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I Just Left The Trump Assassination Site | The TRUTH Is Far Worse Than You Can Possibly Imagine

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unidentified		New drone footage shows that the shooters vanished point during Trump's assassination attempt.
brian kilmeade ▲ ● ▼		Meanwhile, a whistleblower claims, get this, the Secret Service repeatedly turned down an offer from the local police to deploy a drone in the run-ups to the rally.
unidentified		C.B. Cotton is live in Butler, Pennsylvania with the latest for us.
		C.B.?
		Hi, good morning, guys.
		Yeah, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that gunman Thomas Crooks...
		Flew his drone over the rally site three times before he tried to kill former President Donald Trump.
		And you guys, after we flew our drone over the rally site, we can see the upper hand Crooks appears to have given himself.
		Take a look at this.
		You can see here the position.
		Crooks took on the roof of the AGR building.
		It likely kept him concealed by the trees.
		And then if we go to this other video, we know that Crooks was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper with what a federal source described as a, quote, one in a million shot.
		Our drone revealing why.
		Capturing the obstructed view the sniper possibly had, allowing him to only see part of the gunman.
		And you can see right there on your screen how Crooks likely hid himself behind all that foliage.
		And again, like you mentioned, We know Missouri Senator Josh Hawley has written to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that he's learned from a whistleblower of an alarming allegation.
		Hawley says the whistleblower tells him local law enforcement repeatedly offered to provide drone coverage in the sky above former President Trump's July 13th campaign rally, but the Secret Service turned it down.
		Hawley writing in part to Mayorkas, quote, I'll allow it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		you you you Okay, this is going to be a tough show.
		Um, alright.
		We're going to be leveling with you on this program.
		We have not had any sleep.
		We've just returned from Butler, Pennsylvania.
		Ladies and gentlemen, today is Friday, July 26, 2024, and we hopped off an airplane.
		Eric and I, we've been filming day and night, and we are now in the studio again to relay to you everything that we've just found.
		And what we've just found is completely and utterly horrifying.
		Unspeakable, gobsmacking, and there are no words in the English language for what we just discovered in Butler, Pennsylvania.
		About the security failures that led to Trump taking a bullet to the head.
		Led to a good man dying, named Corey Compertore.
		This man shielding his family from the gunfire and perishing.
		Two other rally attendees in critical condition.
		And what I can now definitively tell you are systemic and incompetences that are reaching levels of malevolence.
		This was a remarkable trip, and we're going to show you all that we can right now.
		And we want to talk to you about the reality of this trip.
		And what actually happened that day because you've been lied to.
		And we're going to set those lies straight this morning.
		And I'm going to do it from a first-person perspective because something was wrong.
		And we did this live on the program.
		Something was wrong.
		And I hope you can forgive sort of the free flow.
		We haven't really slept.
		We, again, have been traveling all day and night.
		Butler, Pennsylvania is a somewhat remote area to get there and back.
		And we are back in the studio because we needed this broadcast to be crystal clear.
		Much like the failures and the layers of failures on that day are now crystal clear to us.
		Why did those failures occur?
		We're going to talk through all of that on today's program.
		But we're going to show you from our first-hand experience.
		Everything that we can right now.
		And I want to begin by thanking two incredible members of Congress.
		There are two members of Congress, ladies and gentlemen, named Eli Crane and Corey Mills.
		Eli Crane is a representative from Arizona.
		Corey Mills is a representative from Florida.
		They may or may not join the program today.
		We'll see.
		They've been all over Fox.
		In fact, Fox News flew a drone over our entire production yesterday as these two members of Congress.
		Who we chose to go with us and asked to come with us.
		We asked both members of Congress to join us in Butler, Pennsylvania, because both these members of Congress are veterans.
		Eli Crane is a veteran of the Navy SEAL.
		If you could pop up a photo of Eli Crane and me and Corey Mills, please.
		The man on the right is Corey Mills.
		He is an 82nd Airborne Army veteran who's done tactical protection and protection strategies for American diplomats and some of the highest-ranking American officials possible visiting war zones.
		This man is an elite force and name when it comes to protection for American diplomats and American protectees abroad and in some of the most dangerous and hostile areas of the world.
		His pedigree is too long to actually go through all of it on the show.
		Right now, you know Corey Mills.
		He's been on the program a lot.
		Trust this man.
		Eli Crane is a Navy SEAL.
		He's the man in the black shirt with the beard.
		They both have beards.
		Eli Crane is a SEAL team member and was a sniper.
		And Eli Crane, with his experience, which is two decades in the SEAL teams, Extremely high standing in the wartime and tactical communities.
		He's deployed to every conceivable war zone imaginable.
		These two men guided us through the Butler site.
		Now, this production was seen over by this program.
		And you can see here, we brought 4K cameras.
		Microphones, sophisticated recording equipment, telephoto lenses, the capacity to truly give you every possible detail of this shooting in 4K.
		We are going to be publishing that.
		It is going to take a moment to edit it.
		We're going to work very, very hard to make sure that you can see what we saw in Butler less than 12 hours ago.
		Less than 24 hours ago.
	You can see there.
	The rooftop where Thomas Crooks was allowed, and I say that with purpose, was allowed by security forces to crawl into a position where he could get a scope on Trump and murder Trump supporters.
	That, ladies and gentlemen, is something that we are going to look very, very hard at today.
	If this is a...
	If there's a program where you're queasy or where you can't handle the graphic nature and descriptors of what happened that day, well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm warning you, you're going to get all the details on this program.
	Here, you can see both members of Congress with the rangefinder so that you can see the distances, right?
	Laser shoots out, hits a surface, and shoots back.
	And it tells you how far away it is, okay?
	This is a sniper tool.
	We traveled up there with a tactical kit and sniper tools for both these trained sniper and trained tactical security experts, trained directly by our military, trained by the people who trained the Secret Service, actually, so that these two men could educate me and educate you on what the failures were that day and what doesn't make sense.
	Inside of what I am going to call the Donald Trump killbox.
	I'm going to call this the Donald Trump killbox.
	Right there.
	That field.
	That field, ladies and gentlemen.
	That is the field where President Trump stood, took a bullet to the head, and where supporters took bullets fatally and critically.
	And why did that happen?
	How did that happen?
	The truth is so much worse than you could possibly imagine.
	And we're going to get into it right now.
	We're going to explain exactly what happened on that day.
	First, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to bring you back before any shots were fired to a clip that chilled our veins and chilled our blood.
	This is a clip of President Trump speaking from the rally as individuals are listening.
	And somebody notices a very strange behaving individual climbing on the rooftop of the AGR, American Glass Retailers Company, that is located outside of the security perimeter.
	And we're going to get into that in just a second.
	But I want to bring you the clip that made us say...
	What the hell is going on here?
unidentified		Look, they're all pointed.
		Yeah, someone's on top of the roof.
		Look, here he is right there.
		Right there.
		See him?
		He's laying down.
		See him?
		Yeah, he's laying down.
		And Scott, I'm here with you, fighting like hell to get us out.
		What's happening?
		What's happening?
		And this is what you ever take back the land.
		Because if we do, we're going to make America better than the people.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, look.
unidentified		There he is.
unidentified		Because we have millions and millions of people in our country that should be here.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Dangerous people.
unidentified		Criminals.
		We have criminals.
		He's on the roof.
		He's a lot.
		We have people that should not be here.
		Right here.
		Right on the roof.
		She's tearing up now.
		Quite quite on the roof, we got.
		Right here.
		Right on the roof.
		She's tearing up now.
		Quite quite on the roof, we got.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Ladies and gentlemen, it chills the blood.
		It will take me a very long time to process what we just witnessed in Butler, Pennsylvania.
		And seeing now this video again for the first time, having stood atop that building, being at this location, it is bone chilling.
		It's going to take me a long time to process what we just witnessed.
		What we just witnessed was, without any question in my mind, a deliberate attempt to ensure that something bad happens to President Trump.
		I was right there.
		In fact, I was right before we climbed up on the roof right there, and we'll show you the footage.
		Ladies and gentlemen, before the shots rang out...
		I want to tell you something that a tactical sniper told me on the ground.
		There were members of the team that have now connected with us.
		And when I say members of the team, I'm going to be purposefully opaque to protect our sources on this program.
		These are professional security individuals with sniper training.
		Who were on site in a security capacity, an official security capacity that day.
		And people have been reaching out to our program because we're a dog with a bone.
		We have not let go of this story.
		The media wants you to forget the story so quick.
		In fact, and I'm skipping ahead here, but to the horror of our entire production team, when we arrived on site, there wasn't a single FBI agent.
		There wasn't any police tape.
		There wasn't anybody trying to preserve the crime scene.
		There was nothing.
		No government officials.
		No cops.
		No state law enforcement.
		No local law enforcement.
		No federal law enforcement.
		No investigators.
		Nothing.
		We had total run of the place.
		That seems a little crazy for a crime scene that's like a week old, doesn't it?
		Doesn't it?
		Let me just tell you that when I do, I'll name two people, Representative Corey Mills and Eli Crane on this program, who are our official co-hosts, guides, experts, name them what you will.
		The two congressmen really were able to just take us through the events of that day because of their incredible background, expertise, and pedigree.
		There are other people I can't name.
		There are other people I can't name, won't name.
		But let me tell you, they are unimpeachable.
		They are the highest conceivable credentials, and they actually know what happened.
		And we found out.
		I'm going to start.
		There's a reason I showed you that video of Thomas Crooks.
		Because hours.
		Hours.
		Before.
		Thomas Crooks even climbed on that roof.
		Security had tagged him.
		But did you know what security said over there, comms?
		Do you know why we will never get the communications from security?
		But Republicans in Congress must demand it.
		Security told me, my sources tell me, that Thomas Crooks was tagged as an Antifa member.
		You've been told that he's a Republican and he's somebody who probably was a Trump supporter.
		One, false.
		He donated to far left-wing causes.
		We know this.
		This is a matter of fact.
		He donated on the date of Joe Biden's inauguration to far left-wing causes.
		But more importantly, the security that day not only saw him behaving erratically and manically, pulling at his hair, his long, greasy hair.
		But also noted that he's an Antifa member.
		Said he looks like an Antifa member.
		That's an exact quote to me.
		So this is all hogwash.
		This is fake.
		This narrative that he's some type of like right-winger or MAGA patriot.
		This is fake.
		Security said this is a far left-wing agitator.
		Is what their initial take was.
	And he tried to enter the Trump event.
	Let me repeat.
	Not only did this guy fly a drone.
	Over the Trump event.
	He tried to enter the Trump event.
	Now that's brand new information.
	He was turned away at security.
	Where are those security guards?
	Where's their body cam?
	Get it now.
	Those guys that run security of these things, they're wearing body cams.
	Show me Thomas Crooks.
	What was he behaving like?
	He tried to enter the rally with a range finder, our program is told, and that he was flagged as behaving very suspiciously and was turned away.
	What would he have done if he was inside the rally?
	What a question!
	So security had already rebuffed Thomas Crooks and said, you will not enter, and flagged him as suspicious.
	Now, why did they let him go?
	Why did nobody track him?
	Why was nobody looking at Thomas Crooks?
	Well, this actually weaves really beautifully into something that we just learned.
	If I may have that Josh Hawley tweet here.
	I want Josh Hawley on drone.
	On the drones, please.
	The great senator from Missouri, Josh Hawley, as we are learning this information in Butler, at the exact same time, I check my phone as we're wandering the premises.
	I got it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, guys.
	I check my phone as we're wandering the premises, and I find out that Josh Hawley just learned from his sources, which are also unimpeachable and of the highest possible credentials, That the U.S. Secret Service was instructed not to use drones.
	Why was the U.S. Secret Service not using drones, Josh Hawley asked?
	According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, this U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from local law enforcement partners to utilize drone technologies to secure the rally.
	How easy is it to fly a drone over a suspicious individual?
	They were able to lose.
	This is what I hear from my sources who were there that day.
	They lost Thomas Crooks because Secretary Mayorkas denied them the capacity to fly a drone.
	Have you ever flown a drone?
	We flew a drone yesterday, actually.
unidentified		We'll show you that footage.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Denied the ability to follow Thomas Crooks with a drone.
		If you've ever flown a drone, you'll realize that it's actually quite easy to track individuals, especially if you have very sophisticated drones.
		You can tag people, right?
		They could have tagged Thomas Crooks with a drone.
		And hovered over him for the next three hours and made sure that SOB never touched the perimeter again of a Trump rally.
		Oh, the perimeter was a problem.
		We'll get to that.
		We're going to unpack.
		We're going to expose everything on this program.
		It is so much worse than you could possibly imagine.
		But they couldn't do that with Thomas Crooks.
		So they had to chase him on foot.
		And nobody chased.
		Because everybody was stationed in a position that the Secret Service puts them in.
		Something very important that will come in handy later as we talk through everything we learned was that the Secret Service stations officers.
		Local police are not allowed to move.
		Local police are not allowed to go places.
		They are put there under what I assume to be some type of penalty of law if they abandon their posts.
		Very important.
		Remember that clue later.
		They are put there.
		They are stationed.
		They have no say.
		The Secret Service comes in.
		Total authority.
		And they put local law enforcement where they want them.
		So this idea that local law enforcement is in any way responsible for this is false.
		Is utterly untrue and totally insulting.
		The entire plan is completely constructed by Secret Service.
		Most of the time what they do is tell local law enforcement to run traffic, right?
		You know, park here.
		Move this way down the road if you want to go to the rally.
		That's what normally local police do.
		Again, remember that for later, because it's really going to, it's very, very strange what happens next.
		Thomas Crooks, who banged up against a security perimeter, right, tried to get into the Trump rally, new information, okay, new information, was cited by my sources and called an Antifa member, said he was behaving manically and erratically.
		Like, angrily.
		You know, these people that are in these services, if you're having a psychotic break, if you're somebody who's really not of right mind, if you're demonically possessed, why don't we ever talk about that?
		If you have something wrong with you, then you're going to be, hey, you see these guys, have you ever seen a bum?
		You ever see the guy, you know, the bum?
		Right?
		Tweaking, freaking out, that you can just tell.
		They're not with it.
		They're not in the moment.
		There's something wrong.
		And these people are all trained to spot those types of behaviors, those tics, those erratic behaviors.
		And they said, Thomas Crooks, my source told me that Thomas Crooks was a 10 out of 10 for a suspicious individual walking into the rally with a rangefinder, an item he's not allowed to have, pulling at his hair, isn't there to clearly do anything good.
		Was cited and spotted as suspicious, and they just let him go.
		They couldn't track him.
		And you know who's to blame?
		The Secret Service.
		Secretary Mayorkas.
		Here, according to Josh Hawley, sometimes God just works in mysterious ways.
		The moment I was finding out that information, I'm telling you the moment.
		I open up my ex, and this is what happened.
		This is what happened.
		I learned that the Secret Service denied drone teams the capacity to track a man like Thomas Crooks.
		Would have been nothing with a drone.
unidentified		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So that's before the shooting.
		This is all happening before the shooting.
		Now, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to bring to your attention the high quality, high def footage of President Trump that day.
		This is the best and most crisp footage with the clearest All right.
		First off, let's play you this event as it happened in real time so that we can all have the same grounding on what was truly occurring on stage.
		All right?
		We're going to look at cause and effect.
		Here we go.
		Cause and effect.
		Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the effect.
		President Trump getting shot.
unidentified		If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
		I'm going to go.
		Move!
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Having been there and stood in that moment and relived it, standing on the exact spot where the FBI has flagged President Trump being shot.
		On the exact spot there is a flag in that field.
		And realizing, and I'm going to corroborate our reporting with Josh Hawley's whistleblowers from the Secret Service.
		We have our own security sources.
		And we're going to corroborate that with what Senator Hawley is discovering in the Senate.
		As you watch that clip, your blood boils because you notice that President Trump is surrounded by idiots.
		Not only do they say we're going to move the president and then the president doesn't move, making him very vulnerable, sitting right on stage.
		What if, God forbid, there was a second shooter and given everything we're about to tell you?
		You'll realize how God did literally forbid it and how much of a miracle this truly was.
		You're going to recognize, and I wish to add this to my functional theory of this event.
		And I want you to add it all up with me, okay?
		We're going to add it all up.
		We're starting with Thomas Crooks.
		Before any shots were fired, those were his shots.
		Now we're going to look into the effect.
		That's the effect.
		What are the causes of those shots being able to be fired on Trump?
		Those fatal shots killing good men, fathers, firefighters, service members.
		That was the effect.
		What were the causes exactly?
		Some of the causes are right here in this document.
		And I read to you from Senator Hawley.
		Lady Ghostbusters, as we unlovingly call them, that were surrounding Trump that day, that were too short to cover Trump, that couldn't holster their weapons, that were behaving erratically, that couldn't, that were like frantic and clearly not projecting power or authority.
		Yeah, those weren't secret service agents.
		Whistleblower allegations suggest the majority of DHS, Department of Homeland Security officials, were not in fact Secret Service agents but instead drawn from the Department's Homeland Security Investigations unit.
		If that sounds like the unit that is far too busy because their hands are in the vending machines getting the Cheetos out to actually do any investigations and they're just gluttonously on a taxpayer salary.
		Yep, that's it.
		Cheeto dust laptops.
		Yep, that's it.
		Look like Newman's desk in Jurassic Park?
		Yep, those are the agents you're talking about.
		This is especially concerning, given that the HSI agents were unfamiliar with standard protocol typically used in these types of events, according to allegations.
		Here's one very important little note that is so curious to me, and I'm not going to get too far into it because there's so much more to talk about.
		Did you know...
		That the Homeland Security Investigations Unit, this little unit, that were not Secret Service agents and were staffing Donald Trump in order to LARP, live action role play, as Secret Service agents?
		Did you know that that unit trained with the assassin?
		Oh yes.
		Did you know that the sportsman club where the Thomas Crooks assassin shot and trained?
		Is a club that is regularly, and still to this very moment, used by Homeland Security agents and this exact security team.
		These guys probably knew him.
		That's all I know.
		Okay?
		I can't allege anything further because I don't have the proof.
		And I don't talk about things.
		I don't have the proof.
		The reason we went to Butler, Pennsylvania is because we kept talking about this.
		It made no sense to us.
		So we went there our damn selves.
		And we're back here to report to you, sir.
		Obligation to you.
		You give us the power to do this, we are going to go.
		Send us, we will go.
		Just an important little note there.
		Gentlemen, can I get that post from Julie Kelly, please?
		Julie Kelly, one of our favorites, posted this.
		But it is factually true.
		Where the gunman trained was a regular...
		Where the gunman trained...
		Was a regular use firing range for the shooter and also Department of Homeland Security.
		Coincidence?
		I don't know.
		I'm not sure.
		Julie Kelly adds up a few coincidences here.
		Crooks used the same shooting club reportedly used by federal agencies, including DHS.
	Cheadle referred questions about the second shooter to the FBI.
	Cheadle testifies that there's no recordings of radio comms.
	Cheadle used an encrypted text app.
	Somebody who regularly visited Crooks' home visited a building near the FBI in 2023.
	The shooting club is called the Clarion Sportsman Club.
	Thomas Crooks will remember.
	Oh, okay.
	Regularly in the use of Department of Homeland Security and Homeland Security investigation agents, the same agents that were guarding Trump that day.
	Don't come for me.
	I'm just telling you the truth.
	I'm just telling you the truth.
	So, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to look now at the location that President Trump was shot.
	I just stood there, and I think that it is important for you to understand something.
	Have you ever been to a football field?
	You don't even have to go to a football game.
	Have you ever been on a football field?
	I'd say probably 99% of all Americans have, yes, stood on a football field.
	All of us live near one.
	All of us have been to high school, typically.
	And all of us have stood on a football field.
	From end zone to end zone, that's the distance.
	It's the easiest way to say it.
	Everybody talking feet and yards and numbers and, you know, nope, nope.
	Just, that's the easiest way to say it.
	From end zone to end zone.
	There are some punters that can punt a football that far.
	There are some runners who can run a 100-meter dash.
	In like nine seconds.
	That's not a long distance.
	The vast majority of Americans could run, jog, walk, or roll that distance.
	I'm telling you, end zone to end zone.
	That's how far away this building is.
	Here it is.
	This is the FBI flag where President Trump was standing and was shot.
unidentified		That's the spot right there.
		That's the building right behind me, where Crooks was.
		You can see how close it is.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I hope you can actually gauge this.
		You can see the details of the building with the naked eye.
		You can see the rust here.
		You can see the top of the building.
unidentified		It's a simple shot.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Did you ever play football?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's a football field.
unidentified		That's what it is.
unidentified		It's just a football field.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This entire fence line was no security.
		You could bring anything you wanted all the way to that fence line.
		And this was where President Trump was standing.
		Right there.
unidentified		That's where he was shot.
		Guys, it's a kill box, is what it is.
		It's a kill box.
		And according to all of our sources, these, these roofs, these roofs over here.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		On the roof over there, none of that had any security on it.
unidentified		There were open rooftops in every direction.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		At slightly longer distances, but for a trained professional who can shoot, easy work.
unidentified		That's how close we were.
unidentified		Right there.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Easy work.
		Easy work.
		I want to show you something.
		I'm going to show you.
		In fact, I'm going to pull up.
unidentified		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You need to see it.
		You need to see it for yourself.
		I'm going to show you something that shocked us.
		Here we go.
unidentified		so this This...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This right here...
		Let me just port this map over.
		There we go.
		Pop it on screen.
		So this is the building that Thomas Crooks...
		I want to show you a map.
		This is the building that Thomas Crooks fired on President Trump from.
		Okay?
		So this is the map.
		This is Google Maps.
		It's called the AGR International Corporation.
		It stands for American Glass Retailers.
		This is the building.
		There are like a couple buildings that are connected here that are connected via a rooftop.
		You can walk from this building to this building to this building.
		Let's do these layers.
		I want to show you this.
		Because we were able to stand on these rooftops.
		We were able to stand on everything.
		But you're going to see a bird's eye view here.
		We have done our homework.
		Here's obviously the three barns.
		You saw those behind President Trump when he was giving a speech, and these were the fairgrounds.
		I'm going to move as slowly as I can here so that you can see.
		These were the fairgrounds where President Trump stood.
		Let me widen this out.
		Okay, so this was the large fairgrounds, and you can see there.
		Do you have this?
		All right, so here's President Trump.
		Here's where the gunman was.
		Here's where President Trump's sniper teams were.
		Here's the water tower.
		Get ready.
		That's going to come in handy.
		That water tower, let me tell you what.
		The biggest scandal is that water tower, and it's not what you think.
		It's worse.
		It's far worse.
		Okay, so do you understand the schematic here?
		So President Trump is in the lowest possible position in this field, all right?
		This is why I call it a kill box.
		Thomas Crooks was in an elevated position, which is where you always want to be if you're firing a weapon.
		You're in an elevated position.
		Now, if you are geospatially...
		If you're somebody who understands maps and geospatials, I do.
		But I'm going to do my best to just try and very basically explain this.
		So President Trump's right there, okay?
		In the middle of the field.
		Can you see my cursor?
		There's President Trump right there.
		The gunman's right here.
		This building, not secure.
		But guess what else?
		This building, right over here, also not secured.
		Arguably a taller and even better line of sight to President Trump as it is across just an open field.
		It's a little bit farther away.
		We took our rangefinder and hit it.
		Building's 300 yards away.
		We spoke with the owner of the building.
		Not a single police officer.
		Nobody in the Secret Service.
		Nobody asked to secure the rooftop of this building.
		It's called the M&R Power and Equipment.
		It's a tractor supply company.
	M&R Power and Equipment.
	They fix tractors.
	This building, which had a clean and direct and arguably higher, more elevated, and far less secure, far less secure, and we're going to talk about that in a second, shot on the president, this building remained totally open, and anybody could have sat atop it.
	Now, 300 yards, you might think that's three football fields.
	Talk to anybody who shoots firearms regularly.
	They will tell you that is child's play.
	They will tell you that is child's play.
	The snipers in our American security forces shoot 2,000 yards.
	Like, shoot 1,500.
	Shoot 1,000.
	You're trained at 1,000 yards.
	Standard operation.
	Trained at 1,000 yards.
	This is a third of that.
	For anybody who's like military trained, how many international terrorists have the Biden administration, now Kamala administration, allowed into our country that have been trained by nation states who have professional trainings and could put units on top of this building right at President Trump?
	Our sources tell us that these buildings right over here to the side of President Trump, none of them were secured.
	So you have buildings right here.
	You could see the rooftops of them.
	If you're standing where President Trump was standing, you could see the rooftops of these buildings.
	They had clear line of sight to the President.
	These buildings were left unsecured.
unidentified		Uh, oh, okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is why I call it a kill box.
		Because you have multiple unsecured rooftops that somebody could have taken a shot at President Trump.
		They don't tell you that, do they?
		Don't tell you that in school, do they?
		We just learned that in Butler, Pennsylvania, ourselves.
		Standing on the ground and speaking with unimpeachable Sources of the highest possible credentials, is all I can tell you.
		who were there that day.
unidentified		Bye.
		Bye.
		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So let's zoom in.
		Let's zoom in to AGR International.
		Let's zoom into this building.
		Because there's one clip that sent us up to Butler more than any other clip on the internet.
		Our dear friend, Eli Crane, who is someone...
		Who we really have gotten to know well on this trip.
		The Navy SEAL congressman from Arizona who helped facilitate this trip for us.
		He posted on social media a view, a view that maybe nobody else will ever see again.
		We went up there and got this information.
		I have a feeling they're going to really lock this place down now after what we just exposed.
		Ladies and gentlemen.
		Eli Crane, and there's no corresponding audio to this clip, so I'm going to mute it.
		There's no audio.
		Nobody speaks.
		Eli Crane posted this video.
		Now, why is this video important?
		This video is important, and if you watch the show, you will recognize this video.
		This video is critically important because inside of this room were snipers.
		Oh, yeah.
		Why didn't anybody shoot Thomas Crooks as he crawled across the rooftop?
		We screamed that question until our voice cracked over the last week.
		And now we can report to you why.
		And again, the truth is so much more horrifying than you can possibly imagine.
		But we have it.
		We have it from our security sources directly on the ground.
		We know why.
		There was a three-man sniper team located in this rooftop.
		This sniper team was put there by the Secret Service.
		The sniper team was made up of local Butler County SWAT, according to our sources.
		This three-man sniper team was fully kitted out to train on this roof and to be ready to take on or out anything that crawled into this view line.
		Of the president.
		As you can obviously see, there would be the president right there.
		You see the red barns?
		Use the red barns as sort of like a good geospatial anchor.
		The red barns are effectively where Trump's stage is.
		Okay?
		As you can probably tell, I'm no security expert.
		You wouldn't want me to run security at your local dive bar.
		But even I can tell you that that's a pretty damn good angle on Thomas Crooks, who didn't seem particularly athletic.
		Who wasn't in his right mind.
		And who, as we've seen in the footage, was just sort of clumsily lumbering along the rooftop here.
		There you go.
		There's Thomas Crooks.
		Filmed from the ground.
		Filmed from the ground.
		Let me back up here just a second.
		Just sort of lumbering along the roof.
		You can see him right there.
		Plain and clear as day.
		What else do you see in this shot?
		You see...
		The second story window.
		And forgive me for moving this video around.
		I want to pause it on just the right place.
		Okay, I'm going to pause it right there.
		You see the tall building and the shorter building.
		Inside of this building is a manufacturer.
		A bottle manufacturer.
		They make glass and bottles and other glass items.
		As best as we could tell, we were inside the building.
		That is the second story roof.
		Right there.
		That's the second story.
		That's where the snipers were.
	There's Tom's crooks.
	Like, wobbling and lumbering around on the building.
	Where the hell are the snipers?
	Why didn't they kill him right there?
	They could have shouted to him.
	Hey, uh, jackass, get off the roof or you're smoked or you're dead.
	This is your last warning.
	You will die next.
	They could have incapacitated him by simply just shooting him.
	They could have done a lot of things.
	I don't really know what the proper protocol was.
	But let me tell you why they didn't.
	Because now we know.
	This is why it's so important to go and investigate yourself.
	This is why we thank you.
	Only plug will do.
	We thank you for subscribing.
	We thank you for following this program.
	You following this program allows us and gives us the energy to go up and find these answers for you.
	So instead of a lot of these other people who just sit around and scream in their studios, we will hit the bricks and do it.
	And now we know.
	And now we know.
	Thank you.
	So we can all find out together.
	I posted this this morning at our crack of dawn flight back to the studio.
	It is a long post.
	And it's doing numbers right now.
	The truth shall set you free.
	But I'm going to get to just the nuts and bolts of this thing.
	So let's go.
	There was a three-man SWAT team sniper.
	There's a three-man SWAT sniper team located in this position.
	One member of the team went home early.
	Not sure how that was allowed, but it happened.
	The remaining two snipers positioned in this room were notified that a suspicious individual, Crooks...
	Remember, he'd already been flagged as an Antifa member.
	He'd been flagged hour or more before.
	Crooks couldn't get into the Trump event, so he started wandering the perimeter.
	We do not know if Crooks planned on firing his weapon from this building, from inside the event.
	We're not sure.
	We know he tried to enter the Trump event.
	Ladies and gentlemen, he wound up at this building.
	Was this his intended plan?
	We're not sure.
	But here we go.
	Nonetheless, the remaining two snipers positioned in the room were notified of a suspicious individual, Crooks, lurking and lumbering outside of the building.
	Of course, you can hear everyone screaming.
	There he is!
	He's got a gun!
	You're not going to believe what happens next.
	Again, according to our sources, one team member left his position to investigate, leaving just one sniper with overwatch of the roof.
	The investigating team member, it is a very large building.
	This building is on what has to be multiple acres.
	Okay, this is very large.
	One team member left the sniper position to go outside and investigate.
	And, like, see if they can find him.
	The only reason you'd have to do...
	The only reason you'd do that is if there wasn't enough law enforcement.
	So he was called out of his position.
	He must have been.
	He must have been.
	Secret Service runs all these things.
	They must have had contact with that sniper nest.
	They have to.
	From a tactical, operational perspective.
	You have to have access to that sniper nest.
	So perhaps they were weakening that position.
	I don't know.
	But I know the result.
	Here we go.
	The result was that the individual who left to go hunt for crooks, leaving just one guy on his gun.
	Normally a sniper team is two people.
	Spotter, sniper.
	Okay, corrective shots.
	You know how this works.
	Leaving just one guy.
	So you've already weakened the position horribly.
	Get ready for this.
	The person that went out to go investigate, on whose orders I would like to know, his keycard stopped working.
	Beep, beep, beep.
	Keycard wouldn't work.
unidentified		Beep.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Can't get back into the building.
		He calls up, radios up, to his colleague upstairs, the SWAT team, come down and get me.
		You're not going to have a fully operational team without me.
		The guy leaves.
unidentified		The guy leaves.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So the only place that would have had a perfect, perfect view of Thomas Crooks, this, right here, ladies and gentlemen, is where Thomas Crooks took the shot.
		Right there.
		The only location that would have had a perfect sniper shot on Crooks.
		As you can understand, these roofs, which are not very sloped at all, give me a break, but these roofs, you know, if you have a sniper team on that roof in the far distance, it's going to be a while until they can see crooks.
		This is just a matter of physics.
		There's no drones!
		There's no drones!
		The water tower!
		Very important.
		We'll get to that in a second.
		But there's nobody on the water tower!
		Prepare.
unidentified		Because...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You're about to hear the scandal of the water tower, and it's not what you think.
		It's so much worse.
		Thomas Crooks is able to use the building and the very slow angle of the building, and the sniper teams, which are over here, which Thomas Crooks was probably getting on drone footage, Thomas Crooks was able to fly a drone over the event, probably knew where all the sniper teams were.
		Thomas Crooks was able to use the building as cover to crawl up the building and get his shots off.
		Before these sniper teams could adjust, could adjust their scopes and get them.
		And more importantly, the sniper team that was in the building was incapacitated.
		One member was sent home.
		How that's possible, I don't know.
		One guy gets locked out of the building, told to go investigate, gets locked out, and the other sniper gets removed from his post and goes to check on his buddy locked out of the building.
		The result, no matter how it all happened, is your blood boiling?
		Mine is.
		The result is that Thomas Crooks was able to get his shots off without any engagement.
		Now, according to the FBI, eight bullet casings were found.
		Of course.
		Much of that evidence is cleaned up by now, but we do have some evidence that was still left over, and we'll show that to you.
		Thomas Crooks was able to get his shots off.
		The sniper nest had a perfect position to level one of Duck Hunt.
unidentified		Ping!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And nothing.
unidentified		They were gone.
unidentified		snap snap snap snap snap
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And now, of course, Cory Compertori is gone.
unidentified		He's dead.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Beautiful family, lost firefighter, husband, father, dad.
		President Trump, bullet through the head.
		Bullet hits his head.
		A successful headshot from this position.
		And ladies and gentlemen, the snipers that should have been there, that were stationed there, were called off.
		Were called off!
		Somebody's going to have to show me evidence that these two snipers on the SWAT team, under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service, put there by the Secret Service, would just abandon their post.
		Okay, if they did, then I'll do a whole show on why they shouldn't have done that, and perhaps they should be part of larger-scale criminal charges here.
		But I haven't seen any evidence that local law enforcement, under the purview of the Secret Service and at the command of the Secret Service, left their post just for fun.
		Just like, what do you want to do?
		Do you just want to destroy your career?
		Like, ask yourself the question.
		You're a guy in a sniper team for a local SWAT team.
		Maybe your dream is working for higher-level law enforcement, military, I don't know, Secret Service?
		I'm not sure.
		But either way, could you imagine what would happen to you if the Secret Service is trusting you to, like, defend an area?
		And you're just like, see ya!
		Coffee break, cigarette break.
		Buddy.
		Gotta go see my buddy.
unidentified		What?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Somebody ordered them to leave.
		I have to assume that, knowing just basic human nature.
		Somebody has to order them to leave.
		We all have bosses.
		This is not behavior that is consistent with anybody who wants to keep their career.
		You just walk away from your sniper's nest?
		Leaving the president completely exposed when you already know that there's a suspicious man lurking and lumbering about the building?
		Maybe on the rooftop.
		You don't know.
		And so the sniper team was in the bowels of the building.
		It's very dark, right?
		It's a very dark building.
		No windows inside of this building.
		It's a manufacturing plant.
		We've walked through it ourselves.
		Manufacturing plant.
		Bottles everywhere.
		Machines everywhere.
		Bins and rubbish and darkness.
		It's a manufacturing plant.
		And that's where your snipers were.
		When Thomas Crooks took the shots.
		Do you understand what a scandal this is?
		Do you understand what a massive scandal this piece of information is?
		Who gave the standout order?
		Asks Marjorie Taylor Greene.
		Boys, I think we should load that clip if we don't already have it.
		Because that will come in handy.
		Marjorie Taylor Greene, who gave the stand-down order?
		Somebody must have ordered these guys off their station.
		Ladies and gentlemen, you're watching something that nobody else has right now.
		We've gone and we've done the work and we've done the shoe leather, literally, reporting, walked this site and seen it with our own two eyes, and we've lain...
		Down, actually, on the blood splatter of Thomas Crooks.
		Congressman Corey Mills wanted to see what the view was from Thomas Crooks.
		How do we know where Thomas Crooks was?
		Well, because you can still see the trail of blood from where Thomas Crooks was taken out by some other sniper team.
		Not the sniper team that has this view, which is the perfect view.
		To take him out.
		This sniper team was on a cigarette break for fun!
		I don't know.
		I don't know.
		Sorry, I'm angry about it.
		I'm angry about it.
		I'm angry having been there.
		Ladies and gentlemen, this is the view of the rooftop.
		Uh...
		We stood on it.
		This was how sloped it was first.
unidentified		Here are the sloped roofs that are so dangerous to the Secret Service.
		You can see here.
		Horrible slope.
		Yeah.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Remember, that's why they couldn't be up here.
unidentified		These nearly completely flat roofs.
unidentified		Yeah.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		No.
unidentified		Boys.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I need this one loaded up, please.
		Let me know when that's in.
		Because we'll show you the...
		We'll show you, ladies and gentlemen, the actual view of Thomas Crooks.
		Here we go.
		How close was Thomas Crooks to Trump?
		We showed you his exact position right here.
		You will not see this anywhere else.
		We actually...
		Followed the trail of blood at the beginning of this video.
		And my cameraman right there is standing in Trump's exact position.
		We know that because there's a flag from the FBI that has been planted there.
		This is a 1 out of 10 difficulty.
		Snipers tell me on site.
		This is a 1 out of 10 difficulty.
		So here we are on the roof, ladies and gentlemen.
		What happens next?
		Let's go ahead and play that clip.
		Thank you.
		This is the trail of blood from Thomas Crooks.
		Still visible on the building where the assassin was able to shoot directly at President Trump.
		From this exact position, you can see right there in the field, that's where President Trump is.
		I'm just on iPhone magnification.
		This is how close the president was to the assassin.
		This is 100 yards.
		One football field right here.
		That is where the Secret Service sniper team was.
		And this is where no one was.
		Or maybe someone was, but no in law enforcement.
		Because that would have made for the easiest shot on God's green earth right here.
		Meanwhile, leaving the entire president exposed, there was supposed to be Secret Service right there.
		This was a window that has full view of the rooftop where Trump's would-be assassin, a man who shot Trump in the face, in the head, and killed an innocent man and a good man stood.
		And that's where President Trump was, right there.
unidentified		Trail of blood, still.
unidentified		This is criminal.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It is completely criminal.
		Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'll tell you, there is something that our security experts who were with us that day, namely Eli Crane and Corey Mills, they are the members of Congress.
		Who were with us that day on site to talk us through how they would have tactically defended President Trump, given their expertise and obviously given the fact that they're not complete morons.
		These are the two of them right there.
		Ladies and gentlemen, what did these two men obsess with?
		They were obsessed with something that really caught my eye.
		And it's something that we need to just take a moment to talk through because there's a lot of conspiracy theorists about this.
		I don't try and use the term conspiracy theory on this.
		I'll do my best.
		Okay, there's a lot of skepticism.
		I'm going to try really hard to ban the term conspiracy theory because conspiracy theorists are always right.
		We were labeled conspiracy theorists for telling you that Joe Biden was going to drop out and that Kamala Harris was going to be anointed the president.
		And get ready because Joe Biden is going to resign next.
		And Kamala Harris will then become the president.
		Trust me, we told you what was going to happen, and we were right.
		So I try not to use that.
		How about this?
unidentified		Skepticists.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Skepticism.
		Skepticism is always right.
		We have a right to ask a question, to ask questions in this country.
		We must use that right, and we use that right.
		There's a lot of skepticism about this water tower, alright?
		This is the water tower.
unidentified		Right here.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, we walked up to it.
		And there are a couple of insane things that we found.
		But first, you have to see this.
		Why this is important.
		Our two security experts were obsessed with this water tower for one specific reason, not because there was a guy on it.
		Not because there was some gunman up there who was blasting away at the president.
		In fact, and I'm going to trust my security experts on this, people who were on the ground that day told me that there was absolutely not.
		A person on that tower.
		No one was on that tower.
		And that's the scandal.
		Ladies and gentlemen, this tower is the tallest point in the entire county.
		This tower has a railing along the side that is perfect for a security detail.
		You could have put 10 men on this tower to have a virtually 360 degree perfect eagle eye view of Everything at the event.
		Every single sniper location, everyone, every single security position is made irrelevant by this tower.
		Since this tower is so much higher and is so much more protective of President Trump.
		This water tower right here, as you can see, is directly, is the best position that I have from the air, from space here.
		This is Google Maps that I'm on right here.
		This tower has perfect overwatch over where Thomas Crooks crawled up.
		Oh, and by the way, for those of you thinking that Thomas Crooks just hopped on the roof and sprinted and got his shots up, nope!
		Apparently Thomas Crooks crawled on the roof right here!
		Look at how big this factory is.
		Very big factory, okay?
		Thomas Crooks apparently crawled on the roof right there.
		In fact, there are pieces of the air conditioning unit that he crawled on the roof with that have been taken from the FBI and are being analyzed for his shoe prints because they believe that right here is where he crawled on the roof.
		Thomas Crooks crawled on the roof, and then no matter what, I don't care if you're sprinting, it's going to take you minutes to get from here, over here, over here, over here, over here.
		See that?
		That's the path.
		According to all available evidence, this entire area is blocked off as they investigate.
		And Thomas Crook stood right here, and that's where he took his shots, on the president, who was standing here.
		But something that would have been able to see the entire operation of this deranged, demonically possessed sociopath, don't know, not a mind reader here.
		The guy that was flagged as Antifa by the security would have been this water tower.
		Yet there was no one stationed on it, and that's the scandal.
		There was nobody stationed on it because anybody stationed on that water tower would have been able to watch Crooks do all of his work here on the roof, would have been able to call to Crooks, would have been able to tell everybody about him, would have been able to eliminate him or engage him in a manner that prevented him from moving forward.
		No one was there.
		Who runs that water tower exactly?
		According to what we heard from members of Congress that were with us, Department of Homeland Security runs that water tower.
		Department of Homeland Security, the same agency that denied Donald Trump real Secret Service agents, that denied drones, and that wouldn't let somebody get up on the tower.
		This is the tower.
		The question isn't, was there a shooter on the water tower?
		The question is, why wasn't there a shooter on the water tower?
unidentified		Because this was where Crutch was, right there.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This would have been the best vantage point for any sniper.
unidentified		Why wasn't there Overwatch from this tower?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		These are real questions.
		And then, of course...
		Crooks was able to shoot President Trump from right there, and it's just unspeakably close.
		It's a football field.
		It's incredibly close, and none of this area, none of this area was secured.
unidentified		None of it.
		Thank you, sir.
		Amazing.
		Just amazing.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Guess who was allowed to fly a drone?
		Oh, and you see that broken gate?
		We're going to get that in just a second.
		Guess who was allowed to fly a drone?
		We were allowed to fly a drone.
		We flew the drone.
		We flew our drone and showed you exactly.
		Look at this.
		This is our footage.
		You're seeing it for the first time here on the program.
		And get ready.
		We're going to really tell the story.
		We got a documentary that we're working on here and we're going to get that sucker up, baby.
		You're going to know the truth.
		Everyone's going to know the truth.
		The world's going to know the truth.
		This is the footage that our incredible productions team, Eric, was running this drone.
		We'll show you.
		This is the view of the water tower that the water tower would have had over President Trump.
		Look at how authoritative this view would have been.
		This is why Corey Mills and Eli Crane, the members of Congress, Navy SEAL, Army, Rangers of Congress, who've done security detail around the world in war zones, said, why the hell wasn't anybody on this water tower?
		That's the building right there.
		I'm going to pause the footage.
		Do you see the water tower?
		Do you see how easy it would have been?
		Look at the entire railing around the water tower.
		See how easy it would have been to put somebody up there?
		Do you see the rooftop?
		The rooftop on the large building right there.
		The white van in the parking lot.
		That's where Crooks shot his shot.
		At President Trump.
		President Trump, there in the field.
		Are you understanding geospacially where we are?
		Here?
		This water tower would have shown you everything.
		But no one was there.
		Why was no one there?
		We walked up to the base of the water tower just to see what we could see.
		You know, we found a brand new sign that says, if you see something, say something.
		Please report any suspicious activity.
		If you see something, say something.
		A brand new sign.
unidentified		Strange.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, we also found, not only if you see something, say something, we found a brand new lock on the water tower.
		I don't know if this is odd or strange, but it is what it is.
		Here you go.
		This is a photo of a brand spanking new lock on the water tower.
		Big golden lock.
		Everything else in the water tower is old and rusty.
		And in need of repair, as you can see here.
		This was just put on probably that day.
		Was it open?
		Was the water tower left open?
		I don't know.
		But you trust us to deliver to you all of the news, not just the convenient news, and to catch things like this.
		Our superpower is this.
		We're alive and we pay attention.
		That's it.
		That's our superpower.
		And we paid attention.
		Why is there a brand new lock on the water tower?
		Gate.
		Maybe it's nothing.
		Maybe, maybe it's worse than you could possibly imagine.
		As you can see, the old chain had either been cut or was just simply so rusty it was inoperable.
		We don't know.
		We don't know.
		According to members of Congress, and this is where I'm getting this information, that water tower is under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security.
		That water tower is what our members of Congress were obsessed with.
		They were obsessed with finding out who wouldn't station somebody on that water tower.
		It's one thing to say the guys in the second floor window here.
		See that second floor window?
		See the second story?
		The first roof is where Crooks fired.
		The second floor is where they had the sniper team.
		It's one thing to say that sniper team, they were out on a cigarette break when Crooks just happened to shoot his firearm.
		Whatever.
		That's...
		The story we were told.
		Not a cigarette break.
		One of them got locked outside.
		The other one went.
		They abandoned their position.
		On the order of who?
		Okay, so we've already talked about that.
		It's one thing to say that.
		It's a totally different thing to say, why was there a sniper team there in the first place?
		Why not put the sniper team up on the water tower that is the highest point in the entire county that has perfect overwatch over the entire event?
		And none of this would have happened.
		It just wouldn't.
		I don't know how to tell you.
		Again, I'm no security expert.
		I am not a cop.
		I am not a sniper.
		I do own firearms.
		I think I'm a pretty good shot.
		But I don't do this professionally.
		You don't want me guarding your...
		You don't want me guarding your bar, right?
		You don't want me as a security guard, as a bouncer at a club.
		I'd be no good.
		That's not my background.
		But even I can tell you that you want the high ground in a situation like this.
		Am I wrong?
		Am I taking crazy pills?
		The Navy SEAL and the 82nd Airborne veteran with combat tactical security background, Eli Crane and Corey Mills, they both told me.
		That this water tower is the smoking gun.
	But it's the smoking gun for the wrong reason.
	Not because there was some secret shooter up there, but because there wasn't a shooter up there from the service teams with a smoking gun smoking Thomas Crooks before he was able to get shots off at President Trump.
	The way this would have worked is if somebody was up there on the water tower, the way that they described it to me is, hey, there's a suspicious guy on the roof.
	He's got a gun.
	He's got a gun.
	Now he's gone.
	And as I have shown you, Thomas Crooks had a long time on that roof.
	Here's the water tower.
	Here's the roof.
	Here's where Thomas Crooks entered.
	Here's where he had to walk and run.
	And when we were there, we weren't allowed to go on this part of the roof.
	The one time we were stopped, we weren't allowed to go on this part of the roof because the FBI was investigating all of Crooks' movement up here.
	We weren't allowed.
	Can't go.
	The FBI was still investigating these parts of the roof.
	Tom's crooks over here, ladies and gentlemen, was able to climb here and do this very long.
	And as you can see, as you saw his movements, very lumbering, non-athletic.
	Who knows how long he took on this rooftop.
	But look at this, if you're a shooter or if you're just like me, if you're just approaching this from like a layman's perspective.
	Look at the perfect location, that gigantic water tower.
	Our members of Congress wanted to get up on that water tower badly, couldn't get it done on this trip.
	We wanted to get up there, but we could fly a drone.
	So I'll show you one more time, ladies and gentlemen.
	This was the shot.
	This was from the water tower.
	I'll play it from the beginning.
	Look at what a perfect location this would have been to prevent bad things from happening to President Trump.
	And no one was there.
	And no drone was allowed to fly.
	And the snipers that did have overwatch of where Crooks was were told to hit the bricks.
	We know that.
	We know it.
	We have the sources.
	And we went there ourselves.
	Damn it.
	We went there ourselves.
unidentified		We went there ourselves.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		One final thing.
		One final thing.
		That is, I've been saving because it is too enraging.
		I want to show you this clip from Fox News.
		This is a brand new clip that Fox got exclusively of very high quality.
		A lot of the stuff we've seen of Crooks is low quality, you know, kind of Android, you know, Android with low battery footage.
		Fox has high quality footage of Crooks.
		And I'm going to point something out to you, but first I'm going to show you this footage and show you how obvious this guy was.
		Here we go.
unidentified		We just obtained exclusive new video of the assassination attempt 10 days ago.
		It is the clearest and closest video we've seen yet, taken by an eyewitness who was there with his family next to the AGR building as Thomas Crooks opened fire.
		You can hear eight shots, what sounds like eight shots, followed by two counter-sniper shots, including the kill shot from the Secret Service.
		Watch and listen.
		Good job.
		What the?
		At one point, Thomas Crooks points his rifle at the eyewitness and those rally-goers.
		This is what he told us about security on that day.
		Definitely wasn't secure.
		I'm actually ex-military.
		One of the first things I noticed when we walked up, I'm like, none of us have been vetted.
		We're all along the fence.
		We all have view of the stage.
		We could see Trump.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		What?
		Batman just said.
		Is true.
		You didn't necessarily need us to investigate that as it is available in the video evidence.
		Of course, you can see here all of the people wandering about freely as they call out to Thomas Crooks.
		We'll do this as a...
		You can see this video.
		Many of the angles of these videos are relatively the same.
		But here's what you're seeing.
		And this I did not know until we actually got on site.
		These people standing along the fence line here.
		You can see this is some of the rigging of the stage.
		They're listening to Donald Trump.
		You can hear Donald Trump's voice clear as a bell.
		These people standing along the fence line are nigh on 80 yards from Trump.
		They have a perfect view of the stage.
		They weren't vetted at all.
		There were hundreds, if not maybe thousands, in the aggregate, of individuals who were able to bring lawn chairs, who were able to bring roller bags, who were able to bring luggage, who were able to bring pelican cases, who were able to bring the cookout, who were able to bring tailgating equipment.
		Within 80 yards, Of President Trump.
		Now you're talking less than the end zones.
		100-yard field?
		Okay, so now shrink it.
		The end zones add an extra 10 yards.
		So now shrink the field to an 80-yard field.
		We used the rangefinder.
		We found out from a precision perspective how far away Donald Trump was from these people standing at the fence line.
		We walked it ourselves.
		Listen to this.
		Seeing Thomas Crooks up here on the rooftop, his being able to climb up on the rooftop, we're learning so much more about actually being here on site.
unidentified		But check this out.
unidentified		This fence line, anybody can walk up to this fence line.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Anyone.
unidentified		Any person with any bag or any item.
		You can walk right through this suitcase.
		You can carry it all the time.
		And right through there, you can see there, is the stage.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		20 yards away.
unidentified		80 yards from this fence line.
unidentified		So there's, of course, the building, the rooftop, where Crooks was.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		But anyone else could have walked right up here.
unidentified		You know what this is?
		You know what this is?
		I don't know the security expert, but it's a kill box.
		It's a kill box.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Of everything I've shown you today, this should enrage you the very most.
		And it was hiding in plain sight.
		It was hiding in plain sight.
		This should enrage you the very most.
		That President Trump was right there.
		You can see we're just walking the fence line, that anybody could have walked to this fence line and been just a few feet.
		You don't even need a firearm.
		You need a well-thrown baseball to hit Trump in the head from this position.
		You could take a Nerf football and hit Trump in the head from this position.
		God forbid.
		That a nation state, let's just say a nation state, ISIS, how about that?
		There have been 400 people who've come across our border with ISIS affiliation, according to Homeland Security, according to the Border Patrol.
		What if just 10, 20, 40 of those individuals were able to walk up to this fence line, And they had rocket-propelled grenades in their little roller kits.
		They were just walking in with a little cart.
		They pushed a shopping cart or something.
		You know, you see the little tailgate carts?
		I got one for the beach.
		I live in Florida.
		It's a little cart, right?
		Handle.
		Put my kids in it.
		Put some chairs in it.
		I roll that cart up and down the beach.
		They just roll up with that cart.
		It's filled with RPGs.
		It's filled with firearms.
		It's filled with, God forbid!
		Who knows?
		And what if these people were tactical?
		Crooks was quite buffoonish that day, based on all the evidence that we've gathered.
		Buffoonish, stupid, lumbering, silly, obnoxious, obvious.
		What?
		What if this fence line...
		Do you see the Red Barn?
		Does this anchor for you?
		Some people aren't geo...
		I really like maps, and I like being geospatially located.
		I can show, you know, like...
		So here, I'll try and do it as easy as I possibly can.
		This is where Crooks fired from, right here.
unidentified		That's...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is way closer, right there.
		And there's President Trump, right there.
		So here's President Trump.
		Zoom on in.
		Here's President Trump.
		Here's the fence line.
		See the tree line right there?
		There it is.
		You can see it as clear as day on Google Maps.
		Here's the fence line.
		President Trump is a mere 80 yards away, right here.
		What if along this fence line, a nation state, sponsor of terror, had the guy with the biggest footprint...
		Guy who's the most hated person killed Soleimani, right?
		Defeated ISIS?
		What if a nation state just planted agents right there and there were like 20 of them?
		At least 400 gotaways on our southern border have ISIS ties.
		Who knows how many more there are?
		Those are the official numbers.
		What if they all sat along that fence line?
		What if there was 100 of them?
		Okay, let's just use nice, big, fat, round numbers.
		A hundred ISIS agents, each of them, with some type of projectile to fire.
		And they learned about this security, this soft security for the president, and they all lined up along this fence line.
		And they said, on go.
		And you know what?
		They can't get us all.
		Doesn't matter where they are.
		Can't get us all.
		It actually wouldn't matter then if you had somebody up here in the water tower.
		This is why I've structured the show this way.
		It wouldn't matter if you have somebody in the water tower.
		Because actually, if you were organizing all this, you could have turned this into a war zone.
		You could have atomized and turned the entire thing into a war zone.
		The chaos would have been so extreme, it would have scrambled everything, even if you had protection here and snipers in this building.
		While we were standing at the gate, while we were standing at the open gate, Corey Mills, who's been in war, Corey Mills tells us that he...
		He could have just had a collapsible stock in a backpack.
		Just a collapsible stock in a backpack.
		He just walks up to this open gate.
		Right here.
		This gate has this giant gap in it.
		Walks up to that open gate.
		Walks up right up to the gap.
		And you just go in.
		He could just reach down into his backpack and do his thing.
		This is what the Secret Service was allowing.
		This is why I call it a kill box.
		They put Trump in a kill box.
		And it's so much worse than you could possibly imagine.
		That's what we found out in Butler, Pennsylvania.
		I'm going to end, ladies and gentlemen, with a very important quote from the great Elon Musk, who I'm paraphrasing right now, but he says, Gross incompetence and negligence is indistinguishable from malevolence.
		Your intent doesn't matter.
		A high enough level of incompetence, someone's going to get horribly hurt.
		Something awful is going to happen.
		And something awful did happen right here.
		Something awful did happen.
		The president was shot in the head.
		Good men were killed.
		Other people who were simply expressing their political views were shot also.
		And it was all preventable.
		But more importantly, the people who created the security failures, will they be held accountable?
		That's what we shall push for.
		We want a, we demand.
		We demand it.
		We demand that Corey Mills, the Honorable Corey Mills, and Eli Crane are on that select committee.
	They are the two members of Congress that have actually done the work, gone to Butler, Pennsylvania.
	And I want to put up their social media, please.
	So why don't we grab their social media?
	I want to pop that up so you can follow them, please.
	I want you to follow them.
	I want you to pour into their following, like follow them and get them.
	These two men need to be on this committee.
	These two men need, must be on this committee.
	This committee has no legitimacy without these two men.
	Hammer it into your head because what's going to happen is they're going to try and stalk this thing with a bunch of subservient FBI and CIA simps, ball gag simps, Republicans, weaklings, scum.
	And not actual true people who will find what happened that day and will expose the security failures.
	Eli Crane and Corey Mills must be on this committee.
	For legitimacy, they must be on this committee.
	So get in there and we are going to start a drumbeat.
	That these two men must be on that committee.
	They have gone and done the work.
	They will ask the right questions.
	And they will expose what truly happened on J13.
	And ladies and gentlemen, as we move forward, tough questions need to be asked.
	Like, who gets criminally charged for this?
	Was there malice?
	We don't know.
	I don't need to be a mind reader.
	I can just show you, and I can now show you with my own, with our own cameras, and with my own personal experience, I can show you Criminal, criminal levels of neglect, malfeasance, and a security operation that wouldn't keep a music festival secure, much less the president of the United States, of America, Donald Trump.
	The man with the biggest footprint on God's green earth.
	The biggest security footprint on God's green earth.
	And so that is the awful truth.
	A quick word, ladies and gentlemen, about this audience and a thank you.
	This audience keeps us going.
	We are quite tired right now.
	This was a whirlwind trip.
	We wanted to report back to you.
	We feel like it's so valuable to get the truth out now so people understand now they are trying to sweep this under the rug.
	They are trying to get rid of this story.
	They do not want you to see this photo of Trump with his fist in the air and the flag behind him.
	They want to erase it from memory.
	They're going to try and push this as far away from the consciousness of the American people as possible.
	If you get me that American flag photo, please.
	Let's roll with that.
	But we're not going to let it go.
	Dog with bone.
	We know that you care about this and you care about finding the truth about who, more importantly, why President Trump got a bolt in the head.
	The background, the true story of this image and the criminal security failures that led to it must be exposed.
	And we will be your agents to expose it.
	We take the value of you subscribing to this channel.
	Watching our program, listening, tuning in, sharing our content.
	We'll take that value and we'll put it into action, which I think is maybe the best possible thing that we can do because, well, isn't that our job around here?
	Final word on this.
	Even on a moral level, as a simple Christian, just a simple Christian, on a moral level, Christ asks us to be salt and light.
	This is light.
	It's salty as well.
	But this is light.
	Light is exposing what is intended to be in the darkness.
	They want you to be in the dark.
	We all watch Kim Cheadle together.
	We all watch Christopher Wray say virtually nothing.
	Kim Cheadle say nothing.
	They want us to be in the dark.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we are bringing it into the light.
	And we're doing so because of you.
	And we want to deeply, deeply thank you for being part of this audience.
	It is our responsibility and sacred obligation to you to continue to do projects like this.
	Get ready.
	Get ready.
	We have in edits right now the entire 4K.
	Documentary footage.
	We have so much more to show you in the coming days.
	But this is just a direct download of everything that I learned and am processing through from yesterday.
	Now you know too.
	And that's light.
	This is light.
	The more people know, the better.
	The more people know, the better.
	One of the congressmen, Fox News was following us around with a drone all day yesterday.
	I don't know if we have that footage.
	Fox News was flying around with a...
	The throne.
	You can see this.
	is what Fox put up as we were filming.
martha maccallum ▲ ● ▼		So Fox capturing this video just moments ago of members of Congress visiting the scene of the assassination attempt.
		On the life of former President Trump as the search for answers continues.
		We also have new body cam video showing officers responding to the gunfire.
		Senator Chuck Grassley getting this footage from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit in compliance with congressional requests.
unidentified		Watch.
		I'm trying to figure out how this guy got here.
		Go.
		Go.
		The first operator.
		I think they're on the roof.
		Is that where the dude is too?
		Yeah, he's on the roof outside of the fence.
		Wow.
		Let's bring in four.
		Let's bring in four.
		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Do you see it all now?
		Do you see it all now?
		Do you see what was happening?
		We are going to bang this drum until it breaks.
		And we're already...
		We're already getting rolling here.
		Here's Eli Crane, based on our trip yesterday.
		Congressman Eli Crane on Fox News this morning.
unidentified		Yeah, myself and Rep Corey Mills went to the site yesterday.
		We went with Benny Johnson, who was there to document the event.
		At the end of the day, Martha, the bottom line is this.
		We're both representatives of the American people.
		The American people want answers on this, and quite frankly, they really don't trust.
		The federal government to do this investigation properly and get them the answer.
		So we're going to keep trying to help them unturn every stone and make sure that we do everything we can to make sure that they get the truth.
		And yesterday was the second time I've been at the rally site this week.
		We actually got to get up on one of the roofs that...
		One of the countersniper pairs was up on so that myself and Corey could observe the sight line, sight angle that the countersnipers would have had to the shooter.
		And we also got to talk to several other people that had intimate knowledge of the security and some of the investigations that took place after the shooting.
		And so we're going to keep conducting our oversight, Martha, because at the end of the day, we've got to make sure that this never happens again.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Look at that.
		This is the top trend on Twitter right now.
		This is the power of this audience.
		The power of this audience.
		The top trend on Twitter right now is our drone footage.
		That's the drone footage that I showed you from our show that we shot yesterday.
		The top trend.
		This is how you change culture, ladies and gentlemen.
		This is information warfare.
		This is our drone footage being used as the top trend on all of Twitter.
		FBI seeks interview with Trump.
		Assassination investigation.
unidentified		Sigh
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		First question from Martin.
		Yo, Benny.
		Marty here.
		I'm a vet and a retired law enforcement officer.
		What's the name of the firearm company that builds your arms?
		Thank you.
		The name of my firearm company is Spike's Tactical.
		They're a local Florida-based firearms company.
		I think we have some B-roll of the actual firearms that we can pop up, but they're incredible.
		Their AR-15s, their AR platform is unlike anything I've ever fired.
unidentified		It is butter.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's incredible.
		And I feel extremely protected in my home.
		It is the firearm of the Johnson household.
		It's also here in our studio.
		Just as sort of a reminder, you can take the question off and you can see on the back of the studio, we sort of swap these out.
		Let's pop the question off here.
		Sort of swap these out, but they exist right here.
unidentified		Let's see if you move the mic.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		So, yeah.
		I want to make sure that we are always protected, defended, and that's our right.
		And quite frankly, after today's show and after what we saw on Butler, make sure that you are defending yourself.
		How did this 20-year-old jackwagon outsmart the entire Secret Service?
		The most elite protective service on Earth.
		Yeah.
		Okay?
		Do you understand what I'm saying?
		Defend yourself.
		Concealed carry if you're in a state.
		Constitutional carry if you're in a state.
		Like, make sure you're not the one.
		Make sure you're not the one at a loss.
		Make sure that you're the one standing the gap.
		Right?
		Yeah.
		Evil needs to be confronted.
		But thank you, Martin, for your question.
		Caroline asks, Benny and the boys, hello?
		I've been tuning into your channel from the beginning.
		I'm proud to be a Brigader.
		You and your team are doing the best.
		Showing America the truth?
		Thank you very much, Caroline.
		Thank you for that.
		In Michigan, who live here, we absolutely need the truth.
		The question is, why haven't you been asked to be press secretary for the Republican Party?
		You'd be the best.
		Nobody would be worried about Kamala if I was the press secretary of the Republican Party.
		And I only say that because I think that the way, and we just went to the RNC convention, the way that they are doing press, the way that the RNC does press is so...
		Antiquated and archaic.
		Okay?
		And God has gifted us with a single superpower, which is we're alive and we pay attention.
		Because we're paying attention, we work very, very hard.
		And by the grace of God, we can have a platform and platforms like these to tell the truth on.
		But to do so in a way that is entertaining, that catches people's attention.
		And it isn't like so rote and boring.
		I would love to be the press secretary for President Trump.
		You know what, Mr. President?
		Give me that job.
		I'll only last like three weeks.
		They'll run me out of town because I'll force...
		I'll have like the daily dunce cap, right?
		Put dunce cap on reporter for the, you know, we'll have the dumbass question of the day, right?
		Put a dunce cap on you, you're right?
		Cone of shame, you know, the dogs have to wear, you know, the cone of shame.
		We'll give the cone of shame to Jim Acosta.
		He'll have to run around with the dogs with rabies, right?
		The big cone around his neck.
		It'll be really entertaining.
		Listen, it'll be really fun.
		So I accept the position for President Trump.
		And if we were running the Republican Party's media, humbly, I think there'd be a lot to change, quite frankly.
		Yeah, we were just at the RNC.
		The embarrassing – the embarrassment of the way the RNC treats outlets like us versus corporate media outlets that hate them and the access and the privileges given are – I'm making it my life's work actually to change this system.
		Yeah.
		It's incredible how Democrats treat their favorite little Democrat media.
		And how Republican Party just can't get on board.
		They still like worship at the altar of like old corporate media that nobody reads that hate them.
		And it's so stupid.
		So anyway, yeah, give us the bag.
		We'll take the bag.
		Okay, give us the chow.
	We'll take the chow.
	I think Crooks was an intelligence asset, says Lawrence Smith.
	Recall what Chuck Schumer said when Trump won in 2016, that the intelligence community would be able to get him.
	Yeah, he says seven ways to Sunday have taken you out.
	What do you think?
	Lawrence, I think that given all the evidence and data that we saw when we were in Butler, Pennsylvania, 12 hours ago, shows that there was...
	This I can prove, okay?
	So here's what I can prove.
	One thing I can prove and one thing I can't prove.
	This shows that there was institutional government incompetence that created a kill box for President Trump.
	I prove it.
	I just proved it the entire show, which is 90 minutes proving.
	Institutional government incompetence led to a bullet hitting Trump in the head.
	That was intended to kill him.
	And could very well have killed him were not for a slight head turn at the absolute perfect time.
	Who's behind it?
	That's the question, Lawrence.
	Who's behind it?
	I can tell you this, the people that were working security that day damn well do not trust their government and do believe that there were systemic security failures that were baked in in order to harm President Trump.
	Who was the person pulling the trigger?
	Who was the person making those decisions?
	That we must have a select committee in Congress, and we must have Corey Mills and Eli Crane on that select committee asking the right questions and doing the right, the correct investigation.
	Asking the right questions, the very uncomfortable questions.
	Like, who sent the sniper team that could have gotten Crooks out of their sniper nest?
	Who approved of this area 80...
	Yards away from Trump being an unsecure area.
	Why didn't you track crooks?
	Why didn't you fly drones?
	Why wasn't somebody up on the water tower?
	Why, why, why, why, why?
	It's maddening.
	Why JFK ride around Dallas in the back of a convertible?
	Why JFK's Secret Service agent step off his car right in time for the shot?
	Shots.
	Multiple gun in there.
	These are the questions.
	But you know what?
	The Saints are pruder.
	We have 20 different angles of this thing.
	We have a bunch of cameras rolling.
	And we can get to the bottom of it.
	So, Lawrence, thank you for your question.
	We're doing everything we can on this program.
	There is something that I want to say on behalf of a sweet and wonderful ally of ours in this fight.
	We have been team never quit.
	We've been team no sleep over the last few weeks.
	Everything from the Trump assassination, Biden dropping out, Kamala Harris.
	They dropped Trump's charges in Florida, the RNC convention.
	This trip, that it was absolutely necessitated, we've been treated, team never sleep.
	And so, if you are, along with the fact that, yeah, father to three kids under the age of four.
	And so, I drink my coffee.
	I drink a lot of it.
	And this is a heartfelt thank you to Blackout Coffee.
	Who's a sponsor of the show, but is desperately needed on days like today.
	I have no fancy words.
	I'm all out of fancy words.
	I'm too tired.
	I'm all out of fancy words or buttery velvet words.
	I'm just going to say thank you to Blackout Coffee because they keep us running, like literally keep us rolling on days like today.
	They're an awesome company.
	I love their product.
	They love this country.
	And they're a non-world coffee company and aren't a bunch of government sellouts.
	There's no grift for these guys.
	So, be awake, not woke.
	Go to blackoutcoffee.com slash Benny.
	Blackoutcoffee.com slash Benny.
	Use the coupon code Benny for 20% off your order.
	And drink blackout coffee, like I do, on days like today.
	That's what's rattling around in this cup.
	Right now.
	I don't know.
	It's my fourth or fifth, one of these.
	Not sure.
	I travel with Blackout Coffee to the RNC.
	We were doing a lot at the RNC, and every morning, Blackout Coffee espresso blend, like extra, extra strong, is what I traveled with.
	Ladies and gentlemen, there's one other thing that we travel with.
	It's our Bible.
	And it's something that keeps us going every single day.
	The other thing?
	And I would argue...
	In all due respect to blackout coffee, the most important thing is our verse of the day.
	And making sure that we understand that it is a spiritual battle, what we fight, not a physical one.
	And while there are physical dangers in this world, and we just exposed so many of them, the physical, the spiritual is more important than the physical.
	The spiritual is more important than the physical.
	Okay?
	Like, store away treasures, right, that cannot be destroyed by...
	Satan and the evils of this earth.
	Your body will perish one day or another.
	One day or another.
	You're going in.
	Okay?
	Me too.
	All of us.
	And so, yeah.
	Invest in the things that are the most important.
	The things that will last forever.
	Your spiritual self.
	Verse of the day from 1 Corinthians.
	Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
	We love you.
	We rejoice in the truth.
	We wish to bring you salt and light.
	And we rejoice with you when we are able to expose truth as we did today.
	As dark and as uncomfortable, as evil as it all was, it is important to know.
	And we are dog with a bone.
	We are not letting go, okay?
	We're not letting go.
	We're going to march forward into the truth with you, for you.
	We thank you.
	Get ready.
	There's more to come.
	The Benny Brigade rolls on, baby!
	The salt must flow.
	Here we go.
	See ya.
	Have a great weekend in this, the most wonderful country on earth.
	It's your boy, Benny.
	Salt and light.

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