Secret Service director resigns

Secret Service director resigns

Episode Transcript

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Secret Service Director Kimberlee Chetle is out. She has called it quit. She
has resigned, you know, afterwhat happened yesterday, and we saw,
oh man, it was brutal.I was watching, by the way,
well, I was watching Mace.I watched that, and I started watching
a lot of that because I didn'tget to watch it real time yesterday,
and to start watching all of thatand and everybody go after her and then

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AOC and I mean there was like, you know, it was bipartisan as
far as the attack on her,and it was it's all justified, you
know from where I'm sitting or whatever. But let's get the very latest on
this and bring in ABC News Lawenforcement reporter Luke Barr out of Washington.
Luke, Welcome to the show.Hey guys, thanks for having me.
Yeah, so there it is.She's out, she resigned. I gotta

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be honest, I didn't think itwas coming this quick. I figured she
was probably gonna have to end upcaving to the pressure here. So I
felt like it happened a little quickerthan you know what I thought. You
just probably heard us talking about.It was pretty on Capitol Hill for her
yesterday. But it's pretty serious.You know the things that happened with this,
So what is the latest. Well, and it's one of the things

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that you know, perhaps a rarebipartisan moment in Congress, and you've got
both the majority and minority leader ofthe Household Sight Committee called for her resignation.
Now what happened was this morning sheannounced her resignation in an email to
Secret Service employees which we obtained.It says, quote, the Secret Service

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is solid mission is to protect ournation's leaders and financial infrastructure. On July
thirteenth, we fell short of thatmission, which of course is in line
with what she said yesterday, whichshe took responsibility and said it was failure.
Yeah, so there's nothing more thenwith this other than she resigned through
an email. Did she send thatto from what I understand it may have

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been some of the other people therewithin the Secret Service? Or did she
did she send that to media thatyou're aware of? What was? What
was that? So we we obtainedthe email through our sources. She sent
to the department, the entire SecretService, uh, the agency wide.
The email went out and basically waswas just a she she took responsibility.

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She said, uh, it willbe a distraction if she is further in
the job, just given all theheat that she has come under since the
assassination attempt, and then obviously yesterdaywith what we saw, so you know,
that's pretty much it. And andin the Secretary of Landsecurity States for
her service in two years on ajob, so that's yeah, that was

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going to be my next question.I didn't even realize how long she had
been there two years? Did youhave something to ease Yeah, it was
it was August of twenty twenty two. Now, what do we know about
the deputy uh Secret Service director whotook over. How long has that person
been in the in place? Andare they basically going to be by you

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know default obviously now de facto directoror are they going to open up a
search for a new director. Well, the deputy his name is Ronald Rowe.
He's been on the job for twentyfive season twenty four years, just
under twenty five years. But hewill be the acting director of the CICCT
Service right now. But you know, as I'm sure you're aware of guys,

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that there is a presidential election.You know, the president usually has
the saying who the director of theSecret Service is obviously, right, because
it's so personal, right, youknow, you're you're appointing somebody who's overseeing
people that protect you. So Imy hunch is that you know that they
might wait a little bit or letmister Rowe get his groove in there and
then appoint a director. But yeah, it's at the discretion of the secretary.

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And of course, guys, thedirector's secret service is not confirmed.
It's just an appointment. Okay,all right, Luke barr ac News law
enforcement reporter at Olaji and Luke,thank you very much. So yeah,
I I I The reason I askedthat question. Yeah, it's a good
question is because we see what DEIgot us. We saw what diversity,

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equity and inclusion got us, andthat's a bullet and Trump's here, brother,
they'll never admit that's what this was. She won, whether we all
know it. I mean, likewe all know what's happening with Biden.
On a side note, and Iknow you got more. Yeah, but
like we all know what's happening withTrump. Well we've witnessed with Biden over
the past three and a half years. We all know. Nobody's admitting anything.

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Nobody and you there'll be a lineof questioning who knew what and how
long and all of that. Butto your point with this, the DEI
stuff's not gonna go away as longas these morons are in charge, because
that's how they operate. I amhappy to hear, hopefully that her thirty
by thirty went with her. Ihope, which is thirty percent women twenty

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thirty. Yes, in the SecretService, we saw how incompetent the one
the one woman couldn't even handle afirearm. You couldn't get it reholstered.
I mean, this is a joke. The one is, you know,
cowering down, you know, andI will have this debate. I am
not very comfortable with women in lawenforcement. Now that that's a generalization.

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Obviously, there are some pretty toughfemale cops, no question that does that.
Absolutely have earned everything they've gotten andkicked serious ass. Okay, yes,
but I've seen too many things,read too many stories about female police
officers who were overpowered, or weknow that female police officers are quicker to

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use deadly force than males because theyfeel physically threatened up more right, and
say, there's there's trying to staredown somebody who is six inches taller than
them and outweighs them by one hundredpounds or more, and they're you're right,
they're immediate gonna go to their side. Arm. I mean, that's
just that's common sense on their part, which is probably a bad move.

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It is, and it's not.I don't think it's fair to the public
as much as it's not fair toputting the lives of those women in jeopardy.
Now, of course they volunteer andsign up, and we can have
an intellectual, civil conversation about this, but I am really really against having
female Secret Service officers at least thirtypercent of them. No, not for

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the sake of going thirty percent.What was the point what we were talking
about this last week. I thinkI know where you're going. If you're
looking shorter. Yes, here's thething. I'm ore body. They can
be less masked to protect the present. They can, they can be Secret
Service. I don't have a problemwith women fill the Secret Service. If
they're qualified with women's valance, don'tput them. You can't put them on

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the president's detail. When the presidentis six' two six' three and
is as big as Donald Trump.I wouldn't even qualify for that. I'm
too short. There's too much ofTrump sticking out over top of me if
I'm standing in front of him,so I wouldn't even qualify. I'm six
foot in thanks to awaken win eightytwo hundred and five pounds. Now,
and let me tell you something,I'm too tiny to be on Well,

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No, you actually would be finein that situation because you only give up
maybe an inch or two to Trump. Right, He's like, I'm six
foot exactly, so whatever Trump is, how many inches he hat? So
that's my point. You're big enough. You're big enough to be in front
of Trump or on his detail physically, is all I mean by yeah,
the rest of it, I don'tknow how they qualify for any of that.

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I am completely I would not beon the president's detail unless he ended
up being shorter, even that's theonly way. And the other thing I
noticed is that even the guys therewere these little, scrawny guys I've been
to. I've been in the presenceof two presidents and three presidential candidates who
had Secret Service protection. Let metell you something. The guys that were

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around George W. Bush, theseguys you would have thought played linebacker at
you know, Alabama. That's whatyou want. That's what you want.
Listen. You want a lot ofmass around you that's gonna take bullet.
You want to go in and iffemales, you know, be part of
surveillance, fine, you want togo in, be part of the advanced
team to go. Okay, wegotta make sure this target's covered. This

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target's absolutely no problem. Here's whatI say, Kamala, you're all about
the women. How about your thosewomen that were on Trump's detail, they're
now on her. Yes, they'rewith you now, Kamala, wait a
minute, what's wrong? I guaranteeshe's gonna be like whatever and be like,
no, well, look you wantthe women around you, Put them
around you. They're actually probably gonnamatch up better with Kamala anyway. And

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let's make it clear. Make itall women around you, Jay all nothing
but women do it, preferably womenof color, right, because you're in
the moment, just one moment tohave that moment. Yes, okay,
So, but this is not anattack on women. I'm not coming at
women who it's a stature, atassageousness. This is about practical physical limitations

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of men of women versus men whenit comes to guarding the life of the
President of the United States. Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Hey check
Chuck, welcome in. Hey,I have relative that's in DHS. We
were discussing a couple of these pointsa few days ago. Yeah. He
was telling me that that thirty bythirty that applies across the board, not

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just Secret Service. Oh boy,boy, what is that an enormous mistake
or what? Well? Yeah,you need to pick the people that are
best qualify whatever they look like,right, because that could be fifty by
thirty at that point, it couldbe fifty percent women. I don't know,
I don't care. The best onesthat qualify are who should be doing

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it. I'm right with you,Chuck. Yeah. Yeah. The other
thing real quick that we talked about. You were talking about if the woman
trying to holster and I brought thatup with him and I said, boy,
did you see that he's undercover too? And he goes, hell,
you know, sometimes when she's pushingtogether them and you got a code on
and you're trying to get in ina concealed carry holster, sometimes that happens.

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So I throw that out from hispoint of view as somebody that's undercover
and you guys can go from therewith it. Okay, that's cool,
juck, thanks for calling man.I found this interesting. I did some
searching here. This is the thisnew guy. He looks like he looks
the part. He is a bigdude, and so again the Deputy Director

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Ronald Rowe. Here's his background.He has experienced leading engagements with Congress,
the Department of Homeland Security, andother partners. He was assigned to the
Presidential Protective Detail for George W.Bush. He was probably one of the
guys I saw with George W.Bush from two thousand and four to two

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thousand and eight, could be andhe was deployed to New York City on
nine to eleven as part of theSecret Service Response Team. In his twenty
four year career, he has coordinatedmajor security operations, collaborating with other governments,
foreign entities, and law enforcement agencies. This guy knows what the hell
he's doing. Twenty four years in. I own it on the detail right

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and I don't exactly I don't knowexactly what all has happened with this guy,
but he's automatically being elevated right now, and from what it sounds like
there really doesn't have to be awhole lot of anything other than the right
person or maybe two that go,yeah, this is our new director.
He's or not, I don't know, but it's an appointment. It's not

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going to be anything other exactly.And it says his career with the Secret
Service began in nineteen ninety nine,and he previously was what a police officer
in West Palm Beach, Florida,ironically, or Donald Trouble is that right
now? You know? So it'sthis is the kind of cat. Listen,

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take the name off other in thefact, give me his physical stats,
you know, if he's going infor the detail, but if he's
gonna run this, just I don'tneed to see the name. I don't
need to see his face. Justlist these accomplishments. I'm going that's someone
who's qualified. And then all,no, it happens to be a white
guy, which he is. Darn, I guess we're gonna have to go

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to the next candidate because we gotto meet our thirty for thirty quota.
This is a whole lot of commonsense, if you ask me, in
these situations, it's a whole lotof common sense. That should be applicable.
It's that's it. The people whoare on the president's detail have to
at least match his stature or bigger, and if they're at least they have

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to at least be as tall,because you have to be able to get
in that situation to move him likethey did when you heard, you know,
mister president or whatever, they were, to move him when he's going,
let me get my shoes. Inthat situation, you got this girl
who's given up a whole like severalinches in front of time. So you're
trying to move the protectee and atthat point he's vulnerable. You're not as

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a secret Service agent taking a bulletif in fact they're able to shoot above
you and they's a part of yourprotectee sticking at one. It's it's common
sense. Yeah. Again, thisis not about is I'm not there's This
is not about women can't do thesekind of leadership roles. What we're saying

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is when you do this based offof false quota's political ideology and identity politics,
it's a it's a recipe for disaster, and we were a half inch
away from total disaster. DEI willnever go away as long as this administration
is in power, it won't goaway, and it's only going to take

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a break when Trump vance get elected. Yeah, and then it will be
back, and it will be backactually maybe while they're in depending on if
both houses of Congress end up hopefullystill and it's till in our favor.
Well, obviously the Senate is notright now, but you know what I'm
saying, and so you're going tohave more of that. It just creeping
in and that should not even beclose to what people are using as a

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measure for anybody's ability to do ajob. Absolutely, And do you want
the guy do you want somebody operatingon you based on that? I mean,
if you can tell me that thesepeople who are all about the DEI
stuff go, is that who youwant operating removing cancer or whatever from a
loved one or yourself your doctor?Don't don't forget, don't don't forget about

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the white guy who's an award winningnational surgeon with thirty years experience. No,
no, no, no, yougot to cut him off. He's
like, oh, we can't dothat. Guess what, Oh, you've
got this diverse guy who went toPuerto Rican medical school and used to operate
on goats, but he's the firstthink about it, checks the box.
Shit, dude. I mean,you can't sell me on that anymore than
you can sell me on women beingin the presidential detail. Unless you are

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an Amazon Warrior princess like bro Zinozena warrior princess, she can absolutely be
on the presidential detail. So straightahead, the Trump shooter