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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talked Ed Trzansky, national security expert, about it. You think
there's a Ukraine connection to any of this, or Ukraine
Ukraine sympathy connection to any of this ad I don't.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Let's leave the Ukrainians out of it. This man is
not well, he's just crazy. His neighbors say he's crazy.
They've said he's got a very menacing approach to life.
People are afraid of him. And I think the bigger questions.
First of all, let's give the Secret Service some credit.

(00:34):
An agent spotted the barrel of the gun fired, the
guy fled. How did he get onto that course in
the first place. And there is a discrepancy in the
kind of security that former President Trump gets in that
the current president and vice president are getting. Given what

(00:55):
happened in Pennsylvania, that gap should have been closed. And
I'll remind everyone that two weeks ago, Dick Blumenthal, Senator
from Connecticut, Democrat, said that Congress was told information about
the current status of the Secret Service that will make

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the American public angry. In other words, it's a dysfunctional agency.
Maerkis is the guy at the top. He needs to
be called in finally and made to account for what
was once a very proud, efficient agency that's been on
the slide for a number of years. But this was

(01:39):
too too much luck involved in stopping this guy from
firing a shot at the president.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, you know, the whole thing about how hard was
Again here we talk about the perimeter on this very
public course moral as I mean, it's a private course,
but within a neighborhood, and their advantage points and why
isn't that hardened. They just don't have the personnel. They're
just not allocating the resources.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, they don't have the personnel. And certainly if you
go back to Pennsylvania and you see that now unfortunately
iconic photo of an agent incapable of haulstering her weapon
because quite frankly, she wasn't physically fit to be on
the job, and you find out that they had the

(02:28):
wrong priorities in recruitment and training. In fact, the training
has been very poor for a lot of these agents.
So we need to have the deep download enough of
this behind closed doors, and while Congress is looking into it,
start doing this in a public way. Lay this out

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because it's the only way it's going to get fixed.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, there's gonna be big resistance to doing that. As
you know, Congress will certainly make those demands. So far,
the American people have not made enough, in my estimation,
not enough of demand. Then again, you know, if there's
only certain news outlets they'll spend any real time reporting
on this second assassination, tep, it'll go away on the NBCs,
the MSNBC's and the CBS's and ABC's of this world

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probably before this day is over.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Jim. Mean, if it'd been the other party, you'd never
hear the end of it. So I think you're right, sadly, I.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Mean, they're helping. They're part of the problem of the rhetoric.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh absolutely absolutely. Look if if if you keep on
screaming about Orange Hitler and somebody decides to take you seriously, well,
this is the sort of thing you're going to get,
and this imbalanced person got in there, I mean they
they they just beat them to the punch. Do we

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really want to rely on luck? So, well, we don't.
It's a bad thing, we don't.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
But I think there's some people who are just kind
of you know, the ones who are screaming the writer
are just kind of hoping that they can find somebody
who has a better shot at this point. Yeah, it's
sad unfortunately. Yeah, Ed, thanks for joining US, appreciate it.
Ed Grzanski, national security expert at six