Transcript of Shots Fired (Ep. 2503) New

All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Yeah, get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. There is, uh, obviously a lot to go over with all of the, uh, sad, tragic events that happened this weekend. Here's how we're going to cover it, folks, because I, I feel a sense of responsibility here to get you the good, the bad, the ugly— what went right, what went wrong, what can change. And I want to make sure that we do it without getting too deep in the emotional component because it's hard. We're all big supporters of President Trump. Many of you listening may even know him, may be friendly with him, and it's hard to— it's really difficult on all of us and stressful to continue to watch this. You know, we're averaging an attempt on this, this man's life. Gosh, I mean, at this point, between attempts at what, every 6 months or less? Um, it is unacceptable, and there's a reason it's happening. You have this heightened bullshit rhetoric on the left that's become just the standard course of business on the left. It's just routine to call the president a Nazi and a fascist, and you've heard all the nonsense.

There's no sense of shame in it at all.

I discussed it on Fox this weekend.

Matter of fact, you're welcomed.

You're like celebrated, palm fronds and everything, as you come into the city. So I want to discuss also how in this era of presidential accessibility and social media and the president's schedule becoming public right away, we have to just look at things differently. I feel like I've got a pretty good perspective on this, having served in both the agency that investigates presidential shootings. And I want to be clear on this because I've heard a lot of commentary on X. I've been in both places. I've been at the Secret Service, uh, from 1999 to 2011, and and obviously at the FBI last year. The FBI doesn't have a role in the physical security of the president. That's the Secret Service's job. However, they do investigate afterwards because the Secret Service can't investigate themselves. I just want to be clear on that because it was a— I, I sense a little bit of confusion on, on Twitter. You know, folks are looking for who to blame and who not to blame. I just want to talk about what went wrong, what went right, and what changes can be made. I think that's the best way to handle this show.

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So before we get into it, let's give you a little background.

One of the best reports I saw on this, which lays out the timeline, was from a Sky News reporter. Regardless of what you think about Sky News or elsewhere, there's going to be a thousand B-rolls out there and things you've seen. This is a short breakdown of what went down so we can kind of level set where we're going to go. And on the timeline, you can see how all of this happened in just probably a 5-minute period or less. Everything was compressed. Check this out.

From every angle, this is how the shooting at the Correspondents' Dinner unfolded.

Where? Where's it at? Where?

Just after 8:30, this was the scene set for the annual dinner. 2,500 in the room. In the lobby at the security checks, a man runs through the metal detectors. Shots are heard. It takes a moment for people in the room to react. The First Lady seems to be the first at the top table to realize. "What happened?" she says. Look at this angle, 8:35. J.D. Vance, the Vice President, in the foreground. Then President Trump rushed out next. He falls to the floor. In the chaos.

What appeared to be shots fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Uh, it's just gone 20 to 9. What look like Secret Service making their way through The center of the area now.

Go, go, go, go, go!

The nation's top politicians rushed away.

Are you okay, sir? Were you hurt?

They'd been seated as guests at various different tables. We're all being told to stay in the ballroom at the moment. You can see just how many people are here. An extraordinary moment. The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner brought to a very, very frightening halt Just outside the ballroom where the shots had been fired, a suspect on the ground. The president, by now secure and back on his social media, posting these two images of Cole Thomas Allen, a 31-year-old from California.

So before we dig into what went happened here, what happened at this, uh, this again, another tragedy involving President Trump. I wanna start with this.

Ladies and gentlemen, there are not two sides to this. Please stop.

I, I swear to you, on a day like today, you have my word on my soul, I am not trying to overly politicize this on a Monday after this weekend tragedy.

I'm just trying to speak the truth. There are not two sides to this. There is a war breaking out on the right.

I use air quotes on the right because I've said that a lot of these people just pretend to be one of us.

There's a war breaking out on the right right now because we police our own movement and keep the crazies out. Did you freaking miss this? People on the left, like, you write about it all the time, guys. We've had these articles in the show, right? Like, civil war breaking out of it. What do you think that civil war is about, you dipshits? We clean up our own movement from lunatics and crazy. You guys wrote about it. You guys are writing about it in the same outlets that are hosting people talking about social murder.

Implying that violence is okay.

There are no two sides. There is one side. It's your side. Can you do simple math? How many assassination attempts are—

what is your level of, like, acceptability of assassination attempts?

For me, it's zero. There are not two sides to this. There is a political side of the partisan aisle that openly welcomes people who talk in apocalyptic, Manichaean terms, leading people like this to do crazy stuff. That's just a fact.

I don't like playing clips of myself. However, rather than repeating this, I was on Fox and Friends this weekend and I brought up this exact, exact point.

There is this assumption on the left that this is just okay. There's no shame at all on the left with saying this stuff.

Nazi. We get it.

You've heard all this crap. This is— there are people who give you back rubs and massages on the left when you say stuff like this. That's not the case on our side.

Check this out. Listen, having been an agent for over 12 years in the Secret Service— excuse me, 12 years— and having spent a good amount of time in a protective intelligence squad where you actually go out and interview these people who threaten the president, our protectees, I think there's an assumption on the left where There's no shame in threatening the president's life on the left. So this isn't a both sides thing. So we can just cut that garbage out right now and just stop the nonsense. On the right, okay, on any respected kind of mainstream figure on the right, if you were to go out and even imply someone should be physically hurt on the left for their ideas, you're almost instantly shamed out of the movement.

There is no such corresponding effect on the left. You just mentioned the name.

I don't even wanna mention this guy's name 'cause he's such a zero, but he's out there implying that, you know, physical violence violence is okay and is a means of fighting back against the man or systemic discrimination, whatever crap they throw out there.

And not only, Rachel, is there no shame, you're welcomed in open arms on mainstream left-wing podcasts where they're like, hey, come on in and spew this bile out there. There is no such corresponding movement on the right. There is no both sides, folks. Stop telling yourself that. It's not true. You would never be allowed on this network. You work here. I've worked here a long time. You would never be allowed in this network even joking around about that stuff, you'd be gone. They'd pull you off mid-segment. They don't allow that stuff. It's not a both sides thing. It is garbage. And let me tell you, here's the problem with the both sides bullshit. The problem is it diffuses responsibility away from the individuals in charge and, and doesn't push people to change and call it out. Well, it's just a problem everywhere. It's not our thing. It is your thing. It is your thing on the left. It is your thing. The suspect in this case wrote a manifesto, man. You can read it. We're going to put it up in a few minutes. This suspect—

uh, excuse me, not the suspect, because he's, uh, that guy, he's now, uh, deceased—

at the recent Mar-a-Lago attack. We— did we forget about that? I've only been out of the FBI 3 months. This is the second time doing a show like this. He wrote again what motivated him to do this. Then you got Barack Obama.

I know I'm a little out of order here, but whatever.

Here's Barack Obama, former president, who I was on his detail. Listen, I was proud to protect the president. I don't care what party—

for my politics I care, but you know, we used to say, you select them, we protect them.

I didn't do my job any different. Obama's confused about the motive here.

Although we don't have the details about the motive behind last night's—

you don't have the details about the motive? Why would you even put that in there?

Number one, we did have the details about the motive. You're the former president, you know.

Cut this shit.

Stop pretending like people didn't tell you what was going on.

And second, even if you didn't know the details about the motive, you putting that in there, you know exactly what you're doing. Oh, we don't know what happened, bro. Gee, I don't know.

It's only like 4th or 5th time we know about. There's probably tons of other cases that were—

what, we stopped that? This president, President Trump, they've tried to kill him. If you don't know, just shut up. He has Secret Service now.

Barack Obama.

Folks, we know exactly what happened. The Media Research Center put together this little quick montage here, folks. I strongly encourage you to watch this. You want to know what happens? Let me explain to you.

And I mentioned it in my Fox hit there.

This is really important you understand this. There's another assumption baked into the left.

I'm not talking about the radical, radical left.

I'm talking about what, what they would consider mainstream left-wing voices.

You know, the Chuck Todd's of the world. I'm not telling you they're mad. I'm just telling you what they consider.

There's a—

there's an assumption built in that when you say this stuff, democracy's on the ballot, this is the end of times, talking in, you know, like I said, Manichaean, end of world, apocalyptic terms.

There's an assumption built in there that you're talking to sane people.

Thankfully, most people in this country of 330 million people, Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians, far-left liberals.

Most people are— their politics may be screwed up, but they are sane. And thank the Lord—

I'm not using your name in vain, God Almighty—

thank the Lord most people don't act on this stuff. The assumption they bake in though is that no people will act on this stuff. That is incorrect. I was in a PI squad for years in the New York office as a young Secret Service agent, protective intelligence. There are people who think you're talking to them through the CIA and put actual tinfoil caps on. I'm not joking. They think it stops the CIA rays from beaming into their heads. Do you get what I'm saying? When you talk like this, the left is saying to themselves, ah, you know what?

People get it. We're just being a little hyperbolic and exaggerating to gin up the vote.

That's not what's happening. There is a segment of psychopaths out there that believe this stuff is real, that Donald Trump's going to pull away your right to vote. He's going to put trans people in prison. He's taking little kids and eating them on an island. Donald Trump is a pedophile and a rapist. There are people who believe this. How do we know, guys, they believe it? Because they wrote it in the fucking manifesto. Pardon my language.

Sorry.

How do we know they believed it? They wrote it. It's right there.

Show the other one too from the Mar-a-Lago incident just a few, a few months ago.

I look at it.

Here's the one. I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crime.

Don't— you don't have to listen to me. Listen to the people who do this stuff. Here's the one from the Mar-a-Lago incident just a few weeks back. A couple New York Post said, well, you see why, by the way, that this—

that they're constantly using people who never ever cared about this stuff before, who are Trump's enemies.

This— they can't stop talking about the Epstein case and Donald Trump. Now does it make sense? They know they're causing a dangerous situation for him outside of politics. Physical danger. Here's the other one.

I don't know, uh, if you read up on the Epstein files. This is a bit of a text. But evil is real and unmistakable.

This is the guy who showed up in Mar-a-Lago with the gas can and the shotgun. Do you see why this story is so useful for them?

I'm not telling you it's not a story worth discussing.

You missed the whole summer with me over at the FBI. Obviously, I was concerned about it too. I'm telling you, the people talking about it are talking about it not for that reason. They never gave a damn about this case. They care about it because it's— they make— they're creating a dangerous physical situation for the president. That's all they care about.

Here's this Media Research Center clip.

How you're talking about a threat to democracy?

Democracy's on the ballot.

These people, these, these, these shooters, these alleged shooters, what shooters that are in prison, one's convicted, Ryan Routh, and others—

there's no allegations anymore. The allegations are proven in a court of law.

They're using the same language as the left and the doomers. The same language. What freaking side are you on, man?

Check this clip out.

Sarcasm is right when a leader uses language that is more likely than not to radicalize.

Democracy is on the ballot.

Still, democracy is on the ballot.

Democracy is on the ballot. Democracy's on the ballot.

Democracy's on the ballot.

Democracy is literally on the ballot.

Democracy is on the ballot for this election.

Vice President Kamala Harris has made very clear that democracy is on the ballot here. Democracy, of course, is, as the president likes to say, on the ballot.

Terrorism experts call this stochastic terrorism, where somebody has been so demonized that it creates this heightened risk of lone wolf actors.

Donald Trump is turning this nation into Nazi Germany.

You don't have a president, as you said, talking about exterminating, right, Latinos.

A reelection of Donald Trump could the end of democracy.

This would be the end of America.

An actual Trump-led wannabe empire is the end of democracy.

Sarcasm is a way of using language that is clearly meant to incite some percentage of the people listening for a violent purpose.

What does that potentially do for unbalanced people out there?

He is destructive to our democracy, uh, and he has to be He has to be eliminated.

Folks, they were just playing their own clips, man. Thank you. Hat Tip Media Research Center for putting that together. They are using the exact same language.

Come on, man. Listen, everybody, just like, let's just look each other in the eye here, man. The people shooting at our president, trying to kill him, are using the exact same language promoted by doomers, pillars, and the lib media people who want you to believe Donald Trump is eating children in the White House. Democracy's in peril.

It's the exact same Language, man. And then they play stupid.

Here's Democrat congressman from Maryland. I know this guy from my time running Maryland. I can't say enough what a loser this guy is. Here's Jamie Raskin. I mean, a character-free individual playing stupid about this rhetoric.

Rhetoric against Donald Trump.

Heated rhetoric.

What rhetoric is that?

I don't know. I don't know, man.

I don't know.

Really?

You don't know?

This is a quick one. Check this out.

You have, and as many of your fellow Democrats have, used some heated rhetoric against the president. And do you think twice about that when something like this happens?

What rhetoric do you have in mind?

Well, what do I— I don't know, man. The one we just played in the Media Research Center, you moron.

Folks, we have a real problem, okay? I think that's fairly obvious. You have a mass delivery system injecting insanity into the veins of the American people. That mass delivery system is called the internet.

I— stop right there before you even— I am a free speech absolutist, period. The solution to this, by the way, outside of breaking the law—

I can't say that I'm going to kill this guy, that— forget that.

Talking about protected free speech. I am not in any way for censorship, period.

Stop.

But that doesn't mean that I can be censored calling out your bullshit either. I have the right to call out your bullshit, and you guys on the left are out of control. You are not—

you—

it's not that you're going— I love what people say, they're gonna get someone killed. They've already gotten people killed. Corey Imperator, did you forget that? Him, did you forget that incident in Butler? They've already gotten people killed. You're out of control, man. You are totally out of control. And nothing is going to change until they, they get a grip over their own movement and shame these people. Censorship's not the answer.

It's not.

You're not going to do a damn thing. You're just going to push people into a darker corner of the internet where no one like us is going to get to call them out. That is not the answer.

It is never the answer.

Look what it did during COVID trying to censor people on the vaccine.

Now nobody wants to take vaccines. That totally backfired.

Censorship is not the answer. But on the left, you guys better start looking in the mirror, man, because you've already gotten people killed. It's not a question of getting— you're going to get more people killed. And then you've got the lunatic class pretending to be on our side. You already see it was staged.

It was— you see this on Drudge this weekend, which has just become like a hotbed of idiocy these days. Staged is the top trend on X, folks.

I can't— just please, if you believe that, just please stop watching the show. I'm like begging you humbly. I just don't want you— you collectively dumb down the audience, and I don't want to talk to stupid people. Just get off here. Really? Get out of the chat. There are people in a row to waste their time with morons. It would stay. Yes. Donald Trump, so eager to get himself killed, set up another lunatic to potentially shoot at him. You know how dumb you have to be? This is a just— if you believe this, just— I want you to do this little trick. You know, like that movie Candyman. Look in the mirror, say Candyman's Candyman appears. Look in the mirror and say, I'm an effing dipshit 7 times and watch. Look, a dipshit appears in the mirror. Who is it? Candyman? No, it's you.

What are you laughing at? You think that's funny? Nobody heard. I know. I mean, it's a— I'm the oldest guy in the show.

If there was this movie, you say Candyman 7 times, he appears in the background and kills you. You don't need anyone to appear. Just say I'm a dipshit 7 times and he's there already.

It's you.

You're the moron.

Was staged.

Folks, listen to me, man. If we are not going to be a movement anchored in truth with a compass that points true north, and we're going to fall for every conspiracy theory because the doomers, the pillars, and the libs want us never to trust anyone ever again— that's how they plan on collapsing the system. Just watch any Yuri Bezmenov video, the old Soviet KGB defector we've played I don't know, 25, 30 times, where he talks about how foreign opponents of the United States, enemies of the United States, know they can't beat us militarily.

They want us to collapse from the inside.

The way to do it is to get nobody— everybody to trust nobody. Everyone trusts nobody, the whole system collapses. So what do you do? Nothing's real.

Donald Trump, they tried to kill him.

It was staged. It was staged. We're just asking questions. You're not asking questions, you're being a moron.

We're going to ask questions.

You want to go do this responsibly? We're going to do it right now.

I'm going to take a quick break, and now we're going to talk about this incident, having seen both sides of it again from the Bureau and the Secret Service side.

What went wrong?

What went right? What can change? We're going to talk about it responsibly. This is not easy. It's not armchair quarterbacking anything, folks. This is not easy work, okay? And anyone telling you that— and Donald Trump has been very grateful for the Secret Service saving his life again.

However, we should have some—

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Now, I want you to think of—

I'm going to try to explain this to people who haven't, you know, done this for a living. It's not particularly complicated. I want you to think of a Secret Service secure site and the most impressive security details you're ever going to see are the president's detail. Assets-wise, I've been overseas. I've seen security details for, you know, people in France and for political leaders all around the world, Indonesia and elsewhere. The Secret Service has, I believe, the biggest and most sophisticated protective bubble out there. Think of it as a series of boxes within a box, like one of those Russian Matryoshka dolls, right? Or concentric circle. Sometimes you hear the rings, rings, whatever. I used to call it the box within a box. As you get closer to the President of the United States, obviously, and get close enough to him that you're within arm's reach, i.e., you're on the stage— you could be even a person in the background on the stage, you know, when he gives a speech, he's got people in the background clapping— as you get closer to the president, the security gets tighter and tighter and tighter. There's more vetting that happens, and there's other things that go on.

Now This— when most people think about security, they think about it only like the mags, like the security starts at the magnetometers, i.e., the metal detectors that you have to go through. You walk through, put your hands up. You've been there before, you've seen them at the airports. If you've ever been to a presidential rally, you've been through one yourself. That's not where the security starts. The security starts outside. That's where I think we're going to have an issue, outside of the magnetometers. What happened there? I'll get to that in a second. However, the magnetometer is going to be the delineation point between the what we would call the dirty area, where you could have a weapon outside that. Secret Service isn't securing the whole world, they're securing the site. What happens outside in the outside world happens.

And then you get through the magnetometers, everyone inside there should be clean.

No weapons, no bombs, no knives, no razors, no flamethrowers, okay? You have the clean and dirty side, fairly obvious. That perimeter where the dirty side and the clean side starts at the magnetometer It appears that this site was probably too close and compressed inside, given the extent of the security issues at the site. Cabinet officials, the VP, FLOTUS, the First Lady's there. Obviously POTUS, the president's there as well. I think in the future, I think Director Currin's going to take a hard look at this and at sites like that. I think he's going to consider expanding that, that mid-level box because again, the inner box is the arms reach, or people within arms reach of the president, people up on the dais and inside the event. That middle box, the magnetometers, I, I'm guessing in the future when they do, uh, the autopsy and after-action on this, that they're going to say to themselves, this was probably too close given the gravity of that event. Okay, that's my, that's my first thing I think we can change and look at, and I think that'll come out as the investigation happens and The FBI is going to be looking at that, uh, now.

They investigate this stuff. The second is what I'm going to call— and it relates to pushing out the perimeter. Take note of this. Um, I try to give people analogies because people, you know, think in stories and narratives, and when you put imagery on it, people remember it. Let's call this like the fishbowl analogy, okay? You may say, well, why don't they expand the perimeter out farther all the time?

Well, there's an answer for that.

And a lot of folks missed this on X this weekend, a lot of kind of armchair analysts. And it's okay. I mean, something wrong when you haven't an opinion.

As you expand the perimeter out, think of it like a glass fishbowl.

If you make the fishbowl bigger and you start to put people in the fishbowl, say it's like a life-size fishbowl and you got to secure them before they go in the fishbowl.

If you expand the fishbowl bigger, you put more people in the fishbowl, which means more variables. More people to secure.

Now you may say, well, how is that a problem?

Well, it's a real problem.

I'll give you an example. I was in Youngstown, Ohio. I think it was a Caterpillar factory. Uh, Caterpillar, the industrial equipment company, not the insects.

Inside that factory, folks, were, you know, whatever— nail guns, razors, heavy equipment, screwdrivers— things you don't want near the president. You don't want a screwdriver near the president, you know, obviously. So we had a problem. The problem is the factory had to keep going. So they said, Dan, you got to figure it out.

It was President Obama. He wants to do this Caterpillar factory.

And I said, okay, given that we can't make that fishbowl too big because people in the fishbowl have screwdrivers, drills, all kinds of things, you know, utility knives they could use against them, we got to find a way to shrink the fishbowl. And that's what happens at big sites like this, is as you expand it out You've got kitchen workers outside with knives. As you expand it out, it's more people you got to secure.

It creates more variables, and some variables you can't control. That's why sometimes they shrink this perimeter. That's something you're not hearing from a lot of these other folks out there. It's not just randomly done.

So what we did at the Caterpillar site is we created a box.

They had boxes of like steel parts and supplies.

You couldn't get—

there's no way you were shooting through these things even with a.50 cal. We made a box inside the factory with these steel containers, and that was the box, box within the box. And outside, we let the workers do their thing, and we put some assets out there to make sure the guys with the screwdrivers and stuff— not that, you know, they're workers, and I could— but you still have to make sure they're not going to come inside and try to do anything with it. That is why they have to balance this.

In a perfect world, folks, you expand the security perimeter to the hotel and the street out there. In the real world, it's really hard in a resource-constrained environment to do that.

It's— sometimes it's almost impossible, and you create extra variables. However, this case, I think it's going to turn out after the analysis that this one was too compressed. Okay, so we'll call that the fishbowl problem. You expand the perimeter, you create it.

One other issue about the fishbowl problem, as you expand the fishbowl, is if you push the security perimeter outside, you force people to queue up and line up outside. Well, what's the problem?

Well, the problem with that is, ladies and gentlemen, although the Secret Service is responsible for the president, the first lady, the VP, and you have other security details in there— DHS secretary and others, uh, other people have details—

the Secret Service also doesn't want attendees for an event to get gunned down outside as they're all queued up by some lunatic who shows up outside. I'm not giving you an excuse for—

I didn't do the security plan, I've been out for 3 months.

I'm just telling you there's a reason they don't expand these things out all the time in a bigger way.

I think this one was a little too compressed. I think we're going to find that. Here's another issue about what went wrong, folks. The access control funnel.

It's the same problem.

Once you get to that point, and you can only have a certain number of points that are access control magnetometers.

Why? Because there's just not enough people. You can't have 100 magnetometers so that only 1 or 2 people get on the line and bounce in. You think there's just not enough people, so you create this funnel effect at these access control points, which has people line up, which creates a crowd flow problem. There's just no way around that.

When President Trump— I saw an example this morning—

when President Trump goes to like the US Open or a football game, people have to line up. Here's one of the access control points here.

You see with this, you guy runs right by I mean, this obviously was— that part did not work out as planned. Which brings me to another point here, folks. When you do in-town events— I didn't get to say this on Fox this weekend, I'll be on Hannity tonight, maybe I'll, I'll get this point out— but in-town events, they're called in-towns. In-town means Washington, DC, and the NCR, National Capital Region, Northern Virginia. Those are considered what they call in-town events. Things may have changed, so I, I can't say conclusively, although knowing a little bit about it, when you do in-town events, it's not typically your most senior advance agents doing those. Those are the ones— because there's not a huge pool of people on the president's detail. It's not like 20,000 guys, folks. I'm not going to give you numbers, but it's just not like that. There's not this enormous pool of people. So what'll happen is your senior guys who've been doing really complicated sites like this was for a long time, they're typically doing the state visit by King Charles, which is happening today. You know, they're headed out to, you know, say Afghanistan or Pakistan where the VP was going to go, because those are obviously complicated sites too.

The problem is within towns having less senior guys doing the site advances on that is sometimes you get people who just haven't been around the block as much. I think they're going to have to reevaluate that, um, in-town-wise, and they're going to have to reevaluate how they do things like promotions and evaluate in-towns for their career. Because a lot of these guys, you know, you want to do a major site to get promoted. It's just an incentive system that I think they should change going forward. An event like this with all these folks And we'll see, this one likely was a senior guy, so we'll see. I'm just telling you the general thing about in-towns is, you know, they're generally less senior guys. Okay. Um, one of the other things I think we definitely need to look at here, big picture-wise, with Secret Service— I've said it before, so I don't feel like I'm speaking out of turn saying it again now— is Secret Service has a big portfolio of criminal work. It— I, I think it's time to pare that down and move those assets into protection. They're just resource constrained. They just don't have enough bodies to throw at this problem.

We do have bodies doing criminal work, and they do great work. I worked with them at the Bureau, and they had a really great case they brought to us. However, with this, it's not— we can't make the perfect the enemy of the good. You know, it may be time to pare some of that down and move some of that into the protection space and maybe forfeit some of that over to IRS and FBI in the white-collar side. Just my take. Just a couple more quick points I'd like to make here. We're going to need better cooperation from these venues in the future. We're just going to need— we're going to need these assets, these days in advance. You know, if you're going to host an event like this in a hotel, the Secret Service is resource-constrained. They just don't have the ability to send 500 guys out every site, you know, a month in advance. They have about 10 days to 14 days. That's If there's an announcement that whatever, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the president's going to host a site, that venue really has to get and has to help out with their own private security.

I'm not suggesting the hotel didn't do this in this case. I'm just saying like sometimes there's this thing like, oh, the Secret Service is going to handle all of this. Okay, but you know, sometimes you gotta like, you got to step it up a little bit more yourself. And again, I'm not suggesting the hotel— they have their security, but some— a lot of stuff was missed here.

One more thing I want to bring up.

When you see the perimeter of— and you can see again what happened at the event, the, uh, Mentalist Oz or Oz, whatever his name is, showing them. And then you see Melania's— ironically, for our First Lady Melania Trump, she is the first one who kind of senses what's going on here. You see her, she says, what happens in this, uh, in this incident? Another thing I'd like to bring up is at the security checkpoint where you see the man storm in and run in at that point. I told you that that is actually not the outer box, that's the mid box. So what happened in the outer box that was missed? We're going to need to bump up in Secret Service counter-surveillance assets, plainclothes undercover agents. We have them, but there's just not a lot. You're going to have to bump up and double and triple that unit, uh, add people on the outside who can see this stuff before they make it to the mid-level checkpoint. You probably want to double up your CAT teams too, your counter-assault teams. You see the counter-assault teams storm the stage. Now, while we have this on, running in the background, the incident here— what went right?

Well, folks, the evacuation. I saw a couple people saying, I, you know, what happened? They took the vice president off the stage and the president, and they took them through different spots.

Yeah, that's for a reason. You don't want to bring them to the same spot in case there's a secondary attack.

That there's nothing that went wrong there. You're not going to take the vice president across the stage in the other direction.

You're going to take him in a different route away from the POTUS and the FLOTUS so that they're not in the same spot at the same time outside of the event as they're evacuating. The evacuation—

and to the agents who jumped in front of the president and the counter-assault team members, you know, you could see them in the black BDU uniforms and their tactical gear rushing the stage. CAT is the counter-assault team. That's the Secret Service SWAT team that's with the president at all times. They responded instantly. You see the evacuation there. You see Vice President Pence pulled off one side, the president off the other side. Folks, in my experience, which— cover and evacuate is the rule. Take the protectee, cover them. There they do, they cover them right there. You see it?

Cat team's out there, agents are ready to spend— they're covering them right now.

Cover and evacuate happened quickly. You're not going to see it faster than that. There was—

it was called out over the radio.

They got them off stage.

The evacuation worked.

The evacuation worked. You see some CAD members and some other, uh, some other special weapons teams. We had assets there. The rule in the Secret Service is cover and evacuate. Rule number 2 is maximum to the protectee, minimum to the problem.

That may sound weird to you.

Maximum to the protectee, minimum to the problem. What does that mean, folks?

What it means is when you look at the, um, assassination in—

was it the '50s? In Korea, I think it was. A video shown in Secret Service training all the time. One of the things they did, the mistakes they made, is there's a shooting that happens on stage and everybody rushes to the protectee and leaves—

I mean, excuse me, rushes to the threat and leaves the protectee out there on his own.

If there was a secondary attack, that's it. So maximum to the protectee, you see that here, all those assets flooding President Trump and Vice President Pence. That actually worked. We didn't need a minimum to the problem because, as you can see by some of these, uh, voiceover footage we have in the lobby out there. They had enough assets in the hotel to respond maximum to the protectee, protectee maximum to the problem. You can see, uh, the Secret Service agents responding here, which is good because if there was a secondary attack, you've got a lot of guns on the scene right there. Again, was the perimeter probably too compressed? Yes. But was the response after the fact, uh, pretty good? Looks like they had enough guns on the scene to stop that.

The box held.

They did not get inside of the event, the subject with the weapon. Again, we gave you kind of the good, the bad, but did not get inside. Thank you to our National Guard folks too. You see kind of maximum to the problem. Obviously, I want to strongly applaud the CAT agents who responded to the stage instantly. One of those guys looks like he's jumping over the table. I mean, it's incredible how quickly they were on stage. And another shift agent, uh, you'll see him in a tuxedo at some point if you look at the footage again. He jumps right in front of the president on stage. He's not even thinking about like, am I going to get shot or not? He's just thinking, cover, evacuate, cover, evacuate. He is responding as his training, uh, taught him. So there was a lot of bravery here too, and I think that deserves applause, and I think that's what the president was talking about. All right, a couple more things I just want to address, and I want to get on to how, again, the rhetoric here— the left is pumping this rhetoric into the social media ecosystem and these lunatics are picking it up.

I'm going to get to that in a second with the receipts to back it up. I'll show you some changes, folks. Again, I, I think the criminal investigative days have to be kind of pared down. We have the resources to move them over into protection. I think they should do that. I think the counter-assault teams should probably be doubled, and I think it would probably be a good idea. It— that's going to take a while. CAT training is not easy. It takes a really long time. They use a lot of former Special Forces guys. However, the training is going to take a while. It's not going to happen overnight. But if they doubled those CAT teams, uh, it probably— I know we're used to using QRFs, Quick Reaction Forces, and other SWAT agents outside. But I think it's a good idea at these checkpoints now to not only bump up surveillance at checkpoints, but also to keep a CAT team out there as well, a couple CAT operators. Something to consider. Just my thoughts. It's just an opinion. You're free to have your own. CSU rotations, I think they need to double that up. Counter-surveillance, move those perimeters out farther.

Folks, resources. They need resources. Um, they just don't— they just don't have enough. Um, they just don't. The, the— this president, as I said in the beginning of the show, is unbelievably accessible. The president loves to be out amongst the people.

This guy's like the worst king I've ever seen. Kings don't mingle amongst the people. They think they're the great unwashed. This president, all he wants to do is go out and shake hands, kiss babies, get in crowds, answer questions from the press. He's very accessible.

They just need a bigger footprint around him. That accessibility is not your friend.

But it is good for the president because he likes to get out there, and it's not going to change.

Another thing they should probably consider is bumping up their drone technology inside. If there was kind of an indoor drone that had mapped out the place, they may have caught this guy. They may have seen him on some kind of video surveillance beforehand. You know, uh, just a thought. And then one more thing, they probably want to create serpentine-like checkpoints going forward. So that people who come in can't run in, kind of like you have at a vehicle checkpoint where you force a vehicle to do a serpentine. That way it can't get a head of steam before hitting an obstacle. They may want to consider ballistic protection at those checkpoints, some panels. Keep those panels, you know, you'll see here this guy had a running start. I mean, this obviously was not good for, you know, the plan. Maybe create a serpentine with some ballistic panels. It's not going to be the greatest way to do it, but at least would slow them down. Maybe he's, you know, and give you some ballistic protection as well. Folks, now do you see why I've been out here for the last few months after my first year there with the Trump team warning you about what's going on?

There are a number of enemies of the United States, foreign governments and elsewhere, that are pouring money into bullshit narratives, making sure that you don't trust anyone and that this system collapses from the inside. And when these subjects out there trying to kill the president of the United States multiple times are using these same narratives, we should be asking questions.

Why are people doing this? I showed you this manifesto.

Again, everyone's innocent till proven guilty. Subject's going to get his day in court. I believe he has his initial appearance today. We'll see what the criminal complaint says. There'll probably be a superseding indictment, I would imagine, coming up shortly. This is according to the manifesto we have. Uh, he talks about how he apologized to all these people, basically that he's not really targeting law enforcement but targeting Trump officials. And then he notes, of course, at the end that he's no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands— he puts— with his crimes. Of course, none of that's actually true. That's a story told to you by the media, not the story. You saw the other, again, attacker at Mar-a-Lago using the same language. These are why these narratives about Epstein and elsewhere are useful to these people.

They create a dangerous— that's what they want. They want a dangerous situation for the president. What other reason would you consider to pump this into the vein, into the veins of the American electorate?

Here is, uh, Badiya Sargon. She's on NewsNation talking about exactly this, how the left-wing narrative—

they're using the exact same terminology, these killers and assassins and suspected assassins, the exact same terminology. And the left says, uh, see no evil, hear no evil.

Check this out.

What's happening right now is you're seeing the New York Times, President Obama acting like we don't know what motivated the shooter. The president literally tweeting, we don't know yet what motivated the shooter, 6 hours after his manifesto was made public, in which he literally explained why he did it. He did it because he hates Donald Trump. And the thing about his manifesto, Natasha, is that it is indistinguishable from the rhetoric you routinely hear on the left from the president's opposition. He called him a rapist, a pedophile, and a traitor, which you can turn on CNN or MSNBC any hour of any day and hear them talking about the president that way.

Folks, I don't want you to misinterpret what I'm saying at all. It's really important I get this across clearly and precisely. I am in no way suggesting to you that issues you're concerned about you should, you know, not discuss because someone may not like them. That's not what I'm saying at all, at all. What I'm suggesting is that when you look at people who have contaminated our movement with fake infighting— because it's not infighting, they're not one of us— you have to ask yourself a question. They say all they're about is asking questions.

Well, you should be asking questions too. Why do they all keep using the same terminology?

Trump's a pedophile, he eats children, and why? Donald Trump, uh, President Trump was pissed about this. Did an interview on 60 Minutes last night. Of course, 60 Minutes, the hapless Norah O'Donnell had a— what, she had to read this manifesto to kind of mainstream this crazy bullshit about the president? You got to read this on 60 Minutes? What possible benefit does your audience get about this? You could have referenced the manifesto, but you had to make sure to get this part on the air, didn't you? And President Trump, thankfully, was having none of this. Check this out.

Manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this, quote, administration officials, they are targets. And he also wrote this: I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. What's your reaction?

Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you You would, because you're, you're, you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.

Oh, you think he was referring to you?

Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, you know, I'll do this interview and they'll probably— I read the manifesto. You know, he's a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of those things. Mr. President, these are never—

excuse me.

Excuse me. You shouldn't be be reading that on 60 Minutes. You're a disgrace. But go ahead, let's finish the interview.

The other thing that he wrote in the other thing in the manifesto—

Hey guys, um, I don't talk about a lot of this stuff about my personal security, okay? Because number one, my situation and President Trump's situation are not— it's not even a President Trump's threat level on 1 to 100 is— I'll say 100, but I'll say 99 just because something else could happen. That's how crazy his threat level is. Mine compared to his is like a 1. The only reason I even bring this up in this segment, why the president is so upset, is given my last line of work, you, you, you read stuff and you see some people tell you stuff. You get what's called, you know, a DTW, like a duty to warn, when you are threatened This Donald Trump's a pedophile, there's a massive ring of inside deep staters protecting the eating of children— there are people out there right now. I can cite, when they become a little more public, I can cite for you multiple arrests being made on this where other people were brought into this too. Not just the president. I'm just telling you, you're gonna get someone else killed. I'm just telling you, like, you can continue to say this crazy stuff, and you may think— you may think there's hope, but you may want the penalty.

And I love how Nora O'Donnell pretends— she plays all naive.

Oh, you think he's referring to you in that?

Like, Like you didn't read that on purpose to get that out to— come on, man.

To the crew, it's at 61 minutes.

Thank you for reminding me in the chat. 61 minutes, we haven't used that in a while. Some of you will get that. You should be ashamed of yourself. You read that, you know exactly why you read that to millions of people on CBS. You know exactly why you did it. Folks, there are not two sides. I can't say this enough.

I've been very candid and honest with you about the Republican Party. We have our issues too, zero doubt about that. Republicans are not the solution to all your problems.

I say it all the time.

However, Democrats are the cause of all your problems. I put out a tweet this weekend.

I said, the guy's been shot, impeached on false, false premises. Um, you know, investigated for bullshit charge.

He's still standing. He's still going. There are not two sides. That's a fact. That stuff happened. That all happened to the president. And then you've got the other side, these fake phony frauds like this Ro Khanna, who, by the way, this guy— I'm not sure this guy—

I never heard from this guy about the Epstein case ever. Well, there's the tweet. Thank you. I wrote at the end, that's just straight up balls for this, because it is. Shot, attacked, impeached on false charges, investigated for frivolous claims, maligned daily by the drive-by media, threatened by the world's worst terrorists, and still moving forward. That's just straight up cojones.

Yeah, it is.

Ro Khanna is the other side. Ro Khanna is a coward, straight up. No, no, eunuch, no balls. Ro Khanna is the biggest fraud in Congress. Ro Khanna, after J6, was one of these people like big censorship guy. Now he claims like he's some left-wing libertarian.

He's full of shit.

I never heard a word from this guy about the Epstein case or else, not a peep. But of course, now that it's used to declare the president's eating children in the White House and nearly gets the man killed again, what do they do? You think they say, well, you know what, maybe it's time to come clean and actually fund DHS and the Secret Service?

Did Ro Khanna, this fraud, phony, fake— here he is on one of the weekend shows They're asked about the DHS funding, which would fund the Secret Service that's keeping the president alive right now.

And here they are still making up bullshit excuses not to pay these men and women.

This guy's your hero?

Check this out. Speaking of the acting attorney general, you heard him just tell me that this should be a wake-up call for Congress to fund DHS. Does Congress need to act in the wake of this incident to fully fund DHS?

Absolutely. We've been funding— the Democrats have been saying we want to fund DHS. We just don't want to fund ICE agents with the ICE raids against American citizens and against immigrants in ways that broke the law. But the Democrats have said that we will fund DHS as long as you separate that from the ICE funding. And we have done that many, many times.

So just to be clear, Full of shit, Ro Khanna.

We want to protect our open border system and endless illegal immigration into the country and not fund ICE, that is largely funded through 2029. Uh, the law enforcement side, the civilian side, are still getting screwed, and they asked that I mention that, and I should. They're still working basically for nothing at this point. They're not getting paid.

And Ro Khanna, hero of the stupid, Ro Khanna will still not fund and hold up DHS funding, but says he wants to fund it just to make sure we still have basically open borders there and we don't have to fund ICE that the law enforcement side's already funded through 2029. Folks, I can't take these guys. This guy is overflowing. This dude is full of all of it.

Here's another narrative out there too that's contributing to this environment. So now we've got the Democrats. Trump's a, you know, all the fascist Nazi, you've heard it all. Creates a dangerous environment.

Dangerous environment variable number 2, created by the Democrats.

Let's not fund DHS or pay the Secret Service so that these guys have to like drive an Uber to feed their families. Okay, let's not fund them.

And then you have this other narrative also that the most accessible president in U.S. history, Donald Trump, a guy who Listen to me, zoom in. A man, a president, who is easily the most accessible president in American history at the expense of his own life. And let me tell you a quick story I heard from an old senior agent right when I got on the job. He said—

I don't know how true this is, maybe some of the Reagan staffers, maybe Mark Levin, I don't know— after Reagan was shot, ironically at the same Hilton outside, Reagan pared down his schedule dramatically.

They were a little worried about the security situation. He still went out and did his thing, was very accessible. Donald Trump, he— they keep trying to kill this guy. Do you guys notice? And he just keeps going out there. He could stop this tomorrow. Donald Trump could stop this tomorrow. You know what he could do? He could say, build fortress White House, I'm never leaving. He's not doing it. He still goes out there. And does these events. It's not the first time. It's not the second time. It's not the third or fourth. And he's still out there. I bring that up in light of this clip.

This is Paul Begala, the total loser on CNN, debating the great Scott Jennings, right? This is right, right during the Correspondents' Dinner, right before it. But here's another narrative out there that you should chuck in the garbage and the libs can roll in a ball and write up. That Donald Trump somehow is an enemy of the press.

The guy nearly got killed again and went, did an interview with 61 Minutes and hates him. How is this guy an enemy of the press? He's out there all the time, everywhere, answering questions. Do you guys ever tell the truth?

Adam, good point.

Justin, he almost gets shot at a dinner, as Justin brought up. I totally missed. For the press. It's a press dinner. This guy's the worst king I've ever seen. He's really not good at this king thing.

Here's Bhagala promoting another BS line that the president is somehow an enemy of the press and targeting them.

Really? All they do is criticize him all day. That's why people keep trying to shoot him.

Check this out.

I have no doubt at all the jousting that we're used to between the press and the media will occur tomorrow night.

It's censorship.

Every president is frustrated with the press.

Who is censoring? Go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. There's literally nobody that has said— He shut down the Voice of America.

He defunded NPR.

He has sued any number of journalists for expressing the truth or their opinions. You can't name a single journalist who right now is incapable of speaking negatively about Donald Trump. More than ever.

Are you—

folks in the chat, yes or no?

Yes or no?

Can you name a journalist who President Trump has like singled out and put in jail just for an opinion? I'm not talking about like anyone who violated the law, disclosed like classified information. I'm talking about like, hey, can you name a single one? I'll ask an even better question. Do you think, folks in the chat out there, that there is a shortage of people in the left-wing media to criticize President Trump? Yes, there's a shortage.

Those—

I— they're everywhere. What are you even talking about? These people are everywhere. They're all over Twitter, they're all over TikTok, they're all over Facebook, they're on the big networks, they're on the cable networks, they're on the fringe networks. You really believe that there is some kind of shortage of left-wing media people criticizing President Trump? Are you smoking the krisak, man? Like, what the hell is wrong with you people?

Thank you. The chat always tears up the show.

It shows for you guys.

Suspect will be in court at some point today, so we'll get a better look. At the charging documents and some other material they had on this subject as well. Folks, you know, I, I say it all the time, man, libs love nothing more than running ops against their own people too. They're running a huge op on you with this Trump is a king, enemy of the state, and the democracy— democracy's done— all this bullshit. And it is leading to real, tangible, dangerous outcomes. People have already died.

Stop saying someone's gonna die.

It already happened. I'm going to take a quick break, and I want to show you this clip about the inverse of that. Tupperoni there. Thanks, Dan, for educating us armchair quarterbacks. Hey, I'm just no better than anyone else. I just haven't had experience in both of these agencies. It's only fair that I give you kind of the inside baseball about how we can learn from this going forward. This is not to take away from the bravery of anyone out there who did what they did at all. And again, it's easy to say after the fact. However, we do have to learn from this stuff. We do have to learn from it, folks. I use my car for so much— getting to work, running errands, family trips. When your car goes down, it's not just inconvenient, costs you a lot of money and a lot of time. It is really, really an issue, throws off everything. I've had that moment where a strange sound goes off, you're like, oh, you're already like counting the dollars you're going to spend, right? That sound turns into a warning light. Suddenly you're bracing for a massive repair bill you just didn't plan for.

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I already taped it. I said that to you last week, so it was before the, the, uh, the incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Um, so that obviously we don't mention that. I think it's going to air tomorrow on Hang Out with Sean Hannity, the podcast, wherever you get your podcast.

It's a long interview.

It's about 2 hours with me and him. Again, it's just— we talk about a lot of stuff, and I go into a deep dive about the FBI, my concerns about these tyrants taking back government again. And, uh, it's, it's a pretty interesting interview. But one of the things I cover is a deeper dive than I've ever done before about President Trump and his team and their view on crime, law, and order, and how President Trump was a real leader in this space, and how he came in and using the Rudy Giuliani broken windows approach approach, uh, combine it with some new and novel approaches to how the FBI goes and helps local law enforcement clearing state warrants. The FBI can help with state warrants? Yeah, we could. We just had to fix some things and move some things around. How under this administration the crime rate collapsed and the murder rate was the lowest in U.S. history— that's a real number.

I am—

that's the proudest thing, my proudest accomplishment of my entire professional life, bar none.

Nothing else comes close.

It wasn't just me, it was the DOJ, it was cash, it was the president's leadership on it and his willingness to take a chance on us. That is the most important thing. But Thomas Sowell talked about this a long time ago. Here's about a minute-long clip of Thomas Sowell talking about how it's really no mystery how you do this stuff. You go and get a limited pool of bad guys off the street that commit the overwhelming number of crimes, you put them in jail, and big shocker, the crime rate drops.

What I'm getting at, folks, is I'm not sitting here telling you like, wow, look, Dan, I had stroke of like astrophysics, like Stephen Hawking's genius. Just go get bad guys. A lot of these prior leaders in the FBI were more concerned about enforcing politics than enforcing the law.

Here's Thomas Sowell on generally how broken windows policing works. It's good stuff. Check this out.

So what we do, we put people behind bars who commit violent crimes. Now, a few years ago in East Palo Alto, which is not far from Stanford University, minority community, low income, they had the doubtful distinction distinction of being the murder capital of the United States in proportion to their population. The next year, murder and all sorts of other violent crimes dropped a tremendous amount, 30%, 40%, 50% in one year. Now that wasn't because they discovered the root causes of crime or because they worked out everything that was wonderful. They launched a campaign that put a lot of the bad guys behind bars and when they were behind bars, they didn't commit as many crimes.

[Speaker:BOB HERBERT] Makes sense to me.

It's marvelous. You know, even in a high crime area, the great majority of the people are not criminals. And so if you can just put your hands on those people who are raising all the hell in the community and take them out of circulation, the crime rate drops.

I played that because I really want you to watch the interview. It's long, check it out. But however, I go into some detail about how exactly we did that. Yes, the general premise is an easy one. There is a small population of people, even in the highest crime areas in the United United States.

The overwhelming majority of crime is committed by a small pocket of people. The problem is you have to go get them.

Well, damn, that's really easy. Arrest them. Well, oh, there you go. There's a little teaser of the Hannity clip there. You can see I was wearing the shirt I was wearing. What, what are we doing on Thursday this week? So, uh, tape before. I look a little— with the lighting a little there, I look a little tanner in that one, right? I don't know what's going on there, different lighting or something. Going and getting them is not easy. You have to develop probable cause. You have to figure out creative ways to do this. And that's one of the things we did that I addressed. Hey, I want to address this too, because last week this was a huge story, and I don't want this story to go away. I think you're going to see further developments in the future and more things coming. This is definitely not the end. However, the Southern Poverty Law Center case is a tidal wave-like shift in the current for the United States, for the United States criminal justice system. Folks, we have been told forever— you're seeing the media narrative— that the Republicans are this group of fanatical racist white supremacists with the tiki torches.

You know, we're all, you know, closet members of the Ku Klux Klan.

We've been told this right now. All of you know that's bullshit.

I mean, you go and hang out with your friends, does anybody have like a hooded Ku Klux Klux Klan member at their weekly— like, no.

So you're like, where the hell are all these people? I'm not telling you the problem of racism doesn't exist. I'm telling you the gravity of the problem has been exaggerated by leftists forever, and now you're seeing that come to fruition with multiple attacks on President Trump and others too. A good chunk of this was a fabricated, funded narrative by left-wing groups who profit of the persistence of the mass racism false story. Libs love running ops. But here's the kicker. I showed you last week—

if you missed, um, Friday's show, forget not just the Dr. Ron component, that was— that's different, totally separate, that's not politics. Please, please, I'm begging you to go back and just watch the beginning of the show.

Libs don't only run ops on us.

You guys are mass racist. Look what happened, Unite the Right rally.

You get it? They run ops on their own people. I'm bringing this up because if you're a Democrat watching my show, I want to tell you something. You've been a victim of your own party too. The entire Joe Biden presidency, if you watch the Friday show, wasn't up. The receipts are unavoidable if you watch Friday. Clyburn, prominent Black Democrat, comes in and saves Joe Biden to rescue them from Bernie Sanders. They move the primary.

Biden, who didn't want to run, comes out and says, now I'm running.

Unite the Right rally, uh, very fine people hoax, you racist Republicans, veins bulging. You'd see the whole thing was an op, but it was an op against their own voters. The energy was with the Bernie Bros. I'm going to show you another one here.

This is just an easy one. This is a ground ball. The only reason I bring it up is I saw this clip last week of David Hogg, and I gotta roll— like, I don't really talk about teenagers. He's not a teenager anymore, he's an adult, so it's fair game, okay? David Hogg was like the biggest leftist celebrity in the whole like gun confiscation movement. It's like, don't ever call gun controls, no such thing. They can control guns, they don't do any of that. They only control guns from the good guys. The bad guys get to shoot the hell out of you. David Hogg was on CNN again with Scott Jennings, and this guy was like a big hero on the left, like I said, in the gun confiscation movement.

The left loves running ops against their own people. Even this guy—

here's a clip of him, uh, with Scott Jennings. This guy's not a— Hogg's not a very good debater at all. Uh, check this out.

Anybody with an elementary school understanding of foreign policy could have told you the Strait of Hormuz was going to get shut down, and that is exactly— and who controls it right now? Who controls— how high are gas prices so high then? Why were they high during Biden's administration? Did you like that? It wasn't because of a geographic— it wasn't because of a geopolitical— here's the deal. You're using last week's talking points, David. We control the strait. We are in charge of this conflict right now.

Hat tip @Overton_news. Good account for video clips as well.

I saw that clip and I just laughed because this guy, he's not—

you have to say these words slowly. We haven't done this in a while, guys. Remember this? David Hogg is not a master debater. You have to separate— there has to be clear separation with those words. Some of the new guys are like, what do you mean? Say it fast a couple times, you get what I mean. He's not a master debater. Scott Jennings is, and he gets constantly wrecked on TV. However, like I told you, this guy was a big, big celebrity on the left when they thought they could confiscate your guns and use them. And then the second he got in a position to do things within the Democrat Party— put up that headline—

the libs ran it up.

Up against their own people because they felt like he couldn't contribute to their taking back of power and weaponizing. They ran their own up. David Hogg to exit DNC after backlash to his primary play. I thought this guy was like your hero or something. They love running ops against their own voters. Here's another one. Here's Gavin Newsom. I'm going to play this clip for you. This is a, uh, a clip from Kayleigh McEnany's excellent show on Fox. It's really good on the weekend. She does a fantastic great job.

Gavin Newsom—

there are now credible allegations about which are— which should not surprise anyone— that the hapless far-left governor of California may have known about these massive levels of fraud for a really, really long time.

This is an op against your own voters, your voters and constituents in California, which are paying a ridiculously high tax rate to the California government, and that money is being shuttled illegally to people screwing you over, and he may have known about it.

I think we all know he probably had a good idea. They run ops against their own people all the time.

As long as the money keeps flowing to groups that keep them in power, they don't give a damn about who it's stolen from—

Democrat, liberals, communists, others.

It doesn't matter.

Check this out.

We have unearthed an explosive report. The 2022 document that I'm holding is an 87-page report from the then-acting state auditor in California addressed directly to the governor of California, warning in no uncertain terms that the state's weak oversight of hospice agencies has created opportunities for large-scale abuse and fraud. That last part's a direct quote. Now look at this screenshot of the very first page of the audit addressed to Governor Gavin The subtitle warns of the extensive fraud plaguing California today. It cites fraud indicators found particularly in Los Angeles County, a rapid increase in the number of hospice agencies with no clear correlation to increased need. In fact, listen to this. The aged population increased 40% in California between 2010 and 2021, while the hospice agencies increased an astonishing 1,589%. Another indicator was the excessive geographic clustering of hospices, with sometimes dozens of separately licensed agencies located in the same building, and also abnormally high rates of still-living patients discharged from hospice care despite hospice typically offering care for people expected to live 6 months or less. They even gave Newsom them a map, quote, 210 active hospice agencies located within 1 mile of each other on Van Nuys in Los Angeles County.

They gave him a map, a map like, here's where some bad stuff is happening, Governor Gav. Put down the hair gel for a second, man, and just like take a look-see. They run ops on their own people all the time. I'm serious, man.

If you missed the Friday show about Biden, Please, please watch the beginning.

That whole thing was an op. It's clear as day it wasn't against us. Well, yeah, we got screwed later with a Biden presidency, but the op at the Democrat primary— we're not voters in a Democrat primary. They are screwing you too. They're screwing you guys too.

All right, folks, we got a lot going down this week. We're going to stay all over this story as the criminal complaint and the charging documents come out later today about the incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, another tragedy involving President Trump. And yeah, you know, you know, I, I saw a lot of commentary this weekend. My phone was blowing up with a lot of friends of mine asking for commentary, and a lot of folks were saying— you kind of heard the message too— man, I'm, I'm tired of this. I'm tired of this president, man. Well, even that Democrat congresswoman put out that tweet, was like, can we please stop trying to kill the president? I'm gonna tell you, I'm like tired of being tired of it. Like, we're past that stage now. We're in like the real red line, 9,000 RPM danger zone here, man. And let me just, let me just put out a warning here. If one of these attacks is successful, I don't know where this goes for the republic. I think there's a built-in assumption that, you know, we've survived the Revolutionary War, 1812, the Civil War, Korea, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq.

There's an assumption built into this, a bunch of societal strife, Jim Crow, all kinds of horrible things that happen. I think there's a built-in assumption that, you know, we'll just, we'll just get through it. I'm not sure, man. I'm really not sure that structures we've relied on in the past, de facto or de jure, hold if one of these attacks is successful. So I'm asking my political opponents on the left, but also fellow citizens of mine— it's a fact— maybe it's time to just kind of look in the mirror, like I said before, because this is not both sides. I'm going to be clear about my side right now, in case you haven't heard it the thousand times I've said it before, probably more. You start venturing into the realm of political violence— I want to kill that guy— you can get the off my show right now. I am not your friend. I will never be your friend. Matter of fact, you are my enemy. I don't care what you claim your politics are. You are not my friend. I don't want you here. I don't want you in our chat. I don't want you on our show.

I'm being— I could not be more clear about this.

Maybe it's time for you guys on the left and in the lunatic left-wing media and the Ro Khannas and others in the world to just be absolutely resolute from this point forward that this heated bullshit that's led to this over and over again is just not welcome in your party. I can't tell you to do— I don't want to censor you or anything. I'm just telling you, like, grow some balls, be a man, step up, do the right thing, not the easy thing. It's not hard. Folks, thanks again for tuning in. You got Haley coming up at noon, rumble.com/haley. I think, uh, Steve Crowder's got a pretty fire show today too, so we'll raid his show as we do often. You got Vince. Vince had a huge audience today at 8 AM. Please check him out at rumble.com/vince. Uh, great host, part of the Bongino Report family here. We really appreciate it. And please, if you would, it is a free app. Download the Rumble app if you want to watch my show. Our video is exclusive to Rumble. Rumble.com/Bongino. If you just want to watch on the web, just click that follow button. We really appreciate it.

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