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Speaker 3: Did you see the Donald Trump interview with Fox?
Speaker 2: So Laura Ingram clearly listens to our show because I said, hey,
Speaker 2: somebody just asked him about it. Ask him what he
Speaker 2: meant when he said, Christians vote now, you won't have
Speaker 2: to vote in four years. And you know what, he said, nothing,
Speaker 2: He made zero sense. When she asked him to clarify
Speaker 2: those comments, I did not hear that part.
Speaker 1: I did hear the part though, when she asked him
Speaker 1: what Mulania thought about the assassination attempt. Oh, and he said,
Speaker 1: she can't talk about it. That means she likes me,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, or maybe she loves me. I don't know,
Speaker 1: she likes me or she loves me. It was such
Speaker 1: a it was such a real moment for him for
Speaker 1: who he is, you know, like that's the kind of
Speaker 1: marriage he has where it's just I don't know, definitely
Speaker 1: not traditional.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where you have to where do you take that
Speaker 2: as the clue that your wife might have an interest
Speaker 2: in your well being.
Speaker 3: Like, do you ever question whether your wife likes you
Speaker 3: or loves you? Yes?
Speaker 4: Likes me.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't question whether she loves me. There are
Speaker 2: times when I'm like, she probably doesn't like me right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. I do feel that way. That's the
Speaker 3: part that comes and goes. Yeah, that's true. I think
Speaker 3: right like is a visitor. Ronald L.
Speaker 2: Rowe Junior, This is the guy you want in charge
Speaker 2: of your Secret Service.
Speaker 5: The critical part of the Secret Service mission is protecting
Speaker 5: our nation's current and former government leaders. The attempted assassination
Speaker 5: of former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday, July thirteenth,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four in Butler, Pennsylvania was a failure on
Speaker 5: multiple levels.
Speaker 2: And he pulls no punches. Now he has the benefit
Speaker 2: of being able to say, listen, I wasn't the guy
Speaker 2: in charge. I wasn't the gal in charge at that time.
Speaker 2: So I know that the bucks stops with Kimberly Cheatle.
Speaker 2: But when I take over. Now that I I am
Speaker 2: taking over as the acting director, here are some changes that.
Speaker 3: We're immediately going to make.
Speaker 2: Among other things, one of the things that happened since
Speaker 2: this wasn't a sitting president or vice president. They don't
Speaker 2: record the radio traffic between Secret Service agents. If it
Speaker 2: was sitting president's sitting vice president, they record all of
Speaker 2: that radio traffic for those security events that they do.
Speaker 2: But he said in this case it wasn't. Now, local
Speaker 2: police on a regular basis do record. So that's why
Speaker 2: we do have some of the Butler County and Beaver
Speaker 2: County officials or law enforcement officials talking to each other
Speaker 2: from that net.
Speaker 3: Well, and he laid out the Beaver people. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: So the other thing that he said he did. One
Speaker 2: of the first things he said he did was he
Speaker 2: went to let me see if I can make sure
Speaker 2: I get the right one. He went to the roof
Speaker 2: and sat laid literally in the same place that the
Speaker 2: shooter lafe.
Speaker 5: I went to the roof of the AGR building were
Speaker 5: they assailant fired shots, and I lay it in a
Speaker 5: prone position to evaluate his line of sight. What I
Speaker 5: saw made me ashamed. As a career law enforcement officer
Speaker 5: and a twenty five year veteran with his Secret Service,
Speaker 5: I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.
Speaker 2: Now, one of the things that he did was in
Speaker 2: that same line of questioning that he was responding to,
Speaker 2: he posted a big picture, or put up a big poster,
Speaker 2: which was a blown up picture of the view from
Speaker 2: the local snipers. The local snipers were on the second
Speaker 2: floor of that building, looking in the same direction as
Speaker 2: the shooter was, but the shooter was a little bit
Speaker 2: off to the left. But within that picture you could
Speaker 2: see an arrow pointing to the roof where the shooter was.
Speaker 2: And he went, I mean, this was no bones about it.
Speaker 2: He's laying the blame on that sniper team, that local
Speaker 2: sniper team.
Speaker 5: This is from the second floor of the AGR building.
Speaker 5: This point of view is the point of view where
Speaker 5: the counter sniper team locally was posted. The gold arrow
Speaker 5: indicates where the shooter fired from, looking left. Why was
Speaker 5: the assailant not seen when we were told that building
Speaker 5: was going to be covered, that there had been a
Speaker 5: face to face that afternoon that our team leads met.
Speaker 1: Here, Here's what I'm hearing, a lot of people covering
Speaker 1: their own ass because yesterday we heard from the local
Speaker 1: sniper team and they said they saw the guy. They
Speaker 1: tipped off the higher ups ninety minutes before the shots
Speaker 1: were fired.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So explain to me that, sir, the description here
Speaker 2: is now that there's a con alluded. The way he
Speaker 2: was describing it, again, this is the acting Director of
Speaker 2: the Secret Service, Ronald Road Junior. He was describing local
Speaker 2: law enforcement and Secret Service agents. Secret Service obviously has
Speaker 2: the lead on a situation like that. The local law
Speaker 2: enforcement officers were communicating with each other a lot text
Speaker 2: messages that were going back and forth, pictures going back
Speaker 2: and forth, and then it would rise to the level
Speaker 2: of somebody sending information to the Secret Service channel. And
Speaker 2: he even used the term silos like that, there are
Speaker 2: silos of information that were not that weren't breached, they
Speaker 2: weren't connected.
Speaker 1: I believe it was after nine to eleven when you
Speaker 1: had multiple agencies responding to a mass casualty event and
Speaker 1: they were on different radio frequencies, and it led to
Speaker 1: mass confusion, and it led to mass changes across the
Speaker 1: country in terms of how different agencies communicate when they
Speaker 1: respond to something like this. A presidential rally or a
Speaker 1: former president holding a rally should be one of those
Speaker 1: incidents where you are on the same frequency local, national,
Speaker 1: all of it.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a couple more pieces of sound. We're going
Speaker 2: to play for this again. This is from the Joint
Speaker 2: Congressional hearing that's going on this morning. The Secret Service,
Speaker 2: Acting Director Ronald Rowe, and then a deputy director of
Speaker 2: the FBI, A Paul abb eight or Abata.
Speaker 3: You tell me, I don't care, but that's his name.
Speaker 2: He both of these guys still talking about what's going
Speaker 2: on and their continued investigation and look back at the
Speaker 2: assassination of time. The Olympic triathlon race set to take
Speaker 2: place this morning, has been delayed because of the unsafe
Speaker 2: water poo lootion levels in the River sin. The International
Speaker 2: Olympic Committee and World Triathlon, the governing body of the sport,
Speaker 2: said that tests taken this morning revealed water quality levels
Speaker 2: that did not provide sufficient guarantees to allow the event
Speaker 2: to be held. Just imagine swimming is the first thing
Speaker 2: you do in a triathlet You swim and then you
Speaker 2: bike and then you run. It doesn't hit that fast, no,
Speaker 2: but I mean just imagine if some sort of it'll
Speaker 2: be the following day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, take it from a questionable taco at the
Speaker 1: stadium in Mexico City. Look at the Olympics, Look at
Speaker 1: Simon Biles getting ready for this this final round. That
Speaker 1: it's palpable, isn't it? The pressure, the weight on her
Speaker 1: shoulders palpable. She seems pretty cool, she seems she seems
Speaker 1: dialed in. Yeah, but wow, that that's so much pressure
Speaker 1: to put on yourself and her lower extremity.
Speaker 2: Oh good, is still taped, but but it's different. The
Speaker 2: tape the other night was ankle centric. This is calf centric.
Speaker 2: It doesn't even in fact cover her ankle. She had
Speaker 2: a tear there.
Speaker 3: Ah, yeah, yeah, that sounds awful.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, I mean, people play injured all
Speaker 1: the time. It's it's it's what athletes do.
Speaker 3: That's what they do. That's why they're athletes. But we
Speaker 3: will not spoil any of what's going on line, No,
Speaker 3: but we are going to be totally distracted by it.
Speaker 2: The women's team final just started a few minutes ago,
Speaker 2: so we're watching the American athletes and they'll be out
Speaker 2: of the background.
Speaker 1: So yesterday when we were watching the Olympics and it
Speaker 1: was the men's gymnastics team, and.
Speaker 3: You said, what's up with that guy?
Speaker 1: You said it right away, and by yesterday evening the
Speaker 1: entire world was going.
Speaker 3: What's up with that guy? Yeah? That guy.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you about Steven Ataroschik. I think that's how
Speaker 2: you say his name. Sure coming up in the next
Speaker 2: seven and we're talking about the Secret Service Acting Director
Speaker 2: Ronald Rowe and a deputy director of the FBI, who
Speaker 2: are testifying again today, this one in front of a
Speaker 2: joint congressional hearing about the assassination attempt on former President Trump,
Speaker 2: and the FBI deputy director talked a little bit about
Speaker 2: about some new information that he had regarding this guy's
Speaker 2: online presence, because again, the shooter, twenty years old, had
Speaker 2: a very very small, at least as far as we know,
Speaker 2: online presence.
Speaker 6: Something just very recently uncovered that I want to share
Speaker 6: is a social media account which is believed to be
Speaker 6: associated with the shooter. In about the twenty nineteen twenty
Speaker 6: twenty timeframe, there were over seven hundred comments posted from
Speaker 6: this account. Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to
Speaker 6: the shooter, appear to reflect anti Semitic and anti immigration themes,
Speaker 6: to espouse political violence, and are described as extreme in nature.
Speaker 2: Now, it was funny because he was very careful to
Speaker 2: say if these posts could be attributed to this guy,
Speaker 2: because there's still the question of how does it. I mean,
Speaker 2: he would have been fifteen sixteen years old at the
Speaker 2: time that he made these social media posts, and he
Speaker 2: didn't describe what platform they were on specifically, So this
Speaker 2: continues to go on. We talked about the acting Director
Speaker 2: Ronald Rowe of the US Secret Service and what kind
Speaker 2: of information went into whether or not.
Speaker 3: The suspect that they knew.
Speaker 2: They knew that this guy was suspicious, they were tracking
Speaker 2: him for almost ninety minutes before the actual shooting, and
Speaker 2: California Senator of Lafonse Butler asked, Okay, well, if we
Speaker 2: know this guy is out there, how come how come
Speaker 2: the former president was allowed to take the stage in
Speaker 2: the first world to help.
Speaker 4: Us understand the communication that either was or was not
Speaker 4: happening directly with the president former President's detail to make
Speaker 4: the call to delay ten minutes when we've all been
Speaker 4: to these events they never happened on time, but to
Speaker 4: delay while this was being investigated.
Speaker 5: So the detail all they you know, they were were
Speaker 5: operating on their net, which our security room was monitoring,
Speaker 5: but again having information of a suspicious individual. There were
Speaker 5: other calls that day of individuals that came to the
Speaker 5: tension of law enforcement of people that needed medical attention.
Speaker 5: So it really that particular regarding the assailant, that never
Speaker 5: really rose to a level of we should we should
Speaker 5: not put them out there. Had we known that there
Speaker 5: was a dangerous individual out there, we would never let
Speaker 5: a protectee go out on stage again.
Speaker 2: And the difference between suspicious and dangerous or a specific threat,
Speaker 2: all of that is I mean, he's got it in
Speaker 2: his mind. It's probably hard for us to recognize what's
Speaker 2: the different.
Speaker 1: Levels of suspicion. We were talking about it in the office.
Speaker 1: There is a false sense of security at this point.
Speaker 1: With the number of rallies Trump has held, it's always
Speaker 1: been just fine. You know, most of the time people
Speaker 1: see security and they decide that they are not going
Speaker 1: to take action. But there was definitely a false sense
Speaker 1: of security there among the Secret Service and the local guys.
Speaker 3: And you described it as a failure of imagination.
Speaker 5: I think this was a failure of imagination, a failure
Speaker 5: to imagine that we actually do live in a very
Speaker 5: dangerous world where people do actually want to do You
Speaker 5: should know that.
Speaker 1: I want the Secret Service to think everybody is a
Speaker 1: potential to be a shooter, right, don't they shouldn't they
Speaker 1: be the last Pollyanna people in the country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm okay with them being.
Speaker 1: Constantly just be thinking about the worst in human nature.
Speaker 3: And the thing is, it's funny.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're talking about going to the Democratic National
Speaker 2: Convention in a couple of weeks and you have to
Speaker 2: go through a very very secure Secret Service checkpoint before
Speaker 2: you're allowed anywhere. We were, but we were all detained
Speaker 2: at one point. The thing is, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with them being comfortable. I know that I'm
Speaker 2: not a threat, so I feel okay with that. There
Speaker 2: was an article in the Washington Post today just to
Speaker 2: wrap this up in terms of this topic. The shooter
Speaker 2: stopped shooting. He got eight rounds off, but he stopped
Speaker 2: shooting after a local law enforcement officer returned fire, so
Speaker 2: he was able to get at least one shot off
Speaker 2: at the bad guy, and the bad guy stopped shooting,
Speaker 2: didn't pull the trigger again until a Secret Service agent
Speaker 2: put one through his through his meat box or whatever
Speaker 2: part of his head.
Speaker 1: Meat box that's a new one. That's the right meat box,
Speaker 1: seems like it would be in another part of the body. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, I'll say through his spaghetti bowl.
Speaker 3: I'll ca all right.
Speaker 2: So but yes, they said that his retreat coincided with
Speaker 2: a ten second pause in the shooting, according to some
Speaker 2: audio people who have examined the gunshots that appear on
Speaker 2: different videos. We watched dead Pool Wolverine last night and
Speaker 2: there was a scene where they have these cameos come in,
Speaker 2: and it's very funny because it's such an it's such
Speaker 2: a weird like, Okay, who's going to come through the doorway?
Speaker 2: So somebody comes in and you're like, whoa, I haven't
Speaker 2: seen that person in a long time. And then the
Speaker 2: next one comes in, You're like, oh my gosh, they brought.
Speaker 3: That one back.
Speaker 2: And then you keep waiting for who's going to come
Speaker 2: through the doorway, And it was really funny.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is going to be when I
Speaker 1: read Ready Player one where I understood or I grasped
Speaker 1: probably about seventeen percent of it.
Speaker 3: I still enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It was still a great story, but I knew what
Speaker 1: I was not understanding.
Speaker 3: You knew that was a joke for someone. I didn't
Speaker 3: get it, but you hear.
Speaker 2: Yes, there were some funny lines where I think I
Speaker 2: know what the joke was but other people in the
Speaker 2: back would laugh or somebody would applaud when some they
Speaker 2: referenced some other character or something like that.
Speaker 3: It was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: It was good, but it was a lot of fun,
Speaker 2: and I understand why people hate it because it was
Speaker 2: not serious.
Speaker 1: Stephen Netaro sick can solve a Rubik's Cube in eight
Speaker 1: point six eight seconds. He's exactly what he looks like.
Speaker 1: What you saw on the telly when you saw Steven
Speaker 1: was exactly who he is. He does enjoy playing video games.
Speaker 1: He gets all of the jokes and Ready Player one
Speaker 1: totally and he's only twenty five years old.
Speaker 2: His coach says, Stephen is quirky, is funny, his goofy,
Speaker 2: He dances to his own tune, and he.
Speaker 1: Also happens to be better than everyone on the planet
Speaker 1: when it comes to swinging his body around that pommel horse.
Speaker 1: That's why he was placed on the team. And the
Speaker 1: story gets better when you hear about all the people
Speaker 1: that doubted that placement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had nothing to do until he had everything
Speaker 2: to do. Pommel Horse was the final event for the
Speaker 2: US and he was the final competitor.
Speaker 3: He was the cleanup hitter. He waited in his sweatsuit, cupped.
Speaker 2: His hand to his face, screaming through his teammate's routines,
Speaker 2: and at one point Netterosik left the arena to practice
Speaker 2: pommel horse set up in the gym that's hidden from
Speaker 2: the public. Though through all of this, they said he
Speaker 2: delivered one fantastic performance after another and said he visualized
Speaker 2: his routine about one hundred times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they said he visualized it while the other guys
Speaker 1: were doing their stuff, and he just kept going through
Speaker 1: his over and over and over again. He said, sometimes
Speaker 1: I think I do it too much, but what else
Speaker 1: am I going to do with those empty spaces.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing about him and the reason that I
Speaker 2: when we were talking about it yesterday, was on the
Speaker 2: TV when we were doing the show, and they won
Speaker 2: the big celebration because they won the bronze and it
Speaker 2: was the first time I think in sixteen years that
Speaker 2: American men had meddled, and so it was a good
Speaker 2: moment for them. I mean, it looked like, since we
Speaker 2: weren't listening, it looked like they had won the gold
Speaker 2: because of the amount of celebration.
Speaker 3: But this one guy kind.
Speaker 2: Of off to the corner like it was one of
Speaker 2: the one of these kids is doing his own thing.
Speaker 3: He stuck out.
Speaker 2: He's a littler guy, seems like ye and he has
Speaker 2: these giant Clark Kent glasses on, and it was just
Speaker 2: it just did not fit the vibe of the rest
Speaker 2: of the team. So we asked, who's that guy? And
Speaker 2: it turns out everybody was asking the same question.
Speaker 3: He became.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's multiple articles about Steven Ettarosik today.
Speaker 3: Yesterday. You wouldn't have had no idea who he was.
Speaker 1: It was when he was placed on the team, and
Speaker 1: he knew it, He says, I was completely aware of it.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to make the Olympic team, and I
Speaker 1: knew there was going to be backlash to it. I
Speaker 1: do one event compared to these guys that are phenomenal
Speaker 1: all arounders, and I'm a phenomenal horse guy, but it's
Speaker 1: hard to fit on a five guy team. He was
Speaker 1: in parised to do this forty second routine three times.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, he'll have a chance to win an individual
Speaker 1: gold in the apparatus final.
Speaker 3: How fun is that going to be to watch.
Speaker 1: Ps Those leotards on the women, they feature thousands of crystals.
Speaker 1: You know how much they cost a piece? Three thousand dollars?
Speaker 3: Wow, what are they going to do with them when
Speaker 3: they're done?
Speaker 1: I mean, how much was Mary lou Retten's leotard? Like
Speaker 1: seven bucks? It's come a long way.
Speaker 3: Well, there were no jewels on it. There were no jewels.
Speaker 3: I don't remember. I'm actually surprised that they allowed that much.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Bling. It's a lot of blinging, isn't it? And would
Speaker 3: you want that?
Speaker 2: I mean, I assume there's that's like tiny little pebbles
Speaker 2: all over your suit or your what do you call it?
Speaker 1: Well, it's the same as figure skaters. They're used to it.
Speaker 1: They go to competitions in it all the time.
Speaker 3: I guess that's true.
Speaker 2: But would I would assume that there's a better chance
Speaker 2: that you're going to fall or something and cause significant damage.
Speaker 1: To your handle crystals than fine, don't be a gymnast.
Speaker 3: You are absolutely right.
Speaker 2: Netterosic, hardly recruited while in high school, eventually went to
Speaker 2: Penn State, prominent elite gymnasts since the since the last
Speaker 2: Olympics in Tokyo. Initially known as the goggles Guy because
Speaker 2: he wore sport glasses like Bill Lambier, when he competed,
Speaker 2: he said he has ditched the glasses at least during competition,
Speaker 2: and he said, I don't think I actually use my
Speaker 2: eyes on the pommel horse. It's all feeling I see
Speaker 2: with my hands. He did have a chance to compete
Speaker 2: at Tokyo, partly because of an atypical format, of course
Speaker 2: because of cod but a single event specialist was perfect
Speaker 2: for an individual role, he said. He fell at the trials, though,
Speaker 2: and the squad brought a different pommel horse guy to
Speaker 2: Tokyo instead. He did eventually that later that year in
Speaker 2: twenty one, went to the World Championships, won the gold
Speaker 2: medal on the pommel horse and the world's held immediately
Speaker 2: after an Olympic feature, just individual competition, and when Atosik
Speaker 2: earned the spot on the US squad and twenty two,
Speaker 2: he failed to deliver in the team final, So he's
Speaker 2: got some they'll keep their eyes on this guy. And
Speaker 2: like you said, Saturday is when he gets to go
Speaker 2: for the individual gold. On the individual apparatus, He's.
Speaker 3: Going to be totally known as the pommel horse guy, right,
Speaker 3: the goggle pommel horse guy.
Speaker 1: Goggle goggle, got it you you're trying to get in
Speaker 1: on something that you've got no business getting in on.
Speaker 3: Okay, really right, relax.
Speaker 1: I was talking to miss Patricia this morning during ballet.
Speaker 1: Stop laughing, she's real. You've met her. It's not an
Speaker 1: imaginary friend.
Speaker 3: Even Jacob shaking his head, he knows. Whatever. You guys
Speaker 3: were talking. Who do you think you've met? Then? Do
Speaker 3: you think I hire that person? Yes, we've already established this.
Speaker 2: You hire this beautiful, nice woman to come and pretend
Speaker 2: to be your ballet teacher.
Speaker 3: You think of how crazy it sounds.
Speaker 1: It sounds right freaking okay, Yeah, I mean we.
Speaker 3: Don't actually I don't actually go to ballet. What do
Speaker 3: you call a studio?
Speaker 2: I just do it on a zoom call so that
Speaker 2: you know it's easier. Oh okay, so you don't actually
Speaker 2: have to be in the same room with a human being.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we live very far away from each other.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that you do. I also live far away
Speaker 3: from my imaginary friend. What's his name?
Speaker 2: His name is Carl, and he lives like law in Canada.
Speaker 2: Do you call him mister Carl sometimes?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What do you guys do together?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Batting practice? Anyway.
Speaker 1: I was talking to miss Patricia this morning and she
Speaker 1: was reminding me of a time when the Ballets sold
Speaker 1: more tickets than professional football.
Speaker 3: Oh, she just fell off the bars. How do you
Speaker 3: do that? Oh my goodness, that's not good, you guys.
Speaker 3: She felt flat like a piece of plywood onto the math.
Speaker 3: Oh that's not good. That's not good. Ah, I can't
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 1: Oh no, wait, is that warm ups? That's warm ups.
Speaker 1: That wasn't the real deal.
Speaker 3: It couldn't have been. It was not. Okay, is that.
Speaker 1: Would have been a disaster. Okay, complete disaster for the
Speaker 1: United States.
Speaker 3: That was a warm up.
Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, that was a warm up. Yeah, anyway, okay.
Speaker 2: Mis Patrachy says the ballet used to sell more tickets
Speaker 2: than professional football. And I said, well, now we're a
Speaker 2: stupid people and we like to watch gladiator sports. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we are back to our lizard brains.
Speaker 3: We see that.
Speaker 1: I just thought about that because I got more TikTok
Speaker 1: videos sent to me.
Speaker 3: That's what we do now for entertainment.
Speaker 1: Look at stupid videos of stuff, and that's how we
Speaker 1: communicate with each other.
Speaker 2: Here have a stupid video. Look at this funny, dumb
Speaker 2: thing I saw. You should see it too. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I wasted my brain cells.
Speaker 1: All culture and intelligence has been to the bottom, squeezed
Speaker 1: out of society. All right, just an update really quick
Speaker 1: out of northwestern England. This is a story we talked
Speaker 1: about yesterday as it was unfolding.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately got worse. Now.
Speaker 1: Three young girls have killed have been killed in a
Speaker 1: stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift theme dance and yoga class.
Speaker 1: The seventeen year old suspect has been arrested. Now we're
Speaker 1: learning about the little girls. Nine year old Alice, Elise
Speaker 1: is seven, was seven, and Babe was six. And those
Speaker 1: three little girls nine, seven and six died. Alice's parents
Speaker 1: said in a statement released by police, keep smiling and
Speaker 1: dancing like you love to do, our princess. You are
Speaker 1: always our princess, and no one would change that.
Speaker 2: There's still eight kids and two adults in the hospital.
Speaker 2: Five of the kids are in critical condition, as are
Speaker 2: both of the adults.
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift wrote on Instagram. She's completely in shock. She's
Speaker 1: still taking in the horror of the event. She said,
Speaker 1: there were just these little kids at a dance class.
Speaker 1: I'm going to complete loss for however, to convey my
Speaker 1: sympathies to these families.
Speaker 2: This I saw an interview this morning on Sky News,
Speaker 2: one of the British networks, with a guy who lives
Speaker 2: in that neighborhood. He has a stepdaughter, I believe, who
Speaker 2: has been to that dance studio for events before and
Speaker 2: said this is eerie.
Speaker 3: It's just weird.
Speaker 7: I think the main thing so far has been very
Speaker 7: somber and quiet, a lot of reflection, and I think
Speaker 7: and I hope that most people's thoughts in the moment
Speaker 7: have focused on the victims of this terrible thing, and
Speaker 7: it's difficult for everybody, and you can feel at the
Speaker 7: town and the people are quiet. I've walked over here
Speaker 7: today and usually especially in summer, Southport is a very
Speaker 7: vibrant family town and it feels very quiet and you
Speaker 7: see parents with children and just give you a bit
Speaker 7: of a shit.
Speaker 4: With a moment.
Speaker 1: The way it was described yesterday did sound like a
Speaker 1: horror movie with bloodied children running from the scene in
Speaker 1: this small neighborhood. Now, apparently there has been a recent
Speaker 1: rise in knife crime in the UK and there have
Speaker 1: been heightened anxieties allegedly, and that there have been more
Speaker 1: calls for the government to do more to clamp down
Speaker 1: on bladed weapons. They are by far the most commonly
Speaker 1: used instruments in UK homicides knives. So we're all just
Speaker 1: killing each other. It depends what country you're in, how
Speaker 1: you're doing it, right, That's what I'm getting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which tool you're going to use? Good lord.
Speaker 2: They said they're not treating this as a terror related
Speaker 2: attacker and not looking for any other suspects. The teenager
Speaker 2: who did it was arrested soon afterwards. He was born
Speaker 2: in Cardiff in Wales, had lived for years in a
Speaker 2: village about three miles away from Southport. Technically has not
Speaker 2: yet been charged with this crime, but.
Speaker 1: Britain's worst attack on children occurred in nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 1: when forty three year old guy shot sixteen kindergarteners and
Speaker 1: their teacher in a school gym in Scotland. That was
Speaker 1: a blind spot for me. That sounds very reminiscent of
Speaker 1: Sandy Hook, does it not.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I remember this was Dunblane, right, yeah, Dunblane exactly.
Speaker 1: The UK subsequently banned the private ownership of almost all handguns.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of those things that people have pointed
Speaker 2: to in terms of a reaction that the United States
Speaker 2: should have. They want to see something like that in
Speaker 2: place after we've seen so many horrific acts like this.
Speaker 3: We are not the UK and that will never happen.
Speaker 3: This is all.
Speaker 2: We have a ton love affair guns than they do. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's one of the issues of one of many. One
Speaker 2: of many won't allow.
Speaker 3: That to happen. One of the reasons we left.
Speaker 2: Oh, we left the King. Yeah, well the King was
Speaker 2: kind of an able wait to the whole reduce it. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that that's what they were saying back
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