The Daily Signal - House Holds Hearing on Assassination Attempt, Trump to Return to Butler, Mayor Eric Adams Indicted | Sept. 26

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Starting point is 00:00:27 Nothing else is Rees. The House of Representatives held a hearing today on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July. I'm Elizabeth Mitchell, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday, September 26th. Butler, Pennsylvania, area law enforcement officials told a House panel on Thursday that they were given very little guidance on security at the rally site, where former President Donald Trump was shot in July. A former Secret Service agent said the lack of planning was highly unusual. The first hearing by the House task force on the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump was held Thursday, and Chairman Mike Kelly, a Republican from Pennsylvania, opened by blaming the Secret Service for an entirely preventable tragedy in Butler. Here's Kelly. Going back to the actual sighting of Mr. Crooks more than once and way, way before, 11 this after 6.

Starting point is 00:01:37 I think that one of the things is the panel has heard from different people at different times is of the thousands of people that were on the grounds that day, there is repeatedly one person that keeps standing out in the back and forth, all the different communication. And it is, in fact, Thomas Crooks that they're talking about. So we knew there was somebody that was very suspicious. We also knew there was somebody that we weren't able to actually come in contact with, and we kept losing contact with him. We saw him with a range binder. We saw him doing things that were not probably in line with. what people go to a rally for. And I think that I'm constantly going to be wondering at what point,

Starting point is 00:02:14 at what point did somebody say we're not sure the area is secure and safe. Kelly said the task force's investigation identified three key factors to the security failures. Kelly said the Secret Service failed to plan appropriately for the rally. According to Kelly, the Secret Service did not close down public access or manage access to the grounds next to the rally site that were less than 100, 50 yards from the stage where former President Trump spoke. Kelly said security communication and command structure were not cohesive, preventing rapid decision-making.

Starting point is 00:02:47 Sergeant Edward Lins, commander of Butler County Emergency Services Unit, testified at the hearing. Here he is. I was aware through radio traffic that there was somebody on the roof and also that he was armed. The first report that there was somebody on the roof came on a different radio channel than the tactile units were operating, which would be PDOPS 3, and that transmission at 1808 and 20 seconds is somebody's on the roof. At 1809, I made a phone call to the PSP sergeant in the Secret Service Command Center and relayed the information that there was a suspect on the roof of the AGR building. There was some additional radio traffic from the Beller Township Police units,

Starting point is 00:03:31 and at 1811.03 hours on that PDOPS 3 channel, again, not the channel the tactic units we're operating is the Butler Township unit that reports he is armed. I believe he says, I see him, he's laying down and he has a long gun. Lynn said the Secret Service never asked law enforcement for a sniper team on the roof of the building where the shooter fired at Trump. Lins further told the task force that the Secret Service and local law enforcement did not have radio traffic with one another. Donald Trump will return to the site of the first attempt on his life

Starting point is 00:04:10 for a rally next week. The former president announced today he is holding another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5th after a gunman shot at him, wounding him in the ear. The Trump campaign released a statement saying that President Donald J. Trump will return to Butler, Pennsylvania

Starting point is 00:04:25 to hold a rally on the very same ground where he came within a quarter of an inch of losing his life less than three months ago. Trump will honor the father and firefighter Cory Comparatore, who was fatally shot at the rally. The campaign said that during his visit, President Trump will honor the memory of Corey Comparatore,

Starting point is 00:04:43 who heroically sacrificed his life to shield his wife and daughters from bullets on that terrible day. Trump will also recognize David Dutch and James Copen Haver, who were wounded in Butler. In an interview with Fox News that aired today, former First Lady to Melania Trump raised questions about the Butler shooting. She said it's interesting how quiet everything became.

Starting point is 00:05:06 All of the mainstream media, there were a few days of reporting about the July 13th event and then everything became quiet. So I had a lot of questions. What's going on? This is not normal. Here's Melania. Both of the events, they were really miracles.

Starting point is 00:05:24 If you really think about it, July 13 was a miracle. like that much and he could, you know, he could not be with us. Today, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan unsealed the indictment of New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, on five charges. These include bribery, wire fraud, conspiracy, and soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals in Turkey. Adams denied the charges in a press conference and said he would fight them in court.

Starting point is 00:05:57 It is clear. Everyone that knows me knows I follow campaign. rules and I follow the law. That is how I lived my life and I don't see coming into the 60s in my age, all of a certain change what I've done all the time. I follow the law and I follow the campaign rules. For months, federal investigators looked at everything from Adams' frequent travel to Turkey to a construction company in Brooklyn, whose employees allegedly donated more than 13,000 to his 2021 campaign, according to CNN. Mayor Adams suggested the scrutiny Brittany he faces is payback for his not-so progressive opinions on mass migration. Since 2021,

Starting point is 00:06:37 tens of thousands of migrants have flocked to New York City, costing the city more than $10 billion. Adams is the first of the city's 110 mayors to be criminally charged while in the role. Vice President Kamala Harris completed her second whole interview of her presidential campaign Wednesday night. The Daily Signals, Jarrett Stepman, covered the interview which aired on MSNBC. Jared, could you tell us about the interviewer, Stephanie Rule? Was she friendly to the vice president? Yeah, to say she was friendly would be a massive understatement.

Starting point is 00:07:11 In fact, what's interesting about this entire interview is just a week before, she was actually on the show Real Time with Bill Maher, and essentially said that Harris didn't really have to answer any questions from the press during this campaign, that it was a utopian for us to think that she would answer specific policy questions. It's quite interesting that she would. immediately got an interview with Harris right thereafter. And I would say that generally the questions were more or less softball. She got a few policy questions, but very little follow-up.

Starting point is 00:07:43 And no clear answers, I think, from Harris without. Interesting. So it sounds like not a lot of hard-hitting questions from Rule last night. When Harris was asked about her plan to lower the cost of living, she said she would do that by lowering the cost of necessities. Here's a clip. In terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your family and working hard and finding that the American dream is for this generation and so many recently far more elusive than it's been. And we need to deal with that.

Starting point is 00:08:25 And there are a number of ways. One is bringing down the cost of everyday necessities, including growth. groceries. Harris addressed increased housing and other costs in society by saying repeatedly our problems need to be addressed holistically. Here she is. And looking holistically at the connection between that and housing. And looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in holistic manner. That includes prioritizing affordable housing. Jared, did Harris address the controversy surrounding whether or not she actually worked at McDonald's in college?

Starting point is 00:09:04 Honestly, I don't think so. It's interesting that this was asked during this entire interview, but she only said that she had made fries, but she didn't get into any specifics. She didn't actually say, for instance, what McDonald's she worked at or what she did there besides the fries. And so honestly, it was a very unsatisfactory answer, but I would say in the larger sense,

Starting point is 00:09:27 she didn't really answer what her ultimate policies would be. or how they would actually work, and that was the much larger issue. What was your main takeaway from the interview? My main takeaway is that this is just a repeat, essentially, of the CNN interview she had before, where we now continue to have serious questions about what Harris's actual policies will be from a candidate who was simply dropped into a presidential race. And I think this says just as much about the media coverage as much as it does about Harris. The American people deserve answers from this campaign.

Starting point is 00:10:00 as far as what she stands for, and we're expected to not ask those questions, and we're certainly not getting that from legacy media sources. So I think a bad on this legacy media for not asking the questions and pressing further. You're so right. Thanks so much for joining us, Jared. Thank you very much. Florida is bracing for Hurricane Helene to hit tonight. The storm is expected to have Category 4 strength for the time it makes landfall.

Starting point is 00:10:27 Helene is currently a Category 2 hurricane with wind. speeds of 110 miles per hour. According to the National Hurricane Center, this could be a life-threatening storm surge of 15 to 20 feet in parts of Florida's Gulf Coast. A storm surge warning is in place for most of the Sunshine States' West Coast. Surging waters deemed unsurvivable could reach up to 20 feet. 61 of Florida's 67 counties have so far declared a state of emergency. People as far inland as the Appalachian Mountains may feel the effects of the storm. Governor Ron DeSantis urged Floridians not to put themselves at risk. If you're listening to the show from Florida, we hope you're staying safe.

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The Daily Signal - House Holds Hearing on Assassination Attempt, Trump to Return to Butler, Mayor Eric Adams Indicted | Sept. 26

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