Updates on the Tropical Storm Debby rains dumping on the Carolinas all day. Plus, a new report from Real Clear Politics says the Secret Service detail around the President and the First Family usually secretly disposes of narcotics for the family. Kind of like the cocaine found at the White House last summer.
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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Lots of rain from the... Is Debbie a depression at this point? Is she in depression? I don't know. Not the hurricane any longer, but still lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of rain all around the area. I've been working on a new threat assessment matrix for this kind of weather based on my own personal experience, which I find...
[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I think this matrix, once perfected, will actually be a little bit more helpful to the average citizen. And just the working title here is the Pete's Patio Pillow Index, or the PPPI.
[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's got four levels, and it's based on the status of your... of the pillows on your chairs, either on your porch or patio. I'm not trying to, you know, be exclusionary here. If you've got your... you know, maybe you got a couple of chairs set up out front.
[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Look, if you've got... if you've got the plastic stuff, the plastic chairs out front, I can't help you. Okay, because those things are getting blown away no matter what. So...
[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_00]: But the level one, I call this, like, small pillows down. And it's always helpful to have, like, the color coding.
[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I went online, and I tried to find some good colors. So, for example, the first color would be Smaragdine. That's the color. Smaragdine.
[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Smaragdine. I think that's how you pronounce it. I'm not kidding. It's a color. S-M-A-R-A-G-D-I-N-E.
[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: S-M-A-R... so Samara... G... Smaragdine. Smaragdine?
[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Smaragdine? Yeah, no one's picking that color. Exactly. That's what I'm thinking. This is... if I take...
[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so it's like a greenish kind of a color. And the characteristics of the level one, small pillows down,
[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_00]: is that, like, the throw pillows that you may have, like, on the back of the chair,
[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: like, they're on the ground. So small pillows down, they're on the ground,
[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_00]: but they are in close proximity to the chairs or the patio, right?
[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not, like, bone all over God's creation. Maybe some small potted plants maybe have knocked over.
[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe a little dirt is spilled on the ground. Your wind chimes, they're loud and annoying,
[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_00]: but otherwise intact, right? That's sort of the characteristics of level one.
[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: The Smaragdine. Small pillows down. Number two, level two, would be large pillows down.
[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_00]: See where I'm going with this, right? So... and this color would be Sarcolene.
[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: S-A-R-C-O, Sarcolene, or line, Sarcolene. And this is like a cream color, right?
[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So kind of, you know, not threatening bodily harm or anything.
[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And this means, basically, that all the pillows, regardless of the weight and the size,
[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_00]: are blown off the chairs, but you could probably still see them, right?
[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_00]: They're on the horizon, right? Like, they're in proximity to your domicile.
[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_00]: The wind chimes may be tangled up, may be broken, but they're still hanging, you know?
[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And then level three, pillows gone. Pillows gone.
[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe even some heavy chairs, heavy tables, blown over.
[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But you can't find your pillows there.
[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is where I was this morning.
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I went driving around the neighborhood looking for the pillows.
[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I think, so I was level three. The color there is fulvus.
[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Fulvus. F-U-L-V-O-U-S. Or fulvu. It may be French. I'm not sure.
[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like a, like an orangish, like a burnt sienna color.
[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And then finally, the fourth level, because obviously there's, you know, something worse than level three.
[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Level four, the final level.
[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I call that death.
[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: That's just death.
[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Death. It's like a red color called amaranth.
[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And the characteristics here is that your neighbor's patio furniture is now in your yard.
[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Your furniture is halfway across town.
[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: This is also known as a tornado or a hurricane.
[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.
[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It does kind of escalate, obviously, very quickly at that point.
[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But that's death.
[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe parts of your roof are gone, too.
[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, your wind chime is nowhere to be found.
[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's a work in progress.
[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, again, I feel like this would be, you know, small pillows down, large pillows down, pillows gone.
[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_00]: These are the ones that we're really like working in.
[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was, you know, today I was pillows gone.
[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Although it did turn out because my wife sent a text to all of the neighbors like,
[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_00]: hey, if you see our pillows, let us know where the pillow went.
[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I drove around the neighborhood looking for the pillows, couldn't find any,
[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: came back home, walked up on the porch, and the pillow was there.
[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So it actually wasn't pillows gone.
[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a false alarm, unless somebody found it and put it back while I was driving around.
[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I don't know.
[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a false alarm.
[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So it was a false fulvis.
[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a false fulvis level three, probably actually just a level one.
[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But hope everybody's doing okay.
[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Watch out for the flash flooding, not the flooding of flashers.
[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Totally different type of warning that goes out.
[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But there is a lot of rain in the area, and it's going to remain so throughout the day.
[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And so the creeks and the tributaries and the streams and all of the waterways are going to be swollen.
[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a word you don't usually use in newscasts.
[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes on the talk side, yes, but not in the newscast usually.
[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But you do hear it a lot during these weather events.
[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to call in and report anything that you're seeing, the phone lines are open at 704-570-1110.
[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: If you've got some level one action, small pillows down, maybe you've got some level two action, large pillows down.
[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe you're into pillows gone territory like I thought I was.
[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a very, it was a scary moment this morning.
[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, not scary enough for me to not get in the car and drive around, you know?
[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, also that reminds me, gray car drivers.
[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Got a lot of rain going on right now.
[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And if my ride into the studio today was any indication, I see the memo has gone out.
[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_00]: The reminder notice has gone out that if you are a gray car driver, you're apparently not supposed to turn your lights on.
[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Every other color card tends to do that.
[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But gray cars, for some reason, feel like it's best to be completely invisible during the rainstorm.
[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So I would just throw this out, maybe burn the lights this way.
[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I could see you.
[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life, you know, just that we can't see you is all.
[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Even, and look, even if I'm behind you, it's difficult to see you.
[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I know your dashboard lights up because your front lights go on.
[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And then you think that your lights are on.
[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: But we can't see you from behind because your lights are not on the back.
[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So, again, that doesn't apply to the gray car drivers who don't ever turn their lights on for some reason.
[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I believe it is part of a code that people sign on to when they purchase gray cars.
[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the only thing I can figure out there.
[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll keep you posted on any developments on the weather front.
[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Are we branding this thing?
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Is this storm branded?
[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's named.
[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: It's named Debbie.
[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Are we doing like an Operation Storm Panic?
[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Anything like that?
[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I did not get a memo on that.
[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So, anyway, I do want to bring you a story about cocaine.
[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Specifically, the coke in the White House.
[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember that story?
[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's an interesting tidbit I came across the other day about what happened during that,
[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: when the news broke and then the investigation.
[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: There's one little part of a story that was at RealClearPolitics that had me scratching my head,
[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_00]: and I admit I had never heard this little tidbit before.
[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And I do like saying the word tidbit, so I'm going to say it frequently here.
[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know the method.
[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_00]: The Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, though.
[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: This is according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: According to a report at RealClearPolitics by Susan Crabtree,
[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Service's Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2nd, 2023,
[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_00]: a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland,
[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and jonesing for their—no, I'm just kidding.
[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Thing to keep in mind here, the Secret Service's Uniformed Division,
[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: this is going to become important as I go through this story,
[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: but this UD, this—or SSUD, or the SUD, as I like to call it,
[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_00]: the Uniformed Division, because they were the ones that found it,
[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: it changed the way the story came out and the fact that the story came out at all.
[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the tidbit that I found to be kind of disturbing, kind of surprising.
[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I was not aware of this tidbit before I read this story.
[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_00]: So at least one SUD officer, Uniformed Division officer,
[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_00]: which I assume means they wear uniforms, but I don't know.
[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, why would you call yourself the Uniformed Division if you're not uniformed?
[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, it was initially assigned to investigate the Koch incident,
[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: but after this officer told his supervisors, including Cheadle and the acting Secret Service director Ron Rowe,
[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_00]: who was deputy director at the time,
[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_00]: he said he wanted to follow a certain crime scene investigative protocol.
[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And as soon as he told his leadership that,
[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_00]: he got taken off the case,
[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_00]: according to a source within the Secret Service community
[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_00]: familiar with the circumstances of his removal.
[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, who is a liar,
[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_00]: denied that Cheadle or Rowe or anyone in Secret Service leadership
[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: had asked for the cocaine evidence to be destroyed.
[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Guglielmi, however, ignored a detailed set of questions
[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_00]: asking if an agent or an officer had been removed from the investigation
[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_00]: and whether anybody had retaliated against him or anybody else
[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_00]: for rejecting leadership's orders or requests during that process or afterwards.
[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_00]: So real clear politics,
[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: this reporter,
[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Susan Crabtree,
[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_00]: sent Anthony Guglielmi,
[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_00]: the Secret Service spokesman and a liar,
[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: sent him a request for answers to a set of questions.
[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the questions involved whether or not they had,
[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_00]: engaged in any kind of retribution,
[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_00]: had people been reassigned,
[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_00]: like what was the fallout or whatever?
[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Did anything like that happen?
[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And the Secret Service has not answered those questions.
[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Only they have said that upper management didn't do anything.
[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't do anything when it comes to asking for the coke to be destroyed,
[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_00]: which leaves a lot of room for these other elements of the story.
[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Still haven't gotten to the tidbit, by the way.
[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Tidbit incoming.
[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Normally,
[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_00]: here it is.
[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Normally,
[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_00]: the discovery of cocaine or another illegal narcotic in the White House complex
[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_00]: or in and around the First Family and their staff would not come to light at all.
[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't come to light.
[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Would not.
[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: On Twitter,
[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_00]: at Pete Callender,
[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_00]: where I have been accused of being a gray car bigot.
[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I am perpetuating harmful stereotypes.
[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just gray cars,
[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Russ says.
[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: It is a well-documented fact
[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_00]: that it's one in five cars of all colors that don't turn on their lights.
[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_00]: By the way,
[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty confident that the same 20% make up the bulk of Biden's approval ratings.
[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if that's,
[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if that's correlated or,
[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_00]: or maybe it,
[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: maybe there's causation there.
[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure.
[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I just notice it with the gray cars because I don't know.
[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_00]: In fact,
[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_00]: here's the thing.
[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_00]: The,
[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_00]: the number of gray cars that don't turn on their headlights could actually be much greater,
[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_00]: but we don't see them.
[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like the gotaways.
[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know how many there are because they are invisible.
[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_00]: They are camouflaged in the rain.
[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So real clear politics reporting on some of the inner turmoil that occurred last summer
[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_00]: after a bag of Coke was found at the white house.
[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was found by a member,
[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: an officer of the secret services uniformed division.
[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And that officer wanted to follow a,
[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: and apparently,
[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_00]: standard investigative protocol.
[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was then removed from the investigation.
[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Um,
[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and that there was apparently an argument with the,
[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_00]: uh,
[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_00]: leadership of the secret service over how to proceed and whether to destroy the cocaine.
[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And here's the passage,
[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_00]: the tidbit that I found most,
[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_00]: um,
[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_00]: disturbing that normally the,
[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_00]: the discovery of cocaine or another illegal narcotic in the white house complex,
[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_00]: or in the first family or around the first family or their staff in or around their staff,
[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_00]: that this stuff,
[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_00]: the discovery of Coke around them would not come to light at all.
[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And that is because here it is the presidents and first ladies,
[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_00]: as well as members of the family,
[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_00]: their protective secret service details,
[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: The,
[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: the agents that are protecting Biden,
[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Dr.
[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Jilson,
[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Hunter,
[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_00]: whoever else is there,
[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_00]: like the whole first family,
[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: the innermost ring of protective agents assigned to the first family,
[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_00]: would simply dispose of illegal drugs or other contraband found in the white house or personal residences or private areas of the president who,
[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: his family and,
[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_00]: uh,
[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_00]: the white house staff and the white house staff.
[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So how much Coke have they been finding?
[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't know how many other illegal narcotics or contraband,
[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: or whatever,
[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: how much more stuff do secret service agents find around the first family?
[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And not just this first family,
[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_00]: but any first family that they dispose of quietly.
[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: They just throw it away.
[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh,
[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: we'll take care of that.
[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember,
[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_00]: do you remember when,
[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: um,
[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: the story about Hunter Biden's firearm first came to light?
[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And do you remember how it was discovered like in a trash can and some guy,
[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I think he may have been homeless or something,
[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: but he had found the gun because remember Hunter Biden went and bought the gun while he was doing the drugs.
[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And his,
[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_00]: uh,
[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_00]: girlfriend,
[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: eh,
[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: eh,
[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: sister-in-law,
[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_00]: um,
[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_00]: or former sister-in-law.
[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Is she a former sister-in-law?
[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Because Bo,
[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Bo Biden died,
[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Hunter Biden's brother.
[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_00]: He died.
[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And then Hunter Biden started smoking crack with the widow,
[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_00]: with his sister-in-law.
[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And so they were together.
[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Um,
[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and she found the crack or yeah,
[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: she found the gun rather.
[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And remember she threw it in a trash can.
[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And then some guy comes along and he finds it.
[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And then when the secret service goes to retrieve it,
[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_00]: he gives it back to them.
[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And everybody was like,
[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: why did the secret service go to retrieve the gun?
[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Why did that happen?
[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: This explains it.
[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Does it not?
[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So the secret service acts as sort of a cleaning service,
[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: a secret cleaning service.
[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: For the white house,
[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_00]: for the first family.
[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So they get to participate in all sorts of illegal activity.
[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And the secret cleaning service will just clean it up.
[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Like Harvey Keitel.
[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: La Femme Nikita.
[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Bridget Fonda.
[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody?
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: The cleaner.
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Nevermind.
[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Um,
[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah.
[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So I did not know this.
[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I look admittedly,
[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I've only been reading about the white house and secret service
[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_00]: scandals and stuff like that for like 20 years,
[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: but I was not aware that this is what they did as a,
[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_00]: as a,
[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_00]: as a service.
[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_00]: They really put the service in secret service.
[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Am I right?
[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean,
[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess now that I think about it,
[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_00]: it is right there in their name,
[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: secret service.
[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you've got secrets,
[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: they will help you keep them,
[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It's part of their service that they provide.
[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So how did we find out about the bag of Coke in the first place?
[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: If the secret service provides this secret service?
[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Well,
[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: the problem was that it was not a member of the regular detail who found the bag of cocaine.
[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Instead,
[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_00]: it was a member of the uniformed division,
[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: which is charged with protecting the facilities and the venues for presidents and other agency
[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: protectees,
[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_00]: but not open air rallies or rooftops.
[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Apparently they discovered the substance in the white house complex while they were doing their routine rounds.
[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_00]: That's how they found it.
[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_00]: That's how it came to be that they were the ones who found it,
[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: not the,
[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: the detail that surrounds the president in the first family.
[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The officer who first found the bag with the white substance immediately flags it as a potentially hazardous substance and worried that the bag of white powder might contain something deadly.
[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Like anthrax or ricin.
[00:19:11] Well,
[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: that's another question I have now.
[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_00]: What if say Hunter Biden brought some anthrax into the white house with a secret service,
[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: provide their secret service and dispose of that for him too.
[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Like where is the line on the contraband that you're willing to dispose of on the down low?
[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Is it a quantity?
[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Like if it's just a little baggy,
[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: then okay,
[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: fine.
[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Or what if it's like one of those cartoonish bricks of cocaine,
[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_00]: the kind that are like washing up on the shore of Florida because of the hurricane.
[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Like what about those things?
[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_00]: That I saw in the documentary Miami Vice.
[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_00]: What?
[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: You dispose of that too?
[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Like what if it's a whole shipment,
[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: What if there's a big party being planned and they got to bring in a whole bunch of coke?
[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you keep that secret?
[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Because then I start thinking in terms of,
[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: well,
[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_00]: other stuff that was on Hunter Biden's laptop.
[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Like not just the drugs.
[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_00]: What about hookers?
[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you,
[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Like what happens with,
[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: do you escort them into the white house?
[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you let them in there?
[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you,
[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_00]: do you cover that up for them?
[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_00]: What if one of them dies overdose?
[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course.
[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean,
[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: nothing like,
[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: uh,
[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_00]: like the guy,
[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_00]: like the Saudis,
[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: killed,
[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_00]: but well,
[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_00]: then again,
[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: why stop there?
[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_00]: What if it is a hooker who comes into the white house to do a bunch of crack with Hunter and then she dies?
[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he,
[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: chops her up,
[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_00]: tries to stuff her in a suitcase or something.
[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Does the secret service provide help with that disposal?
[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I know this is kind of getting to the realm of the absurd.
[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: If not already well past it,
[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: but what is the limiting principle here?
[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_00]: The officer who found the bag of the Coke worried that it might be deadly.
[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And so,
[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_00]: he flags it.
[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And usually they have the technical security division come in to the scene to examine it.
[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But the investigators,
[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_00]: these are the guys,
[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_00]: these TSD,
[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_00]: the technical security division investigators,
[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_00]: they sometimes will wear the hazmat suits and such,
[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and they can identify different types of hazardous substances and explosives,
[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and then work to quickly remove them or diffuse them,
[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But,
[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: this was a Sunday evening,
[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and apparently they don't work on Sundays.
[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's how we came to find out that it was a bag of Coke that was discovered.
[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I do have a message here,
[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_00]: a message from Shadow of the Magi on Twitter,
[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_00]: who says,
[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: has a wellness check been done on the officer who decided to take Hunter,
[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean,
[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: the unknown users,
[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: cocaine public?
[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Wonder where their career path has led them.
[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good question.
[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what Real Clear Politics reporter Susan Crabtree asked of the Secret Services PR guy,
[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Googly Elmy,
[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_00]: who was a liar.
[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And she did not get a response from the Secret Service guy.
[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Has there been any retribution against any of these uniformed division officers,
[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_00]: specifically the one that found the Coke in the White House last year?
[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Normally,
[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: an investigator from the TSD,
[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: the Technical Security Division,
[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_00]: would be deployed.
[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And they would test it,
[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_00]: and then they would remove it,
[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and cover it up.
[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm kidding.
[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm kidding.
[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_00]: But kind of.
[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Not really.
[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_00]: The TSD investigator, though,
[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_00]: was not called in on this case,
[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: because it was a Sunday evening
[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_00]: of a holiday weekend.
[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It was July 2nd,
[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_00]: when they found the Coke at the White House.
[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And so,
[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: the first family's away.
[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_00]: So the security detail that follows the Bidens around,
[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_00]: or any first family,
[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_00]: that security detail is with Biden
[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: at one of his vacation spots
[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_00]: that he would go to every weekend,
[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: while totally not in cognitive decline.
[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: So they were away,
[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and they normally would have just
[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: taken the Coke
[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and thrown it away.
[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: disposed of it somehow.
[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They would have covered it up for the family.
[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But they weren't there.
[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So the uniform division guy
[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_00]: making the rounds,
[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: he finds it.
[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_00]: He would have normally called the TSD,
[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_00]: but it was a Sunday on a holiday weekend,
[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_00]: July 4th weekend,
[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: so they weren't around either.
[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_00]: So instead,
[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_00]: somebody,
[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_00]: not sure who,
[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: called in
[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_00]: the District of Columbia's
[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Fire and Emergency Medical Service Department.
[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they didn't know
[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_00]: what the white powder was.
[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Could have been ricin,
[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_00]: could have been anthrax,
[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: can't be too safe,
[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: can't be,
[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_00]: can't be too safe.
[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So,
[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_00]: they call in
[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Service.
[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_00]: They then evacuate
[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_00]: the White House complex
[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_00]: so they could test
[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_00]: the substance
[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_00]: on site.
[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's when they determined
[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_00]: it was cocaine.
[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And here's the rub.
[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Because the press
[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: was part of the evacuation,
[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: there was no way to hide
[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: the information
[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_00]: of the discovery
[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_00]: because they just got evacuated.
[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And so they're asking,
[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_00]: hey,
[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_00]: why did you kick us all out?
[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_00]: What's going on?
[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Why is the building being evacuated?
[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_00]: By the way,
[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_00]: just as an aside,
[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_00]: buildings are evacuated.
[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: People are not.
[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Unless they're shot.
[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Or cut open.
[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So the buildings are evacuated.
[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And the press wants to know why.
[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The Secret Service leaders then
[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_00]: had to shift into a crisis communications mode.
[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Not sure why it would be a crisis.
[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Why is it a crisis?
[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: You just found some cocaine
[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: in the White House.
[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_00]: That could be anybody's cocaine.
[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_00]: But definitely not Hunter Biden's, right?
[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I think we all knew right away.
[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Definitely not the guy
[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_00]: who's addicted to crack.
[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Definitely not his.
[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Even though he's got like
[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_00]: all these pictures of him
[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: doing all this coke
[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: on the laptop and everything.
[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Not him.
[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And it could be somebody else.
[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't know.
[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile,
[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_00]: the substance and the packaging
[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_00]: were treated as evidence
[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and sent to the U.S. Department
[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: of Homeland Security's
[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_00]: National Biodefense Analysis
[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and Countermeasure Center,
[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_00]: which again analyzed it
[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_00]: for any bio threats.
[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And those tests came back negative
[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: for hazardous material.
[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Then,
[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_00]: the Secret Service
[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: sends the plastic bag
[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and its contents
[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: to the Federal Bureau
[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_00]: of Investigations Crime Lab
[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_00]: for fingerprint
[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and DNA analysis.
[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_00]: There were no latent
[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_00]: fingerprints detected.
[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Which, by the way,
[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_00]: when I got burglarized
[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_00]: like 15 years ago,
[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I can tell you
[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_00]: like this idea
[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_00]: that they can lift prints
[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_00]: off of anything,
[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_00]: not true.
[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just,
[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: it's not true.
[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: You're better off
[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: getting burglarized
[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_00]: in warmer weather too
[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_00]: because then people's
[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_00]: sweaty hands,
[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_00]: they leave the oil behind
[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and they leave fingerprints.
[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: in the wintertime,
[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_00]: it's,
[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: hands are drier.
[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So,
[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: anyway,
[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: no latent fingerprints
[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: detected,
[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: but they did find
[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_00]: some DNA material.
[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_00]: According to three sources
[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_00]: in the Secret Service community,
[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_00]: several sources
[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_00]: citing private statements
[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_00]: by a special agent
[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_00]: in the Forensic Services Division
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_00]: who supervised the vault
[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: containing the Koch evidence
[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_00]: said the agency
[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: ran the DNA material
[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_00]: against national criminal databases
[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_00]: and got a partial hit.
[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_00]: The term partial hit
[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_00]: is vague,
[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_00]: but in forensics lingo,
[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_00]: it usually means
[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_00]: law enforcement
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_00]: found DNA
[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_00]: matching a blood relative
[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_00]: of a finite pool
[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_00]: of people.
[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Secret Service leaders
[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_00]: under pressure
[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_00]: from Cheetal
[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and other top agency
[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: officials
[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_00]: chose not to run
[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_00]: additional searches
[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_00]: for DNA matches
[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_00]: or conduct interviews
[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: with the hundreds
[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_00]: of people
[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00]: who work
[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00]: in the White House complex.
[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It seems like
[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_00]: they had some evidence
[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_00]: that could have helped
[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: them narrow it down
[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_00]: if they really wanted
[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_00]: to find out
[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_00]: whose coke it was.
[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: All right,
[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: that'll do it
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