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Foreign. Hey, what's going on, guys? Welcome back to the Mike Force podcast. It's good to be back. Day 57 of the Iran war. Guys, today we're talking about this botched assassination attempt at the White House correspondence dinner. My take will be slightly different from the administration's take where everybody's a hero. These guys doing their job are heroes. Look, if you put yourself in harm's way doing your job, that's just doing your job. But they can call them heroes. But I could be critical of their response, their reaction, even their posture, which I'll go over. I did a reacts video that's coming out today on Mike Glover Channel. I'll link that channel down below. Big shout out to Primal Power. Primal Power is the premier sponsor of this particular podcast. 1100 milligrams of beef liver in this bar that is shrouded with chocolate, peanut butter and dates. So you don't taste the liver, but you get all the benefit, which is211 of your daily B12.10 grams of protein. One of my favorite snacks on the go. And also, just like every single day, I do one in the morning, one in the afternoon and my blood levels on the B12 spectrum are off the chain. I'll link it down below. I think I could save you 20 off. Also, if you're listening to this, I do an underground episode on my patreon.com forward slash. Mike Glover. Guys, day 57 of the Iran war before we get into this botched assassination attempt, but also botched reaction, in my opinion. Iran floated a proposal through Pakistan to reopen the Strait if the US Ends the naval blockade and stops the war. Their move was simple. Open the Strait and we could talk nukes later. I'm seeing a trend here, right? They know that nuclear discussions derail all their leverage and their plans. But Rubio immediately rejected that because he said the primary point of contention is this enriched uranium, most of it buried underground. They try to negotiate that Russia would take possession of it. No, no, no, no. We can't have that happen. The US position is still the same. No deal unless the nuclear issue is handled first. Also, oil today is over a $8. Before the war started, it was about $70 a barrel. And now it's a jump of 50% in just under two months. This is not just a Middle east story either. Prices have gone up all across the globe, including fuel prices, shipping prices, food and supply chain prices, as well as inflation at home. I talked to you about this in the underground on the weekly sit rep this week. But we were going to send delegates and negotiators, including Kushner, and we were going to negotiate these deals in Pakistan, but they wanted to basically call in. And we said, no calling in. Then Trump changed his mind and said, okay, we'll accept calls from them. And then at that same time, we were basically figuring out if we were going to have a negotiation. Talk about ending the war. Iran met with delegates in Pakistan, Oman and Moscow in just 48 hours. Putin met directly with Iran's foreign minister in St. Petersburg. In St. Petersburg. And that matters not because Russia suddenly enters the war tomorrow, but because it signals political cover, diplomatic backing and leverage against the West. When Russia publicly signals support for Iran during an active regional war, that raises the stakes. That means this is no longer a US Israel, Iran problem. It becomes a broader geopolitical problem where everybody's looking for leverage, by the way. In fact, China just came out recently and said, hey, we're just basically staying neutral on this. We don't want any drama in Germany. The audacity of the Germans. I love Germany as a country. Been there many times, been to the Porsche Museum and Stuttgart. I actually lived the first four years of my life in Germany after I was born in Fort Ord, California. And I love German engineering and German culture, German food. The Chancellor got up on the microphone criticizing America, saying Iran was making us look really bad. The audacity. Things haven't changed since 1945, have they? So Iran's leadership up into this point is still unclear. The so called new supreme Leader has barely been seen, if at all. He might even be dead. And even US officials are signaling uncertainty about how much control or legitimacy he actually has right now. And that's dangerous because unstable leadership in that country during wartime, where the IRGC is for sure, in a control, you have a fragmented command which is obviously decentralized, delayed decisions, you know, they call it ceasefire. And some IRGC dudes on an island lob some missiles or some drones. Internal power struggles and then obviously miscalculation because you don't have the brightest coming to the table because most of those guys were killed in strikes. Her moves is still a significant issue. The real strategic choke point is the Straight. Iran isn't just talking about reopening Hormuz. They're reportedly trying to shape the future rules of the Straight, including pushing concepts like charging tolls on shipping. This is a, as they are being predicted of losing $493 million every single day, 500 million, according to Trump. Right now that means higher costs, more Volatility, more military pressure and more opportunities for escalation that's affecting the entire global economic supply chain. A lot of Americans have come out and through the administration have advertised that hey, it's not affecting us, it's affecting the rest of the world. But that's not true. We've talked about it before on this show. The cost of aluminum, the cost of actually the supply of fertilizer and the cost has gone up exponentially because a lot of countries like China are holding 75% of their overall reserves that they typically export just in case. Also a lot of the chemicals are shipped through the straight that supply even America. So the idea that fuel and oil are the only things that are shaping the global economic issues that are bound to happen here in the near future is a lie. Right. Right now Europe is starting to publicly distance itself. Germany and France are openly criticizing U. S handling of the war. Told you about Germany. French was on that bandwagon and they've asked repeatedly in interviews, which I agree with the simple question of what is the end state? And it seems like they don't have an end state. The administration doesn't. What was the plan? Who cares? We're already invested. What's the exit and how, how does this stop? Are the, the better questions right now? The Gulf states realistically who have been propelled into this conflict being attacked themselves, that includes Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and others are cracking down on citizens showing empathy for Iran. If they're showing empathy for Iran in their countries, that could be a problem with extremism. But these people, they run their governments a lot different than the US where we're on the bandwagon of constitutional rights, civil liberties. They, they don't care about that. So that tells you the war is no longer just external. They're worried about internal unrest, sectarian fracture, proxy terrorism, an influence and obviously domestic destabilization. When governments start arresting their own people over foreign worse sympathies, that means they believe the conflict is bleeding into their internal security. And I get it again, these countries will string you up, bury you up to your neck and stone you to death. They do public execution still in Saudi Arabia. They're not messing around. Israel is signaling this is not a short war. The IDF is already framing 2026 as a continued multi front fight and that should sober people because their priorities are not our priorities. Israel is not messaging, mission accomplished. They are messaging. We are preparing for sustained regional security environment which means a long term conflict with the region and war. Gaza remains hot, Lebanon remains hot. Syria still active. Iran remains unresolved and this is spread throughout the region. The body count right now is already serious and it's probably worse than originally reported. Right now, thousands are dead across Iran and Lebanon. Americans are dead, Israelis are dead. And if media access inside Iran is limited, the true cost is almost certainly higher than what is being publicly confirmed. There's no real peace deal. No stable off ramp. Rubio just shut this down this morning. And so where does it leave us? Well, day 57, this is no longer just a regional war. It's spreading throughout the entire globe. I want to talk about this suspect in this situation that happened at the White House Correspondents Dinner the other night. This happened April 25 while the White House Correspondents Dinner was being held at the Hilton in Washington D.C. around 8:30pm A lone gunman, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, tried to penetrate a security checkpoint that was on the second floor, I believe attached to the main building of the hotel. Now, he attempted to make entry. He had a shotgun, a pistol which appears to be a 1911, and several knives that he traveled with via train from towards California all the way to Washington D.C. checked into the same hotel and planned this attack with a manifesto, which is. The manifesto was really weird. Really weird. He even in the manifesto lines out rules of engagement for his manifesto. Very bizarre. For example, he, he names all the cabinet members as his target deck, except for Cash Patel. And he puts that in quotations or in parentheses. It's like. Except Cash Patel. What? What? Okay, you're leaving him out? Okay, let's continue. No, anybody who gets in his way is a potential target. But he wants to try to prevent mass casualties by using less than lethal means. And he, he says he's not military and he's just trying to figure this out. But less than lethal, meaning that he's going to shoot these officers center mass in their, on their plate carriers to prevent them from actually passing. What, and who writes that down in a manifesto and then who plans for that to be released? You know, it said apology and manifesto or, or reasons or justifications. Very bizarre. This guy's college educated. He's for sure targeting the administration and Trump. And he makes entry and apparently when he's running in, there's a CCTV camera footage that I talk about on my reacts where he runs in and one of the officers who's wearing what appears to be body armor, standing next to another officer wearing body armor, takes a shot in the chest plate with this Mossberg shotgun. And then that officer draws and Shoots five rounds, misses every one of them. Nearly shoots one of his own guys that's standing right across from him. There's almost a crossfire incident. And I still think if he didn't hit his buddy, he came very close, and. And I was like, oh, maybe that's the one they're calling a casualty. But it was ridiculous how insane this looked because he ran between the two of them, and this guy's shooting as he's trying to get him. But I get it. He took a shot on the chest plate and survived. He actually continued to stand, which is pretty amazing. And they stopped the shooter, and he tripped or he tripped and fell. He never was hit. He was injured, but nothing serious, and he for sure wasn't shot. Okay, so let's. Let's take that and set that aside. If he was a suicide attacker, why would they not, or why would they risk having this guy still being able to fight or clock himself off? He fell. They got on top of him, rolled him up. But they said if he didn't fall and he was able to get down those stairs and he was able to get into that room, he would have created mass casualties because he didn't have a lot of obstructions. Now, one of the issues I have with security on this is any type of security situation. We always have outer inner perimeters. Like, you have an outer perimeter that's, like, on the street, right? And they're in and around the area, roving, trying to identify potential threats. If anything gets through that outer perimeter, then you have an internal checkpoint. Typically, internal checkpoints aren't in this, like, isolated area down a narrow hallway. They're right at the entry point. Have you ever been in a government building? Have you ever been into any private venue? Right when you come through the doors, even. Even the museum I take my kids to, right when you open the doors, you have a entry point, and that's where you're going to set up a checkpoint. Not inside the building, deep inside of it, to where anybody can get entry into the building. They're walking around, and by accident, they come across this checkpoint, or if they're trying to, in this case, with. With Mr. Cole Allen, they're trying to run the checkpoint while shooting. Then they don't have the opportunity to do that because they have a door they have to go through. They're immediately met with security, and they can't free Rove. So the idea would be, you see a guy coming to the. To the front door, you have outer security. That's an outer perimeter. That identifies him and says, oh, this guy has a gun. They could lock down the doors or lock down the checkpoint and further secure themselves. But no, the way they did this is they had an initial entry point. You came in, and then all the guests were screened. But now coming out on X is a whole bunch of complaints and commentary from these people that were at this event who said not only were they not searched, their tickets weren't even checked. Now Secret Service is saying they had facial recognition and a way to scan them in advance. Okay, so let's take that into account. You're so advanced, immersed with all these technological gates where you might be scanning for weapons, you might be scanning for facial recognition, that they belong here. But you don't have a secure physical checkpoint. So you have all the tech to utilize AI and potentially leverage this technology to find a threat, but you don't actually have a physical presence to stop a threat. Because this guy came around the corner. Nobody was looking at him because nobody was looking down the hallway. The two guys in tactical gear were talking to each other. The other guy was turned around completely. And by time they reacted, he had already got a shot off and was running in between them. I mean, it was like a really bad analogy. It's like it was like a football game where nobody's paying attention and they do a trick play and the dude just runs in between, in between them for the touchdown. Except the touchdown is him gaining entry into a room of innocent people. On top of that, some things that I saw where everybody was converging inside the room. Look, I get it. Like if they're on the stage, they're not going to hear gunshots because it sounds like dishes. It sounds like noise. And there was a thousand people in this. In this room, a thousand people. And so it's loud. They hear noise, and then they start vectoring into the noise. In my reacts video, I look at the crowd because some of the crowd pays attention by turning their heads, but nobody really moves. And then about 10 seconds into it, security and, and for sure, Secret Service gets the J.D. vance and they put hands on him, then they evacuate him. 13 full seconds later, the President of the United States is off the stage. 13 seconds. That is a lot of time. It took 10 seconds for two or three security personnel to get in front of the President, to get behind them to where they're getting hands on. And that's a problem because a lot of the issues that happen in these type of situations where malice, intent, violence is the primary objective, is the time between the potential identifying of the threat and then the confirmation that it is a threat. Okay, so let's, let's, let's reel that back between the time of gunshots, not knowing if it's a threat but wondering if it is. So you perk your head up and you hear the shots and you go, oh my gosh, what is that? To the time it takes you to move off the X. That window of time is the most significant and important time in survival in these type of catastrophes. So if you could reduce the time because you go, what was that? I'm moving? Or what was that? I'm not going to wait and contemplate or observe. I'm going to get off the X, then you have a better chance of surviving. So it to take 10 seconds after the shots to get to the President and Then an additional 13 seconds post Vance getting evacuated is a forever time. I think it was 19 seconds from the time that they arrived in front of Trump, the time they evacuate him. That's forever. Because if that guy stepped in that room and just started blasting everywhere, there could have been potential casualties in that room. Oh yeah, well, the only job of the Secret Service is to use their body and to shield and protect for sure. But how do we know that it was just a singleton? Which goes into my third problem here. After they evacuated everybody at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, they moved the majority of the crowd into the streets at particular intersections and had them protected by metropolitan police. If this was an actual terrorist, deliberate and coordinated planned attack, that could have been the plan from the onset. You conduct some kind of penetration of the security point, everybody locks down, they start mass evacuation, and then they get hit again. They come out, they have a security posture, they let their guard down because they think they're now just post processing everything and the attack is over. We saved the day. And then they get hit again. That's a problem. Right, so what should we do? Well, just like in hostage rescue, everybody thinks Hosses Rescue is just a sexy counterterrorism effort. That's like a fraction of the overall op. I've done lots of hostage rescue training. I've done hostage rescues downrange in combat theaters. Hosses rescues, especially with a lot of people, a 747, a hotel. This event in particular requires a lot of logistics in maneuvering through the crowd, triaging the people and breaking them down into who's a threat, who's not a threat, and separating them and controlling the crowd. Nobody was controlling the crowd. Everybody was Walking out, walking around. You had National Guards men and women walking into the building in full kit, some holding their pistols at, like, their knees, some not even with their pistols drawn, just wandering around. If that was an active terrorist threat and those guys are just walking around, can you imagine the crossfire, the liability? And no offense to the National Guard, I was in it. But I can tell you right now, the National Guard at no level is trained for H's rescue. They might have got a familiarization course, but for sure, tactically, they haven't got any instruction on how to do a hostage rescue that's worth anything. So bringing those guys in is a liability. They need to have specific roles and responsibilities, including setting an outer cordon. Another issue that I have is these Secret Service agents that came out onto the stage that had weapon systems. Some of them appeared to have magnified or variable, magnified optics. Some of them had red dots. Some of them had NVGs mounted to their helmets. And their job is basically to body block, using their chest plates and their weapon system to create a obstacle for a potential threat. As the President is evacuated, right? Which he never evacuated, by the way. He went into a safe room and they locked him down. They didn't want to risk evacuating, which I think was very smart given the circumstances. So they're. They're in this room, and two of them are behind their weapon systems, looking over their optics, in some cases looking through them, scanning for threats. But I saw a couple more officers, and. And I'll give it. I'll give it to you. I don't know all the details and complexities of their specific roles. I do know PSD very well. I've. I've done PSD for presidents while. While in Special Operations, I also was a global response staff officer for the CIA. My job was to provide protection for case officers and CIA personnel overseas. So I understand that world. What I don't understand is the guys that were standing around with their weapons slung, just kind of staring out in the crowd. What I always make an analogy is, is if you're. If you have a weapon system and it's pointed at the ground because it's slung and it's just staring at the ground, that weapon system is asleep because it takes you time to get it up on target. Even in the vicinity of where the threat is, you still have to acquire a threat. You have to find a sight picture through a red dot, a reticle, or an iron sight, and then you have to engage. That's. That's called the Shot process. You have a lot of things you have to do, but if your gun is out, pointed out at the crowd, and you're scanning and looking for targets, that's completely different. And I've heard people comment this. This is. This is how much people don't understand this. And I. I for sure want to educate people on this. People have asked or people have commented. Why are they flagging everybody in the room? Guys, that's Haas's rescue. They're in the middle of a sea of innocent people looking for the potential threat. You don't move your weapon system and your barrel around people that you don't think are threats. You're assuming there's lots of threats. You're looking for threats. You're looking for behavioral indications of threat. You're looking for hands and demeanor as you scan through the crowd. And they're trained to do that. I just don't get the fact that some of them weren't doing that at all. A couple things that bother me politically about this one. Apparently they're trying to push this FISA exclusion through the legislative branch the last couple nights, even in some cases, using this situation as justification to violate your constitutional rights. I will never compromise my constitutional rights and liberties for security. A lot of people have. We as a nation have. I mean, look at TSA and the invasion of privacy and your constitutional rights and civil liberties. Every time you go to an airport, you go to an airport to fly commercially on a plane that you bought a plane ticket for, the federal government comes in and goes, no, you can't get on that plane until we search you and violate your constitutional rights. Well, why is that? In the name of national security. And how much have they been effect. How effective have they been? Not very. And will that stop the next attack? Probably not. And how much do we spend? Hundreds of billions of dollars, for sure. I think they do a good job. I think they try their best. I think they have failed many, many times over. And I think once the government gets too much control in the name of national security, you have issues that come up like this, where you're violating constitutional rights. There's no due process, you don't have a warrant, and you're just invading people's privacy. That's a problem for me. It's like this patent that was filed recently with Ford Motor Company. This patent essentially allows the manufacturer to install cameras that identify your retina, do biometrics, facial recognition, and even can identify if you're incoherent, which is very subjective, to drive so let's say you have a incident where your eyes are really wide and you're scared and you get in the vehicle because there was an accident, there was an emergency, whatever it may be, and you get in and the vehicle says it's not you because it's looking at your face. Can't recognize the face. It's not used to seeing your face in shock and they shut down your vehicle. 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