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Bill Kristol (0:31)
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Sam Stein (1:14)
Well, you know, it was not expected. It was definitely surreal. I was not there. I was planning on going to the substack, there's a counterparty that substack was hosting. And then after that I was planning on attending a few events. So I was in a tuxedo kind of downtown D.C. in the Dupont area. And then I got a bunch of texts from people being like, are you okay? We're trying to unpack basically what happened here. I mean, I know some basic facts obviously and it's, it's really tough to sort of jump to conclusions, which is of course what everyone's doing online about it. But I guess sort of top end takeaways is one. I'm incredibly grateful that everyone is okay. Right. I mean it could have been a real. Like I said last night when I was doing this, I don't think people appreciate just how jam packed that ballroom is. It's like 2,000 people in a cavernous room, but it's, they're on top of each other. It's like hard to navigate through it. And there's dignitaries and top officials filtered throughout the room. They're everywhere. So had this person managed to get through, it could have been an incredible calamity. And thank God that didn't happen. And then to. I'm sort of trying to figure out myself what exactly transpired with respect to the security situation. I mean, you've been there, obviously, I assume you've been there. Bill, I shouldn't assume, but it's a fairly well guarded event as I've been there multiple times and you have to go through multiple checkpoints usually. And I get, I, you know, obviously the, the, the final screening is the, the metal detectors at the bottom floor. You go down an escalator, but you, there are checkpoints where you show your ticket and everything brought you. Then presumably they have some security. Now my first interpretation was this is like a fairly remarkable security lapse that he got down what appears to be the level in the basement right outside the doors to the ballroom. And according to the, the video of the security footage, he did a mad dash and they shot him. Now I'm sort of wondering if I, if this was not as bad as my initial instincts were. I, I can't figure it out. It is still remarkable to me that he got to that level.
