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Nicole Parker | Former FBI Special Agent & Fox News Contributor | 04-28-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Con Let's spend about ten minutes with Nicole Parker, who's
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  Speaker 1: got a big TV hit coming up, but she's kind
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  Speaker 1: enough to join me this morning. Former FBI down in
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  Speaker 1: Miami for many, many years, almost two decades now a
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  Speaker 1: superstar rock star on Fox News. Nicole, good morning. How
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  Speaker 1: are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty well?
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  Speaker 1: How are you not as good as you? You're on fire,
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  Speaker 1: you got a book that's doing great, You're on TV
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  Speaker 1: every fifteen minutes. You're doing great. I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy for you. But before we get to the
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Night Action, if you will, I want to ask
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  Speaker 1: you about redistricting in your state. Ron DeSantis has made
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  Speaker 1: a big deal about this. You know, Texas going in
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  Speaker 1: the rights direction, Virginia going the other way. How big
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  Speaker 1: of a story is that? Back home in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big story. Bliss, thank you to be fairer.
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  Speaker 2: And what Virginia did was certainly not fair and non
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  Speaker 2: de Santis is one thing about him being our governor.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sad for him to go, I really am. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mess around. So let's see what happens here. When
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  Speaker 2: you asked about my home state, I was a little confused.
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  Speaker 2: Because I actually am from Texas. Originally, I will want
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  Speaker 2: to text and always a textan don't mess with Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, you're right. I've lived in Florida for the
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  Speaker 2: entire time I was in the FBI, so I've been
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  Speaker 2: here for sixteen years and I consider both home. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: both states. Don't mess with Florida either.
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  Speaker 1: No that both was in two of my favorite states,
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  Speaker 1: and both have incredible governors. Abbott down in Texas, what
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  Speaker 1: a great guy in DeSantis in Florida. But like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you spent most of your time with the FBI. All
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  Speaker 1: your time with the FBI down in Miami. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: let's get to what we saw on Saturday night. Nine
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  Speaker 1: thousand people on this show. As you could imagine, I
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  Speaker 1: did get a text from President Trump Sunday morning and
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  Speaker 1: he said thanks for checking in sid And the first
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  Speaker 1: thing you said to me was thank God for the
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  Speaker 1: Secret Service. What a great job they did. And yet
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  Speaker 1: almost every guest that comes on this show the last
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  Speaker 1: two days they say, well, I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 1: I know Trump likes to thank his people and his cops,
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  Speaker 1: but they saw more errors than they did success. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start with that. Overall, how did you think the Secret
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  Speaker 1: Service did?
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  Speaker 2: All? Right? So, first of all, I saw the posts
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  Speaker 2: that you posted, and that's President Trump. He's extremely gracious
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  Speaker 2: to law enforcement when he should be, because I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 2: when the FBI was completely politically weaponized and going after him,
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  Speaker 2: he let them have it as he should, which is
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  Speaker 2: very clearly noted in my book, the FDI was politically weaponized,
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  Speaker 2: went off the rails. But going back to the Secret Service, look,
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  Speaker 2: I worked with the Secret Service when I was an
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  Speaker 2: FBI agent. I worked events with President Trump when I
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  Speaker 2: was an FBI agent. I understand the high pressure of
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  Speaker 2: the high stress. These agents are being spread thin, they
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  Speaker 2: are overworked, the amount of travel these Secret Service agents
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  Speaker 2: are doing. I mean said, they're never home and they're
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  Speaker 2: standing posts for twelve hours at a time. They can't
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  Speaker 2: take their eye off of anything. It's a zero failed mission.
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  Speaker 2: And so again I always defend law enforcement and I
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  Speaker 2: try to be fair and.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, and by the way, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: they're also not getting.
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  Speaker 2: Paid, correct, But I agree that you can believe two things.
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  Speaker 2: You can believe that they're doing the best that they
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  Speaker 2: can with the resources that they've been given. But I
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  Speaker 2: also believe that the protective model for the Secret Service
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  Speaker 2: is completely antiquated. Old school, does not keep up with
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  Speaker 2: the modern day threats. They are not up with the
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  Speaker 2: three V weapon machines that are out there the AI.
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  Speaker 2: They are not. The model for protection is about fifty
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  Speaker 2: years behind in my opinion. Okay, they need to move
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  Speaker 2: it up. They need to get with the program across
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  Speaker 2: all of law enforcement, not just the Secret Service, the FBI,
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  Speaker 2: local law enforcement. That's just something that I believe across
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  Speaker 2: the board. The other problem that I have not just
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  Speaker 2: again with discre service, but I thought at the FBI,
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  Speaker 2: starting with the Obama administration, they started hiring people for
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  Speaker 2: DEI purposes that were not necessarily qualified. That cannot happen.
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  Speaker 2: And imagine if you hire all of these people that
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  Speaker 2: are not qualified and they go twenty years to get
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  Speaker 2: their pension, they're going to be with the bureaus and
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  Speaker 2: the agencies for a lot of years. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think it's multi prom thing. Yes, I am always going
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  Speaker 2: to back to blue, you know, back up our law enforcement. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: no one was hurt that night, but someone could have
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  Speaker 2: been hurt. That Secret Service agent was almost taken out.
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  Speaker 2: And again they're going to look at the ballistics to
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  Speaker 2: see who actually fired that round that hit the vest.
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  Speaker 2: But thankfully President Trump was not hurt. But that is
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  Speaker 2: not the bar and standard that they should be operating at.
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  Speaker 2: No one should even be close to her and in
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  Speaker 2: the near vicinity with a gun of anywhere where President
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  Speaker 2: Trump may be, especially in a facility such as hotel. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I think it adds to what everyone else is saying.
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  Speaker 2: The ballroom is a more would be a very secure area.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that this is a very good argument
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  Speaker 2: for let's get that thing going. Yeah, going back to
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement. Yeah, I back up our law enforcement that
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  Speaker 2: this cannot continue to happen. They've got to make some
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  Speaker 2: major changes and let's just get to the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: it across all law enforcement agencies, to include the FBI.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're right, and they made some mistakes of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he got past the first line of bolgus
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  Speaker 1: and he can one past the next line somehow or another.
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  Speaker 1: These are the best trained people we've got, and nobody
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  Speaker 1: shoots him. Nobody's able to shoot this guy. He shoots
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  Speaker 1: one comp but nobody shoots.
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  Speaker 2: Him the one shot him. And also there were no
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  Speaker 2: IDs checked. I mean, we're talking about like this is
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  Speaker 2: common sense stuff. They didn't even check IDs, Like you
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  Speaker 2: could have been on the top ten most wanted list
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  Speaker 2: with a ticket that you got from someone and you
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  Speaker 2: get in and you just never know, so you've got
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  Speaker 2: to I think they'll definitely. There's one thing about this administration.
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  Speaker 2: They're very transparent and they are about improving things, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what I love about everyone involved here, and I
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  Speaker 2: have no doubt that the Secret Service will do the same.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike the woman who was the director before dug in
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  Speaker 2: her heels and doubled down after Butler. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you remember that, but I certainly do. And she
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  Speaker 2: she was a mess, And thank goodness, we don't have
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  Speaker 2: that anymore. We've got people that are doing the right
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  Speaker 2: thing for the right reasons, real leaders, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that you know, thankfully, no one was hurt or injured
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  Speaker 2: to a great extent, with the exception obviously the agent
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  Speaker 2: who took the round of the best. But President Trump
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  Speaker 2: is facing more threats than anyone. He is the most
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  Speaker 2: powerful man in the world, and he's doing things that
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  Speaker 2: actually matter right now, and that is why he is
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  Speaker 2: being attacked. And I loved his press conference where he said, Look,
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  Speaker 2: when you're an affective individual and impactful, they come after you.
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  Speaker 2: They don't go after people that aren't impactful.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. And the other issue besides the venue and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the Secret Service wasn't perfect, was that
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  Speaker 1: they were all there on Saturday night, Nicole. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you would have been down to Chuck Grassley.
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  Speaker 1: Basically you could have killed everybody, every major member of
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  Speaker 1: Trump's administration in one ballroom at one time. That could
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  Speaker 1: have been a disaster. Yet you tell me this. You
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  Speaker 1: spend your career with the FBI. In the manifesto, for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, this psycho Cole Allen said the life you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to spare was FBI Director of Cash Patel. Why
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  Speaker 1: was that the case?
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I have the criminal complaint right in front of
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  Speaker 2: me at seven pages. I read the whole thing, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll just be blunt. That line struck out at me
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  Speaker 2: the most. That says administration officials, not including mister Patel. Right,
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  Speaker 2: they are targets prioritized from the highest ranking to the lowest.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously highest ranking is President Trump down to the lowest.
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  Speaker 2: Why he excluded mister Patel, the FBI director. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that I certainly think that that deserves an answer.
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  Speaker 2: Will we ever get it? Obviously the defendant is not speaking.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what the behavioral analysis unit and profilers come
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  Speaker 2: up with and what his patterns of communications were. Was
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  Speaker 2: there anything specifically that was mentioned in any communications about
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  Speaker 2: the FBI director? But I think that's interesting. I have
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  Speaker 2: no explanation for it at this point. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: like President Trump said, they go after those that are impassable.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to think. I'm not really sure.
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  Speaker 2: It's very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It was weird. It was weird for me too.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of it?
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was weird, I thought, but final and
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any answer for you. Final law sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Nicole.
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  Speaker 1: I asked this of Jim Jordan about an hour ago.
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  Speaker 1: He said, are you worried? Are you worried? They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep trying, keep trying, and maybe one day they walk
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  Speaker 1: in there's twelve guys instead of one in three different rooms,
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  Speaker 1: or they got bombs, or there are ways to kill
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  Speaker 1: the president on Saturday that this guy was an idiot.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest. He's gonna run past every Secret Service guy,
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  Speaker 1: twenty of them, with his gun I mean, his plan
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  Speaker 1: was really pathetic. He got further than he should have,
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  Speaker 1: but his plan was really idiotic. But then may be
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  Speaker 1: a better plan next time. Are you worried, like really
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  Speaker 1: worried about the President's life.
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  Speaker 2: I've been worried about the president's life for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: a long time because I having worked violent crime in
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  Speaker 2: the FBI and seeing what people are capable of doing.
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  Speaker 2: They have no conscience in how they're rhetoric is going
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  Speaker 2: up and again this guy, let's make it clear, BookSmart,
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  Speaker 2: this guy was a genius. Okay, he got into Caltech.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the number one or number two engineering school
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  Speaker 2: in the country. He had a degree in mechanical engineering
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  Speaker 2: with the master's in computer science. On book, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on paper, this guy was very, very bright. But obviously
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  Speaker 2: he's not right to think that he's going to rush
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  Speaker 2: this service. But what sad is he he almost he
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  Speaker 2: almost did in certain pays. I mean I heard that
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  Speaker 2: he tripped, and again that's not in the complaints. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say that, but it's I was
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  Speaker 2: on Fox this morning talking about it. This can't happen again,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what I want to say. This will not
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  Speaker 2: happen again. But then I have to stop myself and think,
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  Speaker 2: this may happen again because people are evil and they
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  Speaker 2: believe that violence is the means and ways to solve
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  Speaker 2: their personal grievances. And someone can have such sustain for
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, that's your right. But the moment that you're
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  Speaker 2: starting to act out in violence that is thick, it
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  Speaker 2: is wrong, is evil, and you will face the full
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  Speaker 2: prosecution of the law. And that's that's what's happening. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing this over and over and over and this
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  Speaker 2: our country. You know, it's just not headed in the
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  Speaker 2: right direction when we're seeing things like this happening. But
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  Speaker 2: I think we need to start with some of our
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  Speaker 2: congressional leaders. Shall I say, I wouldn't really call them
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  Speaker 2: leaders that people that are saying these fiery comments. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think that people live in a vacuum these echo
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  Speaker 2: chambers that these people are looking at on their social
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  Speaker 2: media and the algorithms that they're seeing. This person was
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  Speaker 2: definitely influenced by that, and I can tell you that
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  Speaker 2: every action begins with the thought, and they're absorbing all
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  Speaker 2: of this and they're riling people up and then they're
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  Speaker 2: acting out on it. I think one final note I'll
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  Speaker 2: make that I think is unique and interesting about this person.
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  Speaker 2: Again going back to how Smarty was intellectually, he was
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  Speaker 2: a video game guy. He had been in video games.
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  Speaker 2: Wow on Steam, Okay, this guy. A lot of the
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  Speaker 2: video games involved shooters. And this is something that we
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  Speaker 2: see commonly and you know, when the BAU profilers look
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  Speaker 2: at it. There's no exact study that says this, but
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  Speaker 2: having worked with profilers at the FBI, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these individuals that are acting out on video games go
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  Speaker 2: back and look at the video games that he was
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  Speaker 2: acting out where they're snipers, where they're shooters. It's almost
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  Speaker 2: like they have this this you know, electronic world, and
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  Speaker 2: then it turns into a kinetic action where they actually
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  Speaker 2: are living out the shooting. And so they will be
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  Speaker 2: looking very closely at that as well the video games
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  Speaker 2: that he personally was designing and inventing, and then he
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  Speaker 2: actually becomes a shooter himself. That's what I guarantee you
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  Speaker 2: that the profilers aren't going to be looking at that
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  Speaker 2: very closely.
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  Speaker 1: I think Tyler Robinson played video games to the guy
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  Speaker 1: that killed Charlie Kirk, and the other problem the way
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  Speaker 1: out is when people do stuff like this, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Cole Allen, whether it's Tyler Robinson, whether it's Luigi Mangioni,
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  Speaker 1: they don't go away as criminals and embarrassed. To a
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  Speaker 1: certain extent, about half this country, they become heroes. That's
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  Speaker 1: when you know, O, well, country is sick. This guy,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is a hero today till about half of America.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a moral deterioration that we have in our country.
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  Speaker 2: That evil is now good yep, and good is evil.
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  Speaker 2: It's like everything is flipped upside down. But yes, and
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  Speaker 2: don't I guarantee you that's what he wanted. He wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be the hero. He thought that there was a
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  Speaker 2: moral justification to act out in this way. He had
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  Speaker 2: to do it, like, let me be the one to
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  Speaker 2: save everyone from this evil tyrant. Is how he views
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  Speaker 2: President Trump and his administration. Well, I got one thing
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  Speaker 2: to tell him. Have a nice time because you will
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  Speaker 2: likely likely again all of us is alleged, nothing has
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  Speaker 2: been priven. Anyone is innocent until proven guilty in the
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  Speaker 2: court of law. So I will always preface it with that.
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  Speaker 2: But in my personal opinion, based on my experience, he
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  Speaker 2: will likely be spending the rest of his life in jail.
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  Speaker 2: Love it night. Was it worth it? Well, only he will.
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  Speaker 1: Know that thirty one years old couldn't have been worth it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: your great, great job on Fox News every day. The
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  Speaker 1: book is great. You're great here. Please keep coming back,
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Poker, You're terrific.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, my pleasure. God bless you all.
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  Speaker 2: Take care you tunicle.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Parker right there, formre FBI agent down there in Miami,
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  Speaker 1: and she's hopping on Fox News at about six minutes.
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