Dem Elite Anoint Kamala, and Secret Service Director Finally Resigns, with Sen. Josh Hawley, Charlie Spiering, and Mike Baker | Ep. 845
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Ten days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, and hours after one of the most disastrous hearings ever held on Capitol Hill, the Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheadle has resigned. Megyn explains why, and why now.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
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What exactly is the condition of the President of the United States?
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It has been nearly a week since President Joe Biden was seen in public.
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Since then, he has dropped out of the presidential race via a bizarre letter
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that someone posted to his ex-account, we are told he will emerge from his Delaware home
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and return to the White House at some point this afternoon.
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He's expected now, just announcing, to address the nation tomorrow night from the Oval Office.
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Will that be live or on tape? We'll follow it and bring it to you.
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Plus, 10 days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump,
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and hours after one of the most disastrous, maybe the most disastrous,
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hearing ever held on Capitol Hill, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheadle has resigned.
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I mean, her forced resignation was even more strong-armed than Joe Biden's from his second
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campaign. I mean, both of them had to be forced out under pain of God knows what.
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Both Democrats and Republicans, she united them all. I mean, she's kind of a miracle worker if you
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think about it. She appeared before the House Oversight Committee yesterday, declining to answer
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virtually any of the very basic questions from lawmakers, like how many agents were protecting
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Mr. Trump? Who decided the security perimeters? Why weren't Secret Service agents aware of the threat
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until seconds before the gunfire started? She was, as I mentioned, pummeled by both sides.
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Mr. Director Cheadle's leadership, we question whether anyone is safe. Not President Biden,
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not the First Lady, not the White House, and certainly not the presidential candidates.
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Because Donald Trump is alive, and thank God he is, you look incompetent.
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If Donald Trump had been killed, you would have looked culpable.
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At this point, and I think that the director has lost the confidence of Congress.
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You're full of shit today. You're just being completely dishonest.
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Do you really, genuinely, in your heart, believe that you being in this role
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I believe your horrifying ineptitude, and your lack of skilled leadership is a disgrace,
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and you should be fired immediately, and go back to Garden Doritos. Mr. Chairman, I'll yield back.
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She did a stint doing private security for Pepsi, hence the reference there.
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So she's out. But what now? Does that resolve it? Are we good now on the Secret Service and the
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attempted assassination that took a man's life and almost took the life of our president,
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our former president, Donald Trump? My first guest today has been talking to whistleblowers
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in this investigation, who say law enforcement was stationed on the roof on which the shooter
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Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri joins me now. Senator, great to see you again.
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Yeah, it's absolutely insane, Megan. It's insane. Here's with the whistleblowers,
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the latest whistleblowers. We've had a number of them come forward to my office. Here's what the
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latest said just yesterday, that in fact, law enforcement had designated at least one individual,
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maybe more, but at least one, whose job it was to be on the roof, not in the vicinity,
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not around, on the roof. And this person, I don't know if it was a he or a she, but this person,
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according to the whistleblower, decided, oh, it's awfully hot that day. And so they abandoned their post,
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never went back to the roof. And that is why the roof was left wide open. It wasn't because of the
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slope, contrary to what the former Secret Service director said. No, it was because
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this law enforcement individual just didn't want to be on there. But Megan, there's more.
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Whistleblowers also tell me that law enforcement were supposed to be patrolling the perimeter of
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that same building. I've been there, Megan. I've seen it myself. I went last week.
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It took my own team because I don't trust any of these people to give us the truth.
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It's American Glass Research building number six. Megan, it's a low roof. You've seen it. We've all
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seen it now in pictures. It's a low slung building. There was supposed to be law enforcement patrolling
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the perimeter. They weren't doing it either. Instead, because of the heat again, whistleblowers
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tell me that law enforcement went inside the building. So you got the roof abandoned. You got law
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enforcement inside the building in the air conditioning, and you have the building essentially
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open. Megan, sometimes it's hard to see from the pictures, but I can tell you having been there,
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there are air conditioning units, really large air conditioning units on either side of that
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building. It's easy to get on that roof. I mean, it really is. It's a single story. Any able-bodied
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individual could hop up on the air conditioning unit and hop up right onto the roof. You wouldn't even
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need a ladder. If you had a ladder, it would be super easy. Any 20-year-old kid, which is what the
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shooter was, who he was, could certainly do it. Law enforcement, according to whistleblowers, Megan,
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left the building totally, totally defenseless. Oh, this is awful. When we say law enforcement,
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do we mean local law enforcement as distinct from Secret Service?
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Yes. So this is, the whistleblower said to me that Secret Service had asked local and or state
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law enforcement to handle this and that they failed to do so. Now, I will just note, Megan,
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that there's a lot behind the scenes here and not so behind the scenes in public. There's a lot of
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attempts at blame shifting, and I'm even getting it from whistleblowers. We've got whistleblowers from
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Secret Service World who are coming forward and saying, it's the locals' fault. And then I've
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spoken to local law enforcement whistleblowers that don't blame us. It's the Secret Service's fault.
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The Secret Service didn't even show up the way they were supposed to for the walkthrough plan with
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local law enforcement. So it is unclear to me. This is why we need the facts. This is ridiculous. You've got
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law enforcement on both sides pointing the fingers at each other. You've got a former
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Secret Service director who would take no responsibility. But bottom line is this,
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somebody was supposed to be on that roof. Somebody was supposed to be guarding that building.
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Nobody did either. So the local law enforcement is delegated this task and Secret Service,
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for some reason, put it outside the perimeter of the responsible area that Secret Service would have
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to look after. And then it seems like they washed their hands of it. I mean, we had a former
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Secret Service guy on the show a couple of days ago who was saying it doesn't matter whether it
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was inside or outside the perimeter. Ultimately, it is the Secret Service's responsibility. And if
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you're going to delegate it to local law enforcement, it's still your responsibility to make sure that
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it's well protected. That plus the fact that we know Kim Cheadle lied about the reason they weren't
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up there was a sloped roof isn't safe. Tells me they're running scared. They know it was on them.
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And then we get her performance yesterday, which, yes, ultimately led to her being forced out over
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her strong objection. But why wouldn't she give any names? I realize there's probably going to be
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a public pylon when we figure out who put the area outside of the, you know, Secret Service
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perimeter and so on. But that them's the facts like that's life. So why can't we get actual specifics?
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Well, we need actual specifics. And the reason I think is, is that there doesn't want nobody wants
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to be responsible for anything. Secret Service doesn't want to be responsible. DHS doesn't want
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to be responsible. Let me highlight something else that a whistleblower has told me, Megan. And that is
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there were more DHS, Department of Homeland Security, more Homeland Security personnel there that day
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working the rally that day than Secret Service agents. And this is because Secret Service is so
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overstretched. They had so many other events going that they didn't have enough people to actually
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cover the rally. So the most of the majority, the preponderance, most of the agents there that day,
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the federal agents were from Homeland Security. They weren't prepared for this event. They were not ready
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to do their jobs. They were supposed to be doing things like using canines at the entrance to sweep
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people going through the crowd. They were supposed to be guarding the area around the platform. They were
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supposed to be coordinating with locals. And whistleblowers tell me they weren't doing any
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of these things. So Megan, we've got failure at every single level. I mean, every level you look
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at here, Secret Service wasn't coordinating this properly. Secret Service allowed Trump to go on
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stage. Secret Service didn't have the right plan in place. DHS was unprepared. They didn't know what
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they were doing. State and local law enforcement officials were just out there on their own,
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not sure what they were supposed to be doing, maybe not doing their job. I mean, it is every piece of
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this. It's a total disaster. The House oversight hearing yesterday saying that the officers
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involved at that particular facility were Butler Emergency Services. And God knows what their
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training was. Who knows whether they had the training or the experience to understand how to
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protect a former president who we knew was under threat or who they should have known was under threat.
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Um, so now you have Kim Cheadle forced out as a result of the embarrassing performance yesterday,
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in addition to the failures that kicked this whole thing off. And you've got Joe Biden's reaction as
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follows in a paper statement. Who knows whether this is really from him. She has selflessly dedicated
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and risked her life to protect our nation throughout her career in the U S Secret Service. We especially
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thank her for answering the call to lead the Secret Service during our administration. We're grateful
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for her service to our family as a leader. It takes honor, courage, and incredible integrity
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to take full responsibility for an organization tasked with one of the most challenging jobs in
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public service. And then they go on to say the independent review to get to the bottom of what
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happened on July 13th continues. And I look forward to assessing its conclusions. Um, that's pretty
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remarkable. He does not come anywhere near throwing her under the bus. I don't know that this gets it done,
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Senator. What do you think? No, it doesn't. I mean, and by the way, she did none of those things,
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the things he just said in his, in his statement there on our service, uh, you know, responsibility.
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She didn't take any responsibility. We all watched the hearing. And by the way, she had briefed senators
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before that hearing five days ago. Now, six days ago, she briefed senators in a closed door briefing.
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Megan, she was exactly in that briefing as she was yesterday. She was unprepared. She was ill-informed
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and she was totally unwilling, totally unwilling to take any responsibility. She didn't know basic
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facts six days ago. She didn't know basic facts yesterday. If the president really wanted to show
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some leadership, he should have fired her. He should have said, this is totally unacceptable.
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I never should have appointed you. You're fired. But of course, this guy won't fire anybody. I mean,
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let's think back to Afghanistan where we lost 13 brave service members and hundreds of American
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civilians left behind to the enemy. Who did he fire after that? Nobody, nobody, no accountability.
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Here we have an American president shot, another good American killed, multiple others, critically
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wounded. Nobody will take any responsibility. It's a, it is a sickness in this administration.
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And when she got up there yesterday, it seemed clear she had things she wanted to hide.
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There was just one example. I mean, we can go through more of them, but there was the example of
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how the secret service lied on the record about denying president Trump's requests for additional
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security. I mean, my own suspicion is they thought it was a vanity play. They thought maybe he was just
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self-aggrandizing. I don't know. That's my speculation, but they did repeatedly deny him additional resources
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for protection. And now we know, of course he did have reason to fear for his life and they denied it
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on the record, both when, uh, Dan Bongino alleged it, when Susan Crabtree of real clear politics alleged it.
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Uh, and then they were pressed, uh, director Cheadle was pressed yesterday on the fact that she signed
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off on those lies that she would have had to approve her spokesperson, Anthony Guglielmi, uh,
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in the lies that he told. And here was a bit of that exchange with, uh, Florida representative Mike
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Waltz in SOT 24. Did you sign off on that spokesman statement? The spokesman statement,
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I believe was related to requests that were made. Did you sign off on it for the requests that were made
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at the rally? Did you sign off on the statement before it went out? I sign off on my press spokesman
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state before they go out. I would hope you would in the wake of an assassination attempt. Yes, you did
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categorically false that any requests were made. You signed off on it. Thank you for that. Uh,
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thank you for that clarity. So here's the thing, Senator, what that tells me is that even in the
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wake of an assassination attempt in which a man died, she's not even at best, she was an error,
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right? So she's not even checking her facts and being careful in the messaging around something as
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critical as whether they denied Trump's requests or not, which seems like just a massive political
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CYA effort by Kim Cheadle and those who work for her. Yeah, a hundred percent. You take the words
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right out of my mouth. That's exactly what this is. That's what I thought when I first heard her
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briefed senators a week ago. And, uh, listen, the other person, Megan, who is the big liar here and
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has lied in public repeatedly is Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas, remember, went on, I believe the Sunday
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morning talk shows and said, Oh, actually we had beefed up Trump's security. We had given him even
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more than he requested. There was a threat from Iran and therefore we had, we'd given even more and
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we were, we were tracking this. That's all false. That is just not true. They did not give them the
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security they requested. His security was not beefed up. That's just an out and out lie. And
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by the way, Mayorkas head of DHS, he should be on the hook here too. He was overseeing this entire
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operation so far. He hasn't even appeared before Congress, let alone taking responsibility.
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So this guy's basically got control, control in quotes of the border and of the secret service.
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And it's not going very well. When is he getting hauled before Congress?
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Yeah. Hopefully soon, hopefully next week, the Senate is going to hold hearings on this next week.
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And Alejandro Mayorkas had better be there. It's the committee on Homeland Security. I sit on that
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committee. He had better be there under oath because sure, Cheadle's the director of the
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secret service. She deserves to go. He's in charge though. I emphasize Mayorkas of the whole operation.
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He oversees the whole thing, the secret service agents who were there. That's his brief,
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the DHS detailees who were there at the rally. And I'm told now by whistleblowers that DHS personnel
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are often getting assigned to these events. He oversees them as well. The whole thing is his
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responsibility. And Megan, he has lied and lied and lied. And you're right. Best before we even
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get to the border where he lies for a living. This guy is bad news. He's already been impeached by the
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House. He should have been removed by the Senate. The Democrats didn't even hold a trial.
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Now we can see what a mistake that was. On his watch, 9, 10 million illegals have come into this
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country. And an American president has suffered an assassination attempt. This guy's got to go.
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What we've seen is that he's not keeping us safe. He didn't keep Trump safe. He didn't keep this poor
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fire chief safe who got killed at the Trump rally, Compertory. The two people who were shot,
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he didn't keep the border safe and the women who have been killed and raped and the men as well,
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who are the victims. He didn't keep the people who got the fentanyl into their veins as a result of
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the border situation. I mean, this guy is he should not be in a position of protecting us.
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That's obvious with Mayorkas. Here's the other question I have for you, though, because she
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deferred yesterday, Kim Cheadle, many times to the FBI. Well, the FBI, this, the FBI, that. And we
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already know there are a lot of questions about the FBI. Many Americans don't trust the FBI at this
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point, given their role in Russiagate and all that nonsense. She knew answers, according to her,
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that she'd been given by the FBI, which she says is investigating. Meanwhile, it's her,
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it's her service. It's these are her employees, but she's claiming to get the info from the FBI
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and she wouldn't give it up as though there's some sort of attorney client privilege between the
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secret service director and the FBI, which there isn't. Let me show you this exchange and ask what's
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next for the FBI piece of this probe. Sock 28. Have you been in communication with the FBI?
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Yes, I have. With whom? I speak with the director and the deputy director. Okay. Did they share with
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you how many shell casings were on the roof? They have shared with me. Did they share with you
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how many shell casings were on the roof? Yes. Okay. How many were there? I would refer to the FBI for
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how many were there and their information that they need to share in their investigation. So they've
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shared the information with you. You just don't want to share the information with us. Correct. If
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you're supposed to be in charge, if the buck stops with you, how come you can't share the answers?
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What are you covering up? What are you hiding, my friend?
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I'm not covering anything. Then why can't you answer a simple question?
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Okay. So what happens to her now? Does she just go off quietly into the night? And then the second
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piece of it is what happens with the FBI? Like why do they have sole knowledge of what's happening in
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this investigation? Well, Megan, I can tell you as to the FBI, one of the reasons I went to the site
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myself last week is because I don't trust them to do anything. And I will tell you when I got there
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to Butler, to the site, the FBI tried to run me off as quick as they possibly could. When I went to
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that building that we've been talking about, the American glass research building, the FBI came out
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onto the property. By the way, I had been given permission by local security to be there. The folks
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who have authority over the building, FBI comes out, Megan, and tells me I have to leave. And I
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said, excuse me? I mean, what authority do you have to tell me that I have to leave? And they said,
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oh, we're doing an investigation. We'll give you the report later, but you can't be here. You have
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to go. That told me a lot right there, which is they want to control the information flow, Megan.
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They want to control the facts and the details here. And you saw it yesterday. You saw this,
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looks like an agreement between the Secret Service and the FBI to try to punt this and let the FBI
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control all of the information, let them control when they release it and let them control the
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narrative. They don't have the authority to do that, Megan. And we should not allow them. We should
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not acquiesce to that at all. Listen, if they want to do an investigation, that's fine. But that should
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not be the end of the inquiry for the American people. And the FBI director, he needs to come to
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Congress. He needs to be under oath. He needs to answer questions. Yes. My team telling me, because
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the local law enforcement and state police commissioner, they're on the hot seat this
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afternoon. State police commissioner just said during the hearing, he believes that eight casings
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were found on top of that roof. And that means that would mean that eight shots were fired by the
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shooter in this case. It's interesting to me, the FBI tried to run you off. They messed with the
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wrong senator. Not only did they not understand, apparently, you're a United States senator, but you have
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long history in your own branch of law enforcement as the former attorney general for your state
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chief clerk for Roberts, Roberts, right? On the U.S. Supreme Court. I always forget who you're.
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Yeah, exactly. So wrong guy. So speaking of your legal background, let me ask you about another person
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who's got a toe in the legal world, and that is Kamala Harris. She rose to fame as the attorney general
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for the state of California prior to that DA for San Francisco. And now she is obviously going to be
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the Democrats choice for president. Um, I wonder what you think of the attempt to remake Kamala
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Harris, to take all of the awkward moments we've seen multiple times and rebrand them as she's the
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fun quote, wine aunt. She's just a little quote, goofy, like in a cool way that the kids are going to
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relate to. And the same people who took her sort of tough on crime years as San Francisco DA and use
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it against her, right? When she was seeking higher office. Now we're looking at her as having called,
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you know, Jacob Blake, some sort of a hero as having done fundraising for BLM arrestees who are
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in jail. I'm looking at all of it over the past couple of days. I'm left asking myself, who is
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Kamala Harris? You know, if I had her record, if I had let 10 million illegals across the border,
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which she did as borders are, if I had her record on crime, if I had her record as a United States
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Senator, uh, if I had her positions wanting to shut down oil and gas production in this country,
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wanting to shut down American energy, wanting to make us dependent on China. Yeah. I try to rebrand
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too. I mean, I would rush to rebrand, which is what she's doing. Listen, here's the thing that
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really gets me though. I don't think it matters who the puppet is at the head of the Democrat ticket.
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It looks like it is going to be Kamala, but the truth is we all know who's really in charge.
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It's the same people who chose Joe. They're the same people who are choosing Kamala and you can
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see it. We've all seen it on display the last few weeks. It's wall street. It's the biggest
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corporations and it's Hollywood. They're the ones who selected Joe. They're the ones who shoved Joe
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out when he wasn't useful to them anymore. And now they're the ones anointing Kamala. Look at her
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kitchen cabinet. It is full of those people. This has been widely reported. They are going to pull the
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strings and a Kamala Harris administration. So I think the choice is going to be really simple.
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Do you want somebody who actually was chosen by voters, Donald Trump? Do you want somebody who
00:22:30.180
actually will work for voters, Donald Trump, and somebody who's beholden to nobody? Listen,
00:22:34.920
I know some people out there, they don't like Trump, but what you can't argue with is he's not beholden
00:22:39.120
to anybody. I mean, who is Trump beholden to? What big donor is he in the pocket of? None.
00:22:44.960
So like him or hate him, he's his own guy, as he has made abundantly clear. Kamala Harris,
00:22:50.360
she's just at the mercy of the latest rebrand at the whim of these folks, the wealthiest people in
00:22:56.500
America, the most powerful people in America, the Democrat Party, power brokers. They're going to
00:23:01.540
totally control her. And it's going to be a choice between a strong independent executive
00:23:06.540
or a party puppet. That's an interesting point, because given the way that she's gotten this
00:23:11.840
nomination, or I mean, she hasn't gotten it yet, but of course she's on track. Who will she owe the
00:23:17.000
favors to? Who really would be in charge of Kamala Harris? Would it be an infeeble or incapable Joe
00:23:24.360
Biden? Would it be a Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer? Would she be her own person or
00:23:30.040
wouldn't she? Very interesting development today. Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to the United States.
00:23:34.740
He's supposed to meet with President Joe Biden, who canceled on him, allegedly, I guess because of
00:23:40.620
his illness, though he is going back to the White House, though it does not look like he
00:23:43.980
rescheduled the meeting. And Kamala Harris, rather than take a meeting with Netanyahu,
00:23:50.200
is skipping it because she's got to go to a meeting of her former sorority
00:23:58.700
out of state. Now, I will tell you, Senator Hawley, before getting ready for the show,
00:24:04.660
some of my gal pals down here at the shore said, do you want to meet and play some pickleball? And I said,
00:24:09.660
gee, that's something I would really like to do, but I have a job that I need to go do. So it's a no.
00:24:15.000
And now, why can't Kamala Harris go? Isn't it likely that this is an intentional snub?
00:24:22.320
Yeah, of course it is. And she's not going because her party base is full of radical pro-Hamas,
00:24:27.840
anti-Semitic people. I mean, let's just be honest. The people who crowded into those college campuses,
00:24:32.400
who occupied the buildings, who broke windows, lit fires, tore down statues,
00:24:36.540
waved the Hamas flag, who went after, not just insulted Jewish Americans. That is protected by
00:24:42.180
the First Amendment, though it may be despicable. No, these are the people who threatened Jewish
00:24:46.220
American students, who said death to Israel, who told Jewish American students they wouldn't be
00:24:51.560
safe, who assaulted them physically. These are all Democrats. I mean, these are the people
00:24:55.700
who Kamala is now trying to appeal to. So yeah, she's not going to meet with Bibi Netanyahu. She can't
00:25:00.840
afford to politically. And I tell you what, I'm sure you're following, Megan,
00:25:04.800
her own VP search now. And it's amazing to me to read the commentary on some of these folks,
00:25:10.120
including the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, who's Jewish. You've seen all this
00:25:14.000
commentary from Democrats saying, oh my gosh, you can't pick him. Why not? Oh, he's Jewish. I mean,
00:25:18.180
we can't have that. This is where we are in today's Democrat party. And by the way, that is the wing of
00:25:24.920
the party, if you like, that Kamala totally represents. I mean, that is where she comes from.
00:25:29.080
It's the radical progressives. These are the people out there with their Hamas flags,
00:25:33.640
out there chanting death to Israel. And that's what she's going to bring. You want to know the
00:25:38.960
kind of energy she'd bring to the White House? There it is right there. Meantime, Joe Biden is
00:25:44.260
returning to the White House, we believe any moment from Delaware. We haven't seen him in almost a
00:25:49.040
week. We have no idea what his state is, physical or mental. He did call into a Kamala Harris
00:25:58.680
announcement yesterday. It was her first public appearance as the presumptive, I guess we can say,
00:26:03.560
nominee and sounded OK, not terrible. It didn't sound well. And yet he still hasn't made his actual
00:26:13.680
I'm withdrawing announcement on camera. She got to the cameras before he did. We're hearing tomorrow
00:26:18.980
night. He'll make this primetime address. Again, I don't know whether it's live or on tape. And it just
00:26:24.520
hit via Washington Post that he's rescheduled his meeting with Netanyahu for Thursday afternoon,
00:26:29.940
allegedly. So what do you understand to be the state of wellness when it comes to our president?
00:26:35.720
And what do you think the likelihood is this guy makes it straight through to January?
00:26:40.800
Seems to me, Megan, we're basically without a president right now. I mean, as you said,
00:26:44.440
he hasn't been seen in public in a week. He's not meeting with foreign leaders. He is not carrying
00:26:49.120
out his duties. He delegated last night, he delegated a whole bunch of duties to various cabinet
00:26:53.280
departments and agencies. I mean, this is crazy, crazy, crazy stuff. And what you can see is the
00:26:59.020
Democrats, they don't care about any of that. They just want to offload Joe Biden, the political
00:27:02.780
liability, the fact that he is not fit to run this country, the fact that America, as we sit here now,
00:27:08.880
is essentially without a chief executive. They don't care. What are they doing? They're busy.
00:27:13.760
Kamala's off in campaign mode. If she were serious, she would be saying, listen,
00:27:18.660
Joe needs to step down. We need a president in office. He is not capable of the job. But none
00:27:24.640
of them are saying that, Megan, not a one of them. And that's because it's all politics to them,
00:27:28.620
100 percent politics. And if that means that the country is adrift and unsafe, I mean,
00:27:33.660
who has the nuclear codes right now? What would happen if China invaded Taiwan right now? What
00:27:38.920
would happen if, heaven forbid, there were a strike on American forces or American civilians either at home
00:27:44.760
or somewhere around the world? I don't know the answer to that. I don't know who would be in
00:27:48.320
charge. Nobody knows who would be in charge. We just know it wouldn't be Biden. I mean, this is
00:27:52.360
an untenable position. What's scarier to you? What's scarier to you? That happens while Joe Biden is,
00:27:57.620
I don't know, out to lunch? Or it happens when we have a newly sworn in, very green President
00:28:04.080
Harris? Like over the next couple of months, I'm saying, if Biden gets 25th Amendment did or
00:28:08.360
something else. I think that both are disastrous options, to be honest with you. I mean,
00:28:13.200
it just shows you that this is where the Democrats have taken the country. And it's because they have
00:28:17.980
cared 100 percent about politics and not at all about the safety of America. You mentioned American
00:28:22.640
safety a few minutes ago. You're dead right. I mean, listen, our kids aren't safe in the streets.
00:28:29.300
Our rally goers aren't safe going to political events. You're not safe if you go to the grocery
00:28:35.900
store, go to the bus stop. You're not safe anywhere in this country for anything. And now,
00:28:40.620
if you live overseas, if you're traveling, nobody's safe. And we don't even know who the
00:28:45.020
president is. Megan, I just think that this is in my adult lifetime, I got to think that this is the
00:28:49.580
most dangerous moment for America because we are surrounded by threats and dangers at home and
00:28:54.880
abroad. And we don't have anybody, anybody who is in charge of this country. And of course,
00:29:00.160
our Constitution gives a lot of power to the executive. And right now, the lights are out.
00:29:04.000
Nobody's at home. About a week ago, before he withdrew, Joe Biden, in what felt like a desperate
00:29:10.200
move to save himself, announced that he was going to be making major announcements for reform of the
00:29:15.640
U.S. Supreme Court, that he wanted to introduce term limits. And of course, no federal judge is
00:29:21.120
subject to a term limit. It's a lifetime appointment that he wanted to introduce a mandatory ethics code.
00:29:26.420
This is, of course, about the controversy that they've generated around Justice Thomas and the
00:29:32.900
fake controversy around Justice Alito as well. So do you think there's any chance of those things
00:29:38.280
actually happening? If the Democrats were to win control of the Senate or hold control of the
00:29:44.780
Senate? Yeah, I think that they would. I mean, this is this is the real danger here, Megan. If the
00:29:48.980
Democrats have become radicalized, if they maintain a majority in the United States Senate and they
00:29:53.820
elect a Democrat president, Kamala Harris, I think they will eliminate the filibuster. And I think they
00:29:59.000
will do whatever they can legislatively. You know, they can't do a term limits that would require a
00:30:04.160
constitutional amendment, but they could absolutely make all kinds of changes. They could cut the
00:30:08.720
justices salaries. They could interfere in the in the independence of the of the Supreme Court. They
00:30:13.060
could change the number of justices, pack the court. They could do all that by legislation. And I think
00:30:16.780
they absolutely will. These people are nuts. And just what you described a second ago, that so-called
00:30:21.720
agenda. Let's be clear about what this is. This is a deliberate attempt to destroy the independence
00:30:27.920
of an independent branch of government, a deliberate attempt to destroy the independent judiciary because
00:30:33.040
they don't like the judiciary. They don't like the independence in any institution, Megan, that stands
00:30:38.340
in the way of the Democrats agenda. They just burn it down. They just bulldoze it. And that's what they
00:30:43.240
want to do down to the Supreme Court. And what's really scary is their bases out there cheering them on
00:30:47.160
and saying, absolutely, go take on the court, go bulldoze the court, go destroy the court. For those of us
00:30:54.280
who believe in the rule of law, my gosh, this is the time to say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's
00:30:59.220
protect America here. She's on camera saying she is in favor of eliminating the filibuster. And that's
00:31:07.360
because she wants to get through the Green New Deal, which, you know, according to her plan, she's
00:31:11.880
one of the co-sponsors. We'll get rid of our airplanes and our cars and our cows. So she wants to get rid
00:31:19.620
of the filibuster just for that. Never mind what they would do to the court if she actually managed that
00:31:23.400
in some sort of electoral landslide, which at this point, let's face it, does not look likely.
00:31:27.720
Senator, great to see you. Thanks so much for coming on. Thank you. Josh Hawley of Missouri,
00:31:32.700
everybody. When we come back, a deep dive into Vice President, possibly President Kamala Harris.
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Kamala Harris is now on track to become the next Democratic nominee for president. And they did it
00:32:56.460
just like this. It's so fun when you have a magic wand and your name is Nancy Pelosi. You can make
00:33:00.660
people like the presidential candidate. It's awesome. The voters are so annoying. It's like amazing to me
00:33:08.600
that we've all just moved on from the fact that really they've just seized the Democratic nomination.
00:33:13.480
They've given it to Kamala Harris. Not a single voter has voted for this woman to be the presidential
00:33:19.160
candidate on the Democratic ticket. And they're all like, okay, I guess we're not allowed to challenge
00:33:24.740
the black lady. That's how it works. Like that's a that's a no in the Democratic parties. We have to
00:33:29.560
keep our mouths shut. Even though if you look at the polls, this is not the best person to take on
00:33:33.780
Trump. I mean, if you're a Trump fan, you're thrilled, I guess. You know, it's like short of
00:33:37.220
Biden. Sure. They'll take Kamala. But if you're an actual Democrat who wants to win, is this the
00:33:42.080
horse you want to bet on? But they're all just going along with it because they need unity because
00:33:46.840
the Republican Party's unified. This is some sort of bullshit. But OK, you know what? It's your problem.
00:33:52.720
I'm not voting Democrat. So you work it out over on your side. It's going to be fun to watch.
00:33:57.500
She's not doing well. We'll get to the polls in just a bit. But the media is so thrilled that they got
00:34:03.580
rid of the elderly, infirm man who they were defending, saying all those videos showing him
00:34:08.120
looking bad were just cheap fakes two weeks ago that they have magically now forgotten all about
00:34:14.800
who she is. She's got to be the second coming. You see, she's got to be the one who unifies the
00:34:19.060
party. She's got to be reinvented. She's not awkward. She's wine aunt, which, by the way,
00:34:23.700
how is that a thing that's good? I wouldn't want to be known as wine aunt. That's not a plus.
00:34:29.960
It's not a good rebranding. Instead, they have been jumping out of their seats in excitement
00:34:37.020
and praising the little twinkle in her eye. Watch.
00:34:42.000
I'm jumping out of my seat over here watching this. People have been thirsting for this.
00:34:48.240
And I'll just say this, you know, and I'm with Tim. I'm Tim. I'm jumping out of my seat higher than
00:34:55.620
It was a twinkle in her eye. It was a kick in her step that, you know, when you're vice
00:35:01.180
president, you know, I don't, you're not loose. You can't, you know, there's somebody above you.
00:35:05.300
There's somebody you don't want to overshadow them. And this was quite the coming out. And I
00:35:09.720
got chills when she said, Donald Trump, I know you're tight. I was blown away. I was like,
00:35:15.360
I kind of fell in love with her. I thought she was smart, engaging. She's funny, feisty,
00:35:21.080
twinkle in your eye, punch you in the gut. I mean, everything you kind of want. And I just
00:35:26.200
thought it was a great, great opening act. She looked completely comfortable tonight
00:35:30.160
with, uh, the, with the words she was speaking. They felt organic, uh, and, and genuine.
00:35:36.580
Look completely comfortable with the words she was speaking. Well, that's, that's a win
00:35:40.360
and wokeness on X. Put that together. Great account to follow. Well, we have not forgotten who
00:35:44.980
Kamala really is and neither has Charlie Spearing. He's author of amateur hour Kamala Harris in the
00:35:50.660
white house. We had him back on the show in January, episode seven Oh five. If you want to
00:35:55.460
go for the full deep dive, it was his first interview about the book. Uh, and we have him
00:36:00.320
back today for obvious reasons, Charlie, welcome back. So the problem with Kamala Harris, not resonating
00:36:06.260
with voters is when you're vice president, you're not loose, you know, but now she can be loose and
00:36:14.380
her full, wonderful, able to connect self. What do you make of that?
00:36:20.440
That's right, Megan. Well, I hated to interrupt my heavy research into what the true meaning of
00:36:25.520
brat means because that's what cable news hosts are grappling with right now. Kamala Harris is a
00:36:31.240
brat. According to Gen Z, it's all over the internet and she's completely remaking herself as you just
00:36:36.880
described as a wine mom. It's a familiar thing. It's Saturday night live famously during her
00:36:43.060
presidential primary, tried to describe her as the cool aunt Kamala Harris. So here we go.
00:36:50.180
The total, the final wine mom is fun. And you actually do want to sit down and have a drink
00:36:55.060
with her. Kamala Harris is a bully who's pushed out or made life intolerable for virtually every
00:37:02.480
person who's come to work for her in the white house. She's the Megan Markle of the administration.
00:37:07.680
She, people can't work for her. She's a nightmare. So how does, like, we're going to be hearing more
00:37:14.980
about the mass staff exodus that we've seen under her tenure. Are we not?
00:37:20.980
That's right, Megan. Actually, I'm working on a story right now. The story I'm really working on
00:37:25.240
is the massive shift in her original campaign staff. There's only about four people left from
00:37:32.840
her original campaign staff in 2021. It's been a complete blender, not a, not revolving door
00:37:39.300
anymore. It's like a blender and staffers have been fleeting in droves. You know, they, they remind,
00:37:44.940
they recall her as being a bully, uh, and someone who is mean, mean spirited, um, making all kinds of
00:37:51.980
comments about, you know, how they appear, how they look, their love life. And that's, that's the kind
00:37:57.440
of behavior that former count Kamala Harris staffs remind or reminded of. And that's why there's not
00:38:04.380
exactly a massive line of people trying to jump in and go work for her again.
00:38:10.760
I mean, that's obviously going to become relevant how she treats people. Uh, she's not wine mom.
00:38:16.280
She's like the nasty mom who doesn't get invited to the events because no one wants to be around her
00:38:20.140
because she's got a bad demeanor behind the scenes. Now the, that comment we were making fun of is that
00:38:25.220
when you're, when you're vice president, you can't be loose, forgive me. But speaking of loose,
00:38:29.400
it is fair game to go back and talk about her behavior in her ascent into politics. We touched
00:38:37.280
on this a bit yesterday and I will not be shamed out of discussing this by people who say it's
00:38:42.360
slut shaming or it's not relevant. It is relevant when a young candidate tries to sleep her way into
00:38:48.940
politics and into power. And that is what it appears Kamala Harris did when she was a young
00:38:54.560
political aspirant in San Francisco. When she had an affair with a man 30 years older than she was,
00:39:02.680
she was 29 to 30 and he was 60. Willie Brown, who was like the godfather of San Francisco politics
00:39:10.420
and very well known. And sure enough, that relationship paid dividends for her in more ways than one.
00:39:18.220
That's right, Megan. As you noted yesterday, it's, it's completely fair game to talk about
00:39:24.820
Willie Brown. It's how Kamala Harris went from a relatively unknown Almeda County prosecutor
00:39:29.460
to the forefront of San Francisco social life and politics. It, it, Willie Brown was the most
00:39:36.520
powerful politician in California when Kamala Harris started dating her, dating him. And she,
00:39:42.860
he also gave her a number of positions and we're talking about $400,000 back in night in the 1990s.
00:39:49.200
That's almost 800,000 in today's money. He appointed her to those positions that paid her lucratively.
00:39:55.720
He gave her the keys to a BMW and he went around the most powerful and most wealthy circles of,
00:40:03.540
of San Francisco and California politics with Kamala Harris on, on his arm, opening up the doors to her,
00:40:10.200
her, uh, you know, professional and political future.
00:40:14.740
So it was back when, again, she was 30 years old. He was at the time, democratic speaker of the
00:40:20.780
California state assembly quoting here from a Washington examiner piece, which, uh, is very
00:40:25.400
good. Uh, the position that he gave her on the California medical assistance commission in 1994
00:40:32.340
paid at that time over $70,000 a year, which is about 120,000 in current money. And she served on the
00:40:39.100
board until 1998. So about four years that medical commission met twice a month. So for two meetings
00:40:50.760
a month, she was getting the equivalent of $120,000. And you know why Democrats in San Francisco were mad
00:40:58.760
about it. It wasn't because she wasn't qualified, which she wasn't. It was because those positions
00:41:03.420
are supposed to be saved for only the most prized Democrats who Willie Brown really owed favors to
00:41:10.800
who did really, you know, amazing things to keep Willie Brown in power. But instead he gave one to
00:41:18.060
his lover. He was by the way, still married though. He was reportedly estranged from his wife for a long
00:41:23.220
time. So, but she, what this was technically an extramarital relationship. And they were mad that
00:41:29.100
he gave one of his choice grifting positions, not to somebody who'd done a lot for democratic
00:41:34.020
politicians, but to Kamala Harris. And not just that there was another one. He gave her a second
00:41:38.920
position as well. Um, which was basically the same kind of deal where he just put, gave her up an
00:41:44.400
appointment. She reeked in tons of money and boom, Bob's your uncle. She was off to the races in dem
00:41:49.720
politics. And then Willie Brown is on record as saying, I also then helped her with her next big
00:41:54.120
position, which was becoming San Francisco DA. Right. When she ran for district attorney,
00:42:00.980
you know, they had broken up, um, Willie Brown, as soon as he ran and won the San Francisco mayor
00:42:07.840
election, um, he broke up with Kamala and then, you know, Kamala was there for the victory party.
00:42:14.400
But by the time he hit the inauguration hit his estranged wife reappeared to be holding the Bible
00:42:19.600
while he took the oath of office and Kamala was kind of pushed aside. Um, but you know,
00:42:24.980
Willie Brown didn't forget her when Kamala decided to run for district attorney of San Francisco. He
00:42:29.520
was there quietly nudging all of the, his wealthy donors and powerful connections to help her out
00:42:34.960
him and him and Terrence Holland on the existing, um, the existing district attorney were not friends
00:42:40.960
anymore. They had kind of had an ugly clash and Kamala Harris likewise tried to try to overthrow
00:42:47.740
Holland on second in command, but failed miserably. And so she ended up leaving the office to kind of
00:42:53.480
plot her revenge. So Willie Brown was definitely there behind the scenes, but Kamala Harris did as
00:42:59.640
much as she could before the election to distance herself from Willie Brown. Uh, at one point doing
00:43:05.880
a very long interview with, uh, San Francisco magazine, throwing him under the bus entirely saying
00:43:11.460
Willie Brown's career is over. He's done. Hello. My turn is here. It's Kamala Harris.
00:43:17.860
Sounds really familiar. Megan compared to what just happened last weekend.
00:43:22.920
Oh yeah. I mean the whole democratic party is going to be stepping all over Joe Biden momentarily.
00:43:27.760
He's going to get his weekend in the sun about what a lion he is. And then as soon as they realize
00:43:32.020
that they can blame everything on him and take it off of Kamala, that's what they're going to do.
00:43:37.260
He, every inflation number you've seen, it's all his fault. She didn't touch it. She was just a
00:43:42.320
lowly vice president. You know, what was she supposed to do? But talk to me a little bit about her
00:43:46.140
background because she rose or she rose in San Francisco and then California, right? As the
00:43:51.560
attorney general, and then became a U S Senator from California. All she's had to do is compete
00:43:56.580
for the most part. I know there's some exceptions against other liberals, right? Like has she ever
00:44:03.380
had to compete against a bull, you know, like Donald Trump, like the, the silverback gorilla,
00:44:09.720
like Donald Trump Republican versus Dem it's on. I realized that she ran as the vice president,
00:44:15.820
but she wasn't the chief, you know, it was, that was really Joe Biden's fight.
00:44:19.880
Well, the interesting race is when she ran against Steve Cooley for the attorney general position in
00:44:25.460
2010. Um, Cooley was, uh, you know, relatively sensible law and order Republican, um, from Los Angeles
00:44:32.800
and really the last, uh, meaningful Republican in California politics. And even it was a big year
00:44:39.560
for Democrats. They won by double digits for California, for California Democrats, but Kamala
00:44:46.820
Harris really struggled against Steve Cooley and barely etched out a victory. It's looked, it looked
00:44:52.420
like the night of the election that she had lost. And lo and behold, weeks later, they did recounts
00:44:57.980
and, and, um, recounted all the rest of the votes and she just barely squeaked off a victory. It was
00:45:03.440
really, it was really close. And you can definitely look at that campaign and, and see that, you know,
00:45:08.860
maybe she will be competitive in this race against Donald Trump as well, but it's hard to see that
00:45:14.260
happening. Some are now trying to excuse her awkwardness repeated and everywhere as she lost her
00:45:24.300
footing as vice president and didn't have the confidence required to really be herself, which
00:45:30.260
I guess is the secret version of charming. Um, is there anything in her past that would shed light
00:45:36.300
on what's true about her? Has she always been awkward like this with the weird laughing and the
00:45:41.960
inappropriate jokes and the, every time the failed attempts at profundity? Yeah. A lot of it's the
00:45:49.060
product of being a California politician, right? When you're a California Democrat, all you have to do
00:45:53.800
is impress the donors and press the, the political power brokers and kind of show up and demand a
00:46:00.000
seat at the table. Willie Brown taught her how to do that. So she didn't have some level of, of that
00:46:04.900
with the top donors, you know, but she never really connected with the California people. But as we've
00:46:10.700
shown earlier, you don't necessarily need to convince voters. You just need to convince the
00:46:15.020
democratic party and everything will fall in line for you pretty well. So what's that pattern
00:46:20.160
repeated itself? Sorry, keep going, Charlie. Yeah. And so she, the same thing happened when
00:46:26.820
she ran for Senate, you know, she was, she's a very good candidate. She's very disciplined. She
00:46:31.520
loves the, the sort of the knife fighting and the brawling. She's on the record saying she loves
00:46:36.420
California politics because it's a real fight. So she is a sort of a ruthless politician, a ruthless
00:46:42.200
campaigner, but after reaching, you know, after taking office, there's definitely a, a drop down.
00:46:48.620
Once you actually have to do the job, she never seemed to take it seriously and spent more time
00:46:53.740
planning for her next job. That's kind of what we saw in the first years, first three years of her
00:46:58.560
vice president. She, she really was risk averse, didn't seem to be interested in the job she had,
00:47:04.400
but more interested in protecting her own political brand for the future. And I think when you, when a
00:47:09.360
politician hits that stage, the early stage of actually having to do the job, I think that's when
00:47:15.020
they tend to lose their footing and stumble. And I think that's what Kamala Harris ended up looking
00:47:19.920
like. And that's why her staff kind of abandoned her because she wasn't serious about the office she
00:47:24.760
was holding. And she was more interested in preparing herself to run for president.
00:47:29.960
Yeah. The reports were that she would fail to read the briefing materials that she was given by the
00:47:36.040
staff. And then she would lash out at the staff for her not knowing information. And meanwhile,
00:47:41.840
she just refused to do her homework. And this wasn't in right-wing blogs that just hated Kamala
00:47:47.400
Harris. This was reported in, even in the mainstream about her terrible behavior as vice president,
00:47:53.300
but now, okay. So we're one day into her likely being the democratic nominee. She does this first
00:47:59.120
appearance yesterday and this line, this soundbite by now you've seen it. Our audience has heard it.
00:48:05.300
It's everywhere. The Democrats are like, you go girl because of this, it's sought for.
00:48:11.840
Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds.
00:48:19.600
Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for
00:48:43.020
their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type.
00:48:53.500
So a little preview, Charlie, of, as they've been saying about her, she's a lifetime prosecutor.
00:48:59.340
He's a criminal reviving and hoping that the lawfare argument will make her seem elevated. And I'm sure
00:49:06.280
she's going to go to the woman place too. Well, that's so funny because the people who are fake
00:49:11.920
laughing and cheering in that clip are literally campaign staffers who are paid to be there. So
00:49:16.060
that's why her work is so much of a pop. Also the whole, I'm a prosecutor ready to prosecute the
00:49:22.780
case against Donald Trump. That's the same line they used in her failed presidential campaign.
00:49:27.640
They rung that statement to death, really trying to make the case that she was this brilliant
00:49:32.640
lawfare person who could tackle, you know, tackle Trump and really bring him to justice.
00:49:38.720
She's failed miserably in her last campaign. They're really hoping they can reboot it and bring
00:49:42.740
it back. I even saw an op-ed, you know, maybe we need Kamala the cop in 2024. Wow. That would not
00:49:49.900
have gone over well in the last election. Why don't you explain why she bailed BLM protesters out
00:49:55.180
of jail, rioters out of jail? How did Kamala the cop handle that one? Stand by. Charlie stays with me.
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00:51:33.800
Charlie Spearing, author of Amateur Hour, the deep dive on Kamala Harris out earlier this year is back
00:51:38.560
with me. That was Kamala Harris years before the 2020 election predicting she was going to win
00:51:44.080
and be the president. You know, give her, give her a four years, I guess she'd say, and she will get
00:51:49.920
that old man right out of there and take over the top spot and then take on Donald Trump. Um, it's
00:51:55.560
just another version of Kamala Harris, her ambition and her cringiness. Ambition is fine. The cringiness
00:52:00.680
I could do without, um, Biden called in to Harris's appearance at what was his campaign headquarters,
00:52:11.340
uh, in Delaware yesterday. It was his, they had scrubbed his name. They already had Harris everywhere.
00:52:17.200
And this is the first we heard him address the fact that he has withdrawn as a candidate. Let's take a listen
00:52:24.160
to top one. I know yesterday's news is surprising and, uh, it's hard for you to hear, but it was the right
00:52:31.680
thing to do. It's, uh, I know it's hard because you poured your heart and soul into me to help us win this
00:52:38.860
thing. Help me get this nomination. Help me win the nomination and then go on to win the, win the presidency.
00:52:46.120
But, you know, you're an amazing team, but we've got a great, great, I think we made the right to say,
00:52:51.640
I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to be out there in the campaign with her, with Kamala. I'm going to
00:52:55.560
be working like hell, both as a sitting president, getting legislation passed as well as in campaigning.
00:53:03.060
You know, what we still need to save this democracy and Trump, Trump is still a danger to the
00:53:09.160
community. It's a danger to the nation. All right. And that was his, uh, campaign manager that you
00:53:15.240
could hear there. So didn't sound like he was knocking on death's door, uh, Charlie, but we'll
00:53:21.860
see him tomorrow, uh, when he gives an address from the Oval Office. Then there was a weirdness
00:53:28.920
where she spoke with him. People are saying, you know, she said, Joe, I know you're still on the
00:53:33.620
call and people are thinking maybe this was a recording, though. It did sound like it was live,
00:53:38.400
whatever. We're going to see for ourselves tomorrow night, how the man is, I think.
00:53:42.080
But then she went back to her baby talk. This is another problem with her
00:53:48.300
and her inability to project any sense of authority. Here's Sot 3.
00:53:55.080
Joe, are you watching? You hear this clapping? Can you see it?
00:54:05.160
Is that an ongoing problem with this woman? And what's responsible for this? Because
00:54:11.080
it's not only in the way she speaks to the president, it's in the way she explains
00:54:16.120
Ukraine or space or school buses or Venn diagrams. I could keep going.
00:54:24.200
That's right. She has a long list of, uh, awkward moments on camera when she's trying to be light
00:54:29.080
and fun and, you know, an attempt to connect with voters and sort of go viral, um, in a way that
00:54:35.540
is very reminiscent of the Obama era. Remember when all of, all of Obama's sort of off,
00:54:41.960
off camera moments or, you know, anything that was captured off, you know, cable, the official
00:54:47.120
videos, right. We're kind of spread, spread quickly on social media and became a sign of like true
00:54:53.340
authenticity. But Harris's moments, uh, go viral for all the wrong reasons. Right. And it's just,
00:54:59.640
it's so many, there's so many clips of painfully obvious, uh, attempts to, to sort of,
00:55:05.240
she's kind of speaks to audiences and very patronizing fashion. Um, and right. Even,
00:55:11.480
even speaking to the president of the United States in that way, you know, it's clearly not,
00:55:16.620
clearly not very authentic at this point, but definitely trying to sell it as hard as she can.
00:55:22.540
Yeah. My kids would call it a sweaty, try hard. She's a sweaty, you know, it's too much. You're
00:55:28.260
like, it's just too on the nose. Uh, this just breaking via the New York times, Chuck Schumer and
00:55:33.380
Hakeem Jeffries will endorse Harris for president, uh, today right now. Uh, so, I mean, it's a done
00:55:40.000
deal. The Democrats, I don't know what you want to say the fixes in, but they have absolutely no
00:55:43.860
interest in letting the voter, the voters decide who's going to replace Joe Biden. None. They will
00:55:49.140
decide and they will shove those vegetables down your throat and you will say, thank you. If you're
00:55:54.440
a good little democratic voter, that's really where we are right now. Um, going back the biggest thing
00:56:01.240
the Republicans seem to think they have on Kamala Harris is the fact that she was placed in charge
00:56:05.840
of the border by Joe Biden and to discuss and determine the root causes of it, to address it.
00:56:12.860
No, none of that was done. I don't think even Kamala Harris could speak intelligently about the
00:56:17.120
root causes of the border crisis because she can't be honest about the fact that it was her boss and his
00:56:21.500
policy and a decision that he made to open it up. Um, there is this famous infamous exchange with
00:56:28.920
Lester Holt that shows sort of the cluelessness and how little she cared about her newfound job.
00:56:34.460
You would think this person who was so determined and worked so hard. Willie Brown's out there right
00:56:37.560
now saying she outworks everybody. Well, he took office in June of 2021, sorry, January, 2021 by June,
00:56:43.860
she'd been the borders are, and she had this exchange with Lester Holt. By the way, after this
00:56:49.080
exchange, it didn't get any better. She did eventually visit the border, but the border only got worse.
00:56:54.220
Let's watch. We've been to the border. So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the
00:57:01.020
border, we've been to the border. We've been to the border. You haven't been to the border.
00:57:05.960
And I haven't been to Europe. And I don't, I don't understand the point that you're making.
00:57:13.480
Of course, the point is you should go so you can see for yourself what the problem is that you've
00:57:17.480
now been placed in charge of. So how big a liability is that for her? Do you think, do you think?
00:57:22.180
Well, the clip that you showed is Pete Kamala, right? She, you know, reportedly she had trained
00:57:28.880
for an answer on that question. And it wasn't, shouldn't have been a surprise question. Republicans
00:57:32.680
had been asking it for weeks. When is the Biden administration going to the border? And so when
00:57:37.760
Lester Holt pops that question, she had a trained answer that she was supposed to give. But instead
00:57:42.600
of that, she kind of went off the cuff to try to give something, something flippant because she was
00:57:46.280
clearly really annoyed by all of these repeated, even the media parroting this, this Republican
00:57:52.100
question of why won't you go to the border? And right after she issues that flippant comment,
00:57:56.840
she sort of uses her laugh to try to disarm the question. And that's, that's Pete Kamala Harris.
00:58:02.580
Anytime she's in an uncomfortable moment, she tries to laugh it off and, and, and move forward.
00:58:10.420
Right. And what's interesting is she made this comment after her visit to Guatemala.
00:58:14.680
And when she had a press conference in Guatemala, she famously said to migrants, you know, do not
00:58:21.900
come. If you come, you will be, I believe you will be turned away. And those were her exact words.
00:58:27.860
Wow. The, they, she did not send the message and, you know, migrants did not hear that message.
00:58:33.080
They just came over even faster. So it was clear that she failed the entire border czar project.
00:58:39.240
You know, when, when, uh, Chris Lasavita at the convention where we were both at last week,
00:58:44.860
when he was asked what are Kamala Harris's biggest problems, he just looked at reporters and said two
00:58:50.900
words, border czar. Exactly. This will be pounded over and over. There's also the fact that she's a
00:58:57.960
leftist progressive and she's woke, and this is not going to appeal to disaffected Democrats in her
00:59:04.700
party. Maybe it'll energize progressives in a way that Biden didn't, but this soundbite's making the
00:59:10.080
rounds. We've all seen it. Here she is during a CNN town hall and during a white house event.
00:59:15.460
Sot six. Thank you guys. And my pronouns are she, her and hers. I am Kamala Harris. My pronouns are
00:59:23.780
she and her. I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit. My Lord. So there's an interesting
00:59:32.300
piece out today. Uh, it's actually a Twitter thread that he dropped yesterday by Alex Castellanos
00:59:37.160
Republican. And he writes as follows. The test now for Kamala is to develop the, that new agenda that
00:59:44.460
is more patriotic and less leftist radical and woke than Biden's. How far from wokeness and Biden
00:59:53.520
will the left let her go? So what do you make of that? Like, because I remember Dick Morris.com
01:00:01.220
always used to tell me that Hillary Clinton or that Bill Clinton was a liberal who governed as a
01:00:08.440
centrist and that he thought Hillary Clinton was actually a centrist who would govern as a liberal.
01:00:14.280
So what's the truth about Kamala? Oh, Kamala is a California Democrat. So she is by, you know,
01:00:22.280
reflexive nature, a very combative, hard hitting leftist. And so as we saw during the primary campaign,
01:00:29.840
she tried to move as far as the, to the left as she could without even sometimes surpassing Bernie
01:00:36.560
Sanders. I think there was that, there was that study during the campaign when Biden chose her to
01:00:41.640
be the vice president, that she was more left than Bernie Sanders. So she's on the record as being
01:00:47.380
very liberal on issues of immigration, issues of, you know, DEI. She's as vice president, she's
01:00:55.240
campaigned expense, you know, she's campaigned for DEI and DEI principles because she says, you know,
01:01:03.640
this is what, and during the campaign, she even had that video saying DEI is important because it is
01:01:10.440
the equality of outcome, not just the equality of opportunity. So she believes in these ideas
01:01:15.340
and you can guarantee she's going to push them forward as if she wins the presidency.
01:01:20.680
The hope, as I understand it on the democratic side is that she will come in, she will energize
01:01:27.700
young, um, potentially female voters. Those are two different voting groups that she can,
01:01:34.520
she can gin up excitement amongst young, uh, voters, maybe female voters, and also non white voters
01:01:41.040
who are not in love with Joe Biden. The worry is that she'll cost the Democrats with white voters
01:01:49.000
and old voters and working class voters that had been sticking with Joe Biden. Those who'd been
01:01:55.360
sticking with Scranton Joe and hadn't migrated over to Trump. And there's a very interesting
01:02:01.440
Quinnipiac poll out today that takes a look at one of those voting groups and it's young voters.
01:02:08.020
This, they pulled July 19th through Sunday, July 21st, which was of course the day that Joe Biden
01:02:15.160
announced he was stepping down and that Kamala Harris was being endorsed by him. Um, so it's not
01:02:21.520
all post her, you know, ascension, but, uh, it was while everybody was speculating that it was likely
01:02:28.900
to happen. And at least one day captured where he had stepped down and endorsed her. And in this poll,
01:02:35.120
it shows that with young voters, meaning, um, I think it's 18 to yeah, 18 to 34
01:02:40.720
Trump's advantage over Kamala Harris is 19 points. It's 19 points. What was Trump's advantage over
01:02:52.860
Biden in that very same poll? Cause they, they pulled Trump V Biden, Trump V Harris.
01:02:58.180
It was 17 points. So Trump in this poll does better with young voters against Harris than he
01:03:08.120
was doing even with Biden. And if you look back at this poll, Deb, what was the earlier date that
01:03:14.720
we looked at? What month June? Okay. If you look back at June 26th, a month earlier, how were things
01:03:22.640
going with young voters in that poll? Biden was up over Trump by two. So Biden suffered a 19 point
01:03:32.940
swing to the negative post debate and post assassination attempt with young voters to Trump
01:03:40.280
and Kamala Harris is down even more when it comes to young voters again, post debate and post assassination
01:03:48.620
attempt, which, you know, as we saw Mark Zuckerberg of meta saying the other day, Trump looked very
01:03:54.120
bad-ass in that moment. And I think did cause a lot of people to see him a different way and maybe even
01:04:00.580
feel somewhat inspired by him. So I don't know. I mean, my thought on this online was, um, Houston,
01:04:06.540
we have a problem if the plan is she's going to rescue the loot, the youth vote for Democrats.
01:04:14.380
Right. Megan, that kind of explains to me why they're pushing this sort of this
01:04:18.480
TikTok version of Kamala Harris, who's so brat and so cool and trying to really push for an
01:04:24.720
authentic Kamala Harris that can sell to young people. Wow. They have so much work to do
01:04:28.780
because she spent her first three years as vice president with the only things going viral,
01:04:33.620
not her inspirational speeches, not her key slogans. Uh, but the word salads have been sort of the
01:04:40.100
top on top of mind of any, anybody who's, you know, consuming Kamala content on the internet.
01:04:45.640
What is Brett? I, we played this little, like the music video yesterday,
01:04:50.560
but it's like, Oh, what is it? Can you explain that? I'm working on it, Megan.
01:04:58.220
It's basically, uh, it's basically a, uh, a girl who is loves to dance and doesn't care who's
01:05:05.280
watching and can be a little messy, but still confident in her personality. That's based on,
01:05:10.180
I was just reading a, an article on our daily mail website from someone's far more experienced in
01:05:15.360
the term than me, but, uh, it's a good, it's a good, uh, outline of the whole thing. Check it out.
01:05:19.980
Uh, I just threw up a little in my mouth. Um, what's the story about her trying to recruit David
01:05:26.320
Plouffe? Is that true? Well, I saw all the mainstream outlets sort of mentioning David Plouffe
01:05:32.860
as a possible candidate. And that's kind of what happens as you know, Megan, when somebody's trying
01:05:38.060
to recruit somebody, but they don't necessarily feel like doing it. And so you're really trying
01:05:43.680
to push it forward to make it happen either that, or also get donors to feel comfortable enough about
01:05:49.500
donating to the campaign, you know, donate to Kamala. Hey, she might have Obama's top advisor
01:05:54.220
to help her out during the campaign. Even I even saw a report that suggested maybe Rahm Emanuel would
01:06:00.080
leave his plush, you know, his plush job as the ambassador of Japan to return and help save
01:06:06.120
the country under Kamala Harris. That's probably not likely to happen, but yeah, they are in a real
01:06:12.680
crisis. They need to get a senior team around them right now. And, but what political operative
01:06:18.900
really wants this job, this thankless job to try to remake Kamala Harris a hundred days before the
01:06:24.000
election. I just think it's going to be so interesting over the next hundred days, because
01:06:28.300
as I said, I think team Kamala and, and the Democrats are going to blame everything on Joe Biden. Now
01:06:33.940
they're going to demonize Trump. Yes. But they're going to try to blame all the inflation numbers
01:06:38.280
and all that. That was a, that was a Joe Biden problem. That wasn't a Kamala Harris problem.
01:06:42.060
And my sense is that when they were more aligned, she was in the white house working under him.
01:06:47.780
She was the receptacle for all of the thankless tasks. He didn't want to touch who would make her
01:06:55.500
the border czar. He just wanted to dump it on her and say, and I'll tell you, like, I can't get
01:07:01.680
specific about which organization it was, but sometimes even in the news business, when you have
01:07:07.540
one show that's having trouble, they'll take another show in which they're not that wedded to the
01:07:14.440
talent and they will dump all of their bad news stories on the second to distract from what's
01:07:21.380
happening with their favorite stars and whatever drama is having or happening over here. So let's say
01:07:26.680
outside magazines call up to say, Oh my God, something terrible happened with your favorite
01:07:31.760
show. They say, Oh, look over here, dumpster fire, dumpster fire. And then that just becomes a bigger
01:07:36.860
fire and resentments are bred. And I could see that that may have happened to Kamala Harris, right? That
01:07:44.020
Joe Biden just dumped or the white house just dumped all the bad news cycles on her. She's a bully.
01:07:49.500
She's nasty. She fucked up the border, all that stuff. And so now she's got a hundred days to
01:07:56.580
redefine herself. It's not a long time, but for that, they have only themselves to thank.
01:08:03.220
Right. And you have a lot of bruised egos from Biden's top team, right? The same ones that argued
01:08:08.820
that he could pull it off, that he could keep going. Now those egos are bruised. And anytime Kamala Harris's
01:08:15.060
team tries to throw him under the bus, they're going to be fiercely defensive of the president.
01:08:20.320
So it's interesting the way you described it, Megan, reminded me of how Al Gore was when he was
01:08:25.780
running for president to replace Bill Clinton, right? Or not replace Bill Clinton, but to succeed
01:08:31.780
Bill Clinton. There were so many stories about how, you know, he was struggling so hard just to be,
01:08:37.920
you know, approachable, to seem like a real person. And it was a real struggle between both camps
01:08:44.260
just to get him, you know, just to push him forward as a viable Democrat who could, who could beat
01:08:49.100
Bush. Just seem like a real person for the love of God. Well, just yesterday, we're cramming it all
01:08:55.340
into a hundred days. Whereas before that it was, it was a process of a couple of years. So it's going
01:09:00.940
to get real. But the media knows what they're supposed to do. I mean, just yesterday we were
01:09:03.680
mocking a line, a CNN writer had tweeted out, by the way, when Kamala was on the phone dealing with
01:09:08.960
all this on Sunday, she was wearing sweatpants and she was ordering pizza. Like, Oh, you mean like
01:09:16.400
a human? Not just pizza. Because we all do that. Pizza with anchovies on top.
01:09:24.200
And then I'll give you this, um, this last piece. Okay. Wait, two things. The New York times,
01:09:30.380
Harris is expected to speak soon in Milwaukee. I mean, good luck with Wisconsin. I don't know.
01:09:34.500
I don't think that's her voting base. They're already saying she's got to avoid, she's got
01:09:38.840
to move on from the blue wall States and focus more on the sunbelt, like possibly Arizona,
01:09:45.940
Georgia, North Carolina. Um, the feeling being in Democrat circles, those States have more
01:09:51.580
black and Hispanic voters that she could potentially lure over because for them, everything is about
01:09:55.540
skin color. If you're black, you're going to vote for Kamala. If you're Hispanic, you're
01:09:58.580
going to vote for Kamala. Check the polls. It's not true. Democrats. Anywho, she is spending
01:10:03.760
sometime in Milwaukee and several people are holding up letters that spell. Yes, we cam K a M
01:10:11.360
again. So cringy. You remember Barack Obama? Yes, we can. Yeah. And I'll leave you with this one,
01:10:21.680
Charlie, Michael Steele. He used to be a Republican. He used to run the Republican national committee.
01:10:26.440
He just tweeted out, Hey, real Donald Trump. You ready for this? And would you look at what he
01:10:32.640
posted? It's Kamala Harris in what is this? Captain America garb. I'm not a superhero. I'm
01:10:41.080
not a superhero. That's not wonder woman. That's definitely an attempt at captain America.
01:10:45.120
Yes. And Kamala Harris has never looked so good in her life, but I'm sorry.
01:10:51.780
She's their savior. I can do wonders. Okay. We'll see. Uh, you know, we're going to learn a lot over
01:10:58.600
the next three months, Charlie. Thanks for helping us get there. You bet. Thanks so much, Megan.
01:11:04.120
Okay. Up next, we dive deep into the security failures that led to the attempted assassination of
01:11:09.740
former president Donald Trump with Mike Baker. And what's happening right now. And the reason we're
01:11:13.920
going back to this is because we're getting additional testimony on Capitol Hill about
01:11:18.580
new facts. And we're actually learning who's doing this, who's pointing at whom listening audience.
01:11:24.900
I'm pointing my fingers left and right at each other. Um, maybe making a little progress and getting
01:11:29.960
down to who was responsible. And by the way, it had nothing to do with slope with a sloped roof
01:11:36.040
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Earlier today, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheadle announced she would be resigning from
01:12:48.220
the Secret Service in part due to her disastrous performance before Congress when they cross
01:12:54.780
examined her about the attempt on former President Trump's life. I mean, she was,
01:12:59.400
she, all she did was obfuscate. She was not there to help. She doesn't understand the stakes of this
01:13:06.360
investigation apparently, which not only affect President Trump, but President Biden. And don't
01:13:12.780
forget, she went to the head of the Secret Service from being Jill Biden's security guard,
01:13:17.620
her favorite Secret Service agent. But you know what? He's in danger too with leadership like Kim
01:13:22.680
Cheadle. In that hearing yesterday, she just outright refused to answer even basic questions.
01:13:28.340
Watch. How many explosive devices were found on or near the site? Again, I would have to defer you to
01:13:36.400
the FBI. Was Mr. Crooks acting alone? Again, I would have to refer you to the FBI's investigation.
01:13:43.520
Was he just a lone gunman? I would have to refer you to the FBI's investigation for motive.
01:13:48.360
Can you please give me the names of the individuals who are in charge of your con-op for the rally?
01:13:52.540
I'm not going to release names. Can you give me the titles? And how many individuals?
01:13:57.900
No. Nothing? We had a full advance team that was responsible for advancing the site.
01:14:01.580
How many people are the final approval authority?
01:14:04.240
There are a number of people that are engaged in approving the plan.
01:14:08.440
Can you give me a number? No, I do not have. Okay.
01:14:10.900
How can a 20-year-old with his father's AR-15 assault weapon climb onto a roof without the
01:14:17.520
Secret Service or local police stopping him? And I would like to know those answers as well.
01:14:22.820
You keep referring to the FBI. Who at the FBI should I speak with?
01:14:32.380
The FBI is responsible for the criminal. Is there a name?
01:14:37.300
So frustrating. Today, lawmakers are searching for answers yet again. This is not over just
01:14:44.460
because Kim Cheadle's agreeing to step down. She should have done the day that this happened,
01:14:47.860
the day of the attempted assassination. It's not over. We don't have any answers to any questions
01:14:53.320
at all. A few were forthcoming today as lawmakers are questioning the Pennsylvania State Police
01:15:00.840
Commissioner, who so far has been much more forthcoming. We'll play you some of that. Joining me
01:15:06.760
now, Mike Baker, host of the President's Daily Brief podcast, available on YouTube and all podcast
01:15:12.340
platforms. Mike, welcome back. Great to see you.
01:15:17.680
Okay. So this guy had a different tact, and it was somewhat refreshing to hear actual answers
01:15:21.460
come out. Let's see. Should we start with 32, South 32, where Representative Dan Bishop,
01:15:27.940
he's a Republican in North Carolina, questions this gentleman, the police commissioner, Christopher
01:15:32.920
Paris, on the location of the various officers on scene?
01:15:39.300
Had ESU maintained position in that window overlooking the roof, isn't it true that they
01:15:49.380
would have had a clean shot at Mr. Crooks as he was ascending the roof to his shooting position?
01:15:55.920
I'm not prepared to say that because I don't know the exact timeline of events.
01:15:59.760
But it's your understanding, though, that they were no longer in that room where they had
01:16:03.980
been previously overlooking the building at the time he was ascending the roof. Is that
01:16:10.620
The ESU officers were no longer in that room where they could look out the window and oversee
01:16:20.220
I believe they were actively searching along with additional municipal officers for Mr.
01:16:24.240
Okay. So they're trying to get to why there weren't more eyes on the roof, the area around
01:16:31.360
the roof. And when things hit the fan, where the local cops, the ESU, that stands for emergency
01:16:37.320
services unit local, where they were, what they were doing. I don't know that we've solved
01:16:42.060
that, Mike, but what we've gotten to now is a pretty clear picture that the Secret Service
01:16:48.180
had pretty much nothing to do with that building. They completely delegated it to the locals.
01:16:53.780
This guy testified that there were 32 members of local law enforcement there to support Secret
01:17:00.820
Service and that Secret State Police and that Secret Service basically washed their hands
01:17:08.820
of this building. And these guys, once the delegation took place, there were no comms
01:17:14.680
between them. They weren't on the same comms line. That was another thing we learned.
01:17:18.860
So like when the locals, you know, presumably heard word, we're going to get to all that
01:17:23.000
from the rally goers. There's a guy on the roof. It wasn't as easy as pressing down your comms
01:17:29.620
button on your walkie talkie and saying, hey, Secret Service, take out this guy. You're
01:17:33.580
communicating only to other locals. And then on top of all that, Mike, we began the show with
01:17:37.840
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri saying he's had whistleblowers come forward to him to say that
01:17:43.140
there was a guy who was dedicated to the roof. He got down from the roof because it was too hot.
01:17:50.480
We went back and looked up the high in Butler, Pennsylvania that day, 76 degrees,
01:17:56.360
all of which leaves us where. Yeah. First of all, full marks to Kimberly Chienel for
01:18:06.040
being the first person to ever get Democrat Jamie Raskin and James Comer on the Republican side to
01:18:12.880
agree on anything. And they both agreed after that disastrous hearing, five hours worth of nonsense
01:18:19.260
that she had to go. And she did resign. But, you know, obviously about nine days later than she should
01:18:25.960
have. But this was a series of critical mistakes from start to finish from the very outset. And
01:18:33.320
there's a methodology here. Let me let me start from there. There's a methodology to the security
01:18:38.260
planning for an event, whether it's a rally or a sporting event or whatever it may be. And there's
01:18:45.420
a difference between a national security event, which is something like the RNC or the DNC or the Super
01:18:50.880
Bowl, where you you have a year at least out to plan. Right. And to dedicate resources. And
01:18:56.560
obviously, you've got a mass, massive resource. And then there's the the events like took place in
01:19:01.840
Pennsylvania, campaign rallies, for instance. You have less notice, but you still have notice that
01:19:08.060
you still have you still have time to plan and you still have resources. So from the very beginning,
01:19:14.240
the planning of this by the Secret Service, which has primacy, right, they can they can task and they
01:19:21.880
can request and allocate resources from local and state police. But they're still in charge. They're
01:19:28.620
still the ones who have to make that final call and say, yes, this plan looks good. So you go out and
01:19:33.320
you do your advance. You you put together the site survey, which includes everything deployment of
01:19:38.760
resources, responsibilities, communications plan, timeline, all the the information that really
01:19:47.480
anybody who has common sense would think, yeah, you ought to put that into the plan. And then you go
01:19:52.160
you go from there. This breakdown was a series of failures, which is typical for a security process.
01:19:58.980
It's usually not just one thing. So if we break it down and we say, look, what was the planning like?
01:20:04.800
Well, now we know that Butler County, Washington County and Beaver County, they all allocated some
01:20:11.420
of their local resources to this event. Butler County was essentially command and control for
01:20:17.240
the local resources, the emergency service unit that was discussed just during that that site. But
01:20:23.500
they had a meeting the morning of the rally, the 13th of July in the morning, about 9 a.m. or so.
01:20:30.660
They had a meeting of local officials, the sniper teams, the SWAT teams, patrol, all those local
01:20:37.040
elements gathered together to discuss what was going to happen later that day. And guess who didn't
01:20:42.980
attend? The Secret Service. They, for whatever reason, and that's another thing that we need to
01:20:48.860
figure out, why didn't you feel it was important to attend this essentially final pre-op briefing,
01:20:56.060
mission briefing, and go through it and say, you know what, what about this building here? I know
01:21:01.780
that we said it's outside our perimeter, but what are you doing? And then they would have heard
01:21:06.420
theoretically, well, we're, we're going to man it from inside the building. Oh, okay. Well, why are
01:21:10.940
you doing that? Why don't you cover down the rooftops? Why don't you take what is obviously a
01:21:15.440
problem and resolve it? That didn't happen. Then you have the comms. I'm sorry to bang out about all
01:21:21.580
this, but there's so many areas that we need to discuss. Then you have the communications issue.
01:21:25.840
It's not unusual to have multiple frequencies in an operational setting. That's, that's fairly
01:21:32.600
standard, right? But because it's fairly standard, you also have command and control that works around
01:21:37.980
that and allows you to communicate effectively, efficiently, and quickly, right? In real-time
01:21:43.000
situations where things are heading south. They didn't have that. Communications for the SWAT team,
01:21:49.560
the local, I'm talking local police, the SWAT teams, uh, the sniper teams from the local
01:21:54.440
authorities, uh, patrol from local authorities, those were operating on different frequencies
01:21:58.980
as were the secret service. So if patrol from a local authority saw crooks, which they did,
01:22:06.060
and then they report it eventually, and they get it to the emergency services, the command and control
01:22:11.640
for Butler County, those people hear it and go, oh, okay, got it. Now they got to sit around and think,
01:22:15.900
well, what do we do about that? Well, let's, let's, let's move it forward. Eventually it makes
01:22:20.780
its way to the secret service, uh, frequency to the command and control of secret service.
01:22:25.900
And that's, again, we don't know what that process was because Kimberly Cheadle decided to show up at
01:22:31.420
this accountability and oversight committee hearing without, uh, what should have been archived
01:22:37.740
communications records, right? From the secret service. So we know at about 5, 10 PM, uh, Butler
01:22:45.300
County, uh, local authorities, an hour before the shooting, an hour before the shooting, shooting
01:22:50.640
took place at 11 minutes after 6 PM. So about 5, 10, they spot crooks and they're concerned enough to
01:22:59.020
on their side, on the local authority side, say, oh, that's a suspicious person. Uh, how about that?
01:23:05.340
And then a couple minutes later, a few minutes later, they take a picture of him. Okay. How about
01:23:11.380
you confront him, uh, and, and ask what he's doing. Uh, and then roughly about, uh, 25 minutes later or so,
01:23:20.880
uh, it makes that suspicious report makes its way reportedly. We still don't know because we haven't
01:23:28.100
seen those records because Kimberly Cheadle decided it wasn't important, uh, makes its way to secret
01:23:33.060
service. Then you've got the overarching massive question. You've got a report of a suspicious
01:23:40.560
person. You're apparently looking for him now by all accounts from, from local authorities. Now
01:23:46.640
we're looking for him, including taking the person off the roof to go and assist or take the people,
01:23:52.220
people out of the AGR building. So at what point did they not realize that let's hold,
01:24:02.740
former president Trump in a secure side, keep them there until we resolve this issue. There are so
01:24:09.860
many problems in this that, I mean, we, we can't cover it during the time that you, you've got with
01:24:17.400
me. Uh, but it is, it is astounding. I've, I've been doing this for 40 some odd years. I hate to say
01:24:23.640
it in terms of, uh, uh, risk and threat assessments, protecting, uh, individuals, uh, facilities
01:24:30.660
overseas and some very hostile environments. It's difficult. It's labor intensive. You have to be
01:24:37.100
meticulous in your planning, but you do it over and over again. Right. And it's not rocket science.
01:24:43.560
So I ask you, I should remind my audience that you're former CIA. You've done security planning
01:24:48.500
for massive events many times, but I, I kind of understand. I'm not excusing, but I'm starting to
01:24:56.280
understand that the locals screwed up. If they were responsible for that building, then they screwed
01:25:01.280
up. Ultimately it's the secret service's fault. I get that too. They're the ones responsible for
01:25:05.480
protecting the president, but the locals seem to have dropped the ball. They did not have somebody
01:25:10.280
who's unquestioned. No one was up there when crooks got up there. And I don't know whether he left
01:25:15.560
because he was hot. He was never there. It was a sloped roof. We all know that's not true, but for
01:25:20.240
whatever reason, nobody was up there and that was a failing. So I don't understand though, Mike, how
01:25:25.740
we got to the point where the director of the secret service, I understand nobody wants to blame
01:25:32.160
each other. You know, that's, it's a nice principle, but a man's dead and a former president was almost
01:25:38.080
shot dead. So now we're going to have to have some hard conversations with real truths. Why wouldn't
01:25:43.940
Kim Cheadle just come out and say, we delegated responsibility for that building to the locals.
01:25:50.140
The locals should have had somebody on the roof. They didn't. That was a failing it's on them. And
01:25:57.060
yes, ultimately it is on me. Instead, we got this nonsense. I'll play it here. Cause she went on ABC
01:26:04.360
news. And as the lawmakers pointed out yesterday, she seems to have answered way more questions with
01:26:08.020
ABC than she would in front of our lawmakers who are us. They're representing us. But this,
01:26:12.840
instead of just saying what I just said, she said this, um, inside 27 roof have been secure, period.
01:26:19.560
That building in particular has a sloped roof, uh, at its highest point. Um, and so, you know,
01:26:25.080
there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up
01:26:28.560
on a sloped roof. Uh, and so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, uh, from inside.
01:26:36.880
Yeah. Well, uh, I, I guess from my perspective, you know, four decades, uh, worth of, of being
01:26:43.640
engaged in, in, uh, intelligence and security operations around the world. And that is the
01:26:49.220
stupidest statement I've ever heard come from a security, uh, expert. And look, she, she's got
01:26:54.780
almost 30 years in with the secret service. So she's not stupid by any means. Right. Um, it's a failure
01:27:00.760
of, of, of, uh, leadership. It's a complete breakdown in crisis communications management
01:27:05.940
and strategy. Uh, it, this is one-on-one for crisis communications and how they botched this
01:27:13.080
after such a, an awful result on that rally day in Pennsylvania. I have no idea because you're
01:27:20.020
exactly right. That's what she should have come, come out and done and said, we will, and not only
01:27:25.080
that, but we will get you answers immediately. The nonsense during the accountability hearing,
01:27:29.880
when they said, or she said, man, you know, we're working on that internal review and we're going
01:27:34.840
to get a report in, uh, maybe like 60 days. It's ridiculous. Uh, that's astounding. And so
01:27:42.540
Mike, especially because look, look what period we're in right now in American politics. This
01:27:46.760
will be the sixties busiest days that Donald Trump has had. And now Kamala Harris will have
01:27:52.560
in the course of the last year. This is the lead up to the presidential election. They're going to be
01:27:57.960
everywhere. It's going to be nonstop rallies outside, inside big events, conventions.
01:28:03.260
It's not okay to say, eh, in two months, we think we'll have it figured out. There was no urgency.
01:28:11.200
And I, this is the thing that just keeps stripping me up as not a security expert,
01:28:15.020
but this is a lawyer. She lied. The, the, the sloped roof thing is a lie. And everybody knows
01:28:22.940
that by now, but I will show you because that representative Eli Crane represented,
01:28:25.920
he's a Republican from Arizona, went up to the roof and this has gone viral online.
01:28:30.540
And he kind of brought us through what the roof looks like just to put a fine point on it. And
01:28:35.820
it's, I think it's up 30. It's not that steep at all. Just had a 70 year old man back here climb up
01:28:42.220
on the, uh, on the roof easily. See that water tower behind me at secret service or anybody had
01:28:49.820
sniper teams up there. This guy wouldn't have made it, um, five feet up this roof. Um,
01:28:56.060
he would have been taken out behind me. You see the windows that, uh, secret service was supposedly in
01:29:04.220
the second floor of this building behind makes you wonder why they weren't able to quickly dispatch
01:29:10.380
individual. Um, and then behind me back over here where those red roofs are, that's where the stage
01:29:18.200
was set up. That's where the president was giving his speech from a lot of questions here in Butler.
01:29:24.320
I mean, so flat, you can pour cake batter on it. So it's, that's where I get caught up. It's,
01:29:30.780
she lied. So now how do we get to the bottom of why she lied? She's still under, she could be
01:29:38.360
subpoenaed. She's not like free to ignore them just because she's stepping down. Um, and I don't
01:29:44.480
know, how does this look to you now? If you factor in lying, does it still look like massive incompetence
01:29:50.720
or something even worse? No, I think it's massive incompetence. Uh, frankly, look, I spent long enough
01:29:56.780
time in, in, in government to know that, you know, there's some wonderful people working there and
01:30:00.880
there's some, you know, deadwood. Um, and you know, so it's, it's not unlike any large corporation
01:30:07.580
in a way you got great people, you got less than great people, you got people just carrying, skating
01:30:11.540
by. Um, so, you know, this, this is different though. This is, this is a situation where you've got an
01:30:20.020
agency that that's their primary function, protecting the lives of their protectees.
01:30:26.780
And every single time out, right. You need to get it right. And that's a burden, right? Because
01:30:34.600
it's like in counterterrorism, you know, you have to get it right. Every time the bad guys just have
01:30:39.760
to get lucky once. Right. But that demands that you do everything according to, uh, protocols,
01:30:47.780
according to the methodology that, you know, gives you that best possible result. And that's where
01:30:54.600
this fell apart. And so it's compounded as you pointed out by the, by the after action. And that
01:31:02.420
is, I I'm just as confused as anyone else, because I have no idea how somebody in that position could
01:31:08.800
be, even if she's not the brightest bulb in the box, they've got other people there who should be
01:31:14.560
advising and saying, here's what we need to do. Get an answer, get to the rally site tonight, right?
01:31:19.840
The evening of that, they should have flown out to that site. She should have been on the ground,
01:31:23.780
right? All hands on deck. Demonstrating leadership, right? But yes, I like, I'm thinking about Jocko
01:31:29.620
Willink and his, um, extreme accountability approach to life. And when he was a seal and he has a viral
01:31:36.420
Ted talk on it and he's been on the show talking about it. This is the opposite of that. What we
01:31:41.060
should have seen was the locals, the guy who put the building outside the security perimeter,
01:31:45.980
the guy who was supposed to be on the roof or who chose for whatever reason to be inside the
01:31:50.780
building, as opposed to on top. Um, at least those guys and more should have been saying it was my
01:31:56.200
fault. I take responsibility. It was on me and Kim Cheadle chief among them. What we have instead is
01:32:03.160
no one saying anything. And now the secret service trying to quietly behind the scenes,
01:32:10.260
blame the locals, even though it's their responsibility and now the locals, um, blaming
01:32:16.480
the secret service. So here, this is what we're learning from the questioning today. Um, the
01:32:21.420
building where the shooter was and who was in charge at the state police commissioner, we just showed you
01:32:25.640
said that, um, they believe that the, the Butler ESU emergency services unit, they were responsible for
01:32:32.940
that building. But, and he said two people were in the building and that they were in a window,
01:32:38.540
like watching. And that at a certain point they began searching for crooks, the shooter,
01:32:43.600
and they left the window to go search for crooks. But meanwhile, that too would be a gross security
01:32:50.160
failure. Mike, I don't have to tell you, even I, as somebody who's had to be protected by guards at
01:32:54.100
certain points in my life, understand that if you have two security guards and there's a threat
01:32:58.540
coming, one always stays with the target that they're there to protect. The other goes in searches.
01:33:03.520
They don't both leave because we all know what could happen. The bad guy could come to the now
01:33:07.940
unprotected building and do the very thing that you're afraid he might do. So that just doesn't
01:33:11.380
make any sense. And if it does, it's really stupid. And then the second piece is they said,
01:33:15.920
um, that they told they're now claiming in this testimony, local authorities told secret service,
01:33:22.660
they did not have the manpower two days before this happened to take on the task of that building.
01:33:29.640
Uh, the Butler township manager, Tom Knights said that the message was sent to secret service
01:33:35.280
two days before the Trump rally, his team could only handle traffic control. And they claim this
01:33:43.100
is according to actually KDK, a TV reporting the secret service never responded to those messages.
01:33:50.000
Now, again, this to me just feels like classic blame game. Like, well, yeah, we were responsible,
01:33:55.840
but we told them we couldn't be responsible and they never got back to us. And therefore we just
01:34:00.760
let the president get shot, but it's still on them. Yeah. That, that all, that all falls in
01:34:05.360
the bucket. That's marked, you know, failure to communicate. Right. And, and you're right. When
01:34:10.620
going back to the, the, the coverage inside that building, right. When they decided to leave their
01:34:15.600
post to go look for the suspicious character, um, again, first and foremost, why didn't one person
01:34:23.160
remain? Why didn't they also notify saying, Hey, we're going to be, uh, you know, leaving post
01:34:28.720
looking for suspicious character, that information should have been relayed immediately. If it wasn't,
01:34:33.460
again, we don't know because they haven't, you know, provided that information. Was it relayed
01:34:37.520
immediately to secret service? And again, going back to the top line question, why wouldn't you
01:34:41.620
hold a protectee offsite in a secure location until you resolve these problems, which were unfolding
01:34:47.420
over the course of an hour? So all of this, the, the answer to all of this is, and as you pointed out,
01:34:54.540
we've got a very busy political season staring us in the face and it demands immediate action
01:35:02.320
because they need to understand now how this fell apart so that it doesn't happen again. And look,
01:35:10.300
the hardworking men and women of the secret service, including those on the stage that covered down
01:35:15.160
former president Trump, right. They have got to be, and I, I, I know that they are embarrassed
01:35:20.860
at the responses from the leadership from Kimberly Cheadle, uh, at the secret service. Um, and,
01:35:27.240
and they, they should expect and, and deserve better, right. For better top cover, but also
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Kimberly Cheadle probably should have shown up at that oversight and accountability hearing
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with the agents in charge for that day in Pennsylvania, who were involved in the site survey
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from the secret service side. Um, she, she wouldn't even give their names. It's such a breakdown.
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It's such a breakdown in crisis communications. We're 10 days out. We still don't know any names
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except for hers. And up until two hours ago, she wouldn't step down or actually take responsibility.
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She was giving it lip service, but she wasn't actually taking responsibility. You know, she kept
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saying the buck stops with me, the buck stops with me, but it certainly didn't look like it.
01:36:15.040
Yeah. Yeah. I don't think she knows what that phrase means. Um, I think she was very confused
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by that. And, uh, clearly the buck didn't stop with her. She spent all her time trying to box it up
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and pass the buck. Uh, so, and, and then she did also say during this, this committee hearing that
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she's the best person to lead the secret service at this time. I mean, honest to God, I mentioned it,
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uh, I think this morning on the president's daily brief, I would rather have seen Paul Blart,
01:36:40.560
the mall cop, uh, running the secret service to Kimberly. Honestly, it's like, there's only so
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much you can do. I mean, president Trump is a rich man, but even he, like, it's very tough to hire
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private security and have them stationed like counter snipers on every building, everywhere you
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go. There's a reason we give our former presidents secret service protection and certainly our
01:37:03.780
nominees for president. And this is, you know, we already know that the Iranians had a potential hit
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out on him after Soleimani. So all the threat around him, uh, was raising and yet there wasn't
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an adequate response. So let me ask you that. Yeah, go ahead, Mike. I'm sorry. That's, I was
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going to say you, you, you raised the, the Iranian threat issue. And again, inconsistency in what we're
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hearing from the secret service, because at one point they said, look, we, we were aware of that
01:37:32.180
Iranian threat ahead of the Pennsylvania rally. So we enhanced his security package. Right. And now
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we're also hearing some information that says, you know what, ahead of that rally,
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the secret service wasn't planning on sending sniper teams and had advised local authorities
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that they were going to have to heavy up on that side of things. Right. And then they eventually
01:37:51.660
decided to provide two counter sniper teams. Uh, so there are so many inconsistencies and yes,
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the public deserves to know how this thing fell apart, but more importantly, we need to get it right.
01:38:07.720
Right. We need to get that information internally. And that needs to, to, to, to address all these
01:38:14.840
issues. I was watching Trump in, um, I guess it was Michigan, right? The first appearance he made
01:38:19.300
after the Republican national convention. And all I could think was, I realized that Trump has behaved
01:38:24.380
in almost a super human kind of way in the wake of this assassination, but he is not super human.
01:38:29.680
He's human. And he's got to be feeling somewhat jittery going. It's not like he has a whole new
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team or he no longer uses secret service. He's still reliant on them and has got to go to rally
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after rally after rally. And all I could think is there's gotta be something inside of him. It's like,
01:38:52.180
Oh my gosh, this is a little scary to be right back in front of all these people. And I don't know
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who I can trust and whether we really have adequate protection here. How are you feeling
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about it with, you know, a hundred days left to this election process?
01:39:05.180
Well, look, I know a lot of the folks, um, who work the streets, uh, work operations for
01:39:11.100
secret service, the bureau and other, uh, organizations, and they're terrific people and
01:39:17.760
they work every day, right. To make this right. Um, but there was no doubt that clearly, clearly,
01:39:24.460
you don't have to be a rocket scientist. And this is a statement of the obvious, but there
01:39:27.860
were, there were failures that day that need to be addressed. Right. And so there should be
01:39:32.240
consequences. The, the, the, the folks who are on site in charge, right? Those are the people that
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need to be, and I'm sure they are, they're doing a hot wash inside the, the secret service and the
01:39:42.580
bureau is also doing part of their investigation, uh, to look at this, but we need to get that sorted
01:39:48.680
out. I, I have confidence. I know it sounds odd. I have confidence in the secret service because
01:39:54.320
I know the men and women who do the job, right. I don't know. I agree. They, the rank and file,
01:39:59.660
they try to rank and file for sure. And, and now that they know, you know, they've been reminded
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just how serious it is. That won't hurt either. Mike, I got to run. Thank you. Oh, sure. Absolutely.
01:40:08.060
Megan. Thank you very much. I want to tell you folks, president Biden has just emerged from
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isolation. He's heading to the white house, uh, leaving Dover air force base. You can see him
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leaving, uh, his presidential limousine. He's, is he wearing a mask? I can't tell. I don't think so.
01:40:24.320
He's holding a mask. He's slow moving, but he does appear to be there and living more on that tomorrow.
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