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last time. Nick, Welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show. Hey
Brian, how you doing great to be here? I'm doing well, man,
always want on a Tuesday talking to bright Bart and I appreciate again what
you guys do, and let me ask you this, we're gonna talk about
it. It was a actually, I was gonna say, attempted assassination.
The attempted assassination at least in so far as Donald Trump is concerned, but
an actual assassination if you give a nod. And to the courageous man who
was Corey Competoi, the fireman who got shot by the sniper. But moving
over to what information we have now, and I guess I've been summarizing it
from my military friends, most simply as a Charlie foxtrot. There seems to
have been a colossal epic failure across the board in so far as Secret Service
and its coordination of protection efforts with local law enforcement. And I woke up
this morning to find out that the local outlet there wpx I, reporting that
Thomas Crooks, the murderer, was spotted on that building twenty six minutes before
you open fire, and a police officer from the Beaver County Emergency Service Unit
even took a photo of him before the shooting started. We learned yesterday that
a local law enforcement officer even climbed up on the building saw him and was
frightened away when Crooks turned around and pointed his rifle at him, after which
he started opening fire. I mean, did they not have comms with Secret
Service? But finally today I found out that that whole that building there that
he was on top of was a watch post for snipers from the local local
police. What is not wrong with this thing? Nick No, I mean
there's a lot, there's a lot seemingly wrong with this. And you know,
Speaker Mike Johnson said, Kimberly Cheedlebaden's USS Secret Service chief. You know,
she she bases a hearing on Monday, and she quote has a lot
to answer for, according to the Speaker of the House. So I mean,
yeah, Thomas Matthew Crooks, the fact that this was able to happen
is horrifying. The fact that he was able to get in such close proximities
as the president. And this report about this officer that climbed the roof and
climbed the ladder up to the roof and went down, it's also just very
chilling, and it just paints this picture of a it's really concerning that this
was this happened, this was allowed to happen or not allowed to happen.
But but but the atmosphere for this to happen very extremely concerning and and you
know, obviously I'm here at the R and C right now. We have
some heightened security here, which thankfully after the events on Saturday where we almost
saw the leading presidential Kennedy United States murdered on national television. But yeah,
no, it's it's there's a lot to answer for here in terms of the
security security greeches that went on. Well, you know, I'm going to
call you out and maybe a freudy and slip nick you said, allowed this
to happen. And I know a lot of my in the listening audience,
you know, immediately come up with conspiracy theories. But you know that's why,
that's why I corrected me terminology. But it's just giving you a little
bit of a hard time. But the failure on so many levels, even
as someone like me who is not an expert in protective services. I mean,
if I've seen some my friends in law enforcement who's like, oh,
just like that, everybody's an expert in protective services and site security. I
do shoot, and I have shot on many many occasions of modern sport rifle,
including one very similar to the one used by this murderous punk thug,
A five five six AR fifteen style rifle. And it is easy. Me.
I'm not a marksman, but I point out it's very easy for even
you know, someone moderately trained in firearms to hit a target at two hundred
yards. He was a lot. He was like fifty yards closer than that.
That to me stands out as an obvious site to be you know,
tended to by law enforcement outside the perimeter, inside the perimeter, local law
enforcement, secret service. I don't care. It's a direct line of sight
place for someone to set up a shot. Oh lo and behold, that's
what happens. Yeah, it's the location of where he was and everything.
It's really flabbergasting that he was able to get up. And that's extremely concerning.
And you know, we definitely want to see heightened security here for the
leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump going forward. And you know, it's it's
another thing too. The Biden administration was denying, you know, secret service
for Robert F. Kennedy, whose father and uncle were both assassinated in and
and then you know, all of a sudden, Trump calls for Kennedy to
have secret service yesterday, and the Biden administration accommodated. Reportedly, so it's
it's which is good. I mean that, I know, we don't want
to go back to a place where we're in the sixties there, you know,
where where political leaders are getting assassinated, and it's just so concerning to
see that in today's climate where we almost we almost saw it, and we
saw an attempt and it hit the president in the ear inches from from causing
you know, irreparable damage. It's just extremely, extremely concerning. I would
say less than an inch by all accounts. Anyway, you are at the
RNC and we had a report from one of our local commissioners and she's going
to give us a report later as well. What was the atmosphere like yesterday?
I know it was sort of a formality for the delegates to hand over
the votes and supported Donald Trump, but the announcement of JD. Vans,
I think everybody was kind of sitting on pins and needles waiting for that to
show up. And any surprise that it was JD. Vans from your part
or the group or what was the mood after the announcement by the delegates?
Yeah, I mean I think for a long time it was down to those
final three, right, Burgram Vance and Marco Rubio, and I think especially
when the motorcade showed up at Vance's house yet yesterday, I mean it's still
the President hadn't made this official announcement, but it looked more and more so
that it was going to be JD. And I think things are electric here
right now on the ground. I think everybody's really really, really happy with
the choice. I think people are really excited that JD is a young guy
and he's you know, I would say the most one of the most popular
senators in the United States Senate. So I think, you know, he
he comes from that you know, Hillbilly lg. He comes from. He
is, you know, the forgotten man and woman. That's the community he
grew up in, and so that's that's where he hails from. I think
he's a great in my opinion, the fantastic things. Yeah, and its
absolutely electric on the grounds here after after JD was selected, and I'm guessing
that Trump his appeal to the you know, the hard the blue collar worker,
the working man and woman kind of class. Does he have any appeal
outside of say the Midwest. I know there was some concern express that,
well, okay, there was no problem for Trump in Ohio he's leading and
has been. It's a red state, and it may have some impact for
the folks in Pennsylvania given its proximity in West Virginia. But really, I
mean, can he get voters outside of the mid West? I mean,
what's what's your reaction to that? My reaction, I think he can,
I think, especially since he's I think he can make inwards with young voters
especially, And I think, you know, I'm not necessarily sure, you
know, like the traditional presidential pick, where you know, you pick somebody
based off of geographical reasons you think you can win that state, or that
you know they think they're good foiled to the ticket. I think that's not
or a good counterparts of the ticket, you know, to unify the party.
But maybe it isn't like the most in sync with the president. I
think that, you know, maybe those days aren't as essentially important or that
strategy isn't these days where you know, things are much more We're much more
connected society now with with how media is developed and everything, so especially I
think over the past couple of elections, and Donald Trump has said too that
he doesn't think that that's a factor in making his decisions is well coming off
the heels of the efforts to assassinate Donald Trump on Saturday. His youth,
might that be a liability perhaps for Donald Trump, Keiven, Donald Trump is
a senior person, and of course the possibility that the vice president might have
to take over obviously it's on full display right now with Joe Biden. But
that his youth and quote unquote inexperience might be a problem or a drag on
the ticket. Your reaction, I don't think there would be a drag on
the ticket at all. I think JD is a very sharp guy. He's
extremely well spoken, and I think, you know, he's really coming to
his own, you know, after a couple of years in the Senate here,
and I don't think he'll drag down the ticket at all. I think
he's a great compliment to the ticket, fair enough. I mean, we
can always point back to Barack Obama, who is not exactly filled with experience
when he was nominated and then elected as president. Yeah exactly. He was
what elected in two thousand and six, did you know, a year and
a half and then launched his bids for the presidency and made it so Yeah,
there's anybody on the left that wants to try and make that type of
argument too, you know, or just point to Obama, you know,
knock yourself out. Good luck on that one. My guess. Today Capitol
will report of Nick gilbertson which you can find online at Brightbart dot com,
which I encourage you to do. What's on the plate for the balance of
the week, Nick, I mean, of all, is mostly the fun
and festivities over or we got some bigger things on the plate that we need
to look out for. Yeah, absolutely, we got big stuff coming this
week. You know, Donald Trump's going to officially accept the nomination on Thursday.
Jivance is going to give his big speech on Wednesday. So a big
week ahead we got. You know, we're just getting started here and you
know there's a bazillion events going around here taking place too, so and obviously
breat Bart News if you go there. We're having live interviews and recorded interviews
all day long on our Facebook pages and on our website Great Part dot com
with you know, real big hitters. So we had some great interviews yesterday,
so and we got more coming all we oh yeah, definitely tuned in
there and we'll be uh, we'll be turning them out with some big players.
Nick Coverson, one more question for we part company. I should have
asked it earlier. Protesters are you know? I keep thinking of the sixty
eight convention for the Democrats and maybe a replay coming our way in August with
them many many protest groups have already said they're signing up and they're planning on
raising hell in Chicago. What's going on relative to protesters at the Republican Convention
anything. There's been some protesters, some skill, but but I don't think
it's anything. It's nothing compared to what we're going to see in Chicago.
I'd like to say. I think Time reported that there were ten thousand and
sixty eight, ten thousand protesters in Chicago. There's reports that activists are telling
Politico that there's going to be thirty thousand, So, oh my god,
we know how sixty eight happened. Yeah, so, and they have an
extremely divided party right now. So that's it's going to be something else in
Chicago next month in August. I'll be there too, so I'll good there.
Where are your flat jacket, Nick Gilbertson, Nick, you can find
at brightbart dot com. Capitol Hill reporter Nick, I look forward to having
you on the program again. It's best of health and enjoy the balance of
the convention. Thanks. I have a great one My pleasure eight eighteen fifty
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