August 1, 2024 • 9 mins
Importantly, the four critical needs have been met with Rowe having assumed the Acting Director’s role.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I'm going to question honest answers to questions you
won't here anywhere else. The Q and A of the day,
Reaction from our government, The Brian mus Show. I don't
get that.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Today's Q and A is Ronald Road Junior Abom is
the Abom. This is brought to you by Melissa and
Asked his check mark collections. Each day I feature a
listener question sent by one of these methods. You may
email me Brian Mudd at iHeartMedia dot com, hit me
up on social at Brian Mud Radio. You may also
use the iHeartRadio talkback feature. Just go to w JNO
(00:35):
or Viro Patriot inside of the iHeartRadio follow us once
you get there. Once you do, look for the little
microphone button.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
See it, tap it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
You may lay down a message right there, perhaps for
a future Q and A. Today's note is this based
on another radio host analysis informed by his experience and
the agency and his insight sources. It seems that there
are significant concerns over rose his street performance and motives. Also,
he has indicated this being the host that as the
(01:06):
second in charge, Roe would likely have been in charge
of operations to include decisions on personnel and other resource assignments,
allocations to various protectees, begs the question was he responsible
for deliberate negligence and staffing and planning of Donald J.
Trump's security? Thanks for all you do. This is a
(01:28):
good note and these are valid questions to ask. And
I'm happy to speak to this issue for a couple
of reasons because I've received a bit of pushback based
on my characterization of how the Senate hearing went with
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Road Junior on Tuesday. My
(01:49):
raid on Rose performance was my top takeaway yesterday, which
I summed up by saying, well, it was an improvement,
while I also noted that the bar had been set
so low by his predecessor, Cheetle, that all he would
have had to have done to be better was just
kind of trip over it. But anyway, first, on the
matter of sourcing, where I'm going with this is neither
(02:12):
here nor there in the sourcing matter, But as it
pertains to it, I have no doubt that there are
some people that have some really good sources out there.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I've worked with two rock solid sources on things related
to the Trump assassination attempts right along and With that said,
as it pertains to Row or whomever the acting Secret
Service director may be, the most important dynamic isn't whether
Roe has a questionable background, motives, whether his haircut is
(02:42):
a little bit questionable.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I don't know, what do you think, Jill. I'm not
in a position to pick on anybody's haircut.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, or whatever else. Whatever you might question about Row.
What actually matters is whether the critical failures that allowed
for the assassination attempt on Trump to take place, if
they've been addressed sufficiently to keep Trump and all officials
protected under the Secret Service safe. That's what matters right now.
(03:10):
So let's hit those matters first. There were four critical
concerns associated with the Secret Services security failure. Number one,
Donald Trump's Secret Service detail was undermanned. Two, there was
a massive supervisory failure by the agent in charge. Three,
the Secret Service lacked integrated communication systems with supporting law
(03:33):
enforcement partners for the Secret Service, failed to use all
available resources like drones. Now following the attack, and at
the time a former Secret Service director, Kimberly Cheatle's resignation,
there had been movement on only one of those four.
(03:54):
Only one of those four Trump's detail had been stepped up.
That's all she had done. As of rose testimony yesterday,
we learned that the Secret Service had addressed communication with
supporting local law enforcement partners and that the Secret Service
is now using drones at all sites for security. Regardless
(04:17):
where in my view there is still an unsatisfactory action
taken regarding the status is regarding the status of the
agent in charge of the Butler Pennsylvania event, Roe has
neither fired, suspended, or evidently even reassigned the individual, pending
the ongoing investigation into the Secret Services failures. As I
(04:39):
mentioned yesterday, it's at a minimum an illustration about the
differences between a bureaucratic government agency in the real world,
because in any private enterprise, the supervisor of a failure
on that scale would be immediately terminated. Now, with that said,
Roe did address the matter of having one agent in
(05:00):
charge with potentially fled judgment, allowing another critical lapse in
security to occur, and his words, I directed our personnel
to ensure that every event site plan is thoroughly vetted
by multiple experienced supervisors before it's implemented.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So even that has been addressed.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So you take a look at all the four critical needs,
and they've been met. All of the four critical failures
have been addressed, with Roe having assumed the acting director's role.
As always got two sides of stories, one side of facts.
Those are the facts. Now, does that mean that Roe
might not have some serious question marks?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Nope, that could be the case.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But what we need here is pragmatism ends the one
thing that I do on occasion even get a little
bit frustrated with some people that I otherwise agree with politically.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
There's a time for all true.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And there's a time for pragmatism, and the two actually
should intercede pretty much all the time. But in this case,
here are a few questions to consider. Who is the
President of the United States? Who appoints the Secret Service director?
How likely is it that an agency previously headed by
(06:22):
Cheatle has lots of personnel issues? What highly talented person
from the outside would want to step into this post
with potentially only five months ago on the job. How
plausible is it for someone from the outside to step
in to lead the Secret Service when we're under a
hundred days away from election day? That is what's lacking
(06:49):
in just the whole row may be a bum thing. Now,
given that Joe Biden is the President of the United States,
it's likely that most Trump supporters are not going to
be fond of any Biden appointees to any agencies. Right
(07:10):
elections have consequences. Biden's the president, he gets to choose
his people. Given that reality, the question then becomes whether
the appointee is competent to do the job, And that
takes me to the successive questions I post. Given that
the utterly incompetent Cheatle had been running the show, I
would fully expect there to be issues with many of
(07:34):
the individuals in her command chain. Row included if it
turns out there's you know, stuff with him that has
hair on it. Not surprised at all if it goes
down that way. But then consider the other two questions
I post. It is utterly unreasonable to expect, during the
(07:54):
most critical moments in the secret services cycle that only
comes up every four years, you're going to be able
to bring someone in from the outside who wasn't part
of Cheatle's chain and to be able to get them
up to speed operationally sufficiently to meet the peak demand
(08:15):
at this moment, which let's not forget also includes and
alleged to Ronnie and assassination and plot against Donald Trump. Further,
if Donald Trump wins the election, the incoming Secret Service
director would likely only have five months on the job
to serve. What exceedingly qualified and talented person would leave
whatever they are currently doing to walk into that circumstance
(08:37):
even if they were given the opportunity. It's really easy
to be critical, super easy thing to do, and potentially
to find faults and issues with the appointees of an
opposing parties president. Pragmatism not quite as easy. My all
time favorite quote, though, comes from Teddy Roosevelt, and it's
complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called winding.
(09:00):
Joe Biden's President of the United States. Whoever the acting
or the actual confirmed director is is his choice until
he's out of office. So I'm just focused on getting
the best possible solutions given the circumstances at hand, which
do become considerably better solutions if Donald Trump is elected
president of the United States.
Well, I'm going to question honest answers to questions you
won't here anywhere else. The Q and A of the day,
Reaction from our government, The Brian mus Show. I don't
get that.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Today's Q and A is Ronald Road Junior Abom is
the Abom. This is brought to you by Melissa and
Asked his check mark collections. Each day I feature a
listener question sent by one of these methods. You may
email me Brian Mudd at iHeartMedia dot com, hit me
up on social at Brian Mud Radio. You may also
use the iHeartRadio talkback feature. Just go to w JNO
(00:35):
or Viro Patriot inside of the iHeartRadio follow us once
you get there. Once you do, look for the little
microphone button.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
See it, tap it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
You may lay down a message right there, perhaps for
a future Q and A. Today's note is this based
on another radio host analysis informed by his experience and
the agency and his insight sources. It seems that there
are significant concerns over rose his street performance and motives. Also,
he has indicated this being the host that as the
(01:06):
second in charge, Roe would likely have been in charge
of operations to include decisions on personnel and other resource assignments,
allocations to various protectees, begs the question was he responsible
for deliberate negligence and staffing and planning of Donald J.
Trump's security? Thanks for all you do. This is a
(01:28):
good note and these are valid questions to ask. And
I'm happy to speak to this issue for a couple
of reasons because I've received a bit of pushback based
on my characterization of how the Senate hearing went with
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Road Junior on Tuesday. My
(01:49):
raid on Rose performance was my top takeaway yesterday, which
I summed up by saying, well, it was an improvement,
while I also noted that the bar had been set
so low by his predecessor, Cheetle, that all he would
have had to have done to be better was just
kind of trip over it. But anyway, first, on the
matter of sourcing, where I'm going with this is neither
(02:12):
here nor there in the sourcing matter, But as it
pertains to it, I have no doubt that there are
some people that have some really good sources out there.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I've worked with two rock solid sources on things related
to the Trump assassination attempts right along and With that said,
as it pertains to Row or whomever the acting Secret
Service director may be, the most important dynamic isn't whether
Roe has a questionable background, motives, whether his haircut is
(02:42):
a little bit questionable.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I don't know, what do you think, Jill. I'm not
in a position to pick on anybody's haircut.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, or whatever else. Whatever you might question about Row.
What actually matters is whether the critical failures that allowed
for the assassination attempt on Trump to take place, if
they've been addressed sufficiently to keep Trump and all officials
protected under the Secret Service safe. That's what matters right now.
(03:10):
So let's hit those matters first. There were four critical
concerns associated with the Secret Services security failure. Number one,
Donald Trump's Secret Service detail was undermanned. Two, there was
a massive supervisory failure by the agent in charge. Three,
the Secret Service lacked integrated communication systems with supporting law
(03:33):
enforcement partners for the Secret Service, failed to use all
available resources like drones. Now following the attack, and at
the time a former Secret Service director, Kimberly Cheatle's resignation,
there had been movement on only one of those four.
(03:54):
Only one of those four Trump's detail had been stepped up.
That's all she had done. As of rose testimony yesterday,
we learned that the Secret Service had addressed communication with
supporting local law enforcement partners and that the Secret Service
is now using drones at all sites for security. Regardless
(04:17):
where in my view there is still an unsatisfactory action
taken regarding the status is regarding the status of the
agent in charge of the Butler Pennsylvania event, Roe has
neither fired, suspended, or evidently even reassigned the individual, pending
the ongoing investigation into the Secret Services failures. As I
(04:39):
mentioned yesterday, it's at a minimum an illustration about the
differences between a bureaucratic government agency in the real world,
because in any private enterprise, the supervisor of a failure
on that scale would be immediately terminated. Now, with that said,
Roe did address the matter of having one agent in
(05:00):
charge with potentially fled judgment, allowing another critical lapse in
security to occur, and his words, I directed our personnel
to ensure that every event site plan is thoroughly vetted
by multiple experienced supervisors before it's implemented.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So even that has been addressed.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So you take a look at all the four critical needs,
and they've been met. All of the four critical failures
have been addressed, with Roe having assumed the acting director's role.
As always got two sides of stories, one side of facts.
Those are the facts. Now, does that mean that Roe
might not have some serious question marks?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Nope, that could be the case.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But what we need here is pragmatism ends the one
thing that I do on occasion even get a little
bit frustrated with some people that I otherwise agree with politically.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
There's a time for all true.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And there's a time for pragmatism, and the two actually
should intercede pretty much all the time. But in this case,
here are a few questions to consider. Who is the
President of the United States? Who appoints the Secret Service director?
How likely is it that an agency previously headed by
(06:22):
Cheatle has lots of personnel issues? What highly talented person
from the outside would want to step into this post
with potentially only five months ago on the job. How
plausible is it for someone from the outside to step
in to lead the Secret Service when we're under a
hundred days away from election day? That is what's lacking
(06:49):
in just the whole row may be a bum thing. Now,
given that Joe Biden is the President of the United States,
it's likely that most Trump supporters are not going to
be fond of any Biden appointees to any agencies. Right
(07:10):
elections have consequences. Biden's the president, he gets to choose
his people. Given that reality, the question then becomes whether
the appointee is competent to do the job, And that
takes me to the successive questions I post. Given that
the utterly incompetent Cheatle had been running the show, I
would fully expect there to be issues with many of
(07:34):
the individuals in her command chain. Row included if it
turns out there's you know, stuff with him that has
hair on it. Not surprised at all if it goes
down that way. But then consider the other two questions
I post. It is utterly unreasonable to expect, during the
(07:54):
most critical moments in the secret services cycle that only
comes up every four years, you're going to be able
to bring someone in from the outside who wasn't part
of Cheatle's chain and to be able to get them
up to speed operationally sufficiently to meet the peak demand
(08:15):
at this moment, which let's not forget also includes and
alleged to Ronnie and assassination and plot against Donald Trump. Further,
if Donald Trump wins the election, the incoming Secret Service
director would likely only have five months on the job
to serve. What exceedingly qualified and talented person would leave
whatever they are currently doing to walk into that circumstance
(08:37):
even if they were given the opportunity. It's really easy
to be critical, super easy thing to do, and potentially
to find faults and issues with the appointees of an
opposing parties president. Pragmatism not quite as easy. My all
time favorite quote, though, comes from Teddy Roosevelt, and it's
complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called winding.
(09:00):
Joe Biden's President of the United States. Whoever the acting
or the actual confirmed director is is his choice until
he's out of office. So I'm just focused on getting
the best possible solutions given the circumstances at hand, which
do become considerably better solutions if Donald Trump is elected
president of the United States.
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