Ron Simmons

The hotel security, we have discovered the perimeter was probably not as broad as it should have been.

I remember I used to do – I did some –

ministry work for an organization.

And I traveled to Romania a couple of times.

And one of the times I went, I got stopped about a mile or two from my hotel, which was in the city center, kind of like this hotel.

And I was not driving.

I had, there's a driver, obviously like a taxi cab or Uber driver type person in front of me.

And we had to get out

And they took all our bags out, searched all our bags, searched the car, everything, wanted to know who I was, you know, and where I was going.

And I was staying at the JW Marriott in downtown Bucharest.

And the reason that they had done this, not just for me, but for everybody coming within a mile or two of this hotel, was because that's where they were having either the G8 or the G20 summit.

And

And it just so happened that all of the American delegation, including the president, Mr. President George W. Bush at the time, was staying in that hotel.

And so I had to be searched way outside before we ever get into the hotel.

And then when I got into the hotel, the hotel.

there was a Secret Service or some type of security person that was on the elevator every time you got on the elevator.

And they wanted to know where you were going and who you were with, that type of thing.

Now, I will tell you, as a funny aside, I did get off the elevator one morning and snuck in and ate the breakfast buffet with all of the delegation there.

Not the president, but all the State Department people and all that that were there.

I just snuck in like I was one of them.