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welcome to the first full weekend of the new 2024 presidential race. polls are tightening, money is surging as the faceoff between donald trump and kamala harris is nearing with exactly 10101 -- 101 days until election day, how does karl rove see things shaking out? and how much hinges on who the vp picks her own vp? hear from those reportedly in the mix. maryland democratic governor wes moore colorado democratic governor jared to lin and transportation, secretary pete buttigieg. we ask, see what they decide. and two weeks ago the day a shooter came within a millimeter of assassinating donald trump. we know what he did, but we still don't know why he did it. what was his motive? we're live in butler, pa pennsylvania, where the former president has promised he will return and where carlos gimenez just did. wonder what he makes of the

former president's plan to continue outdoor rallies. we'll ask him. all that and the d.c. cleanup after the anti-israel dust-up as the u.s. visit by prime minister benjamin netanyahu wraps up. while he may have preferred the greeting outside than a particular if one he got inside. "cavuto live" covering all sides right now. ♪ ♪ neil: all right. the various rah races are on, and is we're following both major candidates. i want to to begin at the white house with how the democrats are ironing this out not only with the sitting president sitting back and watching all of this, but his vice president now in control of all of this. lucas tomlinson is there. >> reporter: well, neil, this is a honeymoon for vice president harris. it's a very expensive one. the hearst campaign says it's raised over $100 million since president biden dropped out of the race, more than double the

cash on hand the biden campaign had in its coffers. now, not all biden's donors are onboard. here's one of them you spoke to yesterday, neil. >> you get to pick the best players on the team, and we're playing fantasy basketball, we would pick in one second, all of us probably, lebron james. when we have that type of opportunity -- the democratic party -- has that type of opportunity, but they seem to be squandering it by taking a lesser pick, and i don't understand that. >> reporter: now here's some of the other names being floated for a possible running mate for harris. pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, arizona senator mark kelly and north carolina governor roy cooper. kelly, of course, the former intruder pilot who flew combat higgss in the gulf war, also a former astronaut. one potential political liability, he helped fund a high altitude surveillance balloon company. back to vice president harris, she picked up a major

endorsement with this phone call from the obamas. >> -- without saying to my girl kamala, i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. >> we called to say, michelle and i, couldn't be prouder to the to endorse you. >> reporter: there's been some criticism with that video, or neil. you saw the vice president wearing a mien there and also speaking on -- a microphone there and speaking on speaker phone to the obamas, yet holding the phone to her ear. by the way, the race is 100 days from tomorrow. neil? neil: so you're hinting that that call might have been if preplanned and staged. >> reporter: sources with knowledge say it looks staged, neil. neil: all right. thank you. all right, lucas tomlinson on all of that. it is the politics. nothing goes unscripted. there's nothing wrong with that. just want to point that the out. in the meantime, want to point out that despite this democratic excitement with kamala harris, leave it to james carville to to

say, everyone, tamp it down a little bit. look at this. >> this is -- [inaudible] okay? this is everybody's giddy. i look at the coverage, and this kind of giddy elation is not going to be helpful much longer because that's not what we're going to be faced with. neil: all right. karl rove on all of that, follows this stuff better than anyone i know. karl, what do you think? he likes this choice but, again, he's cautioning let's not get ahead of our skis here. what do you think of that? >> i think that's absolutely right. look, everybody's got tough things that they have to do. i've just messed up my own white board. think about this, this is what haste has got to do between now -- harris has got to do between now and the end of the month. introduce herself, she needs to figure out how she's going to go after trump. she's got to peck a vice president, and that vice president has got to immediately say, you know what?

she demonstrated the leadership that that person would be capable of being president if something bad happened. and so that makes us feel better about her leadership abilities. she's got to have a convention that unifies the democratic party and has a positive impact on the american voter, and then the week after, i think, is going to be absolutely critical. the the democratic convention starts on august 19th, and what that means is, is that they've got one week after that convention, one week and a couple of days before labor day. and that's going to be -- i think the attitudes by labor day are going to be really important. she needs to come blowing out of that convention in chicago and showing big crowds and lots of enthusiasm. trump, he has difficulties too. he's got to frame harris. he's got to find the right message to go after her. because as lucas said, we've got 1011 days as of today, and he's got to get back in control of the dialogue. he is clearly in a subordinate role here. he feels uncomfortable with it, i suspect, and he likes being the guy who's setting the tempo

of the campaign, and and that's not happening. think about this, neil. nine national polls since joe biden announced on the 19th that he's not running. if you take those 9 polls, it is trump by 00.88, basically nine-tenths of11%, and that -- 1%, and that's after the bump coming out of the convention that really showed unity for the republican ticket and the republican party. and so this is going to be a barn burner, and it's very much up for grabs in the next -- and the next two or three weeks are critical for both camps. neil: well put. and it could be critical exactly who kamala harris chooses as her running mate. i want you to react to this. >> i want to be helpful and supportive to the vice president in think way that the i can. i think that she needs to be and she will be the next president of the united states. i am also, you know, i, i don't have an interest in the role or of leaving my state.

>> e just can't talk about campaigns and elections here. as a government matter, i'm proud of the work of the department, and i'm proud to work with the leadership of the president and vice president. >> i think the anybody, and i'm sure if you got the call from kamala harris that you were on the list, probably be willing to talk to her. i probably would too but, look, i'm really excited doing the job i'm doing. if they need a guy who likes dad jokes, who declared his candidacy on red kit and is a balding, gay jewish guy from colorado -- the. [laughter] neil: he might have an edge just on humor. but, karl, we focus a lot on vp picks, and it comes at a time where there's a lot of second guessing about j.d. vance and remarks he made years ago. a vp candidate can hurt you, we don't know how long. you just want to get a bump out of the convention and move on. what do you make of this back and and forth? >> well, there's a very interesting book by two young political scientists called "do

running mates matter," and they make a very convincing case looking at all of the data that a vice president doesn't win you a state you wouldn't otherwise win, it has no durable effect on moving big respect -- elements of the electorate. it's on the vision of the presidential candidate himself or herself. that is to say if they pick somebody like ronald reagan in 19800 said i'm going to pick my principal opponent who wasword to china, ambassador to theup, cia director, respected member of congress, you've gotten to know him over the course of the primaries, he's clearly up to the job and reagan's numbers for leadership and competence rise. john mccain picked sarah pay lin, and and they drop.. -- sarah hay lin are. we ought to be looking at what's the reaction of the american people. that person that kamala harris chose looks to me like he could or she could be president of the united states if something happened. and what it says about harris and her prety elections and and

her decision making process is really what's critical. neil: now, j.d. vance coming out the gate some controversy, so he's not exactly helping the ticket early on. that could change. but sometimes that the short window is the only window hearns have on a vp if choice -- americans have on a vp choice until there's a debate between the vice presidential candidates. no guarantee this year, but what do you make of that? >> i think you're right. it's not helping. and think, the biggest impact is it's a negative day. if you've got 100 days and you're spending 6-7 days talking about, well, should people who have children have more votes than people who don't have children or, you know, is the democratic party led by single, or childless, cat lover women, i mean, those are not good days for the republican ticket. so time matters more than anything else. it's not that j.d. vance is going to pull trump down a lot, he may pull him down a little, but what he's causing is a

missed opportunity to keep moving ahead where with trump's message and trump's attacks on harris. instead, they're a playing dependence. and this as a game gets back to the question of donald trump was in control of this campaign through the republican convention. he's been in control since last year. he took the weaknesses of joe biden and made them resonate with the american people. but now he's a little bit on the back foot, and and a little bit of that is natural. you've got a new candidate in the race, and we're doing something historic here, and the democrats are going to have the convention. his bump has been squeezed, if you will, by the actions of the last couple of weeks. neil: gotcha. karl rove on all of that. minnesota is in play. minnesota, traditionally, very democratic state. the trump-vance ticket is really focusing on that and not surprisingly, you're also hearing kamala harris is as well to lock it down. the very latest from madison alworth who's in st. the cloud, minnesota. madison? >> reporter: hey, neil.

yeah, we are here in st. cloud ahead of this rally. i'm going to step a aside so you can take a look at this line. we have people starting to come in now. people started arriving there are if this event as early as 2 p.m. yesterday. we have people that showed up at3 a.m. this morning, and they were already the 75th in line are. you should see that line wrapping there. but we do have bad news out of the latest polling for former president donald trump. looking at a matchup between donald trump and kamala hearst in the state of minnesota and 52 prefer harris compared to trump in that a matchup. in particular, harris is strong with suburban women, coming in at a 63% favorability with a group that trump has a really struggled with. and it has been a focus this week with trump's pick of j.d. vance as his vp pick with comments that he's made in the past about liberal women reas far asking. now, there's talk -- reas far asking. there's talk that maybe this was not the best pick. we reached out to the house

speaker, and he directed us to to a comment where he said earlier this month, quote, president trump needs a vice president with innovative ideas and the ability to articulate them to every single american voter, is and senator j. d. vance fits that mold perfectly. if minnesota voters, their top issue when it comes to their vote fall is the economy at 33%. that is an issue that they definitely prefer him on. more than twice as many minnesotans say they're falling behind financially compared to getting ahead. it's something that trump knows he's stronger on especially compared to kamala harris who he's going to the try to say has the same economic policy and was the co-pilot for bind's economy. take a welcome -- for biden's economy. take a listen. >> our leadership, every disaster joe biden and kamala harris have created can be fixed and can be fix ifed quickly. and it will be fixed quickly. it will happen quickly. our economy will be roaring back. [applause] if optimism will be surging.

>> reporter: so we do know that kamala harris has spoken strongly on women. she's talked about trump's record versus her own. one thing -- thing she has not mentioned is the economy. that camp knows it's going to be an issue a that is tough for her particularly with independent voters. voters here though, even though the polling in minnesota, neil, says that it is leaning towards harris, voters here very strong. like i said, this line started as early as yesterday afternoon a, and the people are excited. i'll send it back to you. neil: all right, madison. thank you very much. madison alworth. i don't know if you had a chance last night, any of you, to watch the opening ceremonies of the paris olympics. a lot of you, oh, gosh, i forgot it was last night. moneyed to worry. it's still going. it was very long. really, really long. after this.

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ceremonies like this anymore. you've never had anything like this, where with all the athletes are featured on a river cruise rather than under a stadium. but it went on for hours and, hours and hours. it's done or supposedly it's done. stephanie bennett this london with the latest on how it all went down because they had some other issues earlier in the day, didn't they, stephanie? >> reporter: yeah, that is exactly right. good morning, neil. the ceremony lasted i want to say about five hours or just other that. it was extremely long and, of course, ended around 11:30 p.m. hair time. intelligence forces say they're on the time when it comes to those train attacks. till no one has claimed responsibility, and there's no suspects in custody just yet. but we are getting new information. the state-owned railway operator said that vandals used explosive devices to is set off the fires which damaged signal boxes and cables along three major lines connecting paris with cities across france. operators say with the exceptional mobilization of

several hundred railway workers as you see there, services will improve but timetables will still be severely impacted all week. if now, the euro row star which connects london to paris, that was also impacted with one in four train canceled. this, of course, started overnight into friday when arsonists attacked the high-speed if train network ahead of the paris olympics' opening ceremony forcing many to miss if it. 50 drones have been added to step up surveillance mission to the roughly 45,000 police, 10,000 soldiers and 32,000 private security staff -- 2,000, who are guarding the to olympic event centers themselves. after dealing with travel nightmares and torrential downpour p the opening ceremony itself was met with controversy. first, olympic organizers issued an apology after the south korean team was mistakely introduced as north korea. and despite the artist thetic freedom of swapping the traditional stadium setup with grand performances from lady

gaga and celine dion, it all seemed overshadowed as online critics say the beheading of marie antoinette and reimagine being of the last supper performance in particular are being widely described as hyper-sexualized, woke and making pun of christianity. the olympics said the performance was an interpretation of the greening god of wine and festivity to make us aware of the absurdity, they say, of violence between human beings. many others applauded the performance and said it was historic. of course, for now the french transport minister says those high-speed trains should return to normal by monday. so fingers crossed for it. neil: but, you know, there was no inspector clue sew. with all of that stuff -- [laughter] anyway, i digress. stephanie bennett, thank you very much. very long, folks. exreamly long. all right, in the meantime, you might have heard that donald trump wants to to continue with outdoor rallies. right now he's urging at the folks be safe and that the

secret service learn something from its experiences two weeks ago this very day. but carlos gimenez, who was one of those who got to go ott rally site, he was the first to say, you know, there are bigger problems here hand even the secret service is a acknowledging. he's next. there are. >> i'm standing approximately the site where the shooter was. as you can see, i'm a 70-year-old man, and this roof is not a big deal. so for somebody to tell me that secret service agents couldn't have been here. that's crazy. at old dominion freight line, we deliver them this way. this way uses technology and goes the extra mile to do things the right way. the delivering promises on time, every time, way. [♪] there's a way to cut your dishwashing time by 50%. try dawn powerwash dish spray. it removes 99% of grease and grime in half the time. it cleans so well, you can replace multiple cleaning products.

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neil: all right, donald trump saying today two weeks after of assassination attempt that came within a millimeter of losing his life but that the he wants to continue going back to

outdoor rallies. doesn't know when. for example, he wants to return to butler itself, and he's indicated that is in his planning as well. but let's get the latest from c.b. cot torrance also out there in butler where all of this happened two weeks ago. it seems like a millennia ago but only two weeks. what are you learning, c.b.? >> reporter: hi, neil. what a two the weeks it has been. well, former president donald trump, as you said, says he's now returning here to butler, pennsylvania, to honor those who were impacted during the assassination attempt. we also know, as you mentioned, that trump has reportedly been encouraged to stop holding outdoor rallies, but this morning former president wrote on social media, take a look. quote, i will continue to do outdoor rallies, and secret service has agreed to substantially step up their operation. they are very capable of doing so. no one can ever be allowed to the stop or impede free speech or gathering. this after trump, again, survived an assassination

attempt when gunman thomas matthew crooks got off eight shots with an ar-style rifle. and just a few seconds before he was shot and killed by a secret service counter-sniper. our own analysis of the rally site reveals crooks may have tried to to give himself an upper hand over the counterrer snipers by positioning himself on the roof of the agr building in a spot that was mostly concealed by trees. we know from the fbi that crooks used drone to scope out the area three time before the shooting. and now the fbi confirming its assessment of trump's injuries with a statement reading, quote, what struck former president trump in the ear was a bullet whether whole or fragmented into smaller piece, fired from the deceased subject's rifle. the statement following fbi director christopher wray's congressional testimony this week where he made this suggestion -- >> with respect to former president trump, there's some question about whether or not

it's a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, that hit his ear. finish. >> reporter: and it appears fbi director chris wray was trying to suggest that trump was hit by possibly fragments of a bullet, a whole bullet or other pieces of debris, and this sparked huge conversation over trump's injuries prompting several outlets to do their own analysis, many of them concluding that trump was, indeed, grazed by a bullet. but so many people in this community say the distinction really doesn't matter. the the point is that he is survived an assassination attempt, and people feel like they should be able to go to a political rally for the candidate of their choosing without having to worry about something like this taking place. people still demanding accountability from the secret service this morning. back to you. neil: well put, c.b., and you framed it perfect if hi. what's the debate here? whatever it was, he came within a millimeter of being dead. >> reporter: yeah.

neil: i don't know what the debate is back and forth on that. thank you, c.b., is very much. i want to get carlos him these to weigh in on this, florida republican -- carlos gimenez. congressman, great to have you back. he visited butler. i do want your take on this debate, whether the bullet -- of course it was a bullet, of course he came close to losing his life. there's no debate about that. why was this issue even raisedsome. >> i really don't know. like you said, i was there. i don't know what would be between the shooter and president trump. i didn't see anything. i don't know what he grazed. i guess the teleprompter, but then he would have some kind of -- [inaudible] in front of his face. yeah, he escaped by the grace of god, believe me. he had to turn his head in the right direction x he had to tilt his head in the right direction in order for that bullet just to graze him because the shooter had him dead to the rights. and it's just sheer luck and the grace of god.

yep. neil: it is wild because, you know, even -- remember, this was, maybe it was shrapnel or something from the appropriator, they checked that. it was all intact, so it certainly wasn't that. so i don't know why we got that into this debate about, oh, it wasn't what it appeared to be. it appeared to be something that damn near ended his life. that not withstanding, congressman, i do want your take on donald trump putting out on truth social today that he wants to continue with outdoor rallies saying the credit service has agreed to substantially step up their operation. they are very capable of doing so. no one can ever be allowed to stop or impede free speech or gathering. what do you make of that? obviously, he loves outdoor crowds, outdoor crowds love him. but there is concern for his safety and others' safety in such environments. so where are you on this? >> i'm at that, you know, we are american, and we should live our lives the way we want to, and we should not allow terrorists or would-be assassins to change

what we do. so, you know, you've got to take your hat off to the president, you know in he was within a millimeter, two millimeters of ending his life and in an yacht door rally, and he wants to go back and do outdoor rallies. it's our job now to make sure that those rallies are safe not only for him, but also the spectators. look, in this occasion, the president's life was spare pd, but two individuals seriously hurt or and a fire fighter was killed. and so, you know, we owe it to everybody, you know, on any occasion, any outdoor activity the or any gathering that it needs on done in a safe manner. we need to protect america and americans. and i agree with him. he wants to keep on doing them, then god bless him, let's keep on doing them. and i know a lot of people, you know, many, many people want to see the president of the united states, the ex-president of the united states and the former -- and the to-be president of the united states. neil: right. and other candidates. and you raise a good point. you know, given your concerns

and you would say, all right, or something got botched up here. are we ready for that? is the secret service up to that? the coordination among law enforcement officials of all types for future events be they donald trump's or anyone else's, are they up to that right now? >> look, neil, i was the mayor of miami-dade county, but i was s.w.a.t. med ific too in my previous life as a firefighter, so, look, what i saw there was just a number of errors that were -- bane stuff. i mean, that shooter should have never made it to that roof. that area should have been much better protected. that excuse that the roof was way too slanted was ridiculous. in my video, i'm 70 years old, i got up there, no big deal at all. matter of fact, it was a very, very, you know, slight slant to that roof. and so that was just an excuse by secret service. if you can just go to the location and, you know, hey, i'm

sitting -- i'm standing where the podium was. there's the building right this and nobody accounted for it. neil: wow. >> the shooter did utilize the terrain, i guess, once he got up there, but he never if should have been allowed to get up there. so, to me, it was a series of events, a series of missed opportunities that allowed the shoot or to get there in the first place. and and so like i said, i used to be a s.w.a.t. medic. i also ran ems for city of miami, and i knew when we had dignitaries, we would have plan being. and some local agencies are much better at this than others. you're talking about butler, pennsylvania. it's probably a small town police department. maybe the pennsylvania state police isn't as a good at or as experienced as other agencies are in this, you know, dignitary protection. they were only charged with the interior of the perimeter. the perimeter's way ooh small, and so that's probably what

happened there. a lot of things went wrong, neil, and this shouldn't have happened. neil: you're exactly right. i've always been impressed by you, congressman, but knowing that -- my son is a firefighter and you were, there's a great simpatico there. he was saying a lot of the things you were saying. congressman, very good seeing you again. thank you very much. >> thank you, neil. have a great one. neil: 70 years young. all right, in the meantime, a lot of focus on all the hostility that the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, got when he was visiting this country, of course, with that big address to congress and everything else. but the real chill was something that happened indoors. after this. if jen x. jen y. and jen z. each planning their future through the chase mobile app. jen x is planning a summer in portugal with some help from j.p. morgan wealth plan. let's go whiskers. jen y is working with a banker to budget for her birthday.

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encapsulates the kind of rocky week it was for benjamin netanyahu, speaking for a record fourth time over a joint meeting of congress but getting a lot of grief, particularly from the outside. but probably in the eyes of benjamin netanyahu, surprisingly from the inside, from at least kamala harris because, apparently, what she had told him in an inside meeting was nothing like what she told reporters afterthat -- after that meeting. it was chilly, to put it mildly. rob spalding joining us now, "war without rules," runaway bestseller on all to -- this stuff. general, always great seeing you. we're told there was friction at that meeting, that whatever kamala harris was saying about being touch or -- tough on israel and not being silent on these issues with the palestinians, she didn't reflect it the same way in one-on-one meetings. i wasn't in the room, you weren't in the room, but it's very cheer that that was a

tension convention -- can clear that it was a tension convention. what do you make of that? >> well, you probably don't think you on the front lines of a battlefield, neil, but you are. quite frankly, i left the the air force because the battlefield has shifted. it shifted from, you know, using weapons to the to using words. and, unfortunately, if we don't stand up for the free world, if we don't stand up for western liberal values, then this is what we get. and, quite frankly, the fact that we have campuses protesting for hamas, you have hose protesters and then the vice president who is going to, you know, run as the president now for the democratic party not standing up to it, i think, is a big problem. neil: i wonder as well, general, what tone was set. now, in a separate meeting with donald trump at mar-a-lago, the former president indicated that should he get back in the white house, he would be able to wrap this unfairly quickly. now, he's urged benjamin netanyahu to try to wrap with it

up very quickly because israel's losing the pr war. that's probably a given for the time being but easier said than done, isn't it? >> it absolutely is. and, you know, you think about it, almost nobody talks about the horrific acts that hamas perpetrated on october 7th. all they're talking about is how hamas is basically being abused by the israelis. and, quite frankly, you have to hand it to hamas, their strategy has been using these new tools of war to turn the tide in their favor. and if we have to think in the west we have for so long thought of f-35 and aircraft carriers, it's social media, it's media. it is the power of the word. we had during the first cold war the u.s. information agency, and we got rid of it. we need to get better at this type of warfare. neil: you know, this war could conceivably last a long time. i've talked to form ifer israeli ambassadors and benjamin

netanyahu himself who seems to map out a plan that could be years before it's fully implemented. i'm wondering, forget about whether the world is ready for that, are we as a country ready for that if we're behind him in this effort? >> yes. and you look at, you know, we spent a lot of time talking about, you know, all the arms to nato and nato needs to spend more money on weapons but, quite frankly, they can't get out of their own way in terms of messaging. again, you know, when you have today in america 30% of kids getting their news from tiktok and that's controlled by the chinese communist party, you have to begin to wonder what we've done in terms of what we've created. we created a world where these tools are being used to change the really principles and values of our society. that's where war with. that's what i wrote about in my book, that's what i firmly believe. neil: well, you lived it and you fought it. general, thank you very much.

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we're following what he's saying. obviously, kamala harris herself has been visiting a lot of battleground states. i believe she has a fundraiser outside of boston tonight. we're monitoring all of this as we are what's going on in nashville, tennessee, where donald trump will be appealer i believe with j.d. vance. but it's a big bitcoin conference going on there. kelly o'grady can tell you it wasn't that long ago where you could fit all of these guys, well, in my garage. but right now there are thousands of them, and they have these conferences that are almost like those, you know, comic-con deals. they're not that big, but it's pretty close. kelly, what are you seeing? >> reporter: i like that new phrase. it's bitcoin-con. they're going to have to pay you for that, neil. this is fascinating because it is an industry this was once marked by skepticism, now it's playing host to not one, but two presidential candidates this weekend. of course, the big ticket item will be former president trump's speech this afternoon.

he is the keynote. he's going to look to tap into this voting -- growing voting bloc. he's also going to look to woo donors. and prior to the speech the former president is holding a fund raiser with seats reportedly going for over $845,000. the big announcement that we may get during the speech is a plan to classify bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset. essentially, that would mean the treasury would purchase billions in the digital currency, and they would hold that alongside gold and other foreign currencies. the former president isn't the only candidate to raise that idea. rfk jr. also spoke yesterday promising to purchase over $250billion in bitcoin. i can tell you that would lend huge credibility to the industry not to mention send the price soaring. we actually caught up with kennedy yesterday. he says bitcoin brings transparency. listen. >> it's the currency of freedom, it's the currency of hope. it has capacity to perfect our democracy, to make government

much more transparent. bitcoin makes government incorruptible because it can't just go print money. it has to be honest about it. >> reporter: and the data shows why the candidates are courting the crypto crew. so one in five americans own crypto, and of those, 73% said a candidate's stance would impact who they would vote for president. now, one candidate notably ab sent, by the way, vice president harris. she was invited to the speak but declined, drawing criticism from many here. and while harris has yet to set an official stance on the industry, the biden's policies have been chemod by many as anti-crypto -- deemed by many. and attendees have shared with me they're ready for a change, neil, and they're open to what former president trump has to share this afternoon. i'll send it back to you. neil: kelly, nice to see you're working seven days a week now. [laughter] keep that going. holy cow. kelly o'grady in nashville,

tennessee. i just spoke incorrectly, j.d. vance will not be joining the president there, but he will be joining the president at a campaign e event, is it minnesota, guys? i apologize for that confusion. in the meantime, i want to to update you on donald trump. he's indicated, of course, he wants to resume outdoor rallies, of course, making sure it's safe for everybody. but he's intent on doing that. we talked to a florida congressman who's a little bit worried about that, recognizes the need to campaign in these venue, so we thought we'd talk to the former fbi assistant director, chris swecker, what's at a stake with all of that. after this[doo. [floor creaks] [door creaks shut] (♪) (♪) (♪)

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neil: all right, two big developments with donald trump two weeks after the assassination attempt on him.

he wants to resume outdoor rallies, thinks they're very important. but a lot of folks are concerned for his safety and others' safety, especially where the secret service is even up to the task. let's go to chris swecker, the former fbi assistant director. you know, chris, i can't blame the former president, other politicians who like these venues, particularly donald trump who gets tens of thousands in the case of wildwood, new jersey, a couple hundred thousand to fill an outdoor area, but there are risks to that. how do you balance that? >> yeah. i mean, it is a balancing act, and these are high risk events because of the way they're laid out, often in open areas which are very hard to secure. you need a lot of resources. having said that, i don't think they should limit former president trump in how he does his rallies. i mean, this is his hallmark, this is his trademark, this is sort of how he rallies his troops. the secret service is just going to have to step up their game and do their job. they need to to -- they're doing

financial crimes and all this other stuff. they're only using about 30% of their resources on protection. they need to go back to their core mission and staff up. if. neil: you know, you're the expert of this, chris, but i read a prompter, so i think i qualify. the one thing i've noticed is how similar this seems to 9/11 in that various agencies didn't communicate even at the moment of the attacks and and afterwards. now, i don't fault them, but we learned similar instances where local police couldn't communicate with the secret service. i don't know how detailed or even through they are, but this communication issue between people who were there to protect everyone there including, you know, a guy running for president, it's incumbent upon them to make sure they're all in sync, right in. >> right. i mean, that's exactly one of the biggest issues of 9/11 was that inability to communicate, the sort of interoperability, sharing information.

that should -- i mean, we ought of that puzzle solved by now. we had various missions after 9/11ful we had, you know, they set up terrorism, you know, the terrorism screening center, counterterrorism center in d.c., outside of d.c. where all the agencies were in one place. this is a simple one though. this was just have the state police and the local police in the command if post with the secret service. secret service doesn't want to share their channel with them, that's fine, but you sit right next to each other and pass information realtime and make good judgment about, you know, what you're going to do with the information as it comes in, and i think they fell down on both parts. neil: you know, chris, this is a little bigger, but you're more than able to look at it given your past fbi background. we've a president of the united states right now 40's essentially sidelined for the next six months. we have his vice president in a role that's very similar to acting president in the meantime. kind of like what some or european countries do, they have

a president and a prime minister, i get that. but that's not our system of government. i'm wondering what signals you thinkable sends. does it confuse foreigners? does it incite our enemies or gal. vannize them? what do you think -- value began vise -- galvanize them? >> i think it creates a very dangerous environment in what was already a pretty high-threat environment. we've got china breathing down our neck and an alliance with russia, that's not good. and we've got iran, you know, we've got crazy people, almost nuclear. north korea, another unstable person with his hand on the trigger. so, you know, and then across, you know, russia we've got threats coming from everywhere. and this just sends a bad signal. it's a national security issue, for sure. neil: got it. chris, thank you very much. stick around, we'll have more after this. tina feys i could be. so i hired body doubles. 30,000 followers tina in a boutique hotel.

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