Barack Obama still moves like he's POTUS -- almost 9 years post-White House -- a simple dinner date with Michelle at their fave Hollywood hot spot requires a remarkable Secret Service show of force.
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00:00You know, when you're a former president,
00:01I guess date night is a bit more involved,
00:04what with Secret Service and all.
00:06But when Barack and Michelle Obama went out to one of their,
00:08it was clearly one of their favorite restaurants here in LA,
00:11there was a pretty amazing show of force.
00:13And I say amazing because they went to Mother Wolf
00:15on Saturday night, very popular Italian restaurant
00:18here in town.
00:19Hugely.
00:20But the motorcade and the number of Secret Service agents,
00:25LAPD that were around this Hollywood hotspot,
00:28it is different from what we've seen in the past.
00:31Part of this may be the environment
00:33after everything that happened with Donald Trump,
00:35but also-
00:36There's a connection with Mother Wolf.
00:38Yes, because you may remember,
00:40we broke the story back in September,
00:42they went to Mother Wolf and there was an armed man
00:45who was working security at a neighboring venue
00:48right next to Mother Wolf, on top of it actually.
00:51And he happened to walk up to the SUV
00:54where the former president was sitting.
00:57And then he realized, oh crap, I'm standing here
01:00with a gun.
01:01He got that close to the SUV.
01:03Now, we are told he got that close to the SUV.
01:07The Secret Service is saying it's not true
01:11that nobody got that close to the SUV.
01:14Without divulging sources,
01:18I'm not necessarily buying what they're selling
01:20because we had discussions
01:23with various people connected that night.
01:26And I got to tell you-
01:27Everything adds up to they were there.
01:28And everything adds up to that that really happened.
01:31Yeah, and we had even spoken to someone at the time
01:33who had claimed they had seen,
01:35they had also seen Obama in the backseat.
01:37And then he was sitting there on his laptop.
01:39So the fact they're coming out and denying it,
01:41but it also does, because of that incident,
01:43make total sense why this weekend
01:45we saw this massive presence.
01:47Hey, it's Gigi from Montreal.
01:49Whether you're a president, ex-president,
01:51and nowadays a CEO,
01:53I'm sure you're doubling up your security
01:56and it's understandable.
01:57So I'm sure we'll see more of this.