CSB - Amy Thaler - American Corespondent

Heading to Washington DC to cover the last couple of days of huge news in the US of A. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport
Stay Away.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
From I've been looking forward to catching up with our
US correspondent to what a week it has been since
we last spoke to Amy Taylor. Amy, Good morning out
of DC.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Good morning, BK. It has been a week.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Indeed, Yes, your your president confusing the Ukrainian president with
endemia Putin, then confusing who his vice president was, and
now the action from the weekend, very very scary.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, you know, I really thought that maybe we'd be
talking about President Biden in that whole situation this week.
But last note, we're back to talking about former President
Trump and what went on. So you know, there's been
obviously the whole world is talking about it. But I
read an article by a friend's wife, actually Nell Scovell,

(01:03):
who brought up an interesting bit which she said, if
you go back to then President Trump's talk briefing at
the White House in August of twenty nineteen, just after
the shootings in Texas and Ohio took place, he talked
about the glorification, calling an end to the glorification of violence,

(01:26):
and denounced gun violence. At that briefing. He also said
there that capital punishment should be delivered quickly and decisively
without the years of needless delay, so the victims would
not have died in vain. Yet three months after that speech,
there were no plans for gun reform in Congress, and
really you could almost say that those plans or any

(01:49):
thoughts of it were buried along with the victims of
those shootings. So, you know, when I heard on Saturday night,
I was having dinner with some friends that that happened,
I have to tell you. So I wasn't really surprised
because shootings, mass shootings are just so commonplace, and frankly,
I was kind of surprised that one or the other

(02:10):
of the candidates hadn't been shot at yet because the
temperature and the attitude in DC, as we've talked about
many times, right, has just become so nasty, and personal
attacks on people are so commonplace in politics these days
that I'm really surprised that one of the other candidates

(02:32):
haven't been shot at. And it's been forty years since
Reagan the attempted assassination on Reagan, right, so it's been
a long time, and that to me was really kind
of surprising, not that it happened.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Really interesting that yesterday Joe Biden came out and spoke
to the nation and actually said, look, it's just cool
everything down a bit. And I think that was probably
one of the smart of things that he said of
recent times where even Trump listened. And I think he's
rewriting a speech that he had for the big initial
convention that he's at today.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah and yeah. Indeed, and the reactions I think kind
of fall into four categories is now pointed out in
our article. Right, there's one support and well wishes from
both sides of the aisle sure condemnation of political violence.
Gabby Gifford's came out. I don't know if you recall
she was shot, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,

(03:27):
went into detail about all sorts of political violence and
condemning it, including threats on judges, jurors, and court personnel,
the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, right, threatening election officials
and workers, and also plotting to kidnap a government a governor.
That was all, you know, put down. And then of
course they're jokes. But lastly, the conspiracy theories that are

(03:51):
out there are really remarkable on both sides, right the left.
They're saying, you know, ranging from shooting, the shooting being
stage jumped up by the far left, and then on
the other side, it being ordered by President Biden himself,
which is ridiculous because let's be honest, if a president
is going to order a hit, it's going to be

(04:11):
executed fall flawlessly for sure. So that could have been done,
but it really the security there are some questions in
my mind. You know, I worked at the Olympics in
two thousand and two. I had interactions with Secret Service
on a couple of different Olympics and FBI, and the

(04:31):
way Secret Service behaved with former President Trump was kind
of interesting to me. I mean, you know, there's that
SoundBite where he said, oh wait, let me get my shoes,
and then allowing him to stand up and you know,
pump his fist. That seemed remarkable to me. The fact
that they just didn't absolutely get him off that stage

(04:53):
immediately is curious to me. So I think that's going
to be looked at in the investigation. And then the
issues around the questions with the rooftop and the shooter
being up on that rooftop that's exterior to the event
security perimeter and that is local law enforcement versus secret service,
so I think it was more of a communication protocol

(05:16):
than a perimeter security issue.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, tragic for people in the crowd with one person
losing their life, but I think there's going to be
a hell of a lot more that comes out, and
it's going to be an interesting Republican National Convention that
kicks off today over there as well.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Really, Oh, indeed, there's no loss for lack of content
for fodder.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
That'll be sure, absolutely, Amy, good to catch up. Take care,
we'll talk again next week.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Sounds good. BK. Have a good one.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
That is Amy Taylor, US correspondent here joining us out
of Washington, DC. And if you caught the news earlier
this morning, Donald Trump's name Senator JD. Vance of Ihoa,
Ohio as the vice matual running mate for the forthcoming
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