Hour 3 - The Forces of Darkness
4/27/202637 mincomplete
0:00This is an iHeart Podcast.
0:02Guaranteed human. Hour three of Clay and Buck kicks off now.
0:06The biggest story today by far, the would -be assassin, the attempted assassin of President
0:13Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
0:16Our man Clay was there.
0:17He heard gunfire, and he gave us in the first hour really a moment -by
0:23-moment revisiting of what must have been a very stressful few minutes whenever we were
0:32figuring out what was going on.
0:34Clay, I want to get to our callers and all this.
0:36I would just say, you know, you handled it in a very calm and calculated
0:41fashion. A lot of people there did, to their credit.
0:45And there was even a guy who just kind of kept nonchalantly eating whatever was
0:50on his plate. They caught him on, I don't know who that guy was, but
0:53he's become kind of a famous internet meme now.
0:55But in those moments, when you're hearing the pop, pop, pop, I don't know if
0:59your mind went there. You don't know if it's one guy the Secret Service has
1:03taken out. It could have been a team of a dozen guys who actually have
1:07training, know what they're doing, and have AK -47s trying to get into the room.
1:10I think people forget that, that we've had so many clownish imbecile would -be assassins.
1:16The guy who wanted to harm Justice Kavanaugh, for example, was clearly deranged and walked
1:22up to cops and was like, I have a knife and a gun.
1:23I'm here to kill the Supreme Court justice.
1:25There are people who actually know what they're doing, though, who will go to extreme
1:30lengths to engage in political assassination.
1:33Yeah, we're very lucky that the people who have done Butler, Pennsylvania, West Palm Beach,
1:38Florida, and now Washington, D .C.
1:40as a group are relatively unsophisticated in their ability to do great damage to either
1:47the president or others. And again, the sad thing is it's imminently predictable.
1:55Let me tell you two fun things before we take calls because there are some
2:00positives. First of all, you mentioned the funny meme of the guy kind of taking
2:07another bite of his food.
2:08They also got video of some journalists taking bottles of wine.
2:13I thought about taking a bottle of champagne back to our hotel room.
2:20And my wife, Laura, and I were obviously there.
2:23And I didn't do it.
2:25But I think if you guys had seen me walking, somebody would have taken a
2:29picture. If you guys had seen me walking out with a bottle of champagne that
2:34was otherwise going to go to waste, I think you guys would have been like,
2:36yeah, I kind of see Clay doing that.
2:38I'm surprised it's not a whispering angel.
2:40Secondly, I want to give credit to my wife here.
2:43Not only did she look beautiful, but Buck, I don't know if Carrie has, if
2:48you guys have had issues with this, the amount of events we go to that
2:52it's almost impossible to get a car after and we end up walking long distances.
2:56And for you and me and most men out there, I think our shoes aren't
3:01that uncomfortable, right? I mean, it's very, very, I can't even think of the times
3:04when I've been in a pair of shoes and been like, oh, I hate these.
3:0890 % of women's shoes that they wear to fashion events or places where they
3:12get dressed up are awful.
3:14If my wife were here right now, she would probably say this is a tip
3:17that she would like to share with all the women out there.
3:21She has, I'm not kidding about this.
3:23She totally prepared that it was going to be chaotic.
3:26Didn't think there was going to be an assassination attempt, but that given the fact
3:29that the president was going to be there, it was going to be difficult to
3:32get any kind of transportation to get back there.
3:36Buck, she brought slippers in her purse so that she could put them on and
3:42walk home so she didn't have to be barefoot.
3:44That's a pro move. Like, if you saw that, if this was a first date,
3:48if we went back 20 years or whatever when you first met Laura and you
3:51told me, like, Buck, we were on a date and she brought slippers so we
3:54could walk out, I'd be like, marry her, man.
3:56She understands. Comfortable feet. That was a good decision, but she is such a prepper.
4:00She had, and I'm not talking about like super fancy slippers, I'm just talking about
4:03the kind that you would get in a hotel, you know, that they might give
4:07away, but it's better than trying to walk barefoot or get carried or whatever.
4:10Here's the other thing, and I saw this mentioned.
4:13They have a coat check.
4:14Coat checks are awful everywhere.
4:17The lines are awful. You find, they can't find your jacket, everything else.
4:21Laura kept her jacket. It wasn't super cold, but she kept it.
4:24Everyone who coat checked Buck because it's a crime scene doesn't get their coats back
4:29yet. So there are a ton of, there's probably 500, 800 people who checked fancy
4:35coats there. It's impossible to get your coat at the end of an evening.
4:39Just keep your coat. So anyway, two good tips for the ladies out there that
4:45I was impressed by my wife when we had, you know, nobody was expecting an
4:49assassination attempt, but when everybody just had to leave and kind of walk home basically
4:53on their own, she was prepared.
4:57All right, we said we'd rack and stack calls.
4:59We're going to keep that promise.
5:01Lisa in California. What's going on, Lisa?
5:05Hi, Klan Buck. Actually, I'm from Torrance, California, believe it or not.
5:10And it kind of shakes you up a little bit when you hear your little
5:13town mentioned to this degree and for this reason, especially when you are a, you
5:19know, a ma -ha mom, a Trump supporter.
5:22But I am a, I'm a mom to a young boy.
5:24I'm a daughter of a criminal trial lawyer who has witnessed a lot of crazy
5:28trials, and I've personally been to Trump rallies.
5:31I was at Charlie Kirk's memorial.
5:33I was just recently at the White House Easter egg roll by Trump's personal invite
5:37to my son. And as a mom, I can't help but stand everything of, you
5:44know, all possible dangers in order to protect my son.
5:47So by habit, I do the same thing when I'm at these events where Trump
5:52is going to be. And, you know, I was just standing right outside the Oval
5:56Office, and I was standing there next to the security waiting to go sit down
6:00for the book read by Tulsi Gabbard.
6:02And I'm like, hey, are you guys sure you got this?
6:04They didn't check our ID when we go in.
6:06You know, I just have my little printout, and you just let us in right
6:09here on the south lawn of the White House.
6:13So I guess do we need to have a mom like me to help with
6:17security? Because the variable of the rhetoric is not going to change.
6:21We know that with Internet was screaming.
6:23We know this is going to happen.
6:27Why can't we just take the steps in advance?
6:29Those tickets you guys went in, which, Clay, I saw you out there with your
6:34wife. I was watching the dinner live.
6:37And, you know, why do you guys just have a ticket?
6:42Why are they not doubled?
6:44There should be layers, is my point.
6:46And we already know this in advance.
6:48We know this from all the past events.
6:50So why can't we just do this in advance?
6:55It's a great question. I think, again, Buck, we talked about this in the first
6:59hour. And thank you for the call, Lisa, in Torrance, California, where this suspect is
7:02from. They're going to have a fourth and a fifth attempt on Trump's life.
7:08Unfortunately, I don't doubt it.
7:10I don't think you doubt it.
7:11I don't think anybody out there doubts it.
7:12And let me hit you with some news.
7:14The White House Correspondents Association dinner shooter has been charged.
7:20This kind of goes in with some of our conversations, Buck, with attempting to assassinate
7:24the president of the United States, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
7:30So he at least fired.
7:32To your point, Buck, he may or may not have hit the Secret Service agent.
7:35We still haven't been told directly for sure.
7:38But also transporting a firearm and ammo in interstate commerce.
7:43But the one that is at least somewhat newsworthy is discharging a firearm during a
7:49crime of violence. So he did fire his weapon.
7:52So maybe he was the one that hit that Secret Service officer.
7:55We'll get more details on that.
7:57Brian in New York wants to talk.
7:59What's up, Brian? Hey, that whole list of different things that these people have said
8:08that Caroline Leavitt went through.
8:09I had heard a compilation that someone put together, but this is my first time
8:13seeing it over the weekend.
8:14And the really egregious one is Hakeem Jeffries.
8:17The maximum warfare everywhere all the time, that wasn't an off -the -cuff thing.
8:23He spent our money to have a poster board printed up with that on it
8:29to see what he's next to him.
8:30But depending on how the midterms go, this guy this time next year might be
8:35number three in line to be president of the United States.
8:38And this is what he's doing?
8:40Like, I don't know how to address it.
8:42But this is, like, it's really unsettling that we have someone at that level of
8:48our politics. And, again, using our money to print this stuff up.
8:52But these aren't off -the -cuff things.
8:53This is a planned, choreographed thing that they're doing.
8:57I think it's an excellent call, Brian.
8:59I think it's very important what he's saying there, by the way.
9:01This is from the very top of the Democrat Party.
9:03This is not some fringe element that uses the rhetoric that's a problem here, Clay.
9:08Let me also hit you with something else.
9:10Because if Hakeem Jeffries is the Speaker of the House starting in 2027, the incentive
9:17to kill Trump and J .D.
9:19Vance goes up even more.
9:21Because if you kill the president and the vice president, then a Democrat is back
9:25in office. I think this is a flaw, frankly, in our line of succession, that
9:32you can have a situation where the third in position is someone who is of
9:39the opposing political party. Because it actually incentivizes a crazy person, much like the Kavanaugh
9:45assassin was incentivized. Because until the opinion is public, then it doesn't become law.
9:52If you killed Trump and J .D.
9:54Vance, a Democrat would be in office, potentially beginning in January.
9:59I think I'm just stating what everyone knows, but beyond the horror of our friend
10:07Charlie Kirk being assassinated on that human level of he's a son, a husband, a
10:13father. He's just trying to speak on campus.
10:16We've talked about all that, and it's very upsetting just thinking about it.
10:19But Clay, unfortunately, the left got what they wanted at some level out of that.
10:26Now, I don't just mean, of course, the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk, but Turning
10:31Point's never going to be the same.
10:33Charlie was a unique individual who built that entity, which was mobilizing young people on
10:40the right. The forces of darkness were able to get something out of this.
10:49I don't know what else to say.
10:50It's very apparent. A turning point will never be what it was before Charlie was
10:56assassinated. It's just I don't see how that could happen.
10:58Charlie was turning point. And that was powerful among young people in this country, bringing
11:05them not just to the right and to conservatism, but to family values and God
11:10and decency. And the forces of darkness got a win out of this.
11:14And that is a very tough.
11:16So I just, you know, keep in mind that there are lessons that are taken
11:20out of these things that the sane, the decent and the moral don't necessarily think
11:25of. But for those who are demonic in their approach to politics and have become
11:31so deranged and so delusional, they see this.
11:34And it's like what I said, even about the White House Correspondents Dinner, Clay.
11:38It got shut down and Trump had to be, you know, scurried off the stage
11:42with a bunch of Secret Service agents, among others, too.
11:44It gives the impression of an administration under siege.
11:48And the left likes that.
11:49A lot of Democrats like that.
11:52The banner that the caller was referencing was from Wednesday.
11:57Hakeem Jeffries had a press conference and they made a big poster board with President
12:01Trump's picture. And it says maximum warfare everywhere all the time.
12:08This is intentional, right? Three days later, somebody, what does he do?
12:11He executes, in his mind, maximum warfare all the time, tries to kill the president.
12:15Let's do Krista in St.
12:17Augustine, Florida. What's up, Krista?
12:20So this isn't going to stop the regrouping and they're going to try again.
12:26We brought in the National Guard thanks to Linda in Arizona.
12:29So why are the military elite forces surrounding the president and everywhere he's at at
12:35all times? Those Secret Service agents, they look like school resource officers at a bake
12:40sale. They were so slow.
12:42That guy should have been shot even before he hit the barricade.
12:47And they're just these crazies.
12:50They're watching the failures. They're regrouping.
12:53And, yes, number four, number five is coming.
12:58Why aren't the military elite forces, our SEALs, our Delta Force, our Green Berets, surrounding
13:03him and every entrance to every building that he is?
13:08Well, I would say this, Krista.
13:09I asked the same question.
13:11And, first of all, I think it's an excellent question.
13:13And thank you for the call and thank you for your patience.
13:15Clay, if I were Trump, I mean, I would – I'd say – I'd call.
13:19I'd say, hey, DJ Shipley, GBRS Group, bring me a bunch of Tier 1 guys
13:23that are just the top of the food chain meat eaters and understand the threat
13:30environment we're in and are going to keep me and my people safe.
13:33Well, let me ask you this, Buck, as we go to break.
13:35How many Secret Service agents do you think would be top -of -the -line private
13:42security for Elon Musk, CEOs, the guys and gals out there, Taylor Swift, whoever you
13:50want to put in? Would any of them be the guys that end up in
13:54charge of elite celebrity security?
13:57For people who have essentially endless budgets for this kind of stuff, which a lot
14:01of celebrities do and a lot of CEOs do, I think that most of the
14:05Secret Service probably wouldn't even be in contention.
14:09When I say most, I couldn't give you a real number, but I think it
14:12would be a small percentage, maybe 20%, 30%, who really would be somebody that you
14:18would pay $1 ,000 a day to, which is what some of these guys get,
14:22by the way, $1 ,500 a day.
14:24I mean, it depends on the situation and the event, but, yeah, I think we've
14:29got a problem here. You've got 20 -plus years of DEI hiring.
14:32They haven't purged the Secret Service of all these individuals who were brought in because
14:37we needed to have a Secret Service that reflected the full range of human condition,
14:42including disability, and who knows?
14:46I mean, I'm going to probably take some shots here for this opinion, but I'll
14:49just say it. First of all, cost should be no obstacle.
14:53With what the federal government spends, we should have the baddest -ass dudes protecting the
14:58president. Let me say it again.
15:00Dudes, I don't think there should be any women that are in charge of trying
15:04to protect a 6 '4 president of the United States, whether it's a male or
15:08female, by the way. The baddest -ass warriors on the planet are all men.
15:13Like, we should have an absolute secretorian guard of bad -ass dudes that are not
15:21going to allow anybody to get near the president.
15:23Is that a controversial – are women offended by that?
15:26Like, dudes should be the ones protecting the president.
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16:41buck looking for normal in a world of crazy clay and buck have your back
16:47welcome back in uh clay travis buck sexton show larry in anchorage alaska buck i'm
16:53going to let you respond to him he says he doesn't want to criticize the
16:56secret service fire away larry guys uh wanted to let you know that i bought
17:02both your books thank you but what i wanted to say regarding the uh multiple
17:08shots fired and nobody getting hit i understand all the criticisms of secret service and
17:13i don't necessarily disagree with them but um the truth is handguns even in the
17:21hands of well -trained secret service or whatever law enforcement are just not as accurate
17:26as long guns and those guys that were guarding the president and first lady at
17:30the front table if that guy would have gotten into the ballroom one shot guaranteed
17:35virtually uh from one of those fully outfitted guys with okay i'm gonna let thank
17:42you for the call larry we're coming up on break but i want to put
17:44a pin in this buck you are the gunfire and gun training expert by far
17:49of the show i want when we come back you to tell us what should
17:54happen in the scenario based on the video we saw from your perspective if you're
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19:01in buck as we went to break i said that i was going to tee
19:04you up because you are the marksman expert legitimately a marksman expert of the program
19:10but also a marksman expert for much of the audience here so from and we
19:14don't know to be fair we're still waiting on more details what we have been
19:18reacting to is what the caller was reacting to the video that came out it
19:23appears that they draw their guns and i'm presuming there were some shots fired we
19:29haven't been officially told that we know based on charges that the would -be assassin
19:34evidently did fire his weapon because he's been charged with discharging his firearm okay what
19:40should happen if you have good security in that situation but first of all you
19:44shouldn't let the guy just run by you okay like that that should be a
19:49situation where you see him coming but if you've got a running target and the
19:53guy is armed and he is within for most of these guys i would guess
19:5820 or 30 yards he wasn't hit assuming there were gunshots fired maybe there weren't
20:03but if there were he was on on uh not hit by any of those
20:08that doesn't seem ideal to me what should happen in that scenario so we also
20:13had a call or a moment ago said look it's hard to fire a handgun
20:15accurately long guns are much more accurate well it all depends on what you're trying
20:24to do at the time right i mean yes long guns are going to be
20:27more accurate as a tool than pistols but you're generally going to be able to
20:32get especially in a close or confined situation you might be able to get to
20:35a pistol more easily um but here here's the way that they train on this
20:41clay when they're training just basic self -defense they call it the 3 -3 -3
20:44rule any of you have done a concealed carry class you know exactly what i'm
20:48talking about they teach you this rule but it's important to keep in mind three
20:52yards three shots three seconds a vast majority according to like fbi data a vast
21:00majority of gunfights occur within three yards or basically within 10 feet three seconds three
21:10shots so it's up close it's fast it's over now in the case of the
21:17secret service uh officers by the way you also see this a lot of police
21:21interactions with somebody that result in gunfire usually the person gets up you know the
21:27let's say the perpetrator kind of gets up close the most important part in a
21:31self -defense situation is actually the draw not the marksmanship because getting to your pistol
21:37and clearing it quickly and i was just going through this with a fantastic uh
21:42i mean a real expert i'm a i'm an enthusiastic amateur uh a real expert
21:46was training me Also, along with friends like Carol Markowitz, Clay, and Josh Hammer, and
21:51others were down here with me at the range, and we were going through this
21:54very thing, which is clearing that weapon out of the holster and getting it up
21:58so that you actually are able to fire on target and learning to actually fire
22:03before you even come together with your hands and aim, right?
22:06You're essentially firing from the hip or close to the hip, and that is, for
22:12tactical and for self -defense training, absolutely essential.
22:15So those are just some interesting—those of you in law enforcement and military, you all
22:18know this stuff backwards and forwards.
22:19It's like I just told you, 2 plus 2 equals 4, but a lot of
22:22people, I think, Clay, because their experience of shooting is what they see in the
22:25movies, where, I mean, I love Lethal Weapon, but like one -handed Beretta 9mm rolling
22:31on the ground, firing as fast as you can, you're only going to hit innocent
22:34bystanders a block away. Like, you're not hitting—you've seen that, right?
22:38Lethal Weapon does the roll.
22:39He does the roll. It's the most absurd.
22:42I mean, I love it because it's so absurd.
22:43It's the most absurd that you've ever seen.
22:44You're not going to hit anything.
22:46Or even Danny Glover, like, shooting the South African guy in Lethal Weapon 2 with
22:51a snub -nosed revolver at, you know, it's like 100 feet or 100 yards.
22:56The guy who tries to claim diplomatic immunity.
22:58Diplomatic immunity. And he's like, it's just been revoked.
23:01Yeah, no chance he's making that shot with that revolver.
23:05I'm sorry. Snub -nosed, no chance.
23:07Okay, under pressure, zero. Anyway, so people see this in the movies, and they think,
23:11oh, it's so easy. It's so easy to shoot somebody at distances.
23:15No. When you're hard, you're going to have an adrenaline dump.
23:19No matter who—unless, honestly, I think everybody would.
23:21Even elite warriors are going to have some degree of adrenaline dump when they come
23:25under fire. But you have that adrenaline dump in your heart.
23:29Your fine motor skills become gross motor skills.
23:32It becomes way harder to, you know, move, like, your fingers.
23:36That's why they train the way they do with trying to get you to use
23:40gross motor skills more than fine motor skills.
23:43And it's very easy to judge people when they're in this situation and say, you
23:48know, you should have been able to hit, like, little bullseye.
23:51Now, that all said, you've got a guy who's running by you in a confined
23:58space. I don't know how many shots were fired.
24:02It is staggering to me that this guy was not hit.
24:04I'll just tell you that.
24:06Taking all that into account, even that it's high stress, under pressure, and everything else.
24:10And then this brings us to—I don't know that the Secret Service—look, the Secret Service—I
24:18know this from the personal security side of it, where people are hiring individuals to,
24:22you know, do their—you get a lot of guys who are former special forces.
24:28You get guys who are ex -Delta, ex -SEALs.
24:32You know, there are certain people that tend to get that kind of work, especially
24:36at a high level for high -threat situations.
24:38You don't get a lot of former—I don't come across a lot of former Secret
24:40Service in that role. Secret Service is largely a crowd control and transportation service for
24:49the protectees. They're not engaged in even really, like, the law enforcement activities of wrestling
24:56bad guys to the ground, having to deal with that.
24:58You know, they're really just supposed to be—so it's a tough thing for them because
25:02they're supposed to be able to interact with people and be pretty normal and not,
25:06you know, this, like, menacing—you know, we don't want them carrying headsman's axe around and,
25:11you know, some kind of, like, a mask on, right?
25:12They're supposed to be able to fit in with events and be there with the
25:15president, but we also want them to, when necessary, be able to be very lethal.
25:21I don't know if it's a training thing, but between Butler and then West Palm
25:26Beach and now this, it just feels like the Secret Service is not up to
25:31the task. It's just not up to the task.
25:32They fired, we know for sure, in West Palm Beach, lots of shots and didn't
25:37hit the guy. In fact, he got in his car and drove away, the would
25:41-be assassin there, and they caught him somewhere on a Florida highway.
25:45I can't imagine—maybe they didn't fire a single shot, but if you watch the video
25:51that we saw, the guys are drawing their guns, unless—if this guy fired his weapon,
25:58as we are told that he did, why in the world is he not dead?
26:04I mean that honestly. Like, if you told me a guy's going to run through
26:08security, shoot someone, and he's not going to be dead, or at least shot up,
26:16my question is, what happened?
26:18Now, maybe somebody made the greatest flying tackle of all time.
26:23I would like to see the video.
26:26But even that is risky.
26:28If there's gunshots going off, you might get hit.
26:31As you talked about, Buck, being the guy who's trying to make the tackle, you
26:35end up getting hit by an errant shot.
26:37We still have not gotten the details on how many shots were fired, all of
26:42those things. But to me, this is a bit ominous that we could be in
26:48a position where, but for the incompetence of the would -be assassins, President Trump would
26:56already be dead multiple times.
26:58If you were somebody with real tactical skill, and you wish the president harm, and
27:08you see what's gone on here, I've felt this way ever since Butler, it's actually
27:12encouraging to the bad guys, the way a lot of them do.
27:15He goes, he goes, We're so incompetent in protecting him.
27:17Yes. We have been reliant on the blunders of would -be assassins to keep President
27:26Trump alive. And frankly, Buck, we may have benefited from this for a long time
27:31where people just thought the Secret Service was so competent that they didn't even try
27:35him. I've always thought that was a huge benefit that they had was that people
27:40thought, oh, the Secret Service, man, they got those sunglasses on and the suits.
27:45They're like Agent Smith from The Matrix.
27:47They're everywhere. They know what they're doing.
27:49I think that mythology has unfortunately been shattered.
27:53I get it, and it's unfair because there are a lot of Secret Service agents
27:56who I'm sure put their heart and soul into it.
27:59They would take a bullet for the president, which is not a small thing to
28:02do for any other person.
28:03But I think there are people who are patriots and who serve in the Secret
28:07Service with all they've got.
28:10But the organization has certainly taken – I mean, didn't they – they had to
28:15fire the head of it after Butler, right?
28:16Or it got – I forget exactly.
28:17Stepped down, fired, whatever. But there was – there's no question that there have been
28:21failures. I mean, that's the biggest failure that you can have is what happened to
28:24Butler. It wasn't just the president got shot and we just got lucky he didn't
28:28get killed. It was that the president got shot from the best possible sniper position,
28:33the most obvious one imaginable by some, like, 20 -year -old weirdo who – and
28:38I know there's a lot of people, questions and investigation and everything that still has
28:41to go on there. But that's the best we can do in terms of protecting
28:46our president. If I were President Trump, would I feel safe after all of this?
28:51No. By the way, I don't think President Trump feels safe.
28:54I just think he's completing the mission no matter what.
28:56I think that's what his mindset is now, that he's just built different, as he
28:59says, and he's just going to finish this thing, and he's not going to let
29:03fear cloud his mission. I think President Trump personally likes a lot of his Secret
29:08Service agents, and so he doesn't want to criticize them.
29:12But the way I would put it is – I ask that question of you.
29:17If you were Elon Musk or you were Taylor Swift or you were somebody who's
29:22famous, a celebrity, and has substantial resources and employs personal security, I don't think they're
29:29hiring Secret Service agents. And if we are spending as we are – what is
29:34our federal budget now, $7 trillion?
29:37Shouldn't we be in a situation where we have the baddest -ass protectors out there?
29:43Now, to be fair, some of these guys may not want the gig, Buck, because
29:47a lot of it is just standing around.
29:50And it might be for your average Special Forces guys that they want to be
29:54more physically active in terms of actually engaging in training.
30:01And much of this is very boring.
30:03I'm going to be honest with you.
30:04It's standing around and watching as the president gets on a helicopter or gets on
30:11an airplane, you know, on a relatively secure base.
30:14But I just keep looking at this and saying we are so fortunate that a
30:20foreign country that has trained assassins – China, I'm sure, has a bunch of them.
30:25Russia certainly has a bunch of them.
30:27Iran certainly has a lot of them.
30:30Cuba probably has them. That we haven't had a situation where they have 10 really
30:35bad -ass dudes on their side that have seen the security weaknesses we have and
30:40just decided that they're going to exploit them.
30:42Because if they had, they may not get the president.
30:45I think they'd have a good chance of getting to him.
30:48But they could kill a lot of people in a devastating 9 -11 -like terror
30:53attack that would change everything.
30:55Can you imagine if Iran, instead of this random teacher from California, if Iran, Buck,
31:01had gotten seven or eight of their most deadly assassins into that hotel and they
31:07had just come down in the middle of the White House correspondent's dinner and just
31:11started mowing people down? So I'm just looking this up to add to our discussion.
31:17I went to the secretservice .gov website, and in order to pass to become a
31:23Secret Service agent, I'm looking at some of the physical requirements.
31:26Minimum time to achieve one point.
31:29So basically to not fail the 1 .5 -mile run, how fast do you think
31:35you have to run to not fail?
31:36Now, you can get – if you go much quicker, you get more points, and
31:39I think that's kind of added into your total.
31:41But what is the no -fail number for Secret Service?
31:4719 minutes and 41 seconds.
31:4919 minutes? For a mile and a half?
31:52Yes. I mean, come on.
31:56Yeah. Not good, guys. Not good.
32:00That's awful. To be honest, that's awful shape.
32:03I mean, I get it if you're not a professional protector of the president.
32:07I think the fattest kid in my high school PT class was doing it faster
32:10than 19 minutes, and that was high school.
32:12That's almost a 10 -minute mile for two miles, but they only have to do
32:17a mile and a half.
32:18Yes. For people out there who aren't thinking about it, like if you jog, a
32:2310 -minute mile is an okay pace, right?
32:25I mean, 15 minutes, you can walk.
32:27You can almost pass this thing walking.
32:32Seriously. Oh, man. There are speed walkers out there listening to us right now.
32:36They're like, I can do a mile and a half and under 20.
32:40This is ridiculous. Yeah. Again.
32:42I would. that's not the baddest ass dude on the planet standard.
32:46Let's just put it that way.
32:48I think we just got to put Laura in charge of them for like a
32:50few months. You know, she can be in charge of PT.
32:52I think a lot of them will tap out.
32:54Dude, I've seen Laura's guns.
32:57They couldn't handle it. She's tough.
32:59I'll tell you this. If we ordered private security and they sent some chicks to
33:03protect our family, Laura Travis is firing them on the spot.
33:09I'm serious. If I was going somewhere and they were like, hey, we've got your
33:12security and it's two 5 '4 chicks in suits, I'm sorry.
33:17I'll fire them. This is like Clay with the male babysitter.
33:21I think Laura would fire them faster than me.
33:24Like, I'm 6 feet tall.
33:26You've got to be bigger than me if you're going to be protecting me.
33:30And certainly if you're protecting my family, you've got to be – I'm paying you
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33:38I think Laura would fire them on the spot if they sent some chicks.
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34:55Welcome back in. The Brits have arrived.
34:57King Charles, Queen Kamala. That'd be a heck of a swing, wouldn't it?
35:06Now I'm confused. Kamala. Kamala.
35:09Not Kamala. Queen Kamala. I can't even say it anymore.
35:13She's got me at Kamala.
35:15Anyway, I'm going to try to get to all your calls.
35:16You've got 30 seconds each.
35:17Some of you have been waiting a while.
35:19Brian in Florida. Fire away.
35:21All right, guys. I'm going to tell you there's a huge difference between Tier 1
35:25operators and law enforcement. I've been both.
35:28I was a combat controller for a long time.
35:30You never, ever take the shot in a crowded room like that unless the principal
35:35is in dire straits. So you don't think they fired a single shot at this
35:40guy, even though he fired at them?
35:42He was moving past them.
35:45I guarantee you, and I've trained on this, trying to hit a running target is
35:50almost impossible unless you are at 90 degrees to it, coming right at you or
35:54right away from you. So again, you don't think they fired a shot?
35:59I guarantee you, I can almost guarantee you none of those Secret Service agents took
36:04a shot. Okay, thank you.
36:05We'll find out. Jennifer in North Carolina.
36:07Jennifer, what you got? Yeah, hey, so while I might be willing to concede the
36:12president's affirmation of the Secret Service in protecting him, my concern is about the advance
36:18team. I'm not hearing a lot of discussion about that.
36:21Why is the security perimeter not sufficient?
36:24It's a great question. We'll discuss it again tomorrow after more details come out.
36:28Chuck in Columbus, you've been waiting a while.
36:29You get to finish up the show.
36:31Hey, I think the real conversation is that the threat is radically changing.
36:35It's changing fast that the number of unhinged, radicalized liberal Democrats willing to commit violence
36:42against our president is at a number never seen before.
36:45Thank you. And that's why I think we need the baddest ass guys on the
36:49planet in order to have protection going on.
36:52Buck, we'll dive into all this tomorrow, too.
36:55Totally agree. Clay was ready for action.