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This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
I don't think so. Not yet. I mean, I think the bigger question right now, one, is about the discussion that we're having. What is the government doing to find out how this got added? Because that seems to be now the big question. The second is, I think one of the issues that we need to also understand is, were these officials on their government phones or their personal phones?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And that's what I thought would probably be coming out right off the bat.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Charlie, can I make a quick point? Because this goes back to the point you're making. If it was on a government phone, I think that raises the question about why Jeffrey Goldberg was in there. In a very different way than if it was on Waltz's personal phone, which he's probably had for 10 or 15 years or whatever he had during his tenure as a member of Congress.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
If it's on his government phone, that brings up a whole new set of questions as to how Jeffrey Goldberg was able to be added. Because you can only add certain people that you would have assumed on a government phone that you had pre-populated.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
So I'm going to tell you this right now. I don't think I know, to your point. Like, if you went to the president, and I say this as a guy who had to do that, that if you go to the president and say, Mr. President, I screwed up, and I'm going to go fix it because I serve at your pleasure, he is much more understanding than I think if you dig a hole and then have to go back to him.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
So I hope to God, for the sake of Mike Walz, who I have the utmost respect for, that this is what happened. Because if you have to go back to the president and say, all right, let me tell you what really happened. You know, he was there. That that's going to get a lot worse. And and here's the just from a PR standpoint.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And I made this point on the morning meeting this morning that I have on my YouTube channel every morning. That's look in a crisis. It will only last about... It's like a fire. After about 48 hours, if there's no new oxygen, it dies. The only way a crisis is perpetuated is if more oxygen comes into the room. And to your point, every time that you speak, you go out there and if your story...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Yeah, well, look, I mean, keep in mind, so there's a few things to this story that need to be taken care of because the media and the Democrats are taking this and blowing everything up and using terms that, frankly, with all due respect, they have no right, I mean, they have no understanding of. When they throw out words like war plan, classified,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
doesn't lock it down further and push oxygen out of the room, but rather lets it in. It perpetuates the crisis. And this is what's happening now. This should have been put to bed last night. But I think for a lot of reasons, they want to go out there and try to show that, you know, here's what's really going on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And unfortunately, I think they're adding more oxygen to the room than they are taking it out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And they baited the White House by saying, hey, if it's not we you know, first of all, I think Jeffrey Goldberg's full of crap. He didn't hold back. Like knowing what we see now, I'm like, are you kidding me? This is what you said was so, you know, war plans. Those aren't war plans. He's a liar. And the bottom line is, is that he did it for clicks and sensationalism.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And he was able to bait the White House to say, if it's not classified, let me know and I'll release it all. It wasn't classified. And so he released it all. And I think this is like Geraldo in the safe. You open it up and go, this is what you were saying. Yeah, it's not great, but this is no big deal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
You can go to my YouTube channel, Sean Spicer. We do live 9 to 10 Eastern. And then tonight we've got Ron Johnson at our show every night at 6 o'clock Eastern. SeanSpicer.com is where you can get it all. But thank you, Charlie. I appreciate that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Those might be words, but they actually have meaning, right? So there are operational plans called O plans. They're sensitive, classified or confidential, secret, top secret. The first thing that we got to get out of the way is that clearly from what John Radcliffe, the CIA director, said yesterday, Signal is an authorized platform. The second issue is what was being discussed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Was it classified or not? I trust the folks, you know, the CIA director, the DNI director, to determine that more than a bunch of lefty media types that have no experience in this. And then the third thing is what you're talking about, Charlie, which is how does Jeffrey Goldberg get into this chat?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Now, Mike Waltz, as you said or alluded to, he's admitted he went on Laura Ingraham last night and said, I'm the guy who created this group chat. But how did he get in his phone book? And that's where I think the big issue is, is that Walt said last night, I don't know. Now, here's the deal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
When I first met Jeffrey Goldberg, I called to yell at him in the 2016-2017 transition because his publication had this gadfly, horrible person named Julia Offey who wrote a disgusting and despicable story about Ivanka Trump. And I called to yell at him and said, hey, I know we've never met. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So he's in my phone.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
So I went to Signal and I said, okay, let me kind of recreate this. How would he? Signal imports all of your contacts. They're in your phone to the thing. So one has to assume either Mike Waltz, and by the way, Jeffrey Goldberg admits that he's only met Waltz maybe once, maybe twice, several years ago. And that's Washington for you. Hey, I was at an event, we were at a forum, we crossed paths.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
But how did his number end up in his phone book? Because Waltz says, I don't know, I've never talked to him. That's the question that I think is important here. Because there's a lot of theories. Like you think about this, the US trade rep is Jameson Greer, JG. So if you're looking down initials in your phone book, you mistakenly get the wrong JG, not Jeffrey Goldberg, Jameson Greer, bring him in.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Okay, but how did he end up in the phone book in the first place, in his list of contacts? And that's where I think the Waltz team is saying, hey, we're asking the tech folks to look at this because you're right. At some point, this is gonna come out, right? It's, did you personally add him in or did somebody else do it? But there's only two ways that that can happen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Well, that's that's why I thought what was weird is that like so I get that like that. So what he's alluding to is I have Charlie Kirk in my phone. But gosh, you know, instead of Charlie Kirk's phone number, I have, you know, Bob Smith. And so I'm think I'm texting you. And that that seems to be what he was saying. Well, I don't get that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
In other words, what he was saying is, and again, I'm just speculating, but JG, Jameson Greer, the U.S. trade rep, that would make sense. Okay, so what he seems to be saying is, I thought I was adding somebody to the text, and it turns out that it was Jeffrey Goldberg's number, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And my point is, okay, that still doesn't, you still have, like, no one goes, like, that's just, it doesn't make sense. I buy the fact that, yeah, hey, as a member of Congress, maybe his staff said, hey, we're going to upload some reporters to your phone so you can contact them. Before he assumed the direct, I could buy that. Like, I didn't put him in. My staff used to program my phone. Okay.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
But the idea that you thought you were contacting somebody else and their numbers were just transposed, I've never had that happen, right? I mean, that to me, and also just like, let's face it, Jameson Greer just happens to have a one-off phone number than Jeffrey Goldberg. This is where I hope he does get the best technical minds to look at this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And so, yeah, I mean, look, I'm not as much of an expert on I've used signal, but my technical expertise is somewhat limited to on and off on most devices. That being said, I again, part of this doesn't like I've made mistakes. I've added people to text chains that I didn't intend to. But but that's obvious. Like my my someone the other day was texting my wife and I and they got the wrong Rebecca.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Right. So and immediately I'm like, who are you adding to this?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Yeah, yeah. So, look, I agree with you. So except look, I've known Mike Waltz for a while. I think he is a man of high integrity. He served his country honorably. He's a brilliant guy when it comes to diplomacy. He's an SF guy from the Army. That's my only issue, that he chose the wrong service.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
That being said, to your point, again, I admit, I yelled at Jeffrey Goldberg once because of this despicable story. I have no problem to say, yeah, I got the guy in my contacts, and I mistakenly added him when I meant to add someone else. We all do it. That's what I'm saying.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
That's that's that's my point is that like, yeah, we all have people in our phone. I've got some people on my phone that believe me, I would never like because of, you know, the people I've been in contact with over the last 10 years that I wouldn't ever want to call or contact. But, you know, you don't delete the contact.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
I just and if you did, by the way, Charlie, here's the point. If you did, you could say, God, we just did this podcast and I was coordinating with them. And so it doesn't. Right. It makes sense. And so just say if that's the case. But otherwise, you're absolutely right. There's got to be an explanation about why. And here's the thing to your second point.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Because I think there's got to be a third issue, which is some staffer did it. Because if you're going to break into somebody's phone, are you really going to add Jeffrey Goldberg to the chain? I mean, I've got a list of people I'd rather add to a chain if I'm snooping or doing something than Jeffrey Goldberg.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
Can't you believe that some staffer at some point added, I mean, I said that it didn't though.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
No, no, no. But here's the way I look at this. I have a belief, and I haven't asked the president this, but knowing the president's – his view of Jeffrey Goldberg, I think that's what pisses him off the most. And of all people that you did this to – so if you have to explain it to him – And you're talking to Donald Trump and you say, Mr. President, here's what happened. And I don't know why.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Protecting Your Kids From the Rainbow Mafia
And so here's my answer. I'm going to get the best technical mind to explain. That's your way of at least being like, hey, I'm on it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
And so the question is, why did they go through with it? What did the crosstab show? How did they sample the electorate? Did they know in advance? And this is where the discovery phase comes in. Are there emails that show that they knew that there might be some problems with how they created the sample that that was based off of?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
I don't know, but my guess is that's why you go through this to the discovery phase. So you can say, gosh, this doesn't add up. And them saying, well, who cares? Go ahead with it anyway. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Like I said, you're the lawyer on this. If they were to get to discovery in the Des Moines Register Seltzer case, and they found someone there emailing Ann and saying, gosh, this doesn't really comport with what recent information suggests, You know, or here's a sample that we don't think if if you saw that exchange, I guess my question to you as a lawyer would be, isn't that the point?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
If they can show that they knew there were flaws and they went ahead with it now, that's a big if. But if you could show that they were flaws and they knew about them, wouldn't that give you merit to go forward?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Good to see you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Do you know how mind-blowing this is, by the way? Just stop and think about this. Donald Trump, a Republican, has appointed a Kennedy who was primarying Biden just, what, 12 months ago for the Democratic nomination, has been put into the cabinet where he will get, by and large, Republican votes. This is mind-blowing if you think about where we are in terms of which party is more inclusive.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Bobby Kennedy, a part of the Kennedy family who was literally fighting for the Democratic nomination, is going to be in the cabinet of Donald Trump. Secondly, I think the part- And Tulsi, by the way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
That's right, exactly. She was primarying Biden for it. But you also go back to how you started this conversation between the media story with ABC- for $15 million with Donald Trump and the lies that they're telling about Bobby Kennedy and vaccines.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
I think we are seeing a more pragmatic Trump, a Trump that in 2016, when he won, they tried to delegitimize the win. People were attacking him. It was Russia. You didn't win the popular vote, this and that. And he felt like he was on defense, and rightly so. I mean, we had false accusations lobbed from one end to the other.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
The bottom line is this, the media that supposedly dies in darkness and hates the spread of misinformation is just showing you why it's a dying industry. They continue to spread misinformation and lies. This is why we showed on actually on the morning meeting the other day, exclusive polling from Signal. And when you look at where people are getting their news- It's very, very interesting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
I posted this on Instagram. If you are getting your news from newspapers or from national media, from like ABC, CBS, NBC, you voted for Harris. If you're on YouTube or streaming, you're voting for Trump. We're the party of the future. We're more inclusive. They are part of a dying, dying industry and legacy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Think about how Republicans have fared with women, right? This is an issue that can transcend party, bring more women to the Republican Party because they're concerned about what their children are eating, what they're eating. They are, in many cases, the people who are the providers for a family. And so women are at the forefront of this issue.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
And I think that what RFK and what Donald Trump are doing, exposing the NIH, the CDC, the FDA in what we had thought was eating healthy is gonna be monumental, both in terms of our longevity and our wellness as a country, but I think also politically.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
And this time, everyone from some folks in the media to big tech and corporate leaders are embracing him. And I think they realized he was right. They were wrong. Bottom line is it's a much different environment. And I think he flourishes in this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
He wants people to come to Mar-a-Lago, talk to him about doing business, talking to him about making investments in the United States, as we saw yesterday with the SoftBank CEO. This is a much different... Frankly, Megan, I'll admit it. I'm jealous. I wish... It was, I'd been there to 2020, 2016 was historic, but we faced a huge wave against us of people that were trying to delegitimize the win.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Now you can't, no one can do that. It was a resounding win and I think he's in his glory.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Do it. Well, I love it. You know what? Petty Irish leprechaun Sean hates. Like, I'm like, why are you giving like I would tell them time out. You guys wait in line. Stand down. Go down to, you know. Boca Raton and wait your turn and I'll call you up to come to Palm Beach. I get it. I know Trump loves this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Yeah, I've been waiting to break this news on The Megyn Kelly Show, so I'm going to go ahead and do this right now. There's a story coming out tomorrow that the girl that Pete dated in sixth grade has a brother who mowed the lawn of a guy down the street whose cousin knew a guy that once was related to somebody that Pete saw at a reunion when he was there for five minutes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
And that person said that Pete stiffed him on the tip. So I think this is going to get really bad before it gets better.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
He relishes these guys coming there, not just the corporate leaders, but the foreign leaders. I get it. And I'd rather have them on our side and get the policies instituted and make America more prosperous and grow, et cetera. But at the same time, I'm like, these guys bashed him for four to eight years. And now they want back in with a $1 million check to the inauguration committee.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
He told Masa yesterday, hey, Masa comes bearing $100 billion in investment. He says, hey, how about $200 billion? Why isn't he saying to Zuckerberg, that's a nice tip. Now put down $10 million for the inauguration.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
I'm so glad to be unburdened by that. I am unburdened by that, which is a blessing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
I have no idea. Megan, I want to just be the first to say it here. I am throwing my full and complete endorsement behind Kamala Harris for governor of California or president in 2028, whichever she wants. Seconded. I want her to go forward so bad. Let's donate. This would be the best Christmas present ever. And I love this season. I love it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack there. I mean, the bottom line is the same poll that I was referring to that I posted on Instagram, we talked about in the morning meeting shows, streamers, YouTubers, people who get their information there voted for Trump. Take a look at it because they're right. The people who read the legacy media, the New York Times, Washington Post, watch NBC, they're with her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
The difference is that we talked about this, I think, this morning, gentlemen. AOC and Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have a degree of authenticity to them. And they can pontificate for a while and talk about themselves. I watched Donald Trump for as long as I know him. He did an interview with Tiffany Smiley, I think it was, on the Moms for Liberty event in D.C. And I went to talk to him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Then I stayed for the event. And she did this moderated Q&A with him. And I was like, my gosh, as long as I've known him, I've never heard him tell these stories. He can riff. He can hang with the best of them. When you can hang for three hours with Joe Rogan, that's not about specific policy pronunciations. It's about getting to know you. And that's what Rob Flaherty was really getting at that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
But just go back to the premise of what he said. We tried to book her on sports shows. Why would you do that? I don't understand what that means. Trump could talk about baseball, UFC. He watches golf a lot, obviously. My point is that he can hang in a conversation about sports. But it would be like, flip the equation, Megan.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Let's say that some player, some representative from a player from the Boston Celtics called you and said, hey, I'd love to get Jason Tatum on the show with you, Megan, to talk about you know, the Celtics and how his training regimen, I think, I mean, I don't know. Maybe you'd say it was cool. But for the most part, it's like, why would you want to book Jason Tatum on a politics culture show?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Why would you want Kamala Harris on a sports show? Of course they got turned down. It just shows how stupid their strategy was. I mean, these guys are millions of dollars in debt after spending billions of dollars. It was a bad strategy. I think they're just exposing how bad of a campaign they ran and how bad of a candidate she is. You know what, though?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Can I just say real quick to Mark's point? Yeah, go ahead. I've been with Donald Trump plenty of times prior to a press conference. Do you know what the prep looks like?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Here's it. Mr. President, are you ready? Let's go.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
I mean, honestly, there's no murder board prep sessions. The prep is, are you ready, sir? Okay, let's go.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
We did that. And look, it was funny. I talked to people about this before the first commander in chief. that we did on the USS Intrepid in New York. I was sitting there, going over VA veteran statistics, the number of suicides that veterans have, policy initiatives. And I was getting frustrated because I'm like, this guy is just not focused.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
And I had not ever prepped him in that level of detail before. And he goes out there and blew my mind. It was like his mind was soaking it all in. He was like, I've never seen anybody absorb information the way he did because I was trying to walk him through a normal prep session. And in the middle of it, he was like, all right, I need lunch. Someone get me this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
And I'm like, oh boy, this is not going to go well. And he goes out there and crushes it. but I'd never seen anybody absorb information and then recite it in the way that he did. He walked back out after that event and I said, I don't know how you just did that. It was mind blowing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
I'm right off. It's a big deal in Rhode Island and New England. It's not just the whales. And New Jersey. It's killing the fishing industry up here. It's unbelievable what's happening. And again, it was just so amazing how he just, top of mind, brought that out and said, here's what's going on. Because you asked the folks who make their life better.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
based on the water up here, the environmental consequences, the effects that it's having on maritime industry and on marine life. But he knows this stuff, and he just does it because he hears it, he absorbs it, and he debates it back and forth as he's having conversations, and then he's ready to go.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Megan, here's the funny thing. You can't see this, but this is a picture from December 14th, 2016. All the people sitting around this meeting in Trump Tower, it's Tim Cook, Bezos. It happened in 2016. They all came, but to Dan's point, they didn't like him. They didn't think he was legitimate. So to Donald Trump's point, they all kissed his ring in 2016 initially. They came up to Trump Tower.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
I mean, there's probably 20 of these tech executives in this room. and yet very different outcome. The American people spoke very loudly. It wasn't just that Donald Trump won, it's that the policies of the left failed. The open borders, the DEI, the woke policies failed, and these corporate leaders that bought into it all are now realizing they were wrong.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
It wasn't just that Trump won, it's that they lost.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Well, you're the lawyer, I'm not. So I'm going to defer to Megyn Kelly when it comes to legal matters. I will say the one that I get excited about, you mentioned, is the ABC one because that's completely false and Stephanopoulos knew it. And I think that when reporters get called out for being wrong, that's a good thing. They need to be held accountable just like anybody else.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
And so I was excited about that. I think the bedwetters like Chuck Todd and Jim Acosta, who are talking about this being a threat to the media, are morons. The bottom line is that why should they get away with defaming people with inaccurate information or information they know to be wrong?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Look, the Sullivan standard that the Supreme Court has set for public figures proves that you have to prove intent and malice. It's a very high bar. And so there's a big difference for someone even like me who's had this kind of issue come up. The lawyers will tell you, God, this is how much it's going to cost you. This is the burden that we have to meet.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
This is what's going to happen during discovery in terms of your emails, your texts coming out. So there's a reason not to do it. Now, in the Iowa case, my understanding is that what Trump's lawyers are going against isn't the Sullivan standard saying you defamed me, but in fact, a consumer law that Iowa has about misrepresenting people.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Again, I'll defer to you and the lawyers about the nuances of that, but they're using a very interesting tactic saying that they violated Iowa's consumer statute, which prevents misinformation about a product. Now, again, it's a very narrow reading from my layperson standpoint, but-
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK and Hegseth's Path to Confirmation, and Dangers of AI, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Tristan Harris | Ep. 967
Look, I think what it does, when that poll came out, first of all, the Iowa poll has had a storied history of problems. The bottom line is that that didn't pass the smell test, and nobody bought that, both in terms of what other public polls at the time said and in terms of what the data was suggesting where Iowa's electorate was. So it didn't make sense.
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Jeffrey Sachs: The Inevitable War With Iran, and Biden’s Attempts to Sabotage Trump
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Jeffrey Sachs: The Inevitable War With Iran, and Biden’s Attempts to Sabotage Trump
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Jeffrey Sachs: The Inevitable War With Iran, and Biden’s Attempts to Sabotage Trump
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Jenner Furst: Secret Chinese Biotech Programs, and the Documentary That Could Put Dr. Fauci in Jail
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
But there were no pictures from that flight. So he's looking at it on his controller, flying it and seeing what it sees. But when they go to the device, there's no images on it. They can recreate the flight path, but that's it. So he does that for like 20 minutes.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And what's interesting is the whole day, so the Secret Service didn't send their own drones, but they sent some guy who'd gotten trained like a month or two previous, not on drone mitigation, but on drone detection. So he brings his little stuff in where he can go and detect a drone. They can use it to figure out where the controller is and where a person is. Doesn't work all day.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Doing tech support. Turns out he had a bad Ethernet cord. You can't make that up. He had a bad Ethernet cord. So he finally gets his working at like 415. Yeah. literally minutes after Crooks had been done doing his recon with his drone.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, so I kind of look at it as three big questions. Who is the shooter? Yes. Everything that kind of puts him together. How did they let it happen? That whole process. And then what happened to everyone who let it happen?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I don't know. In the reports that are available, they say that they recreated the flight path and it went all around the area. Whether it went right over that podium, I don't know. I would assume so. You have 20 minutes. It wasn't a big area.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
No, I don't think he took it through the magnetometer. So one of the problems was you have this area that really isn't that big. It's a farm show. So you've got a horse ring for people doing stuff with livestock. You've got a big field. You've got grandstands here and there. You've got a bunch of barns, but it's not a big area.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And you would think they would have made the whole thing the security perimeter, like a full circle all the way around. You're not getting in without getting checked for anything. But they ended up carving out this area, which was the American Glass Research, the AGR building, the sprawling – we'll call it like a five-building complex. And it was from one of those roofs that he shot Trump from.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
and they decided you know we're going to put that outside of our security perimeter so you can get to that area without having been screened or anything no magnetometers no pat downs and that's like 130 150 yards from the president Um, I think he may have been around that area with the rangefinder. He may have gotten in, but they, they ask one of the secret service agents.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And then within that, like the framework I have trying to figure out, you know, what exactly happened is you can look at it as like option one, just a total snafu across the board. Everyone failed, accidents happen, guy manages to get up there. It's exactly what it looks like. So that's option one. And then you've got option two, which is kind of what I would call strategic incompetence.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
He's like, well, a rangefinder is not a prohibited item. It's suspicious. It makes you wonder.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. He's not golfing. Okay. He's not like trying to figure out, did you use the nine iron or like my pitching wedge? Yeah. You know why someone has a rangefinder. It's for shooting. Yeah. And by the way, there's a difference between golf rangefinders and ballistic rangefinders. Of course. It's a big difference. Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Like you get a nice ballistic rangefinder and it'll tell you not just like your horizontal distance, it'll give you your actual shooting distance compensating for your angle of view and all that. Like, that's not like, oh, it's 108 yards. Plus it's camo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks like. So they see that and the local cops flag him as suspicious.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So the local cops start kind of getting on their radios and saying, hey, there's a dude with a range finder. Like, everyone be on the lookout for it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
uh secret service doesn't really hear this because all the counter snipers uh their their lead counter sniper who is the most junior person on the team which i find fascinating the counter snipers hadn't been used i think on a non-presidential event in ever this was the first one they put of the four people they send the most junior guys the team leader he doesn't even bother to go pick up his radio that would have given him comms with all of the local police
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
That's mind-blowing to me. It is mind-blowing. I was talking to a former Army Ranger sniper friend of mine, was a sniper in combat, was a team leader. And before I even started telling him kind of the stuff I learned and stuff I knew, he said, well, I mean, a radio is a sniper's most powerful weapon. It's not the gun. That's actually not the sniper's job.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
That's like one of seven things a sniper does. Like the most important thing they do is they observe and they record and they communicate. And so this guy who's leading all of the counter snipers who are there, by the way, because there had been a specific long range threat against Trump from a foreign actor that they knew about. That's why they were there.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
The guy doesn't even bother to get his radio. And so when Trump is on stage, when you've got all the local cops like setting their hair on fire trying to get this guy who they know has a range finder, he's acting super weird. At one point, you have local law enforcement starting to draw their weapons.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
That's something you would think like maybe the Secret Service people on stage or the guys on roofs would want to know about. They had no idea.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So, and they didn't even have a unified command post. They had the Secret Service in one little area, and then they had the local guys over here, and then they had, I think, one or two people who were local in the Secret Service command post, but they didn't actually have a unified command post, which is also bonkers. Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So let's define terms here. So security perimeter is where you can get in where you don't have to get a pat down or through a magnetometer. So that's just like superficially obvious. I can walk all the way over there and I don't have to go through a magnetometer.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And then you've got the security bubble, which is like the area that people are responsible for, which is going to be a much broader, bigger area than just your security perimeter. Right. He knew because he'd been walking around there for five hours, totally unmolested. He got a drone up. He had a range finder. He cased the place.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
He knew it just by having walked around me like, oh, there's no cops over there. I'm going to go over there.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So you have DHS, which runs Secret Service, and the Secret Service is a soup sandwich from top to bottom. Like, it's a disaster. Culturally, everything about it. Did you have people who were making that even more difficult, who were deliberately making Trump vulnerable?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, so this is what I find the most enraging. This counter-sniper team lead has been deposed by a bunch of different committees. He gives different answers in all of them. Mike? If you want, you know, failure, failure has a lot of people to blame. And so I don't think you can blame it on one person. I think you can blame it on one organization, which is the Secret Service.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Utterly incompetent from top to bottom. It's a totally rotten culture with no accountability, nothing. So, and within that, you had a bunch of people who failed. But the last link of failure, which is what allowed the guy to get a shot off, was from, was due to this counter sniper team lead.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
he shows up i think four days ahead of time to do his advance so i think this would have been the wednesday which would have been july 10th trump shot on a saturday july 13th he has four days on site puts together his plan kind of sketches out where he wants everyone he never set foot on or in that building never Why? This will blow your mind.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
He's testifying to one congressional committee and they're like, well, they asked him that question. So you never set foot over there, like even the day of when you got time to do a final walkthrough. And he says, no, well, you see, because I had to go do a bunch of paperwork and I want to make sure my paperwork was good and it wasn't fuzzy and stuff. Quote, you live and die by paperwork.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I thought you lived and died by bullets. Yeah. No, you live and die by paperwork. He was so focused on his paperwork that he never went and actually looked around. The other thing that's crazy. Do you know anything about this guy, by the way? I know a little bit. Don't know his name.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
uh he had been with the secret service i think for six years no prior military experience uh no prior sharpshooter or sniper experience uh he showed up worked for two years because you have to work like a desk or trailing someone for two years before you can be a counter sniper and then he had been a counter sniper for the rest of his time there now i personally find that kind of crazy
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I would think if you want someone whose job is to think what a sniper thinks like and be able to have countermeasures and protect against that, you'd probably want a guy who had done that job before. Yeah. Like if you're going to have somebody teach in your basketball team how to do defense, you'd like to know that they've made a basket before. Of course. Yes. But that's not what happened here.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So you had a guy who no prior military experience, no prior sniper experience. He actually wasn't a sniper. He was a sharpshooter. He could shoot. I'm sure he could shoot well from long range. But that doesn't make you a sniper. You have to know so much. There's recon. There's observing. There's getting into position. There's communicating. There's recording.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
on the off chance that maybe someone would go solve their problems for them so that that's my number two my number three kind of scenario is it encompasses all a number two but you kind of have two different hands of government you've got the secret service hand which is just totally incompetent uh making them completely vulnerable and
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Those are all the things that people who go into sniper school in the military spend weeks and weeks doing before they ever touch a gun. And they'll talk about like, you can kind of teach anyone to shoot a gun. That's the easy part. It's mechanical. It's learning all the other stuff. It's like the real value in the job. So this guy never had that. Just ta-da. He's a counter sniper now.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So he's setting up his perimeter. He had no idea when he set the people up where he wanted them for the event. So you've got Trump on stage. You've got three barns behind him. To Trump's 3 o'clock, which is directly north, you've got that AGR building where the shooter was. The sniper team set up directly behind Trump on two of the three barns behind him.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So the ones that we've all seen in that shot where you've got one guy on the tripod who pops up and looks around, and then you've got the other guy who's prone, they never saw the shooter because there's a gigantic tree in their way. From where they were, line of sight to where the building was where Crooks shot, gigantic tree, blocking like a third of the building. They never saw him. Wow.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So then you have the team leader and his partner, and his partner's the one who shot Crooks. They're on the southern barn. And so one's on one side, one's on the other. The countersniper team leader, he never saw the shooter. Shooter was dead before he ever saw him. So you've got one guy, basically, in that whole area who has visibility on that roof.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And you would think, oh, well, he must have been scanning that area regularly. Well, Congress deposed this guy. And he says, no, that actually wasn't my area that I was supposed to be scanning. So if you think of a clock, you know, 12, 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 9, Trump's in the center where he's looking is 12 o'clock. The position from which he was shot would be 3 o'clock.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
The guy who actually shot him, he was actually watching from 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock. So east, south, and west of Trump.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
He was never looking over there. It wasn't until he heard shots that he turned over there. So of all the people who were tasked with doing counter-sniper surveillance and mitigation, only one person ever actually saw the shooter, even though he'd been on the roof for six minutes.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Correct. How can that be? Incompetence. That's incompetence, laziness, and arrogance. And afterwards, the Secret Service, you might recall, tried to blame the local cops. Of course. They were supposed to do it. We had them in the building. They never told the cops, number one, that their job was to be scoping out that roof.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
All of the cops from the local police forces who were there to provide sniper coverage, first off, they were never told that they were counter snipers. They were told they were Overwatch. So they set up in an area in the building where they had a great shot of the crowd, pretty much the entire crowd. And they're watching it the whole time.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They had no idea that they were supposed to be looking at a building roof, which is 180 degrees to their left. And because of how the window opened, it was like one of those, I think they call them casement windows. They've got the crank. So you've got to crank it and then it slowly opens. It's not a double sash that opens top and bottom.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
But unbeknownst to that hand, you have this other hand, like I would call it like the Russiagate hoax hand. These people who are just always doing awful, evil things. The John Brennan hand. Yeah. Was there somebody there looking for super disturbed, impressionable young men to kind of poke with the stick? Like, you know, Trump, Trumpson Butler, you should go check that out.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I don't think they could have seen that if they had wanted to. Just because of how that window opened, they'd have to get around. like almost leaning out the window to see, which of course they're not going to be doing because they think their job is crowd overwatch. So those guys somehow get blamed in media reports by people who are obviously secret service sources.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Well, we put them in that building. That was their responsibility. And all of them were like, no, that was never our responsibility. We had no idea. Also, they're local cops.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Right, right. Just because you, Secret Service, have chosen to delegate one of your responsibilities, it doesn't stop being your responsibility. Right, it's a core responsibility. Yeah, it's yours. You have literally one job. You don't let the president get shot in the face.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And so they're questioning this guy, this counter sniper team lead, and they're trying to get him to admit that things were done wrong. And so they're asking him, so like, would you consider what happened a failure? He goes, possibly.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Possibly. And what's weird is... Does this guy still work for the... He still works for the Secret Service. He was put on admin leave for like a week. And it was more like a mental health therapy leave. Yeah, something traumatic happened.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Exactly. And then he's like right back working full time for the Secret Service. Now? Now. As far as we know. Was anybody from Secret Service fired? No, not that we know of. So you had Kim Cheadle, who is the head of Secret Service. She's a total idiot. I thought she was a hero. She's a woman. Yeah, obviously. She's strong and brave. So she retires.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Then you had her deputy, who was like the guy who was actually in charge of the day-to-day. He gets elevated, doesn't get fired. Those are the first two people I fire instantly. Like I find the leadership channel, like the leadership chain, and I find everyone in it, like you're all gone. It's not personal. You might be great people, but Secret Service calls itself a zero fail agency.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
You clearly failed. Yes. And to my knowledge, nobody's been fired.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I assume that's why we've never gotten the truth on the JFK shooting. I just kind of assume Secret Services was involved somehow, and that's why presidents have been cowed into not releasing it. Interesting.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So you have the incompetent hand and then the devious hand. So that to me is option three. And they weren't working with each other, but they were creating the conditions to allow what happened to happen. And then I think the fourth one is the government just killed him. I kind of look at everything through those lenses and try to figure out, can we disprove this one? What fits here?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I mean, how could it not be if you're a human? Right. Yeah, you had the people on the stage. They didn't know anything was going on until Trump had been shot. Like you would think the people on the stage who are like the literal personal protective detail, the ones who physically form. Oh, the fat girls on the stage. I think there was one. One, okay. Yeah, but there were several men on there.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Those guys are the ones who like physically have to go in. And I think they call it a body bunker. They put around the president. Yes. They had no idea anything was going on or there was anything, any trouble anywhere until they hear shots fired. And they interviewed the guy who came. So if you're watching Trump, And you see the Secret Service agents come in. The guy on the left gets in first.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So I think the House Butler Task Force interviewed him. And they said, okay, take us through what was going on in your head in that moment. He's like, well, yeah, we heard some scuttlebutt that local police were looking at something at 3 o'clock to Trump's right. That was it. He said, and then I heard like a pop sound.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And he said, my immediate thought was it sounded like one of those poppet firecrackers you throw on the ground. Exactly.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. And he said, so that's what I thought it was. So I thought it was a heckler in the crowd. There must have been like a heckler who got the poppets in the crowd. And then I hear the second shot. And I'm waiting to hear in my ear, heckler. Heckler. He said, and then I heard the third. And that's when I knew, by the way, he's hearing nothing in his ears at this point, getting no communication.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I think they were only able to find actual bullet fragments from two. So there were actually, there were 10 shots fired total. There were eight from Crooks. There was one from a local law enforcement officer who shot almost simultaneously with Crooks' eighth shot. So you have one, two, three, had a burst of three. Then you had a burst of five. And then the five all went high.
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And where I am now, I'm kind of between two and three. I refuse to believe this was just a series of unfortunate accidents and incompetence that's put together. It's just not. I just don't believe it. Because I've been alive for the last 10 years watching everything they do. And yet, I don't think there's evidence for the JFK style. We all know Lee Harvey Oswald didn't do it, right? Of course.
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One of them hit a hydraulic line on one of those telehandlers or lulls or cranes behind it. So it starts spewing hydraulic fluid everywhere and you see it drop all of a sudden after the hydraulic line gets punctured, if you watch the video again. So I think that was from that second group. So it was three and then five. As Crooks fired his eighth shot, a local officer fires his gun at Crooks.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
He swears he got him. There's no forensic medical evidence that he did, but there's no firing from Crooks after that point, after that eighth shot. And then 15 seconds later comes the shot that kills Crooks. No way. 15 seconds. And the reason that happened was because nobody had eyes on the roof. So you had your sniper- 15 seconds? Yep.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. So you have the sniper who's on the roof, who takes the shot. He's been watching. So like if you are crooks, if you're where the shooter is and I'm where Trump is, the guy who shot him is looking here and all the way over here the whole time. He's looking to his left and back around.
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So he hears the shots. He has to get up, orient himself to where the shots are coming from. where if he's got earmuffs on or ear protection on, that can be kind of hard to do because those play tricks with locating sound. Yeah, it's impossible. So he's got to locate the guy where the shots are coming from, has to make identification of the guy who's got the gun and then has to fire at him.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So I don't even blame that guy because he was told to watch this sector. He's watching it. But yeah, 15 seconds. And he fires one shot. With a .308? .300 Win Mag. Wow. That's a big boy gun.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So it's 300 Win Mag.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, Black Hills ammunition. So the cartridge was Black Hills. It was a 210 grain hollow point tip on it.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Well, and the cartridge is huge. Yeah, it's like four bucks a cartridge. I mean, it's like, it's a big, that's a big boy cartridge. And when you fire a 300 Win Mag, like you feel that. You get fatigued pretty quick.
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I can't deal with it. It's so loud.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. You go to a range where someone's shooting like 300 or up and you're like, oh. It's impolite. I don't know. Put a suppressor on it. No, I totally agree. Wow. That's. Yeah. And 210 grain. That's a big. Yes. That's a big bullet. Yes. And so I think he hits him from 155 yards and it hit him in the lip. goes through the face, out the neck, but then back into his back.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And they recovered a fragment of the mushroomed bullet from Crooks' body.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Where was he? He was, so there was this furious action going on by the AGR building. I believe there were five, either four or five different local law enforcement agencies. So you had the Pennsylvania State Police, you had the troopers. You had Butler County Police. So Butler County was the county where Butler is. You had the Butler Township Police. You had the Beaver County, I think, sheriffs.
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So they're one county west of Butler. And then you had the Washington County, which is southwest of Butler. So you had five different local law enforcement. The Washington guys, I believe, were down by the horse ring, which is probably a good 400 to 500 yards away from everything. But they had fairly good visual coverage of everything. So it was mostly the Butler and Beaver County people.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
It's absurd. So I don't think there's any evidence, or at least I've not seen any, to suggest that was replicated here. So I think it's somewhere in between deliberate incompetence to make him vulnerable, and then you had some cell somewhere finding someone to urge to go do it in ways that would make it very hard to trace.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So they're furiously searching around. You've got one guy who tried to climb on the roof.
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they're furiously searching he climbs on the roof he's got he uh his partner hoists him up so he's kind of holding on like this to the roof looks up and sees the shooter right there he says the shooter turns on him and aims him and he said i don't know what happened next i don't know if i lost my grip he said next thing i know i'm on the ground i'm on the concrete
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So who is the cop who says he shot Crooks? I think it was a Beaver County cop. At some distance, though. Yeah. I mean, he wasn't right on him, but he had him in his sights, fired one round. With a rifle. With a rifle. Swears he shot him.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
There's no forensic evidence in Crooks' body that he was shot. But Crooks stopped firing after the eighth round, which was simultaneous with the round from that cop. So did he hit the gun maybe? There's some speculation that he might have hit the stock.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
He absolutely did.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They recovered, I think, all eight shell casings.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, yeah. He didn't run out. He didn't stop shooting because he ran out of ammo.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, that's when the shooting stopped. It stopped permanently when he got a 210 grain Hornady tip through his upper lip. But the shooting had been stopped prior to that.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Why? Because they had no eyes on him. You had your two snipers on the roof in the north barn, and that was the number two unit, how they were kind of categorized in all the documents. They never saw him because they had a gigantic tree in their way. It was impossible. And so it's interesting. We all watched that footage. Everyone's wondering who got him.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So they see the guy who's kind of kneeling down. He's on the big tripod. People automatically assume, oh, well, he did it. And then he's got the guy prone next to him. No, well, he must've been the one to do it. You see him, like he's either looking through, I think his binoculars, he might've been looking through his scope. He hears the gunshots and he pops up. Do you remember this in the video?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Pops up and he kind of looks around and you're like, why is he off the glass? That's weird. He doesn't know where it came from. Like those two guys on that North barn are furiously looking where it is.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Exactly. Which they didn't. And then you have the counter sniper team lead who had convinced himself that because they had local cops in the building. that that was their job to be watching that, even though it was physically impossible for them to do. And they were never told they had to do that.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And then the one guy who had a sightline to that was assigned a sector that was the exact opposite of it. How, like...
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, yeah. That was your question. Sorry, I got sidetracked. So you said, where did the bullets go?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So three people were shot. Corey Comparator, the firefighter, he was shot. Two other men were shot. We know- Two other men? Yes. There were four people shot. Trump, two men who were shot and didn't die, and Corey, who was killed by a bullet.
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They're alive and well. There was an interview with them by one of the networks a couple weeks ago, but they're alive and well. They're talking about it. Obviously, they'll carry scars with it forever, but I don't believe they were permanently disabled in any way. Damn. But they couldn't account for all the bullets. Yeah. Which makes sense.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
You know, something nicks a bleacher and goes off into the ground, you're never finding a bullet.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So they were .223 caliber bullets in a .556 cartridge.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, we still don't know. Like, it's wild. This kid comes out of nowhere, manages to get on the roof, shoots President Trump, fires eight shots before anyone, even like remotely tries to bother him. He was able to fly a drone there for like 10 or 20 minutes. Did recon multiple times throughout the day. Had an operative, operable IEDs in his car. Had a bomb in his house.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
People who don't shoot guns and think ARs are massive, big, powerful guns, they'd be shocked at how tiny .223 rounds are.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So, yeah, I remember that news report.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So it was reported that afterwards. My theory is that Silverware was taking his evidence because he was mixing bombs in his house. I did not read anywhere that when officers showed up, because they interviewed one ATF agent who was actually in the home and who was the one who discovered the IED in Crooks' bedroom. No mention of no silverware. He's like, no, it's a normal house. It was well kept.
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It was clean. It's not like a bunch of slobby, sloppy hoarders lived there. It's like a nice normal house in order. Yeah, so I don't know where the silverware, because I've heard the same thing. I've not read a single report from someone who was there that says, yeah, we got in there and there's no silverware.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I suspect that they took it to test it forensically to see if he was mixing bombs with it. Because he had a gallon of nitromethane in his closet. It was openly viewable. Pardon me, Ingress, what's nitromethane? It's a major component of bomb making. It's liquid, has an odor. Can you buy it at a hardware store?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, so he had a gallon of it. And so the ATF guy walks in, sees the bomb, looks around, sees in his closet this gallon of explosive material. And then at that point, they immediately clear the whole house, and I believe all the houses, one house around it.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They'll blame it on manpower. That's always the easy bureaucratic solution.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yes, one, it didn't just bleed off manpower. So she had an event in Pittsburgh. There was bleed off in the radios. So the Secret Service at the Butler event for Trump was actually having issues with their radios because they were getting bleed over from the radios from the agents at Jill Biden's event.
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Dr. Jill. Excuse me.
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Yep. Nothing.
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Yeah. Sorry to break the suspense there, but like nothing.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. So two was what I call strategic incompetence, where where Trump was deliberately left vulnerable. And I think that for a whole host of reasons, one that I'm conscious and I've been alive. But right after the shooting, I. My wife and I were together working on home projects and we hadn't been paying attention to our phones and so started getting texts from people.
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My wife got a text from her friend, Trump's been shot. Like we're just kind of like stunned, like immediately pray because we don't know what the result is. A couple minutes later, text that he's okay. And then right after that, my phone starts going crazy. I'm getting texts and everything.
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And one of the most interesting texts I got, which I tweeted about, was that the Secret Service Special Operations Division, which is kind of like the elite division within the Secret Service, if you can say that, they had been asking for more protection for years for Trump, repeatedly, over and over and again. And it was denied, repeatedly. Denied so much that they just stopped asking for it.
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And we still know basically nothing about him. It's crazy. So America first legal, um, they sued to get his academic records and turns out he was a really good student, really good student. I think he got his entire time in high school and college, like maybe two C's. I think one was in Spanish and one was in differential equations and the rest were mostly A's and some B's here and there.
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Because it was kind of viewed as if you ask for something you're not going to get, it's like gauche within the agency. Denied by whom? Another great question we don't have an answer to. So Secret Service is now under the umbrella of DHS. Yeah, it was always under Treasury. Yeah, it was. And then they moved it, I don't know, five, ten years ago. Yeah.
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So under Mayorkas, like a real competent public servant there. Patriot, yeah. Yeah. So you've got him. Did the rejections come from DHS? I don't know. You've got Cheadle up there, who's an idiot. Did it come from her? I don't know.
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I don't think we know. Actually, no, I'm going to assume she's doing security for like a Fortune 500 CEO. Yeah, exactly.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Nope. Don't know why, who, how often. And that weekend, so I put that out, it gets some traction. Secret Service spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, something like that, spent the whole weekend calling reporters and telling them I was making it up. That never happened. Puts out a statement, it's not true. He's never denied anything.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Well, you're asking who's Thomas Crooks. We know more about Joe the plumber. You remember Joe the plumber? Very well. He died, unfortunately. He did. I knew him. Yeah. He asked a question about taxes to Obama, like in a rope line.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They gave that dude like the media digital colonoscopy within like five minutes. We know more about a guy who asked Obama a question about taxes than we do about a guy who shot Trump in the head. Well, of course.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Do you know how Crooks' father found out his son was the shooter? No. CNN called him. Really? Yeah. Well, we're talking about kind of like weird, creepy media stuff. Yeah. So there's no ID on Thomas Crooks. They get to the body. He's dead. They don't know who he is. The only thing they have is a serial number on his rifle.
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So they call up ATF and they do what's called an urgent trace to figure out where was this gun bought. And I think it takes them – Dettelbach, the ATF director, says it took him 30 minutes. I think it took like two hours. But they know by around like 8.30, definitely by 9-ish, that the dad bought the gun and where he bought it from. And it was from a retailer that had since been closed.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They put together a report, like a pretty narrow distribution of people. I think it went to Pennsylvania State Police, so local police could go stake the place out. Went to FBI, ATF had it, but it's a very, very small distribution. And we know because we got the testimony from the guy who sent it out. ATF and a couple cops are sent to go do a stakeout on Crooks' father's house.
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So they get there, we'll call it like 10 or 10.30. At that point, they're already seeing cars slowly drive by in ways that obviously they don't live on that street. And I think 10.56, they get a word from a dispatcher that Crooks' father has called 911 to report his son missing. At that point, they're no longer doing a stakeout. They have to go confront him because obviously he knows something.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So he was like a smart, smart kid. Um, One of the congressional committees did an investigation looking into it. And parents really didn't know much about their own son. I think either the mom or the dad at the point asked, are you gay? You're not dating anyone? What's going on? They don't even know what's going on there. We know the FBI has his phone, his devices, his computer.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They go up to his door. He meets them out there. And he says, is it true? Was it my son? And they ask him, why would you say that? He said, CNN called me and told me. He got two calls from CNN and a call from an NBC producer. That does not make sense at all.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They had it from the ATF report that had the trace of the serial number. So somebody, yeah, the ATF report, somebody had that and decided, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to call CNN in NBC. They don't know who did it.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Well, because at that point, did we know the age of the person? I don't think we knew anything. Yeah. CNN called me and told me. And... When I found that out, by the way, I'm still angry about the whole Roger Stone raid. I am just thinking that exact thing. That's so funny. CNN happened to be there that morning right before the cops got there. Liars. They are liars. They are liars.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They absolutely had it leaked to them. Oh, I know. And so I saw that and it just instantly reminded me of the Roger Stone thing and then made me angry again.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
But, you know, that leak, it materially changed how the police responded. They found bombs. They're trying to get a perimeter. They're trying to keep an eye on things. They're waiting to get the signal to actually go confront the family. And because this guy got... I'm convinced that he called police after being called by CNN. Yeah. It's not in the report, but you'll never convince me otherwise.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Materially changed how the cops had to approach the home of the shooter. To me, it's just unconscionable.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I think that was the Trump FBI still, although it's all the same.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Before this? Nothing. Nope. Don't know who he was texting. Don't know what was going on on these encrypted apps. We know he went to the range that day. Why not?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They know who he was talking to. They know where he went. They know where he bought stuff. They know what he searched for. And we don't know anything about that. So there's a Senate report from the Homeland Security Committee that tried to dig into it.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Because they're completely weak and neutered. I mean, my view is Congress is by far the most powerful branch. Of course. It controls the purse. It's designed to be. Exactly. And yet in practice today in 2025, it's far and away the weakest.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I was so naive. Like, I believe that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because they told us there were. Like, why would they lie? So it didn't dawn on me that they were all just corrupt liars until really the Russiagate hoax. But it didn't start in 2001. I feel like it's been that way for like 70 years.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, because they didn't, their first crime was not killing Kennedy. Like that wasn't like dipping their toes in the water. No, no.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And there are two congressional committees in the House and the Senate that actually did a really good job, given all the constraints they have figuring stuff out. So they asked the FBI all these questions because the FBI took the lead on it. Give us all this information. At the time the Senate put out their initial report, the FBI had given them 27 pages total. How?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
That's actually how it should be. I totally agree. That's actually how it used to be. I know. It used to be a blue collar job and you'd work a beat and now you have to go to Medill or Columbia and it's just embarrassing.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. So the craziest thing, and people in Trump's circle have told me there's no chance it could have happened this way. They swear there's no way it happened this way. Do you remember J.D. 's Rogan interview? He's kind of talking about when he was, his process of interviewing to be VP and all that. And Trump was considering bringing him up at that Butler rally and announcing him.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Oh, yeah. So so kind of at that point, J.D. 's been told like you're it. And now we know it's Trump like it's never actually done until it's done. So it wasn't technically done.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. But J.D. 's been told they're they're mulling the idea of him going to Butler. And then Trump's like, no, we don't really want to do that. We haven't done the prep and all that. So we'll just put a, you know, put a pin in that. That was the last rally. Before he had announced a B.P.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So that's, if you are a crooked, evil deep stater, and you want to get rid of the virus that is Donald Trump, and make sure that he doesn't get to pick the person who would be running in his stead if something happened.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
That's when you would do it. And so I've asked, I said, did anyone leak that? He said, no, impossible. No one leaked it. And I said, okay, I 100% believe, like kind of just knowing who's around that, 100% believe that. You're telling me it's impossible that nobody heard the conversation through other means?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
We're in different circles, Tucker.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. So if other people knew it, that that is the more people who know, you know, the more people will know. Yeah. So I just that thing. I don't know if I'll ever be able to get that out of my head. The timing based on what was going on that weekend.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So you're talking about the West Palm one?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Jose Andres something. I think that guy got a presidential medal of freedom from Biden. The picture of him with him. He's like palling around. Not really. Yeah, I think... Unless I'm like totally... getting my wires crossed.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I'm pretty sure that guy got a Medal of Freedom and there's a picture of him with Ralph, this like homeless Hawaiian mercenary bringing troops to Ukraine who's camped out on Trump's golf course after Trump's already been shot in the head. And a Secret Service guy happens to see him. I think the report I read was he was five feet away. Fires like 10 rounds at him. Misses.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And it was local cops who got the guy 45 minutes later. How does that happen?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Given the constraints that they have, so Congress doesn't have a lot of staff for doing this stuff. Right. They had no time. They don't have the investigative tools that the FBI has. You had the Senate Homeland Security Committee that did its own report, and then you had the Butler Task Force bipartisan in the House that did its report.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, I'm not sure I've ever seen an incident of that magnitude disappear from the news so quickly. Yes. We got what, maybe a week of like true kind of flood the zone coverage? Yes. And then it was gone.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I thought they did a great job, both of them, given the limitations and constraints they have. I don't know how they could have been more thorough given the FBI trying to block them from doing anything.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Do you know? It's this weird thing that happens. They actually don't have any legal basis to do it. They'll say things like, well, ongoing investigation. That's totally made up. Even when there is an ongoing investigation and not when your suspect is dead. So, like, clearly no one's going to be criminally tried for that because he's dead. Even that's totally made up.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
It better not be. I mean, Trump's coming in in a couple days. He's going to be president. He's hopefully going to get his people in office. Better not be the end of the inquiry.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I mean... I know enough about human nature to where I can't dismiss that. But yeah, there's always some new story we have to go like react to and pretend we're like very upset about. And it's like every day. Remember when news cycles were like three days long? I remember very well.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I think one of the hijackers was living with an FBI informant for like a year. I think that's correct.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
What is that? I don't know what's happened to Congress. I think it's probably a combination of... Obviously, the more responsibility you take, if you're going to take 100% of the powers you've been given by the founders and the Constitution and exercise that every day, you're going to have 100% of the accountability. There's nothing a member of Congress politician hates more than accountability.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yes. So they are generally happy to delegate all of their authority to the executive where they can just blame stuff on bureaucrats. Oh, it was a bad process. It was a bad bureaucratic. People in Washington love blaming process. Have you noticed that? I have. Always the process. There's never a person at fault for anything. It's always a process that can be strengthened.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
We fought with them more than Democrats. Okay.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
There's nothing in the Constitution that says this agency that Congress created and is funded by Congress can just not give them stuff because reasons. It's totally made up. So I think a big reason is most people in Congress are totally weak. They're cowards. That's for sure. They don't want to get crosswise with the FBI who take a lot of work.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. And man, Coburn was, that guy was a unicorn. There will only ever be one of him. He didn't care what anyone thought about him. He hated everyone in Washington. He hated Washington itself. All he wanted to do was like go up there and cut spending and restore some sanity and then go deliver babies on the weekend. And then the Senate was like, actually, we're going to ban you from doing that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Because it's a conflict of interest. Delivering babies? Delivering babies. He's like, okay, I'll do it. I'll do it for free. I'll pay MedMal out of my own pocket. And I said, no, no, you can't do that. We're going to ban you. The Senate Ethics Committee went after him for years. For delivering babies. For delivering babies.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. Yeah, but, you know, actually touching and being with constituents, that was too much. But I remember doing stuff with him where we would have constantly people telling us, we don't do things like that around here. Really? Yeah, all the time. And we'd be like, what do you mean you don't do things like that? No, that's not how we do things around here.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And because we were all so young and green and idealistic, it was actually the genius in how he put together staff that It wasn't like an all-star cast of elite players. He just took a bunch of chuckleheads who believed in his mission and was like, yeah, go do damage out there. And so we did it. And so we were too stupid to know what we weren't supposed to be doing.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, it's super weird. For most of them, it's like their Senate tenure is five years of doing what they want and then a year of promising to do what their voters want. Yes, it's like a sickness. I genuinely don't understand it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I don't know if something happens when you become a Republican senator that happens like 90 percent of them where they get there and they just like being important and that becomes the thing they care about. And they're so you talked about the media being a player. The media exists in large part to gaslight Republicans into doing what they want. To control them. Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And so these guys, for whatever reason, they care what CNN thinks about them. They care what the New York Times thinks about them. And they don't understand that if you actually want to be powerful as a Republican... Not caring what anyone thinks about you makes you a freaking superhero. I agree with that. Makes you untouchable.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They don't like the machine doesn't know how to handle someone who doesn't care about their next job or the next puff piece. You're basically an alien to them. They don't know how to intimidate you or how to threaten you. Like, oh, you'll cast me out of this awful city full of terrible people. Oh, no. What will I do?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
A little bit. It changes with the class. So I've got a friend who's like one of the few really good true believers on the right. Worked in the Senate for a long time. Total genius. Parliamentary genius. And he says you can kind of judge senators unlike House members. You can judge senators by the class that they were elected into.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So they just kind of like, huh, okay, I guess we won't get it.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And that kind of tells you about the character of that whole group of people. So you've got the guys who came in in 2002. War on terror. Got to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. They're the worst neocons. The worst. And that kind of bleeds into 04.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And then you get the 06 thing where I don't think we even elected a new Republican senator because it was such a political bloodbath because the Iraq war is a disaster. Then oh wait, you've got the Obama years. And then the first kind of big year was 2010. That was all Tea Party. Those guys still have the Tea Party mentality, which is fine. I think the Tea Party was great.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. The House committee, for example, they also did a great job. They said that the FBI interviewed over a thousand people. in the course of their investigation. And they produced over 1,000, they're called FD-302s, which is how the FBI, it's actually crazy what they're allowed to do. I know. They don't have to have a transcript or anything when they interview you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
But you have to be able to like evolve with the electorate. They're still stuck in like Tea Party town. And then 2014 was like the repeal of Obamacare. That was the thing. And it really wasn't until 2016 where you actually started seeing a change that was reflective of where the people are. Happened again in 2018.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And then most of the guys coming in now are so much better than the people they serve with who got elected 20 years ago that it's not even close. Yes. And yet, they're still senators. And they still care about what people think about them. Like... Someone like you or me will never, ever be in that body.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, yeah. And it's actually – do you see guys who really want to get on the intel committee? Yes. Like, unless you're going to do real oversight, which I think one person, Devin Nunes, has ever done on that committee – The only reason to be on that is to be cool. You get to be with the spies, and you get read in on it, and they make you feel special, and you get to go on codels.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And then maybe one day they'll write a book about you, like Charlie Wilson's war, about how courageous you were in shipping a bunch of weapons all around the world and starting wars that we're still dealing with the ramifications of. It's the Jason Bourne, like John Le Carre kind of stuff that they actually think they're a part of.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
They just have a piece of paper that's their recollection of what you said. And then that becomes gospel. They don't have to record it. No. No. That's actually how James Comey got Martha Stewart thrown in prison. Oh, I know. It's so dirty. But so they have 1,000 interviews, over 1,000 documents. They gave the House 81 documents. So it's just mind blowing.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I just think that's evil. It is evil. It's people who... It's almost like they get off on the rah-rah team sport aspect of people getting blown to bits. Yes. And having their lives, if not ended, ruined forever. And I swear... I don't see how any of these people, they must not have ever talked to anyone who spent any time actually doing dirty work in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Because you can't spend any time. It destroys those guys. It destroyed a whole generation of warfighters and young men. I mean, and it's in evil ways.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
When you see the scars they bring back to the mental, emotional, spiritual.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And, you know, some of them deal with it way better than others. But there's a reason the suicide rate's so high.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
It's like, how shallow and cruel are we? In the news media, the corporate media, they treat it like it's a fun sport. Look what Red Team versus Blue Team did today. Let's look at this footage of this Russian getting killed by a drone. And then they cheer and they, oh, isn't this great? Isn't this awesome? Yeah, it is. These are human beings.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
It's gross. It's disgusting. It's weird. I look back on kind of how I thought about things in the run up to the Iraq war. And I'm just kind of ashamed about it. Me too. Because I was like the jingoistic rah-rah kind of thing. Oh, yeah. You find out it was all based on a lie. And you see that it's just that permanently changed how I looked at that entire bureaucracy.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So we don't know like anything about this Crooks guy beyond, I think, like maybe a 15 minute press conference that one of the FBI, I think might have been the FBI guy out of Pittsburgh who runs that office. Like 15 minutes of him talking in very vague, like 50,000 foot terms about what they knew. Oh, he searched for Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Do you remember that? Yes. How that came out?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. I mean, we're the only things made in God's image. That's how I feel. In all of creation. So we're infinitely valuable.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So we shouldn't, yeah, be cheering. And it's like you said, somebody breaks into your home, they're trying to do harm to your family. Yeah. You're going to do what you got to do, but just... But I don't want to do it. Yeah. Nobody should want to do it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I remember I was taking a gun training from an uncle of mine who's like a legendary firearms instructor. He worked with Jeff Cooper out at gun site. Really? Yeah. He's awesome. And I remember him, my sister and my aunt and uncle and I went with this other uncle and his wife to do this training. And he made us sit in a classroom for like a whole day. And he drilled into us.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
What's the number one rule of gunfights? Be somewhere else. And then what's the second rule of gunfights? Have a gun. But he's like, yeah, if you're paying attention, like if you're aware and you know what's going on around you, you should have the ability and the awareness to never be in a position to ever have to do it. I agree. Bar some sort of awful twist of fate.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I hadn't thought about that, but I had noticed like the fever pitch of hysteria after a shooting over the last almost like year, six months to a year. They kind of feel like they're just going through the motions with it in the media.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
The drone stuff I find terrifying. Terrifying. Especially the mass drones because you can't stop them. I talked to one a couple months ago. I was talking to a former SEAL about it who thinks about this stuff a lot. And I said, so how do you stop the drones? He said, get a shotgun. And I said, really? Yeah, just shoot it. Okay, well, what if there's like a thousand of them?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Like, I don't... Shotgun I have doesn't hold a thousand rounds.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. Two shells. Yeah. Like, there... You have to have a technological solution to it. I don't know how I, as like Joe Blow or you, just help mine in our business. You're not defeating like a weaponized drone storm. At all. And I feel like Democrats, especially the ones who are all about gun control, know this because they'll say things like, oh, you think your AR is going to help you?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
We have nukes and cruise missiles. Your AR is not going to stop that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And that was meant to make it look like, oh, the guy didn't really have any political motives. Did he? I mean, what were his motives? Well, I mean, the base motive was he wanted to kill Donald Trump. Right. Which everyone kind of got lost over. You'd have the talking heads be like, what was his motive? Well, I think he wanted to shoot Trump in the face. Just spitballing here.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah. So there's an old quote from, I think it was J.P. Morgan, that I've used as kind of like my political motivation finding North Star. And it's that every man has two reasons for doing things, the good reason and the real reason. So like on gun control, the good reason that they always give, and I think probably a large percentage of people who espouse it, They do intend well.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Well, these hurt people, and I don't want to hurt people. And they don't think beyond the second and third order consequences. But it's a genuine, heartfelt, this thing does awful things to people, and I don't want that, so we should get rid of it. I understand where that's coming from. I don't agree with it. But then that's the good reason. So what's the real reason?
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I think a lot of people putting that stuff out just don't want us to be free.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
No, they come fully formed and you can like work 5% of the margins. That's exactly right.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
No, we're viewed as cogs. Yes. Especially the new kind of like, managerial leftism. Yes. They look at it and they say, okay, we've got this fixed population of people and I can move this lever and I can move this lever and I'll twist this thing and then I can get those people to do what I want. We're really just inputs, things that can be tweaked according to them. We're not people who have souls.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Exactly. We're not eternal beings who have infinite value. Yes. We're just things to be manipulated so they can get what they want. It's gross.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I'm not an optimist and it has nothing to do with politics. So I agree with you. I think this election was kind of a last chance, but it wasn't a guarantee. And my worry is that our politicians are a function of the people.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
um john adams it was either john adams or franklin said our system of government is wholly unsuited to an immoral people we were a nation found on christian principles by christian men who put christ and god as the foremost things in their lives and everything else was built around it our government was built around it the way we organized the states was built around it and it worked for a really long time until that foundation started to crumble
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And I don't know when that started. Was it the Industrial Revolution? Was it Vietnam and the drug era? I don't know. But our moral fabric as a people is totally unrecognizable to someone who helped start the country.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
and so my view is absent a true collective christian revival where we collectively repent for what we've done as a nation because god cares about nations he cares about the fate of nations he cares what nations do he blesses them and he curses them and he judges them and he lets them prosper Our nation had a covenant with God.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
But so you have the FBI is like, well, he searched for Trump and Biden. So clearly he didn't have any political views. I'm like, well, how many times did he search for? What was he searching? That's like kind of a it's kind of an important thing. Well, he searched for the DNC and the RNC. OK, great. That's utterly worthless information that I can do nothing with. And they're like, and that's it.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
It was obvious why we were formed, because we wanted to have a place where people could come.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Do you think that is like the moral nucleus of our society today? Because I don't. And so I don't see, absent a true foundational change in us as a people collectively... I don't see how we ever turn the ship around. And so I pray. Obviously, I pray for the president. I pray for mayors and our leaders, even when I don't like them, because that's what we're commanded to do.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And because God has put them in place either for our judgment or our blessing.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Something has changed. It feels like on election night, scales came off people's eyes. It was a weird thing. Suddenly people are just saying things that they weren't supposed to say. You've got NFL players. You had John Jones, UFC, doing the Trump dance. After finishing a dude, words that people use and sentiments they espouse were completely verboten. And that seems to have changed.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I completely agree. There appears to be a spiritual aspect in hunger in people now that I find really, really heartening. But it's like seeing the seedling sprout. I want to see the giant hardwood. Of course. But of course it has to start with the seedling. Of course it does. But do you see it in your world? Absolutely.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So we I mean, we literally don't know. We know nothing about this kid. No, we don't know who he was talking. Like here are the things I would want to know. All the places he went in like the six months leading up to this, not just the week. I want to know every place he went. I want to know every person he talked to in person.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I know every person he had a phone conversation with, texted with, telegrammed with, signaled with. I want to know everything he looked for on Google Maps. I want his whole internet search history. And I like want to go through it in real time. and just find out what was happening. I assume the FBI has done that. I know they have the capability to do it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Why has Congress not been told anything about it? And why have we not? And so that kind of stuff is why it's impossible for me to look at everything and be like, well, it was just a series of unfortunate accidents.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Right. But like who is he talking to? Was he just alone in his own silo doing all this? Did he do everything on the Internet? I don't believe it because at one point they told us, oh, he had encrypted text messages, some of which were overseas. And they just let that float out there and then never talked about it again.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
It's a total black box. Yeah. Okay. So Heritage Foundation at one point, one of their guys over there, this great investigator, Mike Howell, I don't know how he did it, was able to get like location data on devices that had been in or near Thomas Crooks' home. Yes. In the weeks or months leading up to it. And then where those had been. So I think this came out like maybe a week after. Yes.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
There was one that had pinged around the FBI. Yes. Now that could be a- The FBI building in Washington. In Washington. Now that could be a ton of different things because everything's around the FBI. Of course. But I'd like to know more about that. But we haven't been told anything.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, so he had two IEDs in his car that they found afterwards. They were wired. They had detonators in them. They had primers. They were connected to remote sensors that he had a remote control for on the roof to set off. Now, what's super weird about it is... In the car, the remote transmitters there were off. So even if he had that remote transmitter in his hand, he couldn't have set them off.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So that to me is weird. You go through all this trouble. You're going to try and kill the president. You've got all these bombs in your car, but then you don't. I mean, they're technically armed, but there was nothing that he could do to set them off. That's weird. It is weird. It doesn't make any sense to me.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
He liked shooting, like he seemed to go to a shooting range every now and again.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
I think it was probably 150, but whatever, that's plus or minus. 150, pretty far.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, it's helpful to know what he had. So he had, I think it was a DPMS AR-15, like pretty vanilla off the shelf. I had wondered for a long time what his optic was. Was he using iron sights? Because to me, that makes all the difference. It does. For like a layman between hard and easy. You take some like pipe hitter who's been doing it for 20 years, whatever, he can do what he can do.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
He only had a red dot on it. So he had a hollow sun red dot with a 2 MOA red dot, no magnification. I like to think I'm a pretty good shooter. I shoot a lot. I think that's a tricky shot. I totally agree, especially under stress. Yeah.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
And he only missed because Trump turned his head. I know. Like when you know the angle, like he started out with a target like this that became this. Yes. And so he went, you know, from probably a four to six inch target to like a one inch target just based on where he was aiming. My friends are going to make fun of me for saying, like, that's a hard shot. I think that's a tricky shot.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
No magnification, under duress, on a hot roof. It is a tricky shot.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
Yeah, if you have like a, you know, 18X magnifier on it, you're shooting at paper and you're on a bench and you've got a nice little platform set up, that's an easy shot.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
He puts it was outside the perimeter. So it was in his car. Right. So I don't think that was within like the security perimeter. OK, just wherever he parked his car. He's got bombs in it. He's got operational bombs in his car. And he puts a drone up. What do we know about that? So we know that he showed up around the park, I think around one o'clock, so that the event was starting six-ish.
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Sean Davis: Trump Shooting Update, & the Real Reason Congress Refuses to Investigate
So they probably opened the doors at four, let people in. He was there beforehand, just kind of walking around, looking at things, casing it. Comes back at, I think, 345-ish, 351, and flies a drone for like 20 minutes. Wow. Flies it all around, looks at everything, gets a bird's eye view. They were able to recreate the path that he had when they got the drone and the controller.