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Secrets of the Secret Service - July 15th, Hour 2
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Hour two, Sean Hannity show toll free on numbers 800-941-SEAN.
If you want to be a part of the program, we can confirm the first interview with Donald Trump's vice presidential selection.
We'll be with yours truly tonight on Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
By the way, Monday through Friday, 9 Eastern, so you never, ever, ever, ever miss an episode of Hannity.
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I mean, these are consequential times for sure.
It is an inflection point of all inflection points.
113 days until election day, 63 days until early voting begins.
And we just have a lot going on on top of the selection of JD Vance as President Trump's vice presidential selection.
I will tell you, and and I know it's going to be hard if you've just watched the state-run media mob, and all they're going to want to talk to JD Vance about is simple.
And that is they're going to only want to talk to him about abortion.
They're going to want to talk to him.
What about this controversial comment?
What about you hated Trump back in 2016?
You know, my my answer to all of this, and I had conversations with a lot of people because I have a lot of sources everywhere.
Part of my job as a talk show host and member of the press is to have contacts and uh and not have my private text messages made public as they so often are.
But uh, which by the way violates my my privacy, but not that anybody seems to ever care.
And but I look at this whole thing and I'm just telling you, it's not gonna matter.
Whatever you hear is not gonna matter.
If you look at this man and his background and his life to grow up in poverty, to have a mother addicted to drugs and alcohol, and a father in jail, and to have a grandmother who steps in that didn't particularly have a great life or education,
and to go into the Marine Corps and serve in Iraq at a time of war, and to come out and get a college degree at Ohio State to make it to Yale Law School to make it to the top of your class to fight and get into the U.S. Senate and still be as young as he is and have a political evolution.
Well, you you used to hate Trump.
And and I'll ask him all of this tonight.
There's nothing that's off the table.
And we'll go through all of it because that's just simply the right thing to do.
And it's what my job and might as well, you know, the media is that's all they're gonna focus on.
But um, it's a pretty amazing story, and it's an American story, and it's the American dream story.
You know, somebody, you know, recently took pictures of me, and I had a wad of cash in my hand.
Now, Linda, have you ever seen me?
I'm so old school.
Have you ever seen me?
And I've had this since I was 12, 13 years old in school, ask John Gomez.
He could never understand all the cash I would carry because I'd work, you know, washing dishes, you know, being a cook, bus boy, waiter, bartender, all this.
He never understood.
Where does all this money come from?
I it drives me crazy.
I see my kids all the time.
I'm like, do you have any cash on you?
No.
They never have cash on them.
And I'm it drives me up a wall.
Now, why do I Linda, why do I carry cash?
You've been around me a long time.
Why do I carry cash?
We believe in rewarding good behavior with money.
And what in the form of what?
It's called a tip.
Oh, and for those that work in an industry that involves tipping, Donald Trump doesn't want to tax your tips.
Unlike.
Unlike uh that cognitive mess of a president named Joe Biden, that guy.
So, you know, and I'm like, I'm sitting there and I'm looking at this, and I have what was I wearing?
A black, long-sleeve t-shirt.
I think you were wearing what you're wearing today, which I was gonna ask you about, which is a little weird.
Did you wash that?
I have 19 of these shirts.
I don't have that sounds like something somebody who didn't wash something would say, actually.
Yeah, I mean, when I'm on the road, I don't wash my clothes.
They don't have uh what do you want me to go down to a local wash and dry or you know, go call in a good thing this next guess is by a wash and fluff service.
I'm gonna get to the next one.
I didn't say you weren't getting to him, I was just saying you didn't have to smell you like the rest of us.
So it's gonna be uh for the and and for those of you that wanted other people, let me just say this.
And and this is why I decided early on I did weigh in, and I gave, you know, my gut instinct, people that I liked, and uh I was very specifically asked by people who do you want?
People that I think it would have mattered to, not saying who, and I said it's not my call.
I said that's President Trump's call.
That's President Trump's call because he's gonna have to work with that person.
Um I would argue that the team of of Trump Pence was a great combination for four years up until the end.
Uh prior to that point.
They worked well together.
They just did.
Linda's rolling her eyes, but they did.
I'm just gonna say for the record, I went on the record, then I go on the record now.
We had our choice.
No, forget about it.
I like I like Newt Gingrich.
Uh at the time, I my choice was more pretty outspoken newt.
It's a whole big story about that.
That was in the public.
I still we still love new.
It was on TV with me last night.
So anyway, but let me go to our other top story, and it was rough on a personal level.
I've known Donald Trump for 30 years.
Um I knew him long before he ever got into politics.
I wish the person that I knew, everybody knew.
He's he is by far one of the funniest people you will ever be around.
When you compare stories with them, I I mean the exchanges we have and the way that we have them, uh it would shock the world when but when I'm not in work mode with him, because when it's work time, I I've got to do an interview.
It's gonna be a real interview.
And I ask him real questions if that matter.
And he's generous to a fault, trusting to a fault, and he is you know, people wonder why he fights so much because he's been so unfairly targeted.
There's my answer.
And if he doesn't fight, you know, he wouldn't be standing today.
And I believe that's true.
And things got so out of hand, we saw the assassination attempt.
When I first saw it, my heart sunk.
I thought they killed him.
I thought they killed him.
It was a headshot.
This was this individual, and now there's a part of me that praises the Secret Service that were around him that will dove on him and tackled him.
I I'm sure he was probably bruised in that process.
And I did talk to him.
I did ask him about it, and I just I I think that was more of a private conversation than one that I want to bring public.
That's his story to tell.
And what so that part of the Secret Service I love.
I've gotten to know these guys over the years from the Bush administration and the Trump administration.
I've known them.
These are wonderful people.
They are, you know, they're people that are taking on a job that they know that they may have to die for somebody.
And it's an incredible you have to be an incredible person to want to do that.
And how it's possible.
They talk about, well, it was outside the perimeter.
Well, the perimeter would be any location where Anybody would ever have any ability to fire a weapon and hit a target.
That's the perimeter.
And how this roof was left unguarded where this lunatic gets on there, and why we don't know more at this point, I don't know, scares me.
And how did it happen?
Because this is a failure of monumental proportions.
I have been saying, and apparently it's just been announced that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now getting Secret Service protection.
A little late, Joe.
I had been calling for that for how long?
Because I don't agree with on issues with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
His father was s assassinated.
His uncle was assassinated.
His name makes him a target.
And so, and I, how many times when Obama was president, we must protect our president and our elected officials?
I've repeated that often.
Anyway, uh joining us now is Gary Byrne.
He wrote the book, Secrets of the Secret Service, the History and the Uncertain Future of the Secret Service, served in federal law enforcement for nearly 30 years from the U.S. uh Air Force Security Police Uniformed Division of the Secret Service, and as a federal air marshal, anyway, he wrote this best-selling book.
And in this book, he tells the story about the secrets of the Secret Service.
And he joins us now.
Gary, how is it possible from a hundred and thirty yards this shooter at access?
That is to me rudimentary security.
How did that happen?
Complete failure, Sean.
Um, you're right.
The Secret Service agents are parts of the Secret Service worked pretty well that day.
Where they failed is they failed years ago because they adopted this mentality.
Sean, if the head of that detail said he needed a hundred people, they'd send them it no more than fixty, and they work those people into the ground.
The reason that building was outside of the area is because they didn't have the manpower for it.
It it's ridiculous.
I've talked about this many a times.
I've talked about it with you and and other people.
And they clearly are being manipulated now by politics.
Um the the head of the Secret Service's detail requested more security, more counter-sniper.
I have never ever seen an event where they had one counter-sniper team for a former president, especially somebody as popular as uh of a leader as Donald Trump is.
It's a it's insane, and it they're begging somebody to kill this man, and it almost happened.
You had predicted in 2018, I believe we had this interview, and I asked you about it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, that something is likely to happen.
Yeah, I bet it's a prediction you you wish you were wrong about.
Absolutely.
Uh absolutely I wish I was wrong.
And I wish I wish more people in the Secret Service at the time.
Listen, I know they read this book.
I got phone calls, they're running around the hallways, the headquarters, screaming my name, cuffing at me, how dare I say this, or whatever, or or talk about what happened.
Because listen, they're good.
You said it yourself.
They're good, we're good people when we get there.
But the problem is we get there, and that agency has all the problems of the IRS and the Postal Service, and then some.
And the best thing that they do is hide behind the named Secret Service.
And there's no legal ramification for it.
Well, I mean, it's to me, this is so rudimentary and so basic and fundamental.
Um I'm just shocked that that any president or presidential candidate or former president could ever be that vulnerable.
You know, the only thing we have going for us is Donald Trump turned his head because it pierced his ear.
It came within a millimeter or two of assassinating him.
Yeah.
And I was saying this Saturday night, you know, you go, he doesn't turn his head.
This would have been very different coverage that I would be a part of Saturday night.
No, you're a hundred percent right.
And it's heartbreaking.
And and something else you pointed out, whether it's Donald Trump or or um uh the other candidate uh for the Democrats Kennedy, whoever it is, they need this protection.
And they need listen, they don't need the name Secret Service.
They need the the and not the reputation of the Secret Service.
They Need people, they need a director that that can that can give them the manpower that they need.
You can't send fifty people to do the job of a hundred.
You can't expect one counter sniper team to observe a one, you know, uh a 360-degree area by themselves.
It's not possible.
They had no countersneeper response.
Um but they had people in the in the audience pointing out this guy before they saw himself, apparently.
I know.
I saw the video.
And and and that's the point I'm getting to.
Part of the problem for this counter sniper uh officer technician who took the shot eventually, is that it is very common.
And and I knew many of these guys and and helped train with them uh years ago when I was in the Secret Service Uniform Division.
They there are times when you're doing these details and then looking through the binoculars and the rifle, and they see somebody on a secure building.
Now, when you see somebody, the first thing you think of, okay, it's local law enforcement.
And that's what I'm saying, I believe happened here.
This guy was not 100% sure that this person wasn't local law enforcement.
And you know, because the clothing he owned was similar to the clothing that the local uh either sheriff's department or police department was wearing, because you saw them in the background in different shots, and they weren't 100% sure.
And the problem is the building was never properly secured.
There should have been Secret Service personnel on that building.
Um that building and a couple others that were either the reason.
Any any building, I mean, these rifles have a range of, you know, never mind 130 yards, they have a six hundred, eight hundred yards, and and even further, that that's the perimeter, isn't it?
Am I wrong?
No, you're right.
Just to give you an idea, listen.
When I was in the Civil Service Information Division, these guys that I knew, they used to they used to play a game.
They'd go out to Fort Meade on the thousand yard range and they would shoot bowling pins at 800 yards.
One shot, blow a bowling pin up.
That's the accuracy of these guys.
Now you take the average hunter with any counterboard bolt action rifle, or even this guy supposedly had an AR-15.
An AR-15 with a 20-inch barrel is a 500-meter weapon.
Easily.
Easily.
Well, I would I uh if we don't learn these lessons, we're gonna end up with dead elected officials.
We better fix this.
And instead of spending all this money on Ukraine, maybe we ought to first protect our elected officials.
Anyway, Gary, appreciate you being with us, my friend Gary Byrne, the secrets of the Secret Service, the history and uncertain future of the U.S. Secret Service.
We better get to the bottom of this by the end of the week.
There's no I would not wait any longer.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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Driving the liberals nuts.
Sean Hannity is back on the radio right now.
I'm 25 to the top of the hour.
We are in beautiful Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Many, many thanks to everybody who has been giving food ideas.
I tell you, I can't get enough, man.
Clicking my fingers, it's getting into it.
Down with these cheese heads.
No, you're not.
Oh, yes, I am.
No, you're not, because you didn't even know what a day pack or you didn't know last week what a cheese head was.
Yeah, and here I am today.
Look how far we've come.
In a week.
Amazing.
Me and Milwaukee.
No, you say Milwaukee.
No, say the way you say it.
I say it the right way.
All right, what is it?
Milwaukee.
Milwaukee.
Singapore.
Homage.
When in Rome.
How do you say how do you say homage?
Homage.
Homage.
And that's how you really talk.
That's not how I really talk.
That's how the word is said.
It's not up to me.
You know, this wasn't such an insane news day.
I could spend the rest of the show.
It's actually good to have a little levity because everything is so awful.
If you're just joining us, J.D. Vance, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is now vice presidential candidate, JD Vance.
He's been selected by President Trump.
He'll be on Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel for what will be his first televised interview since the appointment.
We're looking forward to it.
His life story is amazing.
Of course, the left predictably will they're already attacking him.
I mean, it's just I yeah, I I I watched the media, and they're just so predictable.
The media, no problem.
Mar-a-Lago, 18 million dollars.
No rudimentary perusal of real estate in Palm Beach would show it's a billion dollar property or close to it.
Uh maybe more even.
Uh they didn't seem to have any problem with 51 former Intel agents.
Oh, lying about a laptop that they knew nothing about, that they never saw ever, not one time, as a means of of giving cover to Joe Biden at a talking point prior to a debate with Donald Trump in the lead up to the 2020 election.
They didn't care about Hillary Clinton's dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
They didn't care at all about that.
They didn't care that Hillary had top secret classified information, that Joe Biden had top secret classified information, and that the only place to get rated was Mor a Lago.
That case is now out.
Thank God.
They didn't care about any of these things.
You have a corrupt state-run media mob.
They got the Russia collusion wrong.
You know, we had not one, we had four Pfizer warrants based on that dirty disinformation dossier.
I mean, this is insanity on every on every level.
It really is.
And it's such a double standard.
Cheap fake videos, three weeks later.
Oh, Joe's gotta go.
He's cognitive mess.
Uh, we've been showing Joe as a cognitive mess for four straight years.
They are liars.
It's state-run media pravda.
We have an information crisis in this country.
It is repulsive.
They're corrupt to the core.
The idea that, you know.
Oh, I forgot to bring this up.
Did you see what they did over at MSDNC?
MSDNC today pulled Liberal Joe and Mika off the air.
Welcome to the Monty.
Now, they claim that they chose to um instead uh uh continue in breaking news coverage over the shooting in its aftermath.
The show's ex-account told followers Sunday that the show would return on Tuesday, inviting viewers to tune into NBC anyway for more coverage of the attempt on the former president's life.
The decision to bench the politics roundtable show days after the party's presumptive nominee, the Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump, had a brush with death.
And a source familiar with the decision said that they were acts from the show.
Air management didn't trust putting them on the air.
And that they're even saying that they did it to prevent a potential situation in which one of the program's guests, hosts maybe, guests, would in fact make inappropriate comments that could be used to criticize the show or the network.
And that the decision was reportedly made by NBC Universal News Group.
The chairperson, Cesar Conde, I don't know who this person is, in conjunction with the MSDNC president, Rashida Jones, as well as Morning Joe host, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski.
No host wants that decision.
That was their way of saving face.
I'm just speaking as an industry insider.
That is my humble opinion.
Now, given the gravity and complexity of this unfolding story, NBC News, NBC News Now and MSDNC have remained enrolling breaking news coverage since Saturday evening.
A spokesperson for MBC Universal Newsgroup told fake news CNN as we continue to cover the story into the week the networks will continue to cross simulcast alternating between MBC News, MBC News Now and MSDNC Reports.
So there is one news feed covering this developing situation.
So you basically is an admission here is this not a tacit admission that they don't think that Joe and Mika can control themselves.
Things have been getting very tense on that show.
Now I've never understood how anybody could ever watch that show and not a lot of people really do watch that show but the fact that anybody watches the show is pretty unbelievable it's it's three well I guess they extended it four hours of not just I hate Trump.
I hate Trump I hate Trump more than you I double hate Trump.
No I triple hate Trump.
I hate Trump I quadruple hate Trump.
I hate Trump more than and any of you all combined hate Trump.
I hate Trump so much so that you know I'm consumed in my whole life with hating Trump because that's all the show is and you have a bunch of intellectual lightweights that think that the intellectuals and they're not and they are talk show hosts.
The irony of all ironies they like fake Jake and it's okay he was pressured into doing a fair debate.
That's how I describe it in my view he's pressured into it based on all of his own comments about Donald Trump that make him a liberal talk show host that pretends to be a journalist and not journalists.
I don't claim to be a journalist I'm a talk show host I'm a member of the press I can produce thousands and thousands of hours including some this weekend of breaking news coverage straight news on radio on TV we do investigative reporting.
We got the Russia hoax, right?
We weren't running cheap fake videos.
We were running real videos.
We got the issue of Hunter's laptop correct.
We got all of these, the dirty disinformation Russian dossier, the FISA case.
We got it all right.
They get it all wrong, and there's never any consequences for any of them.
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Now, we've talked about uh JD Vance, he will join us on Hannity tonight.
We've talked about the assassination attempt against President Trump.
I will say this.
Um I had a couple of conversations with Donald Trump.
I considered those conversations off the record.
Um, but I feel comfortable enough to be able to say this much.
The guy that got up, the Secret Service wanted to carry him out.
Like, hell no.
That's not happening.
The guy that got up and he took his fist and he slammed it in the air, this fist pump in the air, and a fist pump in the air, and said, fight, fight.
That's the guy I have known for 30 years.
That is quintessentially him.
It is now iconic.
And when you compare and contrast that image in that moment where he he's at that store.
One millimeter, two millimeters, it's over.
Since I and I have been spending a lot of time talking about it, and then he starts getting on me about my personal safety and security.
You you want to talk about this at some point during the week?
Yeah.
Well, go ahead, get on the buttons.
You can get on the mic.
And he starts talking about me.
And he goes, What have I been telling you?
What have I been telling you?
You know, first thing he took first thing he argued, which he was wrong about, I think he'll admit it now, is that you know, he wasn't sure that I was making the right choice when I left New York for good uh permanently before the end of last year.
Yes.
Uh I I definitely uh question that you left.
I questioned that choice, and you're winning.
You're definitely winning.
I'm winning on that choice.
You're winning on that choice, no question.
Um, I I've I've been in New York fewer than 10 days this year, let's put it that way.
And only for like a family I had my my sister had a 70th birthday party this weekend, and my godson's wife who's expecting a child had a baby shower.
Um, but I brought my daughter to it, so I had to be up there, and it was horrible to be back.
It stinks the same way it did when I left.
But you you you you are uh we've been training what, 14 years now?
Fourteen years.
Yes.
And I think I'm your best student.
You tell me that every day.
I tell you that every day.
Yes.
Yeah, you are doing and we train now remotely, or you do have a place that you go down to in Florida.
Correct.
Sean is I'll tell everyone who was listening.
Sean is very dedicated.
Obviously, you can see it in his life from everything he does.
So when he chose to do this about 14 years ago, and he was moving.
And uh and you were wondering if I was gonna quit.
That's correct.
In the beginning, that's correct.
Actually, 14 years ago, the person introduced us.
Uh, we both had that conversation whether you're gonna quit.
And uh he stayed with it.
He's a dedicated guy.
And uh proof isn't appropriate.
And I suffered through he's strong and it can protect him.
Uh and we do a lot of this is uh, this is our art.
We do situational self-defense, we do also uh personal fitness, we do core, we do you know, hundreds of push-up sit-ups every day.
It's an annoying amount.
Uh, we do lift um we do sticks, blades, firearms, uh, an eclectic blend of arts, krav magogah, kembo, Japanese jujitsu, uh, and situational street fighting, and it's a level that nobody else really teaches.
And I kind of gave up, I gave up the belt system because people would built to you.
And what I've discovered is a lot of these these dojos or uh places, these belts are kind of meaningless because I can kick if I can kick your ass and you're telling me what a great black belt you are, you're not such a great black belt.
Yes.
You really don't anyone look, it it is a good accomplishment, it's a great accomplishment.
If that is the route you're you're choosing to do with your training.
Um, we changed that a couple of years ago, five years ago, because we're focusing on particularly your self-defense and your street awareness, situational awareness.
And um, obviously, you you dedicate yourself to get to a brown belt second degree.
You did.
But I kind of get I'm like uh well to get to the next level.
All right, just to get through the brown belt second degree test.
Let me tell you, you you're there for hours, and you have to remember and study, which I like really, I have no time for this.
True.
And the next part of it is then you have all these younger guys that are really, really dedicated martial artists, and I have to fight them.
And be and and I'm getting the hell beat out of me, and I have to remember how to do every single thing on command and a second's notice, or else I'll fail the test.
Hence the name test.
Yeah, it's a test.
And by the way, you're a tough grader.
I am.
You're a pain in the neck, to be honest, though.
It's all good.
I mean, now we kid around on air, but when we're in the do you're when we're in the dojo, it's you're the sensei.
We bow in, we bow out, we bow to any training partners we have.
Yes, and we treat it with great respect.
Yeah, and you do.
You're a great representative of training in the arts.
And uh obviously with our friendship for the last 14 years and continuing training.
Sometimes I I look and where am I going to take this guy?
But he he's so dedicated to it, and he's stuck with it, even with the move and training virtually.
He gets a two-hour session in every day um training virtually.
And I come down every seven, eight weeks, uh uh yeah, every six to seven weeks, and we train, and I'm with you now.
I am trainer at this age in my life than I have ever been in my life.
In the last four, I can safely say in the last 14 years, you're clearly the most fit, uh definitely the strongest you've been since I've met you.
And it you can tell you're dedicated.
But what what you really have taught me more than anything, we kid around a lot, but what you really have taught me is I don't want to ever use what you have taught me.
Yes.
And I I say that so sincerely.
I don't ever I have said to people, and I've told you about different confrontations, sadly that I've had.
One of the reasons I got out of New York is I felt unsafe.
I couldn't go to a restaurant with friends and feel like I didn't have the capacity of creating a flash mob in a short period of time.
Yes.
And I never want to have to use my hands or any of um I'm a second amendment guy, everybody knows that, or even my burner.
Uh by the way, I got you a burner.
Yes, you like it.
You like your I do.
It's it's an incredible.
Non-lethal.
It's an option.
It is an option.
And but I don't ever want to use it, and that's what you've taught me.
And you're like, okay, I want we're not gonna tell everybody my nickname in the dojo.
Psycho.
Oh, I didn't say that.
Yeah.
Because when I train, I train that hard.
I train real we we call keeping it real.
Yes.
I mean, just recently we almost thought you broke your ribs.
Yeah, because you would you you can't control yourself.
The first thing you said, I gotta go to work.
I gotta over I gotta go to work.
I'm like, because my back snapped.
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