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It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator. Yesterday, my oh my, was in an interesting day on Capitol Hill.
And let's start with the headline.
We were supposed to get some answers about the assassination intend on Donald Trump. You asked direct questions to the acting director. Did we find out anything about how this happened?
Well, we had a blockbuster hearing yesterday in the Senate Judiciary Committee with the acting Director of the Secret Service and the Deputy Director of the FBI, and it was designed to really get to the bottom of what went wrong in Butler, Pennsylvania, what the Secret Service did wrong, and how do we fix it? And I got to say, it was frustrating, it was maddening. We saw an enormous amount of stonewalling. We're going to walk through exactly what
happened in that hearing. Also, we've got major breaking news about senior military leaders from Hesbola and Hamas being taken out by Israel in the last twenty four hours. A big, big victory for Israel, a big, big victory for America.
We're going to walk you through that right now.
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So set the stage for us real quick. I want to play.
Obviously, you're back and forth with the acting director as you got to ask a lot of questions and it didn't go well for him.
It's made a lot of headlines.
But set the stage of how important this hearing was and why it was taking place.
So this was yesterday morning.
It was a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, and we had the acting Director.
Of the Secret Service.
The former director has finally resigned given the catastrophic failures we saw and the deputy director of the FBI. And so it was a hearing that went all morning, and I got to say there was enormous concerned, enormous skepticism. We saw it from both Republicans and Democrats who were asking about the disastrous failures of the Secret Service. And listen, the acting director, he is somewhat better than the old director.
The old director was brazen, she was defiant. Her view was we owe nothing, we owe no accountability, We will not answer any question. We did everything right. To his credit, the acting director began his testimony by saying, we screwed up. We screwed up really badly. And the fact that there was not an agent on the roof where the shooter was was utterly indefensible. That's a step in the right direction. That being said, he's stonewalled, and he's stonewalled in a
way that was infuriating. And look, rather than meet describe it to you, just give a listen. Here's my questioning of the acting Director of the Secret Service yesterday morning. Thank you, miss chairman, misterro thank you for being here. I agree with what you said at the outset that the individual Secret Service agents demonstrated remarkable personal courage putting their bodies in between the line of sight of the
shooter and the president. That being said, the bravery of the line agents is quite different from the decisions of Secret Service leadership. Secret Service leadership committed catastrophic security failures, indeed the worst security failures for the Secret Service since nineteen eighty one, since the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. It is incumbent upon this committee to determine why those
security failures happened. Just after the shooting, Secret Service put out an official statement from your spokesperson that says, there's an untrue assertion that a member of the former president's team requested additional security resources that those were rebuffed.
This is absolutely false.
In fact, we added protective resources and technology and capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo.
Was this tweet accurate with respect to Butler, Pennsylvania. It is accurate, sir.
It is accurate that the Trump team had not add asked for additional security and had not been rebuffed.
If you're talking about Butler, Pennsylvania, all assets requested were approved. If you're talking about the media reporting of assets requested. There were times when assets were unavailable and not able to be filled, and those gaps were staffed with state and local law enforcement tactical assets.
So I'm reading from the Washington Post July twentieth, twenty twenty four secret Services denied requests for more security at Trump events the opening paragraph. Top officials of the US Secret Service repeatedly denied requests for additional resources and personnel sought by Donald Trump's security detail in the two years leading up to his attempted assassination, according to four people
familiar with the requests. Is that right that repeatedly the Trump detail asked for more resources and repeatedly Secret Service leadership turned that down.
That is not accurate, Senator, assets are requested. There's a process that has made.
How many requests did the Trump team or the Trump.
Detail ask for? I can get you that number in a Q.
You don't You don't know now, so I can speak to the ones that reported in the Washington Post and we can go through them if you like.
But you don't know how many requests there were in general?
How many requests since twenty twenty one that the former Trump detail has made a request for asking.
You've had two weeks you had a spokesperson put something out that is false on its face. By the way, did you approve the statement when it went out?
I don't know if I did or didn't. Say.
Has this spokesperson is he still employed?
Does he still have still employed? Center?
So he lied on behalf of the Secret Service? He still has a job. Did your predecessor, the former director, does she approve the statement?
Senator?
Our comms team they send out statements, they do deconflict them, and they put them out.
Did she approve this statement?
I don't know if she did or did not. And you don't know if you did either.
I don't recall approving it. Senator.
Will you commit to provide this committee and write every written request for additional resources from the Trump campaign or the Trump Detail and every response from Secret Service?
Senator, I will commit to providing responses and getting you the information that you're seeking.
Me.
Ask you something, and who makes the decision to deny those requests?
Did you make that decision?
Which requests are you telling about the ones that want us in the post?
Yes?
The processor is that a detail will make a request for either staffing, technical assets that is handled between the field office and the detail. It goes up to a logistics office between our.
Okay, so there's a bureaucracy. Is there a decision maker?
It's not a bureaucracy, Senator. That's a person that's a decision maker.
Is there one, Senator, it's a conversation.
It's not just an absolute yet. So let me tell you what I believe.
I believe that the Secret Service leadership made a political decision to deny these quests, and I think the Biden administration has been suffused with partisan politics. Did the same person who denied the request for additional security to President Trump also repeatedly deny the request for security to Robert F. Kennedy Junior, whose father was murdered by an assassin and whose uncle was murdered by an assassin? Did the same person make that decision?
Senator?
What I will tell you is that Secret Service agents are not political.
Okay, you're not answering you know what. Leadership by the president, leadership appointed by the president is political. I have a simple question, yes or no. Did the same person deny the Trump requests that also denied the RFK request.
That's a yes or no question. Senator. That is not a yes or no question one.
There is a process for a candidate nominee to receive protection.
Is there a by Cameron? Does the bike stop budy artisan process?
That they all say by cameral bipartisan process?
What can candidate not a chack? Do you have a Cameron?
Mister Kennedy submitted a request that was referred over to the Sea pack.
Okay, you're refusing to answer the question. Let me ask because because the failures on that day were catastrophic. By the way, is it true that on the day of the of the Butler event that Secret Service transferred agent from President Trump to.
The First Lady. No, sir, that's not true. That's been widely reported. It's not true.
There was one airport agent that actually went on the MANPI request for the Trump detail.
They handled the arrival at the airport.
What is the What was the relative size of the Trump detail compared to the detail that is assigned to the president of the First Lady?
Senator, the former president travels with a full shift just like the president.
What's the red so the exact same size? Is that your testimony that the President Trump had the same size detail that President Biden has on.
The day of in Butler, the agent surrounding him. It is the same number of agents surrounding the president today. There is a difference between a sitting president who also not only.
All on using president in a way that is not clear. Is it your testimony that in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump had the same number of agents protecting him that Joe Biden has at a comparable event.
I'm telling you the shift, the close protection shift surrounded yes, or you ask me, Senator, I'm trying to answer it.
You are not answering it. Is it the same number of agents or not?
Senator, there is a difference between the sitting president of the United States.
And what's the difference?
The difference two x three x five national demand authority to launch a nuclear strike.
I'm not over assets.
How many more with the president that's a former president.
You're refusing to.
Add a number of Secret Service I'm interrupting him. Stop interrupting me, go ahead, refusing to answer clear and direct questions. I am asking the relative difference in the number of agents between those assigned to Donald Trump and those assigned to Joe Biden. I'm not asking why you assign more to Joe Biden. I'm asking is the difference? Is it two X?
Is it three X? Is it five X? Is it ten X?
Senator I will get you that number so you can see it with your own eyes.
Senator number one, let's start at the end. He says, he will get you those numbers. This is not a hard question. You asked about the difference in the details, and yet he clearly didn't want to answer that question. Is that because we're going to be so shocked by what that answer is?
So listening He engaged in a very deliberate effort at deception. He said, the close protective detail is identical. Now understand a secret service detail that is protecting someone. You have the close protective detail, which are the agents that actually surround.
The protect tea.
You also have typically a perimeter that is often at three levels, the close protection, a second perimeter level that's often where you see magnetometers, that's often when you see people execs, and then you have the furthest out perimeter. What he did not want to answer is how many agents we're protecting Donald Trump? How many agents typically protect Joe Biden? And by the way, how many agents protect
the first lady, Jill Biden. Now I can tell you following up this cross examination, we have what are called QFRS questions.
For the record.
So I am submitting written questions. I am asking the Acting Director of the Secret Service number one, how many agents were assigned to Donald Trump? Number two, how many are typically assigned to Joe Biden? Number three, how many are typically assigned the first lady. Now, to be clear, and this is where, listen, there's some strategy in terms of how you approach across examination like this in public hearing. I did not ask him this in a public hearing
why because he would refuse to answer. What he would say is I'm not going to disclose to you how many agents are as signed to Donald Trump because that would endanger the security of the protective detail, and that that's a reasonable response. It's why I didn't ask the question. Because there's there's something that is known as law enforcement confidential. So when I ask him a question for the record, listen, I have TSSCI clearance. I have the top level of
security clearance there exists in the government. I want to know the exact number how many friggin agents were assigned to Trump? How many were assigned to the first lady. How many were assigned to the president. I'm not going to reveal those numbers, so when I get them, I'm assuming he will tell me. If he tells me their law enforcement confidential. I'm not going to repeat them on this podcast. But what I am going to repeat is what I asked him that he refused to answer. What
is the relative difference? I understand, Joe Biden, the sitting president's detail is larger than Trump's, but by what margin?
Is it double? Is it triple? Is it five X? Is it ten x?
He did not want to answer that question. The American people are entitled to know that question.
Let's also go back to some other questions that were asked of him, and I think these are important. One of them came from one of your good friends and colleagues, Mike Lee.
A very simple question. Take a listen.
No information regarding a weapon on the roof was ever passed to our personnel.
How is that even possible? Do you want to comment to that senator again?
I believe that information and this is probably something my colleague can expound on. Information that was in law enforcement local law enforcement channels but did not cross over and make it to Secret Service awareness.
I mean, that might be one of the worst answers I've ever heard. Center and the fact that he's confirming what we were terrified of, which is no information regarding a way up on the roof for the shooter on the roof was ever passed to our personnel. Now, when he refers to our personnel, he's clearly referring to those in the Secret Service or the Secret Service Sniper Team. And Mike Lee's response is spot on right. How is that even possible?
Yeah, Look, this was, as I said, a catastrophic security failure by the leadership of the Secret Service. They are not taking responsibility for that failure. Now, I got to tell you, the way this hearing was set up, we had five minute rounds. It is difficult to walk through the details of what you need to get through in five minutes. I ended up taking about seven, which meant I went about two minutes over and that's always leary.
But let me tell you some of the other questions that I had that I was prepared to ask, but because the acting director of the Secret Service was filibustering to some extent, he was interrupting me to some extent. He was belligerent to a significant extent. I didn't get to them, but they are a whole series of questions that need to be answers. And by the way, I'm
asking every one of these questions in writing. So in a follow up to hearing, you ask written questions Number one, the shooter when he came into the rally site in Butler, Pennsylvania, he was stopped by Secret Service at the metal detectors. He had a rangefinder with him. That was at three pm. Why did Secret Service not detain him? Why did they not question him about the ragefinder? Now, the acting director of the Secret Service, he said, well, it was a
recreational rangefinder. It was like a golf rangefinder that you used to look the distance of the pen. Now you're right now, you're with your son at the World Championship. You probably have a golf rangefinder. Yes, you know what. You know what in Butler, Pennsylvania, they weren't playing golf. They weren't trying to figure out where the was. There is no benign or innocious explanation for why someone shows up at a political rally with a rangefinder. So that's
question number one. Why didn't you detain him. Why didn't you question him? Why don't you say why the hell do you have this rangefinder? They didn't after that, Two and a half hours later, at about five point thirty, the shooter was seen. And by the way, let me make it aside, you will notice on this podcast, I will never ever ever say the name of the shooter. I think people that commit heinous acts like this are
evil bastards who deserve to be forgotten by history. So I will never I'll call him the shooter, but I will not repeat his name. But the shooter at about five thirty was observed using the rangefinder to measure the distance from where he was to the podium where Donald Trump was. The next obvious question why did the was the shooter not detained? Then?
Question?
Then he was observed by law enforcement scoping out the distance. That is obvious and highly suspicious activity. Third question, why were there not more agents? We had repeated requests over and over and over again from the Trump team. We need more agents, We need more agents. Why were there not more agents in the outer perimeter? Why there were there not more agents? On another question, why was there not a Secret Service agent on that rooftop? It is obvious.
It was about one hundred and forty yards away from the president. That is a clean line of sight for a sniper. That is not a difficult shot. Why was there not a Secret Service agent on that roof to ensure that nobody else was there?
He did not answer that question either.
Why let me ask you this question.
Let me ask you this question on that because there's a lot of people that ask me this, and I want you to.
Answer your perspective.
If they didn't have a team, right, There's been arguments when maybe they didn't have a team to cover that roof, and so it was lack of resources.
Assign the damn agents. There are four thousand Secret Service agents assign the agents. So one of the fundamental problems is the Secret Service.
I believe.
I haven't had this confirmed, but here's what I believe was happening. They were treating Donald Trump as a former president. Now, listen, former presidents have Secret Service protection for life. So Jimmy Carter right now, who is almost one hundred years old, Jimmy Carter has a Secret Service detail now, to be honest, that's right, that's good. But the threats against Jimmy Carter at this point in his life are very low. There
are just not a lot of acting Trump. There are not a lot of active murderers seeking to kill Jimmy Carter at the very end of his natural life. We know, by the way, the nation of Iran has hired assassins to murder Trump. So you don't just have crazy ass lunatics who want to shoot him. You literally have a nation state with billions of dollars to fund assassins to murder him. And what I believe the Secret Service here's what I think happened. The Biden administration is political in
every decision it makes. I think they didn't want to up Trump's security detail because if they did so, they would have to acknowledge his legitimacy. Listen, Trump is not just a former president who's retired and is off like painting paintings and building houses for habitat for humanity. He is the Republican nominee to be president right now. He is I think likely the next president of the United States. And the Biden administration, I believe this was all politics.
The leadership of the Secret Service did not want to up his detail because it would be according credibility and seriousness to his campaign. It is I believe the identical reason they refuse repeatedly to give a Secret Service detailed Robert F. Kennedy Junior now listen, you and I on this podcast months ago called them out and said it is outrageous.
Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, his father RFK Senior was murdered when he was running for president of the United States. His uncle JFK was murdered as the sitting president of the United States. RFK Junior has had multiple death threats, He has had
multiple attempts on his life. And I believe the reason that the Biden administration didn't give him a Secret Service protection is they hate the fact that another Democrat is running against what was then Joe Biden now Kamala Harris, and if they gave Secret Services protection to him, it would be acknowledging he was legitimate. That is if that is the basis, It is a purely political decision. It is indefensible and we need to get answers on it.
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much that came out in this hearing. One of them you mentioned a moment ago was about Iran and I want to play this because I do think it just shows how shocking how unprepared the Secret Service was, not just at this event, but maybe at many other events that were supposed to be protecting Donald Trump.
What is the nature of the Iran threat? The threat to former President Trump? That has been mentioned, but we know that.
Let me be clear here.
The terrorist regime of Iran have been targeting people our country for many, many years now. We've talked about that here before. I want to be clear about that from the FBI stamp. Have we know publicly they've put they've targeted former President Trump, They've called for his assassination.
I mean that they know this, and they say they've been doing this for years, and yet you let this building just sit unattended. And I go back to the question I asked you earlier, because it's a question many have asked if was just say hypothetical center, they didn't have the manpower hypothetical for the Secret Service.
And I have the manpower, get it.
Why wouldn't they have used those that were on the ground there locally, the SWAT teams that were there locally to cover that roof.
Well and to some extent, so the Secret Service was trying to pass the blame to local law enforcement. They were saying, well, local law enforcement screwed up. And so they said at one point that there were local swat teams that were supposed to be monitoring that roof, and there's been testimony that there was a local swat team there and then they disappeared. Now they won't tell us who it was. They won't tell us who made the
decision to leave that post. There has been media reports that there was someone assigned to be on that roof but it was too hot, so they left. We need to know the answer to that that that is. They're they're they're not. But what's what the Secret Service is trying to do is pass the buck to local law enforcement, say local law enforcement screwed up. But I'll tell you a couple other questions that I was going to ask and that I that I am asking and writing. So
we know and we've seen the videos. In fact, we played this on this podcast at the time. There were multiple spectators who were outside the perimeter who saw the shooter on the roof. They saw the shooter on the roof with a gun with a rifle, and they began screaming and yelling and saying there's a man on the roof, a man on the roof of the gun. They began doing that one minute and fifty seven seconds before the shooting began. That's a lot of time. They told local
law enforcement. It was a sign in that outer perimeter there's a man on the roof with a gun. Now, one of the enormous problems is there was apparently zero coordination communication between local law enforcement and Secret Service. So a natural question a minute in fifty seven seconds before the shooting began, spectators observe a man on the roof of a gun, why do the local police officers who were there not immediately radio Secret Service and say there's
a shooter. Pull President Trump down. That's what you do in that circumstance, is you pull them down. If you have the protect tee and you know that there's a potential sniper and it's a dangerous situation, you go up, you pull them down, say miss President, you need to come down for a second, and you just pull them out of the harm's way and then you go and
deal with the law enforcement threat. Why did they not do that for a minute and fifty seven second and what appears to be the answer, but the acting director would not answer. It is there was no interoperability. There was no communication between local law enforcement and the Secret Service. Now it gets even worse. A local police officer climbed up on the shoulders of another local police officer climbed
up to the roof. So when the people are yelling, hey, there's a guy with a gun, he climbed up to see it.
He climbs up.
To the roof, He pulls his head up, and the shooter turns and points his rifle at the officer's head. Now, the officer ducks because he doesn't want to get shot in the head. And the testimony was he fell about eight feet to the ground. That happened twenty four seconds before the first shot was fired. Now, in any ordinary insane situation, the officer as he sees the rifle, as he sees the man on the roof, so he knows. You have a police officer that knows there's a shooter
with a rifle on the roof. While the president is talking, here's what should happen. The officer, as he's ducking down, he pulls out his radio and he says, gun, gun, gun, shooter, shooter, shooter, And if the Seat Service here is that they have twenty four seconds for the detail to run up to grab the president, to pull him down under the podium. And by the way, they also have two counter snipers.
If they get over the radio gun gun gun shooter, shooter shooter, you've got twenty four seconds for the counter snipers to see the sniper, see the shooter, and take him out. If that happens, President Trump is not shot. Fire Chief Corey Comparatory is not murdered. The two other people who were severely injured or not injured, And what appears to be the case, although the acting director of the Secret Service would not confirm this, is there was
no radio interoperability. In other words, what the local police officer saw he could not communicate with Secret Service, and that is utterly unacceptable and what is infuriating. There was nothing in the hearing yesterday that suggested they've changed what they've done. So if they're relying on local law enforcement for important security and yet they have no way to communicate with local law enforcement about what they're seeing, it
is fundamentally ineffective. And the most important question is what are they doing to prevent this from happening again? And there was zero answer to that question in the hearing.
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Bureaucrats task with protecting our president will face for almost getting the leading candidate killed. Now, according to the acting Secret Service director, he admitted to you guys yesterday that no agent assigned to the Trump July thirteenth rally has been fired. And in fact there's only the secret the head of the Secret Service that was forced to resign after a horrible display on Capitol Hill. But it doesn't seem like there's been any other accountability. And that's sad, isn't it.
It's infuriating. So, as best I can tell, in almost four years of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris being in the White House, not a single person has been fired from any job whatsoever. You have the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. It was an absolute debacle that was embarrassing. It undermined the US military. It led to the deaths of thirteen servicemen and women. Nobody was fired. There was no accountability. You have here the first shooting of a presidential candidate, a
former president since nineteen eighty one, since Ronald Reagan. Nobody was fired. In any sane world, the director of the Secret Service would have resigned that day. In any sane world, the president would have fired the director of the Secret Service. But there's no accountability. Now you now have the acting director. And one question you asked me at the beginning of this pod, should the acting director be fired? And I'm going to say, I don't know. I think the proof
is in the pudding. So on one level, the acting director, whom I don't know personally, but he's been a longtime career Secret Service agent and officer, his answers demonstrated massively more candor than the old director. The old director was handpicked by Joe Biden, and Joe Biden I believe the old director was there. She used to be on Joe
Biden's Secret Service detail when he was vice president. I think they handpicked her because they wanted the Secret Service to cover up Joe Biden's massive mental decline, and so they put her in that place as a political decision to protect his political vulnerabilities. That's what I believe. But she was and we talked about this in a prior podcast. When she did on All Senators briefing, she stonewalled she
would not answer any questions. She said they did everything perfectly except for the fact that the president was shot and by the way, to be clear, had the bullet been a half inch to the left, Donald Trump would be dead today. She described this as a success for the Secret Service. It's not a success. It is I think God's providence. I believe God turned Trump's head. But we came within a half inch of the history of
the world being changed that day. So compared to the former director, the acting director is at least admitting they screwed it up, they did something wrong. He has some modicum of candor. Here's my answer in terms of whether he should be fired. How does he answer the questions for the record that I and other senators ask him. I believe the Secret Service needs radical transparency. Among the questions I'm asking also is how many threats are directed
right now in the last year against Donald Trump? How many threats are directed against Joe Biden? How many threat threats are directed against the First Lady? And had to be clear, all three need to be protected. I'm not saying that Joe or Joe Biden should not be protected. But one of the public press reports is on the day of the Butler rally, they pulled members of Trump's security detail and put them on the First Lady's detail.
Now I don't know this, but Secret Service does. But I'm going to venture a guess that the number of threats against Trump versus against the First Lady, it is at least one hundred cks, And it wouldn't surprise me if it is a thousand x that I think Donald Trump is the most threatened person on the face of the planet. And if it is the case, it is all the more indefensible that the Secret Service political leadership
would not provide sufficient agents to keep him safe. And I'm asking them how many threats against Trump, how many threats against Joe Biden? How many threats against Joe Biden will see if they answer that, you know, based on the testimony, I'm skeptical that they will.
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Middle East right now. Israel is doing everything they can to protect their people, and they're also having success and taking out terrorists and terrorist leaders that have been orchestrating many of these attacks on Israel, including taking out someone in Iran in Tehran.
Well, that's exactly right, and they're two huge stories in terms of the war in Israel, the war against Amas and against Hesbela. One story that broke late this afternoon and evening is a story that says IDF kills Hesbela commander behind brutal attack on children's soccer field. And this is a Fox News story that's being reported everywhere. Fued Shuker, who's death is unconfirmed by Hesbela, was wanted by US government connection to the nineteen ninety nineteen eighty three Marine
Barracks bombing in Beirut. And IDF forces on Tuesday announced the death of Fuad Shukar, the hesbela commander who was behind the drone strike that killed twelve children and teens over the weekend. So over the weekend we saw hesbela fire rocket in northern Israel. It hit a soccer field and twelve Israeli children were murdered. Continuing back from the Fox News story, Shukar, who was also known as haj Mohsen,
joined Hesbel in nineteen eighty five. He was also sought by the US government over his connection to the nineteen eighty three suicide bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut that killed two hundred and forty one US service members. Shuker served as a senior advisor to Hesbeli leader Hassan Nasrala at the time of his death in an IDF strike on Tuesday in southern Bey Route. The IDF confirmed the news in a press release announcing that it's fighter
jets eliminated hesbela terrorist organization's most senior military commanders. Shooker in Lebanon's capital city, now understand this is a murderer responsible for murdering two hundred and forty one US service members. This is a reason to celebrate. Listen, the enemies of Israel are the enemies of America, the enemies of Jews. Those who want to kill Jews want to kill Christians. Hamas and Hesbela they hate Israel, but they hate America too.
And this is an example where Israel fighting the war, fighting the war against Hamas and hesbel at the same time is defeating someone who has murdered hundreds of Americans. That is an enormous victory for this country. And then let me say secondly, so you and I are recording this podcast, it is eleven forty pm. At eleven forty pm, this news has just broken.
So listen.
Any time you're dealing with matters of life and death and war in peace, the news can move. So what we're recording right now, it may be different by six am tomorrow.
But at eleven forty pm, let me read the AP story.
Iran says Hamas leader Ismail Haniya was assassinated in Tehran. And let me just read the AP story. Hamas leader
Ismail Haniya was assassinated in Tehran. Iran's peramilitary Revolutionary guards said early Wednesday, no one immediately claimed responsibility for the assassination, but suspicion immediately fell on Israel No Duh, which is vowed to kill Haniya and other leaders of Hamas over the group's October seventh attack on Israel that killed one two hundred people and saw some two hundred and fifty others taken high hostage. Haniya was in Tehran to attend
Iran President Masud Pezeshkians swearing in on Tuesday. Iran gave no details on how Haniya was killed, and the guards said the attack was under investigation. Analysts on Iranian state television immediately began blaming Israel for the attack. Israel did not immediately comment, but it often doesn't when it comes
to assassinations carried out by their Massad intelligence agency. To come up within twenty four hours with number one killing the top military commander of Hesbola, responsible for murdering twelve Israeli children in northern Israel with a rocket attack and also responsible for two hundred and forty one American servicemen and women being killed in Beirut in nineteen eighty three.
That's a big damn deal. And then this taking out the top leadership of amas it a big, big victory for Israel and a big, big victory for America.
Yeah, we're gonna keep monitoring this.
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