Bye Bye, Biden

Sometimes, you're the last one to know.  How did we get to yesterday's decision, and what happens now?  Plus, while we digest this, we're also watching the House hearing with the director of the Secret Service in the wake of last weekend's attempt on Trump's life.

Episode Transcript

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Scott Gorgious. I'm staying in arace. I pump I would beat him
again at once? Why will illstep down? You? I bold step

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down? Even cool? I'm toldby everyone of round still a ball?
Step down? Now my balls aredown? Canby turned round? Can I
need a nap? So I haveto lie down? Conner came round in

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a bold step down. I willsay I ain't going no way. Crown's

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outbo step down. Several weeks ofsaying exactly what you just heard, I
won't step down. That's a bunchof malarkey. Come on, man,
who's in a better position to beatTrump than me? What world leader wouldn't
want to be me? And thenthey asked advisors, They talked to the
press secretary. All of them said, not only is Biden poised to make

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a strong bid for reelection and winin November, but he's the sharpest guy
in the room. Karine Jean Pierre, the press secretary, said, when
I meet with him, I haveto be on the top of my game.
This guy, he's the smartest guyin the room, absolutely sharp.
This past February. That was fromJuly. This earlier this month, that

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was from twenty days ago. InJuly second. Earlier this year, February
eleventh, after what maybe is thebiggest catalyst that led to yesterday's decision,
the Special Prosecutor Robert Herr came outand said that the president, he called
the president's mental acuity into question,said that we're not going to charge him

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for having classified documents when he shouldn'thave. After all, he's just an
elderly man with a poor memory,was the assessment of the Special Counsel Robert
Herr in that report. He wasan elderly man with a poor memory.

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In response, President Biden got madand said, why in the hell did
Robert Hurr bring up the death ofmy son? Then we saw the transcript.
Robert Hurr didn't bring up the deathof President Biden's son. He did
and then couldn't remember details about it. This was maybe the biggest catalyst that
led to not only can't these voters, democratic elected officials, these deep pocket

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Hollywood donor types that say, we'renot supporting this, we're not going to
raise money for it, we're notgoing to give money to it, we're
not going to support it, andhe needs to drop out because it could
be damaging to congressional candidates. Evenas all this is going on, there
were still several that said, oh, no, no, no, the
President is doing great. A senioradvisor, one of those who met with

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the president yesterday as they crafted aletter which still doesn't give a reason for
him stepping down, by the way, said that this idea that Biden isn't
ready to mount a major campaign forreelection is quote a bucket of bs.
It's so deep your boots will getstuck under it. This is the assessment

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of a former senior advisor to Biden, whose national co chair of his reelection
campaign, Mitch Landrew, said,I've met with him with two people,
five people, ten people. I'vebeen on trips with him Chris crossing the
country, rebuilding America based on thisincredible infrastructure bill that we passed. And
I'm telling you, this guy istough, he's smart, He's on his

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game. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandra Majorcisalso referred to Biden as sharp. Quote
most difficult part about a meeting withPresident Biden is preparing for it, because
he is sharp, intensely probing,and detail oriented and focused unquote. These
same people, then a lot ofthem have turned called on Biden to drop

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out of the race, and nowyou're expected to believe them, even though
they saw what was happening behind thescenes, even though they knew it was
all going to lead to this yesterday. Now they're the ones coming up praising
him for his public service to agrateful nation over the last five decades or
more. And they're the ones whosay, and now it's time to get

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behind whether it's Kamala Harris or whateverhappens here at the Chicago Democratic National Convention.
They're the ones you're supposed to believewhen they say Kamala Harris is the
most qualified to be the next presidentof the United States. They just said
that about Biden as they were tryingto push him out of the race.

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And in the midst of all ofthis, we had an assassination attempt last
week in on his challenger, DonaldTrump. The director of the United States
Secret Service, Kim Cheatle, isbefore a House Oversight committee. The chair
of this committee, Republican James Comer, is addressing her. Now, let's
begin listening in on this will begoing in and out first. Well,

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now, he just handed things offto Jamie Raskin. Both the top Republican
and Democrat on this committee are makingtheir open statements. Kim Cheatle has yet
to speak. She is sitting therestone face, listening to both of them.
I don't even think that she hasblinked. I would wonder if that
was a picture of her on theside of the screen, except I see

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people moving in the background, soI guess that's a real person sitting there.
Unbelievable that you've got the director ofthe Secret Service called in front of
a House committee. Meanwhile you've gotMajorcis, the Homeland Security Director said no,
no, we're going to talk toKim Cheedle, and we've got our

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own investigation and independent panel reviewing theattempt on Trump's life. House Committee chaired
James Comer said, not good enough. Get over here and she'll face intense
questioning today before this House Oversight Committeebased on what happened last Saturday. So

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we've got this going on. Yesterday, Biden dropped out of the presidential race
endorsed Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris immediatelysent out an email said what a great
day to donate to our campaign.And Newsweek looked at all of this and
said, yeah, but what's TaylorSwift going to do? That was one

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of the first stories out of newsweek. With President Joe Biden stepping down from
his reelection efforts and endorsing Vice PresidentKamala Harris as his successor, Taylor Swift
is facing pressure from a growing factionof her fans to publicly back the potential
Democratic nominee. People including gun controlactivist David Hogg, went on Twitter said

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Taylor Swift, have you decided whoyou're supporting. We need to do a
ton to bring back the youth vote, and you could literally be the reason
we don't fall to a pro life, pro gun, anti climate felon.
Another commentator says, Taylor Swift,please do something. You have so much

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power. Another account, not affiliatedwith the pop singer describes itself as a
coalition of Swifties ready to mobilize TaylorSwift fans to help get Democratic candidates elected
up and down the ballot. TaylorSwift does not endorse anybody in this race.
He didn't endorse Biden. I don'tknow what will happen with Kamala Harris,

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what could happen in Chicago? SoI want to take you back to
nineteen sixty eight. Put some flowersin your hair and burn your bra because
we're going back to the summer ofnineteen sixty eight. Are you ready for
this? I am so ready,and I have some rosemary in time,

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and Staysian, Yeah, Rosemary partpart I don't know, uh, to
get mine rosemary? Yeah, that'sright, to get my Simon and Garfunkel
record out here. It was nineteensixty eight, and it was not quite
summer yet. There was the NewHampshire primary and the current President, Lyndon

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Baines Johnson, was running for Isay reelection, but technically it's e election,
having been appointed following the assassination ofPresident Kennedy. So now Johnson says,
I'm running for reelection and Iowa andNew Hampshire come and go, and
New Hampshire's like that. I don'tthink that's a great idea LBJ. And

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so after all of that, Johnsondropped his reelection bid. It was nineteen
sixty eight. The primaries had alreadygotten underway, so without Johnson, the
obvious Democratic nominee with his was hisvice President, Hubert Humphrey now Senator Eugene

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McCarthy, Senator Robert F. Kennedyalso jumped in there, but having joined
the the election cycle late in thegame, there was a question asked to
who was going to be on whatprimary ballot? We've already had many states
do this in nineteen sixty eight.The rest of the states were already set
to go with printed up primary ballots, which was supposed to be a rubber
stamp for LBJ. So Humphrey himselfwas unable to make it under several primary

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ballots, but his campaign of missmass delegates by having allies stand in for
him in certain primaries to disrupt thecompetition and allow state party leaders to send
the delegates his way. It allled to tumultuous nineteen sixty eight Democratic National
Convention in Chicago. The twenty twentyfour Democratic National Convention gets underway four weeks

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from today in Chicago. We'll pickthis up in just a moment. First
to Washington, d C. WhereDirector Kim Cheatles now beginning her opening remarks
of the House Oversight Committee. Theopportunity to appear before you today. The
assassination attempt of former President Donald Trumpon July thirteen is the most significant operational
failure of the Secret Service in decades, and I am keeping him and his

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family in my thoughts. I wouldlike to offer my sincerest condolences to the
family of Corey Comparator, a formerfire chief and a hero, who was
killed in this senseless shooting. Iwould also like to acknowledge those who are
injured in Butler, David Dutch,and James Copenhaven, and I wish them
a speedy recovery. I would beremiss if I did not also extend my

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condolences on the passing of your colleague, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Miss Jackson
Lee was always engaged in the oversightof the Secret Service, and her passing
is a great loss to this body. The Secret Service's solemn mission is to
protect our nation's leaders. On Julythirteenth, we failed. As a director

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of the United States Secret Service.I take full responsibility for any security lapse
of our agency. We are fullycooperating with ongoing and instigations. We must
learn what happened, and I willmove heaven and earth to ensure that an
incident like July thirteenth does not happenagain. Let me state unequivocally nothing I

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have said should be interpreted to placeblame for this failure on our federal,
state, or local law enforcement partnerswho supported the Secret Service in Butler.
We could not do our job withoutthem. We rely on the relationships built
over years of working together to secureevents and conduct investigations. Our agents,
officers, and support personnel understand thatevery day we are expected to sacrifice our

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lives to execute a no fail mission. As witnessed on July thirteenth, our
special agents shielded former President Trump withtheir own bodies on stage while shots were
being fired, selflessly, willing tomake the ultimate sacrifice without hesitation. I
am proud, beyond words of theaction taken by the former President's detail,

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the counter sniper team who neutralize thegunmen, and the tactical team who was
prepared to act. I will betransparent as possible when I speak with you,
understanding though at times that I maybe limited in providing a thorough response
in this open setting due to associatedrisks with sharing highly sensitive protective methodologies.

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I do not want to inadvertently provideyou today with inaccurate information. Since January
first, twenty twenty four, theSecret Service has successfully secured over seventy five
hundred sites every protective advance comes withits own set of challenges and requires a
customized mitigation strategy, including specific assets. Security plans are multi layered, providing

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three hundred and sixty degrees of protection. These layers include personnel, technical,
and tactical assets, which are aforce multiplier for our protective posture. During
every advance, we attempt to strikea balance between enabling the protectee to be
visible and our protective requirements to besecure. I know this because I have

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spent twenty nine years in this agency. I came up through the ranks.
I've secured events for every president sincePresident Clinton, supervised on Vice President Cheneya's
detail, led our Training Center,oversaw all of the investigations and protective visits
in the State of Georgia, supervisedon Vice President Biden's detail, and the

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agency's entire protective mission during the Trumpadministration. The comprehensive advanced process involves collaborative
planning between our secret Service, theprotectee's staff, local law enforcement partners,
and The level of security provided forthe former president increased well before the campaign
and has been steadily increasing as threatsevolve. The security plan included a full

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assessment of the Butler Farm Showgrounds toidentify security vulnerabilities and craft a secure curity
plan for the protectee, attendees andthe public. Immediately following the assassination attempt,
I directed the activation of my crisiscenter. I assembled my executive team
to begin surging more protective resources tothe former president and to ensure the wellness

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of our people post incident, allwhile securing an active crime scene. I
immediately ordered a reevaluation of the RepublicanNational Convention security Plan, and I increased
the security posture in the National CapitalRegion for all permanent protectees and sites.
At the same time, I initiateda mission assurance investigation within our agency.
I have instructed my team that allnecessary resources will be dedicated to investigating these

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manners. We will not rest untilwe have explored every option, and we
will leave no stone unturned. ButI want to be clear, I am
not waiting for these investigations to becompleted prior to making changes. Over the
past two weeks, we successfully ledthe planning and execution of the seventy fifth
NATO Summit and the Republican National Convention. Over the next few months, we

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will implement security plans for the DemocraticNational Convention, the United Nations General Assembly,
and have already begun planning and coordinatingthe twenty twenty five in augeration.
It is now more important than everfor the men and women of the Secret
Service to remain resilient and to focuson what is necessary to carry out our
critical mission. Our agency needs tobe adequately resourced in order to serve our

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current mission requirements and anticipate future requirements. The Secret Service currently protects thirty six
individuals on a daily basis, aswell as world leaders who visit the United
States, like Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu, who arrived in Washington, d
C. Today. The coming yearswill bring an unprecedented heavy protection tempo.

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I have no doubt that the processesthat I have implemented during my tenure as
Director, in addition to my nearlythirty years of experience in this agency,
have positioned the Secret Service to bestronger. Our mission is not political,
is literally a matter of life anddeath, and the tragic events on July
thirteenth remind us of that. Ihave full confidence in the men and women

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of the Secret Service. They areworthy of our support and executing our protective
mission. I will now answer anyquestions that the committee may have, and
we will get back to that.You won't miss the opening questions here from
James Comer. We will queue itup there in just a moment. But
that opening statement from the Director ofthe Secret Service, Kim Cheadle, takes

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a lot more blame than what youheard from various individuals in the wake of
last Saturday's assassination attempt. And shedidn't come out and blame the sloped roof.
Well, we didn't have anyone upthere because it was a sloped roof.
The slope was about the same asyou might see on like a handicap
ramp into a building. It's it'snot that sloped. But still I think

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that we should probably take a realserious look at banning sloped roofs if it's
that much of a problem for theSecret Service. But some of her comments
led me can lead me right backinto summing up the story there from nineteen
sixty eight, she said that we'vegot a lot of responsibilities to do the
Secret Service. In the weeks ahead, we're going to be in Chicago at

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the twenty twenty four Democratic National Convention, and if history is any indication it
could get nuts. Let's recap thestory, well, bring you right back
up to speed. The year wasnineteen sixty eight, My timeline was off.
LBJ was seeking reelection. Kennedy diedin nineteen sixty three. Johnson b.
Goldwater in sixty four. Now he'sseeking reelection but not getting the support.

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He drops out after New Hampshire.The primary is under way already,
they've already had votes. You've gotMcCarthy and Kennedy in the race, Bobby
Kennedy. Humphrey decides to jump in, but his name isn't on the ballot,
so now they tried to strong armhim into the presidency through this lack

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of primary process. Kennedy was assassinated. And now we get to Chicago nineteen
sixty eight. Anti war protesters weredemonstrating, and inside you had people who
were McCarthy people, Kennedy people,Humphrey people, LBJ. People were still
pushing for him. Dan Rather,a very young broadcaster, was on the

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air when he was basically beaten bysecurity guards when he attempted to interview a
state delegate. They jumped in thereand they started attacking Dan Rather. Walter
Cronkite is live on the air andsays, I think we've got a bunch
of thugs here. Dan. Thiswasn't Maga people, this wasn't Republicans,
This was the Democratic National Convention,and somewhat had thrown a lit match into

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the kindling that was the tensions ofthe nation, the problems in the Democratic
and then going into the convention withouta clear cut candidate. That's exactly what
we have here in twenty twenty four. Kamala Harris is thinking she's going to
go in there and get the nomination. There will be other Democrats, probably

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as early as this morning, whosay, WHOA. I have very serious
reservations about Kamala Harris thinking that shecould be the next president of the United
States. It was only four yearsago she wanted to be president. Democrats
were so unimpressed by her four yearsago she had to drop and end her
bid for the presidency before they voted. Her caucused in Iowa. And now

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now we're all like, oh,she's the best. There will be other
Democrats to jump in here, andthat's going to cause I don't know if
Bernie Sanders, Joe Manchin might switchback to being a Democrat. He might
jump in. He says he's not, but who knows. Hillary Clinton is
lurking? Obama has an endorsed anyone. Some people think maybe this will lead

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to Michelle Obama jumping in there.What is it going to look like in
Chicago this summer. We'll find outfour weeks from today. We'll go back
to the testimony. As James Comeris now questioning Kim Cheatle. You won't
miss a moment of it. We'llcue it right back up. You'll hear
it from the beginning after a FoxNews update next Scott Boys News Radio eleven

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kfab moments ago, the head ofthe House Oversight Committee, who has the
Director of the Secret Service up therefor a very unique grilling in the wake
of the assassination attempt against Donald J. Trump last Saturday. She was called
up here to answer the questions ofthis bipartisan committee. The questioning started just

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moments ago from the head of thecommittee, a Republican out of Kentucky Congressman
James Comer. Just for the record, the Secret Service has an annual budget
of around three point one billion dollarsand I believe around eight thousand employees.
Is that correct, Yes, sir, Obviously, there were many security failures
on the day of the attempted assassinationand leading up to that day. Let's

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start with the building that the shooterused to shoot President Trump from. At
any point Saturday, did the SecretService have an agent on top of that
roof? Sir? I'm sure asyou can imagine that we are just nine
days out from this incident, andthere's still an ongoing investigation, and so
I want to make sure that anyinformation that we are providing. Okay,

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why did the Secret Service not?Can you answer why the Secret Service didn't
place a single agent on the roof? We are still looking into the advanced
process and the decisions. Okay,Okay, wasn't that building within the perimeter
that should be secured? Do weagree with that the building was outside of

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the perimeter on the day of thevisit, But again, that is one
of the things that during the investigationwe want to take a look at and
determine whether or not other decisions shouldhave been made. One of the things
that you said, I believe inan interview that there wasn't an agent on
the roof because it was a sloperoof. Is that normal? And do
you fear that that immediately creates anopportunity for future would be assassin's to look

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for a slanted roof. I mean, this is a huge question that every
American has. Why I wasn't aSecret Service agent on the roof? And
there have been reports that agents weresupposed to be on the roof but it
was hot that day and they didn'twant to be on the roof. Can
you answer any of those questions?Director, So I appreciate you asking me
that question. Chairman, I shouldhave been more clear in my answer when

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I spoke about where we place personnelin that interview. What I can tell
you is that there was a planin place to provide overwatch, and we
are still looking into responsibilities and whowas going to provide overwatch. But the
Secret Service in general, not speakingspecifically to this incident, when we are
providing overwatch, whether that be throughcounter snipers or other technology, prefer to

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have sterile rooftops. Did the SecretService use any drones for surveillance that day?
So again I'm not going to getinto specifics of that day in itself,
but there are times during a securityplan that the Secret Service does deploy
an asset like I said, therewere reports that the shooter used a drone
just a few hours before the rallystart time. Is that accurate? I

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have heard those same reports, andagain am waiting for the final report.
You know, if you can't answerthe question, that's your answer. But
can you answer this? Do youknow? Do you know I'm not asking
yes or no, but do youknow if the shooter used a drone before
the shooting? That information has beenpassed to us from the FBI. Many

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Secret Service agents were assigned to PresidentTrump on the day of the rally.
Again, I'm not going to getinto the specifics of the numbers of personnel
that we had there, but wefeel that there was a sufficient number of
agents assigned. There are reports thatseveral agents assigned to the rally on July
thirteenth were temporary agents, agents notnormally assigned to President Trump. Is that

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accurate? What I can tell youis that the agents that were assigned to
former President Trump are Secret Service agentsthat provide close protection to him, and
that was what was actual on thatday. How many temporary agents were there
that day? Quite frequently, Sir, during campaign events, the Secret Service
utilizes agents from HSI or the DepartmentFull Land Security. You don't know how

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many supple entries our plan. Havethe investigators reconstructed the shooter's precise movements over
the past days, weeks, andmonths. So again, we need we
need to have confidence that if theFBI is leading this investigation, that they're
leading a credible investigation, because there'ssome of us sitting up here today that

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don't have a lot of confidence inthe FI. So I will repeat the
question, have the investigators reconstructed theshooter's precise moments over the past days,
weeks, and months. I understandyour question, Chairman, and I share
your concerns about wanting to make surethat we have factual information. The FBI
is conducting a criminal investigation, theSecret Service is conducting an internal investigation.

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There are a number of OIG investigations, and there is the external investigation.
Last question for me, before Julythirteenth, had the Trump detail requested additional
resources? What I can tell youis that for the event on July thirteenth,
the details that the assets that wererequested for that day were given.

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My time is expired, chair,I recognize this right. We'll break back
in here in just a moment JimJordan just took his turn with the Director
of the Secret Service. You'll hearthat next Scott voice. It's worth noting
here, as we've been listening inthis hour to the Director of the Secret
Service, Kimberly Cheadle, that she'snot there because she wanted to be there.
This was a congressional subpoena for herto testify this morning at the House

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Oversight Committee. The title of thiscommittee hearing is quote oversight of the US
Secret Service and the attempted assassination ofPresident Donald J. Trump unquote, So
she had a congressional subpoena to bethere. It's not like she's super happy
to be there and answer these questionsbecause I presume she knew that one member

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on this oversight committee is Congressman JimJordan, a Republican from Ohio. Thank
you, mister chairman, Director,were you guess in her Lyon day after
President Trump is shot, Secret Servicespokesman Anthony Gugliami said, quote the assertion
that a member of the former presidentsecurity team requested additional security resources that the

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US Secret Service or the Department ofHomeland Security rebuffed is absolutely false. The
next day, secretary of my workhas said that is an unequivocally false assertion.
We had not received any request foradditional security measures that were rebuffed.
But five days later, the WashingtonPost said this, top officials repeatedly rejected

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requests from Donald Trump's security detail formore personnel. The next day, The
New York Times said this, Mistergoogli Almy acknowledged that the Secret Service had
turned down some request for additional federalsecurity assets for mister Trump's detail. So
which is it? Because both statementscan't be true. Were you, guess
inner lying when you said you didn'tturn down requests from President Trump's detail?

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Neither, sir, and I appreciatethe question what were you doing? Because
those statements don't jive. What Ican tell you is that for the event
in Butler, there were no requeststhat were denied. As far as requests,
well, maybe they got tired ofasking. Maybe it turned them down
so darn much, he said,not worth asking? How many times did

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you turn them down? Ahead ofthat? I think that it is important
to distinguish between what some people mayview as a denial of an asset or
a request. Mister GOOGLIAMI your spokesperson. He said he acknowledged a Secret Service
had turned down some requests. I'masking how many a denial of a request

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does not equal of vulnerability. Welltell me what it is. There are
a number of ways that threats andrisks can be mitigate mitigated with a number
of different assets, whether that bethrough personnel, whether that be through technology
or other reasons. Well tell thecommittee which it was. They asked for
additional help in some form or another, you told him no. How many

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times did you tell them no?And what did you tell them? Know
too? Again, I cannot speakto specific incidents, but I can tell
you in general terms, the SecretService is judicious with their resources based on
what does some requests mean? Howmany times some indicate requests is plural,
So more than once they asked foradditional help and you turned them down?

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What they asked for? And howmany times you turn them down? Pretty
basic questions. So, again,without having all of the details in front
of me, sir, what Ican tell you is that there are times
I can't get briefed on how manytimes you turn down the trump detail when
they ask for additional help. I'msorry you didn't get briefed on that before
you came to this hearing, knowingyou were going to get asked that question.
What I can tell you is itin generic terms, when people when

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details make a request, there aretimes that there are alternate ways to cover
off on that threat or that risk. That's not what he said. He
said they were denied certain requests,some requests. This is your spokesperson,
not me talking. This is theSecret Service talking. And what a change
from absolutely false, unequivocally false tooh, by the way, there were
some times where we didn't give themwhat they wanted. That's a huge change

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in five days. And the factthat you can't answer how many times you
did that, that's pretty darn frustrating, not just for me, but for
the country. I hear your frustration. Let me ask you this, were
any of those requests denied to PresidentTrump's detail after you knew about the Iranian
threat. What I can tell you, again I don't know the specifics,

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is that there are times when wecan fill a request. It doesn't necessarily
have to be with a Secret Serviceasset or resource. We can fill that
request with locally available assets. Youspoke to anyone at the White House since
July thirteenth. Yes, I have. Who'd you talk to? I have
briefed the President and the Vice President. Talk to the First Lady. No,

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I have not talked to the WhiteHouse staff, anyone in the White
House communications. No, I havenot. Have you talked to the counter
sniper who took the shot that tookout the bad guy? Yes? I
have? And can you tell usabout that conversation. I would not want
to reveal conversations that I've had withmy employees, but that's exactly the kind
of information the American people want toknow, American people who pay your salary.

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I understand this is an ongoing investigation. Who's all doing the investigating at
Secret Service? I know the InspectorGeneral, but is there also an internal
investigation? In addition to the InspectorGeneral. We are conducting a mission assurance
investigation internally. Yes, you knowwhat looks like Director, looks like you
won't answer some pretty basic questions.It looks like you got a nine percent
raise and you cut corners when itcame to protecting one of the most important

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individual's, most well known individuals onthe planet, a former president. Likely
the guy's going to be the nextPresident looks like you guys were cutting corners.
That's what it looks like to me. Is that true. I am
here today because I want to answerquestions, but I also want to be
quiet and I want to but youhave an answered. I don't think you've
answered one question from the chairman,the ranking member, or me. We've
got a lot of other people asking. We'll see if your record improves,

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but right now you haven't answered.I don't think any questions. I yeel
back. Wow. Congressman Jim Jordanof Ohio Republican, Lucy, did you
expect any answers? I mean,I've watched enough of these committees with their

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witnesses that all start with thank youvery much for the question. I appreciate
the question, killing time, killingtime, coming time. Did anybody expect
any answers to this right right now? I don't. I didn't think that
there would be any, and look, I'm right way to go. The
lack of answers is not unexpected.The questioning there from Congressman Jim Jordan,

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though, is I think very veryinteresting. The Trump campaign had asked on
multiple occasions, hey, President Trump'sdoing another MAGA rally. We have concerns
about thisticular location. Can we havethis we of that? And they were
denied. How many times were theydenying We're not going to get into that.

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Were the requests for more security denied? After you learned of the threat
that Iran this had come up hererecently, that there was a learned threat
from Iran that they wanted to killTrump. Yet another world leader really wanted
President Biden to continue in capacity asthe giver of money in chief to foreign

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nations. So the best way todo that right now would be to kill
Donald Trump. So questions even ifyou don't think you're going to get an
answer, and I I think JimJordan hoped he'd get some answers there.
I think the American people hoped theyget some answers. Well, you can
hope. There are a lot ofRepublicans, of course, hoping that she'll

(34:51):
step down here, and at leastone elected Democrat to Congressman Brendan Boyle of
Pennsylvania, Democrat became the first firstDemocrat over the weekend to call for her
to resign, saying unacceptable operational failures. So you heard from Jim Jordan there,
you heard a few minutes before thatfrom the chair of the committee,

(35:15):
James Comer. It's still going on. We will be listening in and out
here throughout the morning. A fullrecap from Fox News in just a few
minutes. But I want to turnmy attention next to and wouldn't it be
great to have Jim Jordan Grill PresidentBiden right now? All right? So
you said you were going to resign, but you didn't say why. Who

(35:37):
wrote this piece of paper for you? Were you involved in writing this piece
of paper? Do you want toresign? Who made you resign? Who
wrote this? Who told you?First we're going to have you resigned,
and then later we're going to tellthe American people why you're not continuing the
campaign that a number of primary votersacross the nation, in all these states

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and the Democratic primary said where withJoe gave your campaign a bunch of money,
And you told them as recently asjust the other day, you're never
gonna step down. You will neverback down from this fight against Trump.
And then you spend a couple ofdays up at the beach house in Delaware,
and next thing you know, eventhough nothing has changed, you resign.

(36:17):
Why is it because you have cognitivehealth issues. Should you step down
as President of the United States,the leader of the free world, the
commander in chief of our nation's military. What happens if there's an issue in
our country? Today? You've gotCOVID, you're up in Delaware. Who's
running the country? Who's running thecountry last week, Who's running the country
in the weeks ahead? Answer thequestions, mister President, wouldn't you like

(36:40):
to hear Jim Jordan do some ofthat? I would yes, Fox and
KFAB News updates next. We spentsome time in the last hour of the
show listening in on the House OversightCommittee hearing where they subpoenaed the director of
the Secret Service, Kimberly don Cheatle, and she went up there and got

(37:00):
absolutely verbally pummeled by Jim Jordan ofOhio. We heard all of that a
little bit later, a little bitearlier here in the program. Can't wait
to hear Klay, Travis and BuckSexton on that in an hour from now,
as well as their assessment of whatwe learned yesterday afternoon. Here's when

(37:22):
other people learn the news yesterday afternoon. After the late June horrible campaign or
debate performance against President Trump, manystarted calling on Biden to drop out of
the race. President Biden said,ain't no way, that's a bunch of
malarkey. Come on, man,who's better poised to beat Trump than me?

(37:45):
I'm the whatever, you know,which is a pretty strong statement.
So he said, I'm not droppingout, won't back down from this fight.
What happened yesterday, Well, whatwe're hearing is that on Saturday night

(38:10):
President Biden started to quote come aroundto the idea unquote that maybe he could
drop out of the reelection campaign andstill save face, have his legacy celebrated
rather than defeated by losing all fiftystates in November and being disgraced removed from

(38:36):
office as Trump has sworn in yetagain on January twentieth, and as it
looked incredibly likely that that would bethe timeline. Biden on Saturday night says,
and maybe maybe this is a badidea. So he calls over the
First Lady, as well as chiefstrategist Mike don counselor to the President,

(39:01):
Steve Reschetti, and his deputy chiefof staff at the White House, Annie
Thomasini. Who else was there?Who was in the room when it happened
a senior advisor to the First Lady, Anthony Bernall was there. And these
are all advisors who have been withthe president as well as him being vice
president and senator to these these guyshave been with him for decades, and

(39:24):
he spent a lot of time onthe phone with Kamala Harris. So I'm
sure that the time on the phonewith Kamala Harris was interrupted several times with
him saying what is that sound asshe was rubbing her hands together, like
you know, an evil genius whowas orchest, Like all my plans are

(39:45):
coming together and you're rubbing your handstogether in a kind of a way.
What's that sound? Are you kneading? Doe? No, sorry, mister
president. Sorry. So they crafteda letter you'll hear in a moment.
The President yesterday at twelve forty fiveOmaha Time first informed White House Chief of

(40:10):
Staff Jeff Zeenz and longtime aid andcampaign chairwoman Jen O'Malley Dylan. That was
at twelve forty five. At thatmoment, senior advisors from both the campaign
and the White House were assembled ona call to hear the president's decision.
That was yesterday at twelve forty fiveCentral time. At twelve forty six,

(40:36):
Biden's campaign staff released his announcement onsocial media. I understand you don't want
to tell the people on the campaignand the White House staff and have someone
go I have to tell people aboutthis, and then you hear it from
sources say so, I get it. But these are people, well,

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I mean, this is their job. This in many instances, this is
their life. You know how personallyso many people take politics maybe you take
politics very very personally. There arepeople who put their lives on hold to
go serve either for the president orfor the president's re election campaign. These

(41:20):
are the true believers, you know, total whack job I mean true believers
who believe that Biden's the guy andthat I'm going to put my life on
hold. These campaign staffers, theydon't get much sleep. When they do,
it's usually in a sitting up position, kind of slumped over on a
campaign bus somewhere in Chattanooga or Anchorageor wherever. They're sent to tell people,

(41:44):
Hey, don't forget to vote forBiden. Hey let's get some campaign
cash going for this. These guyswork their tails off. They were given
less than a minute to digest thenews that they may I may not still
have a job. I don't knowwhat Kamala Harris does with the step.
I don't know. But the Bidenteam decided to release the news right away

(42:08):
rather than allow it to leak out. And we heard last week the president
was going to drop out of therace this weekend. Right, that was
the sound of the media leading upto the weekend. We here on this
radio station. We got a note, Hey, stand by this weekend in
case you need to go to specialcoverage when Biden drops out of the race

(42:30):
this weekend. I got that newson Thursday, Saturday night. Biden's like,
eh, maybe I should Who toldhim? Twelve forty six yesterday we
get the news twenty minutes after theannouncement was posted. Other campaign staffers were

(42:52):
alerted to what was going on inan all staff email, said, team
sharing with you the letter from PresidentBiden that was released just now. We
will have more information later this afternoon. They didn't have more information later this
afternoon. We're being told later thisweek when Biden soon endorsed Harris on social

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media. That was part of theletter, though, wasn't it. Yeah,
it was part of the original letter. Uh well, actually maybe I'm
looking at the second letter. That'swhat this says. Anyway, there are
two letters. Yeah, I guessthere were two letters. There was first
the acknowledgment he was dropping out.Then we got the letter. Here's the

(43:38):
letter, my fellow Americans, overthe past three and a half years,
we have made great progress as anation. Do you want me to stop
after each line and chime in yes, Okay, let me elevate this story
then from the bottom of the pileto the top of the pile. Now

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the assessment here is, over thelast three and a half years, we
have made great progress as a nation. Let me tell you about Manny Parrales
Lucy. Manny is owner of YosemiteFalls Cafe. This is a little restaurant
in California, not a big place, just you know, a little little

(44:21):
restaurant, little cafe. He justgot his bill from Pacific Gas and Electric
Company. The bill for the monthof June came to what do you think,
Lucy? What would I'm gonna I'mgonna give you a hint. The
reason we're talking about this is notbecause it's a small amount of money.

(44:42):
It is a sizable amount of money. So what do you think for a
small cafe Yosemite Falls, California,one month, for just the month of
June. But it was very hotin June, so it's gonna be it's
gonna be a little bit more.How much do you think is a Pacific
Gas and Electric Company bill was forthe month of June eight hundred more?

(45:04):
Tell me, I want you toguess at least three more times, twelve
hundred, twelve hundred more, fortyeight hundred more. No, go ahead,
tell me twenty one thousand dollars.But it's a mistake. No,
his monthly rent is ten thousand dollars. I mean it's it's expensive for this

(45:28):
area. Twenty one thousand dollars forone month electric bill. And it's not
just him as a business owner.News came out there, started talking to
staff members there. One of myservers, this is a server, young
lady, two kids, got herPG and E bill last month one thousand
dollars. Someone else said, well, we try to conserve. Our bill

(45:52):
was seven hundred dollars. This isthe cost of electricity in California. Well,
how are they getting in their carspowered up? That is probably part
of it. If you have tocontact your insurance company because we had storm
damage or whatever, wildfires, hurricanewhatever. There are a lot of people

(46:15):
who are being dropped by their insurancecompanies, and those who are being retained
by their insurance companies are seeing doubledigit jumps in what their premiums used to
be versus what they are now ratesfor coverage. His skyrocketed in the last
year. That's not just California,No, not just California. All over

(46:37):
the place, and a lot ofpeople are like, well, I guess
I can't have homeowners insurance. Sothen their house gets hit by hail,
a tornado, wildfire, hurricane,whatever, and you just go with that.
I have no place, I haveno place to live and nothing to
show for it. I can't affordhomeowners insurance. I can't afford the tricity

(47:00):
from my home. And here's thePresident saying, my fellow Americans, over
the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a
nation. Well, I guess it'syour definition of progress. Here's what they
say. Here's the remainder of theletter. Today, America has the strongest

(47:20):
economy in the world. We've madehistoric investments in rebuilding our nation, in
lowering prescription drug costs for seniors,and in expanding affordable healthcare to a record
number of Americans. We've provided criticallyneeded care to a million veterans exposed to
toxic substances. Past the first gunsafety law in thirty years, appointed the
first African American woman to the SupremeCourt, and past the most significant climate

(47:45):
legislation in the history of the world. America has never been better positioned to
lead than we are today. Mostof what you just heard there led to
the skyrocketing cost of everything. Homeownersinsurance companies aren't necessarily it's if you want
to replace something at your home thatis more than five years old, it

(48:07):
costs like five times more than itused to. This is due to inflation.
This is due to COVID causing aglut of getting supplies in this country,
and of course that causes a costto go up even more. A
lot of what you just heard thereled to all of these things that people
can't afford. Probably not the factthat Katanji Brown Jackson was named the Supreme

(48:29):
Court. I don't know if wecan blame her for the inflation, but
the rest of it, and Biden'sletter continues, I know none of this
could have been done without you.The American people. Together, we overcame
a once in a century pandemic andthe worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
We've protected and preserved our democracy,and we've revitalized and strengthened our alliances

(48:53):
around the world. I wonder howmany world leaders are thinking, didn't we
just meet with this press who assuredus everything's great. I'm great, Country's
great. Don't worry, you canwork directly with me. I'm gonna be
here for you. They're asking thesame questions the rest of us as something

(49:14):
happens today on this globe or inthis country. Who's in charge? We'll
get back to that question. Theletter says, it has been the greatest
honor of my life to serve asyour president. And while it has been
my intention to seek reelection, Ibelieve it is in the best interests of
my party and the country in thatorder, is in the best interests of

(49:38):
my party and the country for meto stand down and to focus solely on
fulfilling my duties as president for theremainder of my term. For my part,
my very first decision as the partynominee in twenty twenty was to pick
Kamala Harris as my vice president.And it's been the best decision and I've

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made the best this Sorry I wentinto a coma where was I did Biden
drop out? Here's the rest ofthe letter. Today, I want to
offer my full support and endorsement forKamala to be the nominee of our party
this year. Democrats, it's timeto come together and beat Trump. That's

(50:25):
the letter from President Biden yesterday towin to us. That went out to
my fellow Americans, and at theend of it was just for Democrats.
That was his closing line. Democrats, it's time to come together and beat
Trump. So now you have thevice president who is probably the one to

(50:47):
beat as of right now, she'sthe only person you could see emerging from
the ashes of the Democratic National Conventionto find out what Phoenix may rise to
be the standard bearer for the partyto take on Trump in November. But
she's still the Vice president of theUnited States. So we joke occasionally like

(51:10):
what are the duties of the vicepresident? This is today now the first
time that she's going to be speakingto the media and speaking to the public
since this happened yesterday. Afternoon.What is Vice President Kamala Harris doing in
ten minutes from now? She's scheduledto deliver remarks at an event celebrating the

(51:36):
NCUBA Championships teams from the last season. This is something that President Biden was
supposed to do, but because hegot the cove, Kamala Harris is jumping
in there. Yeah, but ithasn't it been five days? Oh yeah,
he's had six doses of pax loovidin the last five days. He's

(51:57):
like, wow, is he reallysick. One of the stories I saw
us that he had a mild cough. So the Vice president in this first
responsibility is I got to be inan event celebrating the National Collegiate Athletic Association
Championship teams from this last season.So he's not able to run, but

(52:19):
he is able to stay for thenext four months, five months, six
months, six months, Yeah,because it goes to January. Yeah,
okay, which then, which againbegs the question, if you can't run
for reelection, can you serve aspresident? I'll tell you what one media
outlets assessment of that question is.In just a moment. Scotty's News Radio

(52:43):
eleven to ten kfab and the Zonker'scustom was inbox Scott at kfab dot com.
Dan just sent me a link tothe Wikipedia entry for the definition of
the word oligarchy. Lucy, areyou familiar with that term. It's a
family thing. Yeah, usually youknow, Russian oligarchy, whatever. Really

(53:06):
it means a rule by a few, whether it's a few in a family
or white men. Usually yes,Historically, yes, oligarchy is we just
have a few very powerful people whowere running things. So I keep asking
the question, as does President Trump, who since yesterday has twice joked that

(53:29):
now nothing's changed tomorrow. This iswhat Trump said yesterday. He repeated the
joke this morning by saying today,I'm sure Joe Biden woke up for getting
he dropped out of the race yesterday. Nothing's changed. So people are wondering
if everything we've heard since this pastwinter has now seemingly been proven true.

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I mean, it wasn't that therewas some policy that was so disastrous that
people are like, we don't wantBiden to run for reelection. It wasn't
like there was some issue other thanit started with the Special Counsel Robert Hurr,

(54:15):
who talked with President Biden in thecase regarding his classified documents, and
his assessment after spending some time withhim was he was an elderly man who
forgets things a lot. People startpiecing that together with a lot of what
we've heard from President Biden over theyears, which seems a lot more pronounced

(54:36):
this year. And then we hadthat debate in late June almost a month
ago, where it was I mean, you could have charged Trump with elder
abuse for what he did to Bidenin that debate, and everyone said,
I don't think Biden should run forreelection. Cognitively, he's not there.

(54:59):
He's not up to the task,but we're gonna let him be the president
of the United States. Of course, they're not citing that as the reason.
They can't. We might want toturn your microphone off, Lucy,
if you're gonna move it like that. Sorry, Lucy's eighty one years old.
So they can't. They can't citethat as the reason I'm dropping out

(55:20):
of this race because I seem tohave misplaced my marbles. If anyone sees
a sack of marbles, I haveno sack of marbles. Lost them.
Also, there's an issue with itused to be one. Now, there
are several bats flying in and aroundthe vicinity of my Belfry. Wasn't aware

(55:44):
I had a Belfrey, but theytook a look at it turns out there
are bats in there, like eightbats in. So they can't say that
because then he won't be allowed tobe president anymore, or maybe they will
maybe the message to the nation laterthis week and he's taken a few more
days to kind of begin the transition. Transition, maybe it will be that

(56:06):
Biden is leaving office and handing overthe keys to the desk to Kamala Harris.
Well, the big question that I'veheard, it's not nobody is saying
it, but the bigger question iswho is the man behind the curtain?
That's what Trump has wondered and othersas well. And Slate is an online

(56:28):
news, left leaning news source,and they've determined that anyone asking the question
who is running our country right now, they're asking that because it is quote
a theme that has emerged as aGOP talking point. It's not a legitimate
question, it's just a talking point, those darn talking points right right,

(56:54):
a g a theme that has emergedas a GOP talking point. If they
can brand it as that. Thenanytime someone asks, it's like, oh,
well, here's another conservative person,and you know they're all gonna just
pair it the same thing, blahblah blah. Who's running our country?
But just answer with Joe Biden.Why don't they just say Biden is running

(57:17):
the country. If you don't wantit to be a talking point, well
listen, answer Lucy. I'll directyou to the latest dispatch from the White
House on that. Has anybody askedKareem Jean Pierre Kareem Frenchie Pierre is the
White House pass Secretary. Will JeanPierre her way up in front of the

(57:40):
lectern later today right now? Thetime unless something has happened in the last
hour or so. The time forthat is yet to be determined, but
she is scheduled to do a pressbriefing today. It says TBD they might
cancel it today. Well, shewants to be mindful if she. You
know, The West Wing was afantastic TV show and there was very depressing

(58:06):
when you watch it now. Therewas one episode I don't remember what the
issue was, but at this pointCJ. Craig Alison Janney was the press
secretary and everyone else in the Bartlettadministration knew what she was going to go
out and tell the people was nottrue. So she goes out there and
goes you know, and the correlationhere is Biden is very sharp. He

(58:28):
is running things. He's never goingto drop out, incredibly sharp, like
the sharpest guy you've ever seen.No one's been sharper. I mean,
basically, it sounds like something Trumpwould write. No one sharper me.
Frankly. Everyone says so so sharp, so sharp, so sharp. And
then she goes back and then laterlearns that she was left out there to

(58:49):
lie and they couldn't tell her aboutit because they didn't want her to know
she was lying, and she wasfurious. So I wonder right now if
Karine Jean Pierre's just tipping desks andjust like, why are you having me
go out there and tell people sinceFebruary that he's the guy for the job.
He's super sharp. Now I gottasay, hey, he's not going
to run for reelection, Why he'lltell you. Don't worry, mister sharpy

(59:15):
sharp is out there crafting of what'sgoing to be a very sharp statement that
will bluntly tell us why he can'trun for reelection, but can still be
the president. And anyone who wondersotherwise, well that's a GOP talking point.
Let's get a Fox News update onhere in just a moment, Scott
Bodes you going News Radio eleven tenkfab Kim Cheatle, the head of the

(59:38):
Secret Service, The Secret Service directorsays, the responsibility is mine. The
buck stops with me as to allof the failures that happened the last Saturday
in Pennsylvania when someone took a shotat Trump and nearly assassinated him, This
is all my fault. The responsibilityis mine and minor alone. Are you

(01:00:00):
going to resign? No? Shouldyou be fired? Absolutely not. So
the House subcommittee, the Oversight Committee, is said, can you please come
talk to us? And we hearda little bit of that about an hour
ago. I want to listen nowto the questioning from Congressman Gary Palmer.
He is a Republican from Alabama's sixthdistrict. Go ahead, they're big guys,

(01:00:27):
now, recognize is mister Palmer fromAlabama? For five minutes, Director
Cheetle, did local law enforcement ISUteams have compromise authority to engage a perceived
threat? Yes? Why do youthink they didn't use it. I believe
that they follow the same use offorce that are You don't when you have

(01:00:51):
compromise authority, you don't have toget permission if you perceive a threat.
And there were not just the SUunits, but there were local law enforcement
that had line of sight on theshooter before the shots were taken. So
one of my questions is is therewas supposed to be a briefing with the

(01:01:12):
Secret Service sniper units, your counterassault team members, with the contract team,
with the local ESU teams that didn'ttake place. Why was that?
So? I have been told thatthere has been a briefing, there was
a briefing that took place. I'vebeen told that there wasn't one, and
again we are still looking into thefacts of the investigations. Let me ask

(01:01:35):
you this, when were you informedthat there was a credible threat against President
Trump, former President Trump? Whendid you learn that, sir, the
former president has a number of threats. I didn't ask you that there was
a credible threat from Iran? Whenwere you informed of that? Answer the
question, We have been monitoring thethreats before before the rally. Okay,

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right, The site security plan isgenerally drafted by the site supervisor and the
site agent, probably out of thePittsburgh District Office. Did they take into
account the credible threat against President Trump? Our personnel take into account the threats

(01:02:22):
that are Why would they leave abuilding and I will correct the distance that's
been quoted. It's about one hundredand forty yards with a clear line of
site to the president. Why wasthat building not occupied on the roof?
I mean you could put Barney Fifeon the roof and kept somebody from getting
up there. So why wasn't thatdone? The plan that was developed that

(01:02:44):
day encompassed a number of security mitigations. The issue is the site supervisor,
the site agent, and the specialAgent in charge, who I think signed
off on the plan, did notinclude that in the inner perimeter and they
didn't have a plan to secure thebuilding. As I understand that the Butler

(01:03:07):
County ESU unit was situated on thesecond floor of a building next to that,
but they didn't have a clear lineof side of the roof. The
angle was too severe. The photographthat was taken of the young man of
the shooter when he had the rangefinderwas taken at five point fifteen. It
wasn't until five point thirty eight thatthat photograph was transmitted to the Secret Service

(01:03:32):
sniper units. I don't understand thelack of interoperability here in the communication process.
I don't understand why people didn't perceivethat as a credible threat. The
video that mister Christopher Morphy had shownthere was clearly a credible threat. So
how is it that all of thesemistakes could be made? How many explosive

(01:03:54):
devices were found on or near thesite? Again, I would have to
defer you to the FBI, Madam. I believe they were in his car
and there. I think there mighthave been one near a main gas line.
UH. It wasn't just the factthat he had a rifle. It
was the fact that he had theability to inflict enormous harm, enormous numbers

(01:04:19):
of casualties had those devices exploded.UH. I want to know also,
when you when your agents conduct asite review, are they fully informed of
all of the threats that are beingmade against uh the principle that they're protecting.

(01:04:46):
What I can tell you is thatwhen our agents go out to conduct
an advance, their whole goal isto ensure understand what call is the failure
to secure that building not only putthe president foreign presidence life in danger,
but the lives of individuals in thecrowd and dangers well, I mean the
Reagan shooting. There were other peopleshot at that time as well, and

(01:05:11):
the Secret Service member's lives were indanger. So I don't understand how you
can continue to stay in the positionyou're in when this was a failure of
historic magnitude. Forty three years withoutanything like this happening, and you failed

(01:05:34):
in this case in a spectacular ways, Chairman yll back that is Gary Palmer,
Republican out of Alabama. And anotherround of very pointed questioning that was
deferred, blocked, parried by theDirector of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheedle,

(01:05:58):
and he started off asking there aboutthe threat from Iran. Now she
began to answer with what I thinkis a legitimate response. There are always
threats against Donald Trump, just likethere are always threats against Joe Biden.
Any major political figures going to haveor be in a situation where there are
always threats. It's interesting though,that we heard about the threat from Iran,

(01:06:25):
and did the Secret Service see thatthreat as oh, this is a
little different. This isn't some whackjob posting something online and we go visit
him and he's like, ah,sorry, I had a little too much
to drink on Friday and I wentahead and threatened the guy's life. I
shouldn't have done that. My wifetold me not to do. This wasn't
something like that. This is athreat from Iran wanting to retaliate from what

(01:06:49):
happened when Trump killed one of theirgenerals. Did the Secret Service say this
is a bit of a step up? We need to be absolutely on top
of our game, more so thanever, And we presume that they usually
are the Secret Service, as Palmerjust noted there, we haven't had,

(01:07:11):
you know, one of our candidatesor presidents shot in forty three years.
That was Reagan in nineteen eighty one. So the Secret Service has been right
a lot, but they were wronglast Saturday. And they keep coming back
to this what about this threat fromIran? Which you start asking that question
and tying it up with some ofthe other questions related to this particular shooter.

(01:07:40):
Now, I'll tell you I haven'tbeen entirely comfortable with the assertion made
by some as they took a shotat Trump. A lot of people have
said that. Hal Cogan is amongthose who said it. When he spoke
the other night of Republican National Conventionin Milwaukee. I'll tell you what,

(01:08:02):
brother, when they took a shotat my hero, a real American hero,
brother, you know that was thatwas a good impression to hault cognans
what that was. But he referredto it as they He's not the only
one. He's just the only oneI do an impression of, probably because
I got the twenty four inch pythons. But I haven't been comfortable with the

(01:08:29):
characterization of they tried to kill Trump. That then suggests there's a whole cabal
of people who all orchestrated this,and someone had to be the one to
pull the trigger. Maybe this Patsy, this kid out of Pennsylvania. They
only means more than one Lucy.I know, but I'm I'm gonna can

(01:08:55):
I can I try on you?What size shoe do you wear in men's?
Do you have any idea? Idon't. Do you have any idea
why there's a difference in sizes betweenwomen's and men's Are you especially no,
no, no, no, Ijust thought here in twenty twenty four,
when gender doesn't exist anymore. Ifyou go buy a pair of shoes,

(01:09:16):
why are women's size like a women'ssize nine. It's different than a men's
size nine, right, Why whyis that? Well, we'll all just
have silver colored space boots at somepoint anymore. Well, I'm asking because
I want to try on your shoes. Lucy is the official conspiracy theorist on
this program, and this is usuallythe line of things like hazy, vague

(01:09:40):
aspersions that she would just throw outthere, and I say, oh,
you, you and your conspiracy theories. You're gonna answer that one. You're
gonna connect your own dots on thatone. Oh foo. You know that's
usually what I say. You wantto reverse the roles here, except I
don't think you're gonna give me ohFU on this one. Yeah, let's

(01:10:02):
reverse. Realizing that all of mythoughts on this started here today with and
this isn't when I first started thinkingthese things, but here in this particular
conversation, when you have a characterizationof threats against Trump from Iran, or
when you have a characterization of theshooter as they tried to take out Trump,

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and of course there are a lotof people who would say things like,
oh yeah, the Secret Service doesn'tbehave in this way unless someone's in
on it. This goes all theway to the top. You know,
you hear stuff like that. I'mgonna give you a series of questions,
not a lot, a few thatdon't do a lot to dissuade those who

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have those leanings from thinking that.Here are the questions. This kid's twenty
years old, saying, you know, twenty year olds, what do they
know? But no online presence,no criminal record, works in an assisted
living community. You know, he'she seems to be have some thoughts about

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firearms. You know, why inthe world would he think that he could
go to the site where Trump's aboutto hold a rally and do things like,
if some of these reports are true, hide his firearms someplace where he
could then get it, you know, retrieve this hidden firearm and then go
up to the roof with it.How am I going to get on the

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roof? Better take a ladder withme. Don't you think someone's gonna notice
this is a little weird. There'sa guy over here with a ladder and
a scope, and we're telling thepolice, Hey, there's a guy up
here getting on the roof. Wehave questions about him. How would he
know that no one would be onthat roof? I don't I don't do

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a lot of time researching things abouta presidential candidate coming to speak in my
town. But if I go lookat the site and here I am one
hundred and forty seven yards from wherethe candidate's going to be speaking, I
would have to just presume right thatthere'd be whether it's a Secret Service agent
or in the characterization of Gary Palmer, the Alabama Congressman Barney Fife up there

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just to be up there to makesure that they nip it in the bud.
And to nip it, you'd haveto assume there'll be security on the
roof or at least on the groundaround the rear. Like there's no way
I'm going to get up on thisroof carrying a rifle. Right, There's
no way I'm going to be ableto waltz in here with the ladder right.

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People did see him, I know, But why would he assume that
he that he could first do thesethings and secondly get away with it.
I would question some of the olderboomers. He's taken care of that assistance
living home you think that some lifelongDemocrats lifelong Republicans ask him both, You

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think that that one of them,one of them trained him. I don't
go and do this thing, butI think if I was an investigator,
I would ask everything. Let's getto the big question here. Since the
sniper was a quarter inch away,if Trump doesn't move his head to go
take a look at that screen behindhim, he's a quarter inch away from

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either being killed or being put insuch a medical hardship that there's no way
he could run for a service president. If that shooter was successful, does
Biden drop out of the race yesterday? The timeline is President Biden a lot

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of questions around him. He goesthere, he debates Trump has that horror
performance. People are saying, yougot to go. He says, not
going. Don't worry. A lotof time left now. For those of
you who say this goes all theway to the top, here, I'm
gonna connect the dots on this one. I'm not saying I believe this.
I think it is a worthy lineof questioning, maybe for more for Hollywood

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than real life. But with allthese other things that you hear in the
assumptions, you would have to makeis about why the shooter thinks he would
be able to get away with this, Why the Secret Service wouldn't be there,
Why the Secret Service would be watchinghim but not doing anything about it.
Why wouldn't local law enforcement really bedoing anything about it. You would
have to take it all the wayup to Biden saying, don't worry,

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I don't need to drop out.Maybe because and again I'm not saying I
believe this, but you could envisiona scenario, a timeline, a wrinkle
in time where Biden knew what wasgoing to happen last week, and therefore
he wouldn't need to drop out.He'd be the steady presence here and he

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could you know that People be like, well, we got to have Joe
Biden still as our president. Shootertries and misses, a week later,
Biden drops out of the race.Would Biden have dropped out if that shooter
had been successful last Saturday? Inmy opinion, now, when you asked

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that question, along with the horriblesecurity laps as we saw around that event,
I can't dissuade those from wondering doesthis go all the way to the
top. I can't. I don'thave any answers for these questions. Klay

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Travis and Buck Sexton got a lotmore in the wake of all of this.
Who Alexandria Ocazio Cortez is asking questionsof the Secret Service director? I
wonder how that begins. Let's listenin to that as we close the program.
Next Scott by Alexandrio Casio Cortez,Democrat out of New York, starts

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with a mischaracterization. Then ask agood question of the Director of Secret Service,
Kim Cheatle the individual used in ARfifteen, Oh, he didn't in
order to act out his assassination attempt. AR fifteen has a range of about
four to six hundred yards. Itwas style rifle. My question is why

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does the Secret Service perimeter? Whyis the Secret Service protective perimeter shorter than
one of the most popular semi automaticweapons in the United States. That's a
good question. Your number of weaponsout there with a number of ranges.
Again, an advance was completed thedetermination of the perimeter. I'm not going

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to speak to Speci, but shehasn't spoken to specifics this entire morning.
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, we'lltake it up from here. They're up
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