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Anthony Scaramucci

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The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

So if someone comes through the magnetometer, they can't get a straight shot into the ballroom.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

If he was moving faster or maybe there were, let's say there were four guys

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

that rushed that magnetometer with guns.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

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.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

So I think it's gonna require people to think about

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

the setup for these things and to add an additional layer of protection.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

I think all of those points are important ones.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

But I still, even though it was on the second level, Katty.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

If you had, let's say, 10 people, it would have been difficult.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

You know, they have to rethink this and they have to make an assumption as opposed to a lone gunman.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

Maybe there's a 10 person gun situation.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

What do you do in that situation?

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

I think there's a secondary issue here, which relates to the dysfunctionality of the American government.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

Secret Service is unfunded right now.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

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.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

Okay, so we're asking men and women to take a bullet.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

for the President of the United States and other people in the cabinet, but we want to stiff them on the payroll.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

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.

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

I guess the last point on this, which I'd like you to opine on, is how about the normalization of

The Rest Is Politics: US
181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal

this sort of behavior.