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Well, if you were expecting a slow weekend over the Fourth of July celebration with very little news, you are very disappointed because there is so much going on.
We're going to cover it today.
I'm certainly not Sean.
I am Peter Schweitzer, four-time number one New York Times bestselling author, investigative journalist, and I'm covering today for Sean, along with my co-host and podcast partner, Eric Eggers.
Eric, how are you?
I'm excellent.
And it's an honor to be talking to Sean Handy's radio audience.
You know, he they played the best of Sean Handy show on Thursday and Friday for the holiday weekend.
And I like to imagine a world in which there are people in the audience who only get their news from Sean Handy's radio show.
So they have no idea what happened since Sean signed off on Wednesday afternoon.
And if you're one of those people, you've missed a lot, and we're here to help you understand just how much has changed in the six days since you've heard uh a live radio program.
Yeah, well, we've got tragedy in Texas.
This horrific story where uh a river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes, uh at least 100 people dead.
We are going to cover that and we're gonna look at the heroics that have taken place uh in Texas.
The big beautiful bill was signed.
This legislation, which passed the House by only two votes uh and passed the Senate with the help of J.D. Vance was signed by President Trump on July 4th, as he promised, as he said he would.
We have the Epstein Files bombshell released on Sunday night.
Talk about a slow news time.
The FBI DOJ concluding there was no suicide, there was no client list, and there was no extortion.
We're gonna cover those and lots of other stories that are taking place right now.
No, it's absolutely uh I mean the Epstein news is massive and a lot of people are reacting to it.
I it doesn't impact uh the audience's life, right?
Like the the whether or not um there will be additional charges brought in the case of Jeffrey Epstein won't fundamentally change your life.
It won't fundamentally change my life, but it does represent a major downbeat on what was, I think, a very positive um era for President Trump because a lot of people voted for Donald Trump because they were tired of being lied to by the previous administration, right?
And they were lied to left and right by Joe Biden and his media allies and you know, Jake Tapper's now lying to us about how much other people were lying to us uh in that book.
And so what we now know is that we were told, hey, we have somebody who they want to hold people accountable and they want to do the right thing.
And when the Department of Justice uh releases a a memo that says this systematic review we've conducted revealed no incriminating client list, no credible evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals, and also no evidence that predic could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
Uh it leads a lot of people to conclude that the opposite's happening, that there are in fact other things being covered up.
Uh yeah, that's exactly right.
Uh, we're gonna have a guest uh at the bottom of the hour to talk about the situation in Texas, uh, the chief spokesman for the Coast Guard.
Uh and we have Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer, uh, once he was incarcerated, uh, is gonna be joining us uh in the next hour to talk about the crisis there.
But here's the thing that I think is is sort of misleading or confusing about the Jeffrey Epstein claims by DOJ and FBI.
And what they're saying could very well and probably is technically true, that there is no client list, there's no file that they have that says client list.
But the problem is we know a couple of things.
Number one, we know that Jeffrey Epstein uh was involved in human trafficking.
Why do we know this?
Well, he killed himself in 2019, at least that's what is said.
Whether he was killed by somebody else is open for debate.
JP Morgan notified the Treasury Department that more than one billion with a B in transactions uh related to, quote, human trafficking by Epstein had gone through their accounts over the past sixteen years.
JP Morgan agreed in July of 2019 to pay 290 million dollars to victims of Epstein to settle that lawsuit.
So here's the question.
There's not a client list, according to DOJ and FBI, but there are clients.
There have to be clients.
I mean, there's no way that Jeffrey Epstein himself is responsible for, you know, the human trafficking, he is a singular person.
Jeffrey Epstein did fund a nonprofit, but the billion dollars for sex trafficking was Not it.
So there were other people involved in this enterprise.
And what you just said is really important.
I think we have to put that in in the larger context.
So by the way, today is July 7th.
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested six years ago yesterday on July the 6th and managed to survive for a little over a month until August 10th of 2019, in which case his life ended.
But I think the key thing there is so he gets arrested, and then after he is arrested, JP Morgan, with whom he did much business, like a billion dollars worth of business, they go to, and they're being sued by different people.
They go to the United States government and they have flagged these transactions.
And they said, hey, we believe these transactions may be uh connected to criminal activity, specifically related to sex trafficking, and they turn them over.
So when people say we have no evidence of a client list, we know that as six years ago, they were given financial transactions, presumably on behalf of clients.
Right.
And so I think that's one of the things that people find difficult uh to swallow with this story, not the least of which is, and we're gonna hear sound from uh Caroline Levitt, who was asked about this by uh Steve Ducey uh later on, but what we what we were told is you know, for years, we're told by Dan Bongino, Cash Patel, Pam Bondi.
We have seen the files.
They're sitting on our desk.
And so for now us to be told the opposite uh seems awry.
It does.
And and also there's a pattern here.
I mean, you did some very interesting research you were sharing with me earlier.
I mean, the thing that is so appalling about Epstein is not only the fact of no we know what he did and what he did to these young women and and and other people, uh we know that he has had kick gloves in in terms of the way that law enforcement has dealt with him going back more than 20 years.
It seems that this guy is untouchable.
We don't know why.
Uh it it it could just be he's a rich guy and he has friends in the right places, but this goes back 20 years in the state of Florida.
Yeah, I sort of hate this story because I tried to stay away from this story.
I tried to stay away from the P. Diddy trial because I want to think I have better things to do with my life.
And you do.
And no, I don't, apparently.
I don't because now on national radio we're discussing uh this and and unfortunately there's a P. Diddy connection to this, which is unbelievable involving James Comey's daughter.
Uh, but basically in 2005, the Palm Beach Police Department did a 13-month underinvestor undercover investigation in which that led to a 53-page indictment by the FBI in 2007.
So they had the goods, but those goods were not good enough to get him a real prison sentence.
Alexander Acosta, who was then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agrees to a plea deal which essentially grants immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein and also gets him only 18 months in jail, of which he only served 13 months, which six days a week was on work release for 16 hours a day.
So, like he's like a hotel.
The easiest gig you could get.
Yeah.
Okay.
And it was a 53-page indictment, multiple counts of of relationships with underage women, um, human traffic, all that kind of stuff, and they slap him on the wrist.
Slap him on the wrist.
So then he gets out, he goes to New York, and then in New York, because of his conviction or the plea deal, he does have to register as a sex offender.
But the Manhattan DA, despite what we now know is graphic and detailed evidence, argues for him to be registered as a low-risk sex offender in 2011.
So once again, he's getting the easiest possible treatment.
Yeah.
And so, you know, so I think that's the context.
So then he gets arrested, and then after he's arrested, Maureen Comey, who was the uh daughter of fire FBI director James Comey was one of the prosecutors, and then she was just involved in the the P. Diddy case, that's the connection there.
And so, and because of uh when he's arrested, everybody's like, oh man, this guy's really bad.
So the labor secretary who, Alex Acosta, who had given him the plea deal in Florida, is now a labor secretary under Donald Trump.
He has to resign in disgrace because oh man, you were one of the people who took it easy on him.
So fast forward to today, and we're now being told none of the third parties are going to see any additional action uh on behalf of you know justice or accountability, and it's impossible not to put it in this context, and it does seem like for whatever reason, um, when we're being told there's nothing to see here, we've been told that consistently, and uh it just seems wrong.
Yeah, it does.
I mean, we we we have a history here where where authorities seem to go soft on Epstein for for no particular reason.
Uh, and then you have this larger issue of what the information is, and what basically we're getting right now from from Pan Bondy and Cash Patel and Dan Bongino is just take our word for it.
Which is the problem.
That is what we were told by previous administrations.
There's no real clarity here in the statement that they released or in the memo where they said that that you know there is no cover-up, there is no problem.
They acknowledged that there were a thousand victims, one thousand victims by Jeffrey Epstein.
And what do we know at this point?
We know that the only person that's actually been prosecuted and gone to jail is Giselle Maxwell.
She's the only one that was prosecuted and went to jail.
And all the other questions that swirl around.
What was his relationship with all these other powerful people?
We know that you know Bill Gates and and his ex-wife.
She cited his relationship with Epstein as one of the reasons she wanted to separate and ultimately divorce from Bill Gates, but there's no clarity there.
And based on the history, it's fair to ask the question why is there not greater transparency here?
And just telling us, take our word for it.
We've looked at it, you can trust us.
People are so suspicious, they're not prepared to do that anymore.
Does I mean you mentioned a powerful name, Bill Gates?
Yeah.
You know, he's very influential in many different aspects of society.
Do you feel like that there's a relationship between, I mean, do you feel like he's breathing a sigh of relief today?
People like him who have been, let's call it Epstein adjacent.
Right.
And that we are now told no one that is Epstein adjacent is going to face additional charges because we don't have evidence of that.
Yeah, we we obviously do not know what Bill Gates' relationship was with Epstein, anything related to the island.
What we do know is that his wife, now ex-wife, was extremely bothered by it.
Uh, you know, and and this is the same question you have with Mr. Wexler, you know, the the the fashion uh uh guy who also did deals with Epstein.
The question is why do these really super rich guys have to deal with a guy like Epstein?
Epstein, sure, he could he can make some money doing a few things, but if you're Bill Gates, you can get investment help with anybody in the world.
And what we also know about Bill Gates is that uh at least the allegation was made that Epstein did try to blackmail Bill Gates.
Reportedly, uh Bill Gates was having a relationship with I think it's a bridge player, uh some kind of card player.
And those are the wildest hard players.
And what we know is that at least the allegation is is that um Epstein threatened to Gates that he was going to expose it if Gates did not invest in a fund that he was setting up in JP Morgan.
So there's evidence on these things.
We don't know the relationship, we don't know if any of these people was involved, but again, it's the lack of transparency, it's the lack of releasing sort of any of the material.
Nobody wants to see the nasty videos, but you know, it just in terms of these financial transactions, a billion dollars in transactions that are that are uh deemed to be by JP Morgan and by federal law enforcement related to human trafficking.
Who are those transactions with?
Were they certain flights of airplanes that he was paying for?
Who was on those planes?
None of those questions seem to be asked by anybody in Washington.
Yeah, the lack of curiosity does appear to be troubling.
That's one thing we'll continue to follow.
We will speak to former Epstein attorney and former Donald Trump attorney, David Showen at the top of the four o'clock hour about this.
We've got a lot more questions.
We'll hear reaction from the White House, uh, but we've got a lot more to cover.
It's a massive weekend.
You heard we will we're grateful to talk to you, uh spokesperson from the Coast Guard to get an update on the recovery efforts in Texas.
We're gonna talk to Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to find out what all went on in the negotiations that led to the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill.
And we'll also hear coming up next from somebody who tries to conflate the two.
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We are filling in for Sean Handy.
It's our pleasure to be with you today on a very busy and a very newsy Monday.
We'll be right back after this.
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So a lot going on in the news over the weekend.
We're going to dissect a lot of it.
You would think that these stories don't really have a lot in common.
But in fact, according to at least Larry Summers, a former president of Harvard University, they do.
Listen to what he said about the tragedy in Texas and the big beautiful bill that was signed into law by Donald Trump on July the 4th.
George, just to start with, what your people have been describing is the biggest cut in the American safety net in history.
The Yale Budget Lab estimates that it will kill over 10 years, a hundred thousand people.
That is two thousand days of death like we've seen in Texas this weekend.
In my 70 years, I've never been as embarrassed for my country on uh July 4th.
Oh boy.
And he said this before, right?
In 2017, he made similar statements involving the tax cut uh that Donald Trump passed at that time.
So he has a record of being wrong, but also politicizing this tragedy in such a way is is is just terrible as far as I'm concerned.
It's terrible.
It's irresponsible, and you know, shame on George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for, you know, it's not the first time they've aired irresponsible information.
But I would say, you know, look, it's what's happened in Texas is a tragedy.
81 people are dead so far, including I think it's 27 uh children from this camp, and we're gonna get an update on what's going on here on the other side of this break.
But you know, uh I remember last year we had unexpected flooding in North Carolina, and over a hundred people died uh there.
I believe the death toll is now up to 94 people in Texas now.
But still, the the point is these are acts of God, these are tragedies, they happen.
No one blamed Joe Biden when they happened last year uh in terms of a lack of funding for it, right?
And so um for Larry Summers to suggest that the sign of one bill is gonna lead to more tragedies, I think is is horrendous.
Well, and all these people have terrible track records.
Let's look back in 2017 when uh the Trump administration also instituted reforms uh in this area.
The Congressional Budget Office claimed that the changes would get rid of health care coverage for 16 million people.
That was the claim.
Two years later, they said, well, no, it's actually going to be only eight million.
By 2020, the New York Times was uh reporting that actually it had no effect whatsoever.
So don't believe the scare, don't believe the hype.
This is the way they operate.
It is the way they operate, and that's one of the reasons why programs like this and our podcast, the drill down are so important because we want to give you the American people the truth you deserve at every turn.
You can find our podcast at the drilldown.com, and you can hear more Sean Handy Show right on the other side of this break.
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We'll be back with a spokesperson from the Coast Guard right after this.
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Tragedy in Texas.
They're now saying that um the death toll is going to surpass a hundred.
Uh, brings out the worst sometimes in people.
It also brings out the best in people, the heroism.
In particular, you've got this uh Coast Guard petty officer Scott Ruskin, who rescued, I mean, this is eye-popping to me, 165 people from the floodwaters of Texas.
He may add to that before it's over.
But we want to play this clip about the inner an interview that he gave uh describing what he's done, and then we're gonna have a conversation with Lieutenant Commander Steve Roth, who's the chief of media relations for the Coast Guard, to give us an update on what's going on in Texas and a little bit more about this fine man from New Jersey who has saved so many lives.
But listen to this interview that he gave.
The Coast Guard launched us and decided to send uh rescue crew from Air Station Corpus Christi at about 6:30, 7 a.m. on Friday, the 4th of July.
Um I just happened to be on the duty crew with uh Ian Hopper, Blair Wouchworth, uh, Seth Reeves, uh, some of our crew members and the Coast Guard.
And uh yeah, they they sent us out.
Um we kind of encountered some pretty serious weather, some of the worst flying we've ever dealt with, personally.
Um it took us, you know, what should have been an hour flight, probably took us about seven or eight um just to get into the landing zone.
Uh once we made about four different approaches trying to get in, we were able to get on, get a boots on the ground um with the Air National Guard, uh Department of Public Safety for Texas, game wardens.
Um, and when we decided to leave me on scene at Camp Mystic, that was kind of our main triage site we were trying to help out with.
Um we decided, hey, if we leave the rescue summer on scene, we'll have more space in our Dolphin MH 65.
Um so based on that, uh, I got on scene, Boots on the ground at Camp Mystic.
Um, kind of discovered I was the only person there as far as like first responders go.
So yeah, I had about 200 uh kids mostly, um, all scared, terrified, cold, um, having probably the worst day of their life, and I just kind of need to triage them, get them to a higher level of care, um, and get them get them off the flood zone with uh a lot of the US 60 uh Army helicopters.
So this guy, uh Scott Ruskin is correctly being hailed as an American hero.
But I, as soon as I heard this interview, became incredibly curious.
Like, how is it that one Coast Guard rescue swimmer swims and he's details later in the interview, up to 10 kids and maybe one adult with them at a time as a swimmer.
And so I mean, how do you get these people to safety?
And so we wanted to reach out to the Coast Guard, and we're excited to have Lieutenant Commander Steve Roth join us now.
Uh Lieutenant Commander Roth, how does that work?
Like just walk our audience through how the the mechanics of how someone as a swimmer takes multiple people with them.
Do they have stuff connected to them?
What kind of flotation devices are they connected to?
How does that work?
Sure, yeah, thanks for uh thanks for having me on the show.
And I just want to say the the entire Coast Guard, our our hearts and our prayers actually go out to all the victims of this absolutely terrible tragedy.
Um so in this particular instance, I think it highlights the the really incredible training our rescue swimmers get.
This is as he might have mentioned, this is his first case out of rescue swimmer school.
And the interesting thing about this is uh he wasn't swimming.
Um this is inland search and rescue.
This is urban search and rescue.
Uh when he got there to Camp Mystic, and you know, these these little girls, these adults have been this is the first first responder they've seen in in eight hours since this terrible event in the middle of the night.
And so he was there to really sort of triage them and make sure that they were getting to two other landing sites that he set up.
I think one on an archery field and one on a soccer field, so that the uh other state and federal partners, the Air National Guard, Texas DPS could get these kids out.
So it's actually not just people think of our rescue swimmers is jumping in the water, and that's that's not always the case.
We do quite a bit of urban search and rescue, inland search and rescue, and this is this is a really incredible example of that work.
Uh L Lieutenant Commander Roth, um, are there ongoing operations right now involving the Coast Guard?
Are you hopeful to maybe find more people?
We're going on now several days.
Uh, but there is still always the hope that more people would be found.
What is the Coast Guard doing right now in in South Texas?
Certainly.
So the Coast Guard's continuing to respond to any tasking from uh the state of Texas, who's the lead agency.
Uh so we we do still have a helicopter there uh if we are requested uh to assist.
So what have you heard in terms of like the conditions on the ground and would you how would you compare the conditions on the ground in terms of the flash footing now?
How long do the waters stay uh at these levels and um you know what what can people expect moving forward?
So I can't speak to the specifics of that.
I think that's probably uh a better question for the the state of Texas.
What I can say is that the conditions that our air crew encountered were incredibly dynamic, incredibly dangerous.
Like like I said, it takes them seven to eight hours to make what should have been a one-hour flight, and we've seen throughout this this week uh an increased and sustained risk of flash flooding the area.
Um so he he put himself in a really dynamic situation based on weather and the chance of increased flooding.
Uh unfortunately I can't speak to you know what the current risk is now.
Well, uh Luke Tenant Commander, you guys train, of course, for all kinds of different scenarios.
I'm still stunned at the basic fact that apparently in the middle of the night, this river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes.
Uh that's astonishing to me.
Uh, and I know you're not in the business of fixing those types of problems, but this is the kind of scenario that the Coast Guard dealt with here.
You're dealing with other uh dynamic situations.
I understand that recruiting is up, by the way.
There's kind of a uh an excitement uh in the last six months about joining the Coast Guard.
So where is the Coast Guard in terms of future operations, planning for disasters?
We live in Florida, of course, hurricanes are always something you worry about.
Um what is the Coast Guard doing looking uh looking forward?
So looking forward, you know, we're gonna continue to be extremely proud of the fact that we are America's first responders for hurricanes, maritime disasters, really any crisis.
You know, here we are in Central Texas, uh not pretty pretty far from where you would traditionally think the Coast Guard would operate.
We're gonna continue to give uh you know people that enlist and recruit that training so that if it's their first case and they need to rescue 165 people in Central Texas, if they're they're prepared to do that.
Scott will say you know I think he just said, yeah I'm I'm just the dude that was trained to do this and I rose my raised my right hand.
Looking forward we're we're certainly excited about the support and the recognition we've gotten from the administration, the secretary, uh Congress we're gonna be doing a lot of recapitalization to making sure that we maintain our agility, our capability and to be, you know, our our motto is literally always ready uh to be always ready to serve the American public in these communities because we we are extremely capable as I think we've proven in this case the ability to fly in these conditions.
We've got these highly trained rescue swimmers.
We're going to make sure that we continue to be, you know, some of the finest first responders in the nation so that we can get down there and continue to do this stuff.
So in an urban search and rescue environment, which is what Scott Ruskin was involved in, he's going, I guess, kind of take us through.
So he gets onto the ground and you knew where the camp was.
I heard him say that they identified Camp Mystic.
So everyone he encountered, were they, can you tell us like what was, were they in, like where were they physically?
Were they in their normal rooms?
Had they congregated in an area?
And I guess like walk us through what that process is like.
and how quickly this person had to make these decisions when literally every second counts.
See you've got to make these decisions instantly I I don't have the details on exactly where in Camp Mystic they they dropped him off but in a couple interviews he's mentioned you know all of a sudden he's got two hundred cold scared exhausted children.
This is a group of predominantly little children um I'm gonna I'm the father of a six-year-old girl and it's like unfathomable to meet with my daughter in a situation so just to just to manage that chaos in that situation and then not even that but then to start medically triaging these people to very very quickly get them to a waiting helicopter so that they can get to a higher level of care.
But that's that's one thing that our rescue swimmers and really every member of the Coast Guard is is trained to do we we encounter all kinds of non-traditional situations and you've got to be calm and cool and confident and ready to make those those life or death decisions and that's what's really I think unique about being a member of the Coast Guard.
Well Lieutenant Commander uh Steve Roth we thank you for joining us um we appreciate all the good work you were doing in the Coast Guard uh is doing as well people when they think of people in service they sometimes forget about the Coast Guard or don't pay them the attention that they should.
They certainly will now we thank you and appreciate all that the Coast Guard is doing uh down in Texas for us in rescuing people, especially these young children.
No, thanks so much for the opportunity to come on the show.
Appreciate it.
That's Lieutenant Commander Steve Roth of the United States Coast Guard.
It's it's a great it's a crazy story.
It's a tragedy and you know you and I are both fathers.
We are fathers of daughters and it's the fact that I think it's 20 plus children have have died unfortunately in this tragedy is horrific.
And obviously the death toll continues to mount and there's been unfortunately as you heard from Larry Summers in the last segment you know the New York Times come out with stories about oh they've ignored these warning symbols and they could have done more but it in buried in that article they talk about the fact that text messages were sent but as you noted it was three in the morning when the conditions worsened and they say text messages were ignored well I mean how many other alarm systems do you want sometimes tragedies just happen.
Yeah yeah I mean the thing to me that was particularly outrageous by the New York Times story is they alleged that cutbacks by the Trump administration or the fact that there are there are certain positions that have been filled with the national weather service somehow led to an increased death when the realities are what we said in 45 minutes this river rose 26 feet it was in the middle of the night I don't know about you.
I mean I basically have my ringer off at night uh if I had been there I would have been totally caught off guard.
So I don't know how you can create a warning system and there will be opportunities for for them to evaluate come up with greater efficiencies.
I think one of the things that the Trump administration has proposed is more local control.
Because remember what happened in North Carolina when the hurricane came through the disaster there was the fact that it took so long once the tragedy had happened, to actually get support to help the people that were impacted in North Carolina.
I think we had what 120 died uh as a result of that.
Uh in this particular case, you had the heroic response from the Coast Guard, but I'm not sure you can develop a system unless people are prepared to be wired in 24 hours a day.
You can develop a weather system for a scenario that happens like this in the middle of the night over a course of 45 minutes.
No, in fact, you and I were speaking with someone who lives in western North Carolina not long ago, and he was recounting what it was like last year when that happened.
And I think what you heard him say is we went weeks without hearing from anyone.
Yeah.
And in the western North Carolina Mountains, it's a very tight-knit community, those people are very self-reliant as they are in Texas.
Yes.
But the point is is that there is an appropriate role for the government to play in search and rescue operations, which obviously the Coast Guard did very well here, or as well as the conditions would warrant.
And then there is the ongoing support, and that is where the ball was dropped under the Biden administration's FEMA.
We actually did a podcast on our drill down podcast about how they'd sort of shifted their gaze and started focusing on lots of other priorities and less about disaster response as happened quite often, unfortunately, under the Biden administration with a number of agencies.
But uh it is a true story of heroism with Petty Officer Scott Ruskin.
I appreciate I know you do too.
The fact that he's being celebrated and the fact and the fact that Coast Guard enrollments is up actually speaks to a larger positive uptick in terms of what's happening with our national defense systems under the Trump administration.
Yeah, I think that's right.
You're seeing uh recruitment goals being met and exceeded in multiple branches.
And I think the fact is somebody that goes into the Coast Guard wants to help people.
They want to be involved in real work.
They don't want to be involved in some of the phony work and the DEI stuff uh that is so dominating things.
And I think that a lot of the reforms they're talking about in in in in terms of search and rescue are good.
Local officials know the situation better than anybody.
And to have the feds kind of show up uh and and and kind of throw their weight around where they don't have local knowledge.
Kind of remember what happened to Katrina.
Remember back in 2005, you had the same issue.
You had the same issue under Joe Biden.
So I think Trump is saying, let's return this to local control.
The federal government can give them the resources, we can give them the helicopters, we can give them the supplies, we can give them the equipment, but local authorities should be in charge, and that is certainly what should be done, uh, I think going forward.
Absolutely.
Well, uh, you heard from an update in terms of what the Coast Guard's perspective is.
We'll continue to monitor this story.
Unfortunately, that's not the only tragedy that's happening in the country right now.
We have breaking news about another tragic situation.
We'll give you more information on that right on the other side of this break.
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You can join the conversation here on Sean Show, 1-800-941 Sean, 1-800-941 Sean, talking about the heroics of the Coast Guard down in Texas.
It's not the only hero zone that's taking place, although the threat is different.
It's weather in Texas.
You have a situation now where there have been multiple ICE shootings, shootings at ICE officials.
Uh report this morning, an active shooter armed with tactical gear and a rifle, opened fire on border patrol agents as they arrived at the border patrol annexed facility in McAllen, Texas.
Uh apparently one uh federal agent was hit.
Uh, they did kill the shooter.
Um, it's an ongoing investigation by the uh FBI.
This comes on the heels of another incident in Texas where a Texas police officer was shot Friday near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prairie Land Detention Facility.
So they are clearly being targeted by activists on the left.
It also comes on the heels, unfortunately, of a Axios story headlining Democrats told to quote, get shot for the anti-Trump resistance.
Some have suggested the story says we need to be willing to do is go get shot when visiting ice facilities or federal agencies, uh saying civility isn't working, prepare for violence.
