It means connecting and meeting people where they are in a very short amount of time.
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Blaze TV host Stu Bergeer posting on X, quote, there's nobody better.
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Coming up, a look at the factors leading to Vice President Kamala Harris's gut decision to choose Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
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A new book lifting the curtain on Vice President Kamala Harris's disastrous decision to choose Minnesota Governor Tim Walls as her 2024 running mate.
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Ms. Harris in September describing the selection process on MSNBC.
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And you are running for a job that takes extraordinary instinct and guts.
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What's the last time you were to make a gut decision?
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Probably the biggest gut decision I've made most recently is to choose my running mate.
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There were lots of good, incredible candidates.
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And ultimately, that came down to a gut decision.
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Journalists Josh Dossie, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf revealing the details behind that ill-fated gut decision in their new book,
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2024, How Trump Retook the White House and Democrats Lost America.
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The final three candidates reportedly Governor Walls, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro,
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and U.S. Senator from Arizona and former astronaut Mark Kelly.
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The Harris campaign prioritizing appeal to rural voters in the decision,
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inviting the final three candidates to Vice President Harris's residence for final interviews.
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According to the book, when asked what they would like to drink,
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Senator Kelly and Governor Shapiro selecting water.
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This was reportedly a deciding factor in who should be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
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As Governor Shapiro reportedly pushed VP Harris on what his role was going to look like,
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Governor Walls reportedly offering up reasons why he should not be selected.
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In his interview that Friday, he said he had never used a teleprompter before.
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I would understand if you went with somebody else because
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I'm really nervous about the debate and I don't think I'll do well.
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Still, the vetting team did not fully appreciate his tendency to
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his folksiness sometimes tipping into factual imprecision.
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You mean his lies about his alleged time in combat where he never was or that time he was
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allegedly in China for the Tiananmen Square massacre?
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Governor Walls ultimately offering up a dismal debate performance against then-Senator J.D.
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Vance looking like a deer in the headlights, stumbling on policy and delivering this bizarre
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Governor, you previously opposed an assault weapons ban, but it's only later in your political
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Yeah, I sat in that office with those Sandy Hook parents.
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Look, the NRA, I was an NRA guy for a long time.
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I'm of an age where my shotgun was in my car so I could pheasant hunt after football practice.
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When I was a kid growing up in Nebraska, being gay was illegal.
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Look, we get to turn the page on that, and I plan on waking up on November 6th with Madam
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I've tried to do the best I can, but I've not been perfect, and I'm a knucklehead at
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Governor Walls also spending much of the short-lived campaign defending his many past controversies
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The Kamala Harris-Tim Walls ticket ultimately losing every single battleground state and
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the presidency, despite nearly $2 billion in total spending and gushing coverage by everyone
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