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pop into FI Serve arena there in
Milwaukee singing the national anthem, John Stanford,

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as they get ready to kick things
off. They just officially gabble it

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in here in just a few moments, this Republican National Convention. Rich McHugh

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is a correspondent for News Nation and
joined us now and Rich, like we've

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been saying, no shortage of things
to talk about and write in time for

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the kickoff of the RNC. Oh
my god, the amount of stuff that

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have happened since just since Friday is
hard to even believe. You know,

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with the document's case and Trump shooting, there's a lot going on. Well,

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first of all, I'm curious,
I know how our organization is handling

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this. Are you guys just all
hands on deck right now for these events

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for the next few days? Pretty
much we are. We're spread all over,

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We're concentrated. Many people are in
Milwaukee. I'm not Milwaukee, but

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there's people covering, you know,
the drilling down the shooting in DC on

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hand in Pennsylvania, and so yes, we are spread all over the place.

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Rich you're an investigative reporter. You
were a supervising producer for NBC when

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you and Ronan Pharaoh dug and broke
the story about Harvey Weinstein, which was

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the floodgates opening for a number of
people in Hollywood and elsewhere in terms of

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their bad behavior. When you look
at what happened on Saturday and with the

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Secret Service and what appears to be
a glaring failure, what do you think

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is going to happen to that story
in terms of an investigation and if we

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find out the answers. Well,
thank you for that introduction. I appreciate.

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I think there's going to be many
investigations. I know that the FBI

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is investigating, I know the Secret
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be doing their own investigating. I
think it will be weeks, if not

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months. I spoke with four different
secrets former Secret Service members yesterday, and

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pretty much they all said roughly the
same thing, which is, there are

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limitations to their abilities on site.
Now, they weren't excusing it, they

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were saying this is horrific, but
they're saying at a certain point they establish

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a perimeter, there are multiple perimeters
in this case they have to work with.

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In every case, they have to
work with local and state affilled authorities.

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And in the they were clear to
make to say, look, they

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were not there and they don't have
independent knowledge of what happened there, but

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clearly there was a breakdown in communication
at the very least in communication between the

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local, state and the Secret Service
because the shooter should I said, how

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did the shooter even get within one
hundred and fifty yards? It's absolutely crazy,

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And they said, look, they
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member stationed to that building because it's
technically outside the perimeter, but somebody you

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can bad from local and state authorities
were assigned to that building. And how

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that information was not transferred to Secret
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focus of the whole thing, the
inquiry will be on. Now, there

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is also a site security plan that
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the weeks leading up to these things, so that will be a focus.

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It will They said, look,
when you get this site security plan,

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they'll say XYZ person was assigned to
this building, and we'll tell you right

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there and then drill down further and
say, you know, was that person

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doing anything? Did they alert anybody? What happened? That's all. It's

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a lot. Yeah, I mean, I just I feel like we want

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answers yesterday, you know, we
want answers on Saturday. And like you

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said, these investigations take time,
and I think they've got to give us

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something leading up to that about how
this failure could have happened. Yeah,

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it's hard. It's hard to comprehend. I believe in this day and age,

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with all the cell phones and all
the technology. There's videos coming out

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now which seems to be very reliable. You see these, there's a dozen

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people pointing to the shooter on the
top of this building. You even hear

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what sounds like one of them talking
to authorities saying there's a guy up there.

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And how in this day and age
can can that happen? Where somebody

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can get on a roof with an
ar rifle one hundred and fifty yards from

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a former president just kind of boggles
the mind in this day and but it

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happened. And so my sense is
that in talking to these former agents,

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their former secret service, is that
there's going to have to be some real

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soul searching going on and possibly changes
going forward, because if somebody is establishing

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a heart and fifty year perimeter,
that's simply just not far enough clearly as

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evidence about what happens. The expectation
I saw was that Secret Service officials,

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I don't know if it's going to
be the head of the Secret Service herself

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or somebody below her, but that
they would be briefing some members of Congress

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as early as today on what happened. Again, a briefing, not a

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hearing that we expect next week.
Do you think we might get some nuggets

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of information from members of Congress who
would leak some of that stuff. I

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think so, because I heard that
that meeting is happening, and there's a

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lot of a lot of people in
that meeting. Apparently it was briefing the

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head of From what I heard,
the head of the Secret Service was going

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to be on that meeting via zoom, but there were many people, everybody

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close to the president, I believe, members of Congress. So yes,

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I think we will hear something,
not officially, but you can bet we'll

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hear something leaked from people who were
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give us a sense of is the
Secret Service placing the blame at the local

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and state authorities. It sounds like
the local and state authorities. The district

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attorney of that county is basically saying, look, let's call it spate of

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Spade. The Secret Service is in
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it's not us. So it seems
like there's already a division happening. Rich

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McHugh from News Nation, thanks so
much, great analysis. Thank you you've

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read it. One of the things
that came up during the news at the

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top of the hour, ABC was
reporting that that building where the gunman was

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on the roof so close to President
Trump on Saturday, actually was a staging

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area for the local police tactical team
that was doing overwatch of the crowd.

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So from a staging area it became
abandoned. It doesn't make sense that this

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guy was able to get anywhere near
there. I mean, there's got they

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have to be able to find something
else. You don't walk into a staging

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areas surrounded by cops with a rifle
and then it's just abandoned and he's the

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only one that remains. Was he
there? Was he lying in wait?

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Was he there early did he get
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that I mean, they were there
days before. Anytime the Secret Service scopes

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out an event like this, especially
an outdoor venue, they're gonna be there

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days before. We get more answer
quicker. When there's a standoff in Resita,

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then we're getting here. And this
was the assassination attempt of a former

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president and the current front runner to
be the next president. We're going to

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need more answers and it's going to
have to be done quicker. Sources have

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told Fox that Marco Rubio has been
told he is not the father all.

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I'm sorry, he is not the
vice presidential pick. So the understanding is

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that former President Trump will announce his
vice presidential running mate sometime today, and

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they got as specific as saying it's
probably going to be the one o'clock hour

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hour time when he makes his announcement. The judge overseeing the classified documents case

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has dismissed that case, saying that
Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed to oversee that

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thing. And the Republican National Convention
started in Milwaukee a short time ago.

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Well, a man died at that
rally on Saturday, and he is being

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remembered sparingly. He should be remembered
more. Obviously, the attempted assassination of

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a former president gets the headline,
but this was a man from Pennsylvania who

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was diving to protect his family when
he heard the shots rung out. Corey

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was a girl dad, Corey was
a firefighter. Corey went to church every

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Sunday. Corey loved his community.
Most especially, Corey loved his family.

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That was Josh Shapiro, the governor
there, who spent time with Corey's family,

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obviously thanked the family for Corey's service
and just talked about the idea that

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political violence is what took him out. Political disagreements can never ever be addressed

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through violence. Disagreements are okay,
but we need to use a peaceful political

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process to settle those differences. The
assassination attempt on the former president Donald Trump

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last night was absolutely unacceptable and tragic. Laurie and I are grateful that the

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former president is safe. President former
President Trump has authorized a go Fundme page

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for donations to the people killed or
wounded in that attempt. So far,

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it has raised what do you think, give me a figure, what do

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you think? It's raised a million? Four point two million dollars. Now,

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that shows how much support the former
president has. That's that's maybe not

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about that unfortunate situation and murder of
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That's all Trump based muscle right there. And I think it also is something

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to mention that I have noticed in
my own social media at least three posts

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from people who said they were on
the fence or they didn't this wasn't their

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candidate. They weren't enthusiastic about going
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They were going to hold their nose. But now he's one hundred percent their

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candidate. They're not saying that quietly. I mentioned this because they're not saying

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it quietly to their husband behind closed
doors. They're publicly talking about it.

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That's a great point because it would
be a week ago there were probably people

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you and I both know people who
would have said, yeah, I'm going

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to but I'm not going to talk
about I'm going to vote for Trump.

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But I'm not going to talk about
it because I don't I don't want my

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friends to know, or I don't
want to get who to get into arguments

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with people or lose friendships over who
you vote. For for President. Nicole

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Shanahan is a r FK Junior's vice
presidential running mate. She donated a bunch

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of money to that as well.
She posted that she did that that would

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be wait a minute, now,
that would be quite a pick if he

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chose r FK Junior. Oh interesting, I mean if if like we heard

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earlier in the show from one of
the one of the campaign surrogates that she

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believed that there's going to be some
sort of a significant surprise. I mentioned

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that Fox had been reporting that Marco
Rubio was told he's not the VP.

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CNN is reporting Doug Bergham has been
told he is not the father. Okay,

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so this is like Maury Povinch got
me a Manila envelope. So so

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you're down to whatever I mean.
Jd Vance obviously is one of the others

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that has been remaining. Those those
three, Marco Rubio, Doug Berghaman,

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and Jade Vance were the three most
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You've got Tim Scott, You've probably
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I saw Glenn Youngkin was on some
people's list in terms of what it would

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be young Kin because I have such
a hard time saying his name young.

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That's the way you say onion,
isn't it? Oh, that's what it

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is. I put sandwiches, and
when I made sandwiches, I always used

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to put youngkins on them, youngkins, onions, onion, onionin. I

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don't know why I do that.
Glenn Ungin the governor. So we'll see.

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According to a couple of different sources, one o'clock today, at some

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point in that one o'clock hour is
when President Trump is going to announce former

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President Trump, let's be clear,
is going to announce who his vice presidential

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running mate would be. Again the
read what we will. But you know

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jd Vance has been like the Trump
family favorite, right, and they got

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pressure because they thought they were going
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So they were talking about a woman
or maybe Tim Scott or Mark Rubio.

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But now I think they know that
they're teflon and so they get to pick

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whoever they want. And so they
get to pick another white man. So

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does he pick somebody who's going to
not overshadow him? I mean, they

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just picked their favorite, and jd
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I don't know about that. Marco
Rubio is doing a pretty good impression of

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time. Yeah, but Marco Rubio
also had a lot of insults toward Trump

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back, you know, years ago, so did so did jd. Vance.

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He had a couple of things that
are going to come up in conversation

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that were not as supportive of Trump. Granted it was eight years ago and

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a lot of people can change between
them between now and then. But I

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think JD. Vance is one of
those people who kind of was able to

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be wooed by Trump that he thought
he wasn't going to like him, and

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then, you know, I think
that Trump likes that that he's once Jade

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Vance got to know him, that
he saw the era in his ways or

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something. I will say. The
one thing about jd Vance that to me

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sticks out more than Doug Bergham's business
acumen or Marco Rubio's legislative congressional experience is

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that JD. Vance was a marine
or is a marine, is a former

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how do you say it? They're
never a former marine. He enlisted in

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the US Marine Corps, served as
a combat correspondent in the Iraq War,

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granted its public affairs in the Marine
Aircraft Wing. But it's more than all

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these other guys did from Ohio,
went to Yale as a lawyer, all

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the things, all the things.
Steve Gregory is basically a cop joins us.

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Now about that, now, Steve, when you hear tactical staging area,

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is that something that is a busy
hive of activity hours before the event

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and then everyone takes their post and
leaves that area abandoned? Not necessarily.

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I mean a lot of these cases, you're always going to have someone behind

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at a post because that's the central
gathering point for one, and that's the

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clearinghouse for information for two. So
you're going to have a command post.

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You'll have a you know, whether
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post, you'll always have a command
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that's off site so that you've always
got independent operational advantage so it's not that

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close to the crisis or whatever the
case is. And in this particular case,

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you know, there's so much information
coming out right now, it's really

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hard to believe any one thing because
everyone's got an opinion and a view on

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this, including bystanders or bystanders.
And I know that the Secret Service is

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already starting to do some crisis communications
where they are implying that the local police

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department had jurisdiction over that particular slice
of the security, which is odd to

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me because the Secret Service has ultimate
control over the security. Now, does

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it sound like it could be too
many cooks in the kitchen. Shouldn't there

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be somebody who's in charge of all
the coordination? Well, I'm not going

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to speculate on this particular event because
I don't have any internal or intimate knowledge

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of its setup. I will tell
you, based on my experience that in

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cases like this, and I think
the three of us is we've covered a

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number of presidential events over our careers, and the one thing is for sure

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is that security is always very tight
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you can remember there was a couple
probably two to three weeks in advance that

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someone was out there. There's always
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the property, assess the weak points, the choke points, the ingress,

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the egress, medical, where do
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round? I mean they're doing all
of that in real time, and they're

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formulating the plan and listen the Secret
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at least they've been experts in trying
to figure all this out. I'm talking

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to a retired Secret Service agent to
this morning about all of this, because

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over the weekend, you know,
Gary knows, we were trying to get

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some people on from the Secret Service
past and present, and no one would

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come on to talk about this.
No one. And this retired guy I

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talked with this morning, I said, great, thanks for calling me back.

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I needed you Saturday, and he
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witnessed, there's no way I'm talking
about that. Yeah. I was going

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to say that seems like an indication
that even from three thousand miles away or

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however, you know, wherever these
retired Secret Service agents are, they could

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tell that this was a complete breakdown
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this, and I think that I
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pre work that goes into any event
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president, or you know, in
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that there's almost the two aspects of
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care that is put into securing a
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what happens in the event that the
gunshots are fired. The way I've seen

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it described is there's a clear breakdown
outside. But that body team, the

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team that's directly around the president,
that they did exactly what they're supposed to

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do. And I want to play
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that the moments after the shots were
fired, and I mean, because we

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have the audio here, we can
hear how quickly the agents did what they're

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supposed to do. Okay, so
from the first gun shot to the first

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get down is two seconds instructing the
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down, and they were on top
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Then supposedly they get word that the
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other shots, and then they get
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like you said, quickly get him
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them. Well, there was also
an assessment from another law enforcement person in

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a federal agency that said that while
you're you know what you're talking about,

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looking at it sort of in a
layman's point of view, but he said

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that there were a number of deficiencies
on how they handled him on stage.

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Yes, well, for me,
the thing that was so I don't know,

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you see is the word of grageous. But the fact that shots were

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fired, they get him down and
then his head and chest are exposed like

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that for how many seconds? And
somebody says to me, well, he

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was trying, he wanted to you
know, he he was resisting them,

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right, he was being defined,
He was being defined. He was resisting

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them trying to move him off the
stage. They need to do better at

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not letting that happen. And if
it's because we're we're not having secret service

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agents that are big enough to handle
a six y three, three hundred pound

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guy or whatever. I don't know
how much men weigh. He's a big

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guy, right, And if you
don't have secret service agents, way,

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I don't know. I don't know
men's weight can get your can we get

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yours? Well, you're strong,
you're strong. You know you have bone,

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you know, muscles and things and
bigger bones. Wow. Anyway,

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that's a deficiency in itself that they
don't have agents that can move a man

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that size, no matter what he's
doing. Right, Well, even if

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he tries to stay on that stage, you got to be able to move

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him out of there. I thought, you know, his head and chests

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exposed for that many seconds and did
not even an agent had put his forearm

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up. He was putting his forearm
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a weak point. Yeah, and
it almost looked like he had his hand

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his palm out over the top of
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again, in everyone's armchair quarterback in
this sure, yeah, and and

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and that's what we do. And
in this case, I have to lean

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on you know, people that have
done this many times before. And I'm

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being told there were a number of
deficiencies in this. And the excution was

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while and I think it was Dan
Bongino. I listened to and I don't

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typically listen to him because he can
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little off base, I mean,
a little extreme for me sometimes, but

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he is former Secret Service and I
wanted to listen to him. He had

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a very interesting take on this,
and he basically said this was failure,

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failure from the top down. His
assessment of this. He went one step

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further. He says, don't make
any mistake about this just because the the

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he had a word for it.
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president, just because he wasn't killed, we shouldn't be applotting. He said,

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we're not. This is this is
not a success for the secret exactly,

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not a success. And so he
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went down another kind of a rabbit
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interesting assessment from someone who used to

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do the job. And he said, quote, it's not the Secret Service

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I signed him for. Yeah,
I think that was It's embarrassment. You

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know, it's the same thing that
you saw after Uvaldi. People in law

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embrasement take their jobs very seriously,
and when they see somebody fail at that

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job, it's it's personal. Well, when the border patrol has to go

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in and take command of the school, yeah, that was. That was

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horrific. I'd like to be an
ambassador. I think that would be the

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coolest job, to be ambassador and
just fly back and forth between your country.

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I'd like to be ambassador of Portugal
so I can goa Portugal and Spain

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would be a good one. Yeah, United Kingdom, I wouldn't mind.

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I would do someplace like a Aruba. Really, I didn't think of you

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as a tropic. I didn't think
of you as dairy weather. Oh so

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you're making you're you're making a decision
based on the color of my hurricanes.

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Have you said, and how much
time you spend in the sun. Oh

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well, I can define. They
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I just don't see you with like
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not. I don't like them bros. They get in the way more.

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I think you're more of an ambassador
to Canada. I think you're more of

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Scotland or something Scotland Canada or Scotland. White people are in the background of

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the Republican National Convention. Of course, is the classified documents case against former

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President Trump dismissed today by Judge eLink
Eleene Cannon. The judge ruled that Special

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counsel Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional,
so she dismissed the case again. Some

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one of the issues similar to what
we've seen recently when Supreme Court cases are

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dismissed for standing. This is kind
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anything about the actual charges that the
president is facing about those classified documents,

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but just that Jack Smith's appointment was
unconstitutional. President Biden will sit down for

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a one on one tonight with Lester
Holt planned to interview, of course,

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on the heels of that attempt over
the week. It will air tonight at

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six pm our time. NBC News
and NBC at least last week they were

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promoting it as unedited that they were
going to do similar to what ABC News

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did, which was play the whole
thing beginning to end so that you can

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make your own decisions about it.
Steve Gregory has joined us. We're talking

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more about what's going on in the
aftermath of the attempt at assassination there in

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Pennsylvania, and there are we talked
earlier kind of a very brief idea of

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what could be increased, the security
that could be increased around the convention in

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Milwaukee. I mean, they're already
tightened down and we've seen that. It's

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like the super Bowl. I mean, if you've ever you guys have been

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to the super Bowl. I've never
been to the super Bowl. Mone please

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don't bring to the super Bowl.
Do not want to talk about the super

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Bowl. It's still a little oh
well, anyway, the security for the

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super Bowl is extremely tight too.
And it's just very similar to the convey

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because you know, the federal agencies
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law enforcement. And I don't think
people realize that there are California police agencies

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that are actually helping with security at
the convention, and that was already planned.

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It was a mutual aid request.
Troopers from the California Highway Patroller officers,

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Long Beach Police Department, Fresno,
I think, Bakersfield. There's some

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other agents. I think they're like
they're SWAT units and stuff. They're all

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being shipped out there and they're already
there. But you know, this is

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a pretty big undertaking and it'll be
interesting to see how all security from this

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moment forward on any event moving forward, because one of the things I was

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attempting to do over the weekend it
was, you know, I hadn't even

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be on the phone with some people
from counter terrorism at LAPD LA County Sheriff's

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Department. No one would talk.
LAPD Chief choice put a blackout on the

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media, and we Saturday, and
we still don't know really the motivation for

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that, right, I mean,
only the the only thing I could think

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of is that he didn't want the
LAPD mired in any potential political hot potato

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where everyone's in this conspiracy, and
he did. I don't think he wanted

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people go on and running the risk
of making an analysis about faulty security or

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anything. That's the only thing I
can think of. I think it's just

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cover your ass, yeah, because
then the headline becomes lap or whatever.

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Yeah, And I think that's what
he was doing, and that's probably smart

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on his part. But you know, in looking at how this works,

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that people don't realize that outside of
Washington, d C, Metro Virginia and

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Baltimore, LA is the number one
destination for electeds, and especially coming out

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of DC, this is the number
one destination Southern California. This is where

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all the money's at for campaigning,
and this is where all the support lies

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is. I mean, we're the
largest state. I mean, everyone,

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this is a huge destination for electeds. So that means the law enforcement agencies

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here in Southern California have got to
be the best of the best, and

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they are. I mean these guys, all of these guys here that that

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work swat special enforcement, all these
protection details, they're all at the level,

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if not higher than Secret Service and
they've got. I mean individual agencies

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around here would have their own protection
d of course LAPD, LA County sheriff.

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I mean they they remember all the
city council as a protection detail,

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the mayor obviously, the chief,
the sheriff, board of supervisors, you

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know, and they all have protection
details, not on the grand scale of

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what you might see in a presidential
situation with a motorcade and all that.

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You're not going to have still an
important job and roll. Yeah, you're

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not going to have six or eight
agents or officers that are in a helicont

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primary and yeah, you're not gonna
have all of that two helicopters in case

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wear maths. But you have one
suv and I think another suv with with

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staff and that's it. Yeah.
But the governor and you know, they're

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they're highly trained and they are highly
specialized in this kind of works. So

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I wanted to get their perspective on
how they prepare here. And that wasn't

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even good enough. I mean in
the fact that no one would talk about

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it, I think speaks volumes.
Yeah, the lack of I think they

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are all afraid to say the wrong
thing because they know there was a failure

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on some pretty high levels. Well, and they weren't there and they weren't

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privy to the plans. But the
same thing happened at Euvaldi. When I

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reached out to local here after Euvaldi
and you brought that example up, and

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they immediately were like, they were
saying, this is what we see,

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this is what we see. The
deficiencies are based on what we see,

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because remember, when we're looking at
video, we're not looking at it tactically.

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We're looking I don't even want to
be connected to it. You don't

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even want to be you know,
l a sheriff's department mentioned in the same

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sentence as Uvaldi policial. But when
a swap person, anyone that's highly specialized

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like that, looks at it,
they're looking at it through a completely different

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lens than we are, right,
and that's the lens I wanted us to

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find out about. So what are
you going to make your cheese ball?

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Are you waiting for me to have
people over to meet the dog? You're

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about eight months late. I know, I feel well, I had Super

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Bowl you just I was out of
state. There we go again, what

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a super Bowl? Sorry? How
would have been among friends? How security

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would. We would have hugged you
back into sanity. But no. What

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happened to the super Bowl? I
didn't even know. I've learned, but

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I didn't watch it. I don't
watch a super Bowl. It was three

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and a half quarters of goodness.
How was the security at your house?

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Very tight? As a drum you
have, except for the except for the

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rattlesnake that made its way into the
backyard this weekend. Yeah, we'll see.

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You should have had better perimeter security. Yeah, I wish I did.

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And I can't go now unless there's
a this is the detail. You

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can confirm. I do a snake
sweep in the backyard before you get there.

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You know what's cool is that either
are a couple officers out there that

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have offered to be my security detail
when you come to my You don't need

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security. See they said, if
I go to a protest or something like

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that and I need someone to watch
my six, they're they're happy to do

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it. Yeah, I bet they
would. Yeah, I would love that.

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Keep an eye on that thing,
yeah, shake it, don't break

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it. Jesus. How now,
what's your weight, Shannon? I don't

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know. I haven't gotten on a
probably about one I don't know. I

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haven't gotten on a scale one what
what? Maybe one thirty? Are there

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three numbers in it? That's your
heart, bless your heart. Okay,

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how much what do you guys weigh? I weigh that's a lie. That's

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a lie. I weighed one sixty
seven last. That's pretty good. I

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identify ozempic Yeah, I identify as
translender. I identify as thin. All

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right, good bye, that's what
counts. Bye bye, bye bye.

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