WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.040 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty, the 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:07.919 Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. What else is going 3 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:13.759 on? Time for what's happening? Well, we are on top of the 4 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:19.440 RNC of course today, kicking off on the heels of the assassination attempt over 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:24.800 the weekend. Joining us now at Jesse Jane Duff gunnery sergeant. Served in 6 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:29.679 the Marine Corps active duty twenty years and yes, retired as a gunnery sergeant. 7 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:36.399 Uh well, how are things going in Milwaukee? Well, it's good 8 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:39.079 to be here. I'm so excited that you all invited me. They're doing 9 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:42.159 a roll call vote right now on the floor. I happen to be with 10 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:47.719 the DC Director of Veterans for Trump, so I'm kind of wearing two different 11 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:51.600 hats today right now. Now, the breaking news is that he has selected 12 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:56.560 jd. Vance. Yes, yes, I mean this is absolutely exciting and 13 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:59.159 I'm going to tell you why I have a preference for a JD. Vance. 14 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.759 He's a UNI the State's Marine. I served twenty years on active duty, 15 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:04.200 so you know, come on, I have to go at the Marine. 16 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.640 Hey. Let me now that means things will get done. Let me 17 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.000 ask you something about that. I have said this for a long time. 18 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:14.879 I prefer my presidential candidates, or in this case vice presidential candidates, to 19 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:19.719 have some sort of military experience. What do you think that means for somebody 20 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:25.120 who is in the chain of command like that as vice president. Well, 21 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.760 I'm a little torn on that because I've been very disappointed in our military leaders. 22 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:32.120 I'm very disappointed in General Mantis, who is mad Dog Matison, who 23 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.000 was an exceptional general but got into the Department of Defense and seemed to tow 24 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:40.200 the party line because often, many, many, many of these generals who 25 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:44.480 come out of the Pentagon have been used to essentially no longer representing Marines, 26 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:48.120 but trying to ensure that they please a commander in chief, which isn't always 27 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:52.519 the best case. We also saw some disasters with General Kelly and General McMaster. 28 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.280 However, the difference, though, what I appreciate about with JD. 29 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.480 Vance is he was not a career marine, and he did serve in active 30 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:04.560 duty in combat, and he is a self made man. He comes from. 31 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:07.680 If you ever watch, watch, or read the book Hill Billy Eulogy, 32 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:13.360 it talks about growing up dirt dirt or from a drug addicted family. 33 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.400 Everything that could have gone wrong for this man, and yet he went on 34 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:21.800 joined the Marine Force, served in active duty in combat, came off of 35 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.759 active duty, and became a self made man. I think that's a rags 36 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:30.240 to riches story that essentially shapes what all Americans see as a positive thing. 37 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:36.479 So in his particular case, he is not being a career senior level general, 38 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.039 but a man of the people. Because if you're an enlisted man on 39 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:43.879 active duty, particularly that of the infantry, or an officer in the infantry, 40 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.319 you have learned what it means to be in life or death situations. 41 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:52.479 You understand what it means this recruiter draft children to go off and fight our 42 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:58.080 wars. So in his particular case, I think that military experience is exceptional 43 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:01.719 because we're talking about the hardest route he possibly could have taken. He didn't 44 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:06.240 take a cushy route just to get a gi bill. He took a very 45 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.240 difficult route. Wasn't in the infantry. He was in a war zone. 46 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:15.520 And essentially he has a benchmark to understand the importance of national security and ensuring 47 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.599 that we negotiate and make good deals with countries. So that we're no longer 48 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.400 putting our young men and women in harm's way. He also went to Yale, 49 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:28.800 he has his law degree. He sees both ways. I mean hill 50 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.520 Billy Elegy was a book that I read shortly after Trump was elected because it 51 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.319 was kind of sold as a how we got here book, and it was 52 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:42.000 kind of odd to me that Donald Trump, somebody that I know from the 53 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:46.680 reality TV world, would rise to this level. And it really did help, 54 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:51.439 you know, especially out here in California, how many people in other 55 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:55.520 parts of the country feel about how they felt so disenfranchised and the elites were 56 00:03:55.599 --> 00:04:00.960 keeping them down and the jobs were disappearing. And it really does a good 57 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:06.000 job of laying out how he came to realize how Trump came to prominence by 58 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:12.319 focusing on his family. They're an appalation and the like. Yes, and 59 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.839 he understands what the average American is struggling with because it was such a real 60 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:23.040 life experience for him. Understanding that not all families have an easy path, 61 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:27.319 Understanding what it means right now to have high inflation where the average family has 62 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.800 to make nine to eleven thousand dollars more a year just to make ends. 63 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:35.279 Me This is really kind of a touch point for not just your blue collar 64 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:40.759 workers, but your lower income to understand what it means to rise up, 65 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:46.199 have better education opportunities, where the government has often intervened and prevented people from 66 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:50.480 actually accelerating because it's not solve the problem, but only enables the problem. 67 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:56.680 For example, right now, three hundred Americans a day are dying of drug 68 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.920 overdoses because of these open borders, because of the cartels, the money over, 69 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.839 and the drugs over, I should say, and I think jd Vance 70 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:09.160 can actually touch upon that because he has the history of drug addiction in his 71 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:13.240 own family, so he knows what this means. He understands what this means. 72 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:16.519 So you know, many people may not realize that jd. Vance, 73 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.319 as successful as he is today, he did not always have that presence or 74 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:26.079 that what many would have fought would have been a dead end road for him. 75 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:30.519 And hopefully that that history, that life experience is something that he could 76 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:34.160 he could bring to the office. So Jesse Jane Duff, we greatly appreciate 77 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:39.360 your time, Thanks for your passion. Well, we're excited to be here 78 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.800 and let's let's just everybody remember if you want to volunteer for the campaign. 79 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.920 You can sign up at Trumpforce forty seven dot com Trump Forced forty seven dot 80 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.639 com. We've got to get everybody out to vote. We got to make 81 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:53.439 it too big to rig. And thank you for your service. By the 82 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:57.399 way, well, thank you and take the hill motivators. We got a 83 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.800 little ways to go yet before we crush Joe Biden on an Thanks Jesse Jane 84 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:05.439 Duff there in Milwaukee again. Republican National Convention has started. And the breaking 85 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:11.000 news that happened just as we started that interview is that former President Trump has 86 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.199 chosen Ohio Senator JD Vance to be his vice presidential running mate. We'll come 87 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.199 back and talk more about it. I need to say things like crush Joe 88 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:20.439 Biden. I mean, he's an old man. Have a little. It 89 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:24.279 doesn't take much, he doesn't. I mean, come on. Another massive 90 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:27.959 story that probably would have been bigger than all the others if we didn't have 91 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:32.319 the events of Saturday, was that we found Judge Ailing Cannon has dismissed the 92 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:39.600 federal criminal case against Trump that charges him with taking highly sensitive national security secrets 93 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.759 with him when he went to mar A Lago. Help us figure all of 94 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:46.399 This out is Royal Oaks Legal analys for ABC News. Royle, it seems 95 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.920 like the judge didn't really touch or from what I read, didn't touch the 96 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:55.680 actual documents being taken to mar A Lago. But like we've seen with the 97 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:59.800 Supreme Court rulings, that maybe there was just no standing for this special Council 98 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:04.000 to investigate. Yeah, exactly right, Shannon. This judge did not talk 99 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:08.519 about the merits at all, you know, whether Donald Trump did something terrible 100 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.120 by taking top secret stuff out of the bathroom at mar A Lago. Instead, 101 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:15.560 what she did was she dismissed the case, the Florida case, on 102 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:21.000 the ground that Joe Biden's Attorney general broke the law when he appointed Jack Smith 103 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:25.959 as special counsel. And she concluded that for two reasons. First, the 104 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:30.639 judge said a special Council may only be appointed by the president and only after 105 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:34.240 Congress approves that appointment, and here it was the Attorney General americ Ireland who 106 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:38.519 appointed him, not the president, and there was no Senate confirmation. The 107 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:42.480 second argument she made was a judge appointed by Donald Trump. Of course, 108 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.120 she said that a special council's budget can't be a blank check funds have to 109 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:50.399 be approved by Congress, and here the Attorney General's Office has just been shoveling 110 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:56.279 out up to twenty five million dollars in counting to Jacksmith with no approval by 111 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:01.240 Congress. Now this is controversial because several big time I'm the special counsel in 112 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.560 the past have been approved pretty much the way the Biden administration handled at the 113 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.639 Robert Muller for the Russia collusion, at Mars Walsh back in the day on 114 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.720 Iran contract. But this judge said, you know, that's based on a 115 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.639 misunderstanding of the law, and so this is probably going to go up to 116 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.160 the US Supreme Court to get the final word. The bottom line, of 117 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.720 course, is no Florida trial against Trump before the election. Now, one 118 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.360 of the criticisms Chuck Schumer had Senate Majority leader was that the judge should not 119 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:33.919 have been handling this case because she is a Trump appointee, and because she's 120 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.559 not going to handle this case impartially. Is there a process by which this 121 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.000 goes to the Supreme Court as part of the appeal but comes back to a 122 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:48.720 different judge. The only way this judge would be dumped off the case is 123 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:54.559 if Jack Smith and the Biden administration could demonstrate that she's biased, or she's 124 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.120 incompetent, or she was drawn because she's took a bribe or something like that. 125 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:03.600 The idea that a Trump appointee is tainted somehow and shouldn't be allowed to 126 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:09.120 hear cases involving Trump, of course, is a croc legally speaking, because 127 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.480 as we've seen many times in other Donald Trump cases, a Democrat appointed judges 128 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:18.440 and Democrat DA's have gone after him hammer and tong, and nobody has a 129 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:24.279 legitimate basis for criticizing that fact. You know, you look at every decision 130 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:26.879 separately and say was that fair? You know, the appellate courts will sort 131 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:30.320 it out if it isn't. So, yeah, Jack Smith is going to 132 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.000 say, this is the last straw. She's made a bunch of stupid pro 133 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.440 Trump decisions. Let's get rid of her. But you can't do that in 134 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.279 the federal system. You can't strike anybody the no free strikes like we have 135 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.799 in the state court system here in California. You have to just put up 136 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:48.120 with the judge unless there's something really egregious that would justify recusal or dismissal, 137 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:56.960 like a drinking problem. Yeah, that's a good example. One of the 138 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.000 sort of underlying issues in this case has always been the time that they kept 139 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:05.039 getting pushed back and push back. This is never going to see the light 140 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.960 of day, I mean, and clearly not before November, right, Yeah, 141 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:11.600 So what happens now is the Jack Smith's going to go up to the 142 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:16.720 Eleventh Circuit. That's the problem for him. Seven of the twelve judges that 143 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.120 the the Eleventh Circuit are appointed by Republican presidents, five by Democrats, and 144 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:22.879 then whoever loses there goes up to the US Supreme Court. All this is 145 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:26.440 going to take months and years, and as you say, if Donald Trump's 146 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:31.360 elected, then his new Attorney general will of course dismiss all the Trump related 147 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.080 cases. He could even pardon himself as to the federal charges, not state. 148 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:39.360 But yeah, from a timing standpoint, you know, this is tremendous 149 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:43.720 news for Donald Trump. Royal Oaks. Thank you for the breakdown. Appreciate 150 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:48.559 it, you bet, thanks Royle. Of course, ABC News legal analysts, 151 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.320 we just got word. Also I mentioned the breaking news that RFK Junior 152 00:10:52.399 --> 00:11:00.279 will be getting Secret Service protection Kimberley Guilfoyle due to her face. Gosh, 153 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.840 it's like Michael Jackson, I mean, what a beautiful girl. And then 154 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:09.440 she I don't know what that is. That is clearly some things have been 155 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:15.200 done. She didn't need to do anything. Her face makes a lot of 156 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.799 noise. I don't want you to do that. I shan't. The FBI 157 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:24.159 is also saying now they have been able to access the shooter's phone. Okay, 158 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.639 there were problems getting into it apparently, but they have been able to 159 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:33.799 unlock the phone. So this hopefully could bring some sort of information, some 160 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:39.200 sort of pulling back the curtain as to potential motive for why he took shots 161 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.120 at former President Trump, why he ended up killing a bystander and putting two 162 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.600 others in the hospital. His father said, I don't know what the hell 163 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:50.039 is going on. I mean, it was a complete shock. Apparently. 164 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:54.279 His dad told police that the son told him on Saturday that he was headed 165 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.879 to the gun range. Okay, that doesn't mean I'm headed to go shoot 166 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:05.399 the president or president. So there's plenty more. Again, the biggest news, 167 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:07.759 how do you choose which is which of these is the biggest news? 168 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.279 Can we go with the most recent biggest news, which is the vice presidential 169 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:16.960 pick? J Van. I don't think anything's bigger than an assassination attempt we 170 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:20.559 know nothing about more than forty eight hours later. Still, still, that's 171 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:26.879 a good point. The second most important news, perhaps is that President former 172 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:33.639 president Trump has chosen vice president his vice president candidate as JD. Vance, 173 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:39.080 the senator from Ohio. Former President Trump survived as an assassination attempt on Saturday. 174 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:46.720 Everybody immediately called for the turning down of the temperature. Let's let's lower 175 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:48.440 the rhetoric a little bit. We're getting a little crazy. And this is 176 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:56.720 a completely expected manifestation of all of that. And we heard that campaign itself, 177 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.080 the Biden Harris campaign was going to kind of pull back at least a 178 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.440 little bit, because they were actually canceling events today and tomorrow that both the 179 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:11.720 president and vice president were supposed to be doing campaign events in order to Usually, 180 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:16.799 by the way, it's kind of a given that the opposing party tamps 181 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:24.240 down their campaign during the convention for the other party, well, just a 182 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:26.919 few moments ago we found out that JD. Vance, the Senator from Ohio, 183 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.840 has been chosen as Trump's vice presidential running mate, and Joe Biden's Twitter 184 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:35.600 account because he ain't doing it. Just a few minutes ago, wrote here's 185 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.639 the deal about jd Vance. He talks a big game about working people, 186 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:45.559 but now he and Trump want to raise taxes on middle class families while pushing 187 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.399 more tax cuts for the rich. Well, I don't intend to let them. 188 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.639 And if you're with me, pitch in, and then of course you 189 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:54.720 can click and donate to the Biden Harris campaign. So they're still they're still 190 00:13:54.919 --> 00:14:01.120 dropping some campaign issues out there. You said that they had this guy's phone, 191 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.240 a twenty year old shooter. There was a retired law enforcement expert that 192 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:11.120 was on the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force that said to Fox that modern technology 193 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:18.799 can complicate the effort to discover the motive. That there are roadblocks up to 194 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:22.399 breaking into these phones. He said, today in modern day America and criminal 195 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:28.240 investigations just inherently require the access or the use of these digital devices. No 196 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:31.720 crime is committed without the criminal having evidence on a cell phone or some kind 197 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.799 of digital device. A problem comes with trying to break into the device, 198 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.240 he said. Getting into an encrypted device proves to be difficult, even if 199 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:46.320 that phone is in the hands of the country's top agents. Certain companies like 200 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:48.639 Apple. Of course we've talked about this ad nauseum can get into any of 201 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:54.159 these devices. I think that the privacy rights kind of go out the window 202 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:58.559 here when you're talking about the assassination attempt of a former president, right well, 203 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:03.360 and all this after the attack in Sam Bernardino, we saw this very 204 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.320 similar. The FBI announced, in fact that they were unable to unlock one 205 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.120 of the phones that they had recovered because of the security features, and Apple 206 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:15.279 was like, yeah, that's why they're called security features. It's just odd 207 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:20.840 that no social media posts have been drudged up, that the phone hasn't been 208 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:28.000 able to be gotten into. Yet, it leaves a lot of room for 209 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:33.000 theories. That's the thing, is that that that vacuum. And I wonder 210 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:37.639 where this was twenty years ago. I mean, I wonder what what's the 211 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:41.159 right way to put this? I wonder what the mechanism for it would have 212 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:45.919 been. Twenty years ago, we would not have had the expectation of immediate 213 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.320 news, immediate video, immediate audio that we do today. It's odd because 214 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:54.600 the FBI came out more than fourteen hours ago and said that this guy acted 215 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:58.799 alone. How do you know that? How can you say that, especially 216 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:03.360 if you can't get into the phone and you can't see what all of his 217 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:08.000 encrypted communicay was. Well, listen. I actually struggled with that on Saturday 218 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.440 a bit. I think we were talking about it off the air when I 219 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:17.080 was saying, you know, within an hour of the original attack, there 220 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:21.120 were still questions about what was what was he aiming at? I mean, 221 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:26.279 was he shooting into the crowd and the president got nicked, or was he 222 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.480 actually aiming at the president? Was this an actual assassination attempt? And I 223 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:36.120 think there's still I mean, because the guy's dead, because we don't have 224 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:41.039 those answers, that lack of information, that vacuum, of course is going 225 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.720 to be filled by people with conspiracy theories. But are they conspiracy theories if 226 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:49.519 I don't know. I mean, there's there's so much that's going on with 227 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:55.320 the story that's pretty I just find it interesting there's so little information about such 228 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:02.519 a massive story. Yeah. The only other thing that I've really seen is 229 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:06.839 that it's official now that the Secret Service Director, Kim Cheadle, will be 230 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:12.519 talking to the House Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability Monday morning. James Comer, 231 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.920 in a statement said the United States Secret Service has a no fail mission, 232 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.559 yet it failed on Saturday, and we're talking about that with Steve and 233 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:27.279 I mentioned that on Saturday. Just the idea that counter terrorism organizations, law 234 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:33.960 enforcement organizations, and groups have to be successful percent of the time. Yes, 235 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.720 and it takes a terrorists or in this case of potential assassin one time. 236 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:42.000 They have to be right one time in order to succeed at what they 237 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:48.039 do. So this is where where is the crack? Where was the crack? 238 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:52.319 How do you figure out where to pin this? And is there some 239 00:17:53.079 --> 00:18:00.559 person individual responsible? Is it just somebody who gave up their posts for some 240 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:06.279 reason or was this guy able just to exploit simple mistakes that were made. 241 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.319 I mentioned the building where this guy scrambled onto the roof and opened fire. 242 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:14.920 He in fact was able to somehow get on top of this building despite the 243 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:18.160 fact it was a staging area for the local police tactical team that was doing 244 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:23.400 overwatch of the crowd. Sources had previously told ABC News and NBC News in 245 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:29.319 fact that the building had been swept, but investigators trying to figure out whether 246 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:33.000 roof access had been properly locked down, The gunman did get access to the 247 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:38.680 roof without a ladder, According to some sources that had been briefed on exactly 248 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:44.519 what happened, Well, it looks like you can kind of crawl, like 249 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:48.759 there's multi level buildings that lead up to that roof, Like there's a shed, 250 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.319 exap on the shed shed, get onto the roof, right, But 251 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:56.759 that's three there, neither here nor there isn't it. How he got up 252 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:00.240 under the roof? How did he get up onto the roof undetected? Well 253 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.319 rifle? I think the other the images that we talked that we saw come 254 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:11.000 out from late Saturday were images behind the president. You could see Secret Service 255 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:15.000 snipers on the buildings behind the President, and they seemed to be looking in 256 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:22.599 the direction of from where the shots came. But that doesn't mean that they 257 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:25.720 knew what they were looking at, or that they knew that there was a 258 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:27.240 shooter over there. And I mean a lot of people have been saying, 259 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:30.799 oh, they had them in their sights and they didn't have the ok to 260 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:34.599 shoot. But when I talked to the former director of the FBI on Saturday 261 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:38.720 night, a former assistant director, he was saying, there's no way that 262 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:45.960 they would wait a guy dressed in civilian clothing hiding pointing a weapon at the 263 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:51.440 president. Because the snipers are all pointed out that way, there's no reason 264 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:53.119 why somebody, even if they were on a sniper team, would have their 265 00:19:53.119 --> 00:20:00.920 gun pointed towards the president. So the question became what what would they have 266 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:07.480 waited for that. There's some explanation in there about what the snipers saw or 267 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.559 were looking for looking through their scopes. Did they have the guy in their 268 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:15.440 sights? They weren't wait? Were they waiting for the go no, go 269 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:22.720 for launch? Whatever? I mean. There's hopefully some of the information would 270 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.880 come out from the Secret Service briefing that's supposed to take place for some members 271 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.000 of Congress today, but the public hearing will be on Monday. Let's go 272 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:34.759 down the list of the things that happened just today, Okay that have nothing 273 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:38.599 to do well, some of them have everything to do with the assassination attempt 274 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:44.720 from Saturday. But just today, right before the show started, we found 275 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:49.920 out that the classified Documents case had been thrown out, the case against former 276 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:55.440 President Trump. The judge in that case, Judge Allen Cannon, decided basically 277 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:00.480 that Jack Smith, the Special Council, had been unconstitutionally pointed to take the 278 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:08.200 case. Several politicians are suggesting that Jack Smith appeal that decision and take this 279 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:12.480 thing back up to this or take this case specifically to the Supreme Court so 280 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:15.200 that they can make a decision on that. So that's one thing that happened 281 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:22.440 today. The Biden campaign says that it was suspending it's fifty million dollar ad 282 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:27.599 blitz because of what happened on Saturday. But if you remember the news that 283 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:34.440 came out last week, it was that the big donors said ninety million in 284 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:41.640 campaign pledged donations are frozen until you remove him. That this was not the 285 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:45.400 campaign saying, you know what, out of respect for Donald Trump, we're 286 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:48.920 not going to run those ads. This is they can't get into the accounts 287 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.720 to run the ads. They can't get into the money that it's that the 288 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:57.319 fifty million dollar ad blitz would cost. That's funny. That's a better version 289 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:00.240 of it. I mean, that's their is that, oh, we're not 290 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.160 going to run these ads. You know, we're going to be a kinder, 291 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:10.559 gentler campaign. Beloney that money's frozen. The Republican National Convention started in 292 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:15.000 Milwaukee. Former President Trump is in Wisconsin, despite the fact that he was 293 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:21.359 shot in the ear on Saturday in that assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. They officially 294 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:26.039 nominated him to be the Republican candidate coming up in November, and we just 295 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:33.799 found out a short time ago that the vice presidential running mate will be James 296 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:37.599 David Bowman. That was his first name before he was then adopted by his 297 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:44.359 mother's third husband, James David Vance. JD. Vance the senator, junior 298 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:48.759 Senator from the Great State of Ohio. He just was elected last year, 299 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:55.279 just assumed office January third elected in twenty two and then took office of the 300 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:59.559 twenty three. Of course, came to prominence with the memoir from several years 301 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:06.200 ago called Hillbilly Elegy. He at once called Trump America's hitler, said he 302 00:23:06.279 --> 00:23:10.559 was a giant fraud all of the things, and then kind of came around. 303 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:14.640 Yeah, like I said, he's there are some things that he's probably 304 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:17.400 had to explain. Man, you know, this is a guy who worked 305 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.519 and went to Yale Law School, worked in Silicon Valley. Yes, he 306 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:25.480 comes from the Appalachia, but he also surrounded himself after he got out of 307 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:30.200 there with the elite. He talks about that in the book and it's been 308 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:33.559 years since I read it, but I believe he talks about that about how 309 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:37.640 he saw Donald Trump become president and he and his friends were like, what, 310 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:41.640 how did this happen? You know, because they're in their elite bubbles. 311 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:45.440 And he goes back to his home and he talks to the people he 312 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.559 grew up with. He talks to family members who have been struggling with loss 313 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:55.839 of jobs and addiction from the opioid crisis and just being helpless and realize that 314 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:59.799 there are so many parts of the country that the elite don't listen to are 315 00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:03.799 they they are not exposed to. And that made so much sense to me 316 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.640 that just because you have one experience in life doesn't mean that that's the experience 317 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:12.200 everybody has. You have no idea what the struggles are for people in Appalaysia 318 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:17.519 where the the jobs have dried up. You know, they look at the 319 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:21.920 career politicians, They look at the Joe Bidens or Barack Obama's as people that 320 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:26.359 are so out of touch with their life. It's interesting because we've said before 321 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:33.039 is what does Donald Trump know about somebody from rural steel mill, Ohio. 322 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:37.880 I mean, he talks plainly, He doesn't talk above them. That's the 323 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:42.200 problem they have with the elite politicians is that they You can't bs these people 324 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:47.480 right. They've lived in bs their whole life. They can see right through 325 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:51.200 you. It's why a Gavin Newsom is never going to be president because he 326 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:55.279 comes across his phony. Donald Trump goes into these towns and he talks like 327 00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:59.680 a person like he talks like a normal He talks like one of them. 328 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:04.920 JD. Vance joined the Marine Corps as a combat correspondent in the Iraq War. 329 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:08.000 He was in the public affairs division of the second Marine Aircraft Wing. 330 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:15.039 Went to Ohio State the Ohio State, graduated with BA in political science, 331 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:22.000 graduated summa cum laud his political science and philosophy. After graduating, he went 332 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:25.480 to Yale Law School. He was an editor at the Yale Law Journal. 333 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:29.319 During his first year. One of the authors of Battle Him of the Tiger 334 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:32.599 Mother, persuaded him to write his own memoir, which, of course after 335 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:36.359 he gets his law degree in twenty thirteen, you're talking about Hillbilly Elogy, 336 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:41.839 the book that he ended up writing. So he considered it running for Senate 337 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:47.759 against Shared Brown, declined not to or decided not to, and Eventually he 338 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:53.000 ran for the seat that was vacated by Republican Rob Portman, and as we 339 00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:57.240 said, was elected in twenty two, sworn into the Senate January third, 340 00:25:57.319 --> 00:26:04.079 twenty twenty three. Very little government experience, at least political experience in terms 341 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:10.079 of his time in the Senate. But he's there and that is going to 342 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:14.920 be his JD Vance will be Donald Trump's running mate. We don't know much 343 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:18.000 about what the plan is for the rest of the day. At the Republican 344 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.839 National Convention, they're still doing their role call and he's still I should say, 345 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:26.680 they are still piling up the delegates that they need. They only needed 346 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:29.880 twelve hundred and fifteen to win. They're well over twenty two hundred now. 347 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:37.920 His wife is the daughter of Indian immigrants Usha think about her, Usha Chilli 348 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:45.119 Curry Vance. She was born in San Diego and the two met at Yale 349 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:51.519 and then she went on to get her masters in philosophy Cambridge. Yeah, 350 00:26:51.680 --> 00:27:00.119 yeah, wow, but very very accomplished wife. There's enough for a JD 351 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:04.480 Vance that he brings to the ticket. He's not going to be a distraction. 352 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:08.440 Perhaps, I think that obviously Democrats are going to have plenty of things 353 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:12.720 to pick on him about. Campaign wise, Well, he's very conservative, 354 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:18.119 very anti abortion. I think he at one point advocated for that federal ban 355 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.160 at fifteen weeks, but has done the Donald Trump thing where he says, 356 00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:25.359 no, it should be left up to the states. But yeah, they're 357 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:29.759 not gonna like anybody. Was there ever going to be a pick Donald Trump 358 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:33.559 made where Democrats would be like, oh, okay, Well, I thought. 359 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:38.160 Another big announcement came out of the Department of Homeland Security. They said 360 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:45.599 that they will be providing RFK Junior with Secret Service detail after more than a 361 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:48.000 year. I believe of him asking for it. Of course, the part 362 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:52.599 of it was back when he was said he might run as a Democrat for 363 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:56.000 president, then he decided to run as an independent. So, man, 364 00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:57.799 a lot going on today, and I'm sure we're going to see it all 365 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:03.160 week as we continue our coverage, of course of the Republican National Convention from 366 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.519 two thousand miles away. But we'll have a good time talking about everything that's 367 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:11.880 going on all around the world. I just got a text from someone. 368 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:19.680 You guys, go into either convention. 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