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One Leg Up 7-17-24 - InVest USA CEO Michael Letts Joins Alex Garrett To Discuss Attempted Assassination of President Trump · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host, Alex Deren. All Right, well on the Alex Garrett
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Podcast Network. As we continue to see the fallout from the attempted assassination of
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President Trump, an unlikely person to talk about it was one John Hinckley Junior.
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And today, the man who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan has asked the
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world for peace over violence. And all I have to say is, where
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was that piece in the nineteen eighties when he tried to shoot and kill Ronald
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Reagan? Ironically enough, earlier today I interviewed not only the founder and CEO
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of Invests USA, but a member of the Reagan administration's security team, Michael
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Letts. Were you there when it happened when Hinckley shot those bullets? Or
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was that before or after? You were there? I was not there on
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that day. I was not there president during that time. But yes,
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I was there during that era, and I can tell you this. It's
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just extremely interesting, Alex, the difference in perceptions from an attitude from that
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day to what we have today, both from a law enforces standpoint. You
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know, one of the things that's so concerning about what happens Saturday and how
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the part of The answer is to why do the officer didn't fire, the
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CAA didn't fire ahead of time before the assailants started shooting. Is there's such
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a perception nowadays that cops are automatically guilty to approve a Dennison and they are
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sued there do you try to try them, et cetera. That nobody wants
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to take a risk anymore. They're very concerned about you tell me I have
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to get permission. Then I don't care if it looks like he's fitting to
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shoot the president or not. I guess I better just stand down until you
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give me permission. In the old days, Alex, you would have taken
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a shot immediately if you had you known or perceived their be a threat.
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The attitude is changed. That's no longer there, and so that's a big
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difference. And then of course it affects the morale of people that are doing
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the job. They feel like their hands are tied. They feel like they're
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being asked to perform, to be superheroes, but yet they're not giving their
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capes, would you say, and the supply necessary to be the superheroes,
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the society sometimes wants them to be. Well, I guess this is a
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great time on the Alex Scatt podcast Network to announce I've taken up a contracting
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you know, booker position with special guest pr and one of those guests who
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loves working with us is Michael Letz. And Michael, you are the CEO
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of invest USA. You are the founder of invest USA, and that's about
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police vests and more so, I'd be wanting to get you on my show
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for a while, so I'm glad we finally have the avenue to do this,
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right. I love looking forward to it. Michael. I know,
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I know you've been probably NonStop since the attempt asastination Donald Trump. From a
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security you're a law enforcement veteran. From that perspective, didn't the Secret Service
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fail Donald Trump? And quite frankly everybody at that round, Oh, there's
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no question. You know. It's one thing, Alex, to have some
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gaffs. I mean, gafs happen in life. It's another thing for there
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to be major protocol breaches, not just one, but quite a number of
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them that we can talk about here on your show in a minute. That
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doesn't happen. Coincidentally, that leads one to believe something else much deeper is
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going on. So even best case scenario, if for some reason this is
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historic in the making, and the fact that you had all these protocol breaches
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at one time just so happened by circum happenstance, that's bad enough. There
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is a let down there. But if it's deeper, it's what it appears
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to be, Michael, all of Americas should be concerned. Now, Michael,
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let's say you know, in your experience, has the Secret Service or
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anybody ever leaned on you to secure the perimeter of an event, whether it
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was a presidential event or not. Have you been in charge of securing such
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areas? Oh? I sure have you know? I've also done asset work
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with the Secret Service during the regular administration. And quite frankly, this one
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just says, I don't know how you can come up, Alex with a
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rational explanation for what happened. Is just it's too amazingly breach of protocol to
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be able to put any kind of rationale response to it. First of all,
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when you go in two days before, you identify the areas of greatest
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threat where the greatest sideline distances are at, and you make sure they're secure.
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Their own reporting shows that they we call them barns, I guess you
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know, the German public halls and buildings. But identified the barn that the
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assailant was on as being the primary threat for security. So that should have
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by all practical means, what would have happened in any other circumstances, There
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would have been agents assigned to that building. They would have been on top
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of that. They would have been CAA's on top of that building. That
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didn't occur. When the question was raised as to why it was, well,
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we thought about it and decided it wasn't necessary. That's the first alex.
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But let's just go ahead and give them that one. Okay, that's
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a red flag, but we'll give them that one. All right, for
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some reason you didn't think it was necessary. Now here's what I want you
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to think about it. By stay, I'm giving him this one. They
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put a security you telled everything else. Why did they leave this one building
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open? And the other thing you need to keep in mind, why did
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the assailant know that that was the only building that was open that he would
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have access to. That's a huge question. Second, will also you go
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from there? Two days after that, you go to the day of the
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event, you open up the access for the people to get in, you
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close the access to where now you just have an outer perimeter that's available.
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And suddenly, out on the outer access, you have a passenger, which
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is mister Cooper, who gets out of the vehicle and begins to walk towards
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the secured premise where one of the buildings is at and he has a rifle
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assault rifle strung over his back and shoulder in full view. Now understand that
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you have a lot of people on the outer perimeter who didn't get in.
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Okay, so they're watching all this. They're hollering because there are law enforce
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and personnel on the outer perimeter as well. They're hollowing to the Secret Service
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and to law enforcement. There how do we know this, Alex, We're
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not just speculating. I want you to understand everything. I'm telling you.
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There is video and audio documentation for okay, so you can't just and BBC
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had a witness that said that they had seen this guy and all of a
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sudden they're asking law enforcement to do something and law enforcement ignored them. I
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mean, that is so egregious. So you have you have two more red
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flags on this dance and that you just talked about. First of all,
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here's what should have happened. Because of the fact that he just it blows
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my mind talking about this Alex. They had already identified him prior to the
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event as a person of interest, Okay, so they had his picture.
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They knew that if this person shows up, he needed detain him. So
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here he's walking towards them, basically like you turned himself in. They don't
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engage. That's the first red flag on this particular instance. The second major
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red flag is this Alex. When you're at an event of presidential protection or
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dignitary protection and you either see a gun or you suspect that you're seeing a
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gun, protocols you immediately holler into the communication network gun which is the code
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word for those that are closest to the president to immediately give him what we
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call a circle of protection and get him off the premise, not just off
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the stage, but out of there, off the premise to secure him in
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case something else is going down that we're unaware of, there's a bomb planet
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or something like that. Protocol is you just get him out period, event's
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over done. Get him out as fast as you can. So here's the
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third breach. Remember the first breach was you didn't put anybody on the roof.
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The second breach is law enforcement doesn't engage on him when they're looking at
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him and people are saying he's got a gun. Third breaches they do not
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use the communication network to say gun. So nobody moves to protect the president.
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Now it goes from there till he gets to the building. He's starting
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to climb up to the roof. Remember, nobody's still doing anything. He
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gets on top of the roof and he takes roughly eleven minutes to move around,
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crawl around. At the same time, the innerspectators now are seeing him,
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they're doing the same thing. They're hollering out, guys on a roof,
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Guy's got a gun. Now they're starting to scramble, Alice, because
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they understand that this is not going to end. Well, I've seen a
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few videos where people are literally leaving the rally knowing what's about to happen.
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And yet you're exactly right. They didn't. They didn't do anything. It's
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be on my mind real quickly while we're on this. Is it possible they
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whispered in Trump's ear Secret Service after the shot was fired. Is there a
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possibility of that to move his head? Uh no, he okay, cause
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someone told me that that would have a possibility, but that did not happen.
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No, no, no, And here's why White, I asked so
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quickly. He does not have a communication earpiece in his ear. Okay,
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hey, if he had to be, if he's using an earpiege, it's
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because it's one of his staff, not Secret Service, So they wouldn't be
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whispering anything in the year. Secret Service doesn't operate that way. They move
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in other words, if we think you're there's a threat, we take you
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down. When I say down, we take the president death. That's another
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thing. We're going to talk about it in just a moment. So then
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you've got to remember. Now you've got that fourth and fifth violations because the
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same thing happened happened on the outer perimeter. Law enforcement didn't move on it,
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nobody getting called in gun. So now he's on the roof, by
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the way, a law enforcement officer went up and check on it, and
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the assailant turned around and pointed his rifle at it, but he went back
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down the ladder. Now that's still be a verified Alex. But here's the
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problem with that. Typically, if somebody said, if somebody with a gun
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on the roof, you don't crawl up the ladder with just a smile saying
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hey, I'm here to see what you're doing. You would have gone up
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that ladder prepared. Okay, you know, weapon drawn and ready to take
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out the threat. That having been said, Now you have the president at
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the podium. You have two c's that's counter snipers on the barn closest to
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the president, a Ford at a rear. The Ford has been watching this
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all along. Okay, he now has the assailant in his sight scope locked
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in. This is seven minutes before the incident. Once he's really seeing what's
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going on and locks in, he asks for permission. There's a threat to
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the president, permission to engage. That permission doesn't come to forty three seconds,
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after which the assailant has already had the ability to shoot three rounds Now,
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let's stop for just a moment and talk about that incident. What's protocol
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and what's not Because people are asking me all across the country he saw something,
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why did you take the shot? Well, this is very unique in
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this particular situation, the instructions were given to the assisting personnel. And let
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me back up so that people understand how we got to the people that are
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in place. There are different levels of protection. There is a presidential package,
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which is the top notch okay, that only goes to presidents, current
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presidents, or the people who have secured the nomination of a major party.
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Now you remember Trump didn't get that nomination till this Monday, so he didn't
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have it at that time. The second level of protection is for former presidents,
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and the third being for dignitaries people along those lines of ambassadors, etc.
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So he's in the second tier of protection now. And what is the
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difference between the presidential package and just the particular protection for former presidents. Presidential
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package has whatever assets are necessary i e. If you need ten people,
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twenty people, whatever you need you get. Plus you have full advantage of
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all the technology necessary. You know, when you see the President of the
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United States giving a speech, you hear helicopters, overhead, drones, et
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cetera. All that is provided. You'll notice there were no drones or no
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helicopters. People ask me why there should have been. We'll talk about why
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there should have been in a minute, but technically he didn't have that as
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part of his package. Plus the other difference is you get a certain number
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of agents and that's it. Okay, Now it's funny said that, Michael,
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because remember there was a time where Democrats wanted them to have no protection.
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Lefty your exactly, which is now even more alarming considering what happened Saturday.
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Right, Oh, there's no question. But now you can begin to
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see. I think you and your listeners are beginning to understand were how we
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had so many gas in this particular setup. So what happens when you have
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a high value target such as President Trump? Why do I say high value
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target because out of all the former presidents, he's probably the one that's getting
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the most threats and the most activity. There's a lot of people that he's
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very controversial, let's put it that way, okay, And when that happens,
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you should know that he is a higher threat value than any of the
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other protectees. And so his team knew that. They repeatedly three times ask
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for additional personnel. We can't complete the protective detail of what we've got,
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we need moore assets, and they were denied all three times, who do
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they ask it for. They go first, it goes in the same request.
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It goes to three different people. He goes to the director who is
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Kim Director of the Secret Service, he goes to the Secretary which is Marijorcis,
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and then he goes to the White House, he goes to the President.
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All three times it was denied. All three agencies, the President,
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Terry, and the director of all three denied the request for additional personnel.
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So I had to bring up January sixth. But what you're talking about is
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almost like Pelosi rejecting Trump's request for more security on January sixth. I'm just
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going to throw that out there to you. No, you're exactly right,
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Ali. So what happens when you go down that path, Well, now
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that you don't have as much as many personnel, you try to make up
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for it by gathering more local and more state law enforcement to make up for
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the difference. They had an extra challenge this time because on this particular day
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on Saturday, you had the first lady that was in Pennsylvania campaigning, and
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you had the vice president. Both of those are given the full presidential package.
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You remember something that Trump didn't have, so whatever assets they had that
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may have been extra in Pennsylvania were already committed. So you know, this
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is the worst time that you could have done a presidential thing in terms of
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assets. So they try to make it up by providing for local and state
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assistance. Now how does that pan out into this particular scenario. The two
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c's that were all the barn closest to the president, instead of being Secret
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Service sharpshooters, were local law enforcement swat team shot shooters. Nothing wrong with
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that. In fact, they the proofs in the pudding. You saw the
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local guy. He took him out with the first shot once he was granted
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permission. But let me tell you what they tried to hide behind. Because
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it wasn't just Secret Service. They made the decision that nobody could could shoot,
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nobody could do anything without getting prior authorization from the supervisory Secret Service agent
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in charge at the scene. Now I get that a little bit, Alex,
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but I don't understand. In one sense, you don't want somebody shooting
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somebody that they shouldn't have done, or a mistake being made. But when
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you're talking about protecting the president, you're talking about a professional squad team member
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with the scope that can see his nose hairs, for lack of a better
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word, he can tell that that's not a stick. This guy is a
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kid with a stick on a roof. He can tell you have a certified
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threat, that that is a are long range rifle and that is going to
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do some damage. So why they decided that you can't engage without his approval?
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First, he is a serious question. Why the approval was he given
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till later after he had already the assail that had already taken three shots is
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a serious question. But anyway, so now you've got forty three second delay
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between the time that he has the permission requested, he has a lock on
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and permission is given. He could have taken him out easily. Again,
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out understand this, nothing is said in the communications system about gun. So
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now suddenly you've got the two c's on the barn. He eventually takes the
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assailant out. But you begin if you look at the video something, you're
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starting to hear the shots go off. Now you're trained in protective detail or
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you know law enforcement, you know the difference between the sound of a gun
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and the sound of a firecracker. To their credit, they realized the Secret
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Service agencies realized that there were shots being fired. But here are some other
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issues to add into the confusion, Aleix. So three shots have now been
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fired. One hit the president and went through his ear and out, and
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then as it traveled out, it hit Corey, who was a volunteer fire
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chief and who had upon hearing the first crack, he jumped over on top
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of his wife and daughter. What a hero he is. Right, had
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he not done that, one of those two would have died instead of him.
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But he's hit, and you know, of course he's terminated. He's
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hit. And remember he had the opportunity to get all two other hits,
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and two other people are severely wounded in our critical condition in the hospital as
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we speak. But now that you had the third shot, ring is or
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paused about three seconds before the agents jump up behind him and circle him for
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protection. What's the problem with that? Typically, here's what happens, Alex.
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Shot one shot rings, we're close enough to you, we knock you
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down. I knocked you off your feet to protect you. You don't ever
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know what hits you. And this particular incident, the President himself had time
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to get down on his own on the ground before the protective service was around.
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That's extremely odd. Now, look at the agents that were provided to
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him. Remember he doesn't have the eight team to begin with, but in
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this particular incident, his security detail that he's been working with for the last
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four years, people that he's grown to trust, have all been given the
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day off. So this is a new team that has come in. It's
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got three women on it. Now, I'm not saying anything against women's performance.
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You know, I love women to death, but these women are about
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a foot and a half short of being able to do their job because of
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their physical structure. You notice that that you have one in the front,
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two in the back. When they go to encircle. The one on the
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front is leaving his head and shoulders exposed because he's just not told them.
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The one in the back, one of them performs, moves in on the
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protective circle. The second one is just standing there, going he's a deer
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at headlights. What's going on? Guys? What do we do? Where
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are we going? Well? What's happening? That's pretty sad, But in
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all ferers, Michael, I think they acted as well as they could in
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the situation. When you agree they did well, yes, but let me
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tell you how much slightly different with you, Alex. They acted as best
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as they could because of the fact that that was not their primary training and
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objective. They should have never been put in that position to begin with.
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And you reason, you say, why can't you tell that? Because if
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you notice one of the females when you get close to the suburban as they
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tried to load them, can't even figure out how to reholt her weapon all
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right, tells you that she hasn't and had it drawn too many times.
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And in those particular instances, when you learn protective detail, that's all you
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do is go over that time and time again. You could do it if
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you sleep, if you had to. So disappointed a little bit in the
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performance, but even more disappointed. And all these gaffs that we're talking about
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that have how do they all occur at the same time? Best case scenario
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choral complete failure of the secret service. First case scenario is the assailant had
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prior knowledge knowing that that building was the only one unsecured. I had some
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assistance in getting in by nobody challenging him and stopping him. And quite frankly
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now there's question as to whether there was another shooter, and that's being investigated
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now. The other thing that's disappointing is I've been asked, well, what's
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going to happen. Who's going to be held accountable? Interesting that the Secret
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Service director initially cam initially was trying to blame it on local law enforces.
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They didn't do their part. I didn't work out too well. So now
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she's saying this morning that the Secret Service was responsible for the failure, but
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she has certainly not given any indication. In fact, yesterday she said she
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wasn't going anywhere. You know, the Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorka certainly isn't
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going anywhere. And at this part, I do believe I don't believe the
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President himself was involved. From this standpoint, he doesn't know whether he's in
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the restroom or not. Okay, I mean, we've seen some major problems.
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It's amazing you say that because if there was an external force outside of
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the Secret Service. But I think could have been a big role here,
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you know what I mean. I think there's something bigger going on. I
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feel like if Biden does a rally before the DNC, this happened before the
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Republican Convention? Am I right to be worried that something gonna happen in Biden?
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Now? Before the DNC? I feel like there's something else beyond the
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two presidents that were fighting against. Maybe I'm wrong on that. No,
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I don't think you're wrong, Alex I was just seeing this on another show.
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Let's get back to the core. This is the most epic struggle between
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good and evil this country has ever seen in history. Right, it's not
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about Trump Biden, between good and evil? Where do we stand over the
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last three years? You had an administration with Biden didn't know what we're was
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going on. He was just kind of there as a figurehead other people.
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I don't think anybody in America would argue to you that Biden hasn't been calling
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the shots. There are other people, if you want to call them,
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the deep state, whatever you want to call them, who have been calling
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the shots. They are perfectly content with the setup they used Biden to get
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into Alice. Of course, Biden didn't win in the office like they want
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you to believe. They had to cheat and cheat heavily to get it,
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but they got it. And now Biden just supposed to his administration is supposed
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to be doing what they asked, which has happened up to this point.
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But now suddenly, unfortunately his health deterior to the point they can't hide it
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anymore. So they felt like they were not going to be able to win
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the election in November because of that factor alone, so they wanted him to
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step down. They would find somebody else that they felt like they could put
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behind and help him cheat to win. He still keep power. Well,
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you know, I just got a lot of health problems. But it's not
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Biden. It's his wife Jill, and it's his son Hunter. Can't afford
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for him to step down, So they have been pumping him up with you
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need to be defiant, You're not going anywhere. That got them rattle.
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So you got to understand they're looking at a couple of things. Trump winning
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by a landslide. They don't want that, so they have to eliminate that
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problem. And now you got it, incumbent that's not doing what we ask
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him to do. It might be time to move him aside too so we
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can get what we need. So, yes, your conjecture that could he
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also be a target is very very much a reality and quite frankly, why
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would they want to do that. Well, if you take out Trump and
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you take out Biden, and you make it a peer that is the Conservatives
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versus the liberals, you have a civil war, you go into martial law,
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and you keep power and not your whole objective was anyway. So we
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need to make sure that we don't give them the opportunity to do what it
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is they're seeking to get done, and that's to control this country. Michael,
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podcasts like this and shows that talk about God's rolling all this. How
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important is that to you to enforce that? And I want to ask about
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in best USA right have to answer that, But I feel like God's at
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play here too, isn't he. There's no question, I don't think anybody
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I've spoken to the president, there is no question that he, of all
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people, understands that this was a divine intervention. There is literally no other
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way to explain the fact that he is still with us today. You will
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notice that, you will notice that when he came and was part of the
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RNC on Monday night. Quite frankly, I tell people, if you look
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at the President, there's a different look this time. They ever has been
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in the past. He recognizes that God alone spared his life for a reason,
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and he had suddenly been very humbled in the last three or four days.
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And I'm not saying there's anything wrong before. I'm just telling you there's
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a marked difference that he recognizes, and he publicly and probably will state that
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that he recognizes God saved him and God alone, and it must be for
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a particular reason. Well, I also think that he saved America. God
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saved to America, because if this did chew Trump and kill him, that
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would be a whole different kind of war we're at right now, you know.
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So it's just and some people said, well, why aren't you taking
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account the one that died, the hero that died, And I don't know
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how to equate that. All I know is that, you know, he
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was a hero. That's all I can say on that. You know,
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Well, you know, sometimes God uses things that we don't understand to teach
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valuable lessons and to get people's attention. And if there had just been a
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threat, a shot at the air with no concert punches, it probably would
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not have had the effect that this had of him actually being wounded, hit
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and causing the loss of life for people to understand just how significant this event
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is. Now, you say he spoke to the President, have you actually
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given him and invest the USA best and talk about your company, because I
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love the idea that you're vesting up if you will police officers. How many
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departments do you work with? By the way, we're all across the country,
28:29
elege. We've given over thirteen thousand and five hundred and best and we
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just have it literally every day, requests coming in from all across the country.
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It's unfortunate that they do. We have tried to prioritize a lot of
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what our efforts have been have been in major areas where there have been officers
28:48
killed because not having the necessary best. We've tried to help that department by
28:52
immediately giving them some let them know that America is behind them, and we
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sympathize that. We deeply a grieve over they're lie loss. He've also been
29:02
heavily involved on the border because of the fact that that's where all our terres,
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drug dealers, human sex chapters, etc. Tder Are pouring across and
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creating the greatest threat. But I love your question. President knows he can
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have an active shoot of ass anytime he wants one. I would love for
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him to be wearing one. Two issues come up with that. Put it
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this way, an active shooter. As law enforcement, we're used to it,
29:30
that's part of the uniform. Okay, a president having the it's not
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just the bulk of the vests. He can handle that, it's not the
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weight. He can handle that easily. But Alex, would you want to
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put on a heavy sweater and a hundred degree temperature and stand out there and
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talk for an hour and a half makes it a little difficult. Plus,
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and to be honest, Trump is not one to sort of armor up in
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that sense because he wants to show people he's tough. Agree with that,
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right, correct? And that's what I was just going to say. The
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other thing is is that you know, as you saw this time, it
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would happen with Kennedy and others. Most of the time those assassination shots are
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head shots, which the only way to prevent that would be to worry a
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ballistic helmet, and you don't think the President's going to do that. Plus,
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there are other ways that we can handle securing the president as always bulletproof
30:29
class. Why that was not well, I know why I wasn't used this
30:32
time because you remember, he doesn't have the full presidential or didn't have the
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full presidential package. That's why you achieve any bulletproof class there. Obviously,
30:41
it's easier to stand behind bulletproof class, easier on you, easier on the
30:44
public, is see, than it would be for you to retry to outfit
30:45
you with the best. But I'd be happy to give you one the minute
30:48
he said he wants one, Michael, have you worked with the NYPD?
30:52
And I got to give credit to Mayor Adams who during the academy graduation said,
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you know your job is beyond just getting the bad guy, it's to
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really protect the people and the city. And I don't know, I haven't
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heard a mayor of New York talk like that in a little of it.
31:07
So have you worked with the NYPD of late? Yes, we have.
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In fact, we just have a coordinating a presentation. Now, y're they're
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more best actors universe. They don't have. They have very few, only
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for their SWAD team. Every officer needs one because you can now see that
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New York is under attack. I don't know how many officers we've had killed.
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Just sitting at an intersection, are just patrolling in an area. You
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say, why do you say under attack? What you need to understand is
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this alex is we have now such an influx of gangs, first time in
31:45
history that we have had major games like MS thirteen. Do you get on
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the twenty others that are now coordinating and working together. You remember, technically
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they hate each other, but now they figure it out the best way to
31:59
do is a partner together, share in the proceeds to what comes in and
32:04
dominate. And they're doing that. They're doing that all over the country,
32:07
but especially New York. Part of their initiation is not just to go rob
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the store, say look, I've run it a hundred bucks to kill a
32:15
cop. So now you understand why there's such a thread on the lives of
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officers. We're going to make sure we deal with that. In the next
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couple of weeks. We'll be handing out best to the NYPD. But and
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I'd love to be there for that presentation, if you don't mind, I'd
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love to be there to cover that and I meet with you in person.
32:35
That would be great. Love. Do we have John Cassamandias, who you
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know, one of the big billionaires in this country who owns I'm good friends
32:45
with. He works on I work with him at the radio station on at
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so I'm very very familiar and he's a great guy, and I know that
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he wants to do everything and kind of support law enforcement on that note,
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isn't it isn't it wild? And I'm sure and you're years of experience.
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I don't know how many traffic traffic stops you got to make, but I
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think of the best so important now on the traffic stop, because that's where
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a lot of the crime is happening, right And that's that's jarring to me.
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It is amazing what I have seen over the years. Didn't have it
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has changed. Old days, you make a traffic stop and that was it,
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you know, very cordial, very nice. Nowadays, I have seen
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all over the country where you make a traffic stop, and I've seen officers.
33:31
Of course what I've seen by I've seen them their video, their camcorders
33:35
record this. They'll walk up and they'll say, you know why I stopped
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you. It'd be like a this what's really secury, Alex. It'll be
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like a car, a little kid you know, don't care and next thing
33:46
you know, they pulled out a gun, they blasted the coppyway. That's
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what we're facing. That's the kind of mentality that we're facing. Of course,
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mainstream media has been a big part of that by making people think that
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cop turing competent, that they're racist, their biggots, et cetera, et
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cetera. That's what led to the defund the police matter. If you're that
34:07
bad, why am I paying you? And of course now that you've got
34:09
to defund the beliefe and so we are really in trouble in this country.
34:15
We usually have one point two to one point three million sworn officers across this
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land. We're down to seven hundred thousand and it keeps dropping. We can't
34:25
find anybody that wants to step up to the plate to wear the badge anymore.
34:30
So we're in trouble. Alex I talked with Sergety Betsey Smith about this
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and how now departments want the illegal immigrants to be part. Now. I
34:38
have mixed feelings on that. Because there are immigrants here that want to help
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the cause and protect the people, then I'm all for that, but we're
34:45
worried about that kind of optimism when it comes to them. During the forces,
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right, I agree, So I will take you from my perspective.
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I think it's a very bad idea. You can't ask somebody that's breaking the
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law to enforce it to everybody else. Makes no sense, I would agree.
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There Now one last thing, and tomorrow is the big one, because
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President Trump is supposed to accept the nomination and make a speech. A.
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Have you been involved with supplying best to those at the RNC convention? Because
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there are officers from across the country at the r n C protecting the perimeter
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and B what are you looking for and what are you obviously hoping for as
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far as the security protections that we might hear about tomorrow for the for his
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nomination speech. I mean, it's going to be a big deal to see
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him back out there and more importantly how secure the area is? Right?
35:32
Correct to answer both of your questions, Alec. First of all, yes,
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a lot of those officers are waring best that we provided, and we're
35:39
very grateful to be able to do that. What are we looking forward out
35:43
of the presentation and the acceptance from the president more of what he currently is
35:49
all about. You know, I've never seen a president and have talked to
35:52
him quite a few times. Never seen a president so committed to law and
35:57
order in our first responders, is this president. He's going to reaffirm that
36:00
commitment. He's going to make sure that America understands you're fearful. Now,
36:06
you're fearful of violence. Most people, that is the number one issue when
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you're talking about their concerning and this coming upcoming election. They don't feel safe.
36:14
And he's going to outline how that we can back our law enforcement,
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make sure that we have what we need for law enforcement, restore the respect
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that they so rightly deserve, and bring back law and order and reduce his
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violent crime streak that's happening across America today. Well, I'll tell you what,
36:31
I'd love you to come back maybe even now Monday or Tuesday after this
36:36
hearing with the Secret Service, if you like what you said, what she
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had to say to the House and to Congress. I think it's going to
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be a really it's going to be such an important hearing that everybody should be
36:45
tuning in, right. I agree, Alex, And it will be very
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interesting to come back on your show. From this standpoint, she's scrambling right
36:52
now, she keeps changing the story about every hour because he's trying to figure
36:57
out what's the best one that's going to satisfy the American people. And I'm
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not so sure you're going to be able to come up with a story that's
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going to satisfy the American people. They want to know the truth, and
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if the truth is nefarious, then we better fix it. Well. Michael
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Let's founder, CEO of invest Ei n v E s USA, thanks so
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much for joining my podcast on the Scare Podcast Network. Thank you so much,
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DS. You keep it up. You work. God bless you,
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God bless America. Look forward to seeing you in New York.