FBI Special Agent and Navy Seal Jonathan Gilliam Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ryan Wesley Roth, and he is fifty eight years old,
and I don't know. He likes to build sustainable homes
and he donates to you know, Democrat causes at least
one Democrat cause in the past. Well, he listed himself.
I guess he is having no particular party affiliation. That's
what we know about him so far. His mental health

(00:22):
is in question at this point, as would I guess
anybody who is responsible for an assassination attempt join us
to talk about all this. FBI Special Agent and Navy
Seal Jonathan Gilliam, I'm guessing with your background, Jonathan, you're
pretty good at at at kind of taking a look
at somebody in their background and kind of making a
determination on what motivates them. Do you have any thoughts

(00:42):
on this guy?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, I would think it's going to be it's going
to be political with this individual. You have to remember
the difference between somebody who tries to assassinate a particular
world leader or potential world leader versus a terrorism. Terrorism
is is the use of force, sometimes killing, an intimidation
for a political aim. So they try to intimidate people

(01:05):
into supporting or turning and allowing them to do what
they want. In this case, this individual was trying to
terminate the individual that he didn't like that's running for president.
And I will say that supposedly he wrote a book
and in that he said that he voted for Trump
the first time, but then he quickly changed that and

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voted for Marxist Tulsea Gabbard the second time. So that
tells you where the reality of where this guy's mind
has gone. Because anything the left touches is destroyed. And
I quite frankly believe that the left is a national
security issue that we should be looking at because all
these school shooters that we've seen in recent times, all

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of the individuals who have tried to commit an assassination,
we have seen the leftist behaviors in all of these,
and some of them, like the assassination. The individual tried
to kill some of the congressmen and congresswomen at the
baseball game several years ago where his police was killed.
He was a Bernie Sanders supporter who used the same

(02:11):
exact weapon as the individual who was captured yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I want to ask you a question because it was
raised by Miranda Devine of the New York Posts, and
she writes It was an eagle eyed Secret Service agent
who spotted the barrel of a gun in a bush's
a few hundred yards away, and yet somehow missed the shot.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, and I mean it just explained, well, he's going
to get it depends well the individual had. If you
see the pictures, those are not two backpacks they've been
reporting those are backpacks. Those are two ballistic plates that
go in your body armor in front of the kevlar
that can stop high powered rifles. So he had time

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to get in there, put these ballistic plates up, time
up to the fence, put grow pro up there so
that he had cover, which protects you from rounds, and concealment,
which is what keeps you from being seen. Interestingly, when
the Secret Service engaged him, Trump was within the max
effective range of that SKS, which is a Russian AK

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forty seven. So, just like what happened in Pennsylvania, the
Secret Service failed to do a proper threat assessment and
perimeter check, and they created a fatal funnel where the
shooter was at and then when it came time to
shoot him, as in Pennsylvania, they waited until after he shot,

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and in this case they shot at him and missed.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, that seems like that's fair.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
I mean, that's the best explanation I've heard.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
But that sure seems to me like somebody who had
some form of training from somewhere. We have to leave
it at that for now, though their appreciate the time.
FBI Special Agent and Navy Seal Jonathan Gilliam, y'all have
a great day. We'll see tomorrow morning brighten early at
five am, I'll see this HAF four on ing of
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