WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:04.320 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty the Gary 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:07.960 and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I still need to hear 3 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:18.760 your story. Well, up until Saturday at about four o'clock three forty five, 4 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:24.000 I had a great story about a rouse snake. Well not that one, 5 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:29.719 which one the new family member. Oh? Oh, that yes, 6 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:33.719 Actually, we had such a great It was such a great afternoon. My 7 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.880 son came over with his lady friend and and that's the first time you met 8 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:41.799 her. That's the first time I met her. And Fingers, his roommate. 9 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.000 I don't know about that show. She kept her shoes on, so 10 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:49.880 I don't know abouts of toes, but yes, fingers and my daughter is 11 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:53.359 obviously she's home for the summer, so it was the It was probably more 12 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:57.920 time. We spent more time with our kids yesterday than we did on Christmas. 13 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:02.000 That's great. Had your daughter met your son's girlfriend him? What did 14 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:06.519 she Her review is the most important? Great? Great, Yeah, very 15 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:10.439 super nice and easy to talk to. She's very that's great. And then 16 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:12.920 his roommate and his roommate and the roommate's wife were there as well. The 17 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:18.159 girl pregnant or not yet. No, not yet no, okay, So 18 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.760 there's that to look forward to. But they'll have She had really beautiful eyes 19 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:25.959 and so the baby would have beautiful eyes, wonderful. I don't know what 20 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:27.719 else, but I just bet on the eyes. That's what I would bet 21 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:34.760 on. Okay, here you go. Republican National Convention begins today in Milwaukee, 22 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:42.920 and the expectation is that former President Trump will announce who his vice presidential 23 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:46.560 running mate will be sometime within the next couple of hours. Now, he 24 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.799 usually doesn't speak till Wednesday or Thursday. Right Thursday, Wednesday was supposed to 25 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.879 be when Donald Trump Junior speaks, So there was a lot of speculation, 26 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.599 since he's a big jd Vance guy, that if the pick was jd Vance, 27 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:06.040 they would have Donald Trump Junior introduce JD Vance. Now they can still 28 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:07.800 do that. They can make the announcement. Now, Now, does Trump 29 00:02:07.800 --> 00:02:13.319 come out onto this stage and make the announcement? I don't know, don't. 30 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:15.000 I wouldn't think so. I don't think they have people there yet. 31 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:19.680 No. I would think they would wait till a primetime thing for the President 32 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.280 to actually make it out onto the stage. He's there, he's already in 33 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:27.919 Milwaukee. They made the plans. Yesterday he put on the true social that 34 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.879 he had thought about taking a couple of days to kind of rest up after 35 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:37.759 what happened on Saturday. What an anticipated appearance this is, I think probably 36 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:43.360 one of the most anticipated experiences or performances or whatever it's going to be when 37 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.479 it makes his remarks that I can ever remember, because he's got you mean 38 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:53.240 on Thursday or tonight, because I think he I honestly expect him to get 39 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:55.319 out there on the stage whenever we hear from him next. It's the most 40 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:00.800 anticipated. He has got the agency right now is the responsibility. He has 41 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:05.759 got all the power and all the oxygen in the room. What will he 42 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.759 do with it? That's the big question. Does he come out there? 43 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.400 I mean, he's alluded to the fact that he's going to come out there 44 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:15.520 and say we need to come together as a country. But what's going to 45 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.680 be his vibe? Right for lack of a better word. Is he going 46 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:23.199 to be pissed off? Is he going to be demure? Is he going 47 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:28.479 to be grateful? What's that tone going to be? I think the farther 48 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:35.240 we get away from the actual shooting from the assassination attempt, the less it 49 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.879 will be, I feel like there will be an anger element that kind of 50 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:45.280 comes back to it. Yeah, because almost like stages of grief, there 51 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:50.120 are stages after an event like that. I've never experienced a near death thing 52 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:55.919 where I mean, you saw him immediately get up and pump his fist in 53 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:00.879 the air, and I was shocked by that. That led me to initial 54 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:06.280 conspiracy theories because to have that wherewithal in that moment, and then to not 55 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:11.400 listen to your secret service detail who are trying to move you off the stage. 56 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.680 You don't know who else is out there. There could be another guy 57 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:17.120 in front of you or wherever. If some of the bullets got through, 58 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:21.319 there could be more. So I'll play for you later in the show. 59 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.639 Doug Mills is the New York Times. I think it's Doug Doug Mills, 60 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:30.360 the New York Times photographer who was just in front of the stage and was 61 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:35.079 taking pictures of the President at the moment the shooting happened, and appears to 62 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:40.879 have caught the bullet after it went through his ear. I mean, it's 63 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:46.480 a dramatic photo, but he described those moments after the shooting. Secret Service 64 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.199 goes piles on top of the president the way they're supposed to. They all 65 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.040 surround him in a big huddle, the way they're supposed to. They all 66 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.959 have bulletproof vests on. I don't know if he did it or not at 67 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.759 the time, but they're smaller than him in some cases he's that's another question. 68 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:06.360 Why you know he's six' three your Secret Service agent exactly. But 69 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:12.680 the photographer said that there was a moment when he's snapping pictures and you see 70 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.360 that angered face, the adrenaline of somebody tried to take me out a fist 71 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.720 in the air fight fight fight, and then he said he changed and there 72 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:28.480 was a moment where like he lost all color and realized sort of what was 73 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.519 going on, and then you could see then you could see that's when the 74 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.839 Secret Service is able to get him down the steps and put him into the 75 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:38.360 car and take off. So he was in a state of shock and that's 76 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:42.319 how he reacted and then realized what had gone down. But the but the 77 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.759 fist in the air fight fight fight was pure adrenaline. I cannot imagine what 78 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:51.079 was coursing through his body at that moment. And you don't even know how 79 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:56.879 hurt you are. Do you You know you were hit by something, but 80 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.480 what kind of damage to it do I don't know. I don't know what 81 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.199 that would be like. I mean, that's part of the assessment that the 82 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.160 Secret Service agents are trained to do. Once they get him on the ground, 83 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.800 they immediately check him. I mean they did that when Reagan was shot. 84 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:16.000 They talk about running their hands around Reagan's ribcage basically to find out where 85 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.560 the hole was. And in Trump's case, I'm assuming that the first thing 86 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:24.920 they're going to do if blood is coming from his head they don't know it's 87 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:27.639 just his ear, They're going to check and make sure that it's not deeper 88 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:32.399 than that flush wound. We did hear from former Secret Service leaders about how 89 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:36.800 common it is at these events to be given a heads up, Oh there's 90 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:42.519 a SUSPICI suspicious guy over there, there's a suspicious vehicle or what have you, 91 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.720 and that there is a danger to overreacting. So we'll talk about that 92 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.839 as well. Just a quick note again, Judge Aleen Cannon out of Florida 93 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:56.040 has dismissed the federal criminal case against Donald Trump that charged him with taking classified 94 00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:00.519 documents. Ninety three page ruling came out, so I'm assuming hading to do 95 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.560 with the timing of the events of the weekend, but concluded that Jack Smith's 96 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:12.920 appointment actually violated the appointments clause of the Constitution. Now Jack Smith can totally 97 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:15.480 appeal this. Yes, it could easily go to the Supreme Court. It's 98 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.199 probably likely that it goes to the Supreme Court, so that we have some 99 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:26.959 sort of clarification on this strange times. I'm getting hungry, are you? 100 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.879 Yeah, I have an apple, but I'm going to eat the apple. 101 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.360 Then don't tell me that you have an apple, because it makes it sound 102 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:41.680 like it's up for public consumption. Sorry, and it's not clearly I am. 103 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:49.759 I will be eagerly anticipating whatever the congressional hearings look like later This well 104 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:53.720 be the beginning of next week. That's when they expect to have the head 105 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:57.839 of the Secret Service before a congressional panel or One of our friends, Jen 106 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:05.920 texted us that she recently read a book called anti Fragile by Nicholas Talib and 107 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.120 she says Trump is really the absolute definition of anti fragile. As the author 108 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:13.120 described it, a person who gains from attacks. The more you attack, 109 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.600 the stronger they get. Love him or hate him. He has now faced 110 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:22.399 every possible obstacle up to the point of attempted assassination, and then he only 111 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:30.120 gets stronger. Yeah, I mean, you can't argue it. The prevailing 112 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.320 sentiment Saturday night into Sunday morning was he just went up another ten points in 113 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:43.200 the polls. Yeah, and there were a couple Listen, there were two 114 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.919 highlights I think that I saw in terms of what happened. One of them 115 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.519 was the fact that President Biden came out Saturday afternoon pretty quickly, and it 116 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.480 wasn't a long news conference, and he was in Delaware when he did it, 117 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.000 so he didn't have the pomp and circum stance of doing it from the 118 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:09.720 White House. But when Biden came out Saturday afternoon said he absolutely detested the 119 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.440 attack and that he had reached out to Donald Trump to talk to him and 120 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.759 see how he was doing. Later, they did, in fact connect by 121 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:22.000 phone, and President Trump had said it was perfectly cordial and he thanked to 122 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:28.080 the President for calling him. The other thing was Milania Trump's statement from yesterday. 123 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.080 Did you read that I did? It was beautiful. I mean, 124 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:37.120 in an event where or at a time when she had every right to be 125 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:43.440 completely out of her mind angry. That's not where she went. I don't 126 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.639 know if she I'm sure there were times where she probably felt that, but 127 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.519 she had every right to just completely blast everybody on the other side of the 128 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:58.519 political aisle, or whoever she perceived as behind the attack or whatever part of 129 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.799 the problem. I mean, they've of all the evolved, and I don't 130 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.000 really think that it's not like you and your wife, you know. I 131 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.799 don't think that their relationship. I don't think that she is I don't think 132 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:15.360 they have a traditional marriage. I think they leave separate lives for a large 133 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.919 A lot of these political couples do lead separate lives for a number of reasons. 134 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:24.279 One of the reasons is there's just not enough time that he has to 135 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.559 spend with her and the family and what have you. But I don't know. 136 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.200 Their relationship to me, has always been a little bit disjointed, and 137 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.120 I don't know if it's a traditional marriage or how close they really are. 138 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:43.200 But she was very eloquent, and my understanding is that the she Milania Trump 139 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:48.480 spoke with Jill Jill Biden yesterday as well, well, and just think the 140 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.000 last video we saw of Trump was him in that golf cart with his son. 141 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.279 That's not going to happen anymore. I mean, I think that's top 142 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.399 of mind for her, is all the events that her son has then with 143 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:05.159 him. And now. I don't believe that this shooter was somebody who was 144 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.840 moved by democratic vitriol. I think this was a crazy kid with this prefrontal 145 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.960 cortex not developed, who had access to guns and ammo, I think we've 146 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.919 seen it before, we'll see it again. I don't think he was moved 147 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:22.600 to do this by some sort of democratic underworld. But that said, it 148 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.840 can also put ideas in people's heads that this is a possibility if they do 149 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.600 want to take this guy out. And if my kid is part of the 150 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.840 family unit, you better believe he's not going to be anywhere on this campaign 151 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:41.039 trail. Yeah, which, if Trump is elected president again, I wouldn't 152 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:46.200 be surprised if Milania and Baron are nowhere near Washington, DC exactly. Again, 153 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:52.679 one of the big headlines from today, outside of the attempted assassination of 154 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.200 a former president and candidate for president, outside of the fact that that same 155 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:01.120 guy wearing bandages on his ear. Is probably going to announce a vice presidential 156 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:07.440 pick today before the convention starts. We had a huge dismissal of one of 157 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:13.240 the cases against Donald Trump. Judge A Leen Cannon dismissed the federal criminal case 158 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:18.440 against Trump that charged him with taking classified documents illegally. Remember these were the 159 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.240 pictures we saw from mar A Lago with the bad carpeting of just boxes of 160 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.440 stuff. And I always was operating under the idea that he likes to take 161 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:31.159 souvenirs, like why wouldn't you take stuff from your oval office or whatever? 162 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:35.919 And did it unknowingly that you know it was going to be something illegal. 163 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:41.320 She wrote in her ninety three page ruling that it's kind of like the old 164 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:45.879 standing argument, right it is, it doesn't it doesn't say, it doesn't 165 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:50.440 address the documents now, she wrote, the Court is convinced that Special Counsel's 166 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:58.919 Smith's prosecution of this action breaches two structural cornerstones of our constitutional scheme, the 167 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:03.399 role of Congress and the appointment of constitutional officers, and the role of Congress 168 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:13.360 and authorizing expenditures by law. That Jack Smith had no business being appointed to 169 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:18.759 oversee this Essentially yeah, this is Members of Congress have come out and immediately 170 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:24.639 suggested that Jack Smith appeal this, which is probably likely. I mean, 171 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:30.399 it doesn't change the calendar on this other than it extends it. It's well 172 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.120 passed. Whatever November would be or whenever the start date should have been for 173 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:37.919 this. Chuck Schumer, majority leader in the Senate, said that Smith should 174 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:43.320 appeal, demanded that the case be assigned to a different judge because he says 175 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:48.919 Judge Cannon cannot handle the case impartially and must be reassigned. The trial already 176 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:52.799 pretty unlikely to get under way before November, and now it's going to be 177 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:58.200 pushed back even further because the Supreme Court is likely going to be involved in 178 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.879 this as they get deeper into all of this. Okay, coming back, 179 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.320 One of the iconic images that we saw from Saturday was a New York Times 180 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.879 photographer who was in front of the stage where Trump was speaking when he was 181 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:16.320 shot. And there is an image that Doug Mills was able to catch of 182 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:20.759 what appears to be the bullet streaking behind his head, behind the president's head, 183 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:31.080 former president, and he has an amazing literal first eye, what do 184 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:39.679 you call it? First person witness perspective on what happened right arm man head. 185 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.759 He was there, He was there, He was there. Reports this 186 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:48.200 morning say that former President Trump plans to announce his running mate to day, 187 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:54.720 that it could happen at the convention in Milwaukee. Those who have become the 188 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:58.919 final contenders appear to be jd Vance, Doug Bergham, Mark A. Rubio, 189 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:05.799 and Tim Scott. This is I don't think any of those guys would. 190 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:11.480 I don't know if any of them create fireworks more than the others. 191 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:16.639 No one that's like, I think we're all fire worked out. I think 192 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:22.200 it's nothing that could elevate the attention around this campaign. Right now. We 193 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:28.039 are just about I think it's about ten minutes away from ten to fifteen minutes 194 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:31.840 away from the actual opening of the convention itself. It's great news for Joe 195 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:37.320 Biden. Nobody's talking about him, and it is mental acuity anymore. Yeah, 196 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:43.759 that's completely been blown off the front page. So outside of the video 197 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:50.000 which we now have, we saw it on Saturday of the President in mid 198 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.639 speech, having been clipped on the air with a bullet going down, Secret 199 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:58.279 Service piling on top of him, fist pumping flags in the background. There's 200 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:03.559 some iconic still images that have come out. One of them was referenced just 201 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.120 a short time ago somebody who's calling in to say, hey, Gary Chan 202 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:10.360 John down in Orange County. Have you seen that other photograph of Trump with 203 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:15.840 the blood on his face where it's taken from the point of view of like 204 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:21.360 he's on the bottom of the pile and it's just kind of a picture of 205 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:23.600 his face and you can tell he's buried by Secret Service guys, but he's 206 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:26.799 looking down at the ground. It's really kind of an aerie picture. But 207 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:32.480 it's pretty good photograph. Yeah, it's taken from basically from stage level. 208 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.559 One of the photographers down on that side of the stage, and his face 209 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:38.639 is down. You could see the blood starting to come down the right side 210 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:45.519 of his cheeks, and it's basically just butts and legs of the Secret Service 211 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.679 agents that are around him, the bottoms of their shoes as they have tackled 212 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.480 him, and you know, covering them, covering him with their bodies. 213 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.159 It almost looks because his hands are like this, it almost looks like he's 214 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:03.879 praying. Maybe maybe he is. Doug Mills is a photographer of the York 215 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.480 for the New York Times, who is credited with a couple of other very 216 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.240 iconic images from what happened on Saturday. One of them is he was down 217 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:17.279 in front of the stage looking up to the former president and said that he 218 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:22.000 was taking pictures of him basically so he could get the flags in the background. 219 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:26.799 That's easy framing for a picture like that. And he was on Fox 220 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:32.240 News this morning he's at the convention in Milwaukee, and spoke to the anchors 221 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.119 about what he was doing to set up those shots. It was a huge 222 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.680 flag waving right above his head, and I just happened to be taking pictures 223 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:40.880 at the same time. And then when I heard the pops, I just, 224 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.559 I guess I kept hitting on the shutter, and then I saw him 225 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:47.920 reach for his you know, he grim missed it and grabbed his hand and 226 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:51.200 looked through his blood. And then he went down, and I thought, 227 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.119 dear God, he's been shot, because at first I didn't know that those 228 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:57.279 were gunshots. It was just a weird sound to me. And once he 229 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:00.400 went down, I just, you know, ran around. He ran to 230 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.200 the side of the podium to try and see him, and in those split 231 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:07.960 seconds he was already covered by the Secret Service completely blanketed and I couldn't. 232 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:11.640 All I could see was them and I'm holding their guns, and guns are 233 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:15.119 out everywhere, and everybody's yelling get down, get down, get down, 234 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.279 active shoot or active shore. It was just like I mean, and I 235 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:22.640 probably did not do the smartest thing by running right at it, but that's 236 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:29.680 what he did. The other image is of the President a millisecond after he 237 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:34.160 was hit by the bullet, and the image that Doug caught at that time 238 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:40.759 was the President looking off to the right towards what we now know was this 239 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:45.119 giant screen. He had a big graph up on the screen talking about immigration, 240 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:52.119 and behind his head you can see the streak of the bullet, and 241 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:55.880 he talked about He didn't even realize he caught that image. At first, 242 00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:00.680 we were ushered into a tent, as you know, an off stage private 243 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.240 tent where the President was right before the event, and I was sending pictures 244 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:07.160 into an editor of the President coming off with that you know, defiant fist 245 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.319 pump, and I wanted to make sure those got out. And then it 246 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:11.640 dawned to me. I was like, oh, hell, I remember taking 247 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:15.119 pictures of him when this happened. Let me go back and look. So 248 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:17.920 I started looking at her and I started sending them, sent them right away, 249 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:18.640 and I called one of the editors, said, please look at these 250 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:22.279 really closely. This might have been near the moment where he was shot. 251 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.559 And so she called me back like five minutes later and said, you won't 252 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.599 believe this. And this what she goes. We actually see a bullet flying 253 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:33.160 behind his head. And I was like, oh my gosh, what an 254 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:41.680 image. Well, Donald Trump not only wants to energize his voting base, 255 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:47.680 he is now going after Robert F. Kennedy Junior votes. He's calling today 256 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:53.000 for Secret Service protection asap now. He posted on truth Social He said, 257 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:56.440 in light of what's going on in the world today, I believe it is 258 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:00.200 imperative that Robert F. Kennedy Junior received Secret Service protection immediately. Given the 259 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:04.960 history of the Kennedy family, this is the obvious thing to do. So 260 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:08.640 one of the issues that's going to be brought up in the congressional hearings next 261 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:14.240 week, and I assume before then is going to be what kind of protection 262 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:23.359 detail is afforded former presidents and candidates presidential candidates, and when do they come 263 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:30.799 up with a more formal process by which these people get Secret Service protection. 264 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:34.119 Are their different levels of Secret Service protection that they get. Does the sitting 265 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:38.960 president have more protection than the former president does? Obviously that we know that, 266 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:42.920 but would they change any of that going forward? There was an interview 267 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:48.720 that we played on Saturday while it was happening. RFK Junior was being interviewed 268 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.559 I believe it was on CNN, and he was asked about I mean, 269 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:57.200 his family has experience with assassinations. Unfortunately, his uncle was killed in nineteen 270 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:02.000 sixty three, his own father was killed in nineteen sixty eight here in LA 271 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:06.599 and he referred to having he was I think he said he was ten when 272 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:11.799 JFK was killed, and he would have been fourteen or so when his father 273 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:14.880 was killed, and he said he was with his dad that night, Yeah, 274 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:21.720 at the hotel downtown LA when Sir Hans Sir Hon killed him. And 275 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:27.240 this so his family, unfortunately intimately knows the power of political violence like this. 276 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:37.039 And he asked last year for protection from the Biden White House or Department 277 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:41.319 of Homeland Security. However, however, he wants to say it and was 278 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.079 denied simply because at the time he wasn't considered a big enough candidate. Yeah, 279 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:49.079 but I mean, you have to take account the family history. It's 280 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:53.000 not unlike some of the crazy people we have walking around that want to be 281 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:59.200 a footnote in history by killing another Kennedy. Yeah, and he's just for 282 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:03.200 the notoriety. And then one last thing from Doug Mills, I wanted to 283 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:06.559 play for you, And this was his description of what happened in those moments 284 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:11.039 after the shooting, secret services piled on him and the images of the fist 285 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:15.480 in the sky, and then this recognition seeing the president almost have a realization 286 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:21.400 like I almost just died. And when he when he came in, obviously 287 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:23.880 I didn't know how seriously he was injured. And then so I started thinking 288 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:26.000 my mind, oh my gosh, they you know, having done this for 289 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:29.599 many years, they have to have an egress. They're gonna have to take 290 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:32.279 him off somewhere. So I went to the closest steps, thinking, okay, 291 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:33.920 they're going to take him there. And when I saw him lift him 292 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:36.799 up, I was like, dear god, he's alive. Okay, great, 293 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:40.599 it's good. And then I saw his hand kind of come through and 294 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:42.160 then I was like, oh my gosh, that yep. There he is. 295 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:45.200 And then when he gave that defiant fist pump. You know, it's 296 00:22:45.319 --> 00:22:49.240 just one of those incredible moments, like he was so mad and so defiant 297 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:52.480 and like, you know, and then he said fight, fight, fighting, 298 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.759 you know. And then there was like this stark moment right after that 299 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:57.799 where he you know, was like it must have just like all of a 300 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:00.839 sudden come to him. He hit him like he was like completely drained and 301 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:06.559 looked at him and he could see a sea of people scattering everywhere, chanting 302 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:11.400 us exactly yep. And that guy was feet away the entire time. Crazy 303 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:17.119 Secret Service says there will be increased security in Milwaukee, even more than they 304 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:19.640 had planned for the RNC this week, following the events of the weekend. 305 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.240 Director Kimberly cheetles as the security plan for the four day event has been bolstered. 306 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:33.279 We have reviewed and strengthened the security plan since the assassination attempt. They're 307 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:41.359 doing something called convention Fest today starts at about noon our time, the official 308 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:47.920 Delegate Experience. I have the master calendar Master Event calendar for the RNC. 309 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:52.160 They were supposed to gavel in at twelve forty five their time, which was 310 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:56.799 four minutes ago, and they haven't for the official sessions. But apparently Trump 311 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:03.799 spoke with Fox News is Brett baar Or yesterday and he was the one Trump 312 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:08.759 told him that today was the day for a vice presidential pick. So that's 313 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:11.920 what we're expecting sometime in the next few hours. Who knows if it's a 314 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:17.240 primetime thing or what Trump can pick whoever he damn wants now. Yeah, 315 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:19.759 you know, there's no uh, you know, there's no one who's going 316 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:23.359 to bolster the ticket more than the name at the top after what happened. 317 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:27.279 You know, if you if you were going to pick Marco Rubio to kind 318 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:32.200 of woo the Latino vote, you don't need to do that. Yeah, 319 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:33.440 you don't need to do any of that. You can pick your favorite and 320 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:37.200 if jd. Vance is the favorite, that's gonna be who it is. 321 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.480 Well, we're gonna have coverage of the Republican National Convention throughout throughout the week. 322 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:47.000 Joining us now from Milwaukee is one of those working with the Trump campaign. 323 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:48.440 Is me. He cooked, Thanks for taking time for us today. 324 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:53.000 Hi, thanks so much for having me. Hey, this has got to 325 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.720 be an odd time. I don't know what the expectation was going into the 326 00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:03.960 convention this week. But what's the conversation been since you've been there on the 327 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:11.160 ground in Milwaukee. Look, I think it's been twofold one that President Trump 328 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.920 is a warrior that has continued to unify the party. We had party unity 329 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:19.480 before, and we also had a lot of individual voters that probably never voted 330 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:26.240 for a Republican until President Trump because they are seeing record high inflation an open 331 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:33.039 border. But I truly believe that assassination attempt changed everything. Everything President Trump 332 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:37.359 said from the get go, which is law fair. People are weaponizing the 333 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:40.799 system against me. If they can do it to me, they can do 334 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:45.880 it to you. Truly showed the American people that he was right all along. 335 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:49.119 So we're truly counting our blessings. But we're also getting right back to 336 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:53.119 what's important, which is the future of our country, peace, prosperity, 337 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:59.240 and making sure that we have safety and security. You're from Ohio. What 338 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:02.880 do you think about the possibility of all the talk around JD. Vance being 339 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:07.599 the pick today? Look, I'll tell you from Ohio, there's a lot 340 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:11.480 of excitement. I think that JD. Vance is a young up and comer 341 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:18.160 that has continued to prove his conservative background. He has continued to represent Ohio 342 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:25.079 proudly, and we have to counter every single thing that Senator shared Brown does 343 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:29.039 in the state of Ohio. He has been a tired, washed up politician 344 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:33.240 of fifty years who has continued to rubber stamp Joe Biden's policies from open borders 345 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.359 to Bidenomics. He has refused to work for the working class. So a 346 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:41.079 man like jd Vance, who comes from while Ohio was once a swing state 347 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:45.640 but next to swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and others, shows you truly 348 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:48.519 that he could be the man for the job. But I've said this, 349 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.920 I think it's going to be an outsider. I truly think it may be 350 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:56.119 somebody that nobody's talking about. And I'm not a betting person, so I 351 00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:02.119 have not taken any bets on President Trump's VP. Pick Hey Cook is a 352 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:07.599 Trump campaign surrogate there at the RNC. And what's it like in the Trump 353 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:12.039 realm? I mean, is there a lot of jockeying among the surrogates to 354 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:18.519 get a position in what seems to be more likely than ever the future administration. 355 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:25.000 Is there a lot of jockeying behind the scenes? There. Honestly, 356 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:30.599 there hasn't been a single conversation that I have heard between farrogate, between people 357 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:37.000 walking around. Every single person has been talking about making America wealthy again. 358 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.319 That has been our priority to make sure that we get President Trump's message out 359 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:45.480 because what we have truly seen in mainstream media is first we talked about a 360 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:49.359 senile president Joe Biden and the fact that he couldn't finish sentences. Then we 361 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.119 talked about an assassination attempt, which has been brutal. Now we're talking about 362 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:56.799 the Secret Service and firing a director, But what nobody is talking about is 363 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:02.720 a pastor prosperity. So this on the ground, from delegates to alternate, 364 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:07.079 to sarrogates, to every single person that is here that I have met and 365 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:11.000 converse with, it's truly talking about thanking God that President Trump is alive, 366 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:17.319 and about the agenda and making sure that we reach every single American and pull 367 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:19.720 them over to our side, because we need unity now more than ever. 368 00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:25.279 One of the things that President Trump has apparently said is that whatever speech he 369 00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:27.680 was going to give on Thursday, he's torn it up and that he is 370 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:32.119 going to start over or has started over in terms of the message that he 371 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:37.920 wants to send. Do you think he's going to take this opportunity to do 372 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.839 that, to extend that hand to people who otherwise didn't like him, or 373 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:47.000 don't like him or won't like him, but that there's a wide swath of 374 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:51.279 people that he might be able to convince on Thursday night to come over to 375 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:56.440 his side. I truly believe that. And I think he signaled to the 376 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.519 American people where his heart is out of speech. He's torn it up, 377 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:04.799 and he is about unity and how to bring more people over and how to 378 00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:07.400 reach out and speak to them. And you know what, none of this 379 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:11.200 is scripted. Look at what happened after that assassination attempt. There was no 380 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:15.559 script that said get up as you just got shot in the ear, put 381 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.160 your fist up in the air and say fight, fight fights. If he 382 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.920 wanted to show the American people he was okay and everything was going to be 383 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:25.400 okay, and that's the kind of man he is. So I think this 384 00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:29.319 is his moment to shine and unite and he's going to do that. He's 385 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:33.279 going to make sure that Americans know he is standing with us, he is 386 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.200 standing for us, and that prosperity as possible. I am really excited. 387 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:42.960 This is one of those defining moments in campaigns and history and for his legacy. 388 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.160 Now, are you anticipating any surprises or do you think that this vice 389 00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:53.799 presidential pick will will be that surprise. I think the vice presidential pick is 390 00:29:53.799 --> 00:29:56.920 going to be a surprise. But look, I've been wrong. I could 391 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.920 be wrong again. I just think and it Trump holds his cards to the 392 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:07.720 best. I think there's been jockeying and a lot of political operatives that are 393 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.839 pushing their guy or girl. But at the end of the day, I 394 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.759 think President Trump is going to make a pick that is going to unify the 395 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:19.920 country and against my personal opinion, and he's going to surprise a lot of 396 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:23.759 people. Well, have fun this week. We've been to conventions. We 397 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.079 know that they can be a lot of fun. MIHK Cook is one of 398 00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:32.400 the surrogates for the Trump campaign. Thank you for your time, Thanks for 399 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:34.599 having me. You bet a couple things. Just in notes that while we 400 00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:41.440 were talking with her, sources had told Fox that Rubio is not the choice 401 00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:44.880 for a vice president, so you can cross that name off the list, 402 00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:49.200 apparently, And a Trump campaign text has gone out that says I have not 403 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:53.559 decided yet. Oh my goodness, well he said. He said in that 404 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:57.119 recent interview that it was just like The Apprentice, and if you watch that 405 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:02.400 show, he changed his mind all the time. Yeah, it's kind of 406 00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.160 the whole shtick of it. I mean, I like her idea that there's 407 00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:07.559 a wild card that we don't know about you. That would be interesting, 408 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:11.440 is it? You? Are you just not sharing this with me? Why 409 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.119 would I Why would I want that job? I don't know. I mean 410 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.200 the air track. You would have to take that job. If somebody offered 411 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.920 you a chance to be vice president of the United States, you would have 412 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.480 to take that job. It's your civic duty. It's your duty as an 413 00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:33.200 American Land of the Free, Home of the Dodgers. Wait, what how 414 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.799 are they doing? I don't know. Are they playing today? No, 415 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:41.039 it's the All Star break? Oh that's right, Home Run Derby tonight or 416 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:44.640 something. Yes, that's gonna be for play the Death of Music for America. 417 00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:48.359 I meant to play this and I well, that was a Freudian slip 418 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:51.759 right there. It's big fat thumbs, that's what that was, all right. 419 00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:56.599 When we come back, new details about the building where the shooter was 420 00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:01.799 great and it's not good. 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