That Is A Failure

Published Jul 15, 2024, 3:30 PM

In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show at the Republican National Convention: 

  • Feds drop the classified documents case against Trump
  • Different reactions to the attempted assassination of Trump on Saturday
  • How did so much time go by between warnings and shots fired!?
  • The media's reporting of the attempted assassination on Saturday

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and Jettie I know he Armstrong and Yetty.

We noticed the guy crawling army, you know, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us, fifty feet away from us. So we're standing there, you know, we're pointing. We're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof. We could clearly see him with the rifle. Absolutely, we're pointing at him. The police are down there running around on the ground. We're like, hey, man.

There's guy on the roof with the rifle.

If there is a topic, that is number one, and has been since Saturday evening at the airport, on my flight, at the restaurant, at the hotel, everywhere I go. It's the how the hell did that happen? And all that, and we'll be discussing that a lot throughout the show.

We are live in Milwaukee.

Our producer Hanson, who's doing a great job of trying to wrangle up guests, is trying to get the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, which would be huge.

And that's the question I want to ask him.

If the House Investigated committees can't nail down what happened here, then stop having those committees.

But anyway, we've got some breaking news.

We have breaking news, breaking news, Michael, when news breaks, the Donkey brays.

Judge Eileen Cannon has dismissed the.

Federal criminal case against Donald Trump charging him with it's the classified documents thing. Cannon, in a ninety three page ruling, concluded that Special Counsel Jack Smith's appointment violated the appointments clause of the Constitution. Smith likely to appeal the ruling. Any McCarthy of National Review has been saying this for a long time. He's done really been to the statutes and he says, no, this is well, it's unconstitutional.

I didn't know this angle.

But so Judge Cannon is a Trump appointee.

Right, Oh, that'll be harped on endlessly.

Oh yeah, yeah, I'm just predicting how it's going to be covered today.

So she did her job because that.

Was that's the case that Trump's got the most problems with, right, like legitimate problems like he's probably guilty, he probably obstructive justice and trying to get those documents back and that's wow, that is huge.

So she said in her ruling, the Special Council's position effectively usurps legislative authority, transferring it to a head of department and in the process threatening the structural liberty inherent in the separation of powers. Oh, interesting separation and powers argument.

I heard somebody the other day talking about how Trump is the luckiest politician in the history of the world, and they ran through a long list, you know, from from running against Hillary to just all kinds of different things that have could's coincidentally happened, including turning his head at the right moment to not have his head blown off right the other day, but this case getting dismissed.

I mean, yeah, yeah, I'm.

A big fan of the notion that that luck is as my dad says, I almost say, he used to say, probably still saysn't that lucky has prepared in this meeting opportunity. And if there is a shamrock to be found, Trump finds it, I think because he's constantly reassessing his angles.

He is not.

He's so not a classic politician in so many ways goes without saying, but among them is he feels no need to be quote unquote consistent in his message or his Flas he changed his mind on abortion, he said, hey, let the states have it. He's adapted, and he's if he's one thing, it's adaptive.

For what I understand.

The convention here in Milwaukee was expected to be the tone was going to be really aggressive against Biden, really aggressive and pretty over the top, and a lot of the guest lineup looked like it was going to be over the top. There's Taka Tucker Carlson speaking here. I don't know if that ever got nailed down or not. Anyway, since the shooting, Trump himself has given a couple of interviews saying that this changed him. The tone is going to be all about bringing you know, the country together, that sort of thing. Wow, that also happens to be the smartest politics right right now.

So whether he means it or not, I don't know. Oh, I suspect he does.

Having a bullet glance off your head, I mean, itches from killing you that will change anybody. You've a guy of his advanced age and road neck disposition. I don't know how it wouldn't.

But as Joe and I've been saying, and this is an interesting situation.

This is the first time.

In a long time that the best politics matches up with what's best for the country.

If I was in charge of this convention, it would be non stop.

The violent rhetoric, the demonizing the other side has got to end.

You're already ahead in the polls.

Yeah, I mean, the internal pulling from both sides shows you winning going away before you were shot. So I just I just think that'd be the best politics and the best thing for the country.

And call me naive, but in the age of hyperbole in which these way over the top attacks just are never ending, I don't even notice them that much anymore. Standing up and saying our policies are better for the environment. You're gonna have more I'm sorry, not for the environment, for the economy. You're gonna have more money. You're gonna do better at work. Your business is gonna thrive. We're gonna keep you safe, we're gonna and these guys over there, their policies are not as good for the economy. Look around you blah blah blah that that would win, you know, calling somebody hitler at this point, I.

Don't know if you picked that at in random economy but tonight is make the Economy Great Again night at the convention. Night one is that that's the theme for the speakers. And actually, a guy sitting next to me at the restaurant last night, he was from Great Britain and he said, what happens the next couple of day and I said not much? Usually, I said, there ain't much on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, the whoever the vice presidential choices speaks and then the candidate on Thursday. But Monday and Tuesday, unless you're a real political geek, there.

Ain't much convention wise.

It's kind of the behind the scenes and stuff like this, and looking around the restaurant, people getting together and you know, have an important meetings.

Right, it's a convention.

Like any convention, The people who have busted their asses for the entire year, the presidential cycle of four years are here meeting and greeting and backslapping and eating and drinking and being rewarded.

Then the networking is huge.

Bike Joe and I were discussing yesterday, Katie, this is kind of this is kind of interesting. We're not exactly share how we've managed to pull this off because frankly and luckily we are quite successful in the radio industry.

At the same time, we have like no friends.

We've been invited to zero private party spots.

You guys are located, like Michael, Well, where you guys are located.

You know, you're not exactly the popular ones in California, but you're loved everywhere else.

Yeah.

Well, although we are loved in California, as I've explained to many friends and acquaintances who've asked, Now, you guys, you must really struggle. I'm like, no, if you have forty five percent of the electorate against fifty five on the other side, you will lose in a landslide every single election. But that forty five percent of people is desperate to be heard and recognized and be told you're right, and you are right.

Well, that's listeners, and you know where we were. We're fine there. But I'm just being like, you know, among the well networking Joe was just talking about a conventions the muckety muoks for whatever reason, and it's it's both of our personalities. It's not the sort of thing we desire spoke.

For yourself a whole, or it's the sort of thing.

We were really work for is to get invited.

To the important parties.

Well.

And also, and I don't know if you remember saying this years and years ago, when we were just getting started in talk radio, we got the chance to do some insider stuff like that in Sacramento with Schwarzenegger administration actually, which was kind of fun. But we talked about do we want to get caught up in being part of that crowd and feeling like we got to pull our punches and be cool because they're friends, yeah, blah blah blah, or do we want to be the outsiders who, at the risk of sounding self aggrandizing, are coming at it more from regular people's points of view.

Right.

Well, my radio hero, my early radio hero, don Imus, would not go to anything like that. He wouldn't go to any dinner, he wouldn't go to any party specifically for that idea is that he wanted to be able to talk about people.

Did not know them.

And like I just Katie, I was just talking to Ed O'Keefe out on the street, CBS White House correspondent Ed O'Keefe.

He miffed answer the question everybody is he still miffed from last week?

I asked him that and he said I am not miffed this morning, but like I said, some I've said some unkind things about him, and and as I was walking away, I thought, you know, I shouldn't.

Say mean things about him. He's a nice guy. It had to affect oh boy.

Yeah, Well, you know, you see certain personalities while they're presenting, and then when you meet him in real life you realize, okay, all right, but.

Do I want to.

Not comment on the sorts of things he says on the air because behind the scenes.

I don't know.

I don't know the perfect the test case, I ran into Marjorie Taylor Green at the airport. Joe, I've run into war celebrities, but he's run into the best celebrity.

Marjorie Taylor Green. Thank you. Everyone knows that.

That's right, Margie and uh and I took selfie with her and I greeted her.

I said, hello, it's good to see above.

But I was thinking of chatting her up, and I thought I can't do that.

I've vowed.

I've stated over again I think she's a jackass fair among other things, and I don't want to be that guy, which makes me probably bad at media. But I wasn't gonna kiss up to her and pretend that, oh, we're big fans. The adoration for her in the Atlanta airport was something to see. People wanted hugs, They gushed about how wonderful she is and what a great job she's doing.

It was something.

What did that bad body look.

Like in person? Very fit?

She has much more petite than you might. Oh really, yeah, yeah, she's not a big gall at all. She's very fit. Do you think she could be an enormously me? Yeah, man, I was.

Hoping you were going to tell her that I wanted to, you know, throw down, But I don't.

Think you did.

She has a number of years my junior, but I have a feeling she's she would know what joint like to target old ba.

How did you get the selfie with her? Then?

I said, hello, congresswoman, would be all right if we took a quick selfie, and she.

Said, of course, But you didn't. You didn't converse with her though, no, no, not really.

Probably should have, probably should have gotten some tape in all, But again I was I was wrestling with my idiotic and insufferable moral questry.

She put out a tweet yesterday that was awful. Oh yeah, I mean just awful, non stop. Yeah, and uh and we'll read it later.

I mean, is so over the top in terms of trying to calm things down. She's doubling down the other direction. But do you how much do you think? And I know, like you didn't get super insights having witnessed her in person at the airport, but I looked into her soul.

What do you want to know? How tan is she in person? Normal summer time? She didn't come off as No, she's fair as skinned. I lost my train of thoughts talking about her tan. That's that's good.

She's also this is so stupid. Oh, well, do what you do best. She's more attractive than she looks on TV. Most people can be.

So cruel, no wells, and people who are on TV are up against other TV people, right, So when you see anybody, So if you see an average looking TV person, they're spectacularly good looking person.

Usually what kind of shoe wear was she wearing? Oh golly, I don't heels are tennis shoes? I don't know. If I didn't look at her feet enough I would have noticed. Yeah, I do have a question.

Oh, how much do you think is her understanding the moment and the best way to raise money and stay in office versus that's what she actually thinks.

I get sincerity from her, and and the again her constituency, and they're gushing affection for her.

Suggests to me that you know, she's not unique. There are people who see the world the way she sees it, a lot of them. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well there's plenty of stuff of hers that I agree with in general. But you know, like I said, her tweet yesterday about the moment was was was horrifying in my opinion. I had an ultimate point I was going to get to, but out of the road it is. But we got like hours to talk about this in the whole week here in Milwaukee.

I do want to grab Katie on the air, maybe a segment or two Katie to talk about, you know, your friend's family, their reaction to the assassination.

I was, yeah, I'm sorry.

Yeah, I was taken aback by the level of vehemence among some people and how their fists were balled up and they were.

Ready to throw them.

Why was the media so hesitant to call that an assassination attempt?

It was bizarre, just crazy.

I mean, I understand in the first five minutes, right, but like from she's fifteen minutes forward, it was obviously an assassination attempt. Yeah, okay, we had a lot more on all that. You should text us four one five to nine five KFTC. We're live from press Row, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Republican National Convention going on, and we've got so much to talk about. The breaking news that the whole document's case against Trump, you know, keeping those in his shower and everything like that, has been thrown out by the judge.

So it looks like that's over.

What ifat story had come out two days after he was assassinated?

Holy crap, right right?

Yeah, more to say on that topic, but I wanted to briefly just ask Katie. A couple of my friends who are patriots, their conservatives, veterans, cops, that sort of folk, were very, very angry in the wake of the assassination attempt. And I'm not going to quote them because it's not fair and certainly not going to give any names, but this sentiment was is now the time to get ugly?

Did you run into any of that? What sort of react did you come across?

I didn't actually an interesting thing. I was in a restaurant when I found out about this, and it's almost like the text. My dad is the one that text messaged. Man told me. It's almost like everybody got the same text at once, because all of a sudden, you started hearing different tables start conversating, and it.

Was more of like a sad vibe.

But as I was talking to people, it was more disbelief that this had happened. A lot of questions about the security. And then once we finally saw the video, the big talking point, along with the people that were in law enforcement that are in my family was the Secret Service woman that hid behind him and then she couldn't holster her gun and talking about.

I saw that everybody. Did everybody see that? Yeah? I saw that. It was Yeah, that wasn't good.

I heard an explanation of that that seemed reasonable. Kind of let's talk about that next segment. You know, Kittie, I'm glad to hear that because I absolutely and Jack feel free to you know, whatever you ran into. There was definitely a vibe of oh my god, what have we become?

Yeah? What does this country become? Yeah?

That was definitely more what I didn't hear any it's time to go the games on anger. In response to this, it was more sadness, shock, and exactly that what where where are we?

Uh? Yeah?

I think I had a lot of the sadness and my immediate feeling, and I still have it today.

We ain't pulling out of this anytime soon, right, right?

But to paraphrase what you've been saying, I think the morally correct approach to this happens to be a brilliant political approach to that, and that's to say, hey, we gotta quit hate on each other.

It's gone way too far.

Let's talk about the economy, Let's talk about the border, Let's talk about you know, everybody getting their their constitutional rights and that sort of thing.

Can we stop with the bomb throwing?

Which is probably phrase I shouldn't use here given the security presents right expression?

Can Trump?

Would Trump say anything within one hundred miles of apologizing for or to crying January sixth, If.

He did, even in a vague sense, I think he wins forty seven states.

I agree, I think it would be politically huge for him. And so I've been immersed in this story like a lot of you probably have, and the thing that seems to evoke the most, evoke the most emotion outside of the president with his fist in the air and his face bloody. Are the are the comments about, hey, the guy's got over there with a gun on the roof. I mean, I don't know if you've heard this one or not. Let's listen to this and we'll discuss.

We noticed the guy betrolling up the roof of the building beside us. So we're standing there, you know, we're pointing. We're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof and he had a gun, right, he had a rifle. We could clearly see him with a rifle.

We're pointing at him.

The police are down there running around on the ground. We're like, hey, man, there's guy on the roof with the rifle. And the police were like, huh what, you know, like like.

They didn't know what was going on.

Next thing, you know, I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, why is Trump still speaking? Why have they not pulled him off the stage. I'm standing there pointing at him for you know, two three minutes. Secret Services looking at us from the top of the barn. I'm pointing at that roof and next thing, you know, five shots ring out.

It couldn't have been two or three minutes.

No, if you don't make your living out of clock, you haven't distorted SI.

But even if it was thirty seconds, it's crazy.

Well, and it is understandable why the crowd that tends to go down conspiracy rabbit holes is going down one. Now, that is a level that is a failure, so astonishing. So it reminds me of the failure of the Israeli military to protect the convinces.

And there are people that's a good point.

You can't believe that our best and brightest would fail so terribly at a critical moment.

But I think that's what happened. That's what seems to have happened.

Yeah, those are hard to hear because there's a bunch of those videos floating around of people who had their phones out, you know, in the moment where you see the guy crawling in the background and they're you know, he's.

Right there, he's got a gun and.

People are looking around. And if you'd have told me that that was possible to happen with a sitting or former president who's about to be president again, out of thought, No, not possible, not in your twenty twenty four, not in the modern world.

And that sort of line of sight available from a building, it's just it's, like I said, it's mind boggling. And this is not some sort of highly trained movie style assassin. This is a twenty year old misfit with no particular training or talent.

So did he just get I've asked a number of people of this and they're not sure. I sat next to a guy in a plane who was a former sniper himself in the Marines and and now he does security for a bunch of people. I'll have to tell that whole story later because it's pretty entertaining. He just walked by the by the way, I'll have to point him out to you. Yeah, he has a badass looking dude, but he didn't know. Did the guy just get lucky? Like Lee Harvey Oswald?

Did? I mean? Because that's not That's not an easy thing to do.

Not only do you have to be able to pull off that shot in a calm environment when you're you know, you're doing the proper breathing and all that.

Sort of stuff.

I mean, you just climbed up the building doing something that you almost certainly, unless he's completely crazy what he might be, but he almost certainly had to know was going to end your life.

A cop. I don't know if you've all heard.

This story, but a cop climbed up on the building and tried to climb He saw him, tried to climb up the building, had his hands up on the roof of the building, looked at the shooter. The shooter pointed the gun at him, and then the cop climbed back down. You know, we could discuss whether or not you know that, I mean, because he would have had to give his life, right, but you know, he didn't make the same vow that the Secret Service does to give their lives to save a present.

Well, and if you get shot in the head for nothing, I mean, it would have, but it would have alerted, right right, I get that. I'm surprised that the cops, and I wish the guy, the interviewee who he heard on the way back, I wish he'd said something more specific than the cops like didn't know what was going on, meaning what they didn't react, They didn't do anything. I mean, I'd have been tempted to squeeze all four or five shots in the air.

Or something that'd been a good idea, something anything, right, But so anyway, my point was here, this guy, you just climbed up the building with your gun. You're doing the most scariest thing you've been, biggest thing you've ever.

Done in your life.

You're twenty years old, you know you're gonna die now, You've just been spotted, so you know they're onto you. How do you have the presence of mind to pull off a shot as good as he did that? If Trump hadn't turned his head, looks like it would have been exactly the spot that all snipers say, you're aiming for if you shoot a guy in the head, right above the year. Mike, the sniper guy sat next to on the plane, said, you aim for right above the year, the softest spot of the skull above that the bullet might ricochet off because your skull is thicker, So you know, right, I mean, that was the exact spot you aim for and Trump, and Trump had his head turned this way, and then he turned his head this way, and so the bullet goes through his ear, So.

I mean, what the hell? How many shots did the idiotic comeback squeeze off? They think six.

Yeah, that's probably the answer to your question. He squeezed off a bunch of shots. One of them damn near head. Well it hit his ear. Trump's here, Yeah, yeah.

That just seems astounding to me.

I was, Yeah, Katie, I just want to, like just to let you guys know, I just found a video where they took spectators video along with the actual speech that Trump was giving and lined it up. It was two minutes and two sets from when people started yelling there's a guy with a gun to when he.

Show that is that you talk about something that can't.

Happen, well, right, And that's why people are saying, no, that can't possibly be it.

It had to be a set up. The Secret Service was in on it.

That's why they're saying that, because well they might be inclined to think that anyway, but that's just it's it's unbelieve. It's like, you know, I don't know what it's like. It's like they head the NFL coach forgetting there was a.

Game that Sunday.

You just can't comprehend it gone gone gone what.

I just I don't know.

Somebody didn't couldn't radio somebody that it got to the Secret Service or the sniper guys.

Right, I don't.

I don't in that amount of time, I guess we all had made some assumptions about the Secret Service and when they cooperate with law or local law enforcement, that their act was somewhat together.

I'm told, I don't know whether to believe it.

One of the snipers was a local law enforcement sniper, and he hesitated for long moments. Did he know the rules of engagement? Did he know his responsibility? Did he just lack nerve?

What the hell happened?

And as Richard Grennell, who we talked to earlier, the former dn I, the acting dn I under Trump, said, look, we don't need a congressional hearing. We need a simple, concise statement. Here's what went wrong.

Doesn't it seem like you could answer all these questions in an hour if you had the right authority. Yes, like you're a high enough authority that you can get a hold of anybody. Yeah, you could answer this in an hour. I would think absolutely.

You called the commander on scene, he calls the guy who had that sector. Answer Bengo, they were supposed to have it. Okay, what's their number?

You call them? Who was supposed to have it. Jim. Okay, where's Jim? Give me his number? You called Jim? Jim? What happened? Right?

I don't understand if they can't get to the bottom of this. I have no faith in getting to the bottom of anything.

There's not enough in the world to reckon with the lack of accountability in government, and the fact that our government is so enormous and vast makes it all the more tragic. But between blaming a building or vowing to write a report, we need to take our time get to the bottom of this and then the report comes out in three and a half months, are there's a hearing, there's a little grand standing that it goes away. I mean, does anybody else live a life like that? And your family and your job, in any aspect of your life where you can just commit the most egregious sins or screw ups and get away with them.

I wanted to touch on this at least once.

And it's gruesome, more gruesome than your whole Oh go ahead. I got lightheaded during your whole Where to shoot a guy?

Oh if the shot had been successful, you know, And it's like that, It's like the Kennedy's appruder film where a big chunk of his head blows off. But that film is so grainy and from a distance. But this would have been in.

Four K from fifteen different.

Angles, right or fifty or one hundred and fifty eight everybody else.

I imagine what would that have done to the country if we'd just seen that guy's head explode in four K video on television.

We have not discussed that yet. Cities would have burned, It would have been a cataclysm. It would have been open warfare in the streets, vigilante justice.

God knows what President, I mean, if.

There's five percent of the population that can't be reasoned with, that five percent, which is millions of millions of people, would have been doing. God knows what.

All the emotions involved in that. I just I can't even imagine. And we came what an inch from that being the case.

Yeah, I'm not big on like divine providence and that sort of thing, but.

We dodged a bullet. Will you forgive me for saying that?

I mean, we, the country and the president, the former president. Obviously we're on the brink within an inch of unthinkable.

Sadness, horror, anger. Well, and then the mechanics of I mean, that would have been just such a crazy scene. I can't even I can't even actually hardly imagine how it would have gone down, would would have handled He'd been laying there on the stage with half a head and blood everywhere. I mean, it would have just been insane. And again, I mean that's not like crazy speculation. It was like a half an inch from happening.

Uh.

But then does Nicki Haley become the delegate because she got the second most would be the mony because she got the second the rules?

I don't know the rules. I don't know either.

One other speculation while I'm speculating, and then we'll get to real facts. I suppose I wish, like the way they can have an image of like a radar where you see all the planes that are in the air in the United States at one time, or something like that, all the dots. I would like to have been able to see all the dots like in the town I live in a super lefty town that hates strump. I would like to have been able to see all the dots of the people who are disappointed he didn't die. Oh wow, I wondered about that immediately, and I'd like to see their names published. Don't you think it'd be a fairly large chunk of people.

Yes, yeah, which is I think you disturb you.

I think mostly on the younger end, because once a certain age or people who remember the olden times when politics weren't like this, realizes that that would be horrible for the country.

Oh yeah, yeah, right, I think you're right on that too, And in the crowd that has bought the rhetoric. As we've discussed a couple of times, if you were convey that Trump is akin to Hitler in nineteen thirty five, as I said earlier, if there was a movie about an assassin trying to kill Hitler in nineteen thirty five, who would be the hero of that movie?

The assassin would be the hero.

And so the idea that certain people have to a largest center even completely bought that rhetoric. That's not a stretch. That's why you employ that rhetoric. I think most of the country takes it as hyperbole. Okay, you're saying he's evil and has fascist inclination.

There's a certain percentage that took it literally.

The current president of the United States has said we'll never have another election.

Right, it's the end of our democracy. If he's elected.

That justifies any behavior by a sane person. Well, right, load a crazy person.

Right if you take them at their word, if you accuse somebody of the intention to commit acts that deserve death, you're going to get people who think he needs.

To be dead.

And by the way, I'm completely aware of this, and I'm going to say it over and over again. The right regularly said it's the end of the country if Biden wins. Until we stop claiming that the country's over. If the next side wins, we're going to have violence. Right, Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. We had a lot more to talk about, getting back to reality and things that are happening right now live from Milwaukee. I need to get to some of your texts and I had some contacts pretty high up in protection that were in contact with me from the moment the shooting happened, and I might fill you in on some.

Of that information. It's pretty interesting too.

Plus, as long as we're on media row, i'd like to kick the hell out of the media for their cover.

That sounds fantastic. That's on the way, Armstrong and get to the point about political violence.

Let's remember the reason Joe Biden ran for president in twenty twenty, beginning in twenty nineteen was because of what happened to Charlottesville, Virginia. The reason he sustains his re election campaign today. One of the big reasons he continues running, he says, is to restore and protect American to democracy in the wake of the January sixth, twenty twenty one attacks, all of those examples of the political violence of recent years.

That is Jack's close personal friend At O'Keefe of Blood CBS, CBS, CBS, Yeah, repeating the increasingly hilarious narrative that Biden ran because of Charlottesville and then conveniently ignored rampant anti Semitism in the streets until it became irresistible. But yeah, once again the lefty media pointing out, yeah, there's political violence all these things Conservatives did.

Remember that nobody.

The first media member, major media guy, who brings up the George Floyd riots worship, I don't know, I'll give a million bucks to his favorite charity or kiss him on the lips or something. I mean, that was rampant political violence across the fruited plane, and it was tolerated, it.

Was excused, well, right.

But you know, there's a lot of Republican there's not near as much Republican leaning media as left leaning media as we all know, not even close. But I'm not hearing a lot of right leaning media bringing up January sixth. So again, my axiom for this whole thing is until sides start calling out their own side, nothing's going to change.

Right.

Getting back to the media briefly, as I tweeted the scene, the infinite infamous CNN headline, I want to make sure I get it exactly right.

What was it a rally? Oh? Riley called off after Trump falls or whatever it is?

Yeah, yeah, there, Oh, here it goes, secret Service Russia's Trump off stage after he falls at rally. As I said, this will live in media infamy alongside Dewey defeats Truman.

It certainly should.

And even later, there was just a lot of a shooting has led to blah blah blah.

It was an assassination attempt.

We knew it was an assass nation tempt early on, and I just don't get I find it hard to believe it the same thing it happened to Biden. The wouldn't have been calling it an assassination attempt from the first second.

Their impulse, their compulsion to do or avoid anything that might even conceivably bring any sympathy to Trump is just it's pathological. I don't get being that nuts about anything. I have my beliefs, I have my people, I admire whatever.

God help me.

If you're ever that delusional, look, don't call it an assassination tempt.

We don't know what it was at this point.

Again, and if you follow us on Twitter, and you should, you already know my take on it. Oh yeah, maybe trump o the guy money, or maybe you know it's Malania's ex boyfriend, or I don't know, maybe it was a robbery.

What the hell right? Seriously, you are delusional. You're terrible at your job. Go do something else.

Go work for the parks department, mow the grass on the baseball fields.

You suck at your job.

And I don't care who hears me here on media row in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

That's why we don't get invited to the parties.

That's why we're not invited to any of the good parties tonight.

Or you can invite those two guys who say how bad we suck?

No.

The other interesting thing about this, and I guess this is human nature to a certain stand or whatever. So I'm taking in your Sunday news, like your Sunday news shows. And there were a lot of special shows on a Sunday that aren't normally live. As I'm on the plane and in the airport and everything like that, flying to Milwaukee, and very somber, I mean, like practically tears in the eyes Margaret Brannan on Face the Nation and you know, name the show, this is a very tough day for America, blah blah blah and all true. But then I saw many of these people, like a couple hours later at the restaurant, thrown back drinks, heads thrown back in laughter, having a good time, yucking it up. And I thought, it's a weird disconnect between the way you actually feel and the way you portray.

It on television. I think I get it. It is an odd disconnect.

I think maybe when you're officially on the air broadcasting, you need to express the mood of the nation as opposed.

To I'm not trying to portray his phony or wrong or anything, but why do we go so far to pretend that we're all broken up if like fifteen minutes later.

We're just yucking it up with friends.

Whether it's media, especially media, people tend to do what they think they're supposed to do.

We've got a lot more on this from Milwaukee, Armstrong and Getty

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