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Billy cunning in the Great America picking
up the pieces of all that's been happening

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the last several days of Leland vitters
on Balance and News Nation. It was

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at the convention, of course,
for it seems like fourteen to sixteen hours

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every day, and Leland vetter,
I've made many notes about what to go

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over with you, but can you
first give me an overview? I talked

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to Mike DeWine a few days ago, to the governor of Ohio. He's

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been at every convention since nineteen eighty
four, which is only forty years,

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and he's been at many. I
talked to reporters like Bill Hammer, etc.

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Who's been there for the last fifteen
to twenty years, and the old

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timers refer to this as the twenty
oh eight convention of Barack Hussein Obama,

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the excitement and things of that character
and the rock star aspect. So can

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you give me the overview? Then? I have lots of specific questions,

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Leyland, What did you think overview? Agreed? The last convention that I've

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been at with that kind of electricity
was Obama eight. Certainly, the walkout

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of Obama with the Greek columns at
mile high Stadium in Denver versus last night.

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There's a lot of similarities. What
I think is different is that Obama's

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speech in eight whatever you think of
the policies, was extraordinarily well delivered,

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just phenomenally well delivered. He knew
the audience, he played to it.

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He met the moment. The text
met the moment in the delivery, met

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the moment. I'm writing today in
war Notes, which is my daily online

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newsletter you can subscribe for free at
warnoes dot com, I wrote that this

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is the convention of missed opportunities because
last night, for the first twenty five

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minutes, Donald Trump met the moment. He talked about the events of Saturday.

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He was emotional, he was thoughtful, meaned changed in a way.

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And then rather than saying, there's
ten minutes of policy, and here's what

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we're gonna do to bring this country
together, and here's things that most Americans

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or agree on that I'm going to
fight for, thank you, and good

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night, he did sixty minutes of
this sort of rambling, very demandering,

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some off the cuffs, some off
the teleprompter, some of the greatest hits

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from the rallies. And I was
watching the crowd okay, and this you

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know, you have to think if
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you are in it to win it. You're there and people were getting

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bored. People were looking at their
watches. We were around the back of

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the floor and you could hear people
talking amongst themselves because they were bored.

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It. It did not he felt
that he went into rally mode, which

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is fine when it feels like you're
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After four days, it did.
It did not land as far as

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far as the other presentation. And
I've been to two or three Trump rallies.

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You've probably been to a few more
than I've been to, and he

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went into rally mode, which is
a Trump supporter and a Trump devotee and

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someone who badly believes we need him
to leave the to lead the country.

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I was not offended at all from
that. I think his audience was the

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five percent that are completely undecided.
I don't think either candidate can get fifty

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percent of the vote, and the
issue becomes what happens to that five percent

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of the middle and what are the
third party candidates do? And I point

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out to my Republican friends. I
said, guys, the Democrat has won

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seven of the last eight presidential elections. When it comes to the number of

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ballots cash, now that's not the
critical factor, but it demonstrates that every

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time a Republican wins, it's got
to be threading the needle. You got

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to go a little bit this way, a little bit that way. And

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the Democrats have this behemoth of a
machine ready to go. It's like it's

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ready to go from off to on
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And the parts with Jason Aldean and
the minister from a Detroit Black Baptist

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minister I thought was great. Kid
Rock, the Hulkster lit up the night,

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Hulk of Mania became trump Amania,
Dana White coming back from vacation,

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Lee Greenwood, proud to be an
American. All that stuff played well with

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me. The five percent that are
going one way or another, if they

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paid attention for the first thirty minutes, they came away thinking that's pretty good.

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I think the Trumpster wanted to give
the red meat to the devotees,

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and most I spoke with said he
did a pretty damn good job, and

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they left energized. And excited.
Now, secondly, I want to get

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onto this issue. What's happening to
the Democrats. I see now that AOC,

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not exactly a conservative, is supporting
Biden to get out. She posted

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something this morning about her him getting
out, But AOC also said that Kamala

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Harris needs to get out. And
I'm reading this and I'm thinking, am

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I reading this correctly? That's the
most far left winging the Democrat Party doesn't

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want a ticket of Biden and Kamala
Harris. Address yourself if you can,

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if these rumors are true, in
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Biden gets out of the election.
To me, the obvious person to get

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in would be Kamala Harris. But
now there's a sense that she can't win

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either. What do they do,
well, that's the problem. They don't

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know what they do. And the
person in the end that it is up

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to is Joe Biden, and that's
it. So the AOC reporting that I

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have seen is she says she doesn't
want Biden to leave. The person who

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is saving or the people who are
saving Joe Biden is the far left.

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And if Joe Manchin has said that, the reporting shows that the the elites

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of the Democratic Party, and by
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and Senate leadership. They're the ones
who are telling Joe Biden to get out.

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The far left is telling them to
telling Biden to stay in. What

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AOC is saying is is that the
same people who want Biden out want Kamala

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Harris out. And basically she's trying
to make the point that there is this

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cabal that is taking away the people's
power and they should all stay. Fine.

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The issue with Joe Biden is no
one can make him leave. And

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you're talking about a guy who won
a Senate race that he was thirty points

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down in in nineteen That was it
was in tanteen seventy two or I say,

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seventy eight, whenever you want,
I can't the first time the first

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time I ran seventy two, okay, seventy two, a little bit before

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my time, and you weren't born
yet, right ten years. I don't

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anything that was a thought yet my
parents who weren't even married, so it

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or maybe they just got married when
he went. But there's a there is

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a entrenched fire inside Joe Biden that
is burning, and it has always burned

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and He's always had a chip on
his shoulder. He's always had a chip

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on his shoulder about a stutter.
He's always felt like the Democratic Party didn't

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give him his due. He's always
felt like Barack Obama, you know,

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always tried, tried, tried to
him. You know that there was this

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there's this feeling by a by the
the elite of the Democratic Party that and

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they always felt like Joe Biden sort
of wasn't as refined as they want the

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way he talks on and on and
on. So there's this inherent tension there.

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And Joe Biden is the guy who
has said I want to stand by

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and I'm not going to be pushed
out. He felt like he was pushed

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out in sixteen. Yeah, he
felt like he wasn't taken seriously in twenty

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and he's going to prove to everybody. So I would submit, the harder

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people push on him, the more
likely he is to stay. A quote

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from Instagram on AOC quote. If
you think there's a consensus among the people

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who want Joe Biden to leave that
they will support Vice President Harris, you

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would be mistaken. And this is
complete, utter chaos. I cannot imagine

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that if Biden leaves the race with
a political gun to his head that they

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skip over Vice President Kamala Harris,
what that will do to the base of

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the Democratic Party will be complete chaos. And I would note, I tell

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my I'm going to disagree with you
for a second because of this. The

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basic Democratic Party didn't like Kamala Harris. You know how we know that because

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the basic the Democratic Party is would
votes in Democratic primaries h and she didn't

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make it. Not only I was
she didn't make it too. Iowa US

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she pulled and she barely registered in
polling in South Carolina. There is no

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love of Kamala Harris by the base
of the Democratic Party. Now you know,

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everybody from the anthic goes, oh, well, she's a black woman,

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therefore they're all line up behind her. The elite of the Democratic Party

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will line up behind her because she's
you know, built relationships and kissed up

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to them. And the intellectual liberalism
or illiberalism, what doe youver you want

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to call it, that is based
in the DEI intersectional philosophy loves her.

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But the real base of the Democratic
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black men. No in that regard. I have a little bit of historical

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analysis from nineteen sixty eight. You
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Sixty eight was the worst political year
in American history bar none. With

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the assassinations and the riots, etc. You weret h. Humphrey was a

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weak, unpopular vice president who came
out of Chicago thirty points behind Richard Nixon,

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thirty points. By the time the
election itself took place, he lost

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by one percentage point. And that's
what I'm told that Joe Biden is being

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told that you're not thirty points behind, you might be two or three,

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or four or five points behind,
and that they all know that Kamala Harris

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cannot be the nominee, and other
than Michelle Obama coming out behind the drape

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in Chicago, uniting everybody under the
Obama banner. Once again, I couldn't

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agree with you more. That Kamala
Harris is not enjoyed or liked by the

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Democrats, much less working class white
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I can't conceive of that being a
popular choice. Now, lastly,

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before we conclude, we have all
the reporting since the assassination in attempt last

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Saturday on Donald Trump. One third
of Democrats believe it was a staged event

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by Donald Trump, that somehow he
staged the whole thing for political benefit,

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which I think we can dispense with
that quickly. That is utterly absurd.

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But secondly, what does this say
about the efficiency of Kimberly Cheetle, What

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happens to her for the hearings on
Monday, and how incompetent is the leadership

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of the Secret Service? Important to
separate the Secret Service agents from the Secret

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Service. Donald Trump did that well
last night, big applause for the Secret

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Service, and I think he and
his family have handled that perfectly. It

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is unquestioned that the Secret Service leadership
has real problems. I am not sure

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that she shows up for the hearings. Maybe she will, maybe she won't.

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John Brosso Marshall Blackburn went to my
Wallas style and chaster through the convention.

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If you haven't seen the video,
you should look it up. But

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it is clear that there are multiple, multiple failures. And our Brian Anton,

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who I think is one of the
best street reporters out there and just

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dog it in his ability to get
scoops and stories. He reports that one

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of the one of the screw ups
is that the original plan for the rally

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security had the building that the shooter
ended up using marked as a local police

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sniper position. The local police officers
were supposed to have a sniper up there,

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and the agent or the counter sniper
team when they were looking and seeing

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someone with a gun on top of
the building or rifle, they thought that

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person was a police officer. And
you can imagine now in Heinz it seems

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obvious. Oh well, you can
tell the difference. Well, at that

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point, it's the decision of am
I going to shoot a fellow police officer

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because that's what this was supposed to
be, and that was that that may

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have been the reason that the Secret
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opened fire. So there's gonna be
lots of issues. Mark Green, who

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was on the show last night.
They have subpoenas for the radio transmissions to

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try and try and start sussing it
out, and I think we're going to

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figure it out. I think what
we're going to also find is that the

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Secret Service is way understaffed, way
over extended, and you know, has

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gotten to the point that they rely
on a lot of local law enforcement over

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and over and over again, and
that clearly broke down. Now, the

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problem is the only thing that's going
to increase between now in November or now

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in January is the demands on the
Secret Service. Right, you're gonna now

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you have you have a vice president
and president, vice president president and vice

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presidential nominees on both parties for them
to take care of and look after.

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You're going to have their families.
Then you have rally schedules. Then you

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have barnstrowming across the country, and
of all of a sudden there's a new

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Democratic ticket, so you're going to
have them also watching the president plus two

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other candidates. The distresses on that
are going to only get worse. Stress

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only magnifies problems. It does,
and it needs to be great greatly increased,

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and of course affirmative action. Slash
DEI has raised as ugly head that

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seemingly the director now of the Secret
Service was a popular person in the detail

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of Joe Biden when she was the
Second Lady during the Obama administration, and

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they wanted to get a woman to
head up the Secret Service, and according

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to some reporting, Joe Biden kind
of remembered Cheatle from from the eight years

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earlier, and so let's see if
she's available. And she was handling security

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for Pepsicola and also Quaker Oats which
is a part of PepsiCo and reached back

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in time, and of course she
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her, not in a management position, and then all of a sudden she

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was promoted to the top job and
she is completely overwhelmed. In her defense,

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I would say they probably have to
double the size of the Secret Service

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with everything going on in the country
right now. And I can completely I'm

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not going to go at those snipers
who had the murder or the coward in

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their crosshairs and didn't want to pull
the trigger because they thought they might be

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killing a fellow, a law enforcement
officer. And the pitch of the roof

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was such that the highest part of
the roof. He was laying on the

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low side of the roof, popping
up his head at the pitch to make

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the shot. And the reason it
happened is that the other Butler County official,

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the cops, one of them fell
off the roof and they pointed the

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gun out. I mean, he
kind of fell and hurt himself. I

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found out this morning, and the
Secret Service was they didn't want to take

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the shot and kill a cop.
And there was just complete snaffoo and a

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complete disgrace for the Secret Service to
allow that building to be unused. The

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hearings will be interesting. But Leland
Vitter, thanks for coming on the Bill

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Cunningham Show. You're on of course
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