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Ever since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life on July 13th, all that we seem to have are a bunch of questions. On Monday, Kim Cheadle, the director of the Secret Service, she went before Congress for a hearing. We thought we might get some answers, but did we? It was some type of hearing, and I don't think we got really any answers from Kim Cheadle. I think we just ended up with more questions.
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It's different than insurance, and it's even better, plus it saves you money. Go to ShareRight.org forward slash Booker to find out more about ShareRight. Well, the hearing took place on Monday with Kim Cheadle. This hearing turned out to be pretty much nonpartisan, bipartisan, if you want to say it that way. But we didn't really get any answers out of it, and I'm going to get into some of this hearing in just a little bit.
But before we do, what exactly do we know happened on July 13th? at this very moment? What are the facts that we know? And then what are the questions that we are left with? Well, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, he's a frequent flyer on Malcolm's show on Sunday morning viewpoint this Sunday, but he's also very good at investigations and just real common sense.
It was he and Chuck Grassley that were on all of the Hunter Biden things with Burisma and China years ago, prior to the 20 election. They put out a report and a lot of people just buried that report at the time. But now we see that much of what was in there was the truth. Well, Senator Ron Johnson put out a report on Monday. This came out Monday night.
And I'm going to go through it, because I think this gives us a timeline of the shooter Thomas Crooks in Butler, PA. It also leaves us with some questions, some questions that Senator Ron Johnson's team came up with when they got finished with this investigation. And what they have done is put together a timeline for us, as well as the information that they have been able to ascertain at this point. Here is Ron Johnson's executive summary. On July 13th, 2024,, former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, PA.
The following day, Senator Ron Johnson wrote to Attorney General Merrick, Garland, Department of Homeland Security, Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas of the DHS, and Federal Bureau of Investigation's director, Christopher Wray, demanding a preservation of records, information relating to the security of the Butler rally, background information on the alleged gunman, and all texts and communications between law enforcement agents, including Secret Service personnel, relating to the rally from July 11th, 2024 to July 14th, 2024.
. So that is how this report begins. Now let's get into what they have found in this investigation. This is Senator Ron Johnson. again.
The Secret Service did not attend a security briefing provided to local special weapons and tactics and sniper teams the morning of July 13th. So they have found out that no one from the Secret Service came to that meeting. At 9 a.m. on July 13th, 2024, Butler County Emergency Services, Butler ESU, provided a security briefing for local SWAT teams and snipers assigned to the rally. In addition to Butler County local SWAT teams and snipers from Washington County and Beaver County, now, according to local officials, they were responsible for assigning locations for the sniper teams under its command, under its command, not the snipers that were under the command of the Secret Service, who, by the way, they did not come to this meeting.
So already you can see, there may be some disconnect in communication between the federal agency, the Secret Service, and the local Butler County. According to information obtained by Senator Johnson's office, there were less than 40 local SWAT operators and snipers assigned to Butler County rally. During the briefing, Butler ESU provided local law enforcement with images of the security perimeter at the rally, which did not include the American Glass Research Building. That's the AGR building where the shooter was. The location of law enforcement agents and breakdown of the security sectors on the showgrounds.
Secret Service did not attend the security briefing, according to individuals with knowledge of that briefing. So why weren't the Secret Service there? It's unclear why they did not participate, according to this report, given the recent reporting that Crooks was able to fly a drone and got aerial footage in the Pennsylvania Fairground shortly before the former president was set to speak there. It is important to note that Butler ESU's security briefing did not address drones, according to information obtained by Senator Ron Johnson's staff. Number two, local law enforcement said the communications were siloed and they were not in frequent radio contact with Secret Service.
Individuals. with local law enforcement told Senator Johnson's office that communications between different entities providing security at the rally were siloed. For example, local SWAT and sniper teams operated on separate radio channels from the patrol units. According to these individuals, communications had to be routed to Butler ESU command, who would then relay information to either Secret Service or other local law enforcement patrols. And it's unclear why communications were set up this way and whether the lack of direct communication between local law enforcement and Secret Service hindered any response during the decision making.
Number three, local law enforcement notified command about Crooks prior to the shooting and received confirmation that Secret Service was aware of the notification at 5 10 p.
m. Keep in mind, the shooting took place at 6 11. at 5 10 on July 13, 2024, nearly one hour before President Trump was shot. One of two local law enforcement snipers, positioned inside the AGR building, observed the shooter. So it was the snipers of local police that observed Crooks first.
And it was a sniper, and it was inside the AGR building, the very building that Crooks got on top of and shot at President Trump and killed Corey Camperatore and injured two others. Number four, following the shooting, Secret Service was seen on the roof of the AGR building with local law enforcement. Photos of the shooter were sent to the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Firearms. That's ATF for facial recognition. at approximately 6 23 p.m.
The shooting took place at 6, 11.
. So at 6, 23,, 12 minutes after President Trump was shot to Beaver County, PA, law enforcement agents assessed the roof of the American Glass Research Building and saw Crooks deceased. So it took them, what, 12 minutes to get up there to see that he was dead. He was killed right there at 6, 11, 6, 12.. It took them that long to get up there.
Well, during a subsequent search of Crooks, local law enforcement discovered a suspected remote triggering device. At 6, 32,, 7, 45 and 7, 46, Beaver County law enforcement agents took pictures of Crooks, a cell phone and a remote control device near the suspected shooter's body were also in those pictures. Between 6, 40 and 6, 50 p.m., local law enforcement on the roof were joined by Allegheny County Bomb Squad and one individual wearing a suit who local law enforcement assumed to be a Secret Service agent. According to information reported to Senator Johnson's office, they say, according to the individuals on the roof, a member of the Allegheny Bomb Squad requested the photos be sent to a phone number with a 215 area code, which is stated to be that number for the ATF. Senator Johnson's staff has called that phone number and it can be confirmed that that phone number was the ATF in Philadelphia, and ATF sent this email to Senator Ron Johnson's office after the phone call.
I'm reaching out because I understand that you reached out to our Philadelphia field division with question regarding the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. We would like to ask that you coordinate any of these kinds of requests through our office so that we may in turn coordinate through Maine Justice, Maine Justice, the Department of Justice, Merrick, Garland, those guys, that's where they're going to coordinate this through. That's interesting. Number five here on this list of Senator Ron Johnson's report, Secret Service was initially not going to send snipers to the rally, according to local law enforcement. So now local law enforcement is telling Senator Johnson's office the Secret Service wasn't even going to send snipers.
So then Senator Ron Johnson gets to the timeline of the information that we absolutely know. And here is what we know. Absolutely. We know this. On July 5th, 2024, which was eight days before the assassination attempt, according to local law enforcement, the United States Secret Service first informs Butler County that there was going to be a Trump rally scheduled for July 13 and also that local law enforcement reportedly started seeing information on television about the rally that was coming on July 13..
On July 8th, which was five days prior to the Trump rally, Butler ESU reportedly meets with Secret Service, which would be for the first time, regarding the rally, and receives information regarding the timeline of the event and is informed that the rally will be held at the Butler Farm showgrounds, which is where it was on July 10th, three days before the rally. Secret Service reportedly conducts a site visit at Butler Farm show grounds in advance of the July 13th rally. On July 13th, here we go to the day of. Here is the timeline of the information that we now know. This is what we know.
Butler County holds a briefing for local SWAT and sniper units from Butler County, Beaver County and Washington County providing security for the event. At the briefing, Butler provides a 46 page slide deck, which outlines areas of responsibility for each local unit and staging locations, including sniper locations for each local unit and the Secret Service. According to people that went to this meeting, no Secret Service or other federal law enforcement is present at that briefing. According to attendees, they also say Secret Service had not initially intended to provide sniper units and they changed course for unclear reasons. Nothing was mentioned.
Maybe that has to do with the Iranian threat that we know about now. Butler County briefing included an outline for the security perimeter for the event and areas of responsibility. Here we go, 9.27 a.m., Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter, he enters a Home Depot located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. They can verify this through CCTV footage at a Home Depot. 9.41 Crooks purchases a five and a half foot aluminum dual platform ladder.
At 9.
42 a.
m.
, Crooks exits the Home Depot, and that can be verified through the CCTV at Home Depot.
At 10.
30 a.
m.
, two local law enforcement snipers are in position on the second floor inside the AGR building. 10.30 in the morning, local snipers inside the building that Crooks took the shot from. At 5.10 p.m., here we go, getting into the time of the event, Crooks is first observed by one of the snipers in the AGR building. At 5.10 p.m., that's one hour before the shooting. At 5.14, AGR sniper, he takes a picture of Crooks below him.
You may have seen that picture if you are on social media. That's the one with Crooks leaning over the building from the back. The picture was taken. That was at 5.14.. At 5.28, the sniper inside the AGR building takes a picture of a bicycle and what appears to be a couple of backpacks with it.
No one knows what happened to the backpack or the bicycle since July 13th. At 5.32 p.m., the same sniper inside the AGR building spots Crooks looking at his phone and using the range finder. That is the range finder that he had when he came into the premises. At 5.38, again, the same sniper sends a message to the sniper group about Crooks. So, he sends a message to the group of snipers, and that's where it goes.
Two minutes later, at 5.
40,, the sniper is told to call into command regarding Crooks. At 5.41, that sniper calls to command and provides a description of Crooks and the range finder, as well as that Crooks was lurking around the AGR building. At 5.49, photos of Crooks are sent to Butler Command. 5.55, Butler ESU command confirms receipt of those photos and states they have been relayed on. And I'm assuming that that's being relayed on to Secret Service so that they could tell their snipers on top of the building.
At 5.
59 p.
m.
, Butler Command asks for the direction that Crooks is traveling. AGR sniper, that's sniper number one, the one that's been doing all of this, is initially unsure of the direction of Crooks' travel. 6.05 p.m., that sniper at AGR, the local sniper, he communicates that Crooks is seen moving northeast and that Crooks has a backpack. 6.06 to 6.12, the sniper goes to the ground floor of the building to meet local law enforcement patrol to alert them to Crooks' presence. So the sniper inside leaves his post and goes down to talk to local law enforcement.
At approximately 6.
11, Crooks begins shooting. At 6.23, Beaver County SWAT operators access the roof where Crooks is located and confirm Crooks is deceased. According to those SWAT operators, there was local law enforcement from another county and at least one Secret Service agent wearing a suit. also on the roof. Crooks is patted down.
Law enforcement reportedly finds a transmitter device, Crooks' phone and the range finder in Crooks' pocket. So that's at 6.46 p.m. Here is a list of questions that Senator Ron Johnson has asked for in this investigation. Here is what he is asking for at this point. He wants a copy of the security plan in place for July 13th.
Provide all records between and among Secret Service, FBI, state and local enforcement officials. Number three, a detailed description of the security measures in place for the July 13th, 2024 rally. Number four, did the Secret Service receive requests for additional security protection for former President Donald Trump? Was the Secret Service or FBI aware of any threats or other information concerning a potential security threat to President Trump? Number six, a detailed timeline of former President Trump's movement during the July 13th, 2024 rally.
Number seven, according to reports, at least one rally attendee attempted to alert police to the presence of an individual on the building roof with a rifle. Five to seven minutes before former President's speech even started. Was Secret Service or the FBI made aware of that warning? Number eight, when and how did Secret Service become aware of the suspected gunman? Number nine, provide official electronic communications, including, but not limited to, text messages between and among Secret Service, FBI and other local law enforcement officials.
In all, there are about 16 questions there that Senator Ron Johnson has that he's going to try to get answers to. in the hearing on Monday. Both Democrat and Republicans were asking Kim Cheadle what she knew when she knew it, and they asked them some of these same questions. We're going to get into that coming up in just a minute.
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So you heard there the timeline, but there are some things missing in that timeline. Like the glaring question of who decided to leave the rooftop of that building wide open. Who does that? It's 150 yards, 200 yards, whatever it is. It's very close to the stage and nobody's on that.
Like I've said before, let's get a guy up there. We had a guy in the building, but not a guy on top of the building. We're going to try to find out some of these answers here with this hearing with Kim Cheadle. I don't know what your expectations were going into this, but personally I didn't think Kim Cheadle was going to come forward with a lot of information. But I do think what happened in this hearing was really interesting between the Democrats and the Republicans, because for the first time in a long time, I remember them actually coming together.
It takes this, it takes their own security and their own fear that they may be killed or shot at because the secret service isn't doing their job, that that's what brings them together. Not all the other things that have to do with American people, but we're coming together then to find out why you're not doing your job. Let's get started here with exactly how the hearing started. This is James Comer, the chairman of this committee, and he started things off in this hearing.
Today's hearing is for the American people who are seeking answers about the attempted assassination of president Trump. A little over a week ago, Americans watched in horror as a shooter attempted to assassinate president Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The gunman nearly succeeded. The bullet that struck president Trump's head was less than an inch from taking his life.
President Trump survived, but one rally, goer Corey Comparatore, tragically did not. Two others were seriously injured. It was a horrifying moment in American history.
And that's how things started. And the ranking member for the Democrats is Jamie Raskin of Maryland. And typically he gets under my skin and I thought he was going to. And here's why these are some of his opening remarks in this hearing. As things are getting started, to me, it sounded like the Democrats were going to make this hearing about the second amendment and a gun grab.
Here is Jamie Raskin.
This list is a grim reminder of the horrific damage and death wrought by assault weapons, and the AR-15 in particular, that have taken the lives of our children, parents, colleagues, and neighbors. This is a very partial list. Mass shootings have become so frequent that we don't even hear about them anymore. Since the mass shooting in Butler, there have already been at least 10 additional mass shootings in America.
So you can hear there that it was going to be about guns for the Democrats at the beginning, but the Democrats didn't like the answers that they were getting from Kim Cheadle. And they also started asking the tough questions. Congressman Ro Khanna was one of those. He did a fantastic job in asking those questions. Another one was Republican, Mike Turner, and he had this line of questioning.
Is it your testimony today that the threat assessment, since you've read this intelligence, was sufficient to protect him from this threat from Iran?
My testimony today is that the information that we had at the time was known. Was it sufficient? Director Cheadle, was it sufficient for the Iranian threat that you said? you have read the intelligence briefings for? That information was passed to...
Well, I'm not asking the bureaucratic issue of who did it get passed around to. Director Cheadle, was it sufficient for the specific and generalized threats to Donald Trump's life from Iran? Yes, I do believe it was. Director Cheadle, is an Iranian assassin more capable than a 20 year old? Sir, I think we've acknowledged that there was gaps and a failure that day.
When I raised this issue with Director Wray, he was in sense he was shocked that the threat assessment of Iran did not seem to be, as we and I discussed, baked in to your security footprint and your threat assessment. And he went on to say that the generalized threat that he has told the whole country that we are under from a terrorist, a potential terrorist threat, he has said we're under the highest threat level since 9-11, that the lights are flashing red. And he has specifically indicated that people have crossed the Southern border as a result of the Biden administration's policy and that there are in our country today, terrorists and individuals who are affiliated with terrorist groups and organizations, that would be a heightened threat environment. Director Cheadle, would it not? Yes.
In his public statements, he has said he is making these statements because he wants people to take them into consideration in threat assessments. specifically. Now, that would be a threat, not just to Donald Trump, but it would also be a threat to the crowd. there, wouldn't it? Yes.
Are ISIS terrorists and Al Qaeda terrorists and international groups and terrorists more capable than a 20 year old in pulling off their mass shooting or an assassination of Donald Trump? Sir, again, there was clearly a breakdown and a failure that day.
And I think that's the frustrating part for me, as I'm watching these hearings. They probably are for you too. That's a simple question that representative Mike Turner asked her is ISIS or Al Qaeda, a trained assassin, going to be better trained than this 20 year old kid Crooks on the roof of this building? She can't just simply answer the question. Yes.
And I think it really gets frustrating for the American people. Shouldn't we really just have people that can answer that simple question? I can answer that question. And I'm the dumbest person on the worldwide web. I'm not the director of the secret service.
Of course. Yes, they are, but they never can seem to answer the easiest questions.
Is it requested event by event or is it requested just in general for the campaign? So if I can explain the advanced process,
this is Jamie Raskin asking her now if Donald Trump's security detailed had asked for additional additional security here at the July 13th rally.
When the, when a, an event or in a venue is identified by, in this case, campaign staff, uh, then the campaign staff works together with secret service agents who go out and conduct an advanced generally, that is a five day time period, uh, where those discussions are had about what the perimeter is going to look like, what the size of the event is, what the venue is. And then from there, uh, there is a request made, uh, to mitigate potential risk and threat. And I'm saying that on that day, the requests that were pushed forward were granted. So the secret service did not know that the gunman actually had a weapon before president Trump was allowed to get up on the stage. to the best of our knowledge and the facts that we have at this point.
That is correct. Um, so, can you answer this question, which I think is on the mind of most Americans thinking about this? How can a 20 year old with his father's AR 15 assault weapon climb on to a roof with a direct 150 yard line of sight to the speaker's podium, without the secret service or local police stopping him? So again, sir, I will say we are nine days out from this event and I would like to know those answers as well, which is why we are going through these investigations to be able to determine that fully.
And most of the hearing was just like this from her. We're now 10 days out from this event happening. No one has been held accountable. Someone somewhere should have been held accountable at this point, but this whole hearing goes on and on, but I'm going to keep playing some of this for you, just so you'll get an idea of how this was.
I got the job as a director of the secret service because I spent 27 years in an agency with a mission that I absolutely love. I started my career in Detroit. I worked my way up.
Now they're questioning her about her ability. Is she a DEI hire? Because that has been in the news. Anthony Bernal, who is Dr. Jill Biden's right hand and tight in the administration.
He appointed her through Jill Biden to Joe Biden, but is she qualified to do the job? And that's what this question is about from Congresswoman Fox from the state of North Carolina.
Were you, was there competition for the position? You would have to ask those who were involved in the interview process.
But you think you are the best person in the country to head the secret service. I think that I am the best person to lead the secret service at this time.
Does she sound real monotone to you? She sounds really monotone to me and I doubt that she is the best person in the country to run the secret service. After what I've seen the last 10 days, I've seen enough. Why is she still there? And before this hearing is over, I'm not going to be alone.
Every Democrat and Republican is asking her to resign or that she be fired, which was very interesting that both Jamie Raskin and James Comer, both of them, they chair this committee. Both of them wrote a letter after this hearing demanding that she be fired or that she resigned. They called for her resignation. This is how bad this hearing was. Nothing really came out of it that we can learn.
I taught you more there in the first segment of this hour about the timeline than she even knows. And that's Senator Ron Johnson discovering that information, doing his own investigation. Kim Cheadle can't answer any of these questions. Someone is responsible at some level for something. There is no excuse for this.
It's not just about Donald Trump either. And I think that's what was interesting about the hearing, because the Democrats on this committee, they understand it too. It might be Kamala Harris tomorrow. If we are so bad at the secret service, then it could be Kamala Harris or maybe it could be me. That's what they began thinking.
And that's why they turned from. maybe at a point they thought we'll kind of make this about AR-15s and assault rifles. You kind of hear that throughout the day when Democrats would ask questions, but they really didn't go after it hard because they realized sitting in front of them was someone that was not able to do the job that needs to be done to protect our elected officials. And thank you to both the Democrats and the Republicans on this committee that asked the questions and came to that conclusion, because I have been there since day one on this on Sunday, July 14th is when I started posting. She needs to resign or fire her, because there's no excuse for what happened ever.
It's really simple. There is a roof 150 yards away. Let's put a guy there. Let's put a guy up there. That's how simple this was, but it didn't happen.
And you can also hear there in the first segment of this hour, it appears there were a lot of communication problems, a lot of communication problems, too many layers there in the communication. This guy calls this guy, this guy calls that guy. They call him back and say, call them. And you know, that takes minutes. And you don't have minutes when a guy's standing on top of a building or sitting on top of a building with a gun.
Maybe that's why the snipers, the counter snipers, they didn't react as soon enough because they didn't have the communication. They came back from the guy that told the guy that told the guy. But anyway, none of that should have happened. Just put a guy on the roof. I don't know if you saw.
the Congressman went down and took a field trip to Butler, PA. They got up on this roof, that initially. she said in an ABC interview that the roof was sloped and it was too dangerous for someone to be on top of it. It's a one, 12 pitch, which is about as low as you can go without it being flat. The counter snipers were on a three, 12 pitch, which is much steeper than the one, 12 pitch.
So, counter snipers, it wasn't too dangerous for them to be on that roof, but it is too dangerous for them to be on a one, 12 pitch. So as this information is coming out from Cheadle that we all know with any brain, we can say that makes no sense. So here we are 10 days later, nobody really has any answers. And now Cheadle is avoiding answering any of these, any of these congressmen. And it frustrates them.
And it frustrates us. It frustrates me. It frustrates you. We want answers. And when the answers don't come, when there is no transparency, and ultimately when there is no accountability, then we lose faith.
We lose faith in our officials, in our government. And we have not had any accountability for a long time. No one that seems to ever be held accountable in government for things that have happened in this nation. And every time here we come, another Cheadle will be put in a hearing and a bunch of questions will be asked. And then the report will be done.
And the person will keep their job until they retire. Like Anthony Fauci, who was the highest paid federal employee, who now makes about $350,000 a year in retirement from your tax money, with all the mistakes that he made. There is never any accountability in our government, in our country anymore. And that's unfortunate. That is really unfortunate.
I'm going to keep going here with a little bit more of this, just on the other side of this break.
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Tonight at 7,, it is Unleash, the Political News Hour. That will be followed up by the National Security Hour. And then at 9, it's After Dark with Robin Andrew. Thank you so much for joining us here on The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott. I am Booker.
And as we get into this hearing, as we finish up here with this hearing with Kim Cheadle, the Director of the Secret Service, that really revealed no secrets. No new information, but it did reveal some interesting questions from those asking them. And here is Congressman Russell Frye from the state of South Carolina. Really interesting line of questioning. here.
I talked about the radio communication, the lack of communication, and all of that. Wouldn't you like to hear it? Wouldn't you like to be able to hear exactly what happened? Well, let's find out.
Does the Secret Service routinely record communications between and amongst detail?
Radio communications? Any communication.
Email communications are captured as well as text messages. And then, depending on the detail, radio communications are recorded. Does the Secret Service have recorded communications from the July 13th event? We do not have radio communications from that day.
Interesting. Why not, Kim Cheadle? Again, he asked her a direct question about radio communications. Do you have that? And she answered with the emails and the texts and finally got around to the radio communications.
But they don't have it. Here is Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene from the state of Georgia. And she is going to ask Cheadle about the snipers. Why did the snipers not shoot before the shooter shot Donald Trump? It's an interesting question.
It's an easy question. It's one I had immediately after it was over, as I was watching it on television. It appeared to me, as the videos came out soon after that, that the snipers, the counter snipers on the building behind Donald Trump, were looking through their sights for a period of time. It was a while. Were they looking at him?
Were they trying to determine whether he had a gun or was a threat? Well, as soon as he picked up that gun, they would have seen that through their sights. So here is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
And it was allowed to happen. Was there a stand down order, Ms. Cheadle? Was there a conspiracy to kill President Trump? Absolutely not.
Then how did this happen?
Great question. And that's what we're trying to find out. Unfortunately, Kim Cheadle, she will not answer any questions. That would help. If she would just answer questions honestly, it would be really easy.
Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee. He might have made a headline out of his questioning.
Let me ask you one more question. You found explosives in the shooter's possession. Is that correct? The FBI found explosives. Do we know who directed this young man?
how to make those explosives? I believe that the FBI is still looking into that on their investigation. Ms. Cheadle, you said that the buck stops with me, and I agree. I don't think you should resign.
I think you should have been fired. Ma'am, you are a DEI horror story. I've told my daughter multiple times, my wife and my daughter, we talk to her all the time about how she's going to succeed in life. She'll succeed in life by achieving. Ma'am, you have not achieved today.
You've let the American public down. If it was up to me, you'd be gone. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
And that made headlines coming out of the hearing, Tim Burchett, of the state of Tennessee. Another one that made some headlines was Representative Nancy Mace of the state of South Carolina. Here she is with her questioning of Cheadle.
Between the time law enforcement saw and took photos of Crooks and the shooting, how many minutes? I am still verifying timelines. Fifty-seven minutes. What time did law enforcement become aware that there was an individual on the roof with a clear line of sight to President Trump? I am still verifying timelines.
Of course. Nine days in, you have no answers. How many minutes went by between the time law enforcement saw and took photos of Crooks and the shooting? How many minutes? I am still verifying timelines.
Fifty-seven minutes.
In the first segment of this hour, I went through a timeline that was provided by Senator Ron Johnson's investigation. His office already has a better idea of what is happening than the person in charge of all of it. Why can't she just answer the simple questions that are asked? Here is more of Nancy Mace.
Was this a colossal failure? It was a failure. Yes or no? Was it a colossal failure? is the question.
Yes or no? I have admitted this is a terrible question. This is a yes or no series of questions. Was this a colossal failure? Yes or no?
Yes. Was this tragedy preventable? Yes or no? Yes.
Was this an accident? If it could have been. Terrible planning on the front end, or was it something else? And that's the problem when you have officials not answering the questions here. So many questions are still out there.
You have Senator Ron Johnson that can do his own investigation in a week to come up with a timeline. But the director of the Secret Service still doesn't have a timeline, can't verify anything. All of that information is out there somewhere. You just have to ask the right people, like Senator Ron Johnson's office did. There's one more from Nancy Mace that is well worth the time to listen to.
This one was pretty funny.
You stated earlier, Secret Service is not political. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. Would you say leaking your opening statement to Punch Full News, Politico's playbook and Washington Post several hours before you sent it to this committee as being political?
Yes or no? I have no idea how my statement got out.
Well, that's bullshit.
And isn't it? It really is. It's not the type of language that I use on a day to day. But every once in a while I'll let a word fly and I then ask for forgiveness. But that was very funny.
Nancy Mace, there, she's just calling it like it is. It is absolutely BS if she can't answer those questions.
Chair now recognizes Mr. Fallon from Texas. Why did a 20-year-old loner with a week's notice pick the absolute best location to assassinate President Trump when the entire Secret Service missed it?
This is Congressman Fallon. You heard there from James Comer. This may have been the best line of questioning the entire hearing. Here he goes.
Your leadership, your agency got outsmarted and outmaneuvered by a 20-year-old. How can we have any confidence that you could stop trained professionals from a nefarious nation state?
Those are absolutely questions that we need to have. I know they're questions, but the fact of the matter is we can't have that confidence. Director, do you have the ability, personally, do you have the authority, to beef up security of any of your protectees? Yes, I do. So.
were you also aware there was a credible threat that President Trump was facing? He was facing a heightened security threat to a foreign adversary? Yes. So, given that there was an increased threat to President Trump's life, was he provided a full security complement akin to what a sitting U.S. president would receive?
He was provided a full complement of security based on the threat assessment that we had. That's not my question. My question is if he'd been the sitting president, would he have had the same security he had on July 13th, or would it have been beefed up? There is a difference between the sitting president and continuity of government. Okay, there wasn't a CAT team, a full CAT team on site.
There wasn't counter surveillance teams on site. But this is the thing, you just said. you had the ability to beef up the security. You knew about the threat and you didn't. And that's as telling as it is chilling.
We have satellite images from the Butler Fairgrounds. Have you visited the site? No, I have not. Nine days and you have not visited the site. You should have been there that night.
Did you talk to, that evening, did you talk to the team, the heroes that surrounded the president? Did you call them that night? They were still operational working. So that's it, the answer is no. Did you call them the next day?
Yes, I spoke with them. You called them the very next day, not the day of. Or was it 72 hours after? I don't know the timeline, but I spoke with them. Okay, because you're under oath.
I think it was 72 hours after you waited three days. What is immediately clear is that there are a number of structures that need to be secured. Of these, Director, other than the first, you know, immediate four, what's the most dangerous site that should have been secured? Because you know, security 101, you've got to mitigate the high ground.
Yes. Okay, do you know what? the next most dangerous site, what was the closest structure to the president? Other than the four immediate ones that you had your counter-sniper teams on? There are a number of structures around that event site.
You know who, the shooter knew. The shooter has visited the site two more times than you have. And he had a drone, and he picked the AGR building.
And she can't answer that question. It's really simple. It's really simple. But answer the dang question, would you?
I own an AR-15, and last time I shot it, I shot it one time my whole life. It was six years ago. That is, until Saturday, where we recreated the events in Savoy, Texas. We recreated what happened at Butler. I was lying prone on a sloped roof at 130 yards at 630 at night.
And I knew that he had a scope, but I didn't know what kind, red dot, or magnified. So I shot eight rounds from both. You know what the result was? 15 out of 16 kill shots. And the one I missed would have hit the president's ear.
That's a 94 percent success rate. And that shooter was a better shot than me. It is a miracle President Trump wasn't killed.
Corey, compare Torrey's life, it's over, because that damn shooter made it on the roof. And it wasn't the roof that was dangerous, it was the nut job on top of the roof. You know what else is dangerous? I believe your horrifying ineptitude and your lack of skilled leadership is a disgrace. Your obfuscating today is shameful.
And you should be fired immediately and go back to guarding Doritos. Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
Regarding Doritos' comment, because she came from PepsiCo before she was the DEI hire by Dr. Jill Biden to be the director of the Secret Service. That's who this woman is. And the calls for her to step down and resign, and, even stronger than that, for her to be fired, were echoed by both Democrats and Republicans. Which was nice to see.
It was refreshing that it was this that made it a non-partisan deal. And so many things in our government, they are non-partisan. But for some reason, both sides can never see it that way. But they did on this one. And we'll have to wait and see what happens with Kim Cheadle.
Do you think anything's going to happen right now, though? Can anybody tell me where Joe Biden is? What is going on with him? We have not seen him. We didn't see him for five or six days.
We get a message on X on Twitter, formerly Twitter, on Sunday that he's quitting, stepping down. And then Kamala Harris is flying to Wilmington, Delaware, to take over and finish the coup of Joe Biden.
These are very odd times. We don't know exactly who is in charge of the government of the United States of America. We have hot spots all over the world. The Middle East is heating up. It's not going to cool down between now and Election Day or January 20th, 2021, especially if Donald Trump wins.
That's only going to get worse. These bad actors across the world are going to see that window closing, knowing that Donald Trump will come in and government will completely change. The weakness of our government over the last three and a half or four years, that's what has made the world stage a war stage. And right now, America is vulnerable because none of us can even say who is in charge. Who's making the decisions?
Is it Kamala Harris or is it Joe Biden? Is it Anthony Blinken? Is it Jake Sullivan? Who is it? Nobody can seem to answer that question.
And that's pretty important. This is not being handled the right way. Forget the political stuff. Forget all of that. Forget the 25th Amendment.
Who's running the government right now? Is it Joe Biden? Is he alive?
This isn't right. And American people, whether you're left or right, just like in this hearing that took place on Monday, whether you're conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican, this should bother all of us, because we do not have a commander-in-chief in this country right now. We just don't.
Joe Biden is unable to do the job. We haven't seen him. And then we have Kamala Harris, who appears to be taking over. She's taking over the nomination that it was completely stolen by 14 million voters through the Democrat primary. That wasn't fair.
to those voters. That's a coup.
It's disturbing. what's happening. Here's Kamala Harris. when she went to Wilmington. In Delaware, she went to the campaign headquarters for Joe Biden, where she now goes in to take over.
And there was a call from Joe Biden here. That's interesting.
It is so good to hear our president's voice. Joe, I know you're still on the call.
Still on the. what? Did you pick up on that? Still on the recording? Is that what she started to say?
Listen to this again.
You're still on the call.
On the what? What was that? I'm going to play it again for you because it almost sounds like she was going to say I know you're still on the recording, but she stopped herself after R-E. Listen again.
I know you're still on the call.
You hear that?
And we've been talking every day. You probably, you guys heard it from Doug's voice. We love Joe and Jill. We really do. They truly are like family to us.
And everybody here does.
It's neutral.
I knew you were still there. You're not going anywhere, Joe. And there is that Kaplan. Kaplan. president Kamala Harris.
Is she in charge? Nobody's told us. And who would tell us? Who would tell us right now? who is in charge of our government?
We're getting letters on a social media platform from a guy who I don't know where he is. Do you? It's not on letterhead from the White House. It's on a piece of paper from the copy machine signed by him electronically.
Leaves a lot of questions, doesn't it? I'm uncomfortable with where we are right now. This isn't the way things are supposed to be done in America. You take the vote from the American people. The people in power don't want you to have a voice.
They don't want you to have a say. All of these people that say it's in the name of democracy, all they have done is take your voice away and taken you out of the process.
And, honestly, I don't know what's happening. I just don't know what's happening right now. Maybe you feel the same way. I don't know. These are odd times in America, and I would suggest that it's going to get a lot bumpier before it gets better.
And, by the way, Kamala Harris, she is not the nominee yet.
There is still convention to come. Let's keep our eyes on her. She may falter. She may fail in the days ahead. Why wouldn't she?
She is not a good candidate. She tried to run for president before. It was a miserable failure. What has she done in the last three and a half years as vice president? She was given the position where the borders are.
She was going to go fix that. How did she fix that? By allowing, what, 10, 12 million people to come through? She was going to get to the root cause. Remember that?
Well, nothing has happened at the southern border. She was in charge of that.
I don't know. Weird times here in America. Just keep your eyes open and maybe we'll get through this. Maybe we'll get through it.
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