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Christ is King!
These encounters with death have not broken my will.
They have really given me a much bigger and stronger mission.
They've only hardened my resolve to use my time on Earth to make America great again, for all Americans to put America first.
Brand new video from a source called Mega, M-E-G-A, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
This is the area where that gunman hung out and hid out for 12 hours.
That is the new mugshot of Ryan Wesley Ruth.
He's 58 years old, from North Carolina, the attempted Trump assassin who brought a backpack and an AK-47 outside the perimeter of the Trump International Golf Club on Sunday.
We understand there's been quite an influx across the borders, and that has actually been one of the things that's allowed the unemployment rate to rise.
And the other thing is just the slower hiring rate, which is something we also watch carefully.
So it does depend on what's happening on the supply side.
I'm supposed to be at that stage, but that doesn't matter.
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Okay?
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Thank you.
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Look at that.
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Is he going to come out and watch me?
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Kamala, you've been a terrible vice president.
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Welcome, everybody, to Human Events Daily.
I'm John Solomon, the Editor-in-Chief of Just the News, and I'm filling in, along with my amazing co-host, Amanda Head, for the great Jack Masobiak today, who's out on assignment.
Now, we have a packed show for you, don't worry, including an extended conversation with one of Washington's true accountability seekers, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
He knows how to fight.
We're also going to take a deep dive into the alleged second trap assassin, Ryan Ruth, whose background and how the government allowed him to allegedly get so close to former President Donald Trump with a gun.
That question has become all the more important after we confirmed earlier this week that Ruth was flagged by the government during his return from a trip to Ukraine a year ago.
Justin News reported yesterday that Customs and Border Protection agents in June 2023 became so concerned about some of the things that Ruth was telling them as he landed in Honolulu on his way home to Hawaii that they flagged him for additional investigation.
But if this sounds familiar, it will.
The Homeland Security Department's investigations arm known as HSI, they declined to follow up with him.
He walked away.
We've also got some breaking news on election integrity.
We want to share with you from justinews.com.
This morning, House Administration Committee Chairman Brian Stahl oversees election integrity in Congress, asked five states to investigate whether illegal straw donations are being routed through ActBlue.
One of the Democrats' most prolific fundraising platforms, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Democrats like Kamala Harris.
The referrals to five state attorneys general are the result of months of extensive investigation in a computer analysis by Congress that found thousands of donors who were donating money at levels far beyond their means, at least according to their net worth.
That has raised suspicions that maybe there's some election cheating going on.
I'm going to bring in my amazing co-host, Amanda Head, to talk a little bit about this.
Amanda, a lot of people are wondering, is this another Bill Clinton-Chinagate scandal from the 1990s?
Your thoughts?
Oh boy.
You know, we were just talking on Monday about how blaming President Trump's, I thought was disallowed, And I also remember that back in 2016, a high profile case, Dinesh D'Souza, that straw donations are not allowed.
In fact, they are illegal.
And John, I'm so glad that you are on top of this case.
It certainly seems like when it comes to Democrats with election integrity, whether it is the rules that the state legislature set up for their election procedures and methods, they will just always try to find a way around it.
And I'm not saying that they are culpable, that they are guilty, but I am so glad that you, along with Congressman Brian Style, and of course you're covering this out of his committee, are going to be on top of this and hopefully, hopefully figure out exactly what's happening.
We were talking a couple weeks ago, he hinted this big bombshell was about to come, and this morning it broke out there.
So, important stuff.
One other thing, Amanda, the former Border Patrol Chief, the top uniformed officer of the Border Patrol, said today that the Obama administration, excuse me, the Obama, listen to me, the Biden-Harris administration tried to keep him from revealing how many terrorists had crossed the border.
I think that's something we're going to ask Senator Ron Johnson about, right?
I think so too.
And John, this is something that we unfortunately have had to keep a tally on throughout the course of the Biden administration.
And the last count I heard, I think was somewhere around 375, something approaching 400.
But as we have said, along with the illegal immigrant encounters, I think it's much higher.
It's just crazy.
We're going to take a quick commercial break.
We've got a lot more discussion.
We're going to spend the next couple blocks with the one and only Senator Ron Johnson, right after these messages.
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These are influences.
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Jack Prasovic.
Where's Jack?
Jack.
He's done a great job.
Hi, everybody.
I'm Amanda Head alongside my co-host and Just the News Editor-in-Chief, John Solomon.
We are filling in for Jack Posobiec.
He will be back tomorrow.
And, you know, there are still so many questions surrounding what transpired on Sunday.
Any of the details around the second Trump assassination attempt.
We've been hearing reports about stonewalling coming out of DHS and it's sad that even some Democrats are getting upset about that.
if you remember this quote from Senator Richard Blumenthal. - Oh. - I think the American people are gonna be shocked, astonished, and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt, the
But I think they also ought to be appalled and astonished by the failure of the Department of Homeland Security to be more forthcoming, to be as candid and frank as it should be to them in terms of providing information.
And we are going to absolutely insist on the truth and the whole truth.
John, you know, Senator Richard Blumenthal is certainly not a supporter of President Trump, but I think that he is seeing very clearly that when it comes to protectees of the Secret Service, that there is much to be desired.
Yeah, that's one of those issues that I think rises above the chronic partisanship in Washington And I'm going to put a couple things on the map that other people aren't talking about.
We know in April from our reporting that the Homeland Security Department's Inspector General unveiled to the Secret Service and to the Homeland Department's top leadership all the failures that the Secret Service engaged in on January 6th.
That's the day they brought Kamala Harris within 10 yards of a bomb.
That's the day that their driver for Mike Pence drove off from the Capitol during the violence, leaving the vice president without an escape car for a period of time.
So those things are already on the radar.
And then two days before the July 13th assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Secret Service was alerted that the FBI was rounding up a man, a Pakistani man, Who had been in Iran and was believed to be working with Iran to assassinate President Donald Trump.
And their security posture certainly doesn't look on July 13th like an agency that knows that there's about to be a foreign plot, an assassination plot.
And by the way, they just rolled up the guy.
Those two events, I think, are driving some of the concerns.
When I talk to senators and lawmakers, they can't believe that the Secret Service was so laissez-faire after an April warning.
John, what do you make of, because Kamala Harris speaking to in one of the rare instances where she was taking questions and she was asked about the security matters specifically pertaining to her with that bomb threat in Washington in January of 2021.
And they asked her, you know, do you feel comfortable?
Do you think that Secret Service is doing a good job?
And she basically, and I'm paraphrasing here, but she basically said, yeah, I think they're doing a fine job.
Yeah, well, Democrats say you fail up, so doing a fine job could mean you're doing a bad job, but you're still going to get promoted, or you're still going to get more money.
Listen, here's what's going on now, right?
It's a squeeze.
Give us billions more and we'll do a better job.
Now, this is an agency that really gets three or four billion dollars a year, and its primary goal is to protect those VIP protectees.
They clearly have not been doing that.
And one of the things I heard yesterday someone say is that lawmakers have been briefed that The way that Donald Trump was protected in the second assassination attempt, the one in Florida on Sunday, is the same security posture that they would have had for Joe Biden.
If that's the security posture for Joe Biden or any sitting president, I'd be pretty worried if I was Joe Biden.
The spin, the bureaucracy, the insanity that people have been giving to try to excuse what is obviously an unacceptable security posture around our VIPs, just remarkable.
Just remarkable.
That's right.
Yeah.
Unacceptable to the tune of 300 yards, which is how close this guy was allowed to get to President Trump.
I want to bring in Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to discuss more about this.
Senator, thank you so much for being here.
Sir, with respect to Secret Service, I think that there are folks on both sides of the aisle who are questioning their competency.
The messaging that we seem to be getting from them is that it's a resource issue.
I think that it's probably an issue of prioritization, but I'm interested in your thoughts, Senator.
Oh, standpoint of resources, fact, last 10 years, their budget has increased by 2 billion.
Their headcount has gone up 30%.
From 6,300 people to 8,300.
They protect 36 people right now, according to a former director.
They are housed within a department, Homeland Security, whose budget is $190 billion, and they have 240,000 employees.
A lot of these people are security individuals who are detailed to the Secret Service in cases of surging protection.
So they have plenty of resources, plenty of personnel.
What they have is bad management.
And unfortunately, we can't get to the bottom of who is responsible for making the decisions that were such spectacular failures in terms of protecting President Trump.
It's like everybody is responsible.
So nobody's responsible.
So nobody can be held accountable.
I mean, it's, it's maddening.
Yeah, it is.
Sir, I want to ask, is there anything that the Senate's been told that would explain Senator Blumenthal's very downtrodden assessment of what the American public is about to learn?
It seemed like he seemed to understand that there's going to be some bombshells.
Have you or anyone else on the Homeland Security Committee or the PSI been given any briefings?
Do you have any sense of what the final findings are going to be?
Well, we're going to be issuing a preliminary finding report hopefully next week.
Really, it's just going to confirm what most people You know, there's all kinds of failures across the board.
You know, duh.
I think what's shocking or astonishing or appalling is what happened on July 13th.
I'm not sure the preliminary report is going to show anything more shocking than what people are already assuming.
I think it's notable that the Democrat chairman are losing patience, that Blumenthal is talking about subpoenas.
Well, start issuing them.
But then in addition to that, be prepared to defend them.
Again, these agencies have just gotten used to the fact that Congress does not impose its congressional authority over these agencies.
is just like they're thumbing their nose at congressional oversight in general.
Again, these agencies have just gotten used to the fact that Congress does not impose its congressional authority over these agencies.
We don't enforce it.
We have Sergeant-at-Arms.
We can go arrest people, but we don't.
We rely on the Department of Justice of the current administration, and when you're investigating the current administration, the Department of Justice of that administration has no interest in really enforcing this penis.
Senator, to, to find out, and I don't know if we will ever fully find out how this was allowed to happen and how July 13th was allowed to happen, but it obviously requires a coordination of multiple different agencies.
And it sounds like there has been a little bit of stonewalling by the Department of Homeland Security.
Have, have y'all experienced that?
Have you witnessed it?
And do you think that that, that there's some amount of pressure that can cause that to just go away?
That's what I'm talking about.
I mean, this isn't my first rodeo, as you guys are well aware.
So I know exactly how these agencies slow walk, try and run out the clock.
They give you documents.
They're heavily redacted, but they do the word count on it, or the page count.
2,800 pages of documents that tell us nothing.
They come up to the Hill to brief us.
They tell us nothing.
They say, we just briefed Congress.
So again, that's how they run out the clock.
So no, I've seen this play before.
And I know their techniques.
A new twist is now the redacted documents don't have the normal black redaction so you can at least know they're covering something up.
Now they're basically using white redaction.
So we get a page that's fully redacted.
It's just a blank piece of paper.
We don't know they're redacting five words or five paragraphs.
So that's a new twist in terms of their slow walking.
So no, I'm highly frustrated.
And for example, the FBI, I asked Deputy Director Abate, you know, what about the transcripts of the interviews you're doing?
They've done over a thousand interviews.
I did ask that two weeks after the assassination.
Now we are two months later when he said, well, we'll check into it, get them to you right away, or, you know, as soon as possible.
I haven't got one 302, which would come in really handy when we interview the people we're interviewing, but we've only had access to 12 individuals from Secret Service to interview.
FBI's done over 1,000.
We've done 12.
Six months later, I mean, that's not how you get to the bottom of things.
Witnesses' memories fade.
They can be influenced by events, by news.
They can get their story straight.
This is not how you conduct an investigation.
Yeah, that's a great point.
And it's probably by design that Congress can't do its job.
Senator, I want to ask real quickly, is there any doubt that the Secret Service would have known about the Iranian plot about that man that was rolled up prior to July 13th?
And did that make their security posture even all the more alarming when they knew that there was a foreign power perhaps behind an assassination plot on Donald Trump?
Again, I have to be careful of committee confidential information, but I'm quite sure there's public reporting that they knew.
Yeah.
That there were people inside the Secret Service that knew, whether it got filtered down to people actually making decisions.
Part of our problem, John, is we don't know who actually makes these decisions.
We don't know who's ultimately in charge.
Again, it's almost by design.
You'll make everybody responsible so that nobody's responsible.
Nobody can be held accountable.
It's crazy.
Senator, before we hit this hard break, I know that your colleague, Alabama coach, Senator Tommy Tuberville, had suggested some type of coordination with the military, possibly Navy SEALs, stepping in to fill some of those gaps of protection for President Trump.
Is there any world in which, governmentally, that's possible?
Well, personally, if I were Donald Trump, I would hire former Navy SEALs or former Special Forces people.
I'd get a real security expert to be in charge of even what the Secret Service is doing.
No, at this point, I wouldn't have confidence in him.
Again, and that's not to say that the men and women on the ground, I mean, I was extraordinarily alert that he saw the barrel of the gun, but unfortunately, it was luck that the assassin made his barrel protrude from the fence.
So they lucked out.
Again, it was a spectacular failure.
Amazing.
Absolutely.
Well, the Senator has graciously agreed to stay with us for another block, so we're going to take a very quick commercial break and we'll be back on the other side again.
I'm Amanda Head, along with my co-host John Solomon, filling in for Jack with Senator Ron Johnson.
We'll be right back.
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Welcome back, everybody, to Human Events Daily.
I'm John Solomon, here with my co-host Amanda Head.
We're filling in for the amazing Jack Posobiec, who's been gracious enough to let us sit in here today.
He's out on assignment.
He'll be back tomorrow, though.
Don't worry.
We're also lucky enough because Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has agreed to stick around for another broadcast.
We have so many more questions we want to ask him.
Senator, good to have you on the show again.
I want to start with, or stay with the topic we were on before we went to break, and that is the Secret Service.
Yesterday we had a story that the second alleged assassin, Ryan Ruth, that he was stopped at the border coming back from Ukraine last year.
He made comments about being in contact with our enemies and talking to Afghans.
First, it was great investigatory reporting on your part.
Thank you.
Yeah, it's important.
protection agents that they referred him for follow-up investigation, but the Homeland Security Department, the same one that supervises the Secret Service, they decided, "We're not going to follow up on that," and they just let it go.
Was that a very important missed opportunity?
First, it was great investigatory reporting on your part.
Thank you.
Yeah, it's important.
And obviously, I believe the FBI has a file on this guy.
The CIA certainly does.
I'm I mean, he wasn't exactly moving through Ukraine with stealth.
So the first thing we ought to get in terms of congressional oversight is get the files on this guy from the CIA, FBI, CBP, DHS.
What are the chances are we're going to get those full files?
Yeah, that's important.
There have obviously been failures and missed opportunities every step of the way.
I think that there's also a bit of culpability at the source of all of this, because there has been a great deal of incendiary rhetoric coming from the left, referring to President Trump and his supporters as threats to democracy.
Even just a few days ago, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, from the podium, again referring to President Trump as a threat.
There's responsibility on the shoulders of Democrats too, isn't there?
What is so galling is, you know, being a conservative is the Democrats, the left, Falsely accuse us of doing exactly what they do.
To say that Donald Trump's a danger to democracy, they're the ones that are using and weaponizing the federal government against one individual and others as well.
They are the ones that are purposely dividing us.
That's what critical race theory is all about.
That's what identity politics is all about.
That's what an awful lot of this pushing on transgenderism is all about.
So again, the left is purposely dividing us for political gain, and then they call us The divisive force?
No.
We're the people that revere our Constitution, that revere our freedoms, that understand that we want a united and healed nation.
They're the ones that are doing everything they can to divide us.
Yeah, and that rhetoric has become, sadly, potentially lethal.
That's the scary part that's going on here.
Senator, I want to talk about something that just happened on Capitol Hill a couple hours ago.
The just-retired Border Patrol chief testified to a committee that the Biden-Harris administration instructed him to hide the number of special-interest aliens that were coming across the border.
For those who don't know what an S.I.E.
is, that's someone who has terrorism ties that were alleged or suspected terrorists.
The Biden-Harris administration told them, don't let the public know how bad the situation is.
What's the penalty for that?
Should there be a consequence to the Biden administration for that?
They should be voted out of office.
Kamala Harris should be under retirement.
Listen, this is a clear and present danger to our nation, and it's been covered up by not only the Biden administration, but also the mainstream media.
The numbers we get from Border Patrol, I think it just barely scratches the surface.
All these encounters, all the people that have been released without any vetting whatsoever.
We're also issuing visas.
I saw 7 million visas to people, by and large, that we don't interview at our embassies, which is highly unusual.
One of the ways you prevent bad people from coming in is before you issue them a visa, you have them come into your embassy and you interview them.
Call through people pretty effectively just being able to talk to them.
So we gave that up.
We've created other semi-legal pathways here.
Just fly them in, you know, the app one application, you know, all these ways they've legalized, uh, basically allowing people that have no valid asylum claims into this country.
They let them lose their, their populating small communities, you know, just guaranteeing culture clashes.
So no, this is a disaster for our country.
We are going to be, uh, The subject of the negative consequences of this open border policy for years, if not decades to come.
And quite honestly, we're just scratching the surface in terms of the migrant crime, in terms of the gang activity, the cartel setting up shop, threatening populations, threatening law enforcement.
They're very difficult to displace once they've taken root.
And I'm afraid they're probably taking root all over this country under the radar.
And this is going to be an awful, awful mess.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Senator, it was interesting to see last week.
I think that President Trump was not as polished or elegant as Kamala Harris during that debate, but something that seemed to ring true with viewers afterwards, which was a surprise to all of us in the media.
Is that President Trump, especially speaking on immigration and the economy, regardless of the lack of polish for him, that message was what rang true with the American people in Wisconsin.
I know the polling goes back and forth between the two, but what's the issue that separates President Trump from Vice President Kamala Harris for the election?
Well, immigration and the economy.
I mean, the fact that, uh, you know, an average Wisconsinite pays just under a thousand dollars more per month just to maintain the standard of living they had At the start of the Biden administration, their dollar they held at the start of the Biden administration was worth 83 cents.
And of course, immigration, we don't have the huge flows of illegal immigrant population, but we have the increased drug flow.
We used to have meth labs in Wisconsin.
Not anymore because it's easier and cheaper and pure methamphetamine coming through our border, through our open border.
So no, I mean, you know, we are feeling the pain of the Biden administration, but you know, one of the reasons Kamala Harris get away with preparing to smoothly spew lie after lie after lie is she knows that she will not be called on them.
She won't be held accountable.
It makes it very easy.
You know, here are the topics.
And that's what she did.
And so it comes off sounding pretty good, unless you're actually informed and you realize she's telling lies and President Trump's telling the truth.
Sir, I want to talk to you about an issue that I think has a lot of people increasingly concerned.
There's a new form of cheating going on.
It's actually an old form, if you remember the 1990s Chinagate scandal with Bill Clinton.
But one of your colleagues from Wisconsin, House Administration Committee Chairman Brian How big a deal is this?
five state attorneys generals today asking them to probe possible illegal straw donations that were being routed to Democrats via ActBlue.
ActBlue, one of the largest fundraising platforms for liberals and progressives in the country.
Hundreds of millions of dollars moved through it.
How big a deal is this?
What should Congress do next to make sure that the spotlight doesn't come off this until it's resolved?
I think it's a huge deal.
This was raised by James O'Keefe in March of 2023.
As soon as I saw it, I sent letters to the FEC.
My staff has been bugging the FEC.
They won't even tell us whether they are investigating this.
These are individuals.
Some of them have literally given tens of thousands of donations or hundreds of thousands.
In one case, I saw over a million Donations, all small dollar, all being funneled through ActBlue.
This is obviously a fraud.
You go talk to these people.
That's what James O'Keefe did.
They have no idea they've given thousands and thousands of donations worth tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So obviously a problem.
But here we are in September of 2024, a year and a half after first revelation.
And again, the FEC will not even admit to doing an investigation.
So I'm glad Brian Stiles is doing this.
Had I been a chairman, I'd have had some penis flying well over a year ago.
Yeah, a lot of lost time, no doubt.
Beyond subpoenas, the stuff that would typically happen beyond subpoenas.
I mean, at the very beginning of this conversation, when we were talking about the Secret Service, you said something to the effect of everybody's responsible, so nobody's responsible.
It is this theme of dilution of power in Washington.
Whoever is responsible at ActBlue or within the Democrat Party for these straw donations, straw donations are punishable.
Should something be done?
Should someone go to jail?
Probably.
We've got to find out who they are.
So we're going to have to trace the money through the banking system.
I think that's the good news.
I mean, this should be traceable money, but you have to have people willing to investigate that have the power to investigate.
Right now, I'm sitting here in the minority in the Senate.
I just have no way to compel testimony.
Other than raise issues, write letters, try and get the issue publicized.
That's about all I can do.
It's highly frustrating.
Trust me.
Sir, I want to talk to you about something that just broke on Just the News a little bit ago.
The State Department Inspector General has confirmed that the State Department did not properly stop its Special Ambassador for Iran, Robert O'Malley, from accessing classified information after concerns were raised about some of his contacts, some of his behavior.
We've known about the issue around O'Malley.
We didn't know that they weren't able to effectively cut him off from classified information in meetings and discussions for a period of time.
This is the same State Department where Hillary Clinton was able to move classified emails over to her private email servers.
How big a deal is this?
And has there been anything the State Department seems to have learned about security over the last decade?
Well, first of all, you have to understand, I mean, O'Malley was the chief coddler of Iran.
Yeah.
And that is the Biden administration policy.
Coddle Iran.
They'll lift the sanctions, funnel billions and billions of dollars into the economy, the military.
of the largest state sponsor of terror.
So that's why Hezbollah, that's why Hamas, that's why the Houthis have all these resources.
That's why they're able to engage their acts of terrorism and shower thousands of rockets into Israel.
And again, it's all because of the calling.
Trump pretty well cut off the flow.
He was trying to starve the Iranian economy to make them behave better.
Both the Obama administration and the Biden administration have coddled, sent billions of dollars, probably changed Iran's behavior for the worse.
So it's an effectless foreign policy.
It's a dangerous foreign policy.
That's why it's so important that they get turned out of office, that we don't continue this disaster of Democrat governance.
Yeah, so important.
Senator, as you look at the polling coming up for the election in November, things look, I dare say, pretty good for Republicans on the Senate side.
If Republicans retake the majority in the Senate, what are going to, what's going to be some of the top priorities?
Well, if that's the case, then I'm chairman of the subcommittee investigation.
We'll have actually have stronger subpoena power than I had as chairman of the full committee.
I will use that subpoena.
I've got well over 60, Uh, oversight letters on some, you know, some aspect of over the vaccines to, you know, all these federal health agencies, department of defense, you know, I will use that as a foundation for, uh, for the subpoenas, well, for subpoenas and for, you know, oversight hearings and exposure of the truth.
Uh, that would be one of my, my primary, uh, uh, areas, but again, we'll, we'll have to probably wrap up to find out what happened in the Secret Service here.
Uh, there, there are a lot of loose ends, uh, that we need to follow up on.
Yeah, one thing I'm certain of.
If you're in charge, bureaucrats are going to be nervous because you're going to get the truth.
You've done that so effectively throughout your career.
Senator, great to have you on the show today.
Thanks for a great long discussion.
We learned a lot from it.
Always a pleasure to have you on.
Okay, stay well.
All right, folks.
We're going to take a quick commercial break after it.
Congressman Matt Gaetz, he had a big moment on the Hill yesterday.
You're going to see that next.
Where's Jack?
Where's Jack?
Where is he?
Jack, I want to see you.
Great job, Jack.
Thank you.
What a job you do.
You know, we have an incredible thing.
We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting policies.
You might be asking the same question as former President Donald Trump.
Where's Jack?
He's out on assignment today, but we're lucky enough to be sitting in this chair.
I'm John Solomon, the editor of Just the News, and I'm joined by my amazing co-host, Amanda Head.
Jack will be back in tomorrow.
Don't worry.
We've been having a great conversation.
In a couple minutes, we're going to have Congressman Matt Gaetz.
But before we do that, Just the News, as I mentioned, was Senator Johnson yesterday.
Broke a story that Ryan Ruth, the alleged second Trump assassin, was flagged when he came back to the border.
He was stopped by Customs and Border Patrol when returning from Ukraine in June 2023, just a year ago.
And people are so concerned about what he was talking about, they flagged him for an additional investigation.
But the Homeland Security Investigations Unit didn't follow up.
Congressman Matt Gaetz confronted the Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations yesterday.
Take a look at this exchange.
Very important exchange.
Was Ryan Roth ever referred to HSI for further investigation of his activities?
Thank you for the question, sir.
I recently, just this morning, learned there was an article that he was, when he entered back into the country from overseas, CBP had contacted HSI.
I read all of the items, the things that he was stating.
Basically as a U.S.
citizen returning to our country from Ukraine as a freedom fighter.
Based on the information that I read, there would not have been any reason to immediately take him into custody.
But you can confirm just the news reporting that the suspected Trump attempted assassin was flagged by CBP and was referred to HSI.
Can you confirm that?
Yes.
Well, how about that?
Thank you, Congressman.
We got that confirmed.
Here's an interesting twist there, Amanda, because the question isn't should he have been arrested.
No one was suggesting he was about to be arrested.
He was supposed to be followed up with to have an investigation, to find out what this guy was talking about, make sure he didn't have a threat, make sure he didn't have some intervention with enemies that our country didn't know about.
She doesn't address that, right?
She pivots to something that was never on the table.
CPP was never suggesting that Ryan Rao should be arrested.
They suggest he should be followed up with because he was engaged in the sort of behavior that raises national security concerns.
An interesting pivot.
Bureaucrats are very good at trying to change the question around to something it isn't.
I think Matt Gaetz brought her back, though, to the real point that matters.
Yes, absolutely.
No one's asking you to jail this guy.
It sounds like she was very schooled in the Kansas City Shuffle, but I think that the congressman is probably going to have more to say about that anyway.
We're lucky enough right now to be joined by, from the great state of Florida, Congressman Matt Gaetz.
Congressman, great to have you on.
Oh, thanks for having me, John and Amanda.
And it's interesting that HSI killed the investigation that Customs and Border Patrol would have thought appropriate.
And we all know that Customs and Border Patrol, they interact with a lot of these people with strange stories.
And the fact that they flagged this one in particular seems reasonable given the bizarre fact pattern.
The attempted assassin was claiming that he was recruiting freedom fighters for Ukraine in Taiwan, Afghanistan, Moldova, other places.
And when asked how he resourced such an effort, he said, well, I get the money from my wife.
That may very well have been true, but it might not have been.
There might've been foreign contacts that were funding this effort on behalf of this American.
And if that's true, we would want to know the depth of those communications.
and of the resources that might have been provided to this person by any of these countries.
Yeah, and you did such a good job asking about that.
I want to ask for just a quick follow-up, if Amanda would allow me.
The FBI gets tipped off in 2019 to this guy that he might have weapons as a convicted felon.
They don't follow up with him.
A nurse twice reports this guy to federal authorities in 22 and 23.
They don't follow up with him.
And then CPB flags this guy, and he's still not followed up with whatever happened to say something, see something, say something, do something.
It doesn't look like the government follows that anymore.
Well, I'm certainly proud of the CBP officials who said, eh, there's something squirrely here.
There needs to be part of our investigative arm that's activated for the thorough review that would be called for.
But you're right, at the top levels, there seems to be a mismanagement of the information.
And when we had the person who directs Homeland Security investigations before our committee, she didn't have answers as to the basis for not following up with such strange facts encountered at the border.
I think there are people doing it right, but as you see, if you have one link in the chain that's not effectively conveying the information, demanding the follow-up, then you have a real negative outcome like we had where he was able to enter the country and do harm.
Yeah, great point.
So many missed opportunities.
I mean, all it requires is a little scratch and sniff.
It also requires coordination of a lot of these different agencies, Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, Secret Service, even Border Patrol in this case.
And we oftentimes find that it's the brass that is stonewalling or creating the clog in the machine, I suppose.
It's the rank and file.
How can these people be expected to coordinate, at least the rank and file, if the folks above them are not willing to do the work?
Yeah, that lack of coordination has been laid bare by these assassination attempts.
And I'll break a little news for you.
I had a senior official from the Department of Homeland Security in my office before The second assassination attempt, saying that what he has assessed is that there are five known assassination teams in the United States, three inspired by other governments, two that are known domestic assassination teams.
And with that, this individual was coming to me concerned that the force protection around President Trump, even prior to that second assassination attempt, was not sufficient for what it needed to be.
Coordination at that level, at the dignitary protection level, is like the bare minimum that we have to do to keep our presidents, our presidential candidates safe while they're on the trail.
So there are five, I just want to follow up, five assassination teams.
Are they all targeting Trump?
Is it other officials?
No, I should have been clear about that.
Five teams that we know are targeting Trump, and so that raises real questions about why certain teams were being pulled off of the Trump deal detail and put on, for example, the Jill Biden detail.
Now, we don't want anything bad to happen to Jill Biden, but at the same time, the threat envelope for her was substantially different than the threat envelope around President Trump, and it would not have necessitated pulling assets away from the Trump detail for the Jill Biden detail, or the John Bolton detail, Wow.
Holy mackerel.
Congressman, I know that you and a number of other problem solving type members of Congress have probably thought and had conversations about what could be done to at least supplement Secret Service to protect President Trump.
What would be your recommendation to the Trump campaign?
President Trump is the last person worried about this, to be honest.
I mean, he's worried about his message.
He's worried about the safety of the people there.
And I think he himself does not reflect on his personal security.
And that's why those around him need to.
I think that there are ways to augment some extended perimeters with some private security.
I've heard Eric Prince, a very smart guy, opine as to what it could take to ensure that Folks aren't able to just set up and get this close.
I mean, you think about what happened in the second assassination attempt.
Someone was able to park outside and plan and prepare and lie in wait for the former president.
That should never happen, and it might need some sort of private augmentation.
To ensure that we keep President Trump safe.
Yeah, good point.
Congressman, we've got about a minute and a half left.
Five assassination teams.
Was this Homeland Security official coming to you as a whistleblower?
Was he coming to you in official capacity?
And was the Secret Service aware of these assassin teams before July 12th or before this past Sunday?
Yes.
They were?
Yes.
So, the person was informing me of this information because the Secret Service was aware.
Of the threat profile around President Trump.
And again, this was before the second assassination attempt.
And the person was coming to me in part to ensure that if they revealed this information, if investigations and reviews brought this to light, that it would be able to be scrutinized and assessed without this person being fired or rat holed or sent into the closet somewhere.
As you and I know, some folks who are the truth tellers tend to find themselves.
Our office likes to be a place of respite for those who can come and say, look, here's what's actually happening.
And then we try to get that information before the public in the most responsible way possible.
And I think the public should know that the Secret Service was aware of five assassination teams at the time they were taking protective assets away from President Trump and redeploying them to other people with less of a risk profile around them.
That is just unbelievable.
Congressman, you do such great oversight work.
I remember all the great work you did during Russia collusion to unravel that fake scandal.
This is a bombshell.
We can't thank you enough for bringing this to light.
This is very important information.
Great to have you on the show.
Thanks.
Good to see you, John.
Good to see you, Amanda.
You as well.
Boy, Congressman Gates does Jack Posobiec proud with that big interview.
Look at that.
Such important information.
That's why we do these shows here at Real America's Voice.
All right.
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All right, I want to bring in Kenny Cody.
Kenny, I loved one of your latest articles.
You have such great material that you're putting out there, and I loved the spirit of it, because for a lot of Republicans out there who are watching, Their nominee, the man who they are supporting, who is at the top of the Republican ticket, they are watching time after time.
We're now up to probably more than two, let's face it, we've heard about two in two months, going after President Trump with assassination attempts.
And maybe, according to you, it's time for Republicans to quit playing nice.
Yeah, I mean, I think the problem the Republicans have had for such a long time is this idea of bipartisanship and centrism which with legislation it's a lot different idea the two apply but when it comes to rhetoric when you've had two assassination attempts on our on our nominee and really the guy who's been the nominee for the last 10 years basically in politics and you know this rhetoric coming from the far left the progressive Marxist left we need to be strong we need to call these people what they are they're they're a violent political uh Opponents.
They're not just the regular old-school Dixie crap that our parents and grandparents were used to.
These are evil people.
These are people who want us dead.
These are people who want President Trump dead.
And we need to be willing to call these people out for what they are, and that is totalitarians.
They want to control every aspect of human life.
Not only civilly, not only politically, but they want to control it as an authoritarian.
They want to take the government and they want to not only silence our political opponents, but in this case, literally kill us.
They really want to silence us in the most violent way possible.
And you've seen that with rhetoric like from Joe Biden, from Nancy Pelosi, from Kamala Harris, from Jared Goldman, all these people saying that Trump is a threat to democracy, that he's a fascist, that he is a You know, wanting to implement a theocracy and calling him a Nazi, calling him an authoritarian.
I mean, this has been done for literally 10 years.
I don't know when Republicans are going to realize they have to shift the narrative and turn it back on the Democrats that, hey, you know, you can call us all you want to, but our candidate is the one who has been shot and attacked and literally potentially imprisoned, depending on sentencing, because of the things he says in public and the platforms that he runs on as a politician.
We're not the ones going after your politicians.
We're not the ones going after your nominee.
You are the ones that's going after theirs, and I've almost got him killed now twice.
So it's time for Republicans to finally step up, call out the Democrats for what they are, and that's violent extremists.
Kenny, I want to talk about something that just happened in the block before.
It's Congressman Matt Gaetz revealing that there were five known assassin teams pursuing Donald Trump before the July 13th assassination attempt.
And of course, again, with the August 13th or the, excuse me, the most recent one this past Sunday, the second assassination attempt.
And yet, the Secret Service had one guy looking out at the trees, hoping to find that gun muzzle.
They have drones.
They have heat-sensing cameras.
They have dogs.
They could have put temporary cameras up around.
Does the security posture on that Sunday afternoon look anything like what it should be when you hear there were five assassin teams and all these threats, plus all that boiled rhetoric you were just talking about?
No, not at all.
I mean, when you got Richard Blumenthal, the U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, who is a advert leftist that is saying that the American people are going to be shocked when they hear what is going to come out when these investigations happen.
I think it's pretty obvious that there are such gaps in the Secret Service and those surrounding President Trump that there needs to be more extreme measures done.
I mean, I think it also came out today that Rick Scott and some U.S.
Senators are wanting to strengthen the Secret Service and treat both nominees as if they were presidents getting the Secret Service detail that they deserve.
Because one of them will be the next president, and they need that Secret Service detail no matter what, up until the election, up until they are sworn in as president.
But this is pretty obvious that there's been some gapping failures.
And I know we start to sound like conspiracy theorists, but there comes a point where those conspiracy theorists are right, in that it seems intentional.
It seems that there are intentional gaps somewhere in between where these people are not being protected.
Protective of Donald Trump surrounding him.
I mean, how is that?
Were there five potential assassins before the attempt in July?
And then we have another attempt, post assassination attempt, not even two months later, happening to Donald Trump yet again.
It's literally what we predicted.
All those people who said for years, we're going to try to kill Trump, we're going to try to kill Trump.
They seemed crazy.
But now it's happened two times within three months because of the rhetoric.
And when you have an assassination attempt that happens in July, And you see no change.
And then you have politicians like Kamala Harris calling somebody an authoritarian, a fascist.
Why wouldn't they try to capitalize on the Secret Service not protecting this man and try to do it again?
As they did last week or on Sunday.
My apologies.
But this is opening up the potential to take out potentially the next president of the United States, taking out a current nominee of a major party in the United States, all because of the rhetoric that has surrounded this man for 10 years.
And now that these extremists see an opportunity because of the gaps in the Secret Service, something has to change.
Republicans have to change their tone and go on an aggressive tone towards Democrats.
And those who hold office need to make change, and not in a week, not in a month.
They need to make change now.
There has to be some policy changes at some level.
Even Joe Biden is calling on Secret Service to be more protective of Donald Trump.
If that's happening, Republicans need to have stronger rhetoric than the incoming Democratic president himself and Joe Biden.
Good point.
Yeah.
Well, Kenny, they haven't been able to prevent these security failures because Sunday was not a success.
The fact that this guy was able to get within 300 yards of President Trump, that is not a success.
But I think a lot of Americans are concerned that even on the investigative side after a failure has happened They don't have a lot of faith in that because when you consider the special agent in charge of the FBI field office Investigating this is a virulent anti-trumper.
I don't know how much effort he's gonna put into it to be frank And the problem is the investigations that even Republicans have ran the last 10 years have literally came to nothing you hear about all these Investigative committees that we're going to look to impeach President Biden and we're going to look into Benghazi and all this other, you know, Trey Gowdy and all that bunch.
And they've literally not done nothing in 10 years.
All these investigations, these committee hearings, calling people to be, you know, subject to questioning in front of a panel of Congress.
When has that ever come to fruition?
The only time that an impeachment inquiry ever came to fruition is when they impeached Trump twice.
It's pretty sad.
that we are at a point where Republicans can't be trusted to do the bare minimum, and them not doing the bare minimum may cost somebody his life if something isn't done.
But we need to be able to trust Republicans to conduct investigations, but they have no track record of being able to do so, unfortunately.
Yeah, Kenny, I think you're on a really important subject.
There's a report out right now that a Democratic donor has been arrested for making threats to kill six of the Supreme Court justices.
That story just breaking a little bit ago.
That rhetoric has gotten too hot.
People are starting to act on the rhetoric.
That's the scary part.
All right, Kenny, good to join you.
Thank you for being with us today, folks.
Thanks for letting us sit in the chair for the amazing Jack Vasilovic.
We're so grateful.
We hope you have a great day.
And he'll be back tomorrow, so don't worry.
We're going to have a great show for you tomorrow.
Until then, God bless.
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