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Paul Mauro | Former NYPD Inspector & Current Fox News Correspondent | 04-27-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: The so called manifesto is a stunning thing to read.
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Speaker 1: Mister President, he appears to reference a motive in it.
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Speaker 1: He writes this, quote administration officials, they are targets. And
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Speaker 1: he also wrote this, I'm no longer willing to permit
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Speaker 1: a pedophile, rapist, and trader to coat my hands with
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Speaker 1: his crimes. What's your reaction.
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Speaker 2: Well, I was waiting for you to read that because
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Speaker 2: I knew you would, because you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he did write that, I'm not a rapist. I didn't
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Speaker 2: rape anybody.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I think he was referring to you.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me, I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap
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Speaker 2: from some sick person. I got associated with all stuff
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Speaker 2: that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated.
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Speaker 2: Your friends on the other side of the plate are
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Speaker 2: the ones that were involved with let's say Epstein or
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Speaker 2: other things. But I said to myself, you know, I'll
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Speaker 2: do this and you and they'll probably read the manifesto.
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Speaker 2: You know it's a sick person. But you should be
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Speaker 2: ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of
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Speaker 2: those things. Excuse me, you shouldn't be reading that. In
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Speaker 2: sixteen minutes.
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Speaker 3: You're a disgraceful tell her, tell her. You'll hear these
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Speaker 3: discussions all morning long, like when Ducy as President Trump yesterday?
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Speaker 3: Why does this keep happening to you? Well, there's your
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Speaker 3: answer right there, Norah o'donald, sixty minutes. Part of a
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Speaker 3: lot of people who refer to the president not just
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Speaker 3: the president. I told you this a bunch of times
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Speaker 3: last week. At this point, I get called a pedophile
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Speaker 3: every day, every day me, sid Rosenberg, a pedophile, couldn't
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Speaker 3: be a better father, love kids. I'm a pedophile because
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Speaker 3: I'm friends with Trump. So it's not just Trump. Now,
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Speaker 3: if you're associated or god forbid, friendly like I am
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Speaker 3: with President Trump, you're a pedophile, you're a rapist, you're
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Speaker 3: all those things. Then you want to know why people
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Speaker 3: are trying to kill him. While people like Cole Allen,
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Speaker 3: who may be very BookSmart, very book smart, very went
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Speaker 3: to college, got a manister's degree, he's a moron. Does
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Speaker 3: he believes or the garbage that the liberal media spews.
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Speaker 3: There's your answer, Nora O'Donnell. And then of course the
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Speaker 3: liberal politicians, all of them yesterday with their tweets of concern,
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Speaker 3: shove it up your ass. You're not pooling me, your
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Speaker 3: liars and the voters. But anyway, I watched Fox News
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Speaker 3: all day. This guy happens to be, as you know,
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Speaker 3: one of my favorites. He's great on television. More importantly,
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Speaker 3: he was an amazing cop here in New York. Just
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, I had the honor of
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Speaker 3: being honored with him and Bodedle by their retire DEEA
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Speaker 3: and Russo's on the Bay and Howard Beach, My good buddy,
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Speaker 3: Paul Morrow, Paul, good morning, Pile, how are you?
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Speaker 4: I'm good, said, good morning.
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Speaker 3: Nice to have you here. Let's start with how this
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Speaker 3: whole thing came about. This Cole Allen checks into a
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Speaker 3: hotel room on Friday night looking to commit this heinous
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Speaker 3: act on Saturday, and folks are asking the question even
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Speaker 3: before he got to the event on Saturday night, how
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Speaker 3: does somebody make it all the way from Los Angeles
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Speaker 3: to DC and check into a hotel with a shotgun,
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Speaker 3: a handgun, a bunch of knives? Is the answer as
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Speaker 3: simple as well, if you take the train, nobody checks
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Speaker 3: your luggage. Is that the easy answer here?
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Speaker 4: Well, that is certainly how he got cross country because
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Speaker 4: he knew he can't take a plane with the guns.
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Speaker 4: And so sure, you know, anybody who's taking Amtrak or
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Speaker 4: any of the commercial railroads knows that, you know, they're
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Speaker 4: not going to check your luggage, and so he could
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Speaker 4: do that. The real question I think is, you know,
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Speaker 4: we have to face the fact that the hotel was
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Speaker 4: likely unless they tracks. Donald Trump has been targeted like
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Speaker 4: no other president in our lifetimes. That the hotel is
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Speaker 4: a very very difficult place to secure. All hotels are.
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Speaker 4: History has shown that rf case Senior was killed in
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Speaker 4: a hotel in a shooting. So that being the case,
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Speaker 4: you have to remember it. It's a commercial establishment that's
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Speaker 4: going to continue to operate while you're holding this event.
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Speaker 4: You got thousands of guests who are going to expect
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Speaker 4: room service, their rooms to be made up, et cetera.
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Speaker 4: And so there's a lot of conflicting agendas going on.
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Speaker 4: And that played a factor here because he's there being
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Speaker 4: treated as a guest, that is Cole Allen, and so
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Speaker 4: he's afforded a little bit of maneuvering inside the building
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Speaker 4: that somebody just showing up for the event is not
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Speaker 4: going to have. That's what he used to his advantage,
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Speaker 4: and look, were there better ways to secure it. I'm
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Speaker 4: sure there would have been, but they made the decision
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Speaker 4: to do it the way they did because of what
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Speaker 4: I just said. And I think going forward, what they
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Speaker 4: just have to say is, as the Secret Service, if
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Speaker 4: we can't secure the venue, let's find another venue. We'll
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Speaker 4: do a different event. And that goes for this president who,
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Speaker 4: as you mentioned, there are a lot of people out
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Speaker 4: there proselytizing and really advocating and sanctioning violence against him.
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Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. They could deny it all
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Speaker 3: they want. That's exactly what they do. Hassan Piker. Hakim Jeffries, right,
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Speaker 3: the minority speaker, he was the majority speaker just a
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Speaker 3: couple of days ago. Encouraged violence, Hakim Jeffries. Let's get
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Speaker 3: the Saturday so the event gets under way. This guy,
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Speaker 3: I guess I read he was on the tenth floor
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Speaker 3: of the hotel. He was able to make his way
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Speaker 3: to the actual floor of the White House correspondent's dinner,
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Speaker 3: taking stairs, crouching in certain situations to build his gun,
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Speaker 3: his shotgun. He did have a handgun and a bunch
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Speaker 3: of knives. What can you tell us, Paul more about
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Speaker 3: when he left his hotel room, what did he exactly
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Speaker 3: do to get to the point where he sprinted sprinted
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Speaker 3: past that first perimeter to try to get closer to
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Speaker 3: the president.
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Speaker 4: Well, obviously he had checked him before the event, and
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Speaker 4: it sounds like he had scoped out the area and
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Speaker 4: knew where the ingress and egress was going to be
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Speaker 4: near the ballroom. So apparently what he did day of
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Speaker 4: is he knew the timing of it, and I guess
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Speaker 4: he reasoned, unless you know there's something else that's going
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Speaker 4: to come out here that we don't know about, he
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Speaker 4: reasoned that the dais would have been seated, and he
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Speaker 4: left his hotel room, came down in an interior staircase
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Speaker 4: that apparently nobody was monitoring, and got to a small room,
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Speaker 4: some kind of utility room that was just off the
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Speaker 4: room that we've all seen that he charges through. In
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Speaker 4: that room, the small room is where he apparently assembled
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Speaker 4: the long gun, which is a shotgun apparently, which is
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Speaker 4: a strange weapon to choose in this instance. So he
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Speaker 4: does that and then he leaves there and sprints through
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Speaker 4: that room the last room towards the last line of defense,
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Speaker 4: which is the magnomiis that's where the service was, and
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Speaker 4: that's where they stopped him. Had he gotten through there,
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Speaker 4: it was a few sh short steps down and then
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Speaker 4: into the ballroom. And then at that point I assume
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Speaker 4: he was counting on the ability to make it all
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Speaker 4: the way across the ballroom just by sprinting and by
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Speaker 4: scaring people and get close enough to use buckshot, which
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Speaker 4: he says right in his manifesto, which sort of sprays,
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Speaker 4: you know, the shot. You'd have to be pretty close
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Speaker 4: to the president to do that. And then I assume
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Speaker 4: usually get two shots with that if it's double barrel.
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Speaker 4: And then he had a handgun that I assumed he
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Speaker 4: was going to go to because he said that his
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Speaker 4: target was Trump officials plural, So that seems to be
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Speaker 4: the plan. And all I can say is, look, thank
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Speaker 4: god they stopped him. We all know that that's off
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Speaker 4: to the Secret Service. But consider said he had gotten
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Speaker 4: close enough that he was just outside the ballroom. What
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Speaker 4: if he had a bomb, what if he had a
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Speaker 4: machine gun or something? You know, this could have been
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Speaker 4: a lot lot worse. And I do really think I
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Speaker 4: just have to double top what I said earlier. We
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Speaker 4: have to look at these things because Donald Trump's got
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Speaker 4: another three years and they're going to keep trying. Men.
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Speaker 3: Oh, they're going to keep trying. Like I said yesterday
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Speaker 3: on Twitter, they'll keep trying as long as as Democrats
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Speaker 3: keep lying, Like they'll keep trying as long as Democrats
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Speaker 3: keep lying, and they will keep trying. And you're right,
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Speaker 3: if they had a bomb, or somebody had a bomb
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Speaker 3: or a machine gun, it could have been a heck
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Speaker 3: of a lot worse. I mean, this guy's plan was
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Speaker 3: actually silly. He was going to run past you know,
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Speaker 3: all these different all these different stages of secret Service,
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Speaker 3: carrying a heavy shotgun and knives. What do you need
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Speaker 3: knives for? I don't know. And then he talked about
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Speaker 3: in This Man of Pesto, how he didn't want have
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Speaker 3: to kill secret Service people or the Capitol police. They
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Speaker 3: were nice people, they didn't want to they didn't deserve
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Speaker 3: to die. But he would do whatever it took to
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Speaker 3: make sure he killed people inside the room. So the
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Speaker 3: truth is, while he did get a little too close
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Speaker 3: from most people's comfort, and he was heavily armed, his
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Speaker 3: plan for a very very smart guy was kind of stupid.
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Speaker 4: No, yeah, this guy's a loser. I mean, let's not
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Speaker 4: mince words, all right. I mean, you know, look, he's
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Speaker 4: innocent until proven guilty. You know, he's also a loser Mengeon.
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Speaker 4: You know who also is a loser, the shooter of
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Speaker 4: klie Kirk. All right, these guys are all slipping down,
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Speaker 4: losers who are imbibing a constant stream of radical not
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Speaker 4: democrat which what the Democrats you and I grew up on,
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Speaker 4: but radical progressive ideology that has come to the Stalinist
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Speaker 4: conclusion that the ends justify the means. And you know,
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Speaker 4: when I was growing up, that statement, as we were
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Speaker 4: taught Soviet history, was an example of how far off
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Speaker 4: track the hyper left had gone as it manifested itself
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Speaker 4: in Soviet Russia. Now it is mainstream and we have people,
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Speaker 4: you know, when I was doing Town to Tonerrism said
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Speaker 4: we had to contend with the fact that the sanctioners
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Speaker 4: and proselytizers were in caves overseas trying to get their
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Speaker 4: message out, and the Internet was spreading it through social media.
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Speaker 4: Now you have not only more platforms, but you have
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Speaker 4: end to end encryption. And further, the sanctioners are not overseas.
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Speaker 4: They have late night talk show hosts are doing this stuff.
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Speaker 4: It's part of the mainstream narrative. And so people like
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Speaker 4: this guy who had what we always called, you know,
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Speaker 4: doing the studies on this stuff, a cognitive aperture, a
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Speaker 4: sort of way to get into his mindset. You know,
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Speaker 4: he's looking for a purpose, he's looking for somehow or
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Speaker 4: rather be a hero. And this is not a hard guy,
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Speaker 4: as you said, He's got to master this degree. He's
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Speaker 4: highly educated, and so he decides to formulate this half
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Speaker 4: baked plan which borderline looks to me like suicide by cop,
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Speaker 4: which I almost expect to be a defense here. And
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Speaker 4: that's why the manifesto is so important, because you have
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Speaker 4: the targeting of Donald Trump, which allows you to upgrade
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Speaker 4: those charges. So you know, he's a loser, he's a failure,
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Speaker 4: and I wouldn't be surprised if he actually goes to
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Speaker 4: trial in order to get a little bit more of
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Speaker 4: his moments in the sun. And what worries me about
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Speaker 4: out that is that this is a jurisdiction where some
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Speaker 4: of Donald Trump's prosecutions have gone awry because the jury pool.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just like New York. So a lot of folks
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Speaker 3: are very critical of the Secret Service. Was watching you
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Speaker 3: yesterday morning. Rachel campbos the whole show. She was critical.
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Speaker 3: Lawrence Jones came on, he was critical. And I want
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Speaker 3: to read this text that I sent to President Trump
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Speaker 3: at seven nineteen am yesterday morning, and it reads, I'm
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Speaker 3: glad you're okay, but sad and sickened that you continue
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Speaker 3: to go through this. So sorry, but the majority of
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Speaker 3: us love and appreciate you. Bottom line, stay strong, my friend.
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Speaker 3: That was seven nineteen. Three minutes later after this chaotic night,
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Speaker 3: President Trump texted me back seven twenty two and it reads,
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Speaker 3: thanks sed a rough evening. Secret Service did a great job.
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Speaker 3: And of course his signature President DJT, so he was
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Speaker 3: quick to congratulate the Secret Service. A lot of folks
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Speaker 3: that were on TV yesterday and I've spoken to me
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Speaker 3: the last two days, said wait a second, hey, this
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Speaker 3: guy got dangerously too close, dangerously too close. B Let
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Speaker 3: me ask you something. This guy runs through all those
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Speaker 3: Secret Service guys, they've all got guns and nobody shoots them.
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Speaker 3: How does this guy end up shirtless on the floor,
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Speaker 3: even alive. After we saw on Butler, Pennsylvania. No answers there.
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Speaker 3: There are still plenty of people that are down on
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Speaker 3: Secret Service even Saturday, despite the President saying I thought
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Speaker 3: they did a great job. What about you.
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Speaker 4: The president's reflex, to his great credit, is to support
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Speaker 4: law enforcement and the people around him that are willing
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Speaker 4: to take a bullet for him. And so you know,
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Speaker 4: I've been on the air regarding this issue a lot
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Speaker 4: over the last whatever. This day in hit and you know,
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Speaker 4: I'm trying to thread that needle because I do have
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Speaker 4: some genuine ambivalence about this. I have nothing but respect
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Speaker 4: for the Secret Service agents. These are people who go
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Speaker 4: to work and their job is to get shot protecting
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Speaker 4: a president. I mean, that's their job description. So you're
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Speaker 4: talking real courage here and dedicated people, and more power
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Speaker 4: to them. That said, the agency institutionally, from everything I
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Speaker 4: hear from sourcing I have, and I have some good
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Speaker 4: sourcing on this is in trouble. They have recruitment problems.
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Speaker 4: They are down thousands of agents. Their average class is
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Speaker 4: only in the dozens, so it'll take years for them
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Speaker 4: to re up where they need to be. They are
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Speaker 4: a little bit lost being under DHS. A lot of
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Speaker 4: people think they should either be a standalone agency or
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Speaker 4: be put back under Treasury.
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Speaker 3: Well, you did mention DHS to further complicate this stuff.
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Speaker 3: These guys, like them or not, they have not been
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Speaker 3: paid now in seventy two days.
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Speaker 4: That's right. Another shameful aspect of all of this. And
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Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you something else that you don't
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Speaker 4: hear much, but is a flying the ointment here. They
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Speaker 4: have as a sort of legacy aspect of their mandate
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Speaker 4: doing financial investigations of various sorts, fraud investigations, counterfeiting, that
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Speaker 4: kind of stuff. It doesn't belong under the service. That's
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Speaker 4: a ghost in the machine that survives from decades, hundreds
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Speaker 4: of years ago, actually one hundred and something years. I
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Speaker 4: think it is one of the oldest agencies we have.
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Speaker 4: They go back to the Old West. So what really
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Speaker 4: needs to happen here is they need to be dedicated
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Speaker 4: to one single mission, and that is being a protective
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Speaker 4: agency to do the body work that we all expect
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Speaker 4: of them. Get those financial investigations out from under resource them,
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Speaker 4: get them the agents. And you know, I think they're
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Speaker 4: holding a meeting. So Report Susie Wiles is convening a meeting.
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Speaker 4: She's the one who's been keeping an eye on this agency,
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Speaker 4: and they're going to take a hard look at it.
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Speaker 4: I don't think by any means Donald Trump is going
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Speaker 4: to hurt the current the director. I would be surprised,
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Speaker 4: but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bit of
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Speaker 4: a shakeup, because look, just by definition here, they were brave.
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Speaker 4: They stopped it where they were supposed to. The President
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Speaker 4: appreciates them, and that's their job, not to protect the
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Speaker 4: whole ballroom, not to protect everybody that's there, to protect
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Speaker 4: the President and the VP. That's their mandate. They got
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Speaker 4: that done, and they jumped on him, and they got
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Speaker 4: the president out in they got the vps there, But
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Speaker 4: undeniably there are some systemic issues there that don't seem
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Speaker 4: to be resolved. And I think they now recognize that.
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Speaker 3: It's funny they actually evacuated JD. Vans first that Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Why was I I don't you know. Look, they have
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Speaker 4: particular agents assigned to particular people, and for whatever reason,
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Speaker 4: the Vice President's people seemed to have reacted quicker. I
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Speaker 4: don't know if it's out of difference to the President
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Speaker 4: that they didn't want to jump in front of him
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Speaker 4: or on them. It's a very good question, and I'm
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Speaker 4: sure that's going to be one of the questions they asked,
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Speaker 4: just as they ask who shot? And you know, how
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Speaker 4: do they all miss? Because my understanding is that there
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Speaker 4: were a lot of shots fired and most proximity and
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Speaker 4: nobody hit them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard five to ten from Brian Kilmeat early
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Speaker 3: this morning, then nobody hit him.
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Speaker 4: Brian is good sourcing, sir. I'm sure that's accurate.
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Speaker 3: Y know, one of his sources, so you know he's accurate.
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Speaker 3: What do you think about the possibility, if not probability,
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Speaker 3: now of President Trump wearing a bulletproof vest wherever he goes.
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Speaker 4: If you know, not a bad idea. They probably shouldn't
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Speaker 4: announce that because it could affect how people go at
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Speaker 4: him in terms of targeting and so on.
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Speaker 3: Right, right, And you know it's funny you say that
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Speaker 3: because today, for example, Guy Rivera is going to be
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Speaker 3: in a New York court home. He's going to be
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Speaker 3: sentenced today for the murder of police officer Jonathan Diller.
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Speaker 3: We all hope he gets the full ninety years. But
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Speaker 3: he found a way to kill Diller, to shoot underneath.
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Speaker 3: So I'm glad you said that. Why even tell people that.
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Speaker 4: That's right, that's right? But this should be doing things
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Speaker 4: like that and taking every precaution. You know, look, Donald
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Speaker 4: Trump came out and said the right things at the
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Speaker 4: press conference. You know, we can't let this still our
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Speaker 4: First Amendment rights. We have to continue to do these events.
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Speaker 4: It's my job as the president. And he knew what
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Speaker 4: he was getting into, you know what it was like
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Speaker 4: the first time. But you know, as I said, it's
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Speaker 4: the Secret Service that has to keep him healthy, alive
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Speaker 4: and his family for the next three years, including the
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Speaker 4: vice president. And we have to do everything we can,
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Speaker 4: including building the ballroom, to make sure that we don't
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Speaker 4: have the kind of tragedy that so many on the
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Speaker 4: left really really want. And we're kidding ourselves if we
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Speaker 4: just continue to say we're the best. Secret Service is
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Speaker 4: the best, it can be no improvement. Every agency can improve.
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Speaker 4: There's going to be a very deep investigation into this,
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Speaker 4: and I do suspect maybe, unlike Butler, we're going to
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Speaker 4: see some real systemic changes.
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Speaker 3: I hope. So Paul Morrow, as always nobody better. You're
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Speaker 3: brilliant on TV. You're great here too. You become a
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Speaker 3: deep friend. You always make time for me. Thank you
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Speaker 3: so much, great job this morning, Pola, as always, thank
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Speaker 3: you so much.
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Speaker 4: Thank you Sid take care.
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Speaker 3: God bless you. Great American right, great cop. That guy
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Speaker 3: was a hero comp in this town, but ready with
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Speaker 3: us twenty two years and even served during nine to eleven.
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