Secrets of the Secret Service - September 16th, Hour 2
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If you want to be a part of the program, we're awaiting an update on the assassination attempt from law enforcement.
We'll see if that happens.
We'll probably dip into it some.
We'll also get to some of your phone calls.
We do have a new poll out.
We'll share it with you tonight.
Donald Trump up by two.
That's inside or advantage.
And Matt Towery in Pennsylvania will get to that.
National.
By the way, Atlas Intel was one of the top-rated polls in the last two elections.
They have Trump up by three.
ABC, one of the lowest rated, Harris Harris up by four.
So, you know, if you want to explain that to me, uh Robert Cahaley Trafalgar has Trump up by one in Arizona.
Uh we have a another poll out of Arizona.
Uh that no, not Arizona.
I stay I stand corrected.
Um North Carolina poll, Trump up by two.
We have Wisconsin Harris up by two insider advantage.
Uh let's see, what else do we have?
We have the tip poll.
It has in North Carolina Trump up by three.
Michigan dead even, uh local uh Michigan.
Um let's see, another North Carolina poll, tip poll 4845 Trump.
Uh, you have a man, I mean that just it's too close.
I mean, as we now begin early voting in Pennsylvania, it is just simply too close.
There's no other way to describe it.
And you know, I'm I'm looking at some of the the statements of the the corrupt media mob.
It is really disgusting.
And then Democratic politicians, Hakeem Jeffries warning that MAGA must be stopped in a social media message that was posted as word was spreading about the second Trump assassination attempt.
What does that mean?
Anyway, let's go to the press conference.
It's just beginning now.
An update on the assassination attempt of President Trump by law enforcement.
Meaning the gentlemen that are up here, which is the uh U.S. Attorney, FBI Secret Service.
We're going to give you everything that we have.
We're gonna give you the latest updates.
They're gonna tell you what's going on with the investigation, everything.
And we're then we're gonna do a limited amount of questions.
So make them good.
All right.
Don't get into what if and all this.
Get legitimate questions.
We got it?
Yes, sir.
Okay, everybody ready?
Yes, yes, sir.
Okay.
We're here today to give an update on the investigation uh in regards to the incident at uh Trump International.
With me is the U.S. attorney, the FBI, and the Secret Service.
Just to give you a little information, as you well know, the road down there on uh summit is still blocked off.
It will be blocked off, probably for the remainder of today, and probably a good portion of tomorrow until some of the investigative uh things need to be done and finished.
But we're accommodating people in and out, getting them to the library, getting them to the post office, so the public is not going to be that far inconvenienced.
The security level at Mar-a-Lago is the highest it can possibly be now.
Uh the uh road closures are back in place and will remain there.
The checkpoints are in place.
And uh my commitment to the Secret Service is to give them every possible resource from PBSO.
Once they determine the level of security that they need, they will get all the resources possible.
So having said that, I'll let you talk to the U.S. Attorney.
Thank you, sir.
Good afternoon.
Thank you for joining us today.
My name is Markenza LePoint.
I am the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
I want to start by expressing my deep gratitude to Sheriff Rick Bradshaw of Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office for hosting today's press conference and for his department's assistance with this matter.
I'm truly grateful for your leadership, sir.
I'm also pleased to be joined by our partners in federal law enforcement from the FBI and the United States Secret Service and also from ATF.
Joining us today for comments and announcements are special engine in charge, Jeffrey B. Veltree of the FBI, Miami Field Office, and Acting Director of the U.S. Secret Service, Ron Rowe.
I want to also thank the men and women in law enforcement who have been working around the clock in the initial phase of this ongoing investigation.
Our partners include federal and local authorities who effectuated the apprehension of the defendant and have aided in ensuring federal charges were filed against him this morning.
We're here to announce that Ryan Wesley Ralph, 58 years old of Hawaii, has been charged by a criminal complaint in the Southern District of Florida with firearms offenses related to an incident which occurred yesterday at Trump International Golf Course right here in West Palm Beach.
Roth was charged federally with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession and receipt of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
He had his initial appearance today before magistrate judge Ryan McCabe in the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach.
According to the allegations in the complaint, a U.S. Secret Service agent walking the golf course perimeter saw what appeared to be a rifle poking out of the tree line.
After the agent fired a service weapon in the direction of the rifle, a witness saw a man later identified as Ralph fleeing the area in the tree line.
Roth was later apprehended by officers from the Martin County Sheriff's Office in coordination with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
The complaint alleges that in the area of the tree line from which Ralph fled, agents found a digital camera, a backpack, a loaded SKS style rifle with a scope, and a black plastic bag containing food.
The serial number on the rifle was obliterated.
According to the complaint, Roth was convicted of felonies in North Carolina in December 2002 and March 2010, and therefore was prohibited from possessing a firearm.
The FBI is leading this investigation, this ongoing investigation.
As the Attorney General stated earlier today, the FBI is continuing its investigation of this incident as an assassination attempt upon the former president.
The investigation remains at its early stages.
The entire Justice Department, including the FBI, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, and the National Security Division, are coordinating closely with our law enforcement partners to fully investigate and prosecute this matter.
The charges we're announcing reflect the strong collaboration of the agencies represented here.
The U.S. Attorney's Office, the Department of Justice, would be unable to carry forth our mission without the invaluable assistance of our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners.
I would like to thank the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms, and Explosives, and we have Chris Robinson here, special agent in charge, and your circuit secret service for the invaluable assistance they are providing.
they have been providing.
I would also like to recognize the Palm Beach County and Martin County Sheriff's offices for operating the defendant against.
Without the local authorities to assist in those things, it would be literally impossible to accomplish the things we're able to accomplish on the federal side.
I want to personally thank I want to personally express my gratitude to the attorneys with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida and the counterterrorism section of the Justice Department's National Security Division for their non-stop work over the last 24 to 30 hours.
Together we will continue to work tirelessly to ensure encounter accountability and the pursuit of justice.
All right, for stations along the Sean Hannity Show Network, we're going to run this through the uh the first local break coming up uh at the 20 uh past the hour mark and to the bottom of the hour.
And uh just stay with us here on the Sean Hannity Show and our network.
We're glad you're with us.
On our end, given that this is a pending matter before the court, and the investigation is ongoing.
All comments will be limited.
thank you very much Good afternoon.
For a quick introduction, my name is Jeffrey Veltry, FBI's special agent in charge for the Miami Field Office.
The FBI immediately responded to the scene here in West Palm Beach, Florida, and we are investigating this matter as an apparent assassination attempt of former President Trump.
We view this as extremely serious and are determined to provide answers as to what led up to the events which took place.
I want to emphasize, we're just a little over 24 hours into this investigation.
So we're going to provide as much as we can publicly while our investigation is still ongoing.
We must also stress that the United States Attorney's Office is pursuing charges, and that limits some of the details that we can discuss publicly.
Yesterday afternoon, Martin County Sheriff's Office took custody of Ryan Routh, and he was transported back to Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
Our FBI agents then attempted to interview him, and he invoked his right to an attorney.
In the last 24 hours, the FBI and our partners have been dedicated to investigating the incident and utilizing all available resources.
These re efforts have included our investigative team and the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida in conjunction with DOJ's National Security Division are actively working hand in hand to pursue and subsequently execute search warrants.
Thus far, the warrants include a video recording device, subjects' cellular devices, a vehicle, and other electronic devices located at previous known addresses.
We are coordinating with the United States Secret Service to complete numerous interviews of agents on scene.
We have also interviewed seven civilian witnesses at the scene, and that is just the beginning.
Our FBI's Honolulu and Charlotte field offices have initiated interviews of several family members, friends, and former colleagues of the subject.
FBI has deployed several specialty teams to us and assets from FBI headquarters and our lab division in Quantico to include evidence and critical incident response personnel.
The evidence response team is collecting and processing multiple evidentiary items.
These range from the rifle, which is an SKS model with a scope and obliterated serial numbers, to two bags, the subject's electronics, and what appears to be ceramic tiles.
DNA has also been collected from those items which are being sent to Quantico for testing.
We will also process the subject's vehicle for evidence.
The Cellular Analysis Survey Team, what we refer to as CAST, Conducted thorough analysis of the subject's cellular device locations.
The CAST analysis aligns with witnesses' account of the subject's presence at the scene both before and around the time of the incident on September 15th.
More specifically, we're continuing to conduct analysis and will be compiling the subject's movements and the days and months leading up to September 15th.
Cellular data shows that the subject was in the vicinity of the golf course roughly 12 hours before the engagement with the United States Secret Service.
Our investigative teams conducted a neighborhood canvas in an effort to collect and obtain relevant video footage.
The subject had an active online presence, and we are going through what he posted and any searches he conducted online.
In addition, we're going through media reports and public statements he made that he wanted to recruit Afghan soldiers and others to fight for Ukraine.
The FBI has sent multiple requests to companies for returns on the subject's phone and social media accounts.
We received several returns and are waiting on additional responses from other companies as well.
Our investigative team is completing analysis of the returns and actioning weeds as needed, and we anticipate continuing until the FBI knows the full totality of the subject's social media presence.
By way of his background, in 2002, as the United States attorney uh mentioned, the subject was charged and convicted in North Carolina for possession of a weapon of mass destruction.
Law enforcement checks also revealed that from 1997 to 2010, the subject had numerous felony charges for stolen goods.
I can also share with you that he was the subject of a previously closed 2019 tip to the FBI, where it was alleged he was a felon in possession of a firearm.
And following up on the tip, the alleged complaint interviewed, was interviewed and did not verify, I repeat, did not verify providing the initial information.
The FBI passed that information to local law enforcement in Honolulu.
On behalf of the FBI, I would like to thank the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and Martin County Sheriff's Office for their incredible work and actioning the witnesses, information and rapidly apprehending the subject.
I would also like to thank the United States Secret Service, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, the Department of Justice's National Security Division, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and our FBI field offices in both Honolulu and Charlotte, who have been conducting additional law enforcement activity related to the subject.
Your continued partnerships have been invaluable.
Oftentimes in law enforcement, we tell citizens to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings.
Yesterday, a citizen provided remarkable assistance, which led to the arrest of this subject.
We appreciate the public's diligence in passing potential tips and information regarding the subject and this incident to the FBI.
If you have any information, please call 1-800-call FBI or go online to TIPS.
That's T I PS.gov.
With that, let me turn it over to the United States Secret Service Acting Director, Ron Rowe.
Good afternoon, everybody.
Yesterday afternoon, this country was reminded of the heightened and dynamic threat environment that the United States Secret Service and its protectees face on a daily basis.
Immediately following the assassination attempt of former President Donald J. Trump on July 13th, the Secret Service moved to increase assets to an already enhanced security posture for the former president.
In the days that followed, President Biden made it clear that he wanted the highest levels of protection for former President Trump and for Vice President Harris.
The Secret Service moved to sustain increases in assets and the level of protection sought.
And those things were in place yesterday.
At approximately 1 30 p.m., former President Trump was playing golf during an off the record movement to the Trump International Golf Course.
A Secret Service advance agent supporting the front edge of the agency's layered approach to protection encountered an individual attempting to secrete himself in the woodline.
This happened.
The alleged gunman was on the public side of the fence near the sixth screen.
A layered approach of security is integral to the Secret Service's protective methodologies.
And it's also the key to our success.
As former President Trump was moving through the fifth fairway across the course and out of sight of the sixth green, The agent who was visually sweeping the area of the sixth screen saw the subject armed with what he perceived to be a rifle and immediately discharged his firearm.
The subject, who did not have line of sight to the former president, fled the scene.
He did not fire or get off any shots at our agent.
With reports of gunfire, the former president's close protection detail immediately evacuated the president to a safe location.
The protective methodologies of the Secret Service were effective yesterday.
The former president's protective apparatus allowed for the early identification of the threat and led to a safe evacuation.
The increased assets directed by the president by President Biden were in place yesterday.
These included the counter-sniper team elements, counter-surveillance place, and uh uh counter surveillance agents on the exterior, counter assault teams partnered with local tactical assets from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, and counter unmanned aerial system elements.
All of these entities were present yesterday.
And while all of these assets were in place, as I've said publicly, we must satisfy the basic repo requirements of the Secret Service's protective methodologies.
In partnership with local law enforcement, we did just that.
And the agent's hypervigilance and the detailed swift action was textbook.
And I commend them and our partners for an exemplary response and keeping former President Trump safe.
And I will tell you, having served in local law enforcement in Palm Beach County, I can state that I am tremendously impressed and appreciative for all of the efforts of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Snyder with the Martin County Sheriff's Office.
But what was critical to this was the quick reaction, the response, the hypervigilance of the men and women of the United States Secret Service, who since July 13th have been rising to meet an unprecedented and hyper dynamic threat environment.
And they are rising to this moment, and I could not be more proud of them and the way they have executed, not only yesterday, but what they're doing today and what they are doing tomorrow and what they will always do because it is their duty.
Thank you.
Okay.
All right, that is Ronald Rowe Jr. as this presser continues.
Uh we did learn some new facts.
What he didn't answer is how is it possible that a would-be assassin got within 300 or so yards of the president, knowing that there were bushes and knowing that the guy was in the area for eleven hours, and uh he didn't answer that fundamental question.
Now we did learn some new facts.
Yes, they confirmed that he had been in the area for twelve hours.
Yes, we learned that he had been active, uh an active Democrat and tried to recruit Afghanist uh soldiers, uh, Americans have fought in Afghanistan to fight in the Ukraine war.
Um, we have other news to share with you.
The man suspected of trying to assassinate former President Trump was in court, his first court appearance this morning, and according to the Daily Wire, was laughing and smiling during this first court appearance.
Camera is not allowed inside.
Fox confirmed that he repeatedly smiled and laughed during a conversation with his court-appointed lawyer before the hearing started.
Not sure what's so funny with him.
Um we have the we just heard from the FBI official who's the head of the Miami field office.
Well, there's a Washington Times carry pickett story out that the top FBI officials ordered this particular agent to scrub his Facebook page, the lead anti-Trump vitriol, before they would promote him to head the Bureau's Miami Field Office, which covers uh Palm Beach and Mar Lago.
And the whistleblower called him adamantly vocally anti-Trump.
That being the case, he should not be on this case.
Period end of sentence.
It is uh pretty unbelievable the times that we're living in.
All right, we have the rest of the news we're gonna get to uh now that we've heard from local law enforcement and the FBI and the Secret Service.
Secret Service, they they all have an important question to ask.
How did a would-be assassin with an AK-47 and a scope get within 300 yards of the President?
That question's not answered.
Your call straight ahead.
800-941-SHAWN.
All right.
I know a lot of you.
We're going to talk to our friend Steve Witkoff.
He was playing golf with President Trump yesterday.
He watched everything unfold, and this will be his first interview, and uh he has a lot to say, and it is frightening to me that we now have had two incidents where somebody with high powered rifles got within a hundred and thirty yards in in this case three hundred or so yards from President Trump.
It can't happen.
You can't have an AK 47 with a scope on it and be in the bushes and not be noticed, and there was no secret service, even though this was the most vulnerable part of the golf course, which was outside of the golf course, but you know, it's lined with trees so that somebody could hide,
which is what happened, an offense, and but for the sharp eyes of of one secret service agent, it sounds like when when they say that that this particular agent, you know, saw the barrel of the gun and President Trump was on that green and only about three hundred yards away, it sounds like the guy was getting ready to pull the trigger.
That's what it sounds like.
This would be a very different show today.
And thank God, you know, President Trump is alive.
But you cannot have people get within that kind of range and and uh and not examine what is going wrong.
Interestingly, this new report just released today, the day after now the second assassination attempt, and it's a whistleblower report.
We went into more detail in the first hour about the failures of the U.S. Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security in connection with the attempted assassination of former President Trump.
This is a whistleblower report, and they had no problem hearing from whistleblowers that talked about all the failures of that day.
Well, you don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out that if this guy had an AK 47 with a scope and was around three hundred or so yards away from the president uh and the top and a top presidential candidate fifty days before an election that a massive security failure has occurred here.
And I say that as a fan of the Secret Service.
The the Secret Service, and Steve will describe this in detail later.
He said they could not have acted any more professionally.
They could not have gotten him out of there any quicker.
They he said if they practiced it it looked as if they had practiced it five hundred a thousand times.
That's what he said to me yesterday.
But I'm not worried about those agents.
I'm worried about the the perimeter not being secured now a second time.
That's where the security failures are happening here.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh let's say hi to Don in Iowa.
Don, Iowa, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm a truck driver, so I'm in Minnesota right now.
Uh land of Tampon Tim.
And uh I I appreciate your taking my call because uh uh as you by the way, we we love our truckers because otherwise every store we go to is gonna have empty shelves without you.
So thank you.
It's a tough job that you're involved in.
Number one.
Number two, uh, while you're passing through, if you see Tampon Tim, tell him we said hello.
That's for you.
Um I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Uh by the way, did the truckers still go break or break a one-nine, or is that like a myth now?
No, no, it's still break one nine.
It's very rare though.
Most people don't even touch their radios anymore.
Uh us old school drivers.
We we still use the radio.
It's it's rare to hear chatter anymore.
Well, as long as you're reminding people, you know, whatever whatever time zone you're in to listen to my show when it's starting, I really appreciate it.
You could be you could be a surrogate for the show, thank you.
Well, you don't have a bigger advocate out here than me, I promise.
So thank you for what you do.
What's on your mind?
Uh I go all the way back to Hannity and Combs with you, by the way.
Um, uh the the whole assassination attempt, this this is uh gotten so ridiculous, it's surreal to believe that this is the United States of America that we grew up in.
And to be as close to Sean Hannity as this whole thing has come as even a little bit more surreal.
Um just because I love the president.
I I love what he stands for.
Uh I cringe when he talks sometimes, and I love when he talks most of the time.
So, you know, you you take the good with the bad, or the bad with the good, excuse me, when when at least he talks, which is unlike uh, you know, Uh Tim and uh Kamala that never talked to anybody, he just read their teleprompter.
Oh, absolutely, and he tells us what he's gonna do, and then he goes out and does it.
And, you know, people oh, he didn't get to get ch uh Mexico to pay for the wall.
Well, indirectly by limiting the amount of Mexican citizens sending paychecks back to Mexico if they pay for the wall.
You know, the portion that he built and just but to see him out here fighting for us every single day and you fighting for us every single day.
Day and and uh Mark and and everybody else that uh it's just it it's so rewarding that uh you know we get to be a part of this and and I just uh I hope President Trump uh you know I uh I know he understands what people are trying to do.
Democrats, they always talk about gun safety and and you know rule of law and everything else, but it's getting ridiculous when people start taking the law, you know, the the election into their own hands.
You know, nothing could be more disgusting than what's been going on, and I just I I don't know you know where to go from there, Sean.
Uh thank you again for everything you do.
Well, it's gonna be all hands on deck.
It's not just me.
It's gonna be all of us together.
That's why we have the walls files, the Kamala files available on Hannity.com.
You can share it with your friends, your family, your co-workers, uh, you can put it on social media.
Everybody that learns how radical extreme she is not going to vote for her.
Anyway, Don, appreciate you.
Thank you so much.
Stay safe on the road, my friend.
800 941 Shauna's on number.
If you want to be a part of the program, John, Pennsylvania, early voting starting now in Pennsylvania, sir.
How are you?
How are you doing, sir?
Appreciate the show and uh love what you do for America.
Um point I I want to do a little bit of an homage to uh Rush.
Um I really miss him, you know, and I I miss we all miss him.
And I said at the time, I said nobody will ever be able to replace him, and I was not wrong.
Yes, sir, you're correct.
Um but I know that he would want us to be all hands on deck.
I can tell you I knew him well enough to know that.
Yes, and I know that you and Mark were very close with him.
And uh one of the things he always used to say on his radio show is you know, when it's time to panic.
And my my question to you is that if there's a Tamala Harris White House, is it time to panic?
Um yeah.
If there was, but why why are we gonna jump ahead?
And you know, one thing that Rush also had was uh hope, a belief, an optimism in America's greatness and goodness, and and fundamentally uh he believed in the American people.
I I think these institutional forces that we face today, things that he discussed over the course of his, you know, incredibly successful career, um, have gotten far worse uh since the time he's last been on the air.
I mean, you look at you look at the deep state, you look uh we've never had a media mob this corrupt.
Now you can add big tech to the equation and and everybody putting their cinder blocks on the scales of a presidential election, uh and a democratic party that just flat out lies.
I mean, we are we are up against very powerful institutional forces that want to stop Donald Trump from winning this election, and w we saw what they are willing to do in past elections.
I can only imagine, you know, what what plans they have this time.
You know, is big tech gonna put their cinder blocks on again?
Probably.
The media already is.
We have all these radical comments of Kamala that go she's never been asked about 'em, and there's no outrage by the media or any pressure to get her to answer those questions.
You know, then and we saw the disaster of the debate when it's three on one.
It's like it's it and they didn't get answers to fundamental questions.
He supports the Green New Deal, you support eliminating the filibuster, you support the elimination of private health insurance.
Do you still want to give sex change operations, free housing, health care and education to illegal immigrants and sex change operations to convicts?
You know, do you still support no fracking and no drilling?
Oh, no, I didn't mean that.
I'm not buying that that change of heart only since she became the presumptive nominee.
You know, we don't have a real answer on what she would do to the economy, except she's going to fix it on day one, which was January 20th, 2021.
So it's it's it's frustrating.
And I'm just hoping that the American people see through it.
But I can't guarantee it.
And my w do there's a difference between worry and panic and concern.
I have genuine concern over it, and I hope that the message gets through gets through.
I hope all of you will become deputies and and inform people.
That's why we put this information for free on Hannity.com.
And I I hope people that do vote are not low information voters, as long as we're talking about rush, but I hope that they're people that are fully informed in terms of her radicalism.
And if they are, I am convinced we'll win by a good margin.
You're a long islander.
Where in Long Island are you from?
Uh Pathog Hicksville.
That area.
I know the area well.
A lot of good people there.
All right, my friend, God bless you.
Uh let's say hi to Dan and another important state that's North Carolina.
We need North Carolina desperately.
These swing states that we talk about, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, W Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada.
We need you all desperately.
How are you?
Absolutely true, Sean.
Uh, thanks for having me.
Um, part of your uh army of uh deputies here in North Carolina.
I'm a uh Trump Force 47 captain, and I've been going door to door for Trump for many years, but uh recently, uh today, nobody I've talked to uh knows anything about the debate last week.
In fact, in the last week I hadn't met a single person that watched the debate.
And today a handful of people knew about the assassination attempt.
We're doing our best to get the word out and uh educate these voters.
We have a list of low propensity voters that they're either new voters or uh Democrats or Republicans that uh uh have a tendency to go Republican.
We gotta get them out and vote early.
Uh, you had mentioned the importance of voting early because we gotta get the numbers up to match the Democrats' numbers that they're getting up early.
But something more important than that, life happens on election day, they may forget about going to vote.
A perfect example last week a friend of mine had a traffic court date on September eleventh.
An infamous date you can't forget.
Well, she got busy and forgot.
Well, things happen.
You can forget.
Uh we may have a tornado or hurricane come on election day and the polls be closed, and you miss your opportunity to vote.
And heaven forbid you may be in an accident and can't go to vote.
So we got to educate the voters and uh get them out early.
I'm gonna vote early.
I've already asked for my absentee ballot, my mail in ballot, and I'm gonna show up on election day also to make sure it was counted.
Well, I hope you do, and I hope others do as well.
Uh thank you, Dad of North Carolina.
We love our friends all over North Carolina, Winston-Salem and Greensboro and Charlotte.
I mean, so many beautiful places there.
Um the mountains of North Carolina are stunning and amazing.
If you haven't been there, you can't believe I went there once and I was staying at at the home of a friend, and they actually lived in the mountains of North Carolina, and what was amazing is there was one day in particular where the clouds were below the mountains.
Linda, imagine that.
How beautiful is that.
It was it was stunningly beautiful.
And I mean, it's picturesque.
I mean, it was like a postcard.
Amazing.
God lives in those mountains, there's no doubt.
All right, quick break.
Right back.
We'll continue.
All right.
And now a word from the forty-sixth president of the United States.
We all be choose to be self-evident.
Oh man and we were created by the Go you know the you know the thing.