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On our show, it's a big one. Oz Perlman was right next to the President of the United States standing and then on the ground when the attack took place last night. He is going to tell us exactly what happened in a matter of moments. Mike Lawler, is it time, Congressman, to fund Homeland Security? Will the Democrats stop the holdout?
We'll find out if something's going to change this week. And Reines Priebus will talk about politically where we go from here with three assassination attempts on the president. Also, he's going to talk about the crazy conspiracy theories that have to be put to rest right now. But first, we begin tonight with the Fox News Alert. Down, stay down, stay down.
Stay down. I think I'm going to. I mean The chaos in DC. People hiding under tables, Secret Service agents running on top of chairs. Rifles pointed.
The smell of gunpowder in the air. Those are usually not the things you think of when you think of the White House correspondence dinner, as you're hearing. But last night, in an alarming trend that has become all too familiar to all of us, that's what took place. That is exactly what I witnessed. President Trump and the Vice President.
forced to evacuate the event along with all his cabinet secretaries and their spouses after a lone gunman, now identified as Cole Thomas Allen, armed with a shotgun, handgun and knives, rushed a security checkpoint and ran toward the ballroom at the Hilton Hotel where the Black Tight dinner was being held. An agent was shot. Allen was tackled. He was disarmed. Thankfully, the Secret Service agent who was shot.
In the chaos is fine. President Trump weighing in on how the government even got close. How did he get that close with the place swarming with security? I will say, look, I say it because. I'm a big fan of the people, of law enforcement.
And You know, some of these people, they may be crazy, but they're not stupid, and they figure things out. Yeah. He ran 45 yards, they say. And he just went to it, and then, boom, he popped through it. I mean, he ran like I think the NFL should sign him up.
He was past. When you look at it on tape, it's almost like a blur. But it was amazing, because as soon as they saw that, you could see them draw their guns. They were so professional, aim their guns, and then they took them down immediately. Say, oh yeah, he talked to 60 minutes tonight to the president.
What we know about the shooter so far, according to online profiles, the 31-year-old Alan is a teacher, an engineer, living with his parents in Torrance, California. His home search by agents. Just moments before the attack, he apparently sent members of his family a screed, apologizing for what he was about to do, rationalizing his twisted assassination aspirations, admitting Trump and his administration were his targets. His sister telling law enforcement that her brother had a tendency to make radical statements and had referred to a plan to do something to fix the issues with today's world. Alan will be arraigned in federal court.
Tomorrow morning, we'll see him again. What I can hope for the next few weeks is this. Plan to stop the next assassin. Can we have one? Is there any commonality with our recent shooters, from Luigi Maggioni to Tyler Robinson, Thomas Crooks, Ryan Ruth?
Let's work on it. See if we can stop the next one by finding out who did the last few of them. Is there something about securing political events like this that is too tough? Securing leaders falling short. Why is that?
Is there anything else that could be done? Yes, this guy was stopped on Saturday, but he got 10 shots off about. How did he get so close to getting in? One word of advice, as we all try to unwind what happened here. Don't judge it.
Learn it. This isn't sports radio where hosts and callers can pretend they know more than coaches, more than the players, more than the owners. They don't, and this is not a game. We gotta stop the next shooter, secure the next high-profile event, ask the questions, stop the asinine, baseless conspiracy theories. Tell the story, don't be the story.
Joining us now, the featured entertainer at the White House Correspondence Dinner, who was part of the story, mentalist, good fender of the show, Owes Perlman. He was standing beside President Trump in the middle of an app, part of his act, when gunfire exploded. Oh, so. Welcome, thanks for the time. As we see this video.
Could you tell me what was happening, what you were doing with the President? Yeah, so I was with the president and the first lady. I was kind of warming them up before my big show for everybody on TV. And the press secretary was there who's pregnant and expecting. And she actually asked me, Can you guess the name of my daughter that I'm having next week?
And this is the point where I kind of guessed how many letters. If you watch the reveal, I write down the name, the first lady sees it. We Jajang sees it from CBS News. The president sees it right when I turn it around. The timing is just insane because you see them reacting to my trick where they go, but then we also hear the commotion out in the room where we're on the dais, so we're a little bit elevated at the head table, and we see a ton of different SWAT, tactical, and secret service members running into the room, guns drawn, and noticing that right away, this is not the normal type of maybe a tray was dropped, or maybe somebody's having a medical condition, feeling faint of breath, falling, a heart attack, something of that sort that you see at events this large.
This is something nefarious and dangerous. And you feel the hairs on your neck starting to lift. And if you watch the video, it's surreal that this was 24 hours ago. I'm watching and we're understanding. There's one other person next to me who goes down first.
I instinctively see this, and I don't think shooter. I'm telling you this just as the way that they were coming in, it didn't look like they were coming to shoot someone or watch for someone who was holding a gun. To me, it appeared as if they were trying to stop someone. And so I thought a bomb was about to go off. That's just, I'm telling you what happened in my mind.
And so I look, I look, I just drop down.
So I get on all fours and drop down because I'm bracing for what I thought would be an explosion. I see at this point next to me the president, the Secret Service grab him, and they're trying to get him to go down, and he's going down. And then they kind of more aggressively get on top of him and bring him down. And the most surreal moments potentially of my life are when President Trump goes down about a foot away from me and we are side to side staring into each other's eyes from a foot away, looking at each other. And the thought that crosses my mind right then is, oh no, I hope we're not about to die.
And adrenaline is just coursing through me because I said to myself, there's no way the Secret Service is forcing the president down for a fire drill or a maybe. And then right at that moment, if you listen in the video, is when I believe we start hearing the shots because it's loud and it's distant, but in the room it's so big. You don't know if it's in the room or outside the room. Later I found out it was outside. I did not know that.
I don't believe most of you in the room knew where the shots were coming from. We have eye contact for what was two seconds based on the video, but felt stretched out. And then I see him get back up, kind of pivot out as they bring him out of the room. Me and two of the other people at the dais, we all met backstage, we know each other. I just said, are they still shooting?
Like, we didn't know what was going on. I didn't know if the president had been hit. I did not see Melania, the first lady, so I didn't know where she was. All of this happens very fast. It's like, it's very sudden and the adrenaline dump in your body is very unlike when you see things in the movie.
It's sudden and intense. We decided to just army crawl. The first one of us went out and we just crawled out of the room. And when we fell out of the danger zone, I would describe it as I ran the rest of the way through the tunnel because, again, I'm hoping there's not an active shooter still. When we got back there, I would describe it as kind of controlled chaos.
There's guns everywhere, Secret Service is everywhere. I felt safe. I was looking for blood around and asked other people because none of us knew if POTUS or the first lady had been hit. Nobody really knew what had happened at that point. And I was worried about my wife because she was out in the audience to watch my show.
And no phones worked either because everyone was jamming up the system at the same time, trying to call, trying to text. I'm okay. Are you okay? It was crazy. It was honestly a crazy.
S five minutes.
So, when you looked at the President, were you looking at a guy that was calm? And what was he do you think he saw in you?
So, I would love to, when I speak to him again, see what he saw because honestly, I think I was much more scared than he was. He's been through this before. I have never been through this. I don't think you ever get used to a stranger shooting at you and wanting to kill you. But I mean, he has been through it.
He knows the training protocols. I believe that he was very calm and composed. We did not. Talk or speak at that moment. I think from what I watched, if you looked at him, he had been taking down what I would describe as pretty strongly.
And I think that's the speed. God bless the Secret Service and the DC police because this story could be very, very different today if they had not acted fast. God forbid something happened to the president. I might not have come home to New York City and be hugging and kissing all my kids.
So I want to salute them because they put their lives In danger, they would have taken a bullet for the president. I commend them. I think he was calm and composed. When I see him, I'm honest, I don't know what he was thinking because we didn't exchange. I just saw his look with people smushing him, protecting him, and protecting the leader of our country.
Oz, thanks so much. I mean, I've read some of your comments, but this is the first time we're seeing you recount it, and you did it so vividly. I hope in thirty days you get a chance to perform for everyone, because you are truly amazing. Thank goodness you're okay. Oz Promise.
Thank you.
Meanwhile, the Meanwhile, the 31-year-old gunman, Cole Allen, is due in federal court tomorrow. He was staying at the Washington Hilton, where the dinner was held. Allen had taken a train from California to Chicago, then to D.C. Why did he do that? Allegedly carrying the weapons with him the whole way.
Was there no metal detectors there? Perhaps that's correct. A senior White House official telling Fox News Trump and the White House are standing by the leadership of the Secret Service. They will be meeting this week to review security protocols in the future. The incident, however, is raising many questions about security.
How did he get the weapons inside? How did he get so close to the ballroom? And how can we stop this from happening again? Let's ask former Assistant FBI Director Chris Recker that. Chris, We saw the agents' acts with great courage.
We got that. Is there something about the setup? that you have questions about in terms of the perimeter right now? Yeah, O'Brien, we live in times now where any public event that the President attends, or really any high-profile Republican or conservative for that matter, is attending. That you have to have the tightest of security.
You have to red team every aspect of your security because there are so many people like this who, like the President said, are crazy but not stupid. They can get themselves to across the country. Armed to the teeth, using methods where there is no security on trains, for example, get to a hotel, stay in the hotel, realizing that there's a vulnerability on a back staircase, and make their way down the back staircase and come within literally feet of getting into the venue.
So I think we have to treat, we have to wargame every one of these events, but understand that you have to have the tightest of security for these types of events. It's just a fact of life now. We've got a political rally in Butler, we've got the president going to play golf. We've got somebody, Charlie Kirk, hosting a rally on our campuses, which aren't safe.
So there's no safe places these days. We have to red team these th events and use our imagination.
So the Secret Service did a good job here, but I think the perimeter and their expansion of their ideas of where their vulnerabilities are needs to be taken care of. I guess it's tough in a hotel because I saw weddings going on when I was walking in there. People there just on vacation.
So there's a lot of different reasons to be there. The way I understand it, according to an eyewitness, he went into a place in the back where there were bus carts. And there was no security. And he put that gun together, and then he came ripping out of there, and then he got to the right floor through the magnetometers to the video that we're seeing right now. That we're seeing right now.
Yeah, that can't happen. I mean, it it's difficult in a hotel like this, and I've witnessed the fact that President Reagan was almost assassinated at that very same hotel. And you know, again, The Secret Service did a good job here, but I think their pre-planning has got to get better. They have to, when I say red team, they have to act like they're a bad guy and figure out how they can get into the venue and expand their imagination a little bit and understand where their vulnerabilities are. And I think sometimes they get a little bit too rote.
And too complacent in setting up their security. They have a magnetometer, great. But this guy exploited every vulnerability there was and almost successfully.
So I'm not criticizing the Secret Service. It's the bad, you know, we're dealing in times now where we have to take extraordinary measures, not ordinary measures. Yeah, maybe single-purpose theaters might be an answer to big events, but There's very few venues that can handle 2,200 people. Yeah, I think if ever there were a case for the White House ballroom, this is it. The president should be in a place where you can control the perimeter, control the access points in a way.
Here we've got people staying at the hotel, vents, as you pointed out, at the hotel. It is incredibly difficult to secure a vent like this. And then you look at Butler, an outdoor event. And I just think that there everybody knows where the President was going to be and at exactly what time he was going to be there. That's all the more reason to shut every aspect of access down and make sure that no one that you're literally airtight.
All right, Chris Wecker, always appreciate your insight. Thank you.
Meanwhile, the accused gunman, Cole Allen, no longer cooperating with authorities, according to investigators, police have not laid out a clear motive, but we do know he was driven by a hatred, a hatred for President Trump. Let's bring in the author of Rage and the Republic, constitutional law expert, Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley. Jonathan, are we seeing a commonality if you look at Crooks, Ryan Ruth? You look at uh and you look at this would-be assassin. Yeah, unfortunately, Brian, this is what I wrote about in Rage and the Republic.
We're living in an age of rage, and you have people who are fueling the rage. They're injecting rage directly into the body politics. They hope that that rage will carry them to victory in the midterms, bring them back into power. But, you know, rage is a very dangerous thing. It's addictive and it's contagious.
And people like it. And what can happen is that you lose control. And I think that's what you're seeing with some of these people who are feeding this rage addiction. You're going to have people like Alan. who will hear it as a license for violence.
And this seems to have all the makings, obviously, of an attempted political assassination. In that sense, even though he's not cooperating with the police, his manifesto has already undermined any real defense here for him to make, not just factually as the shooter, but also in terms of his motivations. But also, he's functioning at a very high level.
So it's going to be difficult to argue that he had some type of mental incapacity in any of this stuff because he's not only writing these things, but he's carrying out a well-planned and almost successful effort to get into that room.
So Jonathan, I want an excerpt from your book, and if we could put it up, I'd just like to read it for everyone because I think it's appropriate right now. In fact, you could put it into the prompter. I did not memorize it. But here we go. Yeah.
Here we go. This is from Rage in the Republic. In the U.S., the political divide has become deep and increasingly violent. We're already seeing the signs of political atrophy as influential figures join the call for sweeping constitutional and institutional changes in the U.S. The assumption that the Constitution can, once again, weather this period of unrest and uncertainty is a dangerous conceit.
The coming storm will test us again, a system that has lost its allies in politics and academia.
So we're starting to get into the to rattle the roots of the Constitution, and this is worrying you, and it should worry everybody. It is, Brian. And, you know, half of this book looks forward and asks whether this unique republic can survive this century, can survive us. And it is a dangerous conceit that since we've been here 250 years, we'll have 250 more. Benjamin Franklin was right.
It's our republic to keep. And the question is, can we keep it? Can we remember who we were then? Who we are now. There are academics and pundits and politicians saying that the Constitution itself is the problem.
There are leading academics saying we should trash the Constitution on the 250th anniversary of our republic. There is a crisis of faith that people no longer have in our system. That's what we have to address. The manifestations like this shooter are going to be there, but there's a deeper, corrosive, and dangerous thing in our country, and that people are losing faith with who we are, what this republic represents. And there's a lack of regret seemingly on all these killers.
They think they're doing something to benefit the world, which shows how twisted but not uneducated they are. They usually come in highly educated, sadly. Thanks so much. Appreciate it.
Meanwhile, straight ahead on this show, Jonathan Turley, Fox News Senior White House correspondent Jackie Heinrich, and her fiancé, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, were there in the room separate places last night. They will join us with their separate but together account: Don't Move, One Nation Coming Your Way, special edition right after this. Wait, boom. Nearly home. Isn't home where we all want to be?
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Well, what happened is it was a little bit me. I wanted to see what was happening. And I wasn't making it that easy for him. I wanted to... See what was going on.
And by that time we started to realize maybe it was A bad problem.
So, President Trump a short time ago explained why it seemed to, for him, He needed a few extra seconds to get escorted out. He blames himself because he wanted to see what was going on.
Meanwhile, Vice President Vance on the other side of the dais was rushed out moments before. Vance was seated next to our very own Jackie Heinrich, senior White House correspondent, who will be the president of the White House Correspondent Association next year, running that very dinner. You can see Jackie forced to hide under the table during those terrifying moments. Joining us now to share her perspective. Jackie's, of course, the incoming president of the White House Correspondent Association, along with the fiancée from Pennsylvania, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick.
And this is your first appearance together. I wish it wasn't under these circumstances, but it's good to see you both. Good to see you, Brian.
So uh So, Congressman, I'm going to start with you. What are you thinking? You're in the room, but there is your fiancé on the ground next to some of the most important people. uh in America, in the world. And you have this FBI background, so you know trouble when you hear it.
and you know false alarms when you hear it.
So what were you thinking? Yeah, so I was at Table 82, Brian. We were in the center aisle, not far from the door, which was one level below, but right near that. That entrance where people were going to the bathroom, Wolf Blitzer was right there when it all went down. And I heard the shot, and those of us that have been around gunfire, like I had been, unfortunately.
For most of my life, there's a very hollow, empty pop to that sound that's very, very distinguishable from a crashing table or a crashing. Tray, which some people mistook it for, but You know, it was a very distressing sound and you know, obviously we knew something bad was happening. And, you know, obviously my first thought was Jackie. She was up um at the dais. you know, right next to the Vice President, so that was that was my main thought at the moment.
So you could go back to the fire, or you can go forward to your fiancé. Man, that's a. That's a crazy choice because we didn't know what was going on. Jackie owes Perlman just. was on with us, and he said he thought it might be a bomb.
That he thought an explosion was about to take place. I hadn't heard that before. I was wondering what you were thinking, knowing that this isn't good, but you don't know what's going on, right? I never thought that it was a bomb. I think that we are.
You know, in our profession, familiar enough with the threats that are attached these days to political events, and it usually is a gunman or something like that. What was unclear to me was whether there was a threat in the room. There was a moment in time where the law enforcement response was barreling toward us and telling everyone to get down. And you couldn't tell for a minute whether it was, in fact, the Secret Service agents or if it was something else. It became very clear very quickly that it was law enforcement because they came out on the stage behind me and told me to get down.
And then when they were talking to each other with their guns drawn, standing above me and saying, are you tracking it? Do you see it? And the answer was no, it was unclear in that moment if it was no because there was no threat or no because they couldn't get eyes on the threat.
So I got the nod from one of the agents to crawl backstage where I huddled and um but I never thought it was a bomb. I honestly from where I was sitting it sounded like plates clanging or maybe a table collapsing. Um it wasn't immediately clear what it was until we saw the officers. Congressman, when you think of the violence that we are seeing right now, you are someone known as a moderate looking to always go across party lines to get things done. Do you think the rhetoric coming out from politicians, their staff and pundits are fueling some of this anger?
Oh, 100%, Brian. I mean, you walked past the same protesters that Jackie and I walked past, just going in. To the hotel, and you know, obviously, we all support and respect. I mean, we were there to honor the First Amendment. Of course, we respect the protesters and.
their right to protest, but some of the rhetoric is very vile, some of the signs were very vile. Yeah, and it's you know it's becoming upon everybody to do their part to lower the volume, lower the temperature of the discourse, bridge the gap between differences. You know what America is about, that's what we're celebrating 250 years of, of this amazing system of government. and constitution that we have. Yeah, I mean, it was just a very striking moment seeing the dichotomy of the shouting that was going on outside.
And the unity really that the president talked about inside that room. that we all felt, you know, kind of dealing with that situation together.
So Jackie, the one thing about the President, he does not want to be stopped by any would be assassins and distractions.
So he says, I want to do this party. Ironically, a party he didn't go to for four years. He goes, I want to do this again in thirty days. Is there anything going right now to try to get this party in place in thirty days? Look, we are going to do everything possible to make that happen.
I think the only response. To something like this, the only American response is to not let the terrorists win.
So, we're going to do everything we can to pull that off. This year, the president of the WHCA, Weja Jang, of CBS, this is her dinner. She deserves to have that dinner. The country needs to have that dinner. We, as an association, need to meet that moment.
There are a lot of logistics that go into this. Normally, we spend a year planning this.
So, there are open questions about what's possible, what it would take. We're working through those things. Those updates will come from her. And I'm standing at the ready to help her with everything, and we will, you know. make sure that we don't let someone who would wish to do us harm, you know, snuff out our right to pursue our liberties in this country.
And Congressman, in something like this, when you go through it, Uh with your fiancée. Does this make you too closer? I mean, so much you have in common anyway, obviously you wouldn't be getting married next month, but does this make you two closer when you go through something like this? Of course, it makes everyone closer, right? I mean, we'd rather not have experiences like this, but yeah, I mean, it puts a lot of perspective, of course.
You know, certainly the security situation there as well, Brian. You were there. You know, it's it's just a very, very startling experience to go through. Um, you know, and lessons will be learned from this. You know, one of the things about that venue, it's the only venue.
in the district that can hold that amount of people, which is why So many events are held there. It's why the Secret Service is so familiar with that location and why they were able to respond as they did. Last night, but there are definitely things that need to change, you know, in terms of pushing the secur security perimeter out closer to the hotel entrance, having you know, not just paper tickets that people are just eyeballing, but rather QR codes with double verification, just some basic. you know, uh belt and suspenders type approaches to from uh from an investigative and uh a security standpoint. All right, so that's your marching orders, Jackie.
You heard that QR codes on the tickets. That'll be some of the changes for next year, and hopefully, we get that new dinner in a few days. Thanks, guys, for joining us. I really appreciate it. It's such an honor for our show to have your first joint appearance together.
On this Sunday, very important time.
Next. President Trump praises swift action by law enforcement after a shooter gets too close for comfort. Congressman Mike Lawrence saw the security lapses firsthand last night and joins us next. And please check out my new YouTube channel. You will love it.
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In spite of 71 days of refusing to fund some of the most important law enforcement officers in our country, these Democrats are literally playing with the safety of Americans.
So the legacy corporate media, by and large, is the communication wing of the Democrat Party. When all of a sudden they feel that maybe their lives are at risk. Maybe at a minimum, they'll start putting pressure on Democrats. Come on, let's fund DHS.
Well, the shooting at the White House Correspondents Center putting unpaid Secret Service agents in the line of fire after a would-be assassin got way too close to the President and his team. The security scares sparking demands for Democrats to end the DHS funding fight, which has gone on really for the most of six months. Joining us now for more is Congressman Mike Lawler, who was also at the dinner last night. Congressman, I know I watched you today. I know you're with the President recently, too.
And this really underlines the fact That Homeland Security is not funded. And I watched Jamie Raskin today, and he says ICES funding is there, it's already been funded, so it's kind of a made-up controversy because they have the money that they need, but they still have to deal with the underlying issues that led to it in the first place.
So is it your problem? Is this a made up controversy that the TSA and others have to have special funding in order to get them paid and support staffs not not paid? Brian, it's worse than what Tom Emmer outlined. The reality is that the Department of Homeland Security has been unfunded for 115 days going back to October 1st. It's absolutely insane.
It's not just ICE and CBP, it's the Secret Service, it's the Coast Guard. We're in the middle of a war in the Middle East. Coast Guard service members are not being paid. It's FEMA. You know, we've had several natural disasters.
It is absolutely unconscionable what Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have done to shut this department down because they are capitulating to their far-left base. We can have policy disputes, we can have differences of opinion. You duke it out at the election time, but you don't shut down whole agencies or departments as some leverage in a negotiation. And that's what they've done. And the fact that you had a Secret Service agent who was shot.
at point blank range yesterday, who's not being paid. It is unconscionable. We need to come back this week and pass funding for the entirety of the Department of Homeland Security.
So, Congressman, just for the record, people should understand: this guy did get off at least five to ten shots. One shot hit the Secret Service agent, but we're going to get a story too of these agents diving on a guy with a gun and a rifle and knives. That took tremendous courage, too.
So I understand that maybe the Senate is going to entertain what the House gave them a few months ago this week. But The plan B is take what the Senate's given you, the reconciliation bill, and pass that to fund the rest of DHS. You're not on board with that right now, right? No, I am. Look, if that is the last option, we need to get it done.
We need to make sure that the department is fully funded. Look, what happened last night is unconscionable. It never should have happened. There are security protocols that have to be evaluated. You didn't need an ID to get into the building.
There wasn't a verified list of attendees. There were no magnetometers at the front entrance or on level one terrace. This all needs to be re-evaluated. You had the president, the vice president, the speaker, you had cabinet secretaries, you had members of Congress in the room. You know, I was there with my wife, and it was chaotic.
It was confusing. You had no idea whether or not the shooter was actually in the room.
So there were real challenges that have to be addressed. But the Secret Service. Service acted immediately, and they did a great job detaining the individual and protecting the president. I want a quick comment after this, but John Fetterman put something on X worthy of repeating. He says: we were there front and center.
That venue wasn't built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the United States government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS, build the White House ballroom for events exactly like this, because the ballroom's going to be in court tomorrow. I just want you to weigh in quick on that.
Well, think about it. This week we're having a state dinner with King Charles in a tent on the White House lawn. That is not secure. And the fact is, you do need a venue to have events with the President. You can't put the President in a situation like that with nearly 3,000 people in a room and a gunman able to travel down from the 10th floor, down a stairwell, and get within feet of the front door of the ballroom and have a direct line of shot to the president.
It is absolutely outrageous that this happened. This is the third attempt on President Trump's life. And from my vantage point, from a public safety standpoint, Having a ballroom on the White House grounds that can accommodate larger crowds is a necessity, if for no other reason, the safety and security of the President, the Vice President, and the Cabinet. And he'll get it one year. Americans will have it forever.
So snap out of it. I hope they listen to Fetterman and you again. Congressman Mike Lauer, glad you're safe. Thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate it.
Meanwhile, we forge ahead for the third time in two years. The government has gotten away way too close to President Trump. What it will take to stop this violent rhetoric? Reines Priebus has an idea. He'll join us next.
By the way, be sure to catch me on tour. I'll talk about everything like this and more. We'll have some fun. Rena, Nevada, streaming on Fox Nation, Pensacola, Florida, July 11th. The other one's May 30th.
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So for the third time in two years, the government gets way too close to President Trump. Butler, Pennsylvania, July 2024. Then-candidate Trump's ear was grazed by a bullet fired from a rooftop 150 yards away. It was just a campaign rally. Weeks later, after Butler, Secret Service agent found Ryan Ruth armed and lying in wait outside his golf course in Palm Beach.
Sadly, political violence is becoming the norm, a dangerous norm. We need unity over division. How can we get there as a country? Can this be an actual wake-up call to change things? Let's ask Fox News political analysts and former Chief of Staff to President Trump, Bryant Priebus.
Hey, Ryance, will anything change tomorrow? Has anything changed today in your mind, in terms of the rhetoric and the anger?
Well, I mean, hopefully, there'll be some permanence here, but I'm not so sure. I mean, the problem here, Brian, is that you sort of hit it just there. I mean, in America, division is pure profit. Unity is a loser. There is no money in unity in America.
There are no clicks in unity. There are no ratings in unity. Division sells. The algorithm rewards crazy. It doesn't matter about the fact.
It rewards whatever can go viral.
So political violence is content in America today. It is very, very troubling what's happening in the country. And look, the Democrats call President Trump an existential threat every single day, and then they're surprised when crazy people sort of believe this stuff, perpetrated by people that are engagement farmers, podcasters that profit in outrage. And then you have foreign actors that pour on inside the United States of America, amplifying all these things, and we can't do anything about it because they say, well, you. You know, we we got the First Amendment.
So, I mean, I I don't buy that at all. I think social media companies need to do more. I'm not saying that's why this happened, but certainly we're not stupid. We can see what's going on here. We're watching it every day in social media feeds.
So Wrights, there was a time when we got together, and the last time we were really doing that was during the Clinton years. Anything but perfect, but you did welfare reform. They actually got together to balance the budget. They didn't spend enough on defense, I'll give you that. But they were actually getting together.
On legislation. Was that because the internet wasn't as prevalent? There wasn't this algorithm that we didn't even know what that meant back then? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't think that's the only reason, Brian.
I mean, certainly it's part of it, but when every day is the apocalypse in politics, and then you wonder why if that's what you're saying every day, and that's what people are reading, and then when you click on something, all of a sudden you're clicking on it 20 more times, so everybody's becoming more hardened. I don't think that's the only reason. But look, I mean, the reality is that there's 435 members of Congress in the House. There's about 15 to 20 that are actually in play, which means you've got to, even in the most vitriolic political times in America, you've got a better chance of getting re-elected than waking up tomorrow. I mean, that's just the reality.
There's no reward for this sort of. Coming together that people think we should be doing. The reward is not to come together. The reward is to keep doing what you're doing because you'll get re-elected. We only got thirty seconds left, but some of these headlines that are coming out, the conspiracy theories, that Donald Trump actually made this up or orchestrated this incident to help his poll ratings.
You've seen these headlines. You've seen this stuff online. Your thoughts. The word staged is trending. Yeah, well, again, I mean, this is what we were just talking about.
I mean, the facts don't matter. What matters is clicks and things that go viral come back into the feed. I mean, when Twitter first started, you remember, there was no for you column. Your column was whoever you were following. You had to go find the people you were following.
You didn't get fed stuff that the algorithm is thinking that you want to read.
So if you click on staged, you're going to get 20 more staged and then 40 more staged. There has to be a responsibility. Meta, Google, X, there's got to be something that they've got to do. They write a lot of checks in DC, but they need to do something too. Reines Privus, always great, always insightful.
Thanks so much. I'll talk to you again. but now it's after your sneak peak of the week. What do you got coming straight ahead? Cole Allen, the accused government at the White House Correspondence Center, arraigned in federal court.
That'll be interesting. The DOJ issued a 9 a.m. deadline for the construction company that is suing to stop the White House ballroom. They got till 9 a.m. to withdraw that lawsuit.
Go ahead and do it, please. The Virginia Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow in the redistricting referendum case. We'll see if they'll find that the state unconstitutional or they redistrict away from Republicans. And Florida lawmakers will hold a special session this week on changing their congressional maps. That is it for us tonight.
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