Thirty seconds. Did you ever think you were making? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. I know this life meant for me. Yeah, why would you bet on Goliath when we got Bet David? Value payment, giving values, contagious. This world of entrepreneurs, we get no value to hate it. How do you run, homie? Look what I become. I'm the one. Okay, fantastic. Today we have with Kelly, we can see you. Today we have with us Eric Prince, the former founder of Blackwater. And Blackwater got $1.6 billion of contracts from the government, $600 billion, I think, from CIA during the time that he worked together. And while I was seeing all the stuff that was going on with the assassination attempt on the President. One of the things immediately I remembered, Eric, was our conversation we had last time when I asked you, I don't know why you stopped driving the PMC, and I kept encouraging in you that I think we need PMC because I think we need competition for public and private. And I posted. I said, I wonder if on a mission like this, an Eric Prince was His mission is, Hey, for the next five months, Eric, we need you to make sure all these rallies that Trump's going to do.

You can't stop him from doing rallies. He's going to go talk to a bunch of different people. Eric, we need to make sure everything's safe, nothing to worry about, secret Secret Service and the PV, working together, all of this stuff. All I kept thinking about is what you would do. And I know right now you're at the RNC, and you're able to get away and find some good WiFi for us to hear your point of view. But I'll start off with a very open-ended question. Your thoughts on the way Secret Service handled themselves at the recent events with the assassination attempt?

Grotesque malpractice. If they were any private contractor, they would be sued for for violating and ignoring the most basic concepts of security preparedness and maintaining a perimeter. The fact that an armed man with a rifle got within 140 yards of a Trump rally was able to lay down after positioning himself for minutes and take multiple aimed shots to the point of clipping Trump's ear, killing other people in the crowd is absolutely grotesque. It's either malice, as I said in a Twitter post, it's either malice or malpractice, gross incompetence. That anyone with any training whatsoever that would stand at the podium where Trump was speaking from and look around and say, where's the likely spot someone's to shoot from? Yeah, it's going to be to the right where the shooter was on top of those industrial buildings. And the fact is they had no one watching over that is truly mind boggling. It was outside of their immediate perimeter. Yeah, that's fine. Just because you don't want your perimeter to be 100 yards doesn't mean someone, especially today with modern rifles. And that's just for a gunshot. They also have to really contend with drones. The amount of weapon knowledge and lethality improvement coming out of the Ukraine fight from both sides is really scary.

And the executive protection world hasn't yet felt just how bad that's going to hurt. But I mean, supposedly a 20 year old kid works through dead space. And dead space is the area that you can hide where the buildings are providing cover, blocking the view of you from the people that are looking for you. He used dead space. He craw up to the far side of the roof, appeared and took a number of shots. It is disgusting. Now, even once the shots were going, and the Secret Service can say, well, they didn't enough manpower, and maybe it wasn't better coordinated. But the immediate agents that were around Trump, the immediate close protection detail was also hugely inept in that they left him on the X. The X is where the bad guy is decided to kill you that day. And the immediate mission of the protective team is to get the protectee off the X and to protect him on the way off the X. And some of the agents were actually taking cover behind Trump from the gunfire, and it took them way too long. And you could even hear some of the radio chatter.

What are we doing? What are we doing? Where are we going? That is not how a professional team is supposed to look and sound. It should be autonomic. It should be so drilled to them. They know exactly what to do if A, then B, if B, then C, and then C, and then D. They know exactly what the permutations are and how to do it. And they just missed on so many levels. It's really, really... It's embarrassing. Like I opened with that article, it is another example of an unaccountable, overfunded bureaucracy embarrassing America. We're embarrassed in Afghanistan. We're embarrassed with this nonsense of a pier in Gaza, $230 million that doesn't even do its job. We're embarrassed by the Navy that manages to lose control of the Red Sea, one of the major waterways of the world. And now our own former President, soon to be future President, also embarrassing. It was not their skill that saved him. It was bad marksmanship and a wind call. And the fact that Trump turned his head at the last minute is the only thing that saved his life. The Secret Service didn't save him life, and that is pathetic.

The reason the Secret Service was starting in the first place was to provide executive protection. Clearly, they have failed abysmally at that mission.

Eric, I want to... By the way, you said a few different... You said a a lot of things here, Rob, if we can show the one clip of the Secret Service agent that's ducking behind her. She's afraid for her life instead of protecting the President's life, which you showed that picture a minute you're hit in an extremity. So you can simulate all those things and dial up the pressure on these folks. But I don't think they're doing that. Perhaps it was too hard or not, or they just don't take it seriously. But apparently, they need to reevaluate their training because they are clearly not up to the game right now.Yeah. So I hear you when you're saying sniper hotel. For me, automatically, you go to think like a bad guy. If you're going to attack, where are you going to do it from? I'm going to think about... Just logically, we're not even in the space. You're going to think about how somebody is going to be attacking you or not.You just grind through the likelihoods and you take the most likely to the least likely and you grind off the possibilities.And then let me ask you, Eric, what's the role AD plays, audiovisual, where You know how you said the last place you should get shot from is from the side, right? You're saying that should not be happening. Okay, why don't they put bulletproof glass to the side? You can still have Mike on the other side so his speech can go to you. Why don't they put glass here and to protect from the back some a shield so somebody can get to him?Well, it doesn't even have to be a shield. Even if you take away the ability to the line of sight, the ability to see for a sniper outside that perimeter to see would even help a lot. But, ballistic panels that large would be extraordinarily heavy and difficult. But there's a lot of permutations to do that. It would not have taken more than three, four police officers that were probably out doing some useless traffic stop or useless check station five miles from where this event was to actually be up in the water tower looking around or tethered drone to give you a very clear line of sight. I would imagine there was confusion, again, from a lack of planning and a lack of communications. There was there was there was confusion about whether the actual assassin was some other local law enforcement guy or an actual assassin. And that's where they were trying to deconflict over that two minutes. But again, if you have a question, stop the rally, put Trump in a position of safety, pause for five minutes, make sure the situation is taken care of, and then carry on. Those rallies go on for a couple of hours.I think you would understand that.Another question for you. In these types of situations, you know how sometimes, and again, I keep referencing movies because the average person has seen the movies, and there's a scene where we have it under control. We're taking care of this here. And then FBI shows up and says, You guys are dismissed. We got it. The FBI is here. We're doing a wait. Why are they going to do this? You guys are dismissed. You're out of here. In this situation, who is superior to who? Pd, local FBI, secret service? Who follows the lead so they're all communicating together?The United States Secret Service is supposed to be the lead agency for protecting the President and the former President.Got it. So the secret service- You know the sad thing is, Patrick, my confidence is so shaken in all the federal agencies that they are so incapable of self-correction, of self-reflection, of cleaning up their own problems that I don't know they'll ever get to the bottom of all the things that went wrong in the situation.And that's terrible. That makes us feel and smell more like the Soviet Union, where it's a collection of lies in a house of cards. And that's really troubling. If you can't trust your institutions to say, okay, this was bad and we really screwed up and this is where we screwed up and we're not going to do that again. I don't think any of the federal agencies are capable of that discipline anymore. And that is really, really troubling because the Secret Service was a great institution. It was seen as credible. I mean, we look at how quickly they got Ronald Reagan off the X when John Hinkley opened fire. Quick, very quick. They President Trump there on the X for almost a minute, not knowing what to do. You hear the audio, what are we doing? Where are we going? It was Keystone Cops, not the highly proficient professional, not the Premier Protection Organization of the world. It is another global embarrassment for America and our institutions. And as taxpayers and as citizens, we deserve better.So on the Ronald Reagan clip, Rob, if you have it, just to show it. So to reference exactly what he's talking I've been to that hotel. And go ahead, play the clip.Get him out. Get him out. Get him out. Get him out.He's already gone. See that? He's already in the car and gone.Rob, back up again. Rob, back up again one more time. We're all the way to In the beginning.Get him out. Get him out. Get him out. Get him out.Get him out. Get him out. 11 seconds long.The sad thing is, it was the sixth shot, the last shot that Hinkley took, was The one that hit him. And it actually hit the hinge of the armored car door. And that flattened bullet struck Ragon under the left arm, penetrated his lung. And thank God, they diverted to George Washington University Hospital. That saved him. But yeah, it doesn't take much.I want to show something to you, Rob. Can you go back to that clip? And I want the audience to look for this. Can you see how many women are secret service agents? Go and play this clip. Go for it. Find one. Zero.Get him out.Now, zero. Zero. Do me a favor. If you can stop playing that clip and maybe go to the clip, because this This is what I did. Just out of curiosity, when I watched President Trump, when he got shot, I saw a lot of women who were there as secret service agents, a lot of them. It wasn't like one or two. It was a lot of them. Then I said, Okay, maybe it's a new thing because Biden is the one that's all about the underrepresented community, and we need to have LGBTQ and women and all this stuff. I go and Google Joe Biden, if you can approve the site to come up, Kelly. I go and look up Joe Biden's Secret Service agent. So watch this. Everybody's male, male, male, male, male. I don't see a single female. Look at this, three male. I don't see a single female secret service agent female. It's all male everywhere. So on one end, why is it that President Biden doesn't trust women as secret service agents for himself? But why would he assign secret service agents that are women, so many of them, to President Trump?Rules for thee, but not for me. Look, the Secret Service doesn't up their coverage on the presidential candidates until they actually receive the nomination. Now, the fact is, Trump's been the nominee for months now, but he's also been the former President, so he's certainly requiring that level of protection. Maybe they have their A team on the President. It's also a fact that Jill Biden had some other event in the area, and so she demanded other Secret Service resources be covering for her. I mean, look, you wonder why Joe Biden is running for President again? It's his wife. She even got the Marine Band because the Marine Band plays Hale to the Chief on any official walk on song. And Joe Biden had the Marine Band generate a song for the first lady. Walk on music for her when she has an official event. So that's a family that has the will to power. And I guess the rest of the federal government is suffering from it.Another story we were looking at, and by the way, let me stay on this thing here just to show you to get your thoughts on this. And I don't know how much of this you're following or not. So the first thing I did, I said, I want to know who are chief of secret service agent head is. And you'll see, she'll come up here, Kimberly Chetel. Okay. So you can go look her up and what her background is. Kimberly Chetel, an American law enforcement officer who served as a 27th director of United States Secret Service. Let me see how many in the past we've had as female. Okay, boom, boom, boom, boom, the one under Joe Biden, is what we see here. If I go back and I read her background, what she did, joined Secret Service 1995, Dick Cheney, Obama. She did some other work budget-wise. She served as a Senior Director of Global Security at Pepsi-Cola, where she was responsible for directing and implementing security protocols for companies, facilities in North America. Her role involves development risk management. And then I saw Anne Coulter post this saying, Female secret service agent fail situational judgment course, ability to separate gunmen from innocent civilians.Kimberly Cheeto authorizes her graduation anyway in order to fill the girl quota. I don't know how much credibility is behind this or not, but when I went over here and I looked at some of this stuff, this becomes deeply concerning. Do you think America, and specifically President Biden, and maybe the opposing side is sitting there saying, listen, maybe this DI stuff is a bad idea definitely when it comes on to secret service, definitely when it comes on to protection, definitely when it comes on to certain things. For example, as a father, I got four kids. I don't want a babysitter to be a guy. I just don't. I want a babysitter to be a woman because she's more gentle, loving a different way of taking care of my kids. There are certain jobs. I don't want a man to do the job. I want a woman to do the job. When it comes on to protecting the president, the potential president, this is not a place where DEI becomes an argument. Do you think this is going to cause people on the opposing side to say, Guys, this is a terrible idea. We got to get rid of this idea permanently moving forward.Let's have men protect our presidents in the future.I don't think it'll change the left's opinion until it affects someone the left cares about. When you see some of the awful comments made by the left about encouraging people to aim better, it's ugly. I don't think the left will change their opinion until they're made to suffer. They're made to live with the consequences of their social engineered, politically incorrect or politically correct paradigm. Again, whether you're the pilot of Air Force One, whether you're protecting the president, whether you're a submarine captain, I don't care what gender they are, who they sleep with. I don't care. I just want them to do the exact job that is necessary and have a well of capability to do that job. And when you inject race and gender and sexual preference and whatever else into it, it is distracting from the mission. America was built as being a meritocracy. And this is a fundamental difference. It's a Sovietization of America so that all appointments are based on politics, not based on merit.Yeah, because I was disappointed to see that Joe Biden didn't have any secret Service members that were lesbian, gay or trans, and they were all white males. It's a little, according to their own words, it's a little racist to only have a white male protecting you. Why don't you trust women or gays and lesbians to protect you? A little bit contradictory. I was a little bit concerned that he wasn't being aligned with his own philosophies when I saw that.Listen, a word of warning. I have one % left on my phone, so I'm about to die here.And I'm going to keep you this last one here. We saw the RNC coordinator for Secret Service. She said the following words here. I'll show this to you. And I want to get your thoughts on how you feel right now being at the RNC and how safe you feel for the President. Here's a clip of what she had to say. Rob, if you have it, actually, I found it myself. So if you guys can approve it, I can play it so we can get a reaction from it. Let me get You there, Patrick? I have you. This is a National Special Security event. Eric, if I have you. Do I still have you or did I lose you?We are confident in these security plans that are in place for this event.Can you stop playing it? It's been an 18 months. Eric, do we have you? I think we lost him. Anyways, that gives you an idea how much of the contradiction there is if you're watching this at the end. I mean, for me, I was just curious to know what Eric thought about the approach you would take in a situation like this after a former president who potentially could be the next President. And you just had all these events that took place. Are you changing any of it? No. Female head of secret service and a female head of secret service for the RNC, you're making any changes? We're going to take the same exact approach. Really? You don't learn anything from your mistakes. You don't learn anything from the mistakes you guys made that the President almost died. You're not thinking like, Hey, it's not a big deal. Maybe let's be a little bit more responsive about this thing. No, we're going to take the same exact approach. That's what we're going to be doing. No game plan. You play a game and you lose the game and you say, Hey, guys, we have to pay attention to the line when they're coming through our offense, the way you were trying to catch the ball.We didn't do a good with that play. None of that stuff. No, we're going to go through the same exact game plan that caused us the Super Bowl last year. We're going to do the same exact thing. Have you ever heard a head coach say something like that? You ever heard a leader of a team say something like that? Or you think they make adjustments? Who doesn't make adjustments? Do you make adjustments on the way you parent? Do you make adjustments on the way you approach your marriage? Do you make adjustments when something happens to your health? You go to the doctor, Hey, you had a heart attack. Something happened to you. You put on 50 pounds. Your knees can't handle it. You don't leave the doctor and the doctor says, Listen, your sugar level is high. Cholesterol level is high. If you don't make any adjustments, your life's on the line. You come back, Are you doing anything with your diet? Now we're going to go the same exact way. Babe, can I get a cheesecake and let's order a double, what do you call it? Double cheeseburger with extra bacon. And do me a favor, order two large pizzas with everything on a double the cheese.I'm not going to change any game plan. The average person watches that saying, you're delusional to say something like that, and the RNC is there this week. Anyways, there's a part of me that's always optimistic, always more optimistic than paranoid, but there's also a part of me that is concerned about what happens in situations like this because only the paranoids survive. We're going to see what's going to be happening. Folks, we'll be doing a Home Team podcast tomorrow. For those who are tuning in tonight, the President is about to announce the VP choice. They show the barricade. Rob, if you have the clip of JD Vans going through the... What do you call it? Coming and picking him up, if you have it, Rob, if you can play this clip. He's the only one so far that had a full on crew come and pick him up. If you guys didn't see this. Let me see if I have it here, Rob, if you can show it. Yeah, a motorcade. Go ahead and play this clip. So this is Trump VP contender, JD Vans spotted departing Cincinnati, Ohio, home in a motorcade. Why would they do that?A lot of people are saying because he's the next VP. There's also a conversation about the fact that Trump just had a meeting with RFK. Could RFK be a possibility? That'd be one hell of a surprise. If last minute, those two united, can you imagine one asked for more secret service, didn't get it, the other asked for secret service, didn't get it at all. What if the two unite? And just earlier, Trump tweeted something, if not on his, what do you call it, on Truth Social, about the fact that he believes RFK deserves additional security. And some are saying RFK was spotted at the RNC. A lot of things are going on right now. A lot of partnerships, a lot of negotiations on both ends. But we'll do a home team tomorrow to react to all of it. In light of what's going on in the world today, I believe it is imperative that RFK receive Secret Service protection immediately. Given the history of the Kennedy family, this is the obvious right thing to do. Whether they will or not, I don't know. Whether Trump picks him as a VP or not, no one knows.A lot of people are saying J. D. Vents today, including Vegas odds, or he can all of a sudden surprise everybody and everybody saying, Look at this, look at this, look at this. Doug Burgum is the vice President, and everyone's shell shot. Yesterday, I was at this area in Montag, pretty high-end area. I'm walking around talking to a lot of different people. I met this family who's registered independent, more on the left. They believe in climate change. There's certain things that they like. They said, We would be willing to vote for Trump if Doug Burgum is the VP, not if JD Vance, because of some of the old clips, all this stuff. There's a lot of debate going on right now, but we'll see what's going to be happening. Anyways, gang, this was just a podcast I wanted to do to get Eric Prince's perspective. We're going to do a Home Team Pass tomorrow morning, 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

you're hit in an extremity. So you can simulate all those things and dial up the pressure on these folks. But I don't think they're doing that. Perhaps it was too hard or not, or they just don't take it seriously. But apparently, they need to reevaluate their training because they are clearly not up to the game right now.

Yeah. So I hear you when you're saying sniper hotel. For me, automatically, you go to think like a bad guy. If you're going to attack, where are you going to do it from? I'm going to think about... Just logically, we're not even in the space. You're going to think about how somebody is going to be attacking you or not.

You just grind through the likelihoods and you take the most likely to the least likely and you grind off the possibilities.

And then let me ask you, Eric, what's the role AD plays, audiovisual, where You know how you said the last place you should get shot from is from the side, right? You're saying that should not be happening. Okay, why don't they put bulletproof glass to the side? You can still have Mike on the other side so his speech can go to you. Why don't they put glass here and to protect from the back some a shield so somebody can get to him?

Well, it doesn't even have to be a shield. Even if you take away the ability to the line of sight, the ability to see for a sniper outside that perimeter to see would even help a lot. But, ballistic panels that large would be extraordinarily heavy and difficult. But there's a lot of permutations to do that. It would not have taken more than three, four police officers that were probably out doing some useless traffic stop or useless check station five miles from where this event was to actually be up in the water tower looking around or tethered drone to give you a very clear line of sight. I would imagine there was confusion, again, from a lack of planning and a lack of communications. There was there was there was confusion about whether the actual assassin was some other local law enforcement guy or an actual assassin. And that's where they were trying to deconflict over that two minutes. But again, if you have a question, stop the rally, put Trump in a position of safety, pause for five minutes, make sure the situation is taken care of, and then carry on. Those rallies go on for a couple of hours.

I think you would understand that.

Another question for you. In these types of situations, you know how sometimes, and again, I keep referencing movies because the average person has seen the movies, and there's a scene where we have it under control. We're taking care of this here. And then FBI shows up and says, You guys are dismissed. We got it. The FBI is here. We're doing a wait. Why are they going to do this? You guys are dismissed. You're out of here. In this situation, who is superior to who? Pd, local FBI, secret service? Who follows the lead so they're all communicating together?

The United States Secret Service is supposed to be the lead agency for protecting the President and the former President.

Got it. So the secret service- You know the sad thing is, Patrick, my confidence is so shaken in all the federal agencies that they are so incapable of self-correction, of self-reflection, of cleaning up their own problems that I don't know they'll ever get to the bottom of all the things that went wrong in the situation.

And that's terrible. That makes us feel and smell more like the Soviet Union, where it's a collection of lies in a house of cards. And that's really troubling. If you can't trust your institutions to say, okay, this was bad and we really screwed up and this is where we screwed up and we're not going to do that again. I don't think any of the federal agencies are capable of that discipline anymore. And that is really, really troubling because the Secret Service was a great institution. It was seen as credible. I mean, we look at how quickly they got Ronald Reagan off the X when John Hinkley opened fire. Quick, very quick. They President Trump there on the X for almost a minute, not knowing what to do. You hear the audio, what are we doing? Where are we going? It was Keystone Cops, not the highly proficient professional, not the Premier Protection Organization of the world. It is another global embarrassment for America and our institutions. And as taxpayers and as citizens, we deserve better.

So on the Ronald Reagan clip, Rob, if you have it, just to show it. So to reference exactly what he's talking I've been to that hotel. And go ahead, play the clip.

Get him out. Get him out. Get him out. Get him out.

He's already gone. See that? He's already in the car and gone.

Rob, back up again. Rob, back up again one more time. We're all the way to In the beginning.

Get him out. Get him out. Get him out. Get him out.

Get him out. Get him out. 11 seconds long.

The sad thing is, it was the sixth shot, the last shot that Hinkley took, was The one that hit him. And it actually hit the hinge of the armored car door. And that flattened bullet struck Ragon under the left arm, penetrated his lung. And thank God, they diverted to George Washington University Hospital. That saved him. But yeah, it doesn't take much.

I want to show something to you, Rob. Can you go back to that clip? And I want the audience to look for this. Can you see how many women are secret service agents? Go and play this clip. Go for it. Find one. Zero.

Get him out.

Now, zero. Zero. Do me a favor. If you can stop playing that clip and maybe go to the clip, because this This is what I did. Just out of curiosity, when I watched President Trump, when he got shot, I saw a lot of women who were there as secret service agents, a lot of them. It wasn't like one or two. It was a lot of them. Then I said, Okay, maybe it's a new thing because Biden is the one that's all about the underrepresented community, and we need to have LGBTQ and women and all this stuff. I go and Google Joe Biden, if you can approve the site to come up, Kelly. I go and look up Joe Biden's Secret Service agent. So watch this. Everybody's male, male, male, male, male. I don't see a single female. Look at this, three male. I don't see a single female secret service agent female. It's all male everywhere. So on one end, why is it that President Biden doesn't trust women as secret service agents for himself? But why would he assign secret service agents that are women, so many of them, to President Trump?

Rules for thee, but not for me. Look, the Secret Service doesn't up their coverage on the presidential candidates until they actually receive the nomination. Now, the fact is, Trump's been the nominee for months now, but he's also been the former President, so he's certainly requiring that level of protection. Maybe they have their A team on the President. It's also a fact that Jill Biden had some other event in the area, and so she demanded other Secret Service resources be covering for her. I mean, look, you wonder why Joe Biden is running for President again? It's his wife. She even got the Marine Band because the Marine Band plays Hale to the Chief on any official walk on song. And Joe Biden had the Marine Band generate a song for the first lady. Walk on music for her when she has an official event. So that's a family that has the will to power. And I guess the rest of the federal government is suffering from it.

Another story we were looking at, and by the way, let me stay on this thing here just to show you to get your thoughts on this. And I don't know how much of this you're following or not. So the first thing I did, I said, I want to know who are chief of secret service agent head is. And you'll see, she'll come up here, Kimberly Chetel. Okay. So you can go look her up and what her background is. Kimberly Chetel, an American law enforcement officer who served as a 27th director of United States Secret Service. Let me see how many in the past we've had as female. Okay, boom, boom, boom, boom, the one under Joe Biden, is what we see here. If I go back and I read her background, what she did, joined Secret Service 1995, Dick Cheney, Obama. She did some other work budget-wise. She served as a Senior Director of Global Security at Pepsi-Cola, where she was responsible for directing and implementing security protocols for companies, facilities in North America. Her role involves development risk management. And then I saw Anne Coulter post this saying, Female secret service agent fail situational judgment course, ability to separate gunmen from innocent civilians.

Kimberly Cheeto authorizes her graduation anyway in order to fill the girl quota. I don't know how much credibility is behind this or not, but when I went over here and I looked at some of this stuff, this becomes deeply concerning. Do you think America, and specifically President Biden, and maybe the opposing side is sitting there saying, listen, maybe this DI stuff is a bad idea definitely when it comes on to secret service, definitely when it comes on to protection, definitely when it comes on to certain things. For example, as a father, I got four kids. I don't want a babysitter to be a guy. I just don't. I want a babysitter to be a woman because she's more gentle, loving a different way of taking care of my kids. There are certain jobs. I don't want a man to do the job. I want a woman to do the job. When it comes on to protecting the president, the potential president, this is not a place where DEI becomes an argument. Do you think this is going to cause people on the opposing side to say, Guys, this is a terrible idea. We got to get rid of this idea permanently moving forward.

Let's have men protect our presidents in the future.

I don't think it'll change the left's opinion until it affects someone the left cares about. When you see some of the awful comments made by the left about encouraging people to aim better, it's ugly. I don't think the left will change their opinion until they're made to suffer. They're made to live with the consequences of their social engineered, politically incorrect or politically correct paradigm. Again, whether you're the pilot of Air Force One, whether you're protecting the president, whether you're a submarine captain, I don't care what gender they are, who they sleep with. I don't care. I just want them to do the exact job that is necessary and have a well of capability to do that job. And when you inject race and gender and sexual preference and whatever else into it, it is distracting from the mission. America was built as being a meritocracy. And this is a fundamental difference. It's a Sovietization of America so that all appointments are based on politics, not based on merit.

Yeah, because I was disappointed to see that Joe Biden didn't have any secret Service members that were lesbian, gay or trans, and they were all white males. It's a little, according to their own words, it's a little racist to only have a white male protecting you. Why don't you trust women or gays and lesbians to protect you? A little bit contradictory. I was a little bit concerned that he wasn't being aligned with his own philosophies when I saw that.

Listen, a word of warning. I have one % left on my phone, so I'm about to die here.

And I'm going to keep you this last one here. We saw the RNC coordinator for Secret Service. She said the following words here. I'll show this to you. And I want to get your thoughts on how you feel right now being at the RNC and how safe you feel for the President. Here's a clip of what she had to say. Rob, if you have it, actually, I found it myself. So if you guys can approve it, I can play it so we can get a reaction from it. Let me get You there, Patrick? I have you. This is a National Special Security event. Eric, if I have you. Do I still have you or did I lose you?

We are confident in these security plans that are in place for this event.

Can you stop playing it? It's been an 18 months. Eric, do we have you? I think we lost him. Anyways, that gives you an idea how much of the contradiction there is if you're watching this at the end. I mean, for me, I was just curious to know what Eric thought about the approach you would take in a situation like this after a former president who potentially could be the next President. And you just had all these events that took place. Are you changing any of it? No. Female head of secret service and a female head of secret service for the RNC, you're making any changes? We're going to take the same exact approach. Really? You don't learn anything from your mistakes. You don't learn anything from the mistakes you guys made that the President almost died. You're not thinking like, Hey, it's not a big deal. Maybe let's be a little bit more responsive about this thing. No, we're going to take the same exact approach. That's what we're going to be doing. No game plan. You play a game and you lose the game and you say, Hey, guys, we have to pay attention to the line when they're coming through our offense, the way you were trying to catch the ball.

We didn't do a good with that play. None of that stuff. No, we're going to go through the same exact game plan that caused us the Super Bowl last year. We're going to do the same exact thing. Have you ever heard a head coach say something like that? You ever heard a leader of a team say something like that? Or you think they make adjustments? Who doesn't make adjustments? Do you make adjustments on the way you parent? Do you make adjustments on the way you approach your marriage? Do you make adjustments when something happens to your health? You go to the doctor, Hey, you had a heart attack. Something happened to you. You put on 50 pounds. Your knees can't handle it. You don't leave the doctor and the doctor says, Listen, your sugar level is high. Cholesterol level is high. If you don't make any adjustments, your life's on the line. You come back, Are you doing anything with your diet? Now we're going to go the same exact way. Babe, can I get a cheesecake and let's order a double, what do you call it? Double cheeseburger with extra bacon. And do me a favor, order two large pizzas with everything on a double the cheese.

I'm not going to change any game plan. The average person watches that saying, you're delusional to say something like that, and the RNC is there this week. Anyways, there's a part of me that's always optimistic, always more optimistic than paranoid, but there's also a part of me that is concerned about what happens in situations like this because only the paranoids survive. We're going to see what's going to be happening. Folks, we'll be doing a Home Team podcast tomorrow. For those who are tuning in tonight, the President is about to announce the VP choice. They show the barricade. Rob, if you have the clip of JD Vans going through the... What do you call it? Coming and picking him up, if you have it, Rob, if you can play this clip. He's the only one so far that had a full on crew come and pick him up. If you guys didn't see this. Let me see if I have it here, Rob, if you can show it. Yeah, a motorcade. Go ahead and play this clip. So this is Trump VP contender, JD Vans spotted departing Cincinnati, Ohio, home in a motorcade. Why would they do that?

A lot of people are saying because he's the next VP. There's also a conversation about the fact that Trump just had a meeting with RFK. Could RFK be a possibility? That'd be one hell of a surprise. If last minute, those two united, can you imagine one asked for more secret service, didn't get it, the other asked for secret service, didn't get it at all. What if the two unite? And just earlier, Trump tweeted something, if not on his, what do you call it, on Truth Social, about the fact that he believes RFK deserves additional security. And some are saying RFK was spotted at the RNC. A lot of things are going on right now. A lot of partnerships, a lot of negotiations on both ends. But we'll do a home team tomorrow to react to all of it. In light of what's going on in the world today, I believe it is imperative that RFK receive Secret Service protection immediately. Given the history of the Kennedy family, this is the obvious right thing to do. Whether they will or not, I don't know. Whether Trump picks him as a VP or not, no one knows.

A lot of people are saying J. D. Vents today, including Vegas odds, or he can all of a sudden surprise everybody and everybody saying, Look at this, look at this, look at this. Doug Burgum is the vice President, and everyone's shell shot. Yesterday, I was at this area in Montag, pretty high-end area. I'm walking around talking to a lot of different people. I met this family who's registered independent, more on the left. They believe in climate change. There's certain things that they like. They said, We would be willing to vote for Trump if Doug Burgum is the VP, not if JD Vance, because of some of the old clips, all this stuff. There's a lot of debate going on right now, but we'll see what's going to be happening. Anyways, gang, this was just a podcast I wanted to do to get Eric Prince's perspective. We're going to do a Home Team Pass tomorrow morning, 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.