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July 14, 2024 - Fresh & Fit

04:10:49

Former Fed Reacts To Trump Assassination Attempt

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	...sniper team, someone from that team, whether that's the person who took out the shooter.
	That's right when he saw it.
	We saw the video of this, by the way, guys.
	That's him.
	That's the shooter right there that killed the guy.
	Shout out to this guy, Don DeMarco.
	Around that perimeter.
	Again, this former agent saying this is just something they always do.
	They scan as much as possible.
	And, you know, heard those shots fired, heard multiple shots fired, and people hitting the ground.
	And I'm sure that sniper went into action.
	Yeah, as many as eight rounds from that AR-style rifle.
	Martha, thank you so much for your reporting on this.
	Let's bring in Don Mihalik from former Secret Service, who's a contributor now, has been speaking with us.
	Donald, I just want to get your sense of this information that we're getting now about the shooter on a rooftop taken out by a counter-sniper.
	What's your take on this and how these events may have unfolded?
	Well, it sounds like the Secret Service counter snipers did their job, as Martha was talking about.
	Whenever there's an event anywhere, the counter snipers go and they do their form of an advance.
	That form of an advance is looking at the entire area in and around the event space and setting up almost a grid pattern so they could identify locations and locations of interest.
	Looking and scanning all of those potential threat areas are part of what the countersniper is doing.
	They work with ground teams generally made up of...
	All right, we're back up on Rumble, guys.
	...enforcement called countersniper response teams that they can call upon to respond to a potential situation to figure out what's going on.
	In this situation, it sounds like some of that was working.
	But, you know, what we're going to have now is the FBI is going to do the criminal investigation piece of this to look at...
	The shooter, his motivations, what happened.
	But you're also going to have the Secret Service now doing a mission insurance investigation to look at the protective venue, what protective methodologies were in place, what worked, what gaps they may have had, and what they could close down in the future.
	Yeah, so much ground to cover and still so many.
	And do me a favor, guys.
	If you are going to switch on over to Rumble and watch it, keep your YouTube tab open and like the video, guys.
	Helps a lot with the algorithm.
	Helps a lot with the engagement.
	We really appreciate that.
	I don't normally film on Saturdays, but I'm doing this for you guys because I think it's very important.
	And, yeah, I mean, I'm one of the few guys that's actually served on a Secret Service detail that could talk about this that's on YouTube right now or Rumble or whatever it may be.
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	Watch on Rumble as well.
	And like the video on YouTube.
	Keep your YouTube and your Rumble tab open.
	It really helps out with the algo.
	Appreciate that, guys.
	Let's keep breaking this thing down.
	I predict that we might get a name tonight.
	Let's see what happens.
	Former President Trump is rightfully getting much of the attention.
	But there was a bystander that was killed according to the Secret Service.
	And now we know from the hospital.
	Let's go back into Twitter space, guys, and see what they're talking about over there.
	Critically hurt after this male gunman, who has still not been identified, fired from two to three hundred yards away from an elevated position on a rooftop adjacent to the...
	...outdoor rallies.
	You know, there's so much ground to cover out there.
	It's always a risk.
	And, you know, I'm just thankful for law enforcement.
	The Secret Service guys are incredible.
	You know, you guys don't realize these guys are...
	Look at how they surrounded him...
	And basically, all the agents covered him on the ground.
	If there was more shots, one of those agents could have easily got killed.
	Like, they put their life on the line for that man.
	And rest in peace to the people in the stands who got shot.
	You know, it's a sad day.
	So I don't think we should jump to conclusions just yet.
	You'd be surprised.
	You know, the way my mind works, I'm like a Navy SEAL at heart.
	Whenever I go in a building, I'm looking at the exit.
	Whenever I'm at a rally, I'm looking all around.
	You know, a lot of times being backstage, you can't help but think, hey, we're all...
	Is audio coming in good for you guys?
	Give me one zip.
	Audio's coming in good for y'all ninjas.
	You guys can hear what's going on here.
	If you're going to do 2,000 rallies and 30,000 people at every rally, you know, there's a reason guys like Tucker, guys like Cernovich had been talking about this, you know?
	All right, awesome, awesome.
	Thank you, guys.
	And you better believe now security is going to be Just came in now, very limited information, but Biden and Trump have spoken by phone.
	We don't know what they've spoken about.
	They spoke on the phone.
	That's what we know.
	Biden and Trump have spoken by phone.
	What we really need is to come together.
	People need to come together and hopefully this can have people more realize, like, we're in this together.
	And hey, I'll finish on this note.
	Good thing it was an Antifa member, supposedly, because those guys suck.
	They can't get anything right.
	Antifa?
	Okay.
	That's been debunked.
	Let's see.
	Oh, it's been debunked.
	Okay.
	Do we know who it was yet?
	Yeah, it was a white male with a beard, long hair, but nothing else.
	That's pretty much what we know.
	Okay.
	Thanks, Mario.
	Go ahead, Lucky.
	Yeah.
	I mean, so when Trump goes to Trump Tower, the Secret Service will clear out all the stores.
	Like Tiffany's is right there.
	They'll clear it out, make sure everything's secure, you know, so he's fully protected.
	So it's just, you know, shocking to me.
	And I agree.
	You know, the Secret Service, most of the Secret Service is excellent.
	You know, they're very good at their jobs.
	You know, they're traveling all over.
	The fact that this was missed and this guy was able to get that close on a building they knew about, they had to know about this building because they mapped it out, you know, two plus weeks ago.
	And was able to get that vantage point.
	It's just shocking.
	Like I said, it's shocking to me, and I think it's shocking to everyone that this was able to happen.
	Yeah, so I'm just going to get your thoughts, guys, from a political standpoint, Chief, unless you have some updates here.
	What does that mean for Biden?
	Well, Biden now knows he lost.
	I mean, he might as well step down and let someone take the beating because this race is over.
	This is over.
	Donald Trump is the 47th president of the United States.
	And I got to tell you, I want people to listen to me.
	When Trump gets in the Oval Office again, People who did this, people who did the witch hunt when he was president, it's all coming back on you guys.
	Remember that.
	Let me go to Mr.
	Bano.
	We got 8,900 of you guys on YouTube and then another 3K plus on Rumble.
	Shout out to all you guys.
	Almost four.
	Mr.
	Bano, how are you?
	Good, good.
	Tell us about your background.
	You've sent us some details earlier.
	Give us your background and your thoughts on what we've seen so far.
	I was in the United States Marine Corps as an infantryman.
	In 2014, I became a marksmanship instructor out in 29 Palms.
	It's one of the worst shooting ranges that there is.
	You've got 40 mile-per-hour winds going constantly.
	Trained over 10,000 Marines on the M4, M16, AR-15 platforms, as well as the 9mm Beretta.
	Just wanted to speak on this weapon system real quick.
	It's not a non-ideal weapon for this situation.
	It's 150 feet or yards.
	The M16 is rated out for a max effective point target at 550 meters.
	An experienced shooter can do this in the standing on top of that building and hit its target no problem.
	And then you also have the 30 round magazine that you can have with this weapon and re-engaging is very simple.
	So trying to pull out a bull action or something like that where a larger caliber is not needed, this is a very good weapon to get in and out if you're trying to.
	But I don't think the shooter had that intent.
	And also when you're going after a huge political target like that, your nerves are probably shaken and up.
	So his shot being off is probably due to that.
	But this is a good weapon for that type of situation.
	It's just not saying that you need a sniper or something.
	It's not needed.
	That's all I have to say.
	And the question, I'd love you guys to ask some more questions here to Bano, just to kind of understand better.
	So you're saying the weapon is not, you're not saying it's ideal, but it's not the worst weapon for, obviously, the attempted assassination of Trump, considering the distance.
	How heavy is the weapon to carry?
	How visible is it for the Secret Service?
	Because it took him a long time to apprehend him.
	That all depends, because you can break this gun down very easily and get it back together within 10 seconds.
	You can collapse it in half.
	But...
	I mean, the gun weighs around 14 pounds.
	You can sneak it in, and you only need a couple seconds to engage.
	And that's if you're an experienced shooter.
	I don't think this guy was very experienced at all because at 150 yards, he was shooting from the prone, and he was trying to probably lower his profile.
	That's the only thing I can think of.
	But you can definitely get the shot off and get out of there real quick if you needed to with that weapon system.
	Okay, and then from what we've seen so far, the position, so you've seen the images of the shelter, you've seen how far it is from the former president and the line of sight.
	Have you seen all that footage?
	Yeah, I have.
	Okay, perfect.
	You've seen the footage of the Secret Service engaging with the shooter?
	Okay, I'd love your thoughts on all that footage.
	The Secret Service engaging with the shooter, it seems like, I don't know if he was trying to assess his target and see what he had in his hands.
	I mean, that's something you should be able to tell very quickly.
	I would definitely be questioning my Secret Service on what actually happened.
	So you're talking based on the footage, he kind of looked through the scope and then looked away and then looked through the scope again.
	That's what you're referring to, correct?
	Volume up, guys.
	It's just that the guy's talking low.
	I don't know why his volume is so fucking low.
	Because a lot of these guys aren't using mics, guys.
	That's the problem.
	Like, they're talking on their phone.
	So, like, that's the issue.
	Let me try to see if I can increase the volume for you ninjas.
	And then, you know, answer questions later.
	Okay, and what about the fact that the police...
	So, it wasn't the Secret Service.
	Two questions.
	How was the shelter, the warehouse not surrounded by police?
	That's number one.
	Number two, how come wasn't there Secret Service on that?
	I completely agree with you.
	That's another level of stupidity, though.
	From the images, I think we've seen he was not uniform.
	He's wearing a white...
	Yeah, not uniform.
	He's wearing a white t-shirt.
	Trying to bring it up, guys.
	Hold on.
	A lot of times, too, you show up to a rally, the local officers aren't always going to be on the same page as everyone else, right?
	It would be stupid to throw it out there.
	No, I appreciate that.
	All right, go ahead, Mr.
	Mago.
	Mr.
	Mago, I think it was.
	Go ahead.
	You were just explaining, giving us your thoughts on, not Mago, sorry, Bano.
	Bano, go ahead.
	Bano, your mic isn't working.
	There you go.
	Yeah, perfect.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah, I just want you to continue with your thoughts on all the footage that you've seen.
	Yeah, someone says there's a picture of the shooter dead on this floor.
	Yeah, guys, I know.
	I just don't want to show it because we're on YouTube right now.
	So you can't, you know, it's super graphic.
	So that was a very valid question.
	That building should have had Secret Service on there.
	Yeah, I mean, it seems like a gross oversight all around.
	But you know what?
	What I'll do is I'll drop it in the chat for you.
	And the likelihood, obviously we're just speculating here, but the likelihood of having some sort of inside job.
	I would hate to speculate, but I would say...
	Is it a fair question to ask right now?
	It's absolutely fair to ask, but to run with that story is another thing entirely.
	Absolutely.
	I think running with any story right now.
	It's the same thing as people always say.
	These politicians are stupid.
	Politicians are stupid.
	Why are they sending money overseas?
	They're stupid.
	No!
	They're running a money laundering operation.
	You always think it's stupidity.
	It's not.
	It's all planned.
	Actually, you know what, guys?
	I'll post it on my Twitter.
	I can speculate if someone got a phone call.
	I'll post it on my Twitter right now.
	Move that position.
	Move this position.
	Give the guy a...
	I'm telling you, this was an inside job, and people really need to stop taking that stuff seriously because they took a shot at the future president of the United States.
	They tried to attack every single one of us today, and people need to be taking this seriously.
	Yeah, so RFK obviously did reference the assassination of his uncle.
	And his father.
	And he quoted, we can't allow our country to devolve into violence.
	That was RFK for a few minutes.
	I just posted on my Twitter, guys.
	I will go ahead and give you the link real fast.
	For any of you guys that want to see the shooter.
	If, like, what you're saying is right, that there was an inside job, it was an attempted assassination, Oh, here's the shooter.
	This is from the quartering just coming in.
	Let me show you guys this.
	Let me drop my link.
	Let me show you guys this real quick.
	This is the shooter, apparently.
	I think the important part is understanding that Trump's on his way to win another election.
	Looks like a whack job, man.
	This is my Twitter is lit, guys.
	The other option is going to basically follow what you believe or is going to be able to partake.
	Alright, I'm going to leave this Twitter discussion.
	But yeah, guys, this is what they're saying is the shooter.
	Well, I posted on my thing here.
	Hold on, this is YouTube.
	Sorry.
	Where the hell was I? Wrong tab.
	Sorry, guys.
	Hold on, let me pull it back up.
	I had it.
	And here's my ex, guys.
	I'll drop the link in here for you guys in the chat right now.
	Actually, you know what?
	What I'll do is...
	Hold on.
	I got you guys.
	I'm going to do you guys one better.
	I'm going to actually post a real link to it.
	Right?
	Boom.
	Copy link.
	I'll put that in the chat for you guys right now.
	If you guys want to see...
	see because I know a lot of you guys want to see the shooter.
	What the hell?
	I'm in the wrong chat.
	Alright, someone...
	Ah, yeah, okay, I know why.
	God damn it.
	I'm logged in under that.
	Give me one sec, guys.
	Let me fix this real fast.
	Actually, you know what?
	Let me...
	What the fuck?
	Yeah, someone pin it.
	Actually, I could pin it right here.
	Boom.
	Alright, I pinned it.
	Shout out to you broski, thank you.
	I pinned it so you guys can go ahead and look.
	It's right there for you guys ninjas.
	If you guys wanna look at who the shooter was.
	And then here the quartering, right?
	All right.
	He posted.
	Oh, I guess him and Destiny are going back and forth.
	Okay.
	Alright.
	But yeah, here we go.
	This is the guy.
	There's probably gonna be a manifesto as well here.
	See what the comments are.
	It's probably it's probably posted already.
	Yeah A demolish a shirt, huh?
	Hmm.
	Okay, so it looks like some type of tactical gear.
	Okay.
	Looks like these are some of the creators that support this stuff.
	Interesting.
	Thank you.
	very very interesting so okay Go back to Twitter here.
	Give me one sec, guys.
	Go to main camera real quick while I pull up this Twitter.
	Give me one sec.
	Yeah.
	So they're pretty sure everyone is starting to think that this is the guy.
	Let me go ahead and share screen with you ninjas real fast.
	Yeah, because he's wearing, this is drone footage from before.
	He's wearing the same shirt as the person that was killed.
	So yeah, they're thinking that this is him.
	And obviously, if you guys look at my status, it's him because the long hair, right?
	Oh, yeah.
	Trump is still going to show up to UFC.
	This is Candace Owe saying this.
	Yes.
	Now would be a good time to give RFK Jr.
	Secret Service detail.
	I don't know if they're gonna do that Okay.
	Anyway, Twitter's crazy.
	I gotta, like, screen stuff before I show it on screen here.
	Let's see here.
	Let's go back to this.
	Notable that they are not saying much more about that conversation between the president and his rival, the former president.
	Just the fact that they spoke, though, is really remarkable when you consider, you know, how rare it is.
	I mean, before the debate last month, it had been years since the two of them had talked.
	And even at the debate, they barely, I don't even think you could say, exchanged niceties.
	The president is now making his way back here to the White House.
	He's going to continue to be briefed by his team.
	He's going to have a briefing tomorrow morning with his national security team, continuing to try and keep a close eye on all of this.
	The question now, one of many, is what kind of impact this is going to have on the president's campaign.
	We are already seeing efforts by some to sort of politicize this moment.
	Of course, as Rick notes, we have no idea what motivated or drove this gunman to do this.
	But you are already seeing many point the finger or some pointing the finger at President Biden and his rhetoric.
	That is something, not surprisingly, that his campaign forcefully rejects.
	But how will this change?
	The tone and tenor of this campaign in the coming days, of course, as President Biden has been, you know, under tremendous fire and fighting for his political future, as we have seen so many Democrats coming out and calling for him to exit this race.
	But for now, in this moment, the president is responding to this, you know, as a president first, but also as a candidate.
	Of course, we are seeing his campaign pull down their political communications.
	We are seeing them pull down their political ads to focus on this moment, to try and dial down the temperature And just so you guys know, we know that this is, look, look, so check this out.
	You can see here he is, right?
	Same shirt, and here he is, right?
	So this is him when they got up to the body.
	This sent from beforehand.
	So we're pretty certain now that that is the shooter, this fucking weirdo dude.
	So I predict that they won't be able to keep that.
	We're gonna have a name here soon, guys.
	We're gonna have a name here soon.
	Convention in any way is not something he wants.
	If he's able, he's going to try to be there.
	I mean, I've witnessed Trump at rallies kind of call out the Secret Service and saying, why are these barricades up there?
	I want to let people get closer to the stage.
	I was at a rally in Iowa during the 2022 midterms where he actually got his staff to remove some of the barriers so more of the crowd could come closer to the stage.
	He's not going to want to scale down, scale back any of this thing.
	I was talking to one of the many people that are involved in So interesting tweet here from Dan Bongino, guys.
	This guy's a former Secret Service agent.
	Dan Bongino says, actively communicating with a number of former colleagues from the Secret Service about this assassination attempt.
	This is an obviously catastrophic failure.
	No excuses should be made or even attempted.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, yeah, I tweeted this earlier that it's a big fucking L. The failures are profound and questions must be answered about ground surveillance, air surveillance, post-standard support, and counter-sniper advance work and response.
	We have one job and we came within inches of deadly failure today.
	An uneventful failure is not a success.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I agree with that.
	And here he is as well.
	Let's see if he tweeted anything else.
	Boom.
	Yep. Episode 2079.
	It's time for a...
	Okay.
	Explains that Donald Trump still does not have a full presidential protection package despite the apocalyptic...
	What did I tell y'all ninjas?
	I fucking told you guys.
	I told you guys that he doesn't have a full protection, Secret Service protection detail.
	This guy, that's a former Secret Service.
	Right?
	And he's even telling you guys that he didn't have full protection.
	And this is what I'm trying to say.
	When you are a running president and someone as divisive as Trump, you need to have a full Secret Service detail that is the equivalent to what the president has.
	Okay?
	Let's go ahead and play this.
	Watch this clip.
	Full presidential package for President Trump.
	If you go back and listen to episode 2079, President Trump does not have that.
	He doesn't have that now.
	I get it.
	There are some legalities involved.
	But President Trump is a former president running for re-election.
	You essentially have two incumbents running.
	Folks, he does not have a full presidential package right now.
	It is putting the man in danger.
	His threat level is apocalyptic.
	And I'll tell you this.
	After this, they need to give him a full presidential detail to the same level as Biden.
	To the same goddamn level.
	Because a sitting president gets certain levels of security.
	He has the highest level.
	That's all, you know, that's like prime secret service priority.
	But Trump needs the same.
	Catastrophic.
	It is time right now for Kim Cheadle, the Secret Service Director, to get her head out of her ass and do the right thing.
	I could tell you stories for days about her putting politics ahead of presidential protection.
	I am not being overly emotional because I've said it before.
	The Secret Service Director is utterly unqualified right now to be doing what she's doing.
	She.
	LOL. It's time for her first to get this thing solved.
	It's an emergency situation right now and find out what happened.
	But she should step down immediately.
	Some of the things she has told people on that detail about security arrangements, clearly making political statements, she is completely unqualified.
	It is time for President Trump to have a full presidential package.
	I'll leave you with this and then I'm asking you all, please, again, it's in these times where You know, I'm not some freaking poet, man, so we don't need to do any of that stuff.
	I'm just saying, you know, like when these people get lost at sea, they have lighthouses and stuff for a reason, you know?
	God's that one for you, and he's that one for us right now.
	Just ask.
	Just open up.
	Prayer matters.
	It's not a joke.
	It's not some scam.
	What do you think?
	This was all created out of some kind of alien mist or something?
	We need him right now.
	The nation needs them.
	We're still the United States of America, even though we got a lot of crazy people.
	You don't want some foreign country right now taking advantage of this chaos.
	End on this.
	Listen, I say all the time, maybe put a little smile on your face in a really tragic time.
	Campaigns are snapshots and soundbites.
	That's all they are.
	Donald Trump's got a lot of guts, man, getting up there.
	Exposing himself again to what he knew.
	What he knew was an assassination attempt.
	And pounding his fist in the air.
	That's true.
	Moments after being shot at.
	Moments.
	When most people would buckle and cry like, oh shit.
	That snapshot's gonna live forever.
	That was a clip from the Dan Bongino show.
	Bam.
	Shout out to Dan Bongino, also a colleague in the rumble space of things.
	Read some of these chats real fast from you ninjas.
	We got here...
	Durag Marin, yo Marin, check the Discord.
	Moe, check Discord.
	Marin has a picture of the shooter.
	Yep, Arius.
	Durag Marin again.
	Marin, I sent a video to Moe of a spectator literally seeing the guy crawl up in him telling cops about him, then the cops ignoring him.
	Oh, shit.
	Yeah, I heard his...
	You know what?
	Let's go ahead and pull that up real fast.
	I saw that...
	I saw that, like...
	Let me see here.
	Okay, let me put here...
	Spectator sees Trump shooter.
	And we might get it.
	Let's see here.
	And then Topshay says, Trump does not have a full outfit security secret service unit, especially the exterior secret services perimeter.
	Failed to listen to bystanders about a man crawling on a roof with a rifle.
	They failed to listen.
	Yes, yes, that is true.
	That is true.
	And I heard some of it before about this.
	Let me find this video that you're talking about on Telegram.
	Let me see here.
	Okay, Mo sent it to me.
	I'm going to play it right now.
	Shout out to you, Mo.
	Thank you so much for finding it for me.
	I'm going to pull it up for you ninjas right now.
	Give me one sec.
	I'll pull this up and we'll play this video.
	Boom, here's the video.
	Okay.
	Let me download this thing.
	Play it for you guys.
	Alright.
	Bear with me.
	Looks like it's a two-minute clip here.
	Let me move this over here.
	And then...
	I'm gonna open it for you guys here in a second.
	I got it right here.
	And listen to the rally.
	Over.
	Boom.
	Boom.
	I'm a one-man show right now, guys.
	Bear with me.
	Okay, we got it.
	And listen to the rally, right?
	We couldn't see him, but we could hear him.
	So we walked up, and probably five to seven minutes of Trump speaking, I'm estimating here, I have no idea, you know.
	But we noticed a guy crawling...
	You know, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50 feet away from us.
	So we're standing there, you know, we're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof.
	And he had a gun, right?
	He had a rifle.
	We could clearly see him with a rifle, absolutely.
	We're pointing at him.
	The police are down there running around on the ground.
	We're like, hey, man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle.
	And the police are like, huh, what?
	You know, like they didn't know what was going on.
	And guys, like again, they're confused because what did I tell you guys before, right?
	See how everything I said is like coming kind of to fruition?
	Secret Service guys, when they do details, heavily rely on other law enforcement agencies to help augment their security detail.
	I'm gonna say that again.
	When Secret Service goes and does these rallies, They heavily depend on other law enforcement agencies to augment the security detail.
	What does that mean?
	Well, you got a guy, right?
	That is a law enforcement guy, right?
	Like for me, for example, when I was put on a secret service detail, I'm not a protection fucking guy.
	I'm a criminal investigator.
	I specialize in going after drug traffickers and human smugglers and firearms.
	I'm not a protection detail guy, right?
	Security and protection is not the same as law enforcement.
	Okay?
	So when they bring these state police guys in, they bring in a lot of these HSI agents, etc.
	A lot of these guys that you guys are seeing in suits that are Secret Service detail, a lot of them are HSI agents.
	They're not Secret Service agents.
	They're just helping augment the detail.
	So they're not as specifically trained, and they don't have the same background when it comes to protection versus law enforcement, which are two different missions completely.
	So when this guy is telling the police, yo, we're seeing a guy, blah, blah, blah, like...
	He might...
	Because remember, guys, at every single rally, there's people saying stupid shit like this.
	Yo, there's somebody gonna do this!
	Like, there's hundreds of tips that come in.
	This guy's gonna attempt this at this rally.
	This guy's gonna do this.
	Yo, this guy's doing this at this rally, blah, blah, blah.
	So, you know, not make an excuse for these guys, but it's very difficult to ascertain what's serious and what isn't serious.
	So you see this guy, right, with his fucking...
	Let's be honest here.
	Like, this dude looks like a ginger Abe Lincoln, right?
	You might look at this nigga like, wait, what?
	What are you...
	Bro, shut up.
	You know, you're not going to take them seriously.
	Hey, bro, there's someone on the building!
	You don't know if they're serious or whatever it may be.
	So, granted, obviously, the police in this situation, I heard this, guarantee you they probably weren't secret service agents.
	They're probably state police, local police, county sheriff's office, whatever it may be.
	They're the ones that probably heard this, right?
	And they're like, what?
	And they're still assessing the information.
	And at that point, you got seconds, maybe a minute, to react, right?
	So, um...
	Again, obviously, this is unacceptable, but this is why it's so important for Secret Service.
	They need more Secret Service agents because more Secret Service agents means that they're able to be properly trained for protection.
	When you're properly trained for protection, you're going to take threats like this extremely credibly versus a regular police officer.
	Right?
	Which is who they were probably talking to.
	A local guy that's just there doing a fucking detail, you know, not told anything, right?
	Because a lot of times they're not told a lot of the details of the Secret Service detail.
	The law enforcement guys, they're just there.
	They're just told, stay in this location, and that's it.
	They don't tell them anything else.
	So they don't know, really, what the fuck's going on.
	We can see him from right here.
	We see him.
	He's crawling.
	And next thing you know, I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, why is Trump still speaking?
	Why have they not pulled him off the stage?
	I'm standing there pointing at him for, you know, two, three minutes.
	Secret Service is looking at us from the top of the barn.
	I'm pointing at that roof, just standing there like this.
	And next thing you know, five shots ring out.
	So you're certain that the shots came from that guy on the ring?
	100%.
	100%.
	And he was up there for a couple of minutes?
	He was up there.
	You saw him up there for a couple of minutes?
	Absolutely.
	At least three to four minutes.
	And you were telling the police in the secret service?
	We were telling the police, we were pointing at them for the Secret Service who were looking at us from the top of the barn.
	They were looking at us the whole time when we were standing by that tree.
	Could they see him?
	Binoculars.
	Could they see him?
	Probably not, because the roof, the way the slope went, he was behind where they could see.
	But why is there not Secret Service on all of these roofs here?
	I mean, this is not a big place.
	Did you see, I mean, obviously everyone, when the shooting started, everyone was very panicked.
	Did you see what happened to him at all?
	Oh yeah, they blew his head off.
	Okay, sorry.
	Secret Service blew his head off.
	Okay, just be careful because we're live.
	Shut up.
	We don't quite know who's watching, but you're pretty sure they shot the guy?
	Absolutely, 100%.
	You saw that happen?
	Yep.
	And if you guys want to see what it looks like, click the link at the top.
	It's pinned.
	I got a picture of my ex where you guys can go ahead and look at the photo.
	Yep.
	And did you see them go up to him afterwards?
	Yeah, they crawled up on the roof.
	They had their guns pointed at him.
	Make sure he was dead.
	He was dead.
	And that was it.
	It was over.
	Typical Pennsylvania guy, that accent is funny.
	So that's why it's funny.
	You guys can see some of my Overwatch montages coming very soon for you ninjas.
	Overwatch montages coming soon.
	Let's see here.
	Donald Trump in an attempted assassination at one of his events in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	He was there for a rally, a political rally.
	You see the events here.
	There were the popping sounds in the crowd.
	The former president reaching for his right ear before going down to the deck right there on the stage.
	The Secret Service surrounding the former president.
	Let's do a little deep dive on secret service director Kimberly Cheadle Here she is.
	Kermit Chittles is an American law enforcement officer who has served as director of the United States Secret Service.
	Since September 2022, she previously had multiple roles in the United States.
	So what did she do before?
	She joined Secret Service in '95, 2017, 2018.
	She served as deputy assistant director.
	She was the SAC of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
	She became the first woman to serve as Assistant Director of Protective Operations, a department tasked with protection of President Dignitaries and managed a budget of $133.5 million.
	During her tenure, Cheadle was assigned to the Vice Presidential Protective Division.
	During the Obama administration, 2019 and 2022, Cheadle served as Senior Director of Global Security at PepsiCo, which was responsible for directing and implementing security protocols for the company's facilities in North America.
	Her role involves Developing Risk Management Assessment and Risk Mitigation.
	2021, President Joe Biden awarded Cheadle a Presidential Rank Award for Exceptional Performance.
	2022, Biden announced the appointment of Cheadle to be Director of the United States Secret Service, and she assumed office on September 17, 2022.
	She took over following a turbulent couple months in which the agency best known for protecting presidents faced controversy related to January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
	So she got...
	Yeah, she's definitely gonna be...
	There's gonna be...
	Guys, there's gonna be congressional inquiries.
	They're gonna grill her on Capitol Hill.
	You best believe.
	There is going to be hell to pay after this.
	For sure.
	On a rooftop, some 200 to 300 yards away from that venue.
	Once again, with an AR-style rifle.
	We're going to bring in some of our other correspondents and contributors here in just a moment.
	Forgive me, I'm getting instructions.
	I can't do that.
	You've got to keep moving it forward.
	Okay.
	We've been speaking with eyewitnesses all day.
	Let's go ahead and listen.
	Tell me what you saw and what you heard.
	You said that you heard the popping sounds and you got down?
	I heard popping sounds.
	At first you think like maybe firecrackers, but it continued.
	It continued.
	And then somebody yelled, get down.
	We got down.
	We got down and we huddled and we started praying.
	And we just started praying.
	And thank God, a little while later, we got up when we saw other people get up.
	We saw Trump get up, raise his fist like I'm okay.
	And we...
	We just kept praying.
	I felt really bad.
	I'm worried about our grandchildren.
	What kind of life are they going to have if this goes on, if people don't have the right to say what they want.
	You told me that you were here.
	I'll tell you this, Butler's about to get golden more than ever before.
	You weren't very far.
	No, we were like from here to where that thing is.
	And you got down, you said you got down immediately?
	Yeah, everybody yelled, get down.
	My daughter-in-law, Lisa, she said for us to hurry up and get down.
	Well, I mean, I saw, like, all the, like, Secret Service, like, kind of...
	They did a really good job about that, making sure he was protected, telling everyone to get down.
	So I think they did take a good care of making sure everyone was understanding what was going on and being serious but not freaking everybody out.
	What was your initial reaction when you heard those popping noises?
	To get down.
	Yeah, so I actually like my boyfriend pushed me on the ground and like went on top of me, which was like really nice.
	But I think a lot of people I think were a little like too shocked to understand what was going on originally for sure.
	But I think I think everyone listened pretty well and it was handled pretty well.
	Did you see some of that commotion that was playing out on the other side of the bleacher where we saw law enforcement agents sort of swarm around another individual or did you ultimately just rush out?
	No, we were there for a minute because they did tell us to go back down again just in case.
	I think that was good because it helped, like, calm people down.
	But I think one of the stands that I was next to, they did, like, carry out a man.
	And there was another one that might have been injured.
	I'm not 100% sure, but definitely one at least.
	And on the other stand on the other side, because I was on the right, on the left, there were, like, a bunch of, like, men in uniform, like, surrounding someone.
	So that was interesting to see.
	You said that you were very impressed by the speed in which Secret Service was able to get on that stage within seconds.
	I'll pause this real quick.
	Chats goes, Trump is a fucking goat.
	This is from only two genders.
	Hopefully he isn't controlled by the Zyos.
	Yep.
	Chunker says, an inch away from civil war, I have young children.
	God help us all.
	Yeah, man, crazy.
	Someone said, fuck that pussy.
	Yep.
	Viola Price says, what do you think?
	Intentional or just negligence on Secret Service?
	I sure hope whoever is head of his security details fire tomorrow.
	Yeah, I would say a lot of negligence, guys.
	Chief Ruckus says, and this is from the Castle Club Ninjas.
	Shout out to all you guys, man.
	Seeing Trump get back Yeah, bro.
	He really is that nigga.
	Facts.
	Shout out to all you guys, man.
	We got 400 of you guys watching over on Cast Club, man.
	Shout out to all you guys, man.
	Especially on such a...
	We got a lot of y'all watching.
	We got 5,000 plus on Rumble.
	We got like another 8,000 plus on almost 9,000 on YouTube.
	So yeah, man, we got like 12, 13,000 of you guys watching right now on a Saturday when we never stream.
	So shout out to all you guys.
	Appreciate that greatly.
	Love all you guys.
	Shout out to Castle Club guys.
	Join Castle Club because these guys are hilarious with these memes.
	Just to kind of make sure you guys don't got nothing too crazy on here.
	Yeah, so here, I'll show you guys kind of like what the Castle Club looks like.
	It's lit, man.
	Like, you guys can see, like, you know, you can put memes up and all this other stuff.
	It's like, fuck that pussy ass.
	Oh, God.
	Okay, never mind.
	Let me move this back up.
	Y'all say some crazy shit on here.
	All right.
	But yeah, CastleClub, they've been going wild, bro.
	CastleClub.tv, guys.
	Join in there, man.
	Byron, I just said DM on X of a lip melting down because the shooter missed.
	Bro, what the fuck is wrong with these people?
	Okay, Zero Cool.
	I'll check that out.
	Doge Trollster, get the secret service agents on after hours.
	Okay.
	Trump is a fucking goat.
	That's from Only Two Genders.
	The Doge Troller, Chief Raka.
	Yep.
	Shout out to all you guys.
	You guys are hilarious, man, with these memes.
	Kumo says, I know I'm making jokes, but the fact that we may never know what actually happened and everybody's scrambling in real time is fucked up, man.
	We're really in bad movie.
	They said the Chinese man now to white male.
	This is what I'm talking about.
	Yeah, a lot of fake news is going to come out, guys.
	Myron, you might need to take a break from FNF and go protect Trump.
	Yeah, for real.
	This shit get crazy.
	So, yeah.
	Let's see here.
	This is what would happen if I was on the job.
	You guys are hilarious, bro.
	So we'll put this...
	Let me see if I can pull this...
	Show you guys this thing.
	So...
	If I was on the job, this is, I guess, what would happen.
	Your guys' memes are hilarious, bro.
	Just funny-ass memes, man.
	Someone else on Castle Club put this meme up.
	Yo, you guys are fucking hilarious for this shit, bro.
	Look at this.
	Like, they put these memes up, man.
	Just funny shit, man.
	That's why y'all gotta join the Cats Club, man.
	Shit is funny.
	Let's keep going here.
	Of all of us hearing those popping sounds.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	They did a great job.
	I definitely felt protected in the situation.
	The sniper was on it, watching on guard.
	Everyone on the scene did a great job.
	I mean, of course, it was nerve-wracking in the moment, but I never felt...
	Someone said the after hours from last night is still processing.
	I'll double check that.
	I felt like I was in danger, which was cool.
	They were on the president, which I'm very thankful of, and they did a great job protecting him and getting him out as quick as possible.
	He is doing good, which is good.
	I'm the Republican nominee for the Senate in Pennsylvania.
	I was in the front row, and President Trump had just announced me and said he was going to have me come up on the stage.
	And said, well, wait a minute.
	And then there were a number of shots.
	I think probably seven or eight shots.
	It wasn't clear whether they would come from one place or two places.
	At least I couldn't tell.
	And immediately there was a swarm of Secret Service officers that knocked down President Trump and got on top of him.
	And then he stood back up and you sort of saw this fist come held sort of defiant that looked like he was okay, but you couldn't tell for sure.
	It looked like there was some blood, but it wasn't obvious.
	And then the entire crowd went to the ground because we weren't sure whether the shots were done.
	And then unfortunately, over my shoulder, someone had clearly been hit.
	I was on the ground, and up in the bleachers, probably three or four bleachers behind me, it looked like there was a man who was severely injured.
	There was a lot of blood, and his people around him were trying to administer first aid.
	And then some police officers came in and carried him out and presumably took him to get First, you know, first aid.
	That's really all I could see.
	I don't know if there were other people injured, and I don't know if there was anybody apprehended, because as you might imagine, once that happened, the crowd was very chaotic, and it was very hard to know what was going on.
	And we're still there at the rally, just sitting, trying to get out, because the traffic is so backed up.
	And Dave, your account seems to confirm some of this reporting that we're getting about a shooter and potential bystanders who were hurt.
	Just talk more about your initial reaction.
	I mean, seeing this, you're running for Senate in the state of Pennsylvania.
	You're about to walk up on the stage.
	You're getting introduced by the former president.
	And then you hear these shots ring out and the chaos in the crowd.
	What was going through your mind in that moment?
	Well, you know, it takes a minute to process.
	People started to panic all around.
	You could feel people were very scared.
	And so, you know, everybody just dropped to the ground.
	And, you know, it felt very obvious that the president was under assault, you know, and very much at risk.
	And it wasn't clear.
	Let's jump back into Twitter space, guys.
	See what they're talking about right now.
	We hit a height, by the way, guys, of like 62,000 in there when we had...
	It was me, Tate, Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones was in there, Patrick, but David, it was lit.
	62,000 in there.
	...by the coaches they hire.
	They are not unbiased arbiters of the truth.
	That's by Belakman.
	Expect a long-form post by him that was reposted by Elon.
	Initial thoughts on Belakman's post...
	And I want to go to Tehran Lucky to get their thoughts on this tweet and more their political standpoint on whether we're going to continue seeing more and more endorsements flowing in.
	I'm going to summarize Ackman's reasoning in one word.
	Bill Ackman didn't give his reasoning, but he's been basically hinting that he's going to support Trump for weeks now.
	As you remember, he was the one who supported Dean Phillips, brought him on to the stage where he had the opportunity to speak with him.
	I remember that night.
	And he has since certainly since the debate, he's been absolutely pretty convincing that, you know, Biden should step down, he shouldn't be out there, etc., etc.
	So I don't think the Bill Ackman statement is going to move the needle, particularly because I think he had made it clear where he was going to go with it.
	However, I think this incident will have a significant—look, a lot of things will have a significant impact.
	Biden's debate performance is probably still the most significant impact that we've seen on this race.
	But this—and Trump's courage.
	I mean, let's be clear here.
	It's not so— I'm gonna mute her real quick.
	So here's Butler, Pennsylvania, guys.
	It's the city and county in the seat of Butler, Pennsylvania.
	Located 35 miles north of Pittsburgh and part of the Greater Pittsburgh region.
	Population only 13,000.
	So that's a small-ass town, man.
	Interesting.
	Very, very interesting.
	Very small.
	Oh, wow.
	It's all the way out there.
	It's fucking...
	Okay.
	It's far, far west Pennsylvania.
	Out there in the bonies.
	Shooters fan or anything like that.
	But like I said, I think that image is somewhat iconic.
	I think his courage and standing up and saying fight is going to resonate with a lot of people who may dislike him but sort of thought he was more of a lightweight personally.
	So I think this has changed things, but I actually feel like the debate changed things more.
	Maybe not.
	The polling might not show that, but I think in general the debate changed things more because if Joe Biden was considered to be a forceful Lucky, your thoughts?
	And then we'll go to Michael.
	Michael, I've got a few questions from a security perspective.
	Lucky?
	Yeah, I mean, I think this is way more impactful than any debate.
	Oh, look, even Jake Paul waited!
	Even Jake Ball waited, man.
	...with the blood coming out of his ear in defiance.
	Same fight.
	My wife is not very political.
	I mean, she's a Trump supporter, but kind of a hidden Trump supporter.
	She's ordering flags and putting signs out and like, You know, she's all ready to go now, right?
	And I think a lot of people see that, right?
	The guy had an assassination attempt.
	He survived it.
	He got, you know, had a bullet fly through his head.
	And he put his fist up.
	And that was his response.
	You know, he's turned as this, like, you know, rich guy.
	Candace Cook and Eminem.
	But, you know, he had a bullet fly.
	Eminem has gotten soft, man.
	He stuck his fist up.
	And, you know, he stuck his fist up multiple times.
	Even as he got into the car, he stuck his fist up.
	And I wanted to kind of address Joe because he kind of implied this political violence came from Trump.
	If we go back to 2015, 2016, there was a lot of families and moms and pops and grandmoms going to these Trump rallies, and they were getting punched in the face by Antifa.
	They were having eggs thrown on them.
	They were getting doused in liquid.
	There was a lot of violence shown to people just wearing MAGA hats, right?
	And when Trump ran, he was kind of...
	...that would have been previously afraid to state their support for Donald Trump or maybe even personally tepid about it.
	Now coming in and asking, how can I help?
	I'm all in.
	These are exactly words of people who have contacted me alone in the last several hours, and I'm sure that's true of people across the country.
	The reality is I don't want to make this political tonight.
	This is not the moment for that.
	I will say that President Biden, who ran on the platform of uniting the country, had an opportunity even tonight to really rise to the occasion in a way that he fell short.
	I don't say this criticizing him as a Democrat, but somebody who was rooting for a president to rise to the occasion immediately.
	And not only offer the usual ritual incantation, the ritual condemnation of political violence, yeah, we got that, but a deeper heartfelt sense to say that, you know what, this is a man who I'm running against, but it is wrong that this should happen to anybody, and this is not who we are as Americans, and if I as a U.S. president have failed to create this environment in this country, then I will own that because the buck stops with me as the commander-in-chief.
	I don't think we saw that kind of message come from President Biden tonight.
	And for all the discussions about how he came short after the debate, I do think that even tonight was a moment for a man who ran on the platform of uniting the country to have fallen short in the way that he did.
	But this is less about criticizing President Biden and more asking the question of how we as Americans are able to say we're moving on.
	We're turning a page on a chapter of our history where we see our political opponents as our enemies.
	Let tonight mark the end of that.
	And if so, something positive, as you could imagine, at least something small positive that came out of this tonight, let it be that.
	You talk about rising to the occasion.
	I want to go back to what you were saying earlier there.
	So you can continue.
	Ricardo can keep streaming it.
	I think they're asking him questions.
	And he got up and he said, you know, I need my shoes.
	and then he stopped and he fist pumped a couple of times and he said fight fight and the response was USA USA because that's the natural response at all of his rallies he talks about fighting it's been a theme and the theme is they're coming for you but but I'm in the way so you got to keep fighting what do you think about that response and that having the wherewithal to do that
	Look, I think those images we saw, our kids and our grandkids are going to be viewing that image in their history books.
	That was American history tonight and for the better.
	It was like the images of George Washington crossing the Delaware with the flag in the background.
	That's what we saw tonight.
	And it was one of those moments.
	Our founding fathers, they risked not only their fortunes, but their lives for this country.
	And I think this is one of those moments where we have a leader who has made a sacrifice.
	I'm personally grateful now more than ever for the sacrifices that President Trump has made.
	I'm grateful that God stepped in tonight to save him for this country.
	All right, Vivek Ramaswamy, thank you very much.
	So that was Vivek Ramaswamy being interviewed by Fox News.
	I want to go back to the shooting here.
	But just one quick question for Tira.
	Would you agree this image will go into the history books, Tira, and then we'll go to Oh, sure.
	It almost looks like, I mean, I hate to say that.
	I'm sorry, but it looks like Iwo Jima a little, doesn't it?
	You know, the landing on the beach, doesn't it?
	I mean, it really is quite iconic, and I do think it will go into the history books.
	Let me say one thing about Vivek.
	That was just nonsense, because what Joe Biden said is there's no place in America for this kind of violence.
	It's sick.
	It's sick.
	It's one of the reasons why we have to unite the country.
	We cannot allow for this to be happening.
	We cannot be like this.
	The bottom line is the Trump rally is a rally that he should have been able to conduct peacefully without any problem.
	The idea that there's political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.
	It's just not appropriate.
	So he actually did say those things.
	So I don't really care how Vivek is spinning it.
	Biden did say these things.
	You might not think he said them quickly enough.
	He made two statements.
	This was the second.
	But at the end of the day, I don't think we should let Vivek just say what he said without pushback.
	Thanks.
	I mean, Biden ran on a lie.
	His whole campaign was built around Charlottesville and saying Trump endorsed Nazis.
	What I'm saying to you is I just read what Biden said.
	Everything Vivek said he should have said.
	No, no, everything Vivek said he didn't say these things.
	Excuse me.
	Vivek said he didn't say these things.
	Can I just finish, please?
	Let me go to Michael.
	Michael, good to have you, sir.
	You did post 24 minutes ago, FBI has so-so.
	First, you're the Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy.
	And you've got a book called The Big Intel, how the CIA and FBI went from Cold War heroes to deep state villains.
	And you did post less than half an hour ago, FBI has so tarnished itself that it must not be in charge of investigating today's assassination attempt.
	The lead investigating entity should be a special prosecutor or independent commission.
	Michael, I'd love to get you to elaborate on this tweet and give us your thoughts on what we've discussed so far.
	Sure, Mario.
	Thanks for having me on.
	The FBI, by default, would be the lead investigative agency for this type of incident.
	But the problem is, of course, it spent years from the top down on a false crossfire hurricane counterintelligence operation to prevent Trump from being elected in the first place.
	In its training and in its field office memos and so many other areas, it shows a distinct political bias against American citizens who support the president.
	So since it's lost the public confidence in more than half of the population, it's the wrong agency to be leading this because it's going to get us down a track into allegations of covering up Allegations of complicity, all sorts of things that we don't know where this is going to go.
	So then we get to the point, well, who is there?
	Who can be trusted by most of the population and we really don't have an entity anymore that has that kind of public trust.
	So I threw out the idea, I don't know the mechanisms that are necessary, but the idea of some type of a special prosecutor or investigative commission to lead the investigation and to supervise the FBI's vast resources and the use of its personnel.
	So as you guys can see, we read on the FBI website, they are going to be the lead agency on this investigation.
	We don't have an independent federal investigative agency worthy of the public trust.
	And just getting your thoughts, just taking a step back, what would that do to the credibility?
	That the FBI has at the moment.
	So it just means that the credibility eroded away.
	I've covered it extensively in the Twitter files, and it obviously goes back well beyond the Twitter files.
	And now we've got this incident today.
	What happens to the trust in the FBI and other three-letter agencies, and what does that do to America's democracy that relies on these institutions?
	Right.
	We need these institutions and we need most of the capabilities that they have.
	But when they go for years abusing their power, even abusing the congressional committees that are supposed to oversee them and their members, the reality is that it's the other way around where those agencies often oversee their overseers, which there's no constitutional basis for this.
	So we've gotten ourselves in a jam as a country where there's no one left who has But you know, the Republicans don't believe that an independent special counsel can be appointed according to Donald Trump and his lawyers, right?
	So how are you going to put someone independent in when basically Trump doesn't believe that should happen?
	Right, and that's the whole problem is that we don't have a mechanism.
	So I was just throwing out the idea We've got to have some kind of mechanism for this.
	And we don't.
	And this comes on the heels of some other really awful things.
	And I'll mute myself when I talk.
	When the former chairman of the House January 6th Committee introduced legislation to remove Secret Service protections from Donald Trump.
	And then you have people inside the Trump campaign who told the Federalists that the Secret Service detail around President Trump has been asking the Secret Service for more assets and has been refused by either the Department of Homeland Security or the White House to...
	And then you have the whole matter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	being denied secret service protection by the White House.
	Just for everyone, just sorry to interrupt you, Michael.
	Myron, good to have you back.
	But we are going to be streaming.
	By the way, Chief, thank you so much for sending it through, Chief Chomster.
	We're going to be streaming a press conference by the Secret Service and State Police.
	That'll be the first press conference after the assassination attempt.
	The show goes on, Chad.
	That will be streamed in 20 minutes, and we'll be covering it live.
	Sarah, if you can get the link, have the team ready.
	That'll be immensely appreciated.
	Let's go to Gary.
	Gary, getting your thoughts.
	I know you've had your hand up for a while.
	Let's get Myron if you've got any new updates, Myron.
	Sure.
	And getting your thoughts on the recent developments and information that's come in.
	But let's go to Gary first.
	Yeah, my app is glitching a little bit.
	I do see that he's been listening for a couple of hours.
	I'll step down and then probably listen for a while, maybe step back up if he does come up.
	Our common friend George Gammon is down in the area, and he often has a view of the macroeconomic impact of these things, such as assassination attempts.
	So if it does go to the – what are world leaders going to do?
	What is the market going to do?
	That kind of commentary, that will be interesting.
	But I'm going to step down for now, and I'll just listen in for a bit.
	Give me one second, Chad.
	I'll get in here and talk with these guys.
	And then you guys, Myron, on the background.
	But I'm going to mute my mic so you guys don't hear double.
	The bets on Trump being the winner of the election, he's – the likelihood – let me go back to the graph here.
	So it was – At about 60% chance, just before the assassination attempt, and it spiked by 10 percentage points to 70% chance that Trump will be the next president.
	So that's on Polly Market.
	And that number was as low, just to kind of give you perspective, but in May, that number was as low as 45% chance.
	And it kind of picked up May 13th, up to 50% chance.
	Obviously got the debate.
	It went all the way up to 65, went back down, and now picked up to 70%, just the highest I've ever been.
	That's on Polymarket, which allows people to bet on different outcomes.
	Maga, go ahead and then we'll go to Myron.
	Thanks, Mario.
	Yeah, it'll be short.
	I brought up oversight with the FBI and the FBI coming in.
	As I was a protective service officer, believe it or not, that was my additional duty in regards to counterterrorism and counterintelligence, which was my primary as a division lead.
	And the oversight of DOD, which I worked for, is very different than the FBI, of course.
	But you have, of course, Congress and the Government Accountability Office that oversee, for instance, like Director Wray, who is in and is, you know, of course, a very concerning figure in regards to a very concerning figure in regards to where we lie, at least on the Republican side.
	But, you know, what I will say is, you know, there is accountability.
	It is, you know, worrisome that you would have somebody like Director Wray overseeing a Trump investigation.
	You can only and unfortunately trust in Congress to And keeping things in check, right, with, you know, the Republican senators that normally you would watch just grill, you know, Ray every day, Senator Mayorkas, etc., down the line in regards to the wrongdoings that are going on.
	However, yeah, so the accountability is there, but unfortunately it's the integrity of that accountability is questionable.
	Just want to bring in Myron.
	Myron, you have got experience in security detail.
	Now, earlier on when you came in, your initial reaction was that this could possibly be incompetence by the Secret Service.
	You looked at it again and you weren't too sure.
	You said both are possible, maybe together or not.
	Now you've got time to look into it in detail, reflect on it.
	Have your thoughts changed?
	Yeah, I think it's a combination of a couple of things.
	I think it's a combination of manpower issues, which they've had for a very long time.
	As I was telling you guys before, a lot of people don't know.
	Secret Service is an agency that suffers from a lot of attrition.
	No one wants to be a Secret Service agent anymore.
	And they go to other agencies.
	Also, I think, you know, that incompetence has led to openings for this weirdo to come in and, you know, shoot from the top of a building, which should always be secured.
	And any type of rally.
	And I think it's also important for me to say, and I didn't get to mention this before with your audience, that Secret Service heavily relies on other agencies to augment their security details.
	So, for example, when I was working for HSI Homeland Security Investigations back in 2016, they relied on HSI a lot to help them with doing Secret Service details.
	But here's the problem.
	A Secret Service agent has a different mindset from an HSI agent or state police or local police that they bring these other agencies in.
	Because as a criminal investigator, your job is to detect crime, do investigations, write affidavits, etc.
	You're not a protection-oriented agent like a Secret Service agent or Diplomatic Security Service.
	So when you rely heavily on other law enforcement agencies to help augment your security detail, well, the quality of the security detail is going to be compromised.
	Then you add in the fact that he's not a sitting president and he has You know, a diminished Secret Service capacity as far as security detail goes compared to a sitting president.
	He's a very divisive president.
	It's almost like the perfect recipe for disaster where you have less personnel.
	You have a lot of other law enforcement agencies that don't necessarily share the same mission as Secret Service and aren't necessarily as well equipped to deal with protection details.
	It's just a recipe for disaster.
	The top of that building wasn't secured is inexcusable.
	The other thing I wanted to say, because I see Mr.
	J. Michael Waller had talked about how the FBI taking lead on here is a problem, which I agree.
	The FBI has a black eye on them right now.
	They're running two investigations as we speak right now, concurrent to this, where President Trump is the target.
	And that does cause quite a bit of I've worked with the FBI many times, and I will tell you guys 100%, most of them are good guys at the agent level.
	Once you start getting into problems is once you hit the brass.
	The top end of the FBI is where the issues are with the corruption and the political bullshit and the bureaucracy.
	But the agents on the ground are good guys.
	You know, there are a lot of times law-abiding citizens that love this country.
	But with that said, I don't think the FBI is the appropriate agency to run this investigation, given the fact that they're literally the lead agency on two of his prosecutions, whether it's in Washington, D.C. or down here in South Florida with the National Defense Information Classified Documents case.
	I think the agency that will probably lead this investigation should be Homeland Security Investigations, HSI. At the end of the day, they're the principal lead enforcement agency when it comes to the Department of Homeland Security.
	They have a lot of the same resources as the FBI. But, you know, the reason why the FBI is taking lead here is because they are the number one federal law enforcement agency and they have the most resources.
	Then on top of that, also, guys, which they're not going to put this out on the news, the first thing they're going to try to rule out here and why the FBI is probably taking lead is they're trying to figure out if this was counter espionage, if this was terrorism, etc.
	So that is probably why the FBI is taking lead.
	And they have the most resources.
	They're the biggest agency.
	They have the most 1811s, aka special agents.
	So I think that's a big reason why they designated them as a lead agency, though I don't think it is appropriate.
	I agree with Waller on this, but it is what it is.
	And another thing, too, I want everyone to understand Because people are saying, hey, we should put a special prosecutor or independent commission.
	The problem with a special prosecutor or independent commission, guys, is you still need criminal investigators to run the investigation.
	These lawyers have zero idea on how to conduct a real criminal investigation.
	They're not interviewing suspects.
	They're not gathering evidence.
	They're not writing search warrants and swearing to them.
	And actually analyzing these phones.
	As we speak right now, I guarantee you guys, there's probably a search warrant being drafted for this individual's home, his phones, his computers, etc.
	You need special agents, 1811s, to draft that up and then swear to it.
	Go to the judge at 12 o'clock at midnight, which a lot of these lawyers aren't going to fucking do, by the way, and go get this thing sworn out and go search that house.
	And then you're going to need agents to go ahead and secure the property.
	You don't know if it's booby-trapped, etc.
	This individual might be a crazy guy.
	They're going to have to secure the location, go and get the evidence, all this other stuff.
	So prosecutors and independent commissions can't do this, which is why If you look at something like the Warren Commission, which was done after Kennedy's assassination, it was a fucking joke because they didn't really have real investigators doing it a lot of times.
	It was like a bunch of independent political bureaucrats running it.
	So that's kind of what sucks.
	You need to run an investigation.
	And unfortunately, the FBI is the biggest agency we got.
	And I do think it should go to another agency, maybe an HSI, etc., an agency that isn't leading a prosecution against our sitting president, Trump.
	But that's what it is.
	But yeah, I don't want to drone on too long.
	I'll turn to someone else.
	No, I appreciate it.
	We do have, I think we've got like 10 to 15 minutes before the press conference about the Secret Service.
	We do also have the information that the shooter is a 20-year-old white male.
	That's the information we have so far, but the name has not been provided.
	So the shooter has been identified as a 20-year-old white male from the local area.
	No name provided.
	Go ahead, Sarah.
	So Myron, if I heard you correctly, in your opinion, the FBI already has this person's identity.
	They have already likely either gone to the home, staked out the home.
	They know everything that they possibly could at this point about the actual shooter.
	Would you agree or disagree?
	Yeah, 100%.
	They got this guy identified.
	They're probably going through all of his stuff right now as we speak and trying to identify him, other individuals.
	I think that's a big reason why they're reluctant to release his identity is because they're trying to figure out anyone that's connected to him and if there's other co-conspirators.
	I was going to mention that as well.
	Do you think that there's a likelihood, just based on this shooting, that he was a lone wolf, or was he maybe part of a larger conspiracy?
	You also mentioned that the FBI would look into whether this was terrorism, if this person worked on behalf of a foreign nation.
	Is that something that they would already have nailed down, or do you think that that would come...
	Yeah, I mean, it might take some time because they're going to obviously have to investigate this guy, figure out what his background is, etc.
	The FBI is the lead agency when it comes to terrorism and counterespionage, right?
	So I think that's a big reason why they're taking this on as the lead.
	And also, to be honest with you guys, I've worked with Secret Service before.
	They just don't have the capacity to conduct complex criminal investigations.
	I'm just going to say it like it is.
	They just don't.
	Their forte is counterfeit money and financial crimes.
	Something like this is quite a bit, even though they're tasked with protecting the president, if there's actually a real assassination attempt like we witnessed today, you're going to need an agency that actually has robust investigative skill set to do it.
	So the FBI and HSR are probably the two agencies that are the best at doing this.
	So yeah, I mean, it'll take time for them to figure out what the deal is, but I'm pretty confident that alongside the FBI's huge resources they have, You know, the thought that this could be espionage or terrorism, etc., is definitely, you know, in the back of their minds from a law enforcement perspective as to why they're taking lead on this thing.
	One more quick question, Myron, if you don't mind.
	Typically, like in a mass shooting situation, we would have the name of the shooter, all of their socials within sometimes hours of the shooting.
	In this particular case, do you think it'll take days or even weeks before this information is released to the public?
	That's a good question.
	I would hope it gets released.
	We don't know.
	It could easily get leaked, etc.
	But I guarantee you that, you know, it's a small team of agents that are probably running this case.
	And they're keeping everything as close-knit as possible so that, you know, things don't leak because they're trying to, as we speak, they're trying to figure out who the hell this guy is and if there's other conspirators.
	That's probably their number one Go right now.
	And if they can go ahead and dispel that, you know, there's other conspirators, etc., then that's when we might figure out who this guy is and, you know, what his background is and stuff like that.
	But I think their number one concern right now is to make sure that there aren't other conspirators.
	The House isn't booby trapped.
	There wasn't some other kind of elaborate plan.
	Because whenever you're able to take a shot at the president like this, people are going to assume, hey, did this guy act alone?
	What's going on here?
	Was there a grand conspiracy?
	I think that's what they're figuring out right now and trying to make sure.
	And one more thing.
	Apologies, Mario.
	No, these are great questions.
	No worries.
	In this particular case, since Sorry, Chad.
	I got you guys here and critically injured two people and killed.
	I believe it was at least two.
	One, one person killed two critical condition and obviously Trump and Trump injured.
	Thank you very much.
	Myron, would you do you think that in this case, if it was just a lone person, I had this thought in my head on.
	Often with these crazy shooters, if it is a lone wolf, they post manifestos somewhere.
	We've seen that in other mass shootings.
	What are the likelihood, just in your opinion, that we will hear about a manifesto or see something on this person's social media accounts once they're identified?
	Yeah, I mean, there's a good chance.
	I think the only thing that would hold it back is if he, you know, if there was like national security issues where he was working for a foreign government or something like that, where they would need to classify it.
	But there's a good likelihood that it would be released publicly down the road eventually.
	I mean, I'm hoping we get it, you know, within the next 24 to 48 hours.
	But, you know, they're probably going to try to keep this as tight knit as they possibly can in this situation.
	I appreciate you.
	Back to you, Mario.
	Sorry.
	Sorry, just watching some footage of the...
	Let me just turn off the recording here.
	Just watching some footage of the shooter dead on the rooftop.
	We're about to play the stream now.
	Sorry about the background noise.
	We're about to play the stream very shortly of the Secret Service.
	The first press conference is a shooting.
	Also, Trump's plane has left Pittsburgh.
	Let me just confirm here.
	I think it has left Pittsburgh, which is the nearest major city to the rally in Butler.
	So that's the latest update there.
	Not sure where it's heading, but obviously everyone can connect the dots there.
	Let's go to...
	Maga, I saw your hand up, and then we'll be interrupting the speakers as soon as the press conference begins by the secret.
	Oh, no, I didn't have my hand up.
	I had the Trump fist up.
	But I'll tell you, it was Myron that was speaking, right?
	Yeah, it seems like we have a lot in common.
	You know, I wasn't an 1811, but OSI special agent with the Air Force.
	But yeah, I mean, some great answers, Sarah, some great questions.
	And yeah, they're gonna keep things tight until they see value in releasing the name or just, yeah.
	So I don't have anything else, but thanks for having me.
	Yeah, so there's a question here, Myron, that was just posted three minutes ago by CNN. Not yet clear.
	What impact the shooting will have on the RNC security plans?
	So that's my next question for you.
	What do we expect to see at the RNC? Oh, you're going to see beefed-up security significantly.
	You best believe that Trump is probably going to get presidential-level Secret Service detail now.
	You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Biden himself is pushing for it, right, because it would look bad on him as a sitting president.
	To allow his competitors to be assassinated or anything for him.
	So Trump, after this, is going to get sitting president-level Secret Service detail, which he should have got from the beginning.
	It's ridiculous that he had a watered-down detail.
	Yeah, that's another thing that I think Elon was also pretty critical of this, that he was requesting for the last few weeks.
	He was requesting further security, and that was rejected.
	Not sure who exactly rejected that request.
	It was a couple of weeks.
	There have been multiple requests according to reports.
	It goes back to something we've been critical about when it came to RFK as well, who was refused secret service protection.
	And I gave the example when I interviewed RFK in Austin a few weeks ago, or a couple of months ago now, his security was minimal to say the least.
	concerningly minimal.
	So yeah, that confirms that point.
	We'll be playing the stream, I think it's about four minutes away.
	In the meantime, there's a lot of speculation on where Trump is heading right now.
	Obviously, we'll start seeing some poll numbers tomorrow.
	What time do you expect, guys?
	What time do you expect the poll numbers to come out tomorrow?
	If anyone has any indication at all, do let me know or let me know in the comments.
	Mike, I want to get your thoughts on everything we're seeing right now.
	Mike Benz, how are you?
	Mike Benz, is your mic working?
	All right.
	I'm going to...
	I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.
	Sorry, I couldn't pop you, bud.
	I'll bring you back up.
	Yeah, go ahead, Chief.
	I'll bring up Mike Benz again.
	Yeah, I'll just say this in terms of the question about how Trump is going to do poll-wise after this whole thing, if that was your question.
	I think that Trump is going to have a humongous lead after this whole thing.
	The race is effectively over, in my opinion, after the debate.
	After this, it's completely over at this point.
	I'm guessing, you know, it'd be, you know, like, if anything, it would be, like, before it was, like, what, four or five points?
	It might be, like, eight points or even higher.
	I think this is, again, a pretty closed election after this whole thing.
	And this shows, again, Trump's strength.
	Like, Trump got shot at.
	He had a bullet go right by his head an inch away from going from his ear to his brain, to his entire head and blowing it up on the actual, like, live video.
	And he still stood up despite being shot at.
	And he said, fight, fight, fight.
	Fist in the air.
	A true fighter.
	Someone who, despite being literally shot at, which is an experience that you or I most likely don't have, despite being shot at and in the crosshairs of someone trying to kill him, Still stood up on his two feet.
	And stood up to the American people.
	And that's powerful.
	That imagery, that video, that shot is going to be played throughout history.
	It's not just like the mugshot.
	It's not like the other shots of Trump in rallies and outside his place as a residence.
	No.
	This is the shot of...
	The century.
	The shot of Trump being shot at and still standing to fight another day.
	The shot of Trump, despite all the hurdles he's faced through years and years, standing up for adversity and standing up to fight the American people.
	And I have my issues.
	I have my qualms and beef and things I think Trump will be better at.
	You know what?
	Trump is a guy that inspired me to get into politics.
	He's a guy that said put America first.
	He's a guy that really inspired many people to vote for him.
	And I really think that this moment is something that transcends just him as a Republican, but him as a person of America.
	Someone who stands up despite all the stuff thrown at him and says, no, I'm just going to say fight for the fight despite being shot at.
	And that's powerful stuff.
	Let me go back.
	Elon retweeted a tweet by Blake Hall.
	Sorry, I'm good now.
	I got some video I want to show you guys.
	So this actually is a tweet from Chief Trumpster.
	People are screaming he's got a gun.
	He's got a gun!
	He's got a gun!
	Oh, shit.
	Wait, I mean, that's seconds to respond.
	That's crazy.
	Okay, and then we got another clip here from a medical doctor.
	This Chief Trumpster tweeted this out before.
	Let me close this out real fast.
	One man show over here, ladies and gentlemen.
	This is from a medical doctor.
	What did you see, sir?
	I heard the shots.
	I thought it was firecrackers to begin with.
	Somebody over there was screaming, he's been shot, he's been shot.
	So I made my way over.
	I said, I'm an emergency department physician.
	Let me help you.
	Shout out to this fucking guy.
	The guy had spun around, was jammed between the benches.
	He had a headshot here.
	There was lots of blood and he had brain matter.
	So I got him There's a helicopter coming in to get him.
	So I got people there really helpful.
	Was there only one person shot that you saw?
	Then I did CPR, did chest compressions as well as a brief form.
	Yeah, so not much you could do there.
	He's probably gone by the time he got there, unfortunately.
	Apparently, there's going to be a Secret Service press conference, guys, so we can go ahead and react to that together.
	And this is the footage right here.
	Literally, they had seconds to respond to that.
	Let's go ahead.
	Let's see.
	Go back to YouTube here.
	That is historically what we see.
	...about the motivation saying that the way that he has built up the stakes for democracy has put this, literally there's some saying that he has blood on his hands.
	Again, that's an irresponsible statement based on what we know right now.
	There's no evidence to support that.
	But the rhetoric that led up to this moment in some ways or that make this moment so obviously a sad and horrific one for the nation is not ending with this incident pretty clearly.
	And I think in some ways we can see it boil over even more in the days ahead here in Milwaukee.
	Exactly.
	And that's the concern from authorities that you can throw fuel on the...
	We've got 14,000 of y'all watching right now plus and we've got a bunch of other of you guys watching on X-Man.
	So shout out to all you guys.
	Thank you guys so much for being here.
	You're here with me.
	We're going to do a breakdown on this shooting.
	As you guys know, right, this is obviously crazy.
	I've done Secret Service details before.
	This is unprecedented shit that we're seeing.
	yeah.
	Do me a favor, guys.
	Like the video on YouTube.
	Like it on Rumble as well.
	We're live on RumbleX.
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	So, like the video, guys.
	Let's get ourselves back up in the algorithm like that.
	And let's go.
	The fire and only fan the flames with some of the language that's being used.
	And that's something that they're monitoring very closely.
	Rick Klein, thank you so much.
	From Milwaukee, we also have on the phone with us Reince Priebus, former RNC chair, former chief of staff early on in the Trump administration.
	Reince, you're there in Milwaukee.
	What's the mood right now among Republicans?
	Well, I'm also chair of the Milwaukee Host Committee, which raises the money, and I lead the community group here that helps put on the convention.
	Obviously, people are stunned and saddened.
	It's horrific and dreadful and all the other emotions that everyone has, which is a whirlwind of...
	Concern.
	But I will say that right now things are moving forward as planned.
	And, you know, just being a person that's been around President Trump a lot, and I still am, I would suspect that, you know, the president's going to be Even stronger moving forward in both attitude and probably tone.
	And so I don't expect right now anything to change moving forward.
	I want to follow up on that because obviously people have been thinking about the former president and we know that he is doing fine.
	He suffered that minor injury to his right ear.
	And he says what he believed was a bullet that whizzed by.
	Somebody died today.
	At least one person.
	An innocent bystander who was just there for this political event.
	And it's a reminder that you can't protect Every location, 100% all the way.
	And, you know, law enforcement often talks about soft targets and large crowds and gatherings.
	And it's one thing to say that the convention itself will be safe.
	But, Reince, I guess my question is to you, like, how can you guarantee the safety and protection of the other people who are there participating, engaging in some of the other events around the convention?
	Well, that's a good point.
	And obviously everyone involved is doubling and tripling down on conversations and reviews.
	I speak with the mayor tonight, folks at the RNC, and others that everything is as safe as humanly possible.
	But, you know, we have to do everything we can to make that happen.
	And we have to decide, I guess, as...
	Sorry about that, guys.
	You guys can hear me now?
	My bad, my bad, my bad.
	I said, what I said was, I haven't taken out, my takes have been good on this whole thing.
	I'm back, I'm back, guys, I'm back.
	You guys should be able to hear me now.
	So, give me one in the chat if you guys are good.
	Alright.
	So, sorry about that.
	I said I haven't been taking L's all night when it comes to my takes on this stuff, right?
	I told you guys that Secret Service is in dire need of agents.
	They've had problems for a minute now with being able to keep their people.
	And you can see here that they got this special agent achievement recruitment program.
	And that tells you right there, guys, what I've been trying to tell y'all, that they can't keep agents, guys, because once people become Secret Service, they realize this job fucking sucks and they leave.
	It is not easy to be a Secret Service agent, guys.
	I'll tell you guys this.
	I was...
	You know, I did a secret service detail for the better part of like two weeks.
	It was miserable.
	I was protecting the president of Congo, if I'm not mistaken.
	And, dude, I was sitting in front of a fucking door to his, what's it called, to his hotel for like 10 hours, just sitting there, just in my suit like this.
	Right?
	And it just sucks, bro.
	And it's very difficult for the Secret Service to maintain agents.
	So I'm not surprised that...
	Fuck, I gotta figure...
	I'll remember which president it was, guys.
	I forget what fucking country it was.
	It was some African country.
	But either ways, the point I'm trying to make is like, look, you can see on their website that they're recruiting.
	This is not common, by the way, guys, for them to be actively recruiting agents fresh out of college.
	It is very difficult to get an 1811 position, right?
	And I'll show you guys what I mean by this.
	You go special agent, right?
	Boom.
	Right?
	Now, let's go Wiki, right?
	It's very hard to get these jobs, right?
	They hire like less than 1% of qualified applicants a lot of the times.
	Is it here?
	Yeah.
	about how fucking hard it is to get one of these jobs?
	It doesn't say.
	But, I'll tell you guys this.
	It's very difficult to get a special agent job, right?
	Oh, FBI's talking live right now?
	Where are they talking?
	Where are they talking?
	Someone's pointing this in the chat?
	So, yeah, it goes back to what I was telling you guys, that they've been suffering attrition.
	Oh, here we go.
	Press conference.
	And we're just watching this right now.
	We understand law enforcement getting set up.
	Here we fucking go.
	Let's go, guys.
	Let's go.
	All right.
	Yeah, this guy's FBI. I can tell from the thing here.
	So, my name is Kevin Rojek.
	Yep.
	Special Agent Trust, probably.
	That's R-O-J-E-K. I'm the special agent in charge of the FBI Pittsburgh field office.
	Oh, fucking miss, guys!
	The first thing I want to say...
	It's that the FBI stands with the people of Butler County in western Pennsylvania and our hearts go out to the victims of this heinous act which occurred today.
	This is our community and I want to let the public know that the FBI has deployed a number of our resources including investigative agents, our evidence response team, bomb technicians, And we have additional resources coming from other field offices, as well as from FBI headquarters, including our evidence response from Quantico, Virginia.
	We have intelligence analysts as well working from our field office in Pittsburgh working feverously to attempt to identify the individual who did this and the motives behind why this was done.
	That's what they're figuring out is the motives.
	Right now we need the public's help.
	Anyone who was on scene who saw anything, who identified any information, please report that to the FBI using either the phone number 1-800-CALL-FBI Or online at FBI.gov slash Butler.
	This evening we had what we're calling an assassination attempt against our former president, Donald Trump.
	It's still an active crime scene.
	As I mentioned, we have a number of agents on scene.
	We also are working closely with other federal agencies, our state partners, and our local police partners as well.
	Again, at this time, we are not prepared to identify who the shooter is.
	Yeah.
	Told y'all!
	We are close to that identification.
	And as soon as we are 100% confident in who that individual is, we will share it with the press.
	Oh, you know who it is, bro.
	Come on.
	Y'all know who it is.
	With that being said, also, we do not currently have an identified motive, although our investigators are working tirelessly to attempt to identify what that motive was.
	And that's why they don't want to tell you guys who he is yet.
	They're trying to identify the motive first.
	At this time, I'm going to turn over the podium to Colonel Chris Parris from the Pennsylvania State Police.
	So they know who he is.
	I'm telling y'all right now, they don't want to tell you who he is yet because they don't know who he is.
	Thank you very much.
	My name is Colonel Chris Paris.
	And they're doing search warrants.
	Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police.
	I would just like to say that the state police have been in regular contact with the governor's office and the full support and assets of the entire agency are behind the FBI and our other federal and municipal partners to assist with this investigation.
	The thoughts and prayers of the Pennsylvania State Police are likewise with the victims of this terrible act.
	We are prepared to support this investigation in any way, shape or form, and we stand ready to participate in a full, fair and competent and thorough investigation.
	To give you an operational rundown, Deputy Commissioner of Operations Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens is behind me and he will discuss the operational portion that's being conducted by the Pennsylvania State Police.
	Lieutenant Colonel Bivens.
	Good evening.
	So let me describe for you a little bit about the scene that we have over there.
	As you know, there was a grandstand, a very large area, a lot of people there when this all unfolded.
	The former president had come out and begun to speak shortly after 6 o'clock this evening, and within about 10 to 15 minutes, a number of sounds were heard, and it became apparent that shots were being fired It was a chaotic scene.
	Law enforcement, I believe, acted heroically, quickly identifying and neutralizing the threat, as well as responding to assist the various victims.
	PSP had a significant presence on the scene along with all of our federal partners at the time of the shooting.
	We have since enhanced that presence significantly bringing in resources from all over the Commonwealth to ensure that we have a speedy, thorough investigation.
	We are working very closely with the FBI as we work through this.
	As you can imagine, Because of the variety of crimes that have been committed, some are under federal jurisdiction, some are under state jurisdiction.
	And so we're working through all of that.
	Not an issue at all.
	We work seamlessly.
	But the FBI has maintained the lead on the attempted assassination.
	PSP will take the lead on the homicide and the shootings of the other individuals in the grandstand area.
	And so there are a lot of witnesses to be interviewed.
	A lot of things to be processed.
	There were some complicators that hopefully the next time we speak we can describe for you, but some complicators that slowed down some of the processing and the positive identification of the shooter.
	But know that at this time we have no reason to believe that there is any other existing threat out there.
	We're doing everything we can to make sure that this is thoroughly investigated and that if there is any information developed that anyone else was involved that between PSP and the FBI that will very quickly be followed up on.
	So I think at this time we would open it up to questions from all of you.
	Was this the lone wolf attack?
	I knew someone was going to ask that, lone wolf.
	Again, I think it's too early to say that.
	We have one shooter tentatively identified, but we're not stopping there.
	We're following up on a lot of information.
	it will be some time until we can conclusively say or answer that question I think Again, that will all be part of the investigation, but I can tell you that preliminarily it appears everything unfolded very quickly.
	So, you know, again, we'll have more information on that, but it's just too early to start definitively saying this happened at this exact time.
	That's correct.
	We'll have that information for you.
	It was some distance outside of the Supreme Court.
	Colonel, can you comment on reports that there were people who saw someone on the roof and tried to alert at the race?
	We're following up on those.
	I will tell you that I am aware of those and I am aware that law enforcement had responded to a number of reports of suspicious activity.
	The specific response to this will be all part of the after action.
	But yes, law enforcement was responding to check on several suspicious occurrences.
	What were the other suspicious occurrences?
	That'll all be part of the investigation.
	Oh, hold on.
	What happened?
	I think I'd like to.
	Should be getting feedback.
	Okay, we're back.
	Is there anything else?
	Did he have any affiliation with that company you know?
	So again, we're not prepared at this time to provide the identity.
	Oh, looks like we might know who he is.
	Okay.
	Matthew Crooks is what I'm seeing, guys.
	Forgive us here.
	We are having a couple hits to the signal here with this press conference that's happening right now in Pennsylvania.
	Let's see if it comes back.
	If it doesn't, we'll continue here.
	Or as we wait for it, I can give you some of the headlines from what law enforcement officers were talking about.
	Matthew Crooks is the shooter, guys.
	This is a multi-agency effort.
	Matthew fucking Crooks.
	Here he comes back.
	The FBI, which is leading the investigation, and the Pennsylvania State Police.
	And they said that because of the different layers, they said at this time there are a variety of different crimes, some under federal jurisdiction, some under state jurisdiction, but they will be working together.
	They also said at this time they're not prepared to identify the shooter.
	They're close to identification.
	We know who he is.
	They want to make sure they're 100% confident in who that person is before they share it.
	This is key.
	They also said there is no reason to believe that there is any other existing threat out there.
	Now, they wouldn't say specifically if they thought this was the act of a lone wolf.
	Hold on, give me one sec, guys.
	I'm going to get some more info on this guy real quick.
	But at this point, this is significant, especially for the area.
	No reason to believe that there's any other existing threat out there.
	Now, one part of the question and answer I thought was interesting.
	There were reports that police confirmed of someone on a rooftop.
	And so let's go ahead and listen in to the presser.
	So I think the credit goes to not only the Secret Service who was on site, but also the state and local partners who were there on site and were able to react immediately when the incident occurred.
	Do you know how many officers fired their weapons?
	I do not.
	I understand that it's very early and there's still going to be a lot of questions, but I mean...
	At this point, we're not going to make that assessment.
	There's an active investigation.
	A lot of things need to occur investigatively to make those determinations of what, if any, failures there were.
	So really, we can't comment on that at this time.
	So you can say if Secret Service had checked those buildings or were keeping a close eye?
	Alright, looks like we're back.
	We really have to defer to Secret Service for those questions?
	Was there any law enforcement to ask the AGR property prior to the event?
	Were there police at that location at any point or in the event?
	Are you saying the location where the shooter was located?
	Yes.
	I don't have any information on that.
	The doctor referred to Secret Service.
	When do you think you will release, when will the name of the shooter be released?
	I mean, any inkling of when that might happen?
	Tomorrow?
	So that'll be, as soon as we've confirmed 100%, we're willing to release that.
	So if we have, you know, as far as the contact information for the press, Well, we should be able to do that.
	You guys are in here first.
	I'm Matthew Crooks.
	You've also heard a possible related scene in Bethel Park.
	Is there anything you can tell us tonight about other areas where law enforcement may be searching in relation to this event?
	Again, right now we're tracking down all leads and doing all interviews and tracking anything that we can regarding suspicious locations, vehicles, locations, interviewing individuals.
	So it's all related to this event, but I can't confirm or deny anything that's going on.
	Oh, did it go down?
	We're still listening to a press conference, guys.
	But here he is, Matthew Crooks.
	Thomas Matthew Crooks.
	And this is just breaking news, guys.
	You guys heard it here first.
	Viewers there, just again, we've had some issues with the signal here at the press conference.
	It is ongoing.
	Let's see if we can listen in.
	His Instagram was taken out.
	Someone said his IG is down.
	There are bombs somewhere in Butler County.
	Can you just walk us through that?
	It's a primarily standard procedure of any suspicious packages.
	In this case, there was identification of suspicious packages around where the shooter was.
	And so we deployed in an abundance of caution Bomb assets to make sure that those were cleared for investigators to move safely in the area.
	We're still working on, it's still an active crime scene, so I'm not going to say that the scene is 100% clear at this time.
	Why aren't a Secret Service agent here right now for the press conference?
	So Secret Service wasn't available for the press conference at this time.
	100% of the packages that you're talking about.
	You're talking about packages.
	What is suspicious packages that you're here to hear?
	Really anything, I don't have specifics on what they were looking at, but you know there's people in the crowd will leave badges, they're fleeing the scene like this, so any suspicious packages we have to treat as it may be an explosive device.
	And how quickly did everybody jump in and who ended up taking them out?
	So it was immediate.
	And it was.
	We're still trying to figure that out.
	So we'll wait till we have more definitive information regarding that investigatively.
	What about the person in the crowd?
	Do you have any information about how they were and how they were filled?
	My understanding was it was from the shooter.
	But again, those will be details that are released later.
	Do you search homes or apartments as a part of your method of identifying the individual?
	So if that's where the leads take us, absolutely.
	Was Donald Trump hit with a bullet?
	Do you know for sure?
	Or was it potentially something else that could?
	I don't have that specific information as far as the injuries to the former president.
	I understand you're not releasing the suspect's identification right now, but as you know, is this person knowing to you guys to see somebody that you guys have been looking at through the threats he's possibly been online, et cetera, et cetera?
	Again, the information that we currently have, we're looking at that obviously very intently.
	And as we know that information, we'll release that as well.
	So we'll need to plan another time for a follow-up press conference.
	We're looking at all investigative leads and everything from, and that's why we ask the public, because I'm sure there'll be cell phone video, there'll be all kinds of information that we'll use to fully flesh out exactly what happened here.
	I think you're saying you can't say what type of gun it is, but do you know how many shots were fired?
	I don't.
	I don't have that information as far as, that'll come out in the investigation as well.
	Is there an identification tonight on the other victims?
	As far as the civilians?
	Yeah.
	So we do have identification on those.
	We're not prepared to release it at this time.
	We have notified a number of family members, but they have not had an opportunity to notify extended family and things.
	I would confirm for you that we did have one individual killed, and I know I heard somebody say about two victims.
	There were three in total besides the former president.
	So two critically wounded, one killed.
	At this point, do you know they were sitting near each other and where in relation to the former president?
	I don't have their exact seating by individual.
	Again, that will all be part of the investigation, but their shots were scattered somewhat, and so they weren't just into one particular location.
	You're saying just one fatality as of right now?
	Yes.
	The shooter and one fatality.
	The shooter plus one fatality.
	So there was one victim of the shooter who was killed and then the shooter was killed.
	Yes, ma'am.
	When did they say they saw a semi-automatic rifle used by the shooter?
	Can you share any of what you tell them that that's what you believe?
	I've heard those reports as well, And again, we do have a good idea of what the weapon was.
	But again, that's all part of the ongoing investigation.
	And I'm not trying to be cagey about that.
	You know, when the SAC talked about the need to be very methodical and to be cautious with that scene, We are doing just that.
	We don't want anybody else getting hurt and candidly there are some concerns that we'll be able to talk more about later on about just what those concerns are and continue to be.
	That's all part of the investigation.
	There are a lot of really angry people.
	Are you monitoring if there have been any threats in response to this?
	Are you worried if there have been any specific threats?
	That's certainly a concern, and we're monitoring that whole situation.
	I mentioned that we're bringing a lot of assets to bear, and so like the FBI utilizing their analysts, we also have the Pennsylvania Criminal Intelligence Center.
	We will utilize the resources of our Intelligence Division and the Criminal Intelligence Center to be able to monitor for concerns about any threats, regardless of the side of the issue or the political spectrum.
	We want to make sure that we try and avoid any further violence.
	But no, nothing specific so far?
	No, sir.
	Without identifying them by name, can you say anything about the other folks who were injured or killed?
	Were they adults, men, male, female, anything else?
	They were adults, and they're male.
	I'll agree.
	Yes.
	How difficult for the day is this for your department, though?
	Are all your partners going to talk to these family members, including the civilians who have come down while they just went to a rally and trying to celebrate, I guess, the upcoming election?
	What are these conversations like, and how do you kind of get through that?
	We have trained investigators, and we're partnered hand-in-hand with the FBI, again, because we've got some federal violations.
	Some state violations, and so our investigators are going out methodically.
	We have a large team of investigators that are going out dividing up these interviews and trying to conduct them as quickly as possible, and then there will be follow-ups.
	You know, with the FBI asking for people to call in tips, I have no doubt that we will receive a lot of additional information that will also require follow-up.
	But again, we're working very well together, and it's only a short matter of time until we get through all of those interviews.
	How close was it for President Trump?
	There were no police hit with bullets.
	From your experience, how close a call was it for President Trump?
	I'm not going to speculate or comment on that.
	And as we're listening to this press conference in Pennsylvania, you're looking at a live picture right now.
	This is the plane of former President Donald Trump flying into Newark.
	We understand that the president is going to regroup with family, with advisers.
	In New Jersey as they get ready for what is still set to go forward with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee starting on Monday.
	So quite a day for the former president.
	What law enforcement again are describing as an attempted assassination on Donald Trump today.
	Trump himself saying that a bullet whizzed past his ear, his right ear, and actually clipped part of it.
	He was injured slightly, taken to a hospital for medical treatment, but has since been released, left the area, and that the image of former President Trump's plane landing in New Jersey right now.
	Once again, this press conference is playing out in Pennsylvania.
	We're getting a few more details of what they're looking at.
	I believe they're still wrapping up right now.
	Let's go ahead and listen in.
	It's my understanding that was outside of the perimeter.
	I don't know why they're not announcing who the shooter is.
	It's out now.
	New York Post broke it.
	It's out.
	We know who he is.
	Thomas Matthew Cox, guys, is the shooter.
	Not that I'm aware of.
	If Trump had been the nominee already, would he have had additional security for this event?
	There again, Secret Service has the lead, and I'm not going to comment or speculate on what may or may not be provided at any given point, depending on their status as a candidate.
	What I will tell you is that, in my experience, Secret Service does an excellent job of maintaining security on protectees.
	We'll read this after.
	They don't hesitate to ask for resources and, candidly, we don't hesitate to supply those resources.
	Deputy Colonel, you're asking for the public's help.
	Can you elaborate and be more specific about what you would really like to see from the public?
	If it's videos, photos, personal accounts?
	I think the videos and photos would be very helpful.
	And I think that once the shooter is identified, anyone that has specific information on that shooter, that would be very helpful as well to help us assess motive.
	And again, as I mentioned earlier, we are absolutely not taking for granted that this was a lone wolf attack.
	And so we would be looking for any additional information that might point us toward anybody else that may have had a hand in this.
	Sir, at this point, what is the main focus of the investigation?
	What's the most important thing for you right now in a few hours?
	Well, there's not any one single focus.
	I mean, certainly the immediate focus was life safety, getting the former president out of there and to care, getting care to the other victims and trying to secure the scene as quickly as possible.
	It shifted then from a life safety situation We're just beginning the political season.
	Are you guys concerned with all of these rallies that happened and how they're set up?
	Maybe the venues?
	Again, I would refer you to the Secret Service in terms of what they work out with the campaigns.
	We will continue to supply resources, as I'm sure the FBI will, and local partners as well.
	And again, you're listening to this press conference with law enforcement in Pennsylvania, the state police and the FBI speaking.
	But the image to the right of your screen is President Biden stepping off of Air Force One, arriving at Andrews Air Force Base.
	At Andrews, this was just moments ago.
	We know that President Biden ended his trip.
	He was in Rehoboth, Delaware for the weekend.
	He ended his trip early to come back to Washington as all of this started playing out.
	I was just listening to see if we're going to go ahead and we're going to leave this press conference right now and go to Mary Bruce, our Chief White House Correspondent.
	Mary, a couple things that I just wanted to point out before we come to you as we're getting all of this information here.
	Once again, law enforcement saying that they are calling this an attempted assassination of former President Trump.
	I remember earlier tonight when President Biden was asked that question, he wasn't ready to go and confirm that, but now we're officially hearing it from officials.
	And once again, before I come to you, forgive me.
	I just want to point out, too, that they mentioned that one victim was killed, two critically wounded.
	Also, guys, breaking while he reports that.
	So New York Post is reporting right now, guys, that...
	FBI is yet to identify motive behind gunman Thomas Matthew Crook's attempted assassination of Trump during PA rally.
	And this is a big reason why they didn't want the name to get out, but obviously got leaked somehow.
	The FBI has not identified the motive.
	And yeah, that's it.
	That's all they got.
	That's all they got right now.
	This is developing, guys, quickly.
	I didn't think they would get him identified this quickly.
	Or I didn't think it would break that quickly that the news would get it.
	Natural to assume here.
	And the president, of course, has also been briefed on all of this.
	And as you noted, he did say earlier today that he had an opinion when asked.
	This was an assassination attempt at the time.
	He noted that he didn't have enough of the facts.
	You guys are saying TMZ. I googled TMZ already.
	I'll look.
	Let me look.
	We've been able to ascertain that, yes, this was, in fact, an assassination attempt.
	The president, as you noted, is now back in Washington.
	He'll be back here at the White House shortly.
	His motorcade now making its way from Andrews Air Force Base.
	All right, we got something here on TMZ. Let's see.
	Okay.
	It's on the front page.
	Get out of here!
	Get behind the tree!
	He's going!
	Rock! Get out of here! Rock! Rock! Get out of here! Rock! Rock! Get over here!
	Whoever ran this video is an idiot.
	Couldn't even record it properly.
	I hope he's turning this way.
	Be careful, guys.
	They shot his ass.
	There he is dead.
	He had to blur it out.
	Someone said this is fake.
	Bro, this isn't fake.
	Dude, that's exactly why we need fucking Trump here.
	Holy shit.
	Yeah, they're undercover. - Where's that one?
	Hang on.
	Yeah, El Cameraman, bro.
	So you can see, there he is right there in the prone position.
	We're obviously trying to squeeze off a shot beforehand.
	There he is.
	Seconds before he got shot.
	Boom.
	There you can see.
	There he is.
	Packaging...
	Let's see here.
	Yeah, they probably got a bag for selling this over to TMZ, man.
	They sold this footage to TMZ. They probably got a couple, they got like 100K probably for this shit.
	The guy's longer brown hair and he seems to be wearing a gray shirt, khaki pants.
	We saw that before.
	As you can see, he's carefully trying to pinpoint a target from afar before pulling the trigger.
	Yeah, there he is right there.
	And they train you to shoot this way, by the way, guys, to be the most accurate.
	And then this is Trump obviously on the receiving end of this.
	If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
	Boom.
	So first shot pops off, everyone's like, oh shit, even Trump stops.
	And then he can hear that first shot nicks him in the ear, right?
	That's why he grabs him.
	and you can see his face like kind of like because he could feel the burn now at this point of course idiots gotta scream Do that one more time.
	Really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
	Boom.
	One shot.
	Two shots.
	So the first shot hits him.
	Knicks his ear.
	You can see here, he grabs himself.
	If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
	Okay, so that's the shooter.
	That's the first shot.
	Yeah, chat's saying 2-2-3.
	Yeah, I agree.
	It probably is 2-2-3.
	Right?
	So that's your boy Crooks.
	That's the second shot, I think.
	And I think that's the retaliatory fire right there.
	So, let's play back one more time.
	You want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
	Boom!
	That's the first.
	Hits Trump.
	Second.
	Third.
	And then those shots are the shots back at the bad guy, at Crooks.
	So we heard, I think three shots go off.
	And then you hear that fire, that retaliatory fire, which I think was the secret service sniper shooting back.
	Alright, let's go back to the KBC. This is in Pennsylvania.
	It was a joint presser, the Pennsylvania State Police, also the FBI, talking about the teamwork that they'll be seeing law enforcement start the process of carrying out this investigation, just the beginning stages.
	Mary Bruce, thank you.
	We just lost the signal to the presser, but just a couple of other things that I just wanted to highlight because some things that we hadn't heard before.
	They did say that there were a number of reports that they heard from people and the state police did confirm that they heard that people were trying to report suspicious activity prior to those shots being fired and that there were reports of someone on a rooftop somewhere.
	Now, state police couldn't elaborate on exactly what those reports were, but they did say that that was something that they were looking into with this investigation.
	Let's go ahead and listen back to that presser in progress.
	In their defense, what I would want to say is it is incredibly difficult to have a venue open to the public and to secure that against any possible threat, against a very determined attacker.
	That's a huge lift to try and do it.
	The investigation will really give us an opportunity to take a look at where any failures occurred and what can be done better in the future.
	Lieutenant Colonel Vickens, do you know when another briefing might be held?
	We don't have one scheduled, but I would tell you we will let you know and give you plenty of notice.
	Certainly as soon as additional things develop, that would be noteworthy or of interest to you.
	we'll get that scheduled and have another with you.
	Locally, what can residents' businesses expect to happen with the investigation over the next couple of days?
	What's going to be going on there?
	Again, the interviews will all be occurring, and so they may see law enforcement in their communities.
	People came from a wide area to come to this rally, I'm told.
	So there's going to be law enforcement fanning out, and as additional calls, photos, videos come in, those additional interviews will result in law enforcement being out in the community conducting those interviews.
	But otherwise, they really shouldn't see any other significant impact in the community.
	Can you confirm whether it's a male or female, the homicide, the bystander who died?
	That's a male.
	A male?
	Yes.
	I'm from a European outlet from Poland, and I'm already getting text messages from, you know, back home.
	And people are asking, how could this happen?
	What's going on in America?
	I know that is a philosophical question, but how could you talk to the people outside the United States about what happened here in Poland?
	Well, again, what I would say is this is a tragic incident that occurred.
	We're not in a position to start second-guessing how or why or anything else at this point.
	Just know that it will be thoroughly investigated.
	If there is anyone to prosecute, that will be done and we'll move forward.
	But I don't have a good answer for you.
	We'll just take one last question.
	I know that PSP said that you guys were not aware of any additional requests from the Trump team for security.
	What about the FBI? Was there an additional request for additional security from the Trump team, and was that denied in any way, shape, or form?
	No.
	No, there was no additional request for security that was ever denied by the FBI. What does the FBI do in these events?
	Like, what is your rule?
	So we are, we showed up after the fact.
	We were monitoring the event, but it was once the incident occurred that we come and we take the primary jurisdiction for the investigation.
	Thank you.
	As we have additional information, we'll provide it.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And once again, law enforcement wrapping up this press conference.
	This is in Pennsylvania.
	It was a joint presser.
	It's been easy, Whit, because authorities say the shooter was carrying no identification on his person, so they've had to use DNA technology to identify him that way.
	That may be what's giving the The FBI some pause in formally releasing the name so they can do that biometric identification.
	So that also tells you that perhaps this person didn't want to be identified.
	And what that means as far as motive, we're not sure.
	The authorities have not yet identified one.
	Thomas Matthew Crooks.
	Chat.
	nearby in western Pennsylvania at locations that may be associated with this young man.
	They've undoubtedly tried to scour his social media information If there is any, talk to people who knew him, relatives, friends, because they do want to, as you heard the authorities say, understand a possible motive herewith.
	Aaron Katursky, thank you.
	And Brad Garrett, our law enforcement contributor.
	Brad, let's bring you in because you've been a part of so many major investigations.
	This is unique.
	We're talking about an attempted assassination of a former president who is currently a candidate for president.
	FYI, this guy was registered as a Republican, guys.
	Interestingly enough, here he is.
	Again, some great DMs from you guys, by the way.
	Here he is.
	Matthew Crooks Thomas.
	Okay.
	Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
	And he was born in 2003.
	And he is a registered voter.
	Thomas Matthew Crooks.
	I wonder what the fuck his motive was then.
	Actor, which is, it sounds like that's what they have, but they don't know that.
	I think 100% yet.
	And so you'll see this probably, I suspect by tomorrow, we'll know who the shooter is.
	You won't maybe know much about- We know who he is now, motherfucker!
	Officially, for a while.
	This whole thing is a teaching moment for them because this guy had to be, again, me guessing, outside the perimeter Of what they had covered.
	And only, I suspect, when he started shooting that they were able to draw a beat on him and stop him.
	So this will go together, I think, pretty quickly.
	And we should have a lot more information, I think, by tomorrow.
	And already in the past five hours or so, we have learned a lot.
	Brad Garrett, thank you.
	Let's bring in Elizabeth Newman, our contributor, our former Department of Homeland Security under former President Trump.
	Elizabeth, what are you learning?
	And what's your takeaway in the sense of the shooter profile that we're starting to get right now?
	Look, we don't have a ton of data about assassination attempt attackers, in part because there just aren't that many assassination attempts.
	But we do have a lot of data about the type of attackers that carry out targeted We know that many of them have some sort of life stressor in their life experience in the last year, some sort of crisis.
	Sometimes it's a job loss, sometimes it's a Loss of a loved one.
	Many of them have mental health challenges, not necessarily a diagnosable illness.
	Let's see where Bethel Park is.
	It can be a broad category of mental health challenges.
	That's where this guy's from.
	And all of these things, what Brad was referencing earlier, they're going to be looking into the attacker's history here.
	There sometimes is an ideological motivation, and of course, because of who they are.
	His woman yapping.
	Okay, Bethel Park, unofficial, the municipality of Bethel Park is a borough with home rule, a status in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb within a Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
	This is where this guy is from, Thomas M. Crooks.
	As you guys can see, we pulled up his voter registration earlier.
	Let's see here.
	How far is it from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania to Butler, PA? Okay, about 52 miles, an hour away.
	So this is probably the route the shooter took to get there for the rally.
	They have been participating in a milieu of violent rhetoric and violent inspiration probably for quite some time.
	At least that's the profile of most people who carry out attacks.
	And that's a really great point.
	And again, we are learning more and more as the minutes and the hours go by already into the evening.
	And the next 24 to 48 hours is likely to be very illuminating with more information.
	elizabeth newman thank you so much we cannot forget in all of this the people who are there the witnesses and the victims authorities again confirming that one person was killed two critically wounded all adult males we heard from so many witnesses who saw all of this some of them rushed in to try to help we've been speaking with some who are at the trump rally describing what they saw A warning.
	Some of it is disturbing.
	Let's listen.
	I was positioned probably about maybe 20 feet away from the president at the point in time when he was making his address.
	I was sort of right at the stage due to me being a...
	I was a speaker at the event.
	So I did my speech earlier today during the pre-program and I was a few feet from where this all occurred.
	We heard the shots and I thought it was, first of all, it was fireworks because, you know, people are on edge and any kind of loud boom you hear, you don't think gunshots immediately, especially because of the environment of what was going on.
	I turned around, and someone yelled, medic.
	And I looked, and there was no way a medic could have got to that person in time.
	So I left my seat, took my tie off, I jumped over the barrier, and I ran to the individual.
	But when I got there, it was too late.
	The person was bleeding out through their head.
	And like I said, once again, respect to the family, because this is a very tough time.
	But they were shot.
	And I tried to, you know, block the wound.
	I tried to hold.
	I held a towel against it until medical team arrived and got him out.
	And, you know, from there I helped the police and crowd control with getting people out of there because people were very nervous.
	People were very hesitant.
	And we had to move people fast and get them into a safe location.
	The opposite of where the shooter was at or set to be at.
	So I assisted with getting people down and getting people out.
	I try to keep kids calm and just get people clear.
	Wow, Rico.
	Obviously, we want to be sensitive to the victim's family.
	But can you tell us more about this person, where they were?
	Was it a man?
	Was it a woman?
	Well, it was a male.
	It was a male victim.
	He was literally just sitting there in the stands.
	He had to be maybe three or four rows up from the bottom of the bleachers where everybody was sitting.
	And one second where everyone's cheering and happy and listening to what Trump's saying, and the next minute he's gone.
	Rico, did you have any training in this sort of first aid?
	I mean, this is life-saving aid that you're describing here.
	I mean, I'm in the military.
	I'm in the...
	We got about 21,000 of y'all ninjas watching, by the way.
	Shout out to you guys.
	Do me a favor, like the video.
	I might jump on Discord with Sneeko here.
	I'm just getting messages from him here.
	Also, guys, look at this shit, man.
	Obviously, Obama, right?
	comments on this.
	There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy, although we don't know what exactly what happened, and this is hours ago, right?
	We should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn't seriously hurt and used this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics.
	Michelle and I are wishing him a quick recovery.
	I just said, I'm just here for the comments, and then, like, boom.
	Obviously, they're going crazy, right?
	You got the hotspot saying, fuck you and your tradie husband.
	Goddamn!
	Holy!
	Bro.
	These dudes are crazy.
	Here, let's refresh this shit real quick.
	Hold on.
	Yeah.
	He got shot by one of your guys.
	Political violence is never okay.
	Barack Obama making a statement before Biden.
	At least you spoke before Biden.
	That's Elon Musk, a parody account.
	Yeah, crazy, crazy shit.
	And this came...
	Because Destiny had posted about this.
	So...
	This is Thomas.
	This is Crooks right here with that weird fucking underbite chin of his.
	So, yeah.
	But how are you processing what you saw and what you witnessed?
	I mean, one can only process what happened...
	You know, hopefully as slow as possible.
	But my worry, my heart at this point in time is not for myself, but it's for the families of the loved ones.
	We just saw him, Trump, duck behind the podium and then a Secret Service pile on top of him.
	And we heard the shots.
	More like what we heard.
	The bullets rattled around the grandstand.
	One hit the speaker tower, and then chaos broke.
	We hit the ground, and the police converged to the grandstand.
	I watched him kind of graze his ear, and then I heard a pop-pop, and then he went down.
	And then I heard another pop-pop, and then Secret Service kind of came up to the stage.
	I mean, it was just a chaotic scene.
	I could see his face.
	He was right there talking, having a good time.
	And, you know, you heard one shot, two shot.
	It sounded like, you know, bang, nothing crazy.
	And then you heard maybe three or four more.
	And that's when everyone got quiet, started panicking.
	Trump dropped right to the floor.
	I guess Secret Service jumped on top of him and shielded him.
	But as soon as everyone in the crowd figured out what was going on, we all ducked, and my buddies just jumped on top of me, piled on top of me.
	And we had no idea what was going on.
	You're in total shock.
	You're shook, and you can't feel your legs.
	But we were trying to decide if we wanted to get up and run, and we had really no idea what to do.
	And next thing you know, look at this stupid chick.
	See, this is what some of these radical Democrats say, stupid shit like this, this dumb bimbo here.
	I just found out about this shit.
	It just happened.
	I haven't even had a second to process.
	You're telling me somebody finally had the balls to bring a pew pew and he missed!
	We were a second away!
	We were a centimeter away from half of the problem being gone and you missed!
	There was a white man attached to that trigger.
	I know it!
	We were a centimeter away!
	Fuck this bitch.
	Fucking dummy.
	Sally, whatever the fuck your name is.
	You mentally ill fuck.
	You dumb whore.
	You dumb bitch.
	You fucking idiot.
	That's the problem with these fucking radical leftists.
	Look, you guys can say whatever the fuck you guys want to say about Joe Biden.
	You guys can say whatever the fuck you want to say about Barack Obama, etc.
	If anything were to ever happen to these guys, I would be fucking angry.
	Why?
	Though I might not necessarily share political ideals with them, no one is gonna fucking attack our politicians and our presidents, okay?
	Like, that's bad on us as a nation, you understand?
	So, for this dumb bitch to be calling violence and wishing death upon a former president is unacceptable.
	Fuck that dumbass whore.
	She's an idiot.
	She deserves to be fucking put in jail for that.
	Calling for violence against a former president of the United States.
	Like, that's unacceptable.
	I don't care what your fucking political ideals is.
	I wish Biden safety.
	I wish Kamala Harris safety.
	I don't want anything to happen to them because if anything ever happens to a sitting or former president, it looks bad on the United States, period, man.
	Alright?
	So...
	I'm America first no matter who's in fucking office.
	We gotta protect our politicians.
	We gotta protect our politicians because it's a bad look if anything bad happens to them.
	It says a lot about us and our ineptitude.
	We gotta protect our presidents, man.
	Regardless of your political affiliations, you fucking weirdos like that stupid bitch.
	Stupid.
	Absolute idiot.
	Absolute fucking idiot.
	Have the fucking nerve to say some shit like that, dumb bitch.
	How does that make you feel?
	Honestly, still kind of numb to it.
	You know, it's hard to process all this.
	You know, your heart rate is through the roof.
	But, you know, best wishes for their family.
	And, you know, they were supporting the country that they love.
	And in the meantime, it's definitely sad.
	And, you know, it's heartbreaking, honestly.
	And Stephen, we've been hearing from people on both sides of the aisle, Republicans, Democrats, you know, independent candidate, RFK Jr., all with the same sentiment, condemning political violence, saying there's no place in this country for something like this.
	And I just wonder, from your perspective, too, You're out there, you're exercising your right to support a candidate.
	What message do you have for people out there?
	Because the country is at this political boiling point.
	There's so much division and anger and hatred right now from one side and the other.
	What would you like to tell people?
	At the end of the day, whether you're on the left, the right, the center, or you don't believe in politics at all, we all still put our pants on in the morning.
	We all breathe the air and go to work.
	And a lot of these issues, in 10 years, no one even thinks about them or cares about them.
	So we're all people at the end of the day, and it's not worth taking someone's life over political beliefs or whatever.
	See, someone has half a brain here.
	Senseless indeed.
	All people at the end of the day, all Americans at the end of the day trying to get through this tragedy.
	One nation under God, motherfuckers.
	Don't forget that shit.
	People are so quick to forget one nation under God.
	One nation.
	Regardless of you're independent, you're fucking Republican, you're Democrat.
	One nation under God, and people tend to always forget that part.
	That's why you got idiots like this stupid bitch that don't really love their country, because if you loved your country, you wouldn't want anything bad to happen to any president.
	I don't wish any harm to befall on Joe Biden.
	You know, obviously I think he's an incompetent leader, but I wish him a very healthy and long life.
	Kamala Harris, she's an idiot, but I wish her a very long and healthy life.
	I will never, ever, ever wish death upon anybody, especially anybody that is running this country.
	That's the worst thing that could fucking happen.
	And the fact that we got people here calling for violence or calling for bad things to happen to our politicians, you're a fucking ass clown.
	That conversation went.
	He did not want to engage the press.
	Instead, just, you know, ignoring them and walking up the stairs to Air Force One and back down.
	All of this has completely changed everything, you know, about this race and this political moment.
	And the president, you know, before you get to any of the politics, is simply going to have, you know, a lot of the same questions that all of us have.
	And I do think it is interesting to remember that the president's events, the president's campaign events, they have a very similar Security procedure, security process.
	So, you know, there are a lot of questions that the president is going to have, you know, as the president, as a candidate, about, you know, how this could have happened and what lessons can be learned going forward.
	So, first and foremost, he is reacting to this as the president, trying to get some of those answers here in the coming hours with.
	Yeah, as you noted earlier, president first, candidate second, and everything is being recalibrated now.
	This is a pool video right now that we're also getting.
	This was President Biden and his motorcade pulling up to the White House.
	Remember, he was in Delaware earlier.
	He cut his weekend trip short to come back to help handle this crisis and respond to it.
	So the president flew from Delaware, he flew into Andrews, and then picked up the motorcade, and then we saw the Beast and the other vehicles.
	People that are saying this is a staged event, I don't think so, guys.
	I know some of you guys got your tinfoil hats on and you guys think it's a staged event.
	I think it was a little too close for comfort for it to be a staged event.
	Like, oh yeah, let me go ahead and do this speech.
	I'm going to turn my face like this and I need you randomly to shoot at it, okay?
	Thomas, I'm going to need you to shoot me on the head, but now shoot me on the head so I get some blood so I can go ahead and raise my fist like that.
	No, bro, come on, man.
	Some of you guys got to take the tinfoil hats off a little bit.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, guys.
	Trump's family and the Trump campaign and a video that they're sending out.
	Yeah, this is a video that one of the aides that was traveling with Donald Trump back in New Jersey just posted.
	I know our control room is working to turn that around very quickly, so we'll bring it to our viewers.
	But again, I think this is all just remarkable.
	As we've been reporting for the last several hours, as you've been leading our coverage with, the Trump team has really been learning everything in real time.
	I can tell you that I have been speaking to members John, forgive me.
	I'm interrupting you just for a moment here because I just want to make clear to our viewers what they're seeing right now.
	This is video, the first video that we have seen of former President Donald Trump since the shooting earlier today.
	This was released by a campaign official.
	This is him stepping off of the plane that he flew into Newark, New Jersey.
	Remember, Trump was swept off the stage by the Secret Service.
	He waves to the camera there.
	He was taken to the emergency vehicles, taken off.
	He went off to a hospital for treatment and was told that he suffered a graze wound to his right ear.
	And these are the very first images that we're seeing of the former president walking down the steps off that plane since the shooting, the assassination attempt.
	John, sorry again to interrupt.
	I just wanted to point out what the viewers were seeing.
	But again, you have been in touch with the Trump family throughout the course of the day.
	Yeah, and with that image, I can tell you something that, you know, at the end of the day, Donald Trump, we all know, is larger than life, if you will.
	But for his children, he is dead.
	And, you know, I can tell you that none of the children were with him today in Pennsylvania.
	They were all scrambling to reach their father to get an update.
	They were actively in touch with Secret Service.
	I spoke to his two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
	They both were able to reach their father.
	Donald Trump Jr. telling me that when they spoke, his father was in good spirits, commented about how much blood was coming down to his face.
	And there's UFC tonight for what I'm saying.
	Is there going to be UFC tonight?
	Chad, let me know, what time was UFC supposed to be tonight?
	I think to see Donald Trump showing our viewers on screen right now, you know, to think hours earlier, that image that we have played over and over again of Donald Trump, you know, with agents swarming him and pulling him into that motorcade.
	I can tell you from many aides and sources of mine that I have built in 10 years of covering Donald Trump for ABC News.
	Many were horrified, several of whom I've known for quite some time, answered the phone when I was trying to find out what was going on in tears.
	Oh, the main event is on right now, so I guess he didn't go to UFC.
	that's what he's saying.
	I'm What's happening, guys?
	Where's the main event?
	Where are they fighting at?
	Trying to learn what was happening in real time.
	Now, look, as far as what we know for tonight, our expectation, you mentioned to our viewers, is that Donald Trump right now is in that motorcade, leaving Newark, heading back to his club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
	Oh, it's in Vegas?
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	When he said that, he was going to...
	When he said that he was going to go to UFC, I was like, no way Secret Service is going to let that happen.
	There's no way.
	Guys, when something like this happens, Secret Service takes over.
	There's a reason why Biden had to obviously end his weekend.
	Oh, you guys are saying Denver?
	Okay, Denver?
	Okay.
	There's a reason why Secret Service takes over, man.
	As much as power you have as a president, if Secret Service says, yo, we're going here, they're going there, and that's it.
	It's over.
	You know what I mean?
	So it is what it is.
	Private meetings with the three finalists, if you will, would potentially be his running mate.
	And he thought that this rally today in Pennsylvania was going to be that big event.
	That ended up not being the event because of the coverage.
	Obviously, he's been talking something nobody could have predicted.
	But our understanding is that Donald Trump is still full steam ahead with the convention, expected to head to Milwaukee on Monday, and we still believe that is then and there.
	We'll find out who his running mate is.
	It is, though, I have to tell you, just as an observer of someone who's covered him for this time, I'm surprised at the fact that they are moving so aggressively ahead with the campaign.
	But then again, not.
	We know that Donald Trump has had so many twists and turns over the last year, and so often they collide with the campaign, and Donald Trump finds a way, if you will, to make it all work.
	And I think that's exactly what's going to happen now.
	Absolutely, John.
	And you're seeing this remarkable split screen right here.
	John, thank you again.
	On the left side of your screen, that is that image that we discussed.
	The first images that we've seen of the former president after the shooting, stepping off the plane and then heading to Bedminster, New Jersey.
	On the right, those are the earlier images of the motorcade after he flew into Newark, then escorting him to Bedminster.
	And joining us now, I believe on the phone, is Rachel Bate, our political contributor.
	Rachel, we've had Many conversations in recent weeks about the state of the campaign.
	And once again, another unprecedented moment in this campaign.
	An attempted assassination of a former president.
	What are you learning from your sources tonight?
	Yeah, hey there, Whit.
	I mean, we can certainly say right now that this is going to further scramble a presidential campaign that is already roiling in chaos, as you just said.
	I mean, it is very much electrifying Republicans who are already rallying around Donald Trump.
	And from Democrats who already have heartburn about this campaign, they're even more worried about dimming prospects of taking back the White House.
	I mean, my colleagues and I were hearing Just hours after this assassination attempt from Republicans who are saying, look, we think this is going to solidify Trump's chance of winning back the White House.
	One congressman here in Wisconsin, where I am right now, Derek Van Ouren, said that President Trump survived this attack.
	He just won the election.
	We also heard from other Republicans who were talking about that sort of iconic picture of Trump.
	We've got a congresswoman in the chat real quick.
	Let's go ahead and hear what she has to say, guys.
	Let's go ahead.
	I joined up in it.
	Let's go ahead and...
	Oh, this is the recording.
	Okay, I think it closed from...
	Okay, so it ended before...
	Next order is live, too.
	How many people are in here?
	As you guys can see, I've been jumping on these political spaces all the time.
	He started a new space.
	I think the other one crashed.
	Let's see what she has to say.
	Oh, here he is!
	You got the wrong guy.
	My name is Thomas Matthew Crooks.
	I hate Republicans.
	I hate Trump.
	And guess what?
	You got the wrong guy.
	What the fuck?
	This guy's a weirdo, man.
	What's wrong with you niggas, man?
	Goddamn, bro.
	People are so fucking weird, man.
	And so I started looking into what was going on and immediately interceding and praying for the president and for the people who were at the rally.
	And I saw that he was shot at.
	And this was an attempted murder, an attempted assassination on President Trump.
	and continued to pray and do what I could to offer support and send messages to those who I know who are close with him and to him and himself that I'm there, not expecting any response, not expecting any response, because I know that this is a very heightened time.
	And immediately texts and calls started coming into me from other people.
	But it was it was extremely emotional.
	All right, she's a gun right advocate.
	I guess to get behind that.
	Gun right activist, let's go.
	That President Trump isn't just a former president or a candidate or the future president to me.
	He's a friend of mine.
	And this is someone who I have had...
	Okay.
	She opposes transitioning to green energy, COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates, abortion, sex education.
	All right.
	So I described born again, Christian.
	I can respect that, man.
	She's pro-gun.
	She's pro-gun, so I can get behind that.
	Uh, relationships and endeavors and, um, and even political endeavors.
	And, and so, you know, not, not only is this someone who's the leader of the Republican party who was just shot at, this was my friend.
	And, um, certainly, um, I've gone through a lot of emotions with that.
	I've gone through sadness.
	I've gone through anger.
	I've gone through prayer and, um, In all of this, I'm grateful that he is okay, that he is alive.
	I'm saddened that someone who was exercising their right to be at his rally and express their support for him lost their life.
	Hey, Congress, are you back?
	Yes.
	I'm sorry.
	I am saddened by those who were injured at this rally.
	I've been at these rallies and I know the excitement that people have to To go to these rallies.
	I'm one of the few.
	I think Matt Gates and I are probably like the top two who actually go out into the crowd.
	I've seen other members of Congress who sit back in the green room, in the VIP tent, wherever the air conditioning is, in these scorching hot areas where these rallies are held.
	And I make the effort to go to the very back of the rally.
	To connect with the people who are there just to say they were there, knowing that they're not going to have an opportunity to see President Trump, to speak with President Trump, to get a picture with President Trump, maybe be even too far back to see him on the jumbo screen.
	Oh, looks like the space ended.
	I don't know what the fuck happened.
	It crashed.
	Let's join this one real quick.
	Let's see.
	That invites this type of nonsense, this type of aggression.
	So we have to remain unified, I think, strong, and showcase that we back Trump, and I don't think this is going to happen again.
	At least that's what I hope.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	We're working on some things in the background here right now, but Alan Stone, go ahead and jump in here.
	I had, in essence, the same question.
	I mean, obviously, President Trump is a deep state target, has been since 2015 when he announced that he was running.
	If this was someone like Ron DeSantis or any of the other people that were running for president against President Trump, this wouldn't happen to them.
	It just wouldn't.
	Does President Trump now have to pick someone like a General Michael Flynn who they hate just as much, if not more?
	Is that question to me or to Nick?
	To you, George.
	Let's go back to the news, guys.
	Look, tell us about the plans and everything at this point, as we're told, is moving forward.
	Yeah, I wouldn't call it business as usual because everyone in the city is stunned and some of the events and parties have been scaled back or canceled.
	This is obviously the only topic that anyone is talking about right now and all concerned about.
	And I've been hearing from delegates all day say that their thoughts, their concerns, their prayers are with Donald Trump.
	And it strikes me on this day We're good to go.
	From this horrible incident that occurred just hours ago, it's going to be felt in Milwaukee in the coming days where this convention is planning to go ahead as scheduled starting Monday, and it could be felt throughout the rest of this campaign and beyond.
	This has just cast a pall over all of America and American politics and closing out this really, truly sad and horrific day.
	Rick Klein for us once again and to our entire team.
	No doubt this is a moment of reflection, a defining moment in this country, as people from all sides of the aisle are going to have to ask themselves, who are we as Americans going forward after this unprecedented moment in this campaign, the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, again escaping with only minor injury.
	But three victims were shot today.
	One person killed, two others in critical condition.
	The suspect also killed by a sniper for the Secret Service.
	All these details still coming in.
	Developments have been coming in moment by moment, hour by hour.
	We expect to learn much more in the coming days.
	For now, I do want to thank you and all of you who have been with us throughout the course of the day, followed by these major developments that we've been tracking this evening.
	We return you now to regular programming.
	We will, of course, be monitoring all the developments and all the changes across all of our platforms on ABC News and our programs tomorrow, beginning with a special edition of Good Morning America and a special edition of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
	We leave you now with this image here that we noted earlier, the American flag still illuminated, still flying above that stage at the side of the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	For now, I'm Whit Johnson in New York.
	Have a great night.
	All right.
	Let's go back to Twitter here.
	This has been a special report from.
	Type in news.
	State officials to get the manpower they need.
	So they're going to look at first the security plan that was put in place.
	Was it a.
	NBC sucks.
	You get the proper protection that you need.
	We've got to protect every presidential candidate.
	But, you know, coming from your family and your background and your personal experience, what was your reaction to today?
	Well, you know, my reaction is hope, Sean, that Americans can kind of take a step back and take a breath and say it's time to end the vitriol.
	You know, you were talking about and Laura was talking about just the anger from both sides and from the media.
	And people pointing to other political candidates and saying they're going to be the end of the republic.
	They're going to be the end of democracy.
	And that kind of poison feeds into this.
	You know, my uncle was killed.
	I was 10 years old.
	And the morning that he landed in Dallas, there were posters all over Dallas and a front page of a newspaper which had his picture on it saying, wanted dead or alive.
	And that was the gestalt of that time.
	It was driven by anger and in many ways His murder was a product of that anger.
	When my father was killed, it was the same time.
	It was the most divisive time in American history.
	It was very much like today, most divisive since the Civil War.
	There were riots in over 100 cities that summer.
	Martin Luther King was killed two months before my father.
	People were being shot on college campuses.
	And that anger Fed laid the foundation for my father's murder.
	And, you know, after Princeton Kennedy's murder, there was a time of regrouping, and there was a time of where Americans said to each other, we have to stop this.
	We have to start looking at each other as part of a big family.
	We can have differences with each other without despising each other.
	We are the exemplary democracy of the world.
	We can't allow our country to devolve into violence.
	We are better than And I'm not talking about the other media, but also you and me and all of us are complicit in some ways in what happened tonight.
	And I think all of us have to sort of step back now and say, how do we change the tone of this whole campaign?
	How do we change the tone of the political dialogue in this country and start to forgive each other, to reconcile, to love each other again, and to see each other, to be able to have differences with each other without wanting to murder each other?
	Yeah.
	You know, let's go back.
	How old were you when your father was assassinated?
	How old were you when your uncle was assassinated?
	I was 10 years old when my uncle was assassinated and I remember it like it was yesterday.
	I was with his body.
	I broke down the JFK shooting, by the way, guys, in explicit detail.
	Go check it out.
	I remember every moment of it.
	I was 14 when my dad died.
	And I was with him when he died in Los Angeles.
	So I, you know, I sent a message out, a note out to President Trump tonight and to his family, telling him how relieved I am that he was not more badly injured, wishing him a quick recovery, thanking him for his courage during that event, which was inspirational.
	But also telling him that Cheryl and I are praying for him, our whole family is praying for him, for Melania, and for his family, not only for his quick recovery, but for his continued safety during this campaign.
	And I really wish, I really hope, that President Biden reaches out to President Trump and offers him a podium somewhere where the two of these men We
	killed JFK. I'll put it in there.
	There was this moment of calm.
	There was a moment of peacefulness that Congress got together, both sides, and passed the Civil Rights Act, guaranteeing the right to vote for black Americans.
	And it was a healing that took place.
	And I hope the same thing happens now.
	I remember, too, I remember your father, I mean, it's a famous video of him announcing to a crowd that Martin Luther King Jr.
	had been assassinated.
	This is all happening in the same time period, as you know.
	There are two things that I think You know, that relate directly to you that have to happen as a result of what happened today.
	And one is, I think you need Secret Service protection immediately for you and your family as a presidential candidate.
	Putting aside our personal political differences, number one.
	Number two, you know, there's been a lot of talk for a lot of years about releasing the files about your uncle's assassination.
	Yeah, they won't do that.
	And I don't know why there has been reluctance and resistance to do so.
	I believe President Trump recently said that if elected, he would in fact release those.
	You guys know why.
	I wonder why there's any argument as to why not.
	You guys want that JFK one.
	I pinned it at the top.
	You guys will see why they don't want to release it.
	Would you have a request into President Biden?
	Have they given you any legitimate reason why they keep refusing you the Secret Service protection that you have requested in light of what has happened to your family?
	Yeah, I mean, but I don't, and listen, Sean, I really appreciate you going to bat for me on that issue because you've done that before and you've done it pretty persistently despite our personal differences with each other.
	And I think that's the kind of example that, you know, we all need to look on.
	You don't, you don't, you don't like anything about my politics, but you have been asking for me to get protection.
	I don't want to I don't want to make this evening about me.
	It's about something bigger.
	And, you know, you talked about the Secret Service in an admiring way.
	And I really like that you mentioned after these men and women, how they rushed into the gunfire, how they surrounded President Trump.
	They put their own bodies in the ways of those bullets.
	They invited people who shoot at them rather than the President.
	With an extraordinary courage and with a commitment to our country, to our Constitution.
	They weren't just protecting a man.
	They were protecting our nation.
	And I think all of us have to step back and say, you know, we need to have a little bit of that courage in our own lives now.
	And it might be Maybe not running into a bullet, but maybe biting our tongue when we have a really withering reply to somebody.
	Maybe not amplifying an angry pose from somebody else.
	Maybe doing something kind for somebody we don't like.
	Somebody on the other side of the aisle reaching out and doing something healing.
	You asked about the JFK files.
	You know, President Biden and President Trump both promised to release them.
	I know you have a very, very strong friendship with President Trump.
	And maybe at some time over dinner or late at night, you can ask him why he decided not to do that.
	But I don't want to talk about those issues today.
	I understand.
	Prayers go out for President Trump and his family.
	And we all, I think every American, Whether you like President Trump or not, you know, should be praying a prayer of gratitude that he did not, that this was not worth.
	And also a prayer for his recovery and for healing in our country.
	You see that picture that we have on the screen and him like very strongly showing a fist pump.
	He just got shot in the ear and had his ear pierced.
	He came within a millimeter or two of being shot and assassinated.
	Your family's been through too much, sir.
	I stand by my statement that you deserve that protection, and I'll continue to advocate for whether you want me to or not, but it wouldn't be our first disagreement.
	But anyway, thank you.
	That's too much for one family.
	All right, I got Sneeko calling in, guys, so I'm going to answer.
	Yo.
	Hey, can you hear me?
	I can.
	Chat, can you guys hear Sneeko in here?
	Can you guys hear him?
	Your camera's not on.
	You just gotta turn your camera.
	I think you might have to turn it off in your streaming app and then turn it on in Discord.
	I don't know.
	We can just call like this if you prefer.
	Yeah, because if I turn my...
	Let me see if I can turn my...
	If I even let me do it.
	I'll turn my camera on.
	Well, let me...
	Chat, give me ones if you guys can hear.
	You guys can hear them?
	All right, sweet.
	Yeah, they can hear you.
	I don't know why my camera's acting stupid, but it's fine, bro.
	Go ahead.
	Because you have to disable it in...
	What are you using?
	OBS? Streamlabs?
	Yeah, I'm using OBS. Yeah, just disable your camera in OBS and then you can enable it in Discord.
	It takes a second.
	Okay, so they'll be able to see me on your side, right?
	Yeah, and on yours.
	And then you just open the Discord window.
	Okay, hold on one second.
	Sorry guys, I'm like figuring this crap out.
	It's good, it's fine, it's fine.
	This is good to learn for future FedReact streams and stuff.
	Yeah, go ahead, yeah.
	I was gonna call Jackson Henkel and Zorkin a bit too.
	They've been trying to call him.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Alright, you guys...
	I think you guys can hear me, but you guys can hear Sneeko, which is what matters.
	Alright, go ahead.
	Am I on your camera thing now?
	I'm not?
	No.
	Okay, so now you see the camera.
	If you go on the bottom middle, you see that camera icon?
	Just turn it off and on.
	I did.
	I hit deactivate and then reactivate and it was being lame.
	Okay, so do you have two scenes in OBS? Maybe you have to deactivate your camera in both scenes.
	It's fine, bro.
	Do you need my face?
	I'm out live on mine.
	They can see me on mine.
	Do you need my face?
	Okay, it's fine.
	Don't worry about it.
	I'll just keep the news open.
	And I think the chat can hear you, so that's what it is.
	Yeah, guys, I am a boomer.
	Make fun of me.
	Yes, I know I'm old.
	Wait, you gotta learn it eventually.
	It's not that hard to fix.
	Nah, because Bill set this OBS thing up for me, so if I fuck with it, I already know I'm gonna mess it up.
	All you have to do is, if you see the camera, just right click the camera and then deactivate it.
	I did.
	That's literally what I did.
	I hit deactivate and then I hit react and then I hit activate again.
	And then I'm good on my end, but for some odd reason it doesn't show it on yours.
	I don't know why the hell...
	Well, it shouldn't still show it on your thing.
	That's why.
	Because your camera is still on.
	No, no, no.
	I turn it off, then I turn it back on.
	Here, let me try this.
	Well, no, no, no.
	Now your camera is only supposed to show from Discord.
	That's the whole point.
	It's fine, man.
	Just...
	What's up, brother?
	Okay.
	What's your...
	Obviously, this is a huge day.
	This is one of the biggest days in modern American history, actually.
	Yeah.
	No, it's huge.
	And I see we're trying to find a shooter a little bit.
	Have you seen the same information that it's this guy, Thomas Crooks?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's him.
	It's him.
	Is that sure?
	Is that...
	I posted a picture of him, but it pressure me to deleting it because I don't want to get sued.
	I think it is him.
	I think it is him from what I've seen.
	So apparently he graduated in 2022, and there's some videos of him saying that he hates Trump and he hates Republicans.
	Did you see that video?
	Yeah, even though he's registered as a Republican, which is kind of weird.
	Also, he just graduated, so he must only be like 21 or 20 years old.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He's a young guy, man.
	You know, but I'm not surprised, right?
	Like, these fucking radicals, man, they're always on some bullshit with, you know, they take their political views a little too far and they think that it's okay to enact violence.
	So it's always weird.
	And, you know, obviously, as I predicted, the FBI took lead on this thing.
	And look, Chad, you guys can see here, there's the FBI guy.
	Obviously, we got the top guy, state police, and you got ATF in the back, too.
	That's probably the sack for Pittsburgh.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Did you see his dad, apparently, I'm not sure this is confirmed, is also a mental health professional.
	So I would put money that this guy is on antidepressants, is on some sort of medication.
	Almost definitely.
	Probably.
	Some people in the chat are saying it's not him.
	Are you guys sure?
	New York Post reported it's him, guys.
	Yeah, New York Post did report that and they've been pretty accurate.
	I mean, the FBI, I was watching this video too of their Q&A. They pretty much took a stance of like, okay, we don't know what's happening.
	We don't know information.
	Call in.
	Give us this.
	But I don't think that they really know that much or they're just feigning ignorance to keep the public calm.
	Yeah, I think definitely he probably is.
	I think he's a shooter.
	I mean, he looks too much like the guy.
	And then also TMZ is reporting it too.
	So I think it is him.
	What did you think?
	Yeah, the Secret Service dropped the ball today, for sure.
	They absolutely fucked up.
	You know, for that, for a guy to be able to climb up on the roof of a building, literally a couple hundred meters away from where the president was, I think it was like 100, between 100 to 200 meters away, is wild, bro.
	That's just, or yards, whatever the fuck.
	Either way, it doesn't matter.
	So people are saying in the chat, Okay, whatever.
	Anyway, going back to what I was saying with you.
	So it's just not unprecedented, man.
	And the Secret Service, I was mentioning this earlier, like the Secret Service relies heavily upon other agencies to augment their security details whenever they're on, whenever they're doing these rallies, especially when it's like a presidential candidate, like someone like a Trump.
	They don't have the same level of security as a sitting president.
	So, you know, they cut corners, they bring HSI agents on, they bring state police on, they bring local law enforcement.
	And a lot of times these guys aren't necessarily, their thing isn't necessarily protection.
	You know, these are law enforcement agencies and protection and security versus law enforcement are two different things.
	So I think it's really important for the audience to understand that.
	That when Secret Service brings these guys on, they don't have the same training and background experience as a Secret Service agent.
	So, you know, this was kind of people seeing the ugly side of law enforcement and how understaffed Secret Service really is.
	I've been mentioning that all day today, that Secret Service has been, for years, Chronically understaffed and it's because this job of being a secret service agent fucking sucks for like a better term They're watching they're sitting in guarding fucking garbage cans right for like 10 hours a day And it just blows it's and you know you keep in mind that's assuming you even got a halfway decent detail a lot of times you're and you're protecting you know a President or a close relative of the president and you're not necessarily involved in anything cool So I think when people get on the job and they realize
	realize it's not what it really is.
	Yeah.
	They become complacent, but it seems like the perfect scenario where they should be on point completely, especially in Pennsylvania.
	It's always like, there's always a national tragedy in Pennsylvania, 9-11, the plane crashed there, but especially a rally.
	This is how Robert Kennedy was assassinated, correct?
	He was at a rally.
	This is, especially with the election season coming up, shouldn't this be the one thing that they have on lock?
	It seems like the incompetence is a little bit, it raises your eyebrow.
	Like, who's in his circle?
	Why were there so many women, first off?
	I don't know why.
	It seemed like he had a lot of women on his team.
	And if I'm the former president, if I'm as hated as Trump, I'm not hiring that many women.
	Yeah, I mean, the problem here is that he has a watered-down Secret Service detail, bro.
	You're not going to have the same level of protection as a sitting president.
	So that's another issue, too, which I think it's crazy when you have someone as divisive as Trump, how he's not having sitting-level security detail as a president, which I hope after this they're definitely going to give it to him.
	But this was a fuck-up on Secret Service 100%.
	They've relied way too much on other agencies.
	They've relied way too much on...
	Bringing other people in to help them and augment their security details.
	Hopefully this is a wake-up call because they literally missed the president by fucking centimeters, man.
	And it could have been a way different situation had he not turned his head at that precise moment.
	And, you know, shout out to the agent that was quick to, you know, to shoot back and kill the shooter immediately.
	But that shooter never- Was it the sniper that neutralized him?
	Yeah, it was a Secret Service sniper that neutralized him.
	I mean, that was a good shot, but shouldn't he have done it a little bit sooner?
	Because that guy must have had time to get up on the roof, to climb up there, to use his iron sights.
	It seems like, and also he was aiming directly at him.
	I'm surprised it took him that long to clock him.
	Yeah, and that's on Secret Service for even letting him get up there in the first place, which is kind of terrible.
	What did you think about Trump's response?
	We just witnessed American history.
	That was one of the bravest and most strong moments we've seen and one of the best examples of leadership that we've seen in recent history.
	Him holding up the fist like that.
	It even looked like he hit a Roman salute like Weyron Fittler for a second when he was walking away.
	That was...
	And then seeing also the CNN response saying Trump fell over and was rushed off stage.
	One, he didn't fall over.
	He ducked after he realized he was being shot at.
	Two, they didn't rush him off stage.
	They carefully...
	They actually had to hesitate because he went there.
	He's like, fight!
	Fight!
	They absolutely did not rush him off.
	So seeing how he was being able to respond like that with blood all over his face, that made me proud to be an American right there.
	And also seeing how the mainstream news tried to change that moment and seemed like he's inciting violence for saying fight.
	Using the worst pictures of one of the coolest events in recent history strategically to make him look weaker.
	You really get to see the polar opposites right now.
	The agenda, the mainstream media and what they're trying to push.
	And then patriots like Trump who love God and love this country.
	No, I agree.
	I mean, obviously, you know, the leftist media is going to try to portray them in a certain way, but they can't win.
	I mean, today was a defiant day.
	It was a big day.
	Obviously, those photos are going to live on in history.
	You know, an attempted assassination on, you know, a former president of the United States that failed, and it was done in 2024 with HD cameras all over the place.
	This is going to live on in infamy, and it's a huge day.
	It's a huge W for Trump, it's a huge W for the Republican Party.
	It's a huge W in general for anyone that is conservative in mind that our resolve is strong and we will not be held down.
	And him being able to pump the fist and say fight after being shot at where a lot of other people would have fucking cowered and just stayed down is a testament to Trump's character.
	And I think also people got to understand that it's protocol.
	If there's shots fired, the president has to hit the floor.
	That's protocol.
	So and that's why the Secret Service agents, if you notice, like Trump was a little reluctant to get down and then they just jumped on top of him.
	So people got to understand that a lot of it is protocol.
	A lot of it is stuff that's out of Trump's control.
	If you notice, they're dragging him off.
	He didn't want to get off the stage.
	They dragged him off the stage and pushed him off.
	So he wanted to stay, you know, held.
	He told them, hey, put my shoes on.
	He didn't even want to, you know, he was, you know, say, get my shoes, right?
	So he didn't want to walk.
	He said, get my shoes.
	He really went up there and he said, I'm not fucking leaving.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	I'm not fucking leaving.
	You're going to need a fucking wrecking ball to take me.
	That was exactly what he did.
	And so to see them blatantly lie like that, say he fell.
	Not true.
	To say he was rushed off, not true.
	And also I think it's a very pivotal moment because we're seeing the difference in how the mainstream media will so clearly try to blatantly lie.
	And then I have to say Jeff Bezos had the correct response.
	Elon Musk had the correct response.
	A lot of people are coming out and showing support.
	The only thing the Democrats could say was, we condemn violence.
	They couldn't take away how badass that moment was.
	All they could say was we could have violence.
	Trump had a good response to True Social.
	You can see a lot of influencers have the right response.
	Like Jake Paul said some good things and a lot of celebrities and others.
	But at the same time, you're seeing how the liberal media, not just random TikTokers, you know, with the witch nose ring, all the liberals saying like...
	Oh, if only he didn't miss.
	How are you going to miss that shot?
	But also guys like Hasanabi, like Destiny, and others.
	These people were basically joking around and celebrating it.
	And immediately making jokes when, you know, a former president's life was just attempted.
	Yeah, no, it's crazy.
	I mean, I'm reading some of Destiny's tweets right now, which are fucking wild.
	You know, I just go with Destiny on a lot of the things.
	Let's see here.
	I'll even share my screen here for you ninjas.
	But yeah, dude, it's just wild stuff, what he's saying here.
	And I was saying this earlier, like advocating for violence or being happy about anything happening to any American politician is a problem.
	Like an injustice against one American politician is justice at all because people forget that when you take the Pledge of Allegiance, what does it say?
	One nation under God.
	That means Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, whatever the fuck you identify as.
	One nation under God.
	So I don't like Biden, for example, but I wish him a long and healthy life.
	I wish Kamala Harris a long and healthy life.
	I would never wish death if the same thing happened to Joe Biden.
	I swear on God that that would never happen.
	I'm not the type of person to wish death and stuff like this on anybody.
	To see Destiny tweet this, all I see is to make a joke immediately is really telling of what these people believe in.
	And also, I really think it's a war.
	I think it's spiritual warfare.
	All the atheists and all the people like Destiny, Hassanabi, others, these people, the fact that they're...
	Hassanabi said Trump was clip farming.
	How stupid is that?
	He's showing a moment of strength when the country's worried.
	Think about how many millions and millions of Americans look up to Trump and look up to him as a source of leadership and guidance in America.
	They're worried.
	They're scared.
	He goes up there, shows strength, and it's still not enough for these people.
	On CNN, they try to criticize him saying fight.
	Destiny makes a joke saying Biden plus one.
	When somebody died, may they rest in peace.
	Somebody died.
	Yeah, no, it's fucking terrible, man.
	Like I said before, if this, if Biden got shot, I would have said, what the fuck?
	You know what I mean?
	I would have been talking shit about that shooter as well and been like, fuck that asshole.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, at the end of the day, and I was trying to explain this to people, is that when you, what is this?
	Yeah, Hassan, this fucking loser.
	I'm looking at his Twitter timeline right now.
	But yeah, if an American politician is killed, that reflects poorly on the entire country.
	So we can't have any of our politicians being taken out.
	It's really a reflection of a weakness in our country.
	If the same thing happened to Joe Biden, I would be worried for the safety of our politicians and especially how our enemies are going to look at us and try to find holes and try to find weaknesses right there.
	Yeah, look at Asanabe Sweet.
	It's really insane too because we're banned off of most social media.
	I've never incited violence on anybody.
	You could see so many people on TikTok are wishing death or try to incite even more violence and they don't get banned at all.
	So it's really clear what the narrative is when all these people are allowed on TikTok, these people with the nose rings and the satanic imagery everywhere, the vaccinated soy face, all this, they're allowed to push that.
	They get pushed on the algorithm.
	But if you're pro-Trump, you get banned everywhere.
	And we both never incited violence a day in our lives.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	You know, I mean, this is a guy that said America deserved 9-11.
	There you go.
	These people are enemies of the state, right?
	They hate this country, but for some reason they choose to stay.
	That's what never made sense to me about these people.
	Hassan Abbe, you know, he regrets the fact that Trump did not die in this assassination attempt.
	He says America deserved 9-11, but they stay.
	These same people, when Trump won in 2016, I'm sure you remember they all said, if Trump wins, we're going to leave.
	We're going to go to Canada.
	All these Hollywood actors like Alec Baldwin, like Eminem, these people, these faggots, they said that they were going to leave.
	But I'm sorry, I know you're on YouTube.
	Yeah, I'm on YouTube.
	My apologies.
	But they said that they were going to leave, and they didn't.
	And they stay here, and they continue to hate, and they continue to remain in the country that they think is lost.
	Yeah.
	Without trying to fight.
	But instead of trying to fight, instead of fighting for freedom, instead of fighting for these values, they continue to go and backbite and try to take down Trump more.
	Yeah, I'm looking here right now.
	Dom Luster just posted that this guy, Thomas Crooks, actually donated to Joe Biden on Inauguration Day.
	Fifteen bucks.
	Why would he even send that money?
	It's right after January 6th pretty much too.
	This is like 14 days, two weeks after January 6th.
	He hated Trump and he hated his supporters for quite a while.
	I want to see more of this come out and see if this is really the guy.
	Yeah, I think, damn, this picture is going to live on in infamy.
	I just posted a picture right now with Trump and obviously the American flag in the background and shit like that.
	Like, yeah, dude, this is going to go down in history.
	It looks like the cover of a textbook.
	It looks like the cover of a video game.
	It really is...
	You know, that's a true patriot right there.
	That's somebody that really loves America.
	Even though, you know, I want to say this before we leave the call.
	It's like, we all know that there's things that we disagree with Trump in, right?
	And focusing on those mistakes right now is ridiculous.
	This is clearly a patriot who loves this country, and that's undeniable.
	This guy took a bullet for this country.
	He doesn't need to be doing this right now.
	He's a billionaire.
	He's 78.
	He has grandchildren.
	But he's still in this race because there's no better option, and he clearly loves this country.
	Yeah, no, absolutely.
	I think people need to also understand that Trump didn't even take the presidential salary.
	You know what I mean?
	The guy doesn't need to do this.
	So he's doing it because obviously he sees problems with the United States.
	He thinks it's run by a bunch of bureaucrats, which it is.
	And he has more of a business mindset when it comes to running the American...
	Government, which I think did serve us pretty well from 2016 to 2020.
	But then, you know, you got guys like Biden who are career-long politicians that have never done anything else and don't have any other outside experience in the private sector.
	So, yeah, man.
	This is obviously a historic day.
	I think it's a W, even though it was a terrible event.
	I think it was a W in general that, you know, he survived the shooting.
	I think, if anything, he just won this.
	Even fucking dumbass Hassan goes, Reagan landslide incoming.
	Yeah, you're damn right, you fucking liberal idiot.
	Damn right.
	That it's going to be a landslide.
	If you guys thought Biden had a chance, he definitely doesn't have one now.
	We're talking about a guy who got indicted in four different jurisdictions.
	He's the defendant in countless civil cases of allegations of everything from sexual misconduct to bad business practices, etc.
	He got indicted for RICO in Georgia.
	He got indicted for classified documents in Florida.
	He got indicted for insurrection in D.C. He got indicted in New York and convicted for paying off Stormy Daniels.
	And then now, Some weirdo person tried to assassinate him and failed.
	Like, if there ever is going to be a landslide incoming, we're going to see probably one of the biggest voter turnouts ever.
	And this assassination attempt cemented it.
	Last time this happened was November 22, 1963.
	And we know who died on that day and why he died.
	So, yeah, man, this is crazy stuff.
	I'm just happy that he's okay and nothing happened.
	And I don't wish this on even...
	You know, my worst political enemy or someone that I dislike.
	Like I said before, I wish Biden a long and healthy life, you know, because an attack on one American politician is an attack on all.
	Absolutely.
	And I mean, it was already a landslide victory before then.
	The debate solidified that.
	If it wasn't a landslide after the debate, then this guarantees it.
	He was already, I think, like 64% to Biden's 36 in terms of approval rating.
	He didn't even need this, right?
	This was not needed.
	So for people that are saying this is staged, I'm seeing conspiracy theories, it doesn't make sense.
	Yeah.
	He doesn't need to win over anybody else.
	It's already guaranteed.
	There is no actual replacement on the Democratic Party.
	There's no signs that point to that this was staged.
	But I've seen some of the people like Agent 00, he said that this was staged.
	I don't know if you've seen that yet.
	He thinks that the photograph was too perfect for...
	For his liking, but I think he retracted his statement.
	But overall, it's already a guarantee.
	He's an idiot.
	Like, bro, I want to...
	Look, a lot of you Canadians don't really have a seat at the table.
	Shut the fuck up.
	Like, seriously.
	Like, you guys need to focus on your own problems.
	Focus on Trudeau and your communist country, what you guys got, where you guys can barely afford a fucking coffee.
	A Canadian dollar is worth fucking nothing right now.
	So, I love it when these foreign nationals try to come in and give their shitty ass political takes as if we give a fuck what they think when they can't even vote.
	Like, Agent's a fucking idiot.
	He's getting out here getting bitched out by some mid-chick named Sin on his streams.
	Like, he needs to shut the fuck up and just be quiet with his receding ass hairline.
	Fucking idiot.
	So, these guys, man, and I love my Canadians, but some of y'all, man, you guys give stupid fucking political takes and nobody gives a fuck about your opinion.
	Shut up.
	Focus on your own country.
	You guys are into real shitter.
	Canada's fucked.
	You guys need to focus on getting Trudeau out of there.
	I'm seeing a lot of people in, you know, the people that are really anti-Zionist.
	I'm sure we have a crossover there, like in the UK and in Europe, these places like, how could you support Trump?
	He takes money from Israel.
	It's like, bro, like, we have a lot of issues in our country that's ridiculous for you to think that he's going to align with you completely.
	For you to think that Trump is going to be like a free Palestine, like liberal on a college campus with a cafe is ridiculous.
	There's much more going on.
	Never.
	And people got to understand that that's just the price of doing business in the United States if you're going to be a politician.
	It is what it is.
	You just got to pick the guy that's the best when it comes to dealing with it.
	And I think in this situation, it's a no-brainer.
	But yeah, of course this dude's going to say that.
	Look, I'm all for conspiracy theories.
	I'm all for thinking, you know, certain things happened.
	But for anyone that thinks that this was staged or whatever, like, think of how preposterous that is.
	Like, Trump's gonna sit there and say, okay, hey, I'm gonna coordinate with the shooter to shoot me millimeters away from my ear, by the way.
	This guy who is a random that doesn't have any military training.
	Yeah, I want you to shoot at me so I can go ahead and stage this perfect picture of me raising the fist after you missing your shot.
	And then, by the way, you need to die at the end of this thing.
	Like, no, dude, no.
	Like, guys, I'm all for putting the tinfoil hats on, but sometimes you gotta be able to understand low IQ when it's being displayed.
	And saying that this is a staged event is a low IQ situation.
	Trump does not have much to benefit from saying, yo, let me go ahead and start a stage of my own assassination.
	Absolutely ludicrous that people would even think that.
	Idiots.
	These tinfoil guys need to have a little bit of critical thinking skills and realize that, bro, this is way bigger.
	It's just not something that's even feasible or possible.
	Incredible.
	It doesn't make any sense, and there's no motive.
	I understand.
	I'm willing to look into that, and obviously, whenever stuff like this happens, you question it, but it doesn't make any sense.
	They found the shooter.
	You could see the bullet midair.
	There was casualties.
	Some people died.
	He died.
	There's clearly a bullet wound in his ear that we could see.
	He doesn't have anything to gain.
	It doesn't make sense.
	This doesn't help his case whatsoever.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	It doesn't.
	It doesn't.
	So, like, just for people to even insinuate that it's an insider thing or whatever, at least if you're going to talk 9-11, you're going to talk about JFK conspiracies, etc., there's an enormous amount of evidence to show that, you know, the conspiracy theorists aren't correct on a lot of the things.
	But when it comes to this, there's no benefit for Trump to faking his own assassination like this and being millimeters away from his own death.
	Like, no, dude.
	Like, what the fuck?
	It doesn't make sense.
	Why would he take that risk when he's already up in the polls?
	Everyone knew that after that debate, I think Trump pretty much solidified his victory.
	Even the Democrats admitted it.
	The Democrats had a round table after the debate.
	They sat around and had a mental breakdown.
	The Young Turks guy sat there, and he was just basically freaking out.
	Like, who are we going to replace Trump with now?
	It was already decided that it was a landslide victory.
	So I don't know what other motivation he would have to do this.
	And we're going to learn more soon.
	But I'm interested to see.
	I think that they tried to deactivate some of the shooters' social media accounts.
	They're trying to cover up some things.
	But I'd be curious because, again, look at the archetype.
	Have you seen the way this guy looks?
	He looks exactly like Penguin Zero.
	He looks exactly like Hasanabe.
	He looks exactly like everybody that makes Soyboy documentaries on us.
	He looks identical.
	I tried to get rid of this because I think that physiognomy is funny, but sometimes it can get too hatred.
	But this guy clearly, he fits the mold of everybody.
	I bet if you look at his social media, he follows not only all of our haters, but he probably hated us.
	I would put money that he hated Fresh and Fit, he hated Sneeko.
	No, absolutely, man.
	Absolutely, they always do.
	Someone is saying here, uh...
	Shooter may be 30-year-old Antifa rioter Maxwell Yurik?
	What?
	Let's see here.
	Yeah, um...
	Yeah, Penguin's a loser.
	This is from WPXI News.
	Penguin's a loser, guys.
	Unlimited L's just posted on X a video of Thomas Crooks.
	It's not Thomas Crooks.
	Chat, tell Myron.
	This dude is spamming this shit.
	Uh...
	Let me see here.
	I don't think so.
	Unlimited L. Let's see if it's...
	Nowhere in this article says that it's not Thomas Crooks.
	Okay, let's see.
	Unlimited L's.
	Yeah, no one in this article does say that.
	Yeah, it doesn't say...
	Yeah, I don't see that.
	I don't know what the fuck...
	Someone found his Twitter account.
	Yeah.
	Don't see it.
	Are you going to jump on and do something with these guys, with Zerka and Hinkle?
	Yeah, I just called Zerka.
	He said that he left and that they left and came back.
	But yeah, I'm down to that.
	I don't think that they're too far away.
	They're staying in Brickell right now.
	Wait, where are they?
	Hold on.
	Where are they at?
	They're in Brickell?
	Yeah, they're both in brick right now.
	They were tweeting and stuff, but I was pretty locked in, so I didn't get the chance to call.
	But I'm down to link up some stuff if you guys want to do something.
	We should do something tonight, man.
	I mean, we should fucking go do a fucking stream right now.
	I think the people would like it.
	Tell their asses to go over to your house or some shit.
	I'm down to do it.
	I'm down to do it.
	And again, also, doesn't this prove how important Rumble is in a time like this?
	Again, Trump is a Rumble streamer.
	Chad, you guys want that?
	You guys want us to do a fucking mega stream with all the boys on fucking Rumble?
	You guys want that?
	Yeah, let's fucking do it.
	They've been begging for it all day.
	Alright, tell these fucks, let's call these guys, let's set it up, let's do it fucking tonight, man.
	We could do it here in the studio, we could do it over there, we could stream it everywhere, we could do it on your stream.
	We could also do it on Discord, too.
	Fuck it, bro.
	I got a studio.
	Let's fucking do it here, man.
	Yeah, you got a studio.
	I've been bringing Zerker in a lot here.
	I just chain-smoked cigarettes the whole time.
	My apartment stinks, so I'm trying to...
	Discord, I don't have to smell the cigs.
	Yeah, it's fine.
	Just tell me not to smoke.
	Yeah, you guys all fucking pull up here.
	I'll create another Rumble stream, and we'll fucking do this shit right now with the people, man.
	I got a studio.
	I'll set up four chairs.
	I'll fucking set this shit up.
	Let's do it.
	Alright, the spam and W. Everybody wants it.
	Everybody wants it.
	I just texted Zerka to make sure.
	But yeah, a good stream with...
	I didn't get a chance to watch your Chris Pawlowski stream yesterday.
	This is the perfect example of how important Rumble is today.
	Today, all these people, you see the difference in the mainstream narrative.
	And then you see the narrative about people that actually believe in free speech.
	And again, when people ask who's the biggest Rumble streamer, it's Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump is the biggest Rumble streamer.
	He's not on any of these other platforms.
	He's banned just like us.
	Yep.
	And he uses this to go in...
	All of his rallies are broadcasted here.
	I think the assassination attempt was broadcasted on Rumble.
	Nah, absolutely, man.
	It's crazy shit, man.
	It's definitely wild.
	What about shit?
	Okay, let me try to...
	I'm going to try to see if I can get Mo here or somebody to help out with this shit behind the scenes.
	Actually, or maybe Chris.
	We can do this shit.
	Um...
	Here, you know what?
	Do me a favor, bro.
	Call Zerker right now on the line.
	I don't know if he's going to...
	Actually, I can add him to the call.
	Let's see.
	Add him to the call.
	Yeah.
	I'll add him on...
	He's always on Discord.
	Discord's on his phone, so...
	Okay, it's going to...
	So you're new to Discord, but it's going to create a new call.
	Just join the new call, okay?
	All right, that's fine.
	While you do that, I'll...
	Yeah.
	All right, guys.
	Sorry, I'm a boomer, but I think I can figure this out.
	It's Kwon Zerker right now.
	Yeah, chat, we'll see if we can get this going for y'all.
	I'm gonna join video call.
	He's here?
	No, I don't think he accepted the call.
	Let's see.
	Maybe he's doing the Zerka things.
	Call Hinkle.
	We're all in fucking Miami.
	We should have been doing this.
	What the fuck are we doing?
	Yeah, you know, panels are good, but also solo streams are fun too.
	Yeah, but panels are always better.
	That's what the people want.
	People want content.
	Yeah, but they prefer if it's with all of us together.
	That's what the people want.
	We got what?
	I got 12, almost 20,000 watching.
	You got another 13, 14 watching?
	You should cut off the YouTube one to be careful.
	Eh, I guess I could.
	I forget that you're on YouTube.
	It's actually refreshing to hear YouTube, Myron, because you sound completely different.
	When you're on Rumble, you come on here, what's up, waggots?
	It's the first thing you say.
	When you're on YouTube, it's like you're more articulate, there's less cursing.
	I've been keeping it very analytical.
	I've been in Twitter spaces all day trying to sound professional, so I don't come off as some crazy fuck.
	Because obviously on Twitter, it's way more political, so I've been in a bunch of Twitter spaces.
	Bro, there were 62,000 people earlier Nick Fuentes, the Tate brothers, PBD was in there.
	Alex Jones, yeah, I saw the Krasentine, the Jews.
	Yeah, of course.
	How was that?
	What was the overall consensus in the space?
	I didn't get to tune into that.
	The overall thing is that, obviously, it's a wild day, right, that, you know, someone would actually try to attack a president in 2024.
	You know, I gave more of my background as far as, like, you know, the monumental failure from the Secret Service perspective, and other people were giving their different takes on things.
	So...
	What was Tate's name?
	Tate probably put the three attempts on your live, the life thing.
	I think you made a tweet about that, yeah.
	And then Alex Jones was saying that Trump should stay and do everything virtually from now on, which I disagree with.
	I think, if anything, that needs to galvanate him even more to be out there even more so.
	Oh, yeah.
	He can't do that.
	He can't show.
	That shows weakness.
	They already tried to shoot him.
	Are they really going to try to do it again?
	He should definitely just go out with more security.
	And then, yeah, he should go to UFC tomorrow.
	But it actually is alarming, I have to admit, I've been to a lot of Trump rallies.
	I went to one in Vegas, and it was, like, the security was good, but it's like, I remember thinking at that event, it was only 200 people, it was like a private dinner.
	Strickland was there, the North Boise people, that's where Strickland asked me to spar.
	And at this, I was like, if I wanted to, like, if I was an enemy of Trump, it wouldn't be that difficult.
	And again, there was another one at the UFC. I was able to stand right next to him.
	And even then, I've seen some people put their arm around him.
	I should not be able to put my arm around Donald Trump.
	There should be somebody separating that.
	I shouldn't be able to get that close.
	If I really wanted to do something, when I was a kid, I thought it would be impossible.
	All these times, I've been in many, many rallies.
	I'm like, there's not that much barrier of security as I thought there would be.
	Yeah, no.
	I mean, he doesn't have the same level of security as, you know, a sitting president would.
	I'm on Twitter right now.
	Steven Crowder said, Mug Club Undercover was en route to the residence of suspected shooter and look what we found.
	Let me look at this.
	All right.
	Have a go.
	Let's play this.
	Excuse me.
	What's going on?
	I have no idea.
	What?
	I can't go down the road?
	Nope.
	Why not?
	Because I was told to close it.
	What's that?
	Because I was told to close it.
	Okay.
	Are you Secret Service?
	No, I'm not.
	You're not.
	I wish you would quit photographing me.
	Well, I'm allowed to, sir.
	Well, you can move on, too.
	I can, but I'm allowed to photograph.
	You can get out of the way.
	I got traffic coming.
	You can go.
	I'll go.
	See, I told you they were going to be doing search warrants on his house.
	See, boom.
	They got the road already closed off.
	You can't even get into his fucking neighborhood.
	So, I don't know if you heard that, Sneeko.
	Yeah, I can hear it.
	So they went to his neighborhood.
	This is crazy, though.
	What a seating crowd was Minions, which drove all the way to this guy's...
	Well, he's probably based in Pennsylvania.
	It's probably one of their Mug Club undercover guys.
	So they have like a bunch of people all over the country.
	So he went over there.
	Oh, the FBI finally identified...
	Okay, so the FBI... It was the sore boy.
	Yeah, he looks exactly like Penguin Zero, huh?
	Yeah, so the FBI has identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the subject involved in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	This remains an active and ongoing investigation of annual information.
	So all you fucking trolls in this chat, shut the fuck up!
	It's officially Thomas Matthew Crooks.
	For all you fucking idiots.
	Identified by the FBI, I think that's enough information so the dorks in the chat can shut the fuck up now.
	Also, your camera's off.
	Oh, is my camera off?
	Oh, shit.
	OK, sorry, Chad.
	OK, confirmed by the FBI.
	So did an respond.
	It still looks off for me.
	There's a bit of a rumble delay, but it still looks off for me.
	I got it back on now.
	Sorry.
	Okay.
	So as a former Fed, what is the protocol right now?
	You find a crazed shooter like this definitely mentally ill.
	Do you hide his social media?
	Do you go and scrape that and wipe all of that so that people can't find it out?
	What's the next step once you know who the shooter is?
	Okay.
	So you mean from the law enforcement perspective?
	Right.
	Okay, so if I was the case agent, I'd really like that you asked me this question.
	If I was the case agent and I was assigned this investigation, the first thing I would do is I would write up a search warrant for his house, right?
	I'd be scouring the house.
	Obviously, when he was killed, but I would search his person, try to see if he had a phone on him.
	If not, if he was smart, he'd probably leave his phone back at his house.
	I'd write a search warrant for the house, and I'd write a search warrant for the phone.
	And you'd hook up the phone to something called a Cellbrite.
	Cellbrite will, you know...
	Put it on an automatic thing where it extracts the data.
	If there's a code on it and they don't know the code, I'll try to maybe get a loved one to give me the code.
	If not, then I would go ahead and get...
	I would use a subwrite to break the code, etc.
	That might take several days or weeks depending on what type of phone he has.
	But I would get into the phone and do a search on his house.
	That's going to reveal a lot of the stuff because if you want to find a manifesto or any of that stuff, it's probably going to be located there.
	Next, I'd want to interview, obviously, his family, all of his close friends, look into any type of organizations or clubs he was a part of, and interview all those people as well.
	I mean, make no mistake about it, guys.
	This is going to be a massive, massive investigation with all of the agencies involved.
	The reason why the FBI took lead on an investigation like this is because Secret Service simply doesn't have the investigative prowess or ability or resources to do something like this.
	So, that's what it is.
	Okay, but is it important for them to try to hide his social media presence so that people don't try to associate his ideologies with the shooter or with something crazy?
	Is that on their list of to-dos?
	Say that again?
	Is part of their protocol erasing his social media so that people don't attach any political ideas to the shooter?
	Do they care what's on his social media publicly?
	No.
	No, because the thing is, is you're just going to write paper for it.
	And what writing paper for it means is you're going to do a subpoena, then a search warrant on all of his social medias.
	So you'll have access to all of his DMs, all that stuff.
	Okay, but why did they hide that trans shooter, the trans shooter's manifesto who shot up the church?
	There's a multitude of different reasons why they could have done that.
	That could have been by the prosecutor saying, hey, I don't want them to have this.
	It could be so many different reasons why.
	Obviously, they got the manifesto, but it still took them forever to finally put it out.
	But that's like a case agent basis.
	Every case agent is different.
	Some guys are okay with releasing information.
	Other guys are like, no, I don't want to fucking release the information.
	It really is a case-by-case basis based on who it is.
	Okay, and do you think...
	What cover-up do you think they're doing right now?
	So how much do you think that they're hiding publicly that they already know?
	I mean, they're going to run them through their database for sure.
	And they're going to probably see if there were any other run-ins with this guy.
	Do a background check and everything else like that.
	So yeah, look, five minutes ago, FBI identifies Thomas Matthew Crooks as subject involved.
	So all of you guys in the chat that are fucking, you know...
	Saying all this bullshit about, oh, yo, it's not him.
	It's all a troll.
	It is him, guys, so shut the fuck up.
	For all the idiots out there that's talking about him.
	Well, that's his name, but I think that there's some disagreements about the picture of the guy.
	People are sending me a different picture.
	The one that we see on the timeline, the one that looks like Penguin, maybe that's not him.
	Yeah, literally all the news medias right now are saying that it was, it's Thomas Matthew Crooks.
	It's Thomas Crooks?
	Yep.
	Okay, I found, someone sent me his graduation video, and it was like from Bethel, Pennsylvania.
	We watched it like he's on stage accepting his diploma, but maybe it could be another Thomas Crooks.
	It did look like him, same hair, all this stuff.
	The website literally crashed.
	FBI.gov slash Butler, which is their official website.
	Okay, it's back up now.
	FBI.gov went down?
	No, no, FBI.gov slash Butler.
	No, it's up.
	It's up.
	It's works.
	I'm sorry.
	But I'm trying to find where they identified him as the fucking guy.
	But it's coming officially.
	Yeah, it's Thomas.
	It's this Crooks guy.
	So everyone's saying in the chat, saying all this bullshit.
	You guys are idiots.
	What's the source?
	USA Today has it.
	Routers.
	Everyone.
	New York Post.
	So USA Today, four minutes ago...
	UTAE, NBC News five minutes ago.
	Yeah.
	Pretty much a bunch of the major outlets are saying that it was him.
	Let's see if Fox News, what they got.
	They probably are going to put it out too.
	Some people are saying that, have you seen this guy Maxwell Yurik?
	Maxwell Yurik?
	That's what some people are saying.
	I'll send you this, I'll put it in your chat.
	Okay, so Fox News Live now.
	Okay, they got a commercial break going, so I'll pause that.
	Yeah, click this link from your chat.
	And again, guys, I make fun of the mainstream media all the time.
	However, with certain things, they're going to be on point with because they have sources, etc.
	How they break down the news is stupid, but actually reporting of the news of who the person is, that's different.
	They're circling his ear or something.
	I mean, it seems like the name...
	Well...
	Yeah, I don't know...
	It was from routers.
	A lot of credible sources are saying the news reports are wrong.
	But also at the same time, why are we believing the mainstream media for anything?
	A lot of it is in the mainstream media.
	The New York Post, TMZ. And also NBC wants him to be a Republican.
	Of course.
	You're saying he registered as a Republican.
	That was the first thing you said.
	That seems very convenient from their end.
	Someone sent me his voter registration.
	Thomas Crooks is a registered Republican.
	I don't know.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, there's this video here of him receiving his diploma.
	more.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, someone posted that shit, yep.
	Oh, you see that?
	Okay, I want an official statement from the FBI. I think I'd be fully satisfied.
	Yeah, some people are saying it's Maxwell Yurik.
	Michael, isn't it Michael Urich?
	They're saying Maxwell Urich.
	But even FBI is saying who he is.
	Yeah, and it's funny that it's like U.S. News is saying that.
	I don't know who this Urich guy is coming from.
	And his, um, what's his name?
	Is Thomas actually confirmed, like, registered Republican?
	Yeah, someone sent me his registration, Pennsylvania registration.
	Wow.
	People are saying that you posted a video or whatever.
	And I'm still only registered in New Hampshire for when I voted for Trump in 2016.
	I'm a registered Republican in New Hampshire.
	Ha!
	Nice.
	I was knocking on doors.
	When Trump won in 2016, my whole school was crying.
	Teachers called in therapy dogs.
	There was a kumbaya circle.
	People looked at me.
	It's funny that this...
	Well, it's not funny, but ironic in a way.
	I remember walking in when Trump won, people looked at me with murder in their eyes.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	They think that life is over.
	They want my head on a stick.
	So this doesn't surprise me at all.
	What did surprise me a little bit is how quick people were to celebrate and to immediately...
	If Trump was assassinated, think about what would have been trending on TikTok.
	People would have been doing dances.
	There would have been a dance mocking the bullet that went into his head.
	Yeah, no, you're right.
	They would have.
	They absolutely would have those fucking shitbags.
	You know what I mean?
	And that's kind of the problem with the radical left, man, is that they're willing to, like, enact violence.
	You look at groups like Antifa, et cetera, like, you know, it's just crazy.
	BLM, Antifa, all these people, like, they'll literally, like, start fires and all this other bullshit.
	And people will say, oh, well, yeah, there's people on the radical right, too.
	But guess what?
	It's the radical left that is way more likely to enact violence.
	You know, mass-scale violence.
	You look at the BLM riots setting cities on fire, etc.
	It's not Republicans doing that shit.
	It's fucking Democrats.
	No, it's Antifa.
	And they tried to apply the same, you know, the same rage and the same instability that these leftists have to the January 6th.
	But we actually look at what happened on January 6th from the Trump loyalists.
	They were walking around and they're being escorted by police.
	They're not Antifa burning down police stations.
	Even in 1980, when John Letton was assassinated, it was a crazed liberal.
	The same person who tried on Ronald Reagan's life was a crazed liberal.
	It's because they appeal to emotion because a lot of these people are on medications.
	Absolutely.
	Oh, Zerka's in here.
	What's up, Zerka?
	What's up, guys?
	You got your camera?
	Yeah, sir.
	Yeah, we're trying to start a panel.
	Are you still with Jackson?
	No.
	Where's he at?
	Home.
	Is he coming back?
	I don't think so.
	He didn't think you guys would call.
	I texted him, but we could do us three.
	Yeah, because I was going to do a panel show, man.
	I think that people want that.
	Yeah, that'd be good.
	Turn that camera on.
	Yeah, my camera's on.
	Yo, Myers.
	Yo.
	You've worked Secret Service before?
	I've done Secret Service details.
	I didn't work for Secret Service, but I've done their details.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah.
	So that's kind of...
	So I'm familiar with how they work and everything else like that.
	But yeah, this shit was a big L for Secret Service in general.
	What, they dropped the ball or inside drop?
	Nah, they dropped the ball, bro.
	100% dropped the ball.
	They don't have enough people.
	They've been chronically understaffed for years.
	Little kept dirty secret on Secret Service.
	They've been understaffed for a while.
	Why are they understaffed?
	Is the pay that bad?
	No, they get paid a hundred plus.
	They actually make more than most special agents, bro, because they're one of the few agencies that gets overtime.
	I don't know if you want me to do a whole fucking breakdown of how you get paid by the feds, but if I'm going to just summarize it nice and shortly and succinctly, Secret Service agents are one of the few 1811s that get overtime.
	So they actually get paid more than a lot of other 1811s.
	Hell, one of the few times that I got overtime when I was an agent was when I did Secret Service details because the hours are so fucking weird.
	So it's not pay.
	It's just that the job sucks.
	It's miserable.
	You're sitting around in random areas, you know, for a security purpose, and it just sucks.
	Like, they have the highest divorce rates of any agency.
	They have some of the worst quantities of life when it comes to work-life balance.
	So you're traveling all the time.
	It just sucks.
	What if you do a breakdown on the pay?
	I want to figure out why it's so understaffed because seeing that I'm like why there's so many women like I might even try to make this like a red pill talking point but there should not be this many women doing security detail like that.
	Well there's there's um there's high incentives to get women into law enforcement.
	There's like women only uh diversity higher positions made for all of them.
	FBI does it.
	Homeland Security does it.
	Secret Service does it.
	They all do it to get more women into law enforcement.
	Trump has a problem getting women, so it's a better look for him, right?
	I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't purposely put some females on his Secret Service detail.
	The president does get to choose that type of stuff.
	So, I wouldn't be surprised if he did that more from, like, an inclusion standpoint, because optics are very important to politicians.
	So, like, to show you guys, right, the GS scale...
	I'll go ahead and pull it up on my screen real fast for you ninjas.
	We'll go into a little quick thing of how you get paid by the feds.
	Well, if my Google work...
	That is...
	What the fuck is...
	OPM... Okay.
	So, the way it goes is, right, you go, let's go with fucking, you know, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, right?
	The thing.
	So, most agents get hired, this is the scale right here, right, guys, right?
	Most agents get hired somewhere between a seven or a nine.
	Typically, when you get hired as a seven, you know, you got a bachelor's degree, and if you get a nine, that's typically if you have some advanced degree, master degree, whatever.
	So, you can see our step one is 60,597, right?
	Okay.
	But you always get 25% added on as base salary, right?
	So 60,597 times 0.25 equals 15K. So you add 15,149 plus 60...
	597.
	So that's a starting salary of about $75,000 for an agent that comes in as a GS-9.
	Or if you come in as a GS-7, you know, 25% add that on, right?
	And then every year that you work on, you go from, you know, 9 to 10 to 11, 12, 13, right?
	And every agency is differently.
	For FBI, for example, you get hired on as a 10.
	No matter what, you get hired as a 10.
	Other agencies, they might hire you on as a 7 or sometimes even a 5.
	But you get 25% of your base salary, right?
	Add it to it, and that's something called LEAP, Law Enforcement Availability Pay, right?
	Which is...
	And that's given to all...
	All special agents.
	Leap.
	And you get to take home car, too.
	Where was the majority of the incompetence?
	Was it them not clocking the roof?
	Was it them taking too long to neutralize the shooter?
	All of it.
	Was it not surveying the area?
	It was just a complete incompetence altogether?
	Altogether.
	Like, not covering the roof, and then that's going to lead to other opportunities for the shooter.
	Like, incompetence breeds, you know, opportunity for an assassin like this.
	So, yeah.
	All of it.
	Did you see even some of the Trump supporters were able to clock him first?
	They were filming, they're like, there's a gun, there's a gun!
	Some people were able to, they even saw the guy, I think they saw him climbing up.
	They were able to see him before Secret Service.
	That seems absolutely ridiculous.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Because they were in the back and they saw him like, you know, bear crawling up there.
	So, and they said, hey, hey, what the fuck, what the fuck?
	But obviously, right, like I said before, they were telling the police this.
	We don't know exactly who they were telling this, if it was a police officer or a Secret Service agent.
	But the police a lot of times are going to be like, well, you know, is this a credible threat?
	What the fuck is these guys yelling?
	Because remember, at these rallies, people say stupid shit all the time.
	So, who knows?
	But obviously, you know, after it happened, the shots were fired and they retaliated pretty quickly.
	But, you know, luckily, Trump wasn't killed.
	Yeah, very well.
	It became inches close.
	Yeah, dude.
	Crazy shit.
	Inches close.
	What do you think about the responses to everybody?
	Did you see Elon respond?
	Did you see Jeff Bezos, Destiny, all the streamers responded?
	What's your overall take on the response?
	Did you expect this?
	Yeah, I mean, Trump won.
	He won, and he didn't even need this to win, but 100% landslide.
	I'm thinking the response is if his head did get blown off.
	You're right, they'd be making TikTok dances.
	We forget how evil this side is, man.
	Our evil isn't in foreign countries.
	It's like right here.
	It's really insane, though.
	Their ideas of evil are racist comments or so-called homophobic comments.
	But when it comes to wishing death or publicly making dances about bullets going to the former president's brain, they don't think that's evil.
	But they think one racist, something that they call misogynistic, is literally worse than wishing death on someone and their entire family.
	The metrics of evil have been exposed.
	Anyone else feel like this is the start of the civil war?
	No, I don't think so.
	I don't think so.
	I mean, what's very telling is that here in Miami right now, if the bullet went a little bit to the right, and it actually really damaged Trump, right now we would hear something outside.
	Right now, I think that people would be taking to the streets.
	No, but when you look at the...
	Did you see the response of the Trump supporters against the media where they're spazzing at the media's face?
	Yeah, you're going to see a lot more of that, and you're going to see riots now, for sure, 100%.
	Because Americans are already fed up, but now it seems like it is a scary place where it's like now anything they do is kind of like, hey, you guys shot first, you know?
	Myron, what do you think?
	I don't think it's going to get as bad as it should.
	I'm not saying it should be bad, but I don't think that we're really going to see that amount of protests.
	I think Trump's going to bounce back well.
	I think he did a good job of...
	You know, showing a moment of strength so people aren't worried at all.
	And if he didn't show that moment of strength, I think there might be more concern.
	There's going to be more people at the rallies for sure.
	No, but the energy is shifting.
	The energy now is fight, fight, fight.
	And this is the most emotionally charged Americans have been in ever, really, right?
	So we're going to see a lot of crazy shit at these events.
	Well, if it's war, then what retaliation do you expect?
	Because they cast the first stone.
	What do you think?
	Alex Jones said it best.
	Now someone's going to try on Biden, and that's how it goes, right?
	You think so?
	I highly doubt it.
	I think he almost would want to match that.
	It would help him out.
	Ironically, it would probably help his case, but I don't think that we're going to see anything.
	Unless, if it's something against Biden, that one I think would be safe.
	Let's word it like this.
	If there's another Poland election...
	Then what do you think is happening?
	Well, remember the riots and the burning down the cities.
	We'll just see that at a bigger scale this time.
	And then they bring in the Coast Guard and do another COVID lockdown that's going to be a militant-style lockdown.
	Remember, we were all prepared with COVID, with the lockdowns, and now it's like a threat to our democracy lockdown.
	Now it's going to be worse.
	So yeah.
	Why is domestic terrorism being ruled out?
	I'm not saying that, but I don't think...
	Also, we should probably discourage that.
	We don't want that at all.
	They're going to try to look for that.
	That's what CNN's pushing, is that there's...
	Trump is saying, fight, fight, fight.
	They're going to want some sort of retaliation to try to undermine the movement.
	And really, it's like...
	Why are we thinking like this is...
	I'll jump back in.
	Yeah.
	Alright, so I want to get a little bit of this Fox News stuff coverage here.
	When, you know, we're all veterans at this point, I try to focus on the good stuff.
	The sane, the normal, the, this is not good, we are praying, and we cannot have this happen more.
	Yeah, I want to talk about the Biden campaign, the Biden White House too, but you know, we've talked about it at length in the last two and a half weeks now.
	The fallout from Biden's poor debate performance and the calls on him to, you know, step out of the race completely, not run for re-election.
	The Biden campaign is telling Fox, Tom, they're pausing all outbound communication.
	They're working to pull down their TV ads as quickly as possible.
	$50 million worth in all swing states, all several swing states.
	Tom, off the air.
	Does that say something about the nature of this moment in the campaign?
	Yeah.
	Feels like a wake-up call.
	It really does.
	That's dramatic.
	And, you know, I was watching Biden earlier.
	I was thinking about these kind of these dual roles that he's inhabiting.
	You know, on the one hand, he is a candidate for re-election running against Trump.
	And so they are political opponents.
	But at the same time, he is the chief officer, the chief executive, the commander in chief of the, you We're good to go.
	And you saw him hesitate a little bit and say, you know, I'm dealing with facts right now.
	I've got some opinions, but given the severity of this, got to work with facts.
	And yeah, this feels like a wake-up call.
	Yeah.
	And of course, if the president and the former president do speak on the phone, we'll definitely bring that reporting here.
	That hasn't happened yet, or at least we haven't heard that that has happened yet.
	But if it does, we'll make sure our viewers know that.
	Tom LaBianca, thanks so much for your time.
	I know you're headed to Milwaukee.
	Safe travels there.
	And hopefully we'll be speaking there at the RNC. Thanks, Tom.
	Gladly.
	All right.
	Thank you, Andrew.
	Let's take a commercial break.
	break.
	We're back in two minutes.
	We'll be right back.
	All right.
	So I just responded, guys, to this tweet, right?
	So I'm going to explain this a bit here.
	Hold on.
	I'm going to go to my profile and I'll show it to you guys.
	Thank you.
	So, as you guys know, this Mug Club member just tried, right?
	Mug Club Undercover was en route to the residents of the respective shooter, and look what we found.
	So, again, as I predicted, it's because they're executing search warrants now in the shooter's home.
	They don't want civilians or the press there to interfere in the investigation, just like this guy tried to do.
	Like, it's very simple, guys, that that's what happened.
	They're just simply letting...
	They're simply securing the area.
	That's a part of doing a search warrant.
	It's protocol.
	So...
	So yeah, that's what it is.
	I mean, not everything is a grand conspiracy.
	It's very simple.
	I told you guys they're going to do a search warrant.
	A part of executing a search warrant is you're going to go ahead and make sure that no one interferes in the investigation.
	It is what it is, man.
	That's just standard protocol for a search warrant.
	So, I haven't been wrong about one thing yet, guys, when it comes to this stuff.
	Because, like, I used to do these investigations, so I just know exactly what's going to happen.
	Like, it's very simple when you've been on the job.
	Let me see here what chat is saying.
	It looks like Jackson Hinkle is on a Discord call now, so we'll jump back in there.
	Because, yeah, guys, imagine you're trying to do search warrants and imagine you're trying to do search warrants and like you got the fucking news and civilians trying to roll up and get in the way and shit like that.
	Like, you're going to be like, what the fuck?
	You know, you're going to be annoyed.
	So that is a big reason why they don't want, um, they don't want them guys there.
	That's why.
	I mean, hell, if I was a case agent, I wouldn't want them fucking there either.
	Like, I'd be like, get the fuck out of here.
	So that's just what it is.
	And I'm going to add here.
	Alright, let's go into this Discord call with these ninjas. .
	Pharma wins there.
	That's why they do this stuff with World War III. And Donald Trump isn't even like a massive threat to the agenda, but he's a percentage of a threat.
	I don't know what percentage, but some sort of a threat.
	And he doesn't like war.
	He wants peace.
	And maybe he's fooled by some people and he'll be manipulated by some people.
	But more often or often enough, he actually challenges the agenda and that's why they want to kill him.
	I think Myron's back in here.
	He doesn't know.
	He's a bit of a boomer with the camera.
	He doesn't know how to add it.
	I'm here.
	Okay, we got the panel over here with the boys.
	Myron, can you hear?
	You good?
	I'm here.
	Can you guys hear me?
	Yeah, everything's good.
	Okay.
	But just try to turn it into a camera.
	All you got to do is disable it in OBS and then turn it on Discord.
	All right, hold on.
	Let me try.
	I tried this, man.
	It didn't work.
	I have two cameras for this reason.
	I have a webcam for Discord and then a camera for the stream.
	Yeah, I see.
	You got two fucking different cameras, man.
	Or this.
	Oh, shit.
	Hey, there you go.
	I'm on.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Jackson, have you looked into some more things that are coming out right now?
	This guy, Matt Wallace, has tweeted, some people are saying it's Maxwell.
	The Maxwell thing is still going on right now.
	But, I mean, maybe it's a different dude.
	To be honest...
	I'd like to hear especially Myron's thoughts on this, but I think that in the next few days, everyone's going to be so focused on who this kid was, how much of a soy boy he was, whatever groups he was affiliated with.
	But we all know it doesn't really matter because he didn't just do this on his own.
	These sorts of operations are never just one person.
	They never act alone.
	And we'll probably never really know the truth.
	We can only just speculate.
	But the media is going to focus so much on this kid.
	And that's the whole agenda.
	So just, I guess, try to obfuscate the truth as to why they're actually doing this.
	Do you actually think that the media is going to focus on him that much?
	It doesn't seem like it's in their favor.
	If you look at the trans shooter who they never released a manifesto of, the media did a good job of trying to hide it.
	Especially if you look at the FBI and the Pennsylvania police response, it looks like they were trying their best to try to avoid speaking about the shooter.
	And even CNN hasn't spoken about the shooter at all.
	They keep saying, like, Trump got shot.
	Trump is injured.
	I don't think that they want to give that.
	It doesn't really benefit them to talk about this guy.
	I guess I mean like a real journalist, and I don't consider myself a journalist.
	I just host the show, political commentator.
	But like a real journalist, if you had the assets of the New York Times behind you, right?
	Might be looking into the connections between this kid, his private family life, what they might say about whether or not he had any sort of contact with federal agencies, whether or not he was being influenced by certain nefarious dark web groups or something.
	You know, you'd be looking into the the nitty ditty greetails that no one else at CNN today is actually going to look into.
	I think they're going to do a surface level analysis of who he is and leave it at that.
	OK.
	More people are calling me, but I'm going to stay in this call.
	Mark, any more predictions?
	What do you think is going to be the next step for the media?
	Well, we already know right now that they're doing a search warrant at his house.
	That got confirmed by the Mug Club guy trying to go over there to that address, and they already had the whole place cordoned off.
	So they're either A, already at the house searching it, or B, they're securing a warrant right now as we speak with a federal magistrate to go ahead and get in there.
	So...
	Yeah, they're searching the house right now.
	They're collecting evidence.
	We know who the guy is.
	I would say probably before fucking tomorrow, we'll know what this guy's background is and everything else, how people are already pulling his graduation fucking video.
	So we're going to know everything about this guy within the next 24 to 48 hours, I would say.
	Definitely.
	I know this is a serious thing, but Jackson, doesn't the shooter kind of look like the guy who threw water on us?
	He does, at UCLA. They all look the same.
	Yeah, all these liberal fucks look the same.
	Don't trust these long-haired men with glasses, man.
	Don't be around them.
	I mean, I'm surprised that he snapped and learned how to use a gun, right?
	But these guys are all dangerous, right?
	That's what I'm saying, though.
	It's like Lee Harvey Oswald, it was obviously multiple shooters, but the fact that he had the capacity to even potentially shoot the gun that well was rebutted by a lot of people.
	There's no way he could have done that.
	But he was training with the CIA and stuff like that.
	So you look at this kid and he looks like a nerd, but if he did shoot that, how did he get to be such a good shot?
	Maybe we should ask those questions.
	I mean, not that good of a shot, clearly.
	Oh, come on.
	We're talking about a nerd learning how to use a rifle.
	He's clearly an MKUltra.
	Am I crazy?
	This guy's a fucking MKUltra mind zombie.
	Yeah, I want to figure out his Discord logs and what FBI agent was chatting with him.
	Mike, have you shot an AR-15?
	How hard is it to hit a target from 400 yards with an iron sight with an AR-15?
	With an iron sight, it would suck.
	You can do it, though.
	You can absolutely do it.
	They're pretty accurate guns.
	But with an iron sight, I mean, he didn't even have a red dot.
	Like, goddamn, bro, it's 2024.
	Why did he get a scope at the very least?
	If he looked like Zerka, if he looked like Zerka, I'd say, you know, his aim is as good as Shaq on the free throw line.
	But looking at that kid, I'm like, nah, that's a pretty good shot for that soy boy.
	Yeah, that was impressive.
	You gotta give him credit.
	That's true.
	Was anybody relieved a little bit that I was a soy boy?
	I was really hoping that I wasn't an Arab guy.
	As soon as I heard the news, I'm like, please don't be a Chinese guy.
	Ryan Dawson put out a rumor for a bit that it was a Chinese dude.
	I was like, fuck, man.
	I'm going to have to be Dominican again.
	I'm glad that I wasn't a black dude because then I was going to create more racial divide.
	The fact that a soy boy, a white soy boy specifically, is the perfect target to not mess up the movement and also to not start any racial war.
	Yeah.
	No, he looked like a Twitch moderator.
	He looked like a Twitch streamer.
	Jackson, do you agree with Zerka's tank?
	Zerka thinks that he somewhat agrees with Alex Jones that things are going to get worse.
	They're going to start heating up and there's going to be civil war type protests outside.
	Do you think it's going to get that bad?
	I mean, we were literally, regardless of what anyone thinks happened today, we were a fraction of an inch away from civil war.
	We were one Chinese penis away from nuclear war.
	I was over at Zerka's musty hotel.
	You met my horse!
	What's that?
	You met my horse!
	Yeah, I got out of there.
	You for sure got diseases with him.
	No, I was sitting there and I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, if that was a fraction of an inch right here to where we're sitting right now, we'd be watching a civil war already taking place.
	I think that they're going to do more.
	I mean...
	I think that they never stop at one.
	That's the thing.
	It's like, look at Nicolas Maduro.
	Look at Fidel Castro.
	Again, regardless of what you think about those guys, they were targets of the deep state.
	Fidel had like 100-plus assassination attempts that he survived.
	I mean, they did the most ridiculous things.
	He was an avid scuba diver or snorkeler.
	So they actually tried to put a bomb inside of a giant shell at the bottom of the ocean in Cuba so when he would go down to dive for it, that it would explode in his face.
	They'll keep trying.
	This was pretty out in the open.
	Maybe they'll do something quieter next time.
	What are the possibilities that it's Mossad or that it's some sort of foreign agent who tried to...
	Is that a possibility at all or is it as simple as it just being a crazed soy boy?
	I don't think it was a crazed soy boy.
	I think there was definitely some MKUltra shit going on.
	I don't think it was Mossad.
	I think Zion Don is safe from that, but especially with all the big donations he's been getting from the Zionists recently.
	Yeah.
	But, I mean, look, Trump is like the number one impediment to World War III. World War III is not happening in Gaza.
	Maybe if Iran, Lebanon, like if everyone gets involved, but World War III... It's the closest to tipping off between Russia and Ukraine.
	I mean, I just got back from Donbass.
	I was on the front line.
	And I went to the Zaprosyan nuclear power plant, which is the largest power plant in Europe.
	Russia controls it.
	But when I was there, I saw American missiles stuck halfway in the ground, just 100 feet away from where they store all of the nuclear waste.
	Like, we are so close to World War III. And if you have the wrong guy in office, it's going to make it 1,000 times worse.
	What is MKUltra exactly?
	How specific is that?
	Because original MKUltra was giving people LSD, was trying to brainwash them and keeping their eyes open.
	Can MKUltra be as simple as a federal agent messaging and convincing somebody through Discord chats to go and take medication and giving them ideas?
	Is MKUltra direct or can it be more subtle?
	It always comes from a trauma or a crack in the psyche.
	So basically, when these soy boys are experiencing the highest level of trauma, they enter a dissociative state, which they could be programmed in.
	And in that dissociative state, they can get a phone call, and the phone call can say, go shoot it up!
	And then in that trauma, they hear their tormentor, and they get triggered to do it.
	now usually for mk ultra they get cracked at a young age and they've been doing this since like ancient times but they'll they started with like uh soldiers of like ripping a puppy's head off with a knife then they started with killing a family member in front of them and then as they're in a dissociative state because the psyche can't handle the trauma it's seeing as a child it actually goes to a happy place and that happy place they can make you do anything right that's where they but the interesting part is
	did this happen to this guy the young man and then they came to claim him decades later well a lot of the conspiracy guys say that yet there's so many sleeper cell agents that can be activated with just one phone call Thank you.
	Mario, did you experience anybody under this sort of hypnosis or this sort of mind control?
	No, not like this.
	I mean, when I was in a job, I was going after mostly Mexican cartel people, drug trafficking, human smuggling, firearms, that type of shit.
	So I wasn't really dealing with assassination attempts.
	I mean this is something that happens only a couple of times in American history.
	Right, but I'm saying, like, when would you go so far as to claim somebody is mentally ill or somebody has been, you know, completely been brainwashed by something?
	Like, how many of the people were you arresting could you consider mentally insane?
	That's for the judge to decide.
	You know, judges are the ones really that can see if the defendant can stand trial, you know, and they're, you know, when you plead insanity or whatever it may be, it's something that a lot of crooks do.
	They try to plead insanity, but, you know, to try to make themselves, because it's one of the few defenses for a lot of criminal prosecution.
	But, yeah.
	Okay, so that's what they're going to try to plead to get less prison time, but obviously this guy doesn't really have his voice.
	Yeah, he's gone.
	Now, what's weird is the ladder.
	His ladder was just out in the open.
	They just let him climb a fucking ladder to that roof.
	Isn't that kind of weird?
	Why did they...
	Has anyone discussed the fact, like, I see the video where the Secret Service sniper looks like he's locked in, and then he doesn't fire until the kid fired.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That was weird.
	That was really, really weird.
	Yeah, he jolts after he saw the shot.
	He looks like he's aiming directly there.
	The shot goes, and then he moves his gun a little bit and then shoots.
	So it's like there's no way he didn't already see him.
	He was looking directly in that line of fire.
	I'm no expert in secret service stuff, but I feel like if I saw someone on the roof where they're not supposed to be with a gun, I'd have to hear a red flag.
	Jackson, you don't have experience to talk on this, okay? - Okay.
	Listen, sometimes people just chill on roofs with fucking rifles.
	Yeah, this whole thing is so fucking fishy, man.
	This whole thing is so fucking fishy.
	The latter I saw because it wasn't in Google Maps pictures.
	People looked at the area and they can't see it.
	So it seems like it must have been added probably that day or the day before.
	We've got to really ask ourselves, what if this is just Trump's plan to get a fucking hit single?
	Manny, Manny, Manny, Manny, Manny.
	He got hit like I got hit for you.
	For the free.
	Hey, Manny, Chad, let's go.
	The first thing Zerka said when I came over, he said, that was a crazy shot for a pellet gun, right?
	Oh, my God.
	Shut the fuck up!
	Shut the fuck up!
	Yo, stop it, Mike.
	But Jackson, my chat keeps calling me like CIA, bro.
	You can't...
	I mean, yeah.
	It nibbled his ear, right?
	I don't know.
	It looked like a pretty small hole for...
	Yeah, for a 50 cal?
	No.
	How much was...
	Did anyone know the bullet size?
	I think it was a 223.
	Am I being a conspiracy theorist, or is that...
	Like, wouldn't it do more damage?
	What, 223?
	Yeah, on the ear.
	No, I mean, if that bill of his truck, man, he would have been gone.
	Like, the whole side of his head would have blown off.
	It didn't go directly through his ear.
	It grazed his ear.
	It grazed him.
	It grazed him.
	But if he, like, actually got hit, like, dude, yeah, you would have seen brain matter.
	I mean, if the person that got shot actually got killed, like, his brain matter was all over the place.
	The surgeon, there was a doctor that was there on the scene that even said it.
	Yeah, and it is crazy for the conspiracy guys, the guys to go extra far.
	It is crazy for them to say, oh, it's a pellet gun, because think about it, even if it was an orchestrated pellet gun, what kind of president would want to risk getting blinded in the eye by a metal pellet?
	No one would fucking risk that, so it's clearly, it's a real deal.
	Did they have any photos of the...
	I heard there was a bystander that got killed, maybe, and one that got shot.
	Were there any photos of that?
	Or is that just a story?
	I don't know if they released them.
	There's a photo of the blood on the bleachers.
	I don't think they have a photo of the body.
	And if not, maybe it's not appropriate to show that, but...
	One person is in the hospital, the other one is confirmed.
	The helicopter flew them out immediately.
	I don't even know.
	I mean, people probably did grab video and pictures, but yeah, they flew the body out immediately.
	Like, the doctor gave them CPR and shit, but the body got out of there immediately because they thought that they could potentially save them.
	Yeah.
	Now, what's weird is, this wasn't the most populated area, you know?
	Like, it wasn't...
	If this guy got that, you know, he had that opportunity this easily, you imagine in a really, really populated area, it's gonna be a little too easy to hit Trump, you know what I mean?
	If the Secret Service can't do a fucking grass field, another grassy knoll situation, it seems like, bro, Trump shouldn't be going to no fucking UFC arenas.
	Well, he wanted to go to UFC, but they clearly told him, fuck no, you're not going to see.
	They brought him back somewhere secure.
	Same thing with Biden.
	That's why Biden had to end his weekend trip.
	Obviously, the Secret Service probably went on red alert, and they're like, nope, nobody's moving anywhere.
	We're going to assess the situation.
	They locked down Trump Tower in New York even.
	Like, yeah, they're on full security mode right now.
	How long do you think that's going to last?
	At least the next 48 to 72 hours.
	We're going to be on super high security.
	That's not that bad.
	Yeah.
	But who are you doing security secret service detail for?
	It was the president of...
	It was an African country, man.
	I'm trying to remember what fucking country it was.
	Are you allowed to say, Myron?
	No, you're not.
	This was years ago.
	This was 2017.
	And this was at the UN, so it's fine.
	It's not classified or anything like that.
	Wow, we are never beating those allegations, man.
	I was, man.
	I was back in the day.
	Yeah, but you didn't tell us Secret Service, too, and with the United Nations, you got Jordan Peterson's whole background, bro.
	What the fuck?
	No, no, man.
	I mean, dude, it's common.
	It's very common for Secret Service to use HSI agents to help them with protection details because Secret Service is understaffed significantly.
	Yeah, but, Byron, you know the biggest conspiracy around you is that You're a Fed still working for them who opened up just to infiltrate the red pill space.
	You know that one?
	Of course.
	Then, yeah, I just demonetized myself as part of the investigation.
	You got burn noticed.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, like I banned myself on Instagram and demonetized myself for all the idiots that say I'm a Fed working.
	Like, people are so stupid sometimes.
	I don't know.
	I don't know you did Secret Service, bro.
	Now I don't know about those people.
	It's common, dude.
	Like if you work for HSI, Homeland Security, you're going to end up doing a Secret Service detail at some point.
	And the reason why is because they don't have enough agents to cover these political rallies.
	In 2016, like half the agency was on loan to Secret Service pretty much doing details because they just don't have enough agents.
	Dude, I can see in your eyes how much you miss this kind of work.
	Yeah, it was a lot of fun, man.
	It was a good time.
	Obviously, this is more financially beneficial, but working for the government was fun, man.
	It was a great career.
	It turned me into the man I am today, man.
	I thank God that I kind of started with a real job before just going right into social media because a lot of social media people are fucking stupid, as you guys know.
	You guys have met a lot of these people.
	They're idiots.
	They're weirdos.
	Did you see Trump's true social response?
	Yeah, I did.
	I did.
	I got this shared up here.
	What's your...
	This was obviously...
	It must have been seen by his whole team here.
	I'm wondering what you think the strategy is behind this.
	Immediately he thanked the Secret Service.
	He extended the consultancy and all this stuff.
	He said...
	He talked about the people that were injured.
	It's an incredible act that such an act can take place in our country.
	You know, political statement here, right?
	Nothing is known about the shooter who is now dead.
	See, there's no way this part is true.
	There was immediately things that must have been known about the shooter.
	I'm confused.
	I'm trying to figure out why he said that.
	And then he talks about hearing the whizzing sound.
	All this makes sense.
	You can see his reaction in the video.
	Much bleeding took place so that I realized what was happening.
	God bless America.
	Overall, a good response.
	I don't think there's anything to complain here.
	But I do think that they're going to try to cover up as much as possible about this shooter.
	It seems like they really don't want us to know anything about him.
	We'll see in the upcoming days, though.
	I'm curious to see what the motivations are.
	Absolutely, yeah.
	That's what I'm most curious about right now.
	Yeah, it's probably going to be political.
	Yeah, this is who I protected.
	This guy, guys.
	This is who I protected when I was on the job.
	Dennis Cezo Nguesso.
	Do you have a link?
	I got it up on my screen right now.
	Maybe see if I can share it with y'all.
	Let me see if I can share it.
	You can send me the link.
	I feel like I could put it up on screen.
	Jackson.
	soon.
	Thank you.
	Want to come back here?
	Girls miss you.
	Pause.
	Many men.
	Many, many men.
	I'm thinking about getting off here in a little bit.
	Unless you guys are still going to keep going.
	Yeah, we'll get on.
	If you have the link, we can close off on that.
	There you go.
	Hey, one in the chat if this is the new podcast team.
	Oh, this is the guy who did Secret Service Detail for.
	Yeah, that's who, yeah, the president of Congo.
	Yep, Congolese president.
	We're all, are we all right now?
	Myron, you work with a black guy?
	Yeah, I thought you were a white supremacist.
	I thought Fresh was the only one.
	Very funny, very funny.
	Denis Sasu Noguso.
	Yeah.
	That's what it was.
	He kind of looks like you and Fresh combined.
	But yeah.
	But anyway, yeah, guys, I think I'm going to sign off because I've been on this shit for five and a half hours now covering this whole thing.
	Yeah, Myron's lazy.
	Alright, I'm going to continue cooking.
	Yeah, okay, bro.
	We stream more than you do, motherfucker.
	Okay, I've been live for six and a half hours.
	I'm like that.
	Yeah, well, you stream only a couple times a week.
	That's not true.
	I'm a daily streamer.
	Jackson, do you have any closing thoughts?
	It's good to have you on again.
	It's been a while since you've been on stream.
	It has been a while.
	Where have you been, bro?
	You were in Russia for a while.
	We should actually all run a show together in person.
	We're here.
	I'm here for one more week.
	Are you actually going to go to the front lines of Gaza?
	No, I went to the front lines of Russia.
	Where are you going next week?
	Venezuela.
	For the presidential elections.
	Is it true that they're using their currency as toilet paper?
	No, no, no.
	The currency's much better now.
	The situation's stabilized.
	Biden was begging them for oil, and Maduro told them to fuck off, and now it's much better now.
	You can't talk shit about Venezuela to a communist, bro.
	Oh yeah, I forgot.
	Yeah.
	Bro, you're in Miami.
	You're going to get sniped as you dox yourself by some Venezuelan immigrant.
	Alright, you guys.
	Let's do a panel in person.
	Let's do a panel in person.
	When do you guys want to do it?
	Like, Friday?
	Alright, so what about Sunday?
	Oh, today's Sunday.
	Yeah, today's technically Sunday.
	Do you have a guest on Monday or no?
	I don't.
	We're going to do Money Monday, but we can do a fucking panel show if you guys want.
	Whatever you guys want to do.
	I think that people would want to see that.
	Let's do it.
	I'm free on Monday.
	All right.
	Fuck it.
	Zerka.
	All right.
	John Butchinger.
	Okay, he's good.
	All right.
	Be safe.
	All right.
	See you guys.
	All right.
	Later, guys.
	Later, Zerka.
	All right.
	So, let me go ahead.
	Chat, I hope you guys enjoyed that little discussion with ours.
	So yeah, there you guys go.
	We're going to have something on Monday for you guys.
	I don't know where the fuck that came from.
	So, yeah.
	WStream, guys.
	I think we had a good time.
	Before I get off, what I'll do is I'll go on Fox News real quick and make sure we didn't miss nothing.
	See what we got here?
	Rejected a request by the Trump team for more protection is not true.
	Hal, you and I were talking about protection for not only, you know...
	Told you guys, so yeah, his team wasn't beefed up.
	Former president, obviously, you get protection for the rest of your life.
	But presidential candidates themselves here, the governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, the Democrat, has this here.
	We're going to put that up here because we're talking about Secret Service protection, Hal, for other presidential candidates here.
	There we go.
	Jared Polis.
	He's the governor of Colorado.
	He says, I encourage POTUS to immediately provide Secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	Of course, we know the last presidential candidate to be assassinated was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s father, Robert F. Kennedy.
	June 4, 1968.
	The Ambassador Hotel there in California.
	And so, do you think...
	This is going to be standard operating procedure for presidential campaigns to come.
	Even an independent candidate should get Secret Service protection.
	I think you're going to see a broadening of what they do.
	You know, they have a different, it's not necessarily, it's not party affiliation that determines Secret Service protection as much as where the candidate is, the viability of the candidate.
	You know, one of the things they have to do at the beginning of the primary season is a little bit of triage because we've had past elections where the, you know, things start up and you can have, you know, a dozen plus more candidates out there.
	And of course, Whenever you vote and you look at all the people listed on the ballot, you realize there's a lot of people who are running for president, and those people are not under any threat.
	For example, and I don't mean to pick on them, but I don't think there's any particular threat to the candidate for the Transcendental Meditation Party.
	That's just probably one where they would say they don't need Secret Service protection.
	But they are going to be looking a lot harder at things like the Riff Kennedy Jr.
	decision.
	That was very controversial when they decided not to give him protection.
	He is up there.
	He has a bulls high enough that one would think that he would rate it.
	And I would be very surprised that tomorrow they don't turn around and say, yes, he's getting protection.
	All right.
	We're going to have to leave it at that.
	We can't thank you enough.
	You've been providing excellent expertise and insight and analysis on this very, very tragic day in our nation's history.
	Hal, we'll probably be talking again very, very soon.
	Hal, have a good night.
	Okay, you too, Andrew.
	We continue our coverage of the Trump assassination attempt.
	Here's the moment it happened.
	Let's watch.
	...took over.
	And look what happened to our country.
	Probably 20 million people.
	And you know, that's a little bit old, that chart.
	That charts a couple of months old and if you want to really see something that said take a look what happened And I'll leave you guys with that man I'm glad that Trump is okay.
	Oh shit, my video capture's off.
	Sorry guys, hold on.
	Let me fix this.
	Activate.
	My bad.
	Sorry.
	You know, and...
	Obviously a crazy day, but Trump is alive, thank God.
	You guys know I'm a Trump supporter.
	Disagree with him on a couple of things, but regardless, I think we need to galvanize, you know, as people that support the right for our president, our president to be, because I think he's going to absolutely win this situation.
	And...
	Hopefully he wins this thing.
	I don't think there's no way that he's going to lose at this point.
	If anything, this has increased his resolve and the American people are going to support him even more.
	So definitely iconic to see that.
	Guys, I'll be live tomorrow for FedReacts.
	If anything crazy develops, I'll go ahead and break it down on FedReacts tomorrow.
	Anything new?
	And yeah, we'll be live on FedEx tomorrow night.
	Obviously, I don't normally stream on Saturdays, but this was very important.
	We had to cover it.
	You know, canceling dates and all that other shit for you guys.
	So we'll see what happens, you know?
	Because the people come first, man.
	I love you guys.
	And I'll also be up on X, guys.
	If you guys want...
	I'm way more...
	You guys really enjoy this...
	Yo, give me one to the chat on both Rumble and YouTube if you guys enjoy this political content.
	Give me ones if you guys enjoy this shit.
	I'll give you guys more of it.
	That's why we started the new show on Mondays.
	That's why I started the new show.
	So, definitely...
	Definitely, definitely, guys.
	Okay, you guys like this stuff more?
	Awesome, awesome, awesome.
	Yeah, man, you know, I'm a little bit savvy with this stuff.
	So, if you guys want to check me out, man, I am way more...
	I'm very active on Twitter, guys.
	Check me out on X, man.
	I post a bunch of crap on here every day.
	As you guys know, I got banned off Instagram.
	We blew up.
	We gained like 2,000 followers in a day, by the way.
	I remember I was like at 121 or some shit.
	Now we're at 123.
	People are really enjoying my takes.
	So, check me out on X, guys.
	Let's build this shit up.
	Maybe I'll get my Instagram back.
	Maybe I don't.
	But at the end of the day, Twitter's better anyway.
	So, check me out over there, guys.
	I'll be active a little bit more on Twitter.
	Maybe join some space and everything else like that.
	But, um, I love you guys.
	I'll keep posting content for you guys.
	Before I do that, though, I want to make sure I read all the chats.
	I think I got some here from Castle Club.
	Shout out to all my Castle Club guys.
	I didn't forget about you motherfuckers.
	I love you guys.
	We got Fresh's Dog says, Shooter, look like your typical anus and reach supporter.
	Facts.
	He definitely does.
	Sure Joe says, It's asinine to think...
	Hold on.
	He goes, It's asinine to think that was scripted critical thinking.
	Yep, it's not people's strong suit.
	I bet you.
	I bet you the boys are taking advantage of the media coverage by doing some shady stuff right now.
	They're probably like, Noah's looking.
	Drop them big bombs now.
	Uh...
	Cam two times making fun of the guy.
	What do you think?
	Intentional or just negligence?
	I told you before.
	I think that's going to be obviously a big part of his negligence.
	You guys with the funny memes.
	They say Trump vs.
	Bullet, Biden vs.
	Stairs.
	You know, this is funny shit that they post in Cal's Club, guys.
	Shit like this.
	You know what I mean?
	Let's see here.
	Anything else?
	Oh, you guys find the Assassin's TikTok?
	No way.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	I don't think that's the guy.
	I think this dude was trolling.
	Let's see if I missed anything else here.
	or Okay, I think I caught it.
	I think we got it.
	Okay.
	Cool.
	Love you guys.
	Check me out on X-Man.
	I might go ahead and jump into this little thing here with Nick Sorter.
	See what the hell they're talking about.
	They get scared when I talk about APAC though.
	They start to get nervous when I talk about APAC. They're like, oh shit!
	So yeah.
	But yeah, it shit happens, right?
	But I love you guys.
	I'm going to end the stream there.
	Mods, let's get the timestamps up ASAP. Love you guys.
	Catch you guys on the next episode tomorrow, FedReacts.
	We'll probably cover this shooting a bit more if new facts come out or I'll cover something else.
	I'll do a poll.
	And love you guys.

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