Anthony Scaramucci
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So if someone comes through the magnetometer, they can't get a straight shot into the ballroom.
If he was moving faster or maybe there were, let's say there were four guys
that rushed that magnetometer with guns.
And they took out a few of the Secret Service agents, God forbid, and one of the guys got into the ballroom, and let's say it wasn't a shotgun, but an AR-15, I think they could have done tremendous damage.
So I think it's gonna require people to think about
the setup for these things and to add an additional layer of protection.
I think all of those points are important ones.
But I still, even though it was on the second level, Katty.
If you had, let's say, 10 people, it would have been difficult.
You know, they have to rethink this and they have to make an assumption as opposed to a lone gunman.
Maybe there's a 10 person gun situation.
What do you do in that situation?
I think there's a secondary issue here, which relates to the dysfunctionality of the American government.
Secret Service is unfunded right now.
If you go to the Department of Homeland Security and you talk to these guys or you listen to somebody like Representative James Comer, who's railing about this stuff, we have 70 days now following the February shutdown where the Secret Service is unfunded.
Okay, so we're asking men and women to take a bullet.
for the President of the United States and other people in the cabinet, but we want to stiff them on the payroll.
I don't understand why we're doing this, and it just speaks to the raw incompetence of our political leadership to allow something like this.
I guess the last point on this, which I'd like you to opine on, is how about the normalization of
this sort of behavior.