Donald Trump's Secret Service detail is catching heat for a security failure after he was shot -- and an ex-agent who worked with him has thoughts on how they could've prevented this.
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00:00What was, in my lens, missing from that site when you have a state that allows open carry
00:10of weapons?
00:11So meaning, here's the fence or the barricade that somebody has to walk around, go through
00:15the metal detectors, come to the site.
00:17On the other side of it, there's nothing I can do other than have local law enforcement,
00:21have teams posted, et cetera.
00:22So the option is now take out the line of sight.
00:26So you got to do like an environmental mitigation here.
00:30You got to do some sort of remediation to deal with what you see and assess as a problem
00:34when you're building your site.
00:36So I see that building 150 yards in the distance.
00:39To me, there's a couple of easy things you could have done or should have done, which
00:43is you probably remember Brendan Trump's on the stage and behind him there's that stand
00:48with the crowd.
00:49Take the stage and rotate it 90 degrees and that whole barrier now, remove the line of
00:55sight between the building and Trump.
00:57Now whoever's on that, the shooter that was on there laying there, slope or not on the
01:01roof, I could care less.
01:03They can't see Trump now.
01:04So a simple rotation of 90 degrees of the layout of the site would have remediated that.
01:09Conversely, you could have called in and gotten tractor trailers, big semi truck rigs, back
01:14them up.
01:15You could have offset them a foot so that would have taken the line of sight issue out.
01:19So I mean, those are just a couple of quick things.
01:22Another one that you probably have seen at places is big fire trucks, the big fire engines.
01:27They raise up the ladders.
01:28There's those huge flags draped, the American flagged.
01:31That's not necessarily just to be patriotic.
01:34We use that as a tool because it's now a screen.
01:36It drops and it cuts the line of sight out.
01:39You could ask the fire department to come out, roll their engines out, drape those big
01:42flags up between the stage and that issue and that's now taken out of the equation.
01:48And having said all of that, the second that happened, when the sniper did shoot at Trump
01:56and our counter snipers returned fire, I mean, that was less than three seconds from start
02:00to finish for the guy that was on the end of the counter sniper rifle.
02:04I mean, he did exactly what he should have done.
02:07When they went down and you saw the agents jump on top of Trump, and then you saw the
02:11guy who's kind of like the quarterback yelling, like, shooters down, let's get ready to move.
02:17And they were all talking.
02:18I don't know if you saw the audio of that one.
02:20The couple minutes they were there, it's not because they're dogpiled on each other and
02:24they want to sit there.
02:25The reality is there's blood on the former president who's running for office today.
02:31And so while you go down, I know there's blood, I know I got a problem, I know I'm safe where
02:36we are at, and we got to get from here over to there.
02:41But to do that means I got to move somebody who was just shot.
02:44So what you didn't get to see is, let me check head to toe.
02:48Do I have a collapsed lung?
02:49Did he get shot in the chest and it's collapsed lung and he's bleeding out here and I got
02:52to deal with this because if all the pressure comes off and all of a sudden he dies on the
02:57way from here to there, that's a big problem.
03:00So I'm just checking head to toe, arteries, is there any other holes I got to deal with
03:05and worry about?
03:06Or by the grace of God, did it just graze his ear and that's the only blood I'm dealing
03:10with.
03:11And so once that's been assessed and they're ready to go and know that they can pick and
03:14safely move and not have a secondary problem to deal with, that's what they did.