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July 26, 2024 - Sebastian Gorka
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Sebastian Gorka FULL SHOW: Obama and Kamala: How to Fake an Endorsement
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Okay, so we've got a couple of minutes left with our good buddy Alex Marlow, Editor-in-Chief of Breitbart.com.
How do we deal with Kamala?
Because there are several options.
All the horrific stuff she did in California, all the stuff she didn't do in the White House, the stuff she did in her record in the Senate, which they're trying to delete, or the border, or is it all of the above?
It's all the above.
I mean, the one thing that I'm a little nervous about, though, is that people want to frame her as someone who slept her way to the top.
What?
Kamala Harris?
Slept her way to the top?
What?
People want to say that about her.
And I'll say, though, that this could backfire, because I'll tell you, I don't know anything about her relationship with Willie Brown.
He was the most powerful guy in California.
He was 60.
She was 29.
They start dating.
And she was so cool.
He got her a BMW 7 Series.
I mean, that's a flagship car.
Yeah, that's not even the 3 Series.
That's the 7.
That's the flagship version.
So can you imagine how cool she must have been to earn that type of a car?
So I just caution everyone, if we think that's the move, I don't know if that's the move.
We don't want to make her look extra cool.
Yeah, because she might look pretty cool.
If you hear that story, I mean, that's a woman who knows how to work it.
But no, I've been going through her record and there's a few things to flag.
And the biggest, I think, vector for us is that when she was in the prosecutorial side, DA side,
attorney general side, she would target people who would oppose her donors and
supporters, and she would let slide her donors and supporters.
A clear example is she was backed, and we're Catholics, Dr.
G.
She was backed by a lot of people connected in the Catholic church.
And it was the only city where there was no one prosecuted for pre-sexual abuse.
Only major city in the whole country.
Because she protected them.
She protected them.
And that's the sort of thing that you and I as Catholics, we find it extra repulsive when this stuff is done.
And so that's one thing to point out.
And then if you look at the rest of her record, she absolutely was one of the most liberal on every issue.
Gun control.
She wants gun buyback.
She wants huge amounts of gun control.
She wants to defund the police.
She was a Green New Deal person.
The original version, the $93 trillion version.
She wants to abolish ICE.
She says it's like the KKK.
So her record is truly hard left, and I think that's where the focus is.
Well, the first point is fascinating.
Protecting her donors and attacking her enemies of her donors.
That's damning.
The book is Breaking Biden, and he did.
Let's give him a little bit of a round of applause there.
Well done, Alex Marlow.
Breaking Biden.
Follow her at... Follow her.
No, that's Kamala.
Follow him at Alex Malo.
I'm Sebastian Gawker.
and where did that hour go, sheer insanity?
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you Peace.
Bye.
Bye.
Can you play the Endorsement Cup 10 as B-Roll while we're talking about it?
Okay.
Okay, good.
Boris!
My man, how you doing?
Good.
Are you driving?
You know, I'm always on the road.
Oh, no rest for the wicked.
No rest for the wicked, that's right.
No rest for the wicked.
All right, come in with cut three and then we'll tee up Barron and then we'll run the Obama endorsement in the background.
Love it.
All right.
.
I think you should get a one-year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag.
Now, people will say, oh, it's unconstitutional.
Those are stupid people.
Those are stupid people that say that.
We have to work in Congress to get a one-year jail sentence when they're allowed to stomp on the flag and put lighter fluid on the flag and set it afire.
We look so bad to the world.
That was a disgraceful display.
The President commenting on what happened at Union Station, right outside it, as Bibi Netanyahu was addressing Congress.
What people miss also about the... Oh, it's your right to burn a flag!
No, it is not your right in America.
It is your right to burn your flag.
That you paid for.
You have no right to burn someone else's.
Especially one that belongs to the public authorities.
Those that run the station.
Those that look after that beautiful park in front of Union Station.
That's what they did.
They hoisted the flag down and then they burnt it.
That's theft.
That's destruction.
That's vandalism.
That is the left today.
No one knows it better than my former White House colleague, Attorney to the President, also Senior Advisor, Trump 2024.
My good buddy, we just call him the Baron, Boris Epstein.
Welcome back to America First.
Thank you so much, my friend.
It's such an honor to be with you, your audience.
Always the best way to ring in the weekend.
And as you know, as we always said, though, right?
The weekend's work just continues.
Yeah, it really does.
I don't know about you, but the last... Well, no, for you, it's been like this forever.
But the last two weeks, it feels like I'm back in the White House.
The moving at the speed of Trump, being at the RNC, then the assassination attempt on our former boss, your actual boss right now.
Then the resignation of Biden, then the fake nomination of Kamala.
This is the speed that things will be traveling at for the next three months and God willing for the next four years after that if we have anything to do with it and President Trump is re-elected.
Boris, I'm not going to play it again because I'm going to vomit if I play it for a third time.
Let's play it in the background.
You have seen the fake endorsement by Obama of Kamala Harris.
Your reaction to one of the most Plastic, astroturfed political ads I've ever seen.
Well, my reaction is this.
There's no doubt that the Democrats know that they are absolutely out of touch with the American people.
And Barack Hussein Obama He started what is a continued and downward spiral of the Democrat Party, which was already in a bad place.
But he really kicked off a total removal of the Democrat Party, a marginalization of the Democrat Party from the American people.
And Kamala Harris, who's disliked by pretty much everyone who knows her, it's out today that she was disrespectful to Prime Minister Netanyahu while President Trump welcomed him with open arms.
to Mar-a-Lago. Kamala Harris is somebody that nobody likes.
Barack Obama is somebody who nobody likes. So you think it's a perfect marriage, but hey,
they don't like each other either. So they can't even come together on who their
nominee should be. The Democrats are a disaster because they're, but it's not just because
they are people who are unlikable.
It's because their policies are unlikable. Their policies do nothing but harm the American
President Trump stands with the American people and that's why we want to bring him back to office as soon as humanly possible.
And I'm confused maybe you as a seasoned political operator could explain this to me.
Why did it take almost a week for America's first black president to endorse the minority vice president?
Did he not know?
It is a total disaster over there.
Nobody knows anything.
Also, two weeks ago, we were told that Joe Biden was the picture of health and getting ready to compete in the Paris Olympics.
Now they've all thrown him overboard.
They're lying to themselves.
They're lying to each other.
And they're lying to the American people.
They're a bunch of liars.
And they have to be voted out of office as soon as possible.
The American people want President Trump back.
They want strength back.
They want America back.
And only President Trump We'll make America great again.
And as we've always said, that is an action item.
It is not a slogan.
Let's discuss the surreal media coverage of the last four days of Kamala Harris.
You mean the non-Bordezar Bordezar?
Yeah, the non-Bordezar Bordezar.
Alex Marlow just made a great point in the studio.
He said, so if she wasn't the Bordezar, she didn't have any portfolio.
We don't know which is worse, to not be given any job or to be catastrophically bad at the job you were given.
So Axios, everybody else denying what we know to be true.
I think, here's my theory.
Tell me what you think as a campaign hand.
The reason they're denying it, Boris, is because they know this is her Achilles tendon.
This is the massive, gargantuan size vulnerability they have, and that's why they have to deny it.
As always, my friend, your read is spot on.
Yes, they're denying it because she's a total failure.
She's been a failure at everything she's ever done.
She was a horrific, horrific prosecutor, horrific attorney general, terrible in the Senate.
Last, out of whatever 87 candidates they had in 2020, she was the last.
And now she's been an absolute mess as vice president.
And yes, crooked Joe Biden did make her to the borders, R. And yes, she failed miserably, resulting in the worst border in American history.
And honestly, one of the worst borders of any country in world history.
This is somebody who can only fail, has failed up her whole career, and it stops now.
And President Trump put an end to it on November 5th.
So if the trend lines continue, if she doesn't get any kind of sizable bump, if the sympathy from independents, from the middle, the undecideds, continues to increase, as it has done for President Trump since the assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, less than two weeks ago.
What happens, Boris, if, say, before the convention, Kamala's figures are still abysmal?
Are we going to see some sparks fly politically in Chicago for the DNC convention?
You easily could, and that's what President Trump said, eh?
It's too early to talk about debates.
They don't have a nominee.
They tried to anoint Kamala Harris, just like they tried to anoint crooked Hillary Clinton, or the name's been retired, so let's just say just Hillary Clinton, in 2016, just like they tried to anoint crooked Joe Biden in 2024, and President Trump crushed them both.
Now they're trying to do the same with Kamala Harris, It's failing. The numbers are absolutely staggering in
favor of President Donald J. Trump.
So yes, if that continues, as it will, you're absolutely going to see hand-wringing among the Democrats.
That's what they do best. And they're going to say, oh, let's put someone else out there.
And you could see Chicago devolve into the same kind of disaster it did in 1968.
But then what's going to happen? Because if you're sane, Barron, you're going to be what?
You're going to be two months from the election.
Is anybody going to want to step into that two-month campaign?
Or are they going to be without a candidate?
No, of course not.
All those Democrats, they're so power-hungry.
They're tipping over each other just for the shot.
They're all going to try to get it.
Who knows?
Could be any of those names.
Could he please, please be Hillary?
Can we make that happen somehow?
I mean, I know you're well-connected.
Can you make that happen?
She's hanging out.
She's keeping an eye on it.
She's okay.
She got crushed in 2016, claimed that it was other forces or what we know.
It was the American people who wanted President Trump in office.
They want him in office now.
Hey, if Hillary wants a crack, let her have it.
You are in daily contact with the President.
How's he doing in the last two weeks, Boris?
I'm honored to report the President Trump is absolutely firing on all cylinders.
He's crushing it for our country.
He's campaigning.
He's doing the rallies.
He's meeting with world leaders.
Prime Minister Netanyahu today, he's absolutely dominating.
And he is every single day focused on the key point, on making America great again.
And it was my honor to be with him the day after that horrific shooting, my honor to be at the convention, and President Trump has responded to it.
Unlike anybody, from the second it happened, from the second it happened, we saw President Trump within just a few heartbeats stand up and pump a fist to the American people.
He has responded with a kind of bravery.
And strength that has never been seen, and that's why I'm so honored to be a small part of his team.
I don't want to ask anything classified, but were you the man he was playing golf with the day after he was shot?
I just want to know.
Well, here's what I'll tell you.
President Trump, again, has... There's no talk about revenge.
President Trump is taking an assassination attempt, an attempt on his life.
Yeah.
and made it a cause to stand with and for.
And that's why the American people are huge droves are coming over to the side of MAGA,
are going to be voting for President Trump and bringing him back to the White House.
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Bye.
Good stuff, buddy. Okay. I'm going to need the Ray bullet cut again with Jim. I'm going to need the Ray bullet cut
again with Jim.
Good stuff.
Christopher Wray, the one we played before about him saying it wasn't a bullet.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you.
And then we have to record this My Pillow sometime, right?
Oh yeah?
You're right.
Okay.
Okay.
So, here we go.
Okay.
So, I'm going to go ahead and click on the next one.
And I'm going to go ahead and click on the next one.
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I'm...
I think anybody would be flattered to be mentioned in that context.
I certainly am.
President Harris. So have you been contacted by the campaign and would you
be interested in serving in that role?
I think anybody would be flattered to be mentioned in that context. I certainly am.
There's really not much more that I can or should say about that process other
than that she's going to make that decision and she knows what she's doing.
Jeff, help me out here.
You're pretty good on politics.
Who's bandying about Boot Edge Edge as vice president?
I would assume media leaks from his team.
His mom!
Don't you think it's his mom?
Exactly.
Because the people that are being vetted is not him.
He's not on that list.
You're not being bandied about by anybody if you're not on the vetted individuals list.
But, hey, it's very amusing.
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He's looking a bit casual today.
I think he's been dodging Antifa outside of Union Station.
He's very, very tactical.
He's our friend, the Senior Counsel to the President of the Heritage Foundation.
You know where that scary thing, Project 2025, comes from.
Colonel Dr. Jim Carafano, how are you doing, my friend?
Yeah, well, I've never heard anybody whisper like that except Jobin.
So, as you know, most people probably don't, my office looks out over Union Square.
Yes!
And so to turn my head and see a Palestinian flag flying where the American flag was just minutes before... Hang on a second.
So we have the B-roll of the insanity, guys.
You can play in the background.
So let's just get the details.
Not only were those lunatics there, not only did they pull down the flag that didn't belong to them... You can burn your own flag if you want, but they actually...
Yeah, and look, you know, and the biggest crime, honestly, the single biggest, most horrific crime was they attacked a law enforcement officer.
They physically assaulted a law enforcement officer, which in any universe ought to be years in prison, and in which they got nothing.
They've been released, by the way, everybody.
Everybody who was detained this week for that vandalism, for that assault, has already been released.
Yeah, look, we are Washington, D.C.
We know we are Disney World.
We live for the First Amendment.
We live to see people march in our streets.
In the morning, I laughed because there was a line of pro-Hamas guys marching towards the Capitol to bagpipes.
They were playing the Army song.
But it was like, fine, this is where you express your First Amendment, but where do you draw the line?
Because you don't want it to get out of hand, you don't want people to get hurt, and above all, you don't really want to have anybody die from all this stuff.
And so it stops at when you start destroying public property.
and attacking, physically attacking individuals and attacking law enforcement officers.
And the replica of the Liberty Bell, which is your symbol at Heritage.
Right, right.
Yeah, and I walk by that bell every morning.
Look, I even get the defacing thing, but when you're physically assaulting people
and destroying property, because you can't just scrape off the paint,
but you can't put up the American flag.
I remember there was a guy who went into some churchyard and took down a Black Lives Matter sign and went to prison.
Right.
And so you cannot tell me this isn't two-tier justice.
You just can't tell me that.
Let's take it up a notch.
So, you're viewing this violence, but why is this violence happening?
Because the duly elected Prime Minister of our closest ally in the Middle East is giving an address to Congress, or trying to, because it was boycotted by scores and scores of Democrats.
Now, I'm going to do your disclaimer.
He doesn't do politics.
He just does policy.
But what is the ramification of that visual, not just of the protests, but of one political party, whilst the nation is at war, boycotting the speech?
I don't know.
We haven't discussed this.
Have you watched the 47-second video?
Yeah, yeah.
So, the reality is, is the Democratic Party is like an amoeba that's struggling to split in two.
And it's going to split into a pro-democracy.
Islamic, pro-radical Hamas wing that is going to align with the global Islamist extremisms
in the Mother Brotherhood and the wing of the party is going to say, dude, I just can't
go that far.
But Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are kind of standing on each side of the amoebas as they
pull apart and trying to pretend like they're being even-handed.
And they're not being even-handed.
What there is is they're struggling with the reality that Dude, I thought this was over on 9-11.
This is important.
I thought this was over on 9-11.
We went out, we killed ISIS and everything.
We hammered Islamist extremism to the ground.
Why is it back?
And I have two answers for you.
Or three answers.
China and Iran.
All of them are doing everything they can to put Islamists back in the game.
Particularly in political infiltration in the west of the United States and Europe.
Because that is the fifth column.
That is the underground.
And there's precedence for this.
Any historian we know, you would know.
During both World War I and World War II, Germany actively went out to push the Islamist radical button.
as a way to fight their enemies.
This is the oldest playbook and the Chinese and the Russians and the Iranians are playing
it.
If you look at where the money's come that's funding these networks, it's not just the
Tides Foundation.
It's not just...
So Heritage has done some really good investigations on this.
Absolutely.
This is a funded campaign and the Democrats have let it happen to their party and they
are incapable of dealing with it.
And outside of party politics, how do the bad guys look at this when they see political
parties boycott the Prime Minister?
I'll give you a perfect example, right?
Chinese-Russian plane flying fly-by-side up against the U.S.
border.
Okay, what the hell is that, right?
So they've never done that before, as far as I know, right?
It is clearly an in-your-face, well, why now?
It's very obvious, right?
They look at the United States, they look at the political turmoil, and it's not even
so much to say, oh, we're going to throw in the finger at Joe Biden here.
What they're saying to the whole world is the Americans are in disarray.
They can't even decide whose side they're on.
And we, the Chinese and the Russians, can run up to the border and throw them the finger,
and they don't do anything about it.
Truly, truly stunning.
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Alright.
There's no middle ground.
Not in America today.
Is that here or internationally?
No, it's here in the US.
Congrats.
You know, if it ever comes out, because it's been in editing for over a year and it's still in writing.
So, I don't know if I mentioned before, it's a book on how to win at social networking, how to build networks, and how to destroy networks.
Heritage book?
No, no, no.
It's with Texas A&M University Press.
When did you write that?
When did I write that?
I need the Ray Cut guys.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
Because the last thing you did was the Italian campaign.
Oh this is before the Italian book.
So the weird thing is the Italian book will probably be out sooner because the other book I got I got done I don't know when I read it, but I got it done.
Is it network networks or cyber networks?
Well, it's mostly about online social networking, but it's a theory of how networks...
It's not a theory, it's actually a plan.
So there's...
I give four steps to building an operational network, and then four steps to dismantling
an operational network, right?
And you're in the book, so I don't want to tell you more than that because it will be a surprise.
Am I a case study, Jim?
You are in the book.
As a villain?
In a hollowed out volcano?
A radio host addicted to Twitter?
Jeff says, I'm in the book as a radio host addicted to Twitter.
And several other folks that you know.
I haven't told anybody who's in the book.
Who's bringing it out?
Texas A&M University Press.
Oh good.
It's actually a sequel to a book I recall, Wicked War.
Which was actually a really interesting book.
It got no press, no interest whatsoever, but it talked about that social networking was going to become a huge deal.
What was the title?
It's called Wiki at War.
Well, that's a great title.
Why did it get no attention?
When was that?
You know, it's like you have to write a book that hits the... Well, one, you actually have to promote a book, which I never did.
The other thing is you have to hit the knee in the curve, right?
And this was ahead of the curve.
Too early.
And it was about how social networks are going to be a big deal in national security.
I talked about disinformation and all this stuff.
And I said, this is coming.
Can you come in with the Butler audio first?
That clip from Butler.
No, what I didn't know when I finished the book was, because when I wrote the book, it was, how will this online social media affect this thing?
But when I finished the book, I talked about, well, these are winners and losers, but what I didn't say was, well, how do you become a winner or a loser?
Because I didn't know.
And then now I do.
So anyway, I wrote another book.
I better not be in the loser comb.
No, no, no.
I'm not going to tell anyone.
He's just such a tease.
He's just a wicked tease.
So come in with Butler, and then you're going to tee up Ray?
Yeah, then I'll do the car read, and then I'll tee up Ray.
When does the book come out?
Jeff's asking, when does it come out?
I have no idea.
No idea.
He only wrote it.
No idea, because it... Alright, kill him next.
Apparently they lost the contract on their...
...
Incredibly, less than two weeks ago, the events in Butler, Pennsylvania, another assassination attempt against another Republican president.
We're going to talk about what it means historically and also the response from the bureaucracy here in Washington, D.C.
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Jim, we can talk about in general why do we have to have another assassination attempt against another Republican president and or this shocking statement under oath from the director of the FBI yesterday in Congress.
I think with respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.
So it's conceivable, as I sit here right now, I don't know whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else.
But I believe we've accounted for all of the shots in the cartridges, so let us We have a photograph of the bullet flying past his head.
What is this, Jim?
Yeah, well, you know, the shock, well look, the most shocking thing was that the security
preparations and support team for a presidential candidate were completely inadequate.
I mean, Abraham Lincoln had better security.
That is shocking and an undeniable failure.
I mean, you pick a government failure, whether it's the challenger going down or Afghanistan or whatever, here's an organization that's purpose-built for one thing.
And not only did it fail, it catastrophically failed.
And the thing is, is this is the exact scenario.
That they were built to prevent.
Right.
Everybody thinks assassination attempts is Carlos the Jackal or Bruce Willis with a, you know... 50 Cal, 4 miles away.
Right, right, right.
With all this sophisticated... Every modern... People can argue about Oswald all they want, but every modern assassin that we've had, going back to the guy that assassinated the Archduke, they were all more lucky than good.
Yes.
I'll give you an example of a professional assassination attempt, which was, you know, they tried to kill the German guy in... The General in Germany?
No, not in Germany, during the war.
Oh, Heidrich.
Right, right.
In Prague.
He actually did die, but that was a highly trained team and everything went wrong.
The fact that they even got that close.
All these people are yahoos and their assassination attempts should have failed.
The only reason why it didn't and the only reason why it succeeded was because the people
that were supposed to do their job didn't do their job.
It's like they were more lucky than good, right?
Teddy Roosevelt should have died, right?
And this is clearly here.
You're designed to prevent The delusion of grander guy that thinks, or girl, that thinks they're gonna kill these people and whatever, and just go, let me go kill people.
And this guy was actually, to be honest, I mean, he did a recon, he had a plan.
A UAV?
He was a grade above your average Yahoo, even though he's still a Yahoo, it was a stupid plot, but this is exactly what they're designed to prevent, and they utterly failed.
And not only did they utterly fail, For days, they pretended like, not my fault, not my job.
And it was shocking.
And then to have the director of the FBI say, well, we don't know if the bullet hit him?
Well, again, this is kind of a lesson learned.
We all know that sometimes, even in simple crimes, it's difficult to unpack everything.
Anybody that's watched 48 Hours knows that, right?
But the reality is, we know that in these highly politicized, security failures, that the way to get on top of this is to
get on top of it.
Right? And we haven't seen that. No. We have not seen. We haven't even had, I mean you've been in DC how long?
Yeah. Yeah. We haven't had a press conference. Right.
How is that possible?
You know, it's transparency.
And I understand the whole thing about, well, there's information you don't want to give away.
Here's your investment.
We all get that.
We all watch Law & Order.
We know how that works, right?
But the fact that you're not out there immediately.
Yes.
And you know, my rule is always very simple.
You tell people what you can, when you can, and then you let people make up their own minds.
But transparency and rapid, clear response are the most important things.
And what we expect.
And we didn't get that.
And we still haven't got it.
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Let's talk to somebody who, well, let's just say he is the trainer to the elite.
He understands what it takes to carry a weapon, even in the nation's capital.
He's the person who I trust to tell me what it is all about.
It is the Concealed Carry expert Leon Spears.
Leon, welcome to America First.
Nice to hear from you.
Alright, so Concealed Carry is what you do.
DC Concealed Carry is the title, is the website.
Tell us about some exciting things you and some of our other Second Amendment buddies are planning in the near future.
Well, in the very near future, we're excited about all the cases going to SCOTUS.
The Supreme Court is really about to let loose on magazine capacities and ruled that the magazine capacity should not be limited to 10 rounds as a capacity for the device.
Is that pertaining to just Washington D.C.
or more than that?
Oh no, nationwide.
SCOTUS is about to rule on that.
Then we have, again, for DC Council, ruled that there's no limit on ammunition amounts.
So you can have as much ammunition as you want.
Now in the city, it used to be unconstitutionally subjected on us for about nine years.
So now you can have as much ammunition as you so desire in DC.
Then there's another ruling on ARs for registration.
And then there's another ruling coming down the pike in regard to having to register a gun period.
essentially you have to have a permission slip from the city to actually carry a firearm
or i.e. register a firearm.
So that's going down in Maryland.
Then it's going to have national repercussions.
So explain the significance of that.
So are they trying to make Maryland... What's the argument of the case?
That the Second Amendment stands?
It has to be either a shallow state or a constitutional carry state?
What is the strategic end point they're trying to achieve?
Well, there are three major things.
Number one is that Maryland in 2003, under Governor O'Malley, issued HB 281.
That was House Bill 281, which said you have to create and count for the HQL process.
So a handgun qualification license.
You have to qualify.
per the Maryland State Police to get a handgun qualification license prior to even being allowed to purchase a firearm if you're a resident of Maryland.
So that was the permission slip.
Now, his intent was actually heartfelt in that he wanted people to actually physically be trained by a Maryland State Police certified instructor instead of just watching a video, which was good.
The issue is mandating it And so, you have to get an HQL, go through a background check, and then on top of that, pay for training, and then submit fingerprints digitally online, then wait for the Maryland State Police to send you an ID, and it's good for 10 years, but it's an unconstitutional standard that you have to get permission.
From the state prior to even purchasing a firearm.
So that standard is under the gun right now.
No pun intended and it should be thrown out.
Now, if anybody goes to your website, dcconcealedcarry.com, and it's not just about DC, it's about numerous states, just look at the map.
This guy can help you out.
He got me qualified and authorized to carry a weapon in the nation's capital.
I don't want to tempt fate, and I don't want to get out over my skis, but give me a kind of reality check, Leon.
I look at every development in Second Amendment, either at the Supreme Court level or the state level in the last two years, and it looks like this kind of snowball or this avalanche that just keeps moving in the right direction.
I mean, so many states, more than what, 25?
More than half the states are shall issue or are constitutional carry.
Are you feeling good?
Oh no, there are 29!
There are 29!
So, is this something we celebrate, or do we say there's still a lot of work to be done?
Oh, there is both.
There's still a lot of work to be done, but there are gloriously 29 states where you need nothing.
You can wake up, God-fearing American, and walk out and carry a firearm however you see fit, because the Second Amendment is all that you need.
Period.
No government regulation in regard to suppression of gun rights.
And so you can go as you please and carry openly, carry concealed, carry one in the chamber, no magazine capacities, no ammunition limits.
You can do whatever you want.
And that's how the founders wanted it.
That sure enough, we would not be under the suppression of government when needing to defend ourselves.
And just to remind you, just as a reminder, law enforcement typically, about four minutes away.
So what's gonna happen to you in four minutes when you have the real freedom and obligation
to defend yourself and your family and as well as others?
So I'm so happy that there is a snowball effect.
It's coming down the pike.
I'm just so very, very excited for new things to come.
November is happening, so we'll see what the Supreme Court looks like in the next year.
All right.
We have to discuss all of that and so much more.
Let's get you in studio for a longer chat.
Can we do that, Leon?
Oh, of course.
It's always nice.
Let's do that.
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President Harris was never appointed border czar.
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Why are Democrats so sensitive about the Vice President and the border?
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What's wrong with Peter Ducey's question?
That's when you know you got him, when they blame Trump.
That's when they know they can't defend him.
But I'm confused.
We're asking about Kamala as Bordasar and then she talks about the Republicans?
What's that got to do with her being Bordasar?
Which is a question for the last three years until two weeks ago you could have asked her and she would have answered it completely normal.
Now all of a sudden they act like it didn't happen.
What do you think?
Should we like open tonight's show on Newsmax with this question of her as the Bordasar?
Oh you know that's the big thing that they're worried about.
The Bordasar you gotta hammer every single day.
I mean that's Trump's nickname.
Just call her the Bordasar.
He doesn't need anything else, does he?
Yeah, that's all you have to do.
We don't have to be so Russian.
How about the Queen of the Border?
I just think you call her the Borders are.
Don't even call her Kamala Harris.
Just call her the Borders are.
Genius.
That's... Don't even use her name.
Just call her the Bordezar.
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And we'll be talking to people like Greg Abbott, Who had this to say about Kamala, the Bordezar, and how seriously she took that job.
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You don't even have to be a member of the Fairer Sex Next, in 1993 Clint Eastwood made a movie about the Secret Service and about failing to protect the President.
It's a good time to revisit.
Stay with us.
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Impressive.
Most impressive.
See things you people wouldn't believe.
See things you people wouldn't believe.
I want to talk to God.
Let's go see it together.
I've never worked with a female agent before.
How many are there?
About 125.
Pure window dressing.
Excuse me?
Window dressing.
About 125 out of a little over 2,000.
They have you all around so the president can look good to his feminist voters.
Do you make an effort to be obnoxious or is it a gift?
It's a gift.
Let's face it, half the things we do are window dressing.
Take running alongside that limousine.
It'd take an anti-tank missile to put a dent in that damn thing.
There we are out for show, trying to make the president look more presidential.
So if I'm here to court the feminist vote, what demographics do you represent?
Let's see... White, piano-playing, heterosexuals over the age of 50.
There ain't a whole lot of us, but we do have a powerful lobby.
Really, there are some movies, several movies that we have reviewed over the years that are...
Prescient in a creepy, preternatural way.
Female secret service agents.
They're just window dressing to curry favor with the president's feminist voters.
We didn't pick this movie to review.
We've actually delayed reviewing Ghostbusters 2 for three weeks now, but Chris's suggestion is a sound one.
1993, Clint Eastwood in the line of fire.
Chris Coles, why did you change our movie choice?
Yes.
You know, I don't know, just a weird idea I had in the middle of the night one night.
Yeah, it's kind of funny, actually.
I don't know what was going on.
I was just thinking about the president, you know, the president's assassination attempt and him surviving and all that stuff.
And I'm making videos about all this.
And I don't know, this movie kind of popped into my head.
And I thought that would actually be a good movie to review just to see how a secret service agent should act.
But at the end of the day, watching through this film, I thought, Dang, I feel like the kind of bureaucracy and the inefficiencies, you know, everything about this movie, it was so real.
It felt like, yeah, some of the kind of crap that went on, you know, in this fictional version of the Secret Service probably went on before Donald Trump got shot.
And every once in a while, it takes a moment like that to wake people up and say, you know what, your job is a hell of a lot more serious than maybe you thought.
Well, this is going to be a very different film review.
I don't think it's going to be a film review.
We're going to just use the film as a jumping off point.
Let's start with what you said, Reagan, and what happened with President Trump.
So, Butler, Pennsylvania.
Let's listen to the female Secret Service agents, the, as they are called, window dressing by Clint Eastwood, and their reaction to President Trump being shot in the head.
Play cut.
We see something that said, take a look at what happened.
And then we have the comparison to Reagan, the footage, the historic footage of what
happened in 1981 when Jonathan Hinkley tried to assassinate another conservative.
play cut.
Yeah.
Get him out!
No! No!
No!
This is not the end of it!
No!
Chris, what an incredible contrast.
Uh...
Two weeks ago, President Trump is shot, the males arrive almost instantly, the females arrive delayed, and they're shouting into the hot mic, what do we do?
What do we do?
Where do we go?
And then we go back in time to 1981.
Big, burly guys instantly react, neutralize the threat.
Is this a movie that we should be talking about everywhere?
Oh yeah.
Well, exactly right.
Like, I talked to you about this in a previous, I don't know if it was Newsmax or on your show, I can't remember, but I feel like any agency, any job, In which you're dealing with controlled violence.
Yeah.
And this is what the Secret Service is.
Controlled violence.
You need men to do this job.
You need men to be in charge of these kinds of agencies, these kinds of departments.
Why?
Thousands, millions of years of evolution.
For millions of years, men have gone out and fought in wars.
Men have gone out and killed the deer.
Men have gone out and fought the wolves.
Right?
We protect the wife.
We protect the children.
This is not in the nature of woman.
Are there women who could potentially do this?
I suppose there could be, certainly.
But it's not going to be likely that they're typically going to be the best at the job, are they?
The reason why you have a female Secret Service agent is, just as Clint Eastwood said, Window dressing.
You have this ability to talk like this back in 1993.
When this script was written, you could put things like this in movies.
People had a little chuckle when they were watching it because they knew that it was true.
And today, this is verboten.
You cannot say these sorts of things out loud.
Or you're considered a misogynist or sexist or something like this, which is ridiculous, because this is accurate.
And not only do we have female Secret Service agents who are not tall enough to guard the president, as we saw when he was shot.
But we also have someone in charge of the Secret Service who is clearly utterly incompetent, who has put their why because of DEI diversity nonsense.
And who said in a campaign ad for the service, my goal as director is to hire At least 30% of the Secret Service agents as women.
Let's go back in time to 1993 and talk not even about movies, talk about real agents talking about their time in the service because Wolfgang Petersen was given unparalleled access to the Secret Service to make this movie.
That clip we showed at the beginning was my old office space in the Eisenhower building.
They even had access to the white House.
So here are three agents, one after another, explaining what their job is in the Secret Service.
And they're all males.
You've just got to respond instantly.
No matter what the president thinks, no matter what's going on outside, you've got to respond.
If it comes to the point that you can't respond to the threat there, you've got to move to your protectee.
If and when that time comes.
Well, you have to give the ultimate sacrifice.
I think every agent's prepared to do that.
Thank you.
So, just bear with me.
This is a documentary about the making of the movie.
Those are all Secret Service agents.
Three of them said, you've just got to act, you've got to be fast, and you've got to make the ultimate sacrifice.
To kind of reinforce the wind of dressing garbage, they throw in a female agent at the end.
Listen to what the female agent says by contrast.
It is so telling.
Hit it.
You assume that responsibility in your own heart, and you hope to God that when the time comes that you'll be able to perform as you have been trained.
The three guys say, you do it, you just suck up the bullets with your body, and the woman says, uh, we hope we do what we're supposed to do.
Back in 93 they underlined it!
And you know, there's also this other aspect to having women in these kinds of positions that are, it's very rarely talked about, which is that if you're a man, and you're in this kind of a job with other men, you can focus on the job without distraction.
There is a circumstance when a woman comes into an office where all men go and their attention is shifted.
Why?
Because we have a natural instinct to want to get the woman, right?
To get and to protect, Chris, like you said so many times before.
Absolutely.
And this distraction is absolutely detrimental to this kind of job.
And what's interesting is in the movie, they didn't really discuss the detrimental nature of this, but they kind of showed it a little bit, right?
There was a relationship between the Clint Eastwood character and the Rene Russo character.
And this did cause some problems within the, you know, the Torah.
And of course, it's a movie.
So they have to create a sort of like positive romantic relationship.
And it all works out for them.
And it's all nice and lovely.
But in reality, what Clint Eastwood says at the very beginning is absolutely true.
It's window dressing, it's unnecessary, it's political correctness, and it's absolutely catastrophic when the time comes.
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God, that was a beautiful day.
Son of God.
Been raining all morning.
The air was... First shot... Sounded like a firecracker.
I looked over and I saw him.
I could tell he was hit.
Don't know why I didn't react.
I should have reacted.
I should have been running flat out.
I just couldn't believe it.
If only I reacted, I could have taken that shot.
I'm sorry.
I I
That would have been all right with me.
Clint Eastwood in the line of fire playing a fictional Secret Service agent, JFK's favorite agent, who feels responsibility for not saving his protectee in Dealey Plaza in 1963.
Let's listen to real Secret Service agents describe what happened to Ronald Reagan just a few years later in 1981.
in 1981.
I heard two shots followed by a small gap in time and then four quick shots.
At the first shot, it's sort of a startle effect, but that starts the game in the Secret Service.
If you can call it a game, it's a deadly game.
But all those shots were fired in 1.48 seconds.
All of them.
We had him in the car and the door shut in three seconds.
I was in on top of him, told the driver to leave.
So within nine seconds, we were really moving away from the scene in an armored car.
The point is not to reopen the door.
The point is to cover and evacuate.
Chris, I just want to make the point that we're using this movie review as the peg, as the hook, and God bless you for changing our choice to in the line of fire.
In Butler, two weeks ago in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Trump was kept in the kill box for almost a minute by the Secret Service, male and female, for almost a full minute.
What did you hear there from the Secret Service agent who was protecting Ronald Reagan within nine seconds?
He was no longer there.
They had so violently ejected him from the scene into the armored limo that his ribs were broken by the agents, which is the practice.
Something's happened to the secret surface.
Something's happened to the concept of masculinity we've discussed so much.
But I want to throw your words back at you.
You said something incredibly profound a few months ago on our show, on our discussions.
A man must be the final resort.
A man must be violent and lethal if necessary.
If you're walking down the street with your girlfriend, your fiancée, your wife, and you don't know who's coming down the sidewalk, it could be just an innocent person, but it might not be.
That philosophy of being the final resort that has to use violence rapidly, that is what we saw in 1981.
That is not what we saw in Butler, Pennsylvania two weeks ago.
No, yeah.
It was shocking, really.
I mean, it was shocking, the difference.
You know, I think maybe what happened on that day all sort of happened for a reason.
But the ineptitude of the Secret Service on that day is shocking.
And obviously that sense has reverberated throughout the country and everybody is disgusted.
And a lot of people are looking at this as some kind of grand conspiracy.
And I understand why people are doing that.
Because the head of the Secret Service came out and said, well, we didn't have somebody on that roof because it was slightly sloped.
That was a lie.
All right.
That was a lie.
We all know that it was a lie.
And it was absolutely not.
There is a hero in this story.
Believe it or not, there is a hero in this story.
I mean, there's a few heroes.
There's the guys that immediately jumped on Trump.
Those guys are awesome, by the way.
Yeah.
I don't want them to get away with it.
They also let him take control of the situation, raise his fist, raise his head and show his body to the world.
I'm sorry, even the guys who were there in two seconds didn't whisk him away.
No, you're absolutely right.
And maybe that was their fault.
Maybe it was the fact that there was only like a couple of competent Secret Service agents there and, you know, maybe everybody else.
You know, you need the full team working together, right?
But there was another hero who is, I think we've only just really started to discover who this might be or get a sense of who this might be.
There was a sniper who took photos of the gunman and sent it to everyone else and said, this is a man who is suspicious.
Keep your eye on this guy.
Find this guy.
And Just like in the movie with Clint Eastwood saying, there's a guy, there is a threat, we need to find the threat.
Everybody else dismissed it, right?
Someone got that photo and completely ignored the threat, right?
Maybe not someone, maybe lots of people.
But that sniper who spotted that guy, he was right.
He was right.
And everybody who ignored him is wrong.
Yeah, absolutely right.
We're reviewing In the Line of Fire, Wolfgang Petersen, the man who brought us Das Boot, the incredible German epic of U-boat history in World War II.
What other things can we mention with regards to Wolfgang?
Oh, never-ending story, Outbreak, another great movie, another presidential movie, Air Force One, with Harrison Ford, The Perfect Storm, and the remake No, I liked Neverending Story, but I think you might... Was that a little bit after your time as a kid?
Yeah, you are younger than me.
We get it, thank you.
I was a grown man.
I was 14 years old when Neverending Story came out.
You were a little bit younger.
So then, Wolfgang, Wolfgang, Wolfgang, we miss you.
He is sorely missed.
He passed two years ago.
But why did he have to do a remake of Poseidon?
No, please don't do that.
Air Force One, The NeverEnding Story, Dust Boat, In the Line of Fire with, of course, Clint Eastwood.
A very different role for Clint Eastwood.
Fascinating.
Not a cowboy movie.
However, the music Did you notice that the music, Chris, was Ennio Morricone, that did all the music for the Cowboy Spaghetti Westerns?
Yeah, interesting, right?
I did not notice that.
There was a kind of a jazzy theme to this.
Well, they had Clint playing the piano, remember?
Clint playing the piano, so maybe that was the influence.
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Cliffhanger moment literally from the movie in the line of fire with John Malkovich playing Booth the former CIA
assassin who wants to kill the president and him his saving Clint Eastwood's life after he's just killed
his partner Let's talk about the movie for a little bit, since this is a movie review, Chris.
John Malkovich, I've never been a big fan, but he does bring the creep factor to this movie.
And also, as I noted, very unusual.
I mean, apart from Dirty Harry, this is not the usual Clint Eastwood movie.
He's got more lines than any other movie he's made.
And he also has a love story, Chris!
Yeah.
And he's and he's charming.
Yeah.
It's like hitting on the flirting with a girl.
It's like a little weird, actually, because it kind of reminds me of my grandfather.
So I'm watching it going, whoa, whoa, grandpa.
Come on.
But you know what?
I I think I've also kind of I feel like I've An injustice to John Malkovich.
Why?
Because I think I have also never really liked John Malkovich.
And I think the primary reason is because I suffer from the same problem that leftists do.
Every once in a while I cannot distinguish reality from fiction.
And this was the first film that I saw John Malkovich in.
And I found him detestable ever since because he's such a creepy weirdo in this movie.
But watching this back, watching this back now as an adult, I look back at this and I say, you know what?
John Malkovich is a brilliant actor.
I mean, you honestly like to get an audience member to watch this film and to detest you as a human being.
Because of your performance in the film as a creep, you've really got to do a great job being a creep.
And he did an excellent job.
I mean, I would say somewhat similar to the criminal in, to the assassin in Dirty Harry, actually, a little bit.
But he really, he had a more, I would say, rich performance in this.
Now I've been told, a little birdie told me, That Sebastian Gorka didn't like this performance because he felt that John Malkovich was maybe a little bit of an overactor.
But I'm going to defend Malkovich here and say the reason I think that he may have been a little bit overly dramatic in this role is because the character was a little overly dramatic.
Because you see him in bits flip from being a little overly dramatic To being very naturalistic and then flipping back.
He's the kind of person that just likes to be a little colorful, likes to be a little bit dramatic.
But then the reality comes back.
Yeah, I think he did a really good job of that.
Yeah, but there's a problem with all of that.
He's supposed to be some super-duper CIA operative.
So anybody who's a little bit too colorful, you don't last decades as a CIA operative, and you can't do anything that's undercover.
Eric, what was the... Yeah, but he's nuts.
He snapped, right?
Right, right, right.
So maybe that's when the...
Well, yeah, maybe that's, you know, he was much cooler in the past.
Eric, you have a little nugget with regards to the scene we just played on the rooftop?
Yes, that iconic moment, really, where he takes the gun barrel into his mouth and sucks on it for a second, just to taunt Eastwood, was not in the script.
That was an improv moment by Malkovich.
Yeah, if you listen to the making of, there's actually Wolfgang Peterson who doesn't complain about it.
He does a lot of preparation himself.
He said Clint Eastwood, super famous star, had directed maybe a dozen movies at this time.
He didn't do rehearsals.
He said Clint didn't even learn his lines till the day of shooting and he wanted to do it natural.
He wanted to bounce off the other actor I don't know.
Does it work for you?
It's not the most subtle of movies, but Katie and I watched this last night.
We just found Clint's character so flipping endearing.
Yeah, he's absolutely wonderful.
I do think the acting is very good from everybody.
Got a lot of stars in here that were popular character actors in the 90s and stuff that I didn't even realize were in the film.
I think I saw this in the theater when I was quite young and I, you know, because I would have been 13 when this movie came out and I didn't really remember how good it was.
There's a couple things I do remember and I'll detail them in a moment.
But watching this film now, the script is Legitimately brilliant.
I think back in the 90s, there was this sense that screenwriters wanted to sound intelligent.
And sometimes they overdid that, and the scripts were sort of overwrought with too much intelligent dialogue.
This script, I think, had just the right amount.
It was a very smart script, a very smartly written script.
The villain, also in the 90s, the villains were extremely intelligent characters.
They had this idea that, like, Wouldn't it be interesting to explore a villain, a criminal who was actually super high IQ?
I think this was like Hannibal Lecter.
Yes.
And they kept it going with different characters.
And this film, I think, does it really, really well.
And this character, his partner, who was eventually on the show, The Practice, also really great performance.
I just loved every minute of watching this film.
I was I didn't think it was as good.
As what I eventually watched.
The only thing I remembered from this movie, from when I was a kid, is the moment that Clint Eastwood sees Renee Russo walking away and says, you know what?
If she likes me, she'll turn around and she'll, she'll look back.
And then she does.
And he's like, ha ha ha.
What do you say, Abe Lincoln?
Pretty good, right?
I remember that when I was a kid.
To this day, I still say that in my head.
If I see a girl walking away from me, I go, If she walks away.
If she turns back, she likes me.
And they never turn back.
But they always like me.
My co-host doesn't have delusions of grandeur.
He just thinks he's Clint Eastwood.
We're making movies great again.
The movie is in the line of fire.
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What the hell kind of gun is that?
Something I made.
No kidding?
You made it?
Guess who he's paying for, huh?
Can I see it?
It's light.
Yeah?
It's light.
What's it made of?
It's composite, like plastic.
Pretty neat!
You, uh... Mind if I give her a little dance?
not at all That is great
That is really great!
You, uh... Wouldn't be interested in selling her, would you?
No, I need it.
For what?
To assassinate the president.
What did you want to do that for, mister?
Why did you kill that bird?
All right, he is creepy goes without saying he is creepy The one big criticism of this movie is you can't make a gun out of plastic because it'll blow up.
If the barrel isn't made of metal, it blows up.
Any criticisms, any issues with this movie, Chris, for you?
You know, I was wondering about that very thing.
Because I think in the 1990s, what you're saying was absolutely true.
But I'm curious, because I know they had some kind of 3D printed gun.
Is the barrel, does the barrel still have to be steeled?
Because I remember this was a big concern.
Yeah, right.
As a plastic gun or a ceramic gun.
The Glock grip, the lower receiver is polymer, but even that has metal embedded in it so the slide can run on metal rails.
But you have to have a barrel that is metallic, otherwise the thing blows up in your hand.
And here he is, filing pieces of plastic into a gun.
Yeah, well, there was this big debate about the 3D printed gun.
I think it's called, I forget what it was called.
The Freedom Fighter or something.
I can't remember.
But it was, yeah, it was this 3D printed gun that everybody's freaking out about.
But if what you're saying is true, it still couldn't go through a metal detector without being I don't know.
I loved in this film, this part was like a big deal.
I remember this was a big deal in the media.
Oh, he makes a plastic gun and that's how he gets into the metal detector and everything.
And then, but what I thought was brilliant is he had, obviously the bullets have to be metal, like the bullet casings and everything.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he, so he puts this in like a lucky rabbit's foot and that's how he gets it through.
I just thought that was brilliant writing.
There were so many little Brilliant little moments in this movie that you kind of forget until you watch it again.
And then you're like, oh, my gosh, that was so great.
They just don't make movies like this anymore.
There's there's a moment where he's talking on the phone early in the film and you just see his mouth moving.
Yes.
And it's such a tight shot of his mouth and his mouth is kind of creepy looking as well.
And you're just like, wow, like everything about this movie, I don't know what Wolfgang Peterson was thinking when he made this film, but he was on the top of his game.
I think it was a great film for Eastwood.
I think it was a great film for Malkovich.
I think it was a great film for everyone.
And the great Fred Thompson was in it as well.
Fred Thompson, and I loved Fred Thompson, especially in The Hunt for Red October.
Here, he plays a real scumbucket.
I mean, the president's chief of staff, and you do not like this guy.
And Clint Eastwood reads in the right act.
I think in the documentary, I don't think it's Wolfgang, I think it's one of the other producers who says as a child, the reason this movie was made is as a child, he once saw the presidential motorcade with the Outriders with the police and he was just fascinated by this whole idea of how you keep a president safe and that was the the germination that was the beginning of the concept for in the line of duty and there's a beautiful shot a lot of the footage is actually real Secret Service details it was a campaign year they were allowed to film at presidential events and there's this one piece of footage where there's like
30 police bikes with their hazard indicators flashing at the same time in a triangle fashion with the beast coming up behind so a real beautiful combination of real life footage of the Secret Service plus this fictional overlay and the love story and I'm surprised the Secret Service even allowed this A plot device of how you get a weapon past the metal detectors.
But hey, that's movie making as it should be.
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Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy was also shot in the line of duty.
And in slow motion you see one agent, in particular agent Tim McCarthy, do a textbook version of what an agent is supposed to do.
He turns his body directly broadside into the bullet.
He actually takes a bullet in his stomach and falls over.
And I think there are very few type of people who have any kind of Sensibility to do something like that, and I think it's incredibly impressive.
Incredible footage, iconic footage, 1981, the attempt on President Reagan's life, where Tim McCarthy, with a kind of ballet dancer's deftness, despite his size, turns broadside, makes himself large, and literally catches bullets in his stomach.
as he falls to the ground because that is the job of the Secret Service.
But it's not just real life, it is good fictional representations.
Chris, we have these three cuts.
Let's play the one after another.
This is what should have happened in Butler, Pennsylvania with President Trump.
In the movie, the assassin fires his gun at the president.
Clint Eastwood absorbs the bullet with his body.
But watch the alacrity, the speed with which the fictive president is removed from danger.
It is very, very well done.
done. Yes.
Yeah.
Just like the motto of the SAS in the UK speed firepower aggression.
That's how it should have happened in Butler.
Just speed, speed, speed.
Final thoughts in the line of fire, Chris?
Listen, I saw an interview with the director in which he talks about how they got the cooperation from the Secret Service.
And he said that when they first were trying to sell them on this, the Secret Service didn't seem to have an interest in romanticizing their job.
Like whenever you hear about the Secret Service of the FBI green lighting of Hollywood film,
it's like they want themselves to be depicted positively.
He said, this was not a recruitment film.
They didn't mind being shown with, you know, scars and defects and imperfect.
He said what ended up selling them was the idea that we were going to produce a film that accurately depicted the Secret Service.
Yeah.
And I thought that was such a cool idea, right?
That the people that they were talking to in the Secret Service just wanted their jobs to be depicted accurately.
And I think that shows a lot of integrity, at least of the Secret Service members.
that existed at that time in the early 90s. What great men to sacrifice themselves for,
essentially for the republic that we have, the integrity of the republic. I think that's just
the ultimate sacrifice, and they're willing to do it. And it's a beautiful thing.
Not only that, the message that is in the movie that Clint Eastwood can't stand the president, right?
But he actually catches a bullet with his body for a guy he completely politically disagrees with.
You know, that is the ultimate toxic masculinity.
Okay, last thing about this movie.
You think you gave John Malkovich a hard time.
I don't think you did.
This is him in real life.
He's not just Acting creepy.
He is creepy.
Watching the president, I couldn't help wondering why a man like you would risk his life to save a man like that.
You have such a strange job, I can't decide if it's heroic or absurd.
Now why would a man like you want to risk his life to kill a man like that?
I don't know that I ever seriously thought of killing anyone, no.
But I don't think I'd do it with a gun, you know.
I'd do it with a hammer or something.
Yeah, I haven't thought about killing somebody seriously, but I would do it with a gun.
I'd do it with a hammer, because I'm a creep.
Chris, would you like to reassess your estimation of John Malkovich?
I want the context there.
I'm curious as to why you would pick a hammer.
No, I'm not going to jump to conclusions.
The man's a great actor.
If he turns out to be a psychopath later on, then I will stand corrected.
But I don't know.
I don't have enough information.
He could be awesome, or he could be a lunatic.
I have no idea.
But certainly, he plays a creep incredibly well.
I've often said that if you play a certain kind of character over and over again, It's an indication of what you're like in real life.
But after having worked in Hollywood and gotten to know some of these people, I realized it isn't necessarily like that.
You know, it's sometimes you just have a particular look.
Sometimes you just have a particular look and it recommends you to a certain kind of character, and you're kind of stuck with that.
You know what I mean?
And it makes you money, so you do it.
So what were you typecast as?
The clean-cut, decent chap I remember seeing on TV in Space Command in Kennedy Center.
Is that who Chris Coles is?
I was once in an acting class where the acting teacher took me aside and he said, if you were a character from Friends, which character would you be?
And I'm kind of a funny guy, you know, so I was like, well, I don't know, probably Chandler.
Chandler Bing.
And he goes, no, Chris.
No, Chris.
You're a Joey.
Oh.
You are a Joey.
Yeah, you are.
No, no.
That is totally unfair.
You are if Chandler and Joey had a baby.
Okay?
That is who you are.
Right.
That's what I think.
Okay, good.
Probably true.
All right.
Successful movie.
$40 million to make.
$189 million gross.
So pretty successful.
How do we rate this out of 10?
What are the units of measure?
Is it plastic guns?
What is the unit of measure?
Yeah, I think that's a classic guns.
I love it.
All right.
So for a modern audience, what do you rate this out of 10?
And then I'll do it in the panoply of movies.
You know what, I gotta say this movie actually shocked me how good it was.
The problem I think with the film is that it doesn't have it doesn't have this sort of simple.
What would you call it like?
It just doesn't have like the simple sort of like big ideas that people go, Oh, that's amazing.
It's a more of a complicated, more sophisticated kind of a film.
So I don't think, I think it's kind of a forgotten brilliant movie, and I think people will be very surprised by this.
I'm actually going to give it, and this might shock you, but I think people are going to love this movie.
I'm going to give it a nine.
I think people should watch this film.
Wow!
Nine plastic guns out of ten.
In the galaxy of movies, I'm going to give it a six and a half out of ten.
Six and a half out of ten.
That's fair.
It's not the best made movie, but it's a good movie.
I think it's a really good movie.
Alright, so are we going to review Ghostbusters 2 next week or are we going to delay that again?
And then I get two choices I think after waiting so long.
You should, you should.
But if you want, we can do something else.
Do you want to do Ghostbusters 2 or should we?
No, I've already watched it.
I've already got all the clips ready on my list.
So next week, Ghostbusters 2.
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