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00:00:00Welcome to Hannity, and we are 50 days away from the, well, inflection point of all inflection
00:00:22points.
00:00:23The 2024 election is upon us.
00:00:26Voting now officially underway in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
00:00:30Polls are neck and neck.
00:00:32We will look at them tonight, but tonight also, Donald Trump is just, frankly, fortunate
00:00:37to be alive again.
00:00:40Another tough weekend in my home state, in this case, in Florida, for the second time
00:00:44this year.
00:00:45Donald Trump was nearly assassinated.
00:00:47It was much closer than people know.
00:00:49And coming up, we're going to hear from real estate developer and friend of mine, Steve
00:00:54Witkoff, who on Sunday morning, I had breakfast with him and another friend of ours at, well,
00:01:01the City Diner, if you want to know, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
00:01:04After breakfast, I went home.
00:01:05They went to Trump International Golf Club for a meeting and a round of golf with the
00:01:09former president.
00:01:11I was invited to play.
00:01:12I said no.
00:01:14And what he told me was beyond shocking, because Steve witnessed the near assassination firsthand
00:01:20of the former president and presidential candidate.
00:01:23Mindfully, at the last minute, one Secret Service agent noticed the barrel of a gun
00:01:28being held by the would-be assassin in a treed area some 300 plus yards from the president
00:01:35where he was playing golf.
00:01:36In just a moment, Steve Witkoff will share that story right here on TV for the first
00:01:41time exclusively.
00:01:42Also, Eric Trump, a rifle marksman in his own right, he is furious, rightly so, that
00:01:49a would-be assassin got so close to his father with a scoped AK-47.
00:01:56We'll get his take on what is going wrong with the agency.
00:01:58Now, if not for one eagle-eyed Secret Service officer and several others who engaged the
00:02:04shooter from an open field, Donald Trump likely would not be alive tonight.
00:02:10It seems that the potential assassin here was within moments of firing that shot.
00:02:18It is clear that the agents in Trump's security detail that were next to him and around him,
00:02:24they all acted heroically.
00:02:26They were all willing to sacrifice their own bodies in the face of imminent danger.
00:02:31What no greater love have man than to lay down their life for another?
00:02:35That's those guys and those men and women.
00:02:37Now, this was yet another glaring security failure at the leadership, at the DHS, the
00:02:42Secret Service, but they don't see it that way.
00:02:45Take a look.
00:02:46Yesterday was an off-the-record movement, off-the-record, and the president wasn't even
00:02:52really supposed to go there.
00:02:53It was not on his official schedule.
00:02:55And so we put together a security plan, and that security plan worked.
00:02:59Now the acting Secret Service director went on to praise Mayorkas and said the DHS did
00:03:04a great job.
00:03:05I beg to differ tonight.
00:03:07That security plan did not work.
00:03:10The agents around the president were phenomenal.
00:03:13There are two groups of people we're talking about here.
00:03:17You have a deranged Democrat, his name is Ryan Ruth.
00:03:20He got within 300-plus yards of Donald Trump with an AK-47-style rifle equipped with a
00:03:27long-range scope, and Ruth was able to create a sniper's nest besides the, what, 5th, 6th
00:03:33hole of Trump International Golf Course hidden in the bushes, where he posted up apparently
00:03:39for nearly 12 hours, according to phone records.
00:03:42Take a look at this map.
00:03:44Look at the close, look at that.
00:03:46Look at that proximity of, that is Congress Street right there on the outside of where
00:03:52the golf course is, and the wooded area, and the 5th hole green, and right where Donald
00:03:59Trump was getting ready to putt.
00:04:01Those trees are well-known areas to the Secret Service and everybody.
00:04:07That is the area where paparazzi often will hide to get pictures of President Trump golfing
00:04:14and not be noticed.
00:04:15There were no Secret Service agents at all that were watching Congress Avenue.
00:04:21Nobody checked the wooded area.
00:04:24Not one person.
00:04:25A would-be assassin got that close to President Trump with the AK-47 and the scope, where
00:04:33the former president was well within close shooting range.
00:04:37Thankfully, the last minute, a Secret Service agent spotted the barrel of Ruth's gun, and
00:04:43Secret Service agents fired on his location.
00:04:47Ruth, unfortunately, was able to get away.
00:04:50Thankfully, luckily, a witness saw him entering his vehicle, snapped a picture of his license
00:04:55plate, and that is what ultimately led to his arrest.
00:04:59Take a look.
00:05:00Take two steps to your right!
00:05:04Driver!
00:05:05Walk straight back!
00:05:11Keep walking!
00:05:13Keep walking!
00:05:15Keep walking!
00:05:25Donald Trump is alive today because of luck and several brave, fast-acting Secret Service
00:05:30agents.
00:05:31However, as it relates to the planning and the execution of Trump's security, that part
00:05:37of their mission, well, I could say tonight with certainty, was an abject failure.
00:05:42Now, also today, coincidentally, Senator Josh Hawley, Missouri, released a Senate whistleblower
00:05:48report on the failures of the Secret Service from the first assassination attempt.
00:05:54That was the one back in July in Butler, PA.
00:05:57Now, according to one whistleblower, the DHS treated the Butler rally as, quote, a loose
00:06:03security event, did not deploy detection canines, also did not station DHS personnel at, quote,
00:06:11regular interviews, intervals at the security perimeter, and that's not all.
00:06:17The report also alleges that security personnel abandoned the roof directly across from the
00:06:22president.
00:06:24That is where Matthew Crooks ultimately took aim, because they tell us the weather was
00:06:29too hot.
00:06:30Too hot?
00:06:31When I was in construction, and I fell off a roof nearly three stories, well, I was on
00:06:37roofs that really were steep and at a slope, and that was never a consideration, not working
00:06:44on a hot day.
00:06:46Last week, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said Americans will be shocked when we learn
00:06:51the full extent of the Secret Service failures that happened at Butler, at the rally there,
00:06:58and yet the Secret Service came dangerously close to letting it happen again.
00:07:02What happened on Sunday was a colossal security failure.
00:07:07You could not have in Butler, PA, Pennsylvania, an assassin or would-be assassin 130 yards
00:07:14from the president or presidential candidate.
00:07:17You cannot have them 300 yards away in a wooded area off a golf course when the president
00:07:23is playing golf.
00:07:25Now, Ryan Wesley Ruth was a deranged lunatic who called Trump a threat to democracy.
00:07:32Where have I heard that before?
00:07:34On social media, echoing the mantra of the Democratic radical left in this country.
00:07:39His truck has a Biden-Harris sticker on the back.
00:07:42He's donated to Democratic causes nearly 20 times.
00:07:46Also seemed to have an agenda as it relates to Ukraine, trying to recruit former vets
00:07:52that fought in Afghanistan for that war effort.
00:07:55Now, I'll be clear.
00:07:56Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, I don't blame them for Ruth's actions.
00:08:01Folks like Bernie Sanders was not to blame for the congressional baseball shooting carried
00:08:05out by one of his devout supporters.
00:08:08But if the roles are reversed here, you better believe Democrats, the media mob, all those
00:08:14in big tech, they would be blaming Donald Trump, any conservative and every Republican.
00:08:20And one can ask why more Secret Service personnel are not being assigned to protect the number
00:08:26one political target in the country.
00:08:29In fact, some very sick people on the left, they've taken it in the other direction.
00:08:34They're trying to blame Donald Trump for almost getting assassinated.
00:08:39You can't make it up.
00:08:40Take a look.
00:08:42This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad, very bad things going on in
00:08:48the Republican Party.
00:08:50On one side, the attempts to divide, to enrage the population, to put out false rumors and
00:08:56misinformation.
00:08:57And then on the other side, we have this complete availability of assault rifle rifles, too.
00:09:04It seems almost anyone who wants to have access.
00:09:08When you say over and over again, somebody is evil or compare them to Hitler or a threat
00:09:13to democracy, is that rhetoric not over the top?
00:09:17The Washington Post, they simply referred to the assassination attempt as, quote, another
00:09:21chance for Trump to frame Democrats as dangerous.
00:09:25That's their biggest concern.
00:09:28Meanwhile, NBC News referred to it as a golf club incident.
00:09:32A golf club incident would be somebody hit with a golf ball that somebody hit.
00:09:38USA Today barely featured the story at all.
00:09:41Instead, they published a cover story with the title Hope in America, where, you know,
00:09:46where are the Watergate style stories about the failures at the Department of Homeland
00:09:52Security and at the Secret Service?
00:09:54Where are the tough questions for Mayorkas, Ray, who has been warning that the threat
00:10:00level has never been this bad?
00:10:02Where is the attorney general, Merrick Garland?
00:10:05Where are the calls for somebody to be held accountable and resign?
00:10:08Now, make no mistake, Donald Trump isn't just facing off against Kamala Harris.
00:10:13I've said this many times in this election cycle.
00:10:16He is running against an entire political machine that spans across the federal government,
00:10:22their agencies, as we call the deep state.
00:10:25Then you have a corrupt Democratic Party that lies on a level that I've never seen in my
00:10:29life.
00:10:30You have the state run propaganda, media mob, you have big tech all wanting to put their
00:10:35cinder blocks on the scales of an election.
00:10:38And now we can add numerous would be assassins at this hour in our country.
00:10:43We are monitoring a live interview with Donald Trump that has been going on on X spaces.
00:10:49But here is how Trump describes Sunday's attempt on his life.
00:10:53And he'll be on this show tomorrow describing it as well.
00:10:57And all of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air.
00:11:02And I guess probably four or five.
00:11:05And it sounded like bullets.
00:11:06But what do I know about that?
00:11:07But Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets.
00:11:11And they grabbed me and what the gunfire was actually, interestingly, was a Secret Service
00:11:19agent had seen a barrel of a K-47, which is a very powerful gun rifle, and he started
00:11:28shooting at the barrel.
00:11:30All right, joining us now to share his story, he's an incredible developer, friend and also
00:11:37businessman.
00:11:38Steve Whitkoff is with us, Steve.
00:11:41Great to see you.
00:11:42Thanks for being with us.
00:11:43When I met you for breakfast yesterday, I didn't think you'd be on this TV show today.
00:11:49And I didn't think you'd go through everything you went through yesterday.
00:11:52I'm glad you're OK.
00:11:53I'm glad the president is OK.
00:11:55Why do you tell this audience everything that happened?
00:12:00Well, first of all, Sean, thanks for having me.
00:12:07Yesterday was quite a day.
00:12:10I actually feel I actually feel blessed that I was there yesterday.
00:12:15And the reason I feel blessed, Sean, is that I got to see what it's like for my dear friend
00:12:20to live his his normal life, his normal life, which is punctuated by two attempts to assassinate
00:12:27him in the last 60 days, being vilified since he left the presidency, falsely accused, harassed.
00:12:38To me, he gave four years of of of his best years to public service.
00:12:43He ought to be commended for the job that he did.
00:12:46And yet here he was yesterday on a beautiful day just trying to get some rest and relaxation
00:12:53like all the rest of us.
00:12:55And there's a man with a with a machine gun, an assault rifle who's attempting to kill
00:13:01him.
00:13:02It was it was it was it was terrible.
00:13:06But I got to see I got to see a man who was stoic, courageous, cared about his friend's
00:13:14safety and first before his own life.
00:13:18He he was an inspiration to everybody who was around him yesterday.
00:13:23I wish the whole country could have witnessed what happened yesterday because they would
00:13:26have seen a real leader.
00:13:30OK, so you're you're walking up to the green and you're you're looking to put all of a
00:13:38sudden you hear the gunshots.
00:13:40What did it sound like?
00:13:41Did you know immediately there were gunshots?
00:13:42Did you know the direction they came from?
00:13:47Immediately I'm a gun carrier.
00:13:48So and I and I've been a gun carrier for 35 years.
00:13:52So it was you know, immediately it was gunfire.
00:13:58It didn't sound like firecrackers.
00:14:00The Secret Service were exceptional.
00:14:02They were on.
00:14:03They were they had the president secured in my estimation because I was five yards away
00:14:09from him in my estimation, maybe after the first shot, certainly after the second shot.
00:14:15So by the time the fourth shot rang out, the president was was on his way with that detail.
00:14:21It was as if they had practiced it 500 times before.
00:14:25It was it was pretty awesome to watch them.
00:14:31And they were heroic because their lives were on the line.
00:14:34They were exposed at that moment.
00:14:37The sniper teams deployed right next to me, maybe a yard or two away with their tripods
00:14:44aiming at the tree line.
00:14:46We saw the Secret Service, other detail members converging with golf carts on that area where
00:14:51clearly the shots had come from.
00:14:55And the president was safe, thank God.
00:14:59Let me ask you this.
00:15:00So the Secret Service around you and I agree based on everything you told me, they were
00:15:06phenomenal.
00:15:07They within seconds, within a second or two, they were on the president.
00:15:12They got him off the golf course immediately.
00:15:14You told me that you stood up the whole time.
00:15:17You never sat down.
00:15:20Then you talked about other Secret Service.
00:15:23They had their tripods.
00:15:24There were snipers, but they were in an open field.
00:15:26They were on a golf course.
00:15:27They were sitting ducks themselves, but they put their lives at risk.
00:15:31So everybody around the president at that moment, I mean, I don't have enough adjectives
00:15:38to describe the level of heroism.
00:15:40That's what you're describing rightly to us, right?
00:15:44That's correct.
00:15:45They were each and every one of them.
00:15:47Each and every one of them put themselves in harm's way to put themselves in between
00:15:53the shooter and the president.
00:15:55I was standing up as I said.
00:15:57To this day, to this minute, I don't know why I continued to stand.
00:16:02I think it maybe has something to do with just by osmosis being around my friend.
00:16:08He's so courageous that it, you know, you feel inspired that you want to demonstrate
00:16:14a little bit of that yourself if you can.
00:16:16But they put themselves between that shooter and the president.
00:16:26And there's no mistaking that.
00:16:28I watched it all happen.
00:16:32Let me ask you this question, and I'll get into this more.
00:16:35I had a conversation with Eric and Laura Trump yesterday, and Eric's coming on after you.
00:16:41The only problem I have, the area is close to a street called Congress Avenue.
00:16:48And it's between Congress Avenue, it is the part of the golf course that is closest to
00:16:53that street.
00:16:55And between the street and the golf course is a treat area and a fence.
00:16:59This is where the would-be assassin was hiding.
00:17:05And what frustrates me that is 300 plus yards or so from where you were, from where the
00:17:11president was, that area apparently was never checked.
00:17:16And I'm having a hard time understanding why, from a security standpoint, nobody checked
00:17:22that area on that street and checked that wooded area when the president is within that
00:17:28tight range.
00:17:30And in this case, with somebody that ends up having an AK-47 with a scope on it, that
00:17:36is the failure part to me.
00:17:39And I am not negating all the heroism that you witnessed yesterday.
00:17:45Well, you know, Sean, I mean, I wasn't out on the periphery.
00:17:52But as I understand it, there was an agent who was on the outside fence line between
00:17:59Congress Avenue and the fence or tree line.
00:18:02And he had checked that area and just missed the shooter, the assassin.
00:18:10And then, as it was supposed to happen, there's an advance man.
00:18:15And this is every time I play with the president, and I've played with him quite a bit, there's
00:18:19an advance person who is going in front of us, scanning the area of the next hole or
00:18:27any vulnerable areas.
00:18:29And it worked as it should.
00:18:31He actually looked towards that tree line.
00:18:35By the way, you've got to look pretty closely.
00:18:37I mean, it's a gun barrel.
00:18:40It's not so easy to see inside of those trees.
00:18:44Well, that part was amazing.
00:18:45And this guy engaged.
00:18:46Yeah, and it's nothing short of incredible.
00:18:52If that guy didn't see that gun barrel, we'd be talking about a funeral in all likelihood
00:18:58today.
00:18:59That's how that's how close President Trump again came to be assassinated.
00:19:05My question is a little bit different.
00:19:07I would think that the proper procedure would be make sure clear that wooded area and make
00:19:13sure it's checked.
00:19:14And at that point, make sure that you have enough agents to keep their eyes and make
00:19:20sure that nobody goes back into that wooded area.
00:19:22Does that make sense?
00:19:24No, of course it does.
00:19:27And look, that goes to manpower.
00:19:30And you know, you have you have people who were interviewed in the last day, including
00:19:34the Palm Beach sheriff, who said that the president did not get the full complement
00:19:38of of a detail as if a sitting president would have would have been out there.
00:19:43So I can't I'm not the expert.
00:19:45I can't tell you that the full compliment would have been would have made a difference
00:19:50yesterday.
00:19:51I only know this.
00:19:53I the he really you know, I have a like a little love thing for my dear friend.
00:20:00And I say to myself, thank God that he was not injured or or were were killed.
00:20:08And thank God none of the other people.
00:20:10There were plenty of civilians, by the way, staffers from his office, people who care
00:20:15about him just as much as I do to other friends of his.
00:20:19So there could have been a lot of really serious damage out there.
00:20:24And there wasn't.
00:20:25And I'm I'm grateful to that agent who interdicted and that entire team.
00:20:30I'm grateful for all of the heroism you're describing.
00:20:33I do do not want to minimize that in any way.
00:20:36I do think that that something did go wrong on the outside of that perimeter, by that
00:20:41wooded area, by that fence.
00:20:43I think they have to look into that.
00:20:45I think Eric, who will join us next, agrees with me on that part.
00:20:49The fact that you've been willing to share what is great heroism with us is greatly appreciated.
00:20:55I'm glad you're safe.
00:20:56The president is safe.
00:20:57I'm glad all the agents are safe.
00:20:59Anyway, Steve, thank you, sir.
00:21:01We appreciate you being with us.
00:21:03All right.
00:21:04When we come back, Eric Trump will get his reaction to now the second assassination attempt
00:21:08on his father.
00:21:10And we'll show you the media mob's vile, horrific response to the incident.
00:21:15Senator Lindsey Graham.
00:21:16Tim Scott, straight ahead.
00:21:17All right, joining us now to react to the second now assassination attempt against former
00:21:23president and presidential candidate Donald Trump, the executive vice president of the
00:21:27Trump Organization.
00:21:29Eric Trump is with us.
00:21:30Eric, I want to be very clear, as I was with Steve.
00:21:33I cannot praise the agents around your dad enough for their heroism.
00:21:40They dove on your dad.
00:21:42They did everything right.
00:21:43They got him out of there quickly.
00:21:45The one agent that just happened to see the barrel of this gun, amazing work on that agent's
00:21:51part in every way.
00:21:54Probably it sounds to me your dad was in within seconds yet again of being assassinated.
00:22:01That's how I read this.
00:22:03The question I have for you, and you happen to be a marksman that can hit a target from
00:22:09a mile away.
00:22:10I know how skilled you are.
00:22:12You shoot with the top shooters in the country.
00:22:15My question for you is, how is it possible this treed area where your dad was playing
00:22:22at this time, by the fourth, fifth, sixth hole over there, is well known for where paparazzi
00:22:30get pictures and videos of your dad playing golf.
00:22:33They hide in the bushes and they get the pictures.
00:22:36What I don't understand is why that area was not swept and why there weren't agents preventing
00:22:41anybody from getting into that area after it was swept.
00:22:45That to me is a massive security failure.
00:22:48Your reaction.
00:22:49Well Sean, my reaction is it feels like deja vu.
00:22:55It feels like five weeks ago you and I are having the exact same conversations we're
00:22:58having today.
00:22:59Let me just be very clear.
00:23:00They are trying to kill the man.
00:23:01They are trying to kill my father.
00:23:02They are trying to kill the 45th president of the United States.
00:23:05We've seen two attempts on his life in the last five weeks.
00:23:09And I agree with Steve 100%.
00:23:11The Secret Service men and women, I knew the people on stage in Butler, and I knew many
00:23:14of the people that were on the ground literally two days ago.
00:23:17I know these people.
00:23:18These are the greatest people you'll ever meet.
00:23:20These people will take a bullet from my father.
00:23:21They'll take a bullet for any side.
00:23:23That's their job.
00:23:24They love their job.
00:23:25They're incredibly good at their job.
00:23:26And if I could give that agent who saw the rifle barrel popping through a chain link
00:23:30fence in the middle of big Eureka bushes, if I could give them a big hug, I would do
00:23:36so right now because there's no question that that person saved lives these days.
00:23:40At the same time, I agree with you 100%.
00:23:42What's happening with the perimeter to these sites?
00:23:45How can that possibly happen?
00:23:46You're showing a picture on TV right now of an AK-47 with a scope and a former president
00:23:51and very likely future president, based on the poll numbers and everything else, who
00:23:55is less than 300 yards away.
00:23:58One bullet, this country, the history of this country changes forever.
00:24:01One bullet, you know, the way the U.S. is perceived changes in a flash.
00:24:09How many other close calls do we have to have?
00:24:11When can we finally get our act together?
00:24:13And so, you know, those agents on the ground, they are remarkable.
00:24:17They are remarkable.
00:24:18And thank God they were there and the way they respond.
00:24:21But there is a breakdown at some point.
00:24:22There has to be.
00:24:23I mean, this is two assault rifles within 300 yards of the president, the first one
00:24:27being 130 yards of the president in a five week period of time.
00:24:31And there's only so many chances in the world that you get.
00:24:33There are only so many lives that you're given.
00:24:36And, you know, I mean, just God bless.
00:24:39What happens if the agent would have missed that little skinny rifle barrel popping through
00:24:43a fence?
00:24:44I mean, what happens if they just would have been looking the other way?
00:24:47What happens if a bird would have flown overhead and distracted them in some way, shape or
00:24:50form?
00:24:51You know, the future of this country could be very different.
00:24:53I mean, so so, you know, Sean, I am so grateful in so many ways to them, some of my closest
00:24:59friends.
00:25:01At the same time on the perimeter, somebody is letting those incredibly brave agents down
00:25:06because this cannot happen.
00:25:07And just remember one other thing.
00:25:08I mean, the reports just came out that it looks like that person, based on their cell
00:25:12phone records, started showing up in that location at one o'clock in the morning, one
00:25:16o'clock.
00:25:17I mean, that person had been there for what, close to 12 hours at that point.
00:25:20It's incredibly disconcerting.
00:25:21It's concerning for the country.
00:25:23It's concerning for the hundreds of millions of Americans who would march to the end of
00:25:26the world for a man that they love, a man that they adore, a man that's leading the
00:25:31race for 47th president of the United States.
00:25:34And it's definitely deep concerning for, you know, for his family and for guys like me
00:25:38who love him deeply.
00:25:41You know, Steve, the agents around your dad, there are no better people on the face of
00:25:46the earth.
00:25:47I completely agree.
00:25:49However, that area that is wooded, you know, and I listened to the head of the Secret Service
00:25:54very closely today, and he was praising not only those agents, but praising the whole
00:25:59operation as if it was a great success.
00:26:03I don't view it as a success if somebody with an AK-47 and a scope is 300 plus yards away
00:26:09from your dad, because that is a layup or a one-foot putt if you're a shooter.
00:26:16And so the question is, why wasn't that wooded area swept?
00:26:19We need an answer.
00:26:21And why weren't there agents on Congress Avenue that were monitoring to make sure that nobody
00:26:27went into the treed area where they would, and bringing a gun, no less, in there with
00:26:34them?
00:26:35That, to me, is where the failure went, where the failure happened.
00:26:40And this is very similar to what we have learned out of Butler, is it not?
00:26:48I agree with you.
00:26:49I don't think it's a success having an assault rifle 300 yards away from the president.
00:26:54I've shot since I could walk, Sean.
00:26:56It's something I know very, very well.
00:26:57It's probably something I know better than, you know, most.
00:27:00I did it competitively.
00:27:01I did it in pretty much all the disciplines.
00:27:03A 300-yard shot is a layup shot.
00:27:05With a modern-day scoped rifle, it is a layup shot.
00:27:08It's a shot that will be made every single time.
00:27:10The shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, was a 130-yard shot.
00:27:13You know, that's a shot that my six-year-old son could make every single time.
00:27:16Sean, these are layup shots, and it's incredibly disconcerting that that is happening.
00:27:20I agree with you 100%.
00:27:22You're right.
00:27:23The agents on the ground were incredible, and it was a success for them, and they should
00:27:27be hugged, and they should be complimented, because, again, they saved lives.
00:27:30That one agent who saw the barrel saved lives.
00:27:33You better believe it.
00:27:34They saved lives.
00:27:35They should get every award, every accommodation, every raise.
00:27:38But there is a problem if you're leaving a perimeter 300 yards insecure around.
00:27:41You know what?
00:27:44In a way, can you argue that the fact that he saw a barrel of a gun through a fence in
00:27:51a treed area was maybe a little bit lucky, and that we can't rely on luck, that we have
00:27:57to rely on sweeping any area within any perimeter that would allow somebody with a scoped rifle
00:28:05that close to your father or to any elected politician, for that matter, is not a political
00:28:10issue?
00:28:11Sean, of course, it was lucky.
00:28:15You know how much vegetation we have on golf courses?
00:28:17I mean, it's kind of what we're known for, right, having some of the most lush, beautiful
00:28:21golf courses, right?
00:28:22To have a little pencil barrel that's 750 thousandths of an inch, effectively, going
00:28:27through a plant.
00:28:28Yeah, that's pretty damn lucky in order to say, and again, thank God that they did.
00:28:33So I agree with you.
00:28:34Do I think it's, as a son, do I think it's a glowing success?
00:28:37The agent certainly there, certainly the agent that saw that barrel, absolutely glowing success.
00:28:41The people that got my father off that golf course, absolutely glowing success.
00:28:44The fact that a person in the middle of the day was able to camp out on a perimeter of
00:28:48a golf course looking inward on him, no, that wasn't a success at all.
00:28:53And as a son, I have to say, I'm sick and tired of having this conversation.
00:28:56You and I had this conversation five weeks ago, this exact same conversation under the
00:29:00same circumstances.
00:29:01It's disconcerting.
00:29:02You only have so many lives.
00:29:04And Sean, I go back to the fact that man right there, that man is a hero to so many Americans.
00:29:09This is a guy who saved this country.
00:29:11This is a guy who spent the last decade fighting tooth and nail under the most unthinkable
00:29:16attacks to save the country against his own comfort, against his own family's interest,
00:29:22against his business issue.
00:29:24They tried to take him down.
00:29:25They tried to throw him in jail.
00:29:27They tried to bankrupt him.
00:29:28They tried to separate his family.
00:29:31They tried to take him off the ballot and subvert democracy in this country.
00:29:35They've done everything they could.
00:29:37They tried to impeach him.
00:29:38They took down his friends.
00:29:39They did everything.
00:29:40And yet that man right there is still fighting.
00:29:43And I expect him to be protected.
00:29:44I expect him to be safe.
00:29:46This country expects to have Kamala Harris in a debate saying that that man right there,
00:29:50who's the most brave person I've ever met, is a threat to democracy.
00:29:53You know, Sean, the bullets are only going one way.
00:29:55It's really interesting how that works.
00:29:57Why is it that that man right there is taking every bullet literally and figuratively?
00:30:02He's taken every bullet from a weaponized system.
00:30:04He's taken every bullet from a gun.
00:30:07And guess what?
00:30:08The media sweeps it under the rug.
00:30:09You know, I heard an interesting statement the other day.
00:30:11It was actually a meme the other day on social media that the Will Smith slap got more attention
00:30:16than Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:30:17And I think that's close to being true because the mainstream media swept it under the rug
00:30:21as quickly as they could and moved on to their next shiny ball to try and promote either
00:30:25Joe Biden at the time or Kamala Harris, which they do every single time.
00:30:30I mean, why is this person literally the punching bag for absolutely everything?
00:30:35And then you hear Kamala coming out and saying, yes, you know, Donald Trump is a threat to
00:30:38democracy.
00:30:39The only threat to democracy is the people who are trying to kill that incredible man
00:30:42right there.
00:30:43Again, somebody loved by the entire country.
00:30:45And, you know, they've got to tone down that rhetoric.
00:30:48The whole, you know, Joe Biden, we're going to put a bullseye on Donald Trump.
00:30:52That has to end.
00:30:53The Maxine Waters comments.
00:30:55They have to end the mainstream media who goes after him every single day.
00:31:00It has to end.
00:31:01They are creating a culture of hate in this country.
00:31:05And you know what, Sean, if we ever lost one of our leaders, if we ever lost a presidential
00:31:10nominee, a former president, we'd look like a third world country.
00:31:13It cannot happen in the United States of America.
00:31:16They have to get the resources to keep our political leaders safe.
00:31:22We have to do a better job.
00:31:24We cannot have a third incident.
00:31:25There will not be a third.
00:31:26We cannot have this conversation again, Sean.
00:31:29You and I have had too many of them.
00:31:30Well, I agree.
00:31:33And there are so many good people in law enforcement, including the sheriff's department and the
00:31:38Palm Beach Police Department.
00:31:39They did an amazing job.
00:31:41But that area needed to be swept.
00:31:44And we've not gotten an answer.
00:31:45Eric, we're glad your dad's OK.
00:31:47Thank you for being with us.
00:31:48And I don't want this conversation again either.
00:31:51Now, in the hours after the news broke, well, predictably, the left wing state run media
00:31:56mob and the woke left wasted no time blaming Donald Trump for the attempt on his own life.
00:32:04They apparently have absolutely zero shame.
00:32:07Cincinnati Enquirer publishes a letter to the editor that says, oh, Trump brings a lot
00:32:11of this stuff on himself.
00:32:13The Washington Post columnist writing that the attempted shooting gives Trump another
00:32:17chance to frame Democrats as dangerous.
00:32:20Our left podcaster, Rachel Vindman, remember that name, mocked the incident in a now deleted
00:32:26post writing, no ears were harmed.
00:32:28Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.
00:32:31She's since deleted the post, calling it flippant, you think.
00:32:36And over on liberal cable news networks, well, things were not much better.
00:32:41Take a look.
00:32:42But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric,
00:32:47toning down the violence?
00:32:48And so would that be atypical of the former president leading up to this?
00:32:53The former president had been subject to some critical coverage in the news media for stoking
00:33:00some conspiracy theories about the first assassination attempt.
00:33:05And now that the second one came along, it's going to be hard to persuade him otherwise
00:33:10that there is not some deeper, darker force at work.
00:33:13I'm not saying that there is, but this is just his belief system.
00:33:16It's only to be strengthened by the situation.
00:33:19And so if Donald Trump wants people, wants Kamala Harris and others to say to stop saying
00:33:27that he is a threat to democracy, then he should stop threatening democracy.
00:36:46This is the Ingram angle from Washington tonight.
00:37:14My angle in moments.
00:37:16But first, let's start with what we know about this suspect.
00:37:19Fox's David Spunt is standing by live with all the details, David, what can you tell
00:37:23us?
00:37:24Well, hi, Laura.
00:37:25Ryan Routh is facing two federal firearm charges, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
00:37:30and possession of a firearm with an obliterated or scratched off serial number.
00:37:35Cell phone records place him at the scene from 1 59 a.m.
00:37:38Sunday morning to 1 30 p.m., almost 12 hours.
00:37:42The acting Secret Service director held a news conference a few hours ago and said it
00:37:46may be time to change the protective playbook of the agency.
00:37:50Watch.
00:37:51We're getting the Secret Service where it needs to be.
00:37:54And I'm confident that we will achieve that because we don't have an alternative success.
00:38:01We have to have it every day.
00:38:03We cannot have failures.
00:38:05And in order to do that, we're going to have some hard conversations with Congress.
00:38:10Without funding, Director Rose said the Secret Service needs to look at what the protected
00:38:13methodology is.
00:38:15The agency needs to get out of what he calls a reactive model and get into a readiness
00:38:19model.
00:38:20He says there could be another geopolitical event that could put the United States in
00:38:22some sort of conflict where the Secret Service needs to have additional responsibilities.
00:38:27Now, FBI investigators are looking through Ryan Routh's cell phone, his GoPro camera
00:38:32found on the scene.
00:38:33Also, his car.
00:38:34FBI agents in North Carolina, where he's from and in Hawaii, where he lives, are talking
00:38:38to his family, his friends, his colleagues.
00:38:41The FBI says it did not appear anyone else was involved in his plans.
00:38:44Now, according to our producer in federal court today, Laura, Routh was laughing.
00:38:48He was looking around while talking to his public defender.
00:38:51He told the judge he understands the charges.
00:38:53And I'm told that more charges are possible from the DOJ because these charges were enough
00:38:58for the government to quickly get in order to keep him in custody.
00:39:02We're told there are high level discussions to add more charges.
00:39:05Again, these were the quickest charges to write up.
00:39:07The Secret Service director and also a rank and file agent I spoke to praising the agent
00:39:12that was there one hole ahead of former President Trump, who saw a muzzle of a gun sticking
00:39:18out of the bushes and really alerted them to the entire thing.
00:39:21Laura.
00:39:22David, amazing.
00:39:24Thank you so much.
00:39:25Now, last time, the initial excuse was the slope roof.
00:39:28Remember that?
00:39:29That kept the Secret Service from seeing the shooter.
00:39:31Well, what was it this time?
00:39:33The golf course is surrounded by shrubbery.
00:39:35So when somebody gets into the shrubbery, they're pretty much out of sight.
00:39:39Oh, the old shrubbery.
00:39:40It's a darn landscapers fault.
00:39:42Did they believe a potential assassin would sign in at the entrance gate and then stand
00:39:46in the middle of the green waiting for Trump to take out his putter?
00:39:49Well, thank God, as David just said, an agent spotted the barrel of the gun sticking out
00:39:54of the bushes.
00:39:55What if he hadn't?
00:39:57And then there was this putter.
00:39:59Well, thank God, as David just said, an agent spotted the barrel of the gun sticking out
00:40:04of the bushes.
00:40:05What if he hadn't?
00:40:07And then there was this.
00:40:08The areas that the Secret Service deems possible.
00:40:11Well, why hasn't he been given the proper number of agents or told that golfing in the
00:40:18open is unsafe until and unless he wins the presidency?
00:40:22I would imagine that the next time he comes to the golf course, there'll probably be a
00:40:26little more people around.
00:40:28So we have a lot of questions tonight.
00:40:29Joining us now, Chris Swacker, former FBI assistant director and Frank Loveridge, former
00:40:33Secret Service special agent in charge.
00:40:35Frank, let's start with you.
00:40:37Now, this. So we have a lot of questions tonight.
00:40:39Joining us now, Chris Swacker, former FBI assistant director and Frank Loveridge, former
00:40:43Secret Service special agent in charge.
00:40:45Frank, let's start with you.
00:40:47Now, this video of President Trump golfing was taken about six years ago, and you can
00:40:52see many photographers since have gotten similar video and photos through the trees.
00:40:57Isn't this just kind of an obvious vulnerability?
00:41:00And could it not have been raised before?
00:41:04Laura, thanks for having me on.
00:41:06And yes, you're absolutely right.
00:41:07There's detail and the shift that's with the president and other tactics, tactical teams
00:41:12as well.
00:41:13And you have a team behind you and you move throughout the golf course as you proceed
00:41:17forward.
00:41:18There's hours, according to the reports today.
00:41:20He may not have been in the strawberry for 12 hours, but he was in the area.
00:41:23Why wasn't he detected by a team that was doing a sweep?
00:41:27Was there a sweep completed and did they just miss him?
00:41:31Chris, I want to play something that the acting director of the Secret Service, Ronald
00:41:35Rhodes, said about the protective methodologies of the Secret Service.
00:41:41Watch.
00:41:42The subject who did not have line of sight to the former president fled the city, did
00:41:46not fire or get off any shots at our agents.
00:41:52With reports of gunfire, the former president's close protection detail immediately evacuated
00:41:57the president to a safe location.
00:42:01The protective methodologies of the Secret Service were effective yesterday.
00:42:04Chris, thoughts about that?
00:42:08It was an effective series of methodologies.
00:42:11Yeah, every time the acting director goes on and sort of lectures us about how effective
00:42:19their methodologies are, I get I think a lot of people get more and more skeptical.
00:42:24And I'll tell you why.
00:42:26In this case, again, it was one alert Secret Service agent that did the right thing and
00:42:31took the shot.
00:42:32But this is not a resource problem.
00:42:35He said they had all the resources they needed out there.
00:42:38I don't think it's a resource problem.
00:42:40They can reprogram resources from investigations over to protection because less than half
00:42:44of their budget is devoted towards protection.
00:42:48I think it's all about sort of catching up with today's methodologies that are much more
00:42:53proactive.
00:42:54And he pointed that out, but he blamed it on lack of resources.
00:42:58I think it's all about sort of catching up with today's methodologies that are much more
00:43:03proactive.
00:43:04And he pointed that out, but he blamed it on lack of resources.
00:43:07So if your core mission is protection, that's where your resources need to go.
00:43:12Well, Frank, when you when you look at the and I know this area well, I've been to this
00:43:17club a number of times, it seems to me that it's fairly obvious that if it's not a wall,
00:43:28it's going to have a porous perimeter.
00:43:32And it would seem, again, if you cannot secure the perimeter of where the former president
00:43:39is, it wasn't effective.
00:43:43It's not the landscaper's fault or Trump's fault or his.
00:43:48This is a breakdown, once again, in the basic mission of the Secret Service.
00:43:53And this in this press conference today, I was just outraged by it, like patting each
00:43:57other on the back going, oh, you did this and we did this.
00:44:00And he saw that.
00:44:01Well, thank God we did see the muzzle.
00:44:03But that guy should never gotten in those bushes.
00:44:07Other on the back going, oh, you did this and we did this.
00:44:10And he saw that.
00:44:11Thank God we did see the muzzle.
00:44:13But that guy should never gotten in those bushes.
00:44:17It treat this as an off the record movement.
00:44:20That's one of the things we do.
00:44:21We have off the record movements, impromptu movements, and we also have on the record
00:44:25movements off the record movements where we don't tell anyone we're going there.
00:44:29But through predict predictive analysis, this individual could have easily thought it's
00:44:33Sunday afternoon.
00:44:34President Trump is going to be on the golf course.
00:44:36This should have been treated.
00:44:37We don't tell anyone we're going there.
00:44:39But through predict predictive analysis, this individual could have easily thought
00:44:43it's Sunday afternoon.
00:44:44President Trump is going to be on the golf course.
00:44:46This should have been treated.
00:44:47What happened?
00:44:48We were gone before he even got into the street line.
00:44:51Well, a simple question, Chris.
00:44:55How many agents does Kamala happened?
00:44:58We were gone before he even got into the street line.
00:45:01Well, a simple question, Chris.
00:45:05How many agents does Kamala Harris have with her?
00:45:09How many does Trump have with him?
00:45:11Maybe they're the same number.
00:45:12I mean, is that relevant given their different movements?
00:45:16She doesn't seem to go out in as many crowds as he does.
00:45:19I don't think certainly doesn't golf.
00:45:23But those are just basic questions.
00:45:25I don't believe we have the answers to those.
00:45:28And this is the second attempt on his life.
00:45:31Yeah, well, we'll never be given those numbers.
00:45:34They might give them to Congress in closed session.
00:45:36But, you know, I'll say this, again, it's not a resource issue.
00:45:42This is this is a methodology issue.
00:45:44This is a mindset, I think.
00:45:46It's a leadership issue.
00:45:48And it that until we start looking at that, I'm not sure we're going to see a whole lot
00:45:52of change.
00:45:53I mean, I go after the FBI in the same manner.
00:45:55You know, it's a leadership issue.
00:45:57The issues that we dealt with at the bureau.
00:45:59So, you know, I don't like criticizing federal agencies.
00:46:04But the mindset has to change.
00:46:06I mean, this is twenty twenty four and things are very different than they were 20 years
00:46:09ago.
00:46:10I mean, some nut bag guy is able to hide in bushes for 11 hours, bring a couple of backpacks,
00:46:16a long range weapon, and he could have gotten a shot off like, oh, he didn't have the former
00:46:21president in his sights.
00:46:24That's supposed to make us feel better.
00:46:27I think, Frank, that doesn't make me feel Frank, just one word.
00:46:30Does that make you feel better that he didn't have him exactly in his sights and it was
00:46:34chased off?
00:46:35No, it does not.
00:46:36It does not lower.
00:46:37And the other thing you have to remember, too, is did we have the assets we needed there?
00:46:41Do we have a helicopter with Huntsman?
00:46:43Do we have flair for looking infrared systems involved?
00:46:46We could have pointed this person out.
00:46:48Was there drones that were flying in the area that would have picked this person up?
00:46:52These are all the assets the president of the United States gets.
00:46:55I was on the president's detail.
00:46:57I felt very, very much in line with the fact that whatever I asked for, I was going to
00:47:00get.
00:47:01And President Trump needs that.
00:47:04There's more of a threat against President Trump.
00:47:06We just had an individual on July 12th that was arrested in a Pakistani national with
00:47:10ties to Iran.
00:47:12And there's more threats coming out against President Trump as well.
00:47:16And we just have to address the threat.
00:47:19We got to get answers to all these questions.
00:47:21Chris and Frank, really, really appreciate your input tonight.
00:47:25Coming up, my angle reveals the truth about the Democrats rhetoric of the past, not just
00:47:30several months, several years.
00:47:33Next, joyful to vengeful.
00:47:36Well, that's the focus of tonight's angle.
00:47:40Do not think for a minute that they didn't know the power of their words.
00:47:45That man cannot see.
00:47:48Let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out the White House.
00:47:51Took to social media and highlighted language from Nazi Germany.
00:47:58Let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out the White House.
00:48:01Took to social media and highlighted language from Nazi Germany.
00:48:08About their rhetoric echoing throughout the media.
00:48:11If he's a dictator and waiting, if he's an autocrat, they even called him Hitler.
00:48:17Of course, they're going to justify doing anything to stop Hitler, to beat Hitler, anything.
00:48:23Indeed, Liz Cheney herself has signaled that patriots needed to step up and ensure that
00:48:28Trump didn't ever get near the White House again.
00:48:32I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval
00:48:37Office.
00:48:38And I mean it.
00:48:39The most important thing is to make sure Donald Trump is nowhere near the Oval Office ever
00:48:43again.
00:48:44That commitment remains.
00:48:46So I'm going to do whatever I need to do to make sure that that's the case.
00:48:52Whatever it takes.
00:48:53What does she mean by that?
00:48:55Well, clearly, the accused gunman was on board with that message.
00:48:58He had marinated for years and the most vicious anti-Trump rhetoric that has become increasingly
00:49:04accepted on the left since, I really think, starting in 2015.
00:49:08Now, obviously, Ryan Wesley Ralph hasn't been convinced that the debate ended Trump's chances
00:49:15so seems like he had to take matters into his own hands.
00:49:19I would think we're going to find that this guy is extremely politically motivated and
00:49:23that he probably was spurred on by diatribes that are into his own hands.
00:49:28I would think we're going to find that this guy is extremely politically motivated and
00:49:33that he probably was spurred on by much of the political diatribes that are.
00:49:37I don't think want to believe that leaders in our government are asleep at the switch
00:49:42are even worse, purposely underestimating or stoking or even allowing real attempts
00:49:48on Trump's life.
00:49:50But now there have been two incidents.
00:49:52Now, if someone else is allowed to get near President Trump with a gun, it'll be hard
00:49:57to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, meaning our faith in the government.
00:50:01And it brings to mind an old Ian Fleming quote from the book Goldfinger.
00:50:07Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
00:50:14Now it's gotten so bad that a sitting U.S. senator is publicly publicly expressing his
00:50:19deep reservations about the federal response.
00:50:22Utah Senator Mike Lee wrote on X, thank you, Governor DeSantis, for investigating the attempted
00:50:27assassination of Donald Trump in Florida.
00:50:31We can't trust the feds, but we trust you.
00:50:34Well, Lee is 100 percent justified in feeling this way.
00:50:39Think about this.
00:50:40Think about how little we know two months later about the first shooter, Thomas Crooks.
00:50:46He was killed by a sniper after he managed to get off his own shots at Donald Trump.
00:50:51But we know so little about him.
00:50:54It's like we don't even talk about it anymore.
00:50:55Anyone else find that odd?
00:50:58Is it unreasonable at this point for millions of Americans to believe that the investigation
00:51:04is being slow walked or maybe purposely stalled or information purposely withheld?
00:51:11Now as I said on the night of July 13th, just hours after Trump was grazed by that bullet,
00:51:16in the absence of information, conspiracy theories continue to run wild.
00:51:22And rather than pushing for more information, demanding answers, our corporate media, well,
00:51:29it just makes matters worse.
00:51:31They'll ignore, they'll downplay the danger posed by crazed leftists, claiming that corporate
00:51:37media, well, it just makes matters worse.
00:51:41They'll ignore, they'll downplay the danger posed by crazed leftists, claiming that all
00:51:47other than he was somebody who was trying to find a way at in his mid to late 50s, go
00:51:55and and serve on the front lines of all other than he was somebody who was trying to find
00:52:01a way at in his mid to late 50s, go and and serve on the front lines of Ukraine.
00:52:08And he obviously had some anti-Trump posts, but that's has nothing to do with with Kamala
00:52:16Harris and Joe Biden.
00:52:17It has to do with the fact that this is his political belief.
00:52:21Now, why is it Dana Bash's job to try to defend the Harris-Walz campaign here?
00:52:27I mean, she crashed and burned when she tried to debate J.D. Vance over the weekend.
00:52:32And this was even worse.
00:52:34So isn't she, I think, supposed to be an objective anchor who's supposed to figure out the truth?
00:52:40Maybe ask the Harris campaign if they'd like to reconsider how they answered this question
00:52:45after the first assassination attempt.
00:52:48How is the rhetoric changed in light of the assassination attempt with being here at the
00:52:52RNC and representing the DNC and Biden-Harris administration?
00:52:56It hasn't changed.
00:52:57It hasn't changed.
00:52:58Trump's still a dictator and waiting.
00:53:00Well, that was disappointing, but it wasn't surprising.
00:53:03But then we heard at the DNC and at the debate, Kamala.
00:53:07We are all in this together.
00:53:10In unity, there is strength.
00:53:13It is important that we move forward, that we turn the page.
00:53:17We are all in this together.
00:53:20In unity, there is strength.
00:53:23It is important that we move forward, that we turn the page.
00:53:27A rather generic sounding statement released on social media.
00:53:31Well, today, Biden, who has a little better political judgment than Harris, was a little
00:53:36more emphatic, underline a little bit.
00:53:41Let me just say there is no, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, those of you
00:53:44who know me, many of you do, no place, emphatic, underline a little bit.
00:53:51Let me just say there is no, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, those of you
00:53:54who know me, many of you do, no place in America where we resolve our differences peacefully
00:54:00at the ballot box, not at the end of a gun.
00:54:04But none of this is enough.
00:54:07After all, a year ago, Biden was himself taking the temperature up, allowing the DOJ to go
00:54:13wild and go after Trump.
00:54:15And meanwhile, it still didn't help him politically.
00:54:18All the stuff he put on Trump, all the stuff he said about Trump, and dark Brandon, and
00:54:23still Biden's out.
00:54:25And Harris, I think she's still making the same mistake politically.
00:54:28All the stuff he put on Trump, all the stuff he said about Trump, and dark Brandon, and
00:54:33still Biden's out.
00:54:35And Harris, I think she's still making the same mistake he made.
00:54:39MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards.
00:54:43They promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence that
00:54:48are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to
00:54:56the very soul of this country.
00:55:00Now how sick is that, looking back?
00:55:03Trump was fanning the flames of violence, where exactly, at the pro-Hamas protests?
00:55:08Or was he doing that after the George Floyd or at Justice Kavanaugh's home?
00:55:13I was thinking about this today.
00:55:15If Harris and Biden really want to end the conspiracy theories and bring the country
00:55:20together, all this unity stuff, well, Harris needs to make a much more vigorous stance
00:55:27here.
00:55:28Announce that an executive decision has been made to ensure that Donald Trump has all the
00:55:33protection he would have if he were a sitting president of the United States.
00:55:37The upshot from Biden and Harris can, at that point, truly be we're all Americans.
00:55:43And if you attack one of us, you attack all of us.
00:55:47There are only 45 people who have held the office of the presidency, and Trump is one
00:55:51of them.
00:55:52He and all Americans need to know that we are 100% committed to ensuring his safety
00:55:56and his security.
00:55:58His running mate is Vice President Harris and Walt.
00:56:02All of them must be safe.
00:56:04Maybe you can even say at times our rhetoric has gotten too heated.
00:56:07We should tone that down, too.
00:56:10And further, of course, say that we're going to be totally transparent.
00:56:13We're going to expedite all investigations with factual conclusions, not political conclusions,
00:56:18and recommendations that are clear and accountability that is just unquestionable.
00:56:22Now, we're not going to do this in months, we're going to do this in weeks.
00:56:28And why not say this is America?
00:56:30The voters must be the ones to determine the outcome in November.
00:56:34Not an assassin's bullet, period.
00:56:37Now, given that they'd also have to dial back their own Trump is a dictator nonsense, this
00:56:42probably won't happen, but it should.
00:56:46Both sides can make it about the issues.
00:56:49But it's not just the election that's at stake here.
00:56:52How this moment is handled affects the credibility of the entire U.S. government.
00:56:58And if Harris were smart, and I know that might be a big ask, her number one priority
00:57:02right now would be to make it known nationally and throughout the world that everything in
00:57:08the federal government's power will be done to keep Donald Trump safe.
00:57:14And that's the angle.
00:57:15Joining me now, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.
00:57:19Senator, today, the U.S. Secret Service and other officials came out and said that the
00:57:25methodologies that were put in place on Sunday were effective.
00:57:30The shooter did not get the president in his line of sight.
00:57:33He was chased off and he was apprehended.
00:57:38And your response?
00:57:39Well, I don't know how you can say it's effective when the shooter was able to be there on that
00:57:44golf course for 12 hours.
00:57:46Laura, I mean, this is a course that the president plays on a regular basis, by the way.
00:57:50This isn't like it's some new place that he parachuted into.
00:57:53He lives right next door and the shooters there for 12 hours and nobody notices.
00:57:57I mean, this is a course that the president plays on a regular basis, by the way.
00:58:00This isn't like it's some new place that he parachuted into.
00:58:03He lives right next door and the shooters there for 12 hours and nobody notices.
00:58:07I mean, enforcement there and they weren't and there was supposed to be law enforcement
00:58:10on that perimeter and they weren't.
00:58:12So we have a problem here, to say the least, and I think it's time for Secret Service to
00:58:16tell us what is going for Smith there and they weren't and there was supposed to be
00:58:19law enforcement on that perimeter and they weren't.
00:58:22So we have a problem here, to say the least, and I think it's time for Secret Service to
00:58:26tell us what is going on with President Trump.
00:58:29I actually think it's really good that he reached out.
00:58:32I think he should bring President Trump in and they really should do a joint appearance
00:58:35to reassure the country with President Trump.
00:58:39I actually think it's really good that he reached out.
00:58:42I think he should bring President Trump in and they really should do a joint appearance
00:58:45to reassure the country because people are.
00:58:49This happens again.
00:58:50And I don't again.
00:58:51I said it in the angle.
00:58:52I don't think Humpty Dumpty gets put back together again.
00:58:54I think they're going to just shatter whatever's left of the trust that the people have in
00:58:58the FBI and in the Secret Service.
00:59:01But Senator, I think it's important for us to remember that the Butler rally questions
00:59:08that this whistleblower and this whistleblower report that just came out raised, those are
00:59:14still outstanding.
00:59:16And some of what you've discovered.
00:59:18The facts are devastating, Laura, and there are no answers to them.
00:59:22This is the problem.
00:59:23The Secret Service at this remove of two months has still not answered the most basic questions.
00:59:27Why wasn't the roof secured?
00:59:29We know that the site plan called for there to be a security perimeter around that building.
00:59:33There wasn't one.
00:59:34It called for there to be law enforcement on top of the roof.
00:59:36They weren't there.
00:59:37Just like this guy at the perimeter of the golf course for 12 hours.
00:59:40Why didn't Secret Service sweep it beforehand?
00:59:43Did they not have surveillance around the perimeter?
00:59:45It's the same series of questions now repeating itself over again.
00:59:49We still haven't gotten answers from the first time around.
00:59:51And for them now, Secret Service to be declaring victory, excuse me, but you haven't told
00:59:56us anything about what happened to my meeting itself over again.
00:59:59We still haven't gotten answers from the first time around.
01:00:01And for them now, Secret Service to be declaring victory, excuse me, but you haven't told us
01:00:06anything about what happened to my accounting of what happened in July, just like they owe
01:00:10them an accounting of what happened over the weekend.
01:00:12Oh, we don't know whose job it was, right?
01:00:15There must have been one or two individuals whose job it was to secure that roof.
01:00:22And in this whistleblower report, we discover that the issue of the oppressive or two individuals
01:00:28whose job it was to secure that roof.
01:00:32And in this whistleblower report, we discover that the issue of the oppressive.
01:00:37Is that right?
01:00:39It's absolutely ridiculous.
01:00:41That is indeed what whistleblowers tell me, Laura.
01:00:43What they say is, is that the plan, the security plan called for there to be law.
01:00:47Is that right?
01:00:49It's it's absolutely ridiculous.
01:00:51That is indeed what whistleblowers tell me, Laura.
01:00:53What they say is, is that the plan, the security plan called for there to be law enforcement
01:00:57on the roof and law enforcement around the building at Butler.
01:01:01There were neither.
01:01:02There was nobody on the roof except for the shooter.
01:01:04And there was nobody around the perimeter.
01:01:06Come on.
01:01:07Where are the answers here?
01:01:09Why were there not law enforcement there?
01:01:11Why weren't they putting their best people on this detail?
01:01:14We also know from whistleblowers that the lead site agent is someone who was not trusted
01:01:19by other Secret Service agents who was not highly regarded in the service and who didn't
01:01:22know what she was doing.
01:01:23Why are these people running security for a agent as someone who was not trusted by
01:01:29other Secret Service agents who was not highly regarded in the service and who didn't know
01:01:32what she was doing?
01:01:33Why are these people running security for a for E.I. as part of what is factoring in
01:01:39here?
01:01:40Or is it diversity?
01:01:41You know, check boxes that you got, then that's a real problem.
01:01:45And I think the less we know, the more we can assume the facts are bad for the FBI and
01:01:49the Secret Service.
01:01:50Senator, thank you so much.
01:01:52All right.
01:01:53The left's vile reaction to what happened yesterday, a second attempt on President Trump's
01:01:58life.
01:01:59So who are these people?
01:02:00What does it reveal about who they really are deep down?
01:02:03That's next.
01:02:04The attempts to try to divert attention away from the pattern of violence committed by
01:02:09these crazed left wing lunatics.
01:02:12This was among the most pathetic.
01:02:15Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign
01:02:20trail itself.
01:02:21Mr. Trump is running.
01:02:22May J.D. Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio.
01:02:27Do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric, toning
01:02:33down the violence?
01:02:34Or would that be atypical of the former president?
01:02:37I would love for us to have a unity type moment, but I think it's probably going to be pretty
01:02:42fleeting as we've seen in the past.
01:02:45So it's Trump's fault that people are trying to take shots at him.
01:02:48Well, these people are total phonies.
01:02:50They know that you can't have unity.
01:02:52You certainly can't have credibility when their buddies are calling the nominee of one
01:02:56of our two major parties Hitler or a dictator in waiting.
01:03:02Or our unity and joy found in what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tweeted out just hours
01:03:08after the shooting, saying extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and
01:03:13Trump's Project 2025.
01:03:15We must stop them, must stop them.
01:03:19Well, Trump has disavowed Project 2025 and even liberal media outlets have had to fact
01:03:23check Democrats on this issue, but they don't care.
01:03:25They have nothing else.
01:03:27Baseless fear mongering.
01:03:29Trump must be stopped.
01:03:32Maybe Dana Bash could ask Hakeem Jeffries, what does he mean by that?
01:03:37How far should people go to stop Hitler?
01:03:40And the Washington Post columnist Phil Bump on his head decided to focus on Trump supporters
01:03:45who are obviously concerned about his safety.
01:03:48They're the problem.
01:03:49Apparently they should just shut up and let the experts handle it.
01:03:52Writing Trump world is eager to have Americans blame his opponents rhetoric for assassination
01:03:56attempts, both to nullify their arguments and to cast Trump as a victim.
01:04:01Joining me now, Florida Congressman Byron Donalds of the House Oversight Committee.
01:04:06Congressman, it's a shock that the Washington Post is cratering in its readership.
01:04:11But we have heard a lot about Donald Trump from the leftists leading up to this second
01:04:18assassination attempt, including Congressman from a well-known commentator, Keith Boykin,
01:04:24who says that if Trump is popular, it's obviously just because of racism.
01:04:29Watch.
01:04:30He's an identity because of white people.
01:04:31I mean, the majority of white people support Donald Trump and they have supported him in
01:04:362016 and supported him in 2020.
01:04:37I'll probably support him in 2024 if it were up to black people or Latinos and Asian Americans
01:04:42and other people of color, he would lose in Atlanta.
01:04:45He's in the lead because he protects and projects the idea of protecting white supremacy.
01:04:52Congressman, that's the kind of stuff that these crazed lunatics are marinating in.
01:04:59Laura, listening to Keith Boykin, frankly, is listening to the hysteria from the Democrat
01:05:04Party and the radical left.
01:05:06Kamala Harris is losing black voters because they destroyed the economy.
01:05:10She's losing her job.
01:05:12She's losing her job.
01:05:13She's losing her income.
01:05:14And she's losing her job.
01:05:15And she's losing her job.
01:05:16And she's losing her job.
01:05:17And she's losing her job.
01:05:18Kamala Harris is losing black voters because they destroyed the economy.
01:05:21She's losing Hispanic voters because she destroyed the border.
01:05:25And quite frankly, she's losing Jewish voters and a lot of other ethnicities because of
01:05:29the terrible foreign policy they want to throw out.
01:05:32Trump is still popular today.
01:05:34In my opinion, that's why he's going to win this presidential election.
01:05:37But obviously the story today is this is the reason why you have crazies from the left
01:05:42who are now attempting to assassinate him.
01:05:45That rhetoric is out of control.
01:05:47It is dangerous.
01:05:48And we're not going to be lectured to by Keith Boykin or anybody else on the Democrat side
01:05:52of the aisle.
01:05:53Clean up your own house before you come talk to us.
01:05:56Well, one of the things that Liz Cheney keeps saying is she will do, quote, whatever it
01:06:02takes, whatever it takes to stop Donald Trump.
01:06:06And that comes on the heels of he's Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, like every dictator who ever
01:06:11lived.
01:06:12He's at the end of democracy.
01:06:14There'll never be another election.
01:06:16If they actually mean that.