1 00:00:03,697 --> 00:00:05,924 Welcome to faith and freedom. We hope to 2 00:00:05,924 --> 00:00:08,945 inform, inspire and encourage you to stand up 3 00:00:08,945 --> 00:00:11,430 for faith and freedom. As we discuss victories 4 00:00:11,430 --> 00:00:14,323 and challenges in the courts in public policy 5 00:00:14,461 --> 00:00:16,774 and in the culture. Faith and freedom is 6 00:00:16,774 --> 00:00:19,348 brought to you by Liberty Counsel, a litigation 7 00:00:19,645 --> 00:00:20,800 education and policy 8 00:00:21,339 --> 00:00:23,899 organization. Join us now as we address the 9 00:00:23,899 --> 00:00:27,420 latest cultural issues across America and around the 10 00:00:27,420 --> 00:00:27,579 world. 11 00:00:30,139 --> 00:00:30,639 This 12 00:00:31,172 --> 00:00:31,672 undeniable 13 00:00:32,046 --> 00:00:35,566 miracle of God also demands a thorough 14 00:00:36,178 --> 00:00:36,678 investigation 15 00:00:36,989 --> 00:00:38,587 gonna be talking about this on faith and 16 00:00:38,667 --> 00:00:40,904 Freedom, Matt S, founder and Chairman of Liberty 17 00:00:41,063 --> 00:00:43,300 Counsel. Joining me is Holly Meade. 18 00:00:44,034 --> 00:00:46,748 You know, on the evening of July 13, 19 00:00:46,988 --> 00:00:47,467 Saturday, 20 00:00:47,866 --> 00:00:50,761 we all... When we learned about this attempted 21 00:00:51,059 --> 00:00:53,295 assassination of President Donald j, Trump were shocked. 22 00:00:54,105 --> 00:00:55,717 Shocked. And the more that we 23 00:00:56,091 --> 00:00:56,591 watched 24 00:00:56,965 --> 00:00:57,783 information and 25 00:00:58,395 --> 00:01:02,804 watched reruns of different angles of the attempted 26 00:01:03,179 --> 00:01:05,190 assassination. And then the failures 27 00:01:05,565 --> 00:01:06,996 of the security, 28 00:01:08,349 --> 00:01:11,229 so many emotions, Holly run through us. On 29 00:01:11,229 --> 00:01:14,105 the 1 hand, this is an undeniable miracle. 30 00:01:14,664 --> 00:01:17,860 You know, we witnessed a miracle during this 31 00:01:17,860 --> 00:01:18,314 horrific 32 00:01:18,674 --> 00:01:21,626 circumstance of the attempted assassination of president Donald 33 00:01:21,786 --> 00:01:21,945 Trump. 34 00:01:23,541 --> 00:01:25,935 In fact, just a fraction of an inch, 35 00:01:26,429 --> 00:01:28,587 a few centimeters, half an inch or more, 36 00:01:29,306 --> 00:01:31,384 and that's the difference between life or death. 37 00:01:32,582 --> 00:01:34,580 Donald Trump went off script. 38 00:01:35,233 --> 00:01:36,907 He went off the tele prompt. 39 00:01:38,580 --> 00:01:40,254 Instead of looking directly at the crowd, 40 00:01:40,811 --> 00:01:41,311 he 41 00:01:41,688 --> 00:01:42,540 started to look 42 00:01:43,138 --> 00:01:46,330 at the screen regarding immigration in the chart. 43 00:01:46,729 --> 00:01:49,761 And by that just last moment, flick of 44 00:01:49,761 --> 00:01:50,160 the head, 45 00:01:50,812 --> 00:01:52,425 that was the difference between 46 00:01:52,959 --> 00:01:55,366 life and death. I... That's an a miracle 47 00:01:55,661 --> 00:01:58,935 that absolutely is undeniable. I think president Donald 48 00:01:59,094 --> 00:02:00,468 Trump now realizes 49 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,542 he should not be here. He should be 50 00:02:03,542 --> 00:02:03,700 dead, 51 00:02:04,733 --> 00:02:06,877 but by a miracle of God, he is 52 00:02:06,877 --> 00:02:07,377 alive 53 00:02:08,242 --> 00:02:10,249 and the Republican National convention 54 00:02:10,860 --> 00:02:11,360 continued 55 00:02:11,891 --> 00:02:15,479 last week, and he accepted the nomination of 56 00:02:15,479 --> 00:02:17,717 president of the United States for the Republican 57 00:02:17,717 --> 00:02:18,036 party, 58 00:02:19,075 --> 00:02:23,071 an incredible miracle occurred. And god has, I 59 00:02:23,071 --> 00:02:23,231 think, 60 00:02:23,950 --> 00:02:26,672 great plans for this country, and this is 61 00:02:26,672 --> 00:02:29,000 an opportunity to be able to move forward 62 00:02:29,532 --> 00:02:31,359 and unite the country on the 1 hand, 63 00:02:31,518 --> 00:02:34,075 but not united by just forgetting about what 64 00:02:34,075 --> 00:02:36,298 ultimately led to these kinds of things, 65 00:02:37,171 --> 00:02:37,671 stopping 66 00:02:38,283 --> 00:02:39,497 this demon 67 00:02:40,664 --> 00:02:42,252 and weapon of the government, 68 00:02:42,904 --> 00:02:44,681 And as it relates to this particular 69 00:02:45,139 --> 00:02:47,214 assassination attempt, we'll talk about a little bit 70 00:02:47,214 --> 00:02:47,534 later, 71 00:02:48,252 --> 00:02:51,307 we must have a thorough rigorous 72 00:02:52,891 --> 00:02:56,489 investigation and people who had failures in the 73 00:02:56,863 --> 00:02:57,840 secret service 74 00:02:58,293 --> 00:03:00,835 agency and other agencies need to be held 75 00:03:00,835 --> 00:03:04,518 accountable in this D, diversity equity inclusion needs 76 00:03:04,518 --> 00:03:06,673 to end because it is deadly. Yes. I 77 00:03:06,673 --> 00:03:09,568 mean, I watched at July thirteenth. I witnessed 78 00:03:09,707 --> 00:03:12,037 the rally. I I'll never forget that. Standing 79 00:03:12,037 --> 00:03:14,751 in my kitchen, watching on my phone, and 80 00:03:14,751 --> 00:03:17,625 hearing him talk, and then hear the gunshots, 81 00:03:18,264 --> 00:03:20,100 see him drop to the ground, 82 00:03:20,674 --> 00:03:23,136 then it just... My heart dropped at the 83 00:03:23,136 --> 00:03:25,361 same time, and I just began praying for 84 00:03:25,361 --> 00:03:28,220 him, fe praying for him, a lord. Please 85 00:03:28,220 --> 00:03:28,697 save him. 86 00:03:29,349 --> 00:03:31,909 And then this kind of confusion all happened 87 00:03:31,909 --> 00:03:35,189 this the security came around him and then 88 00:03:35,189 --> 00:03:36,390 started to take him off. 89 00:03:36,962 --> 00:03:39,925 The stage, but then he took the opportunity 90 00:03:40,457 --> 00:03:43,078 to look at the crowd and say, fight, 91 00:03:43,316 --> 00:03:44,190 fight, fight, 92 00:03:45,238 --> 00:03:48,518 And to me, to take that opportunity 93 00:03:48,971 --> 00:03:49,471 to 94 00:03:49,845 --> 00:03:52,148 minister so to speak to the crowd, to 95 00:03:52,148 --> 00:03:53,896 the audience to all of us that we're 96 00:03:53,896 --> 00:03:54,396 watching, 97 00:03:55,024 --> 00:03:58,301 just instilled that same spirit that Donald Trump 98 00:03:58,301 --> 00:04:01,578 has always had to unite this country to 99 00:04:01,578 --> 00:04:03,895 fight to never give in to never give 100 00:04:03,895 --> 00:04:04,135 up. 101 00:04:04,709 --> 00:04:07,176 No matter who comes against you. And I 102 00:04:07,176 --> 00:04:09,268 think that was a historic moment 103 00:04:09,883 --> 00:04:10,860 that will change 104 00:04:11,236 --> 00:04:13,717 the trajectory of the country. Yeah. I think 105 00:04:13,717 --> 00:04:16,104 that was a changing point in the history 106 00:04:16,104 --> 00:04:16,899 of this country. 107 00:04:17,695 --> 00:04:19,467 I think that will 108 00:04:19,857 --> 00:04:21,919 forever go down to the history books as 109 00:04:21,919 --> 00:04:23,054 a significant 110 00:04:23,665 --> 00:04:24,165 change 111 00:04:24,696 --> 00:04:27,235 point and that iconic photo will be in 112 00:04:27,235 --> 00:04:29,710 the history book for generations to come. But 113 00:04:29,710 --> 00:04:32,328 we also really saw who he is. 114 00:04:32,804 --> 00:04:35,025 You know, many have said, oh, he's just 115 00:04:35,025 --> 00:04:37,027 in it for himself or whatever. You saw. 116 00:04:37,267 --> 00:04:38,942 He was willing to take take a bullet. 117 00:04:39,101 --> 00:04:40,537 And he did take a bullet. It did 118 00:04:40,537 --> 00:04:42,371 take a For this country. He could... The 119 00:04:42,371 --> 00:04:44,525 amazing thing is is that he had the 120 00:04:44,525 --> 00:04:46,280 presence of mine hamilton acid. 121 00:04:46,854 --> 00:04:47,653 And the courage, 122 00:04:48,052 --> 00:04:49,970 not knowing how badly he was injured. He 123 00:04:49,970 --> 00:04:50,849 knew he was bleeding, 124 00:04:51,728 --> 00:04:53,646 not knowing if there's another sniper out there 125 00:04:53,646 --> 00:04:54,285 somewhere. Right. 126 00:04:55,099 --> 00:04:55,918 To actually 127 00:04:56,295 --> 00:04:57,173 encourage the crowd. 128 00:04:58,210 --> 00:05:01,481 It is an absolute miracle. It is a 129 00:05:01,481 --> 00:05:04,199 game changing event, I think for the life 130 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:06,424 of Donald Trump, and I pray that it 131 00:05:06,424 --> 00:05:07,559 continues to be a 132 00:05:08,569 --> 00:05:09,069 change 133 00:05:09,457 --> 00:05:11,839 time for him in terms of his walk 134 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:12,474 with God. 135 00:05:13,267 --> 00:05:14,855 And I think it's certainly 1 of those 136 00:05:14,855 --> 00:05:15,355 moments 137 00:05:16,204 --> 00:05:17,657 to change history and 138 00:05:18,444 --> 00:05:20,865 allow the country to come together 139 00:05:21,245 --> 00:05:24,225 and be united and put away all this 140 00:05:24,604 --> 00:05:25,104 weapon 141 00:05:25,404 --> 00:05:27,620 of the government and demon immunization of people 142 00:05:27,739 --> 00:05:29,334 is that's what leads up to this. Now 143 00:05:29,334 --> 00:05:31,328 the other thing that we have happened. And 144 00:05:31,328 --> 00:05:33,902 this is part of the Biden administration's problem 145 00:05:34,758 --> 00:05:37,605 with this diversity equity and inclusion. You've got 146 00:05:37,884 --> 00:05:39,320 the head of the secret service, 147 00:05:39,958 --> 00:05:42,512 the secret service director Kimberly C, 148 00:05:43,150 --> 00:05:45,166 she was appointed by Joe Biden 149 00:05:45,478 --> 00:05:48,355 And her main goal is to increase D 150 00:05:48,489 --> 00:05:51,026 or diversity, equity and inclusion in the secret 151 00:05:51,026 --> 00:05:54,162 service her stated mission is quote, protection 152 00:05:54,539 --> 00:05:57,432 and investigations by leading a diverse 153 00:05:57,809 --> 00:06:00,681 workforce close quote. Now, her diverse workforce are 154 00:06:00,681 --> 00:06:01,957 people who would be women. 155 00:06:03,727 --> 00:06:04,604 Lgbtq. Mh. 156 00:06:05,641 --> 00:06:08,034 Indigenous people, native American people, all of that. 157 00:06:08,273 --> 00:06:11,463 Look, I'm fine with having diversity as long 158 00:06:11,463 --> 00:06:11,963 as 159 00:06:13,154 --> 00:06:15,870 the first and most important criteria is met, 160 00:06:16,030 --> 00:06:18,028 and that is they are capable. And what 161 00:06:18,028 --> 00:06:19,486 we clearly learned 162 00:06:19,865 --> 00:06:20,365 during 163 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:24,507 the replay of so many videos from Saturday 164 00:06:24,507 --> 00:06:27,937 night is that the secret service director needs 165 00:06:27,937 --> 00:06:30,464 to go, there needs to be an investigation 166 00:06:31,222 --> 00:06:33,453 and this D needs to stop. We have 167 00:06:33,453 --> 00:06:36,003 a petition in a fax page on the 168 00:06:36,163 --> 00:06:38,017 Liberty Council action page 169 00:06:38,806 --> 00:06:41,111 lc c action dot org lc c action 170 00:06:41,111 --> 00:06:44,314 dot org, fax members of Congress to investigate 171 00:06:44,529 --> 00:06:46,595 the secret service, and also the Department of 172 00:06:46,595 --> 00:06:47,524 homeland security 173 00:06:48,602 --> 00:06:49,321 and also, 174 00:06:50,039 --> 00:06:52,673 find out what happened, hold people accountable and 175 00:06:52,673 --> 00:06:55,228 stop a D, Look. When you look at 176 00:06:55,228 --> 00:06:56,265 some of these women. 177 00:06:56,996 --> 00:06:59,931 You had a woman who was part of 178 00:06:59,931 --> 00:07:02,866 taking him off the stage, and she was 179 00:07:02,866 --> 00:07:05,340 so short. Just like, 2 feet that she 180 00:07:05,340 --> 00:07:08,355 or. Your body did not cover president Trump's 181 00:07:08,355 --> 00:07:09,941 body. Yeah. And the in the purpose, when 182 00:07:09,941 --> 00:07:11,607 the secret service, they are to be, like, 183 00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:13,079 bullet shields 184 00:07:13,379 --> 00:07:16,259 for the president to surround him. If you 185 00:07:16,259 --> 00:07:17,620 if you go back and look at, for 186 00:07:17,620 --> 00:07:18,579 example, when Reagan, 187 00:07:19,060 --> 00:07:19,959 he was speaking 188 00:07:20,273 --> 00:07:22,977 on a platform, and you heard this, like, 189 00:07:23,216 --> 00:07:25,205 glass break. And then this man tried to 190 00:07:25,205 --> 00:07:26,557 rush onto the platform. 191 00:07:27,289 --> 00:07:30,240 That man and the president were whisk off 192 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,633 the stage so fast you could barely, 193 00:07:33,749 --> 00:07:35,663 blink an eye, and they were gone. And 194 00:07:35,663 --> 00:07:37,751 that's the way they should treat them protect 195 00:07:37,751 --> 00:07:39,422 him and get him off the stage. 196 00:07:40,138 --> 00:07:42,048 So the question is why did they wait 197 00:07:42,048 --> 00:07:43,799 so long? And why did they put woman 198 00:07:43,799 --> 00:07:46,266 that was to short. Other, 3 women. 199 00:07:47,156 --> 00:07:50,097 1 of them that when he got into 200 00:07:50,097 --> 00:07:52,402 the suburban to be escorted away. The beast, 201 00:07:52,561 --> 00:07:54,151 you know, the armored vehicle, 202 00:07:54,884 --> 00:07:57,685 got into that particular vehicle to be escorted 203 00:07:57,685 --> 00:07:57,925 away. 204 00:07:58,645 --> 00:08:00,345 You had 3 women 205 00:08:00,964 --> 00:08:01,205 agents. 206 00:08:01,764 --> 00:08:02,085 1, 207 00:08:02,964 --> 00:08:04,105 could not h 208 00:08:04,499 --> 00:08:05,057 her weapon. 209 00:08:06,253 --> 00:08:08,407 Tried several times could not get her weapon 210 00:08:08,407 --> 00:08:10,162 into her own h, so she had to 211 00:08:10,162 --> 00:08:11,119 hold on to her weapon, 212 00:08:12,315 --> 00:08:14,562 and then you had all 3 3 of 213 00:08:14,562 --> 00:08:14,722 them, 214 00:08:15,597 --> 00:08:17,608 1 of them wanted to put on her 215 00:08:17,665 --> 00:08:20,369 glasses and fix her glasses, sunglasses. The other 216 00:08:20,369 --> 00:08:22,533 one's 1 3 of them. They're just all 217 00:08:22,533 --> 00:08:24,863 walking in circles. Walking in circles walking 218 00:08:25,637 --> 00:08:27,866 the issue. And finally, 1 of them grabbed 219 00:08:27,866 --> 00:08:30,651 the side of the door handle and walked 220 00:08:30,651 --> 00:08:33,368 with the suburban. And the others finally realized, 221 00:08:33,447 --> 00:08:35,274 oh, that's what they're supposed to do. You 222 00:08:35,274 --> 00:08:35,433 know, 223 00:08:36,148 --> 00:08:39,167 what you saw was a totally incompetent secret 224 00:08:39,167 --> 00:08:42,046 service. And a totally incompetent secret service was 225 00:08:42,046 --> 00:08:45,331 also responsible directly or indirectly for the fact 226 00:08:45,866 --> 00:08:48,976 that this shooter was able to climb on 227 00:08:48,976 --> 00:08:49,768 top of a building, 228 00:08:50,323 --> 00:08:53,333 When multiple people had seen him taken videos, 229 00:08:54,540 --> 00:08:56,460 shouted that there's a man on the roof 230 00:08:56,460 --> 00:08:57,340 with the rifle. 231 00:08:57,899 --> 00:09:00,299 Mh. That building should have been secured. And 232 00:09:00,299 --> 00:09:02,160 in fact, we understand 233 00:09:02,793 --> 00:09:05,129 by some of the reports that that building 234 00:09:05,506 --> 00:09:07,661 was also supposed to be used as a 235 00:09:07,661 --> 00:09:09,576 staging area for the local police. 236 00:09:10,627 --> 00:09:13,576 All of this falls back onto the secret 237 00:09:13,576 --> 00:09:13,894 service, 238 00:09:14,850 --> 00:09:16,842 and the head of the secret service Kimberly 239 00:09:17,002 --> 00:09:17,321 C. 240 00:09:18,449 --> 00:09:21,095 They are supposed to be responsible for coordinating 241 00:09:21,389 --> 00:09:24,353 all of the security, local, as well as 242 00:09:24,568 --> 00:09:26,498 their own department, both 243 00:09:27,048 --> 00:09:29,683 interior and on the perimeter, and certainly on 244 00:09:29,683 --> 00:09:32,157 the perimeter, a hundred and 30, hundred and 245 00:09:32,157 --> 00:09:34,871 50 yards away at an elevated line of 246 00:09:34,871 --> 00:09:37,598 sight. That's a prime example of a building 247 00:09:37,598 --> 00:09:39,511 that should have been secure. That guy should 248 00:09:39,511 --> 00:09:42,881 have never been anywhere close to that building 249 00:09:42,939 --> 00:09:44,157 or to that rally 250 00:09:44,550 --> 00:09:47,029 carrying a rifle. So they definitely need to 251 00:09:47,029 --> 00:09:49,110 be, you know, investigated, there needs to be 252 00:09:49,110 --> 00:09:49,850 some accountability. 253 00:09:50,389 --> 00:09:52,629 But on the other hand, we praise God, 254 00:09:52,790 --> 00:09:54,561 you know, we could have and up awaken 255 00:09:54,561 --> 00:09:56,795 to a whole different day if it had 256 00:09:56,795 --> 00:09:59,586 been a tragic situation. So we praise God 257 00:09:59,586 --> 00:10:02,558 for his hand upon president Trump for protecting 258 00:10:02,776 --> 00:10:06,080 him and for protecting this country from tragedy. 259 00:10:06,775 --> 00:10:09,563 Absolutely. It's a absolute miracle. We're thankful to 260 00:10:09,563 --> 00:10:10,932 god. We're thankful that, 261 00:10:12,046 --> 00:10:14,194 you know, we're sad that there's been a 262 00:10:14,194 --> 00:10:16,581 tragedy and a death and some injuries. But 263 00:10:16,581 --> 00:10:18,665 we're thankful that president Donald trump survived. 264 00:10:19,380 --> 00:10:22,481 But this d e is deadly. It has 265 00:10:22,481 --> 00:10:24,469 to stop. Go to lc c action dot 266 00:10:24,469 --> 00:10:27,113 org, lc action dot org. Send fax, 267 00:10:27,913 --> 00:10:29,751 sign the petition, send it out to your 268 00:10:29,751 --> 00:10:30,070 friends. 269 00:10:30,790 --> 00:10:33,208 This has to require a full 270 00:10:33,667 --> 00:10:35,745 investigation. People need to be held responsible in 271 00:10:35,745 --> 00:10:36,658 this D 272 00:10:37,191 --> 00:10:39,892 both in the secret service and elsewhere needs 273 00:10:39,892 --> 00:10:41,004 to end today. 274 00:10:42,195 --> 00:10:44,181 You've been listening to faith in Freedom brought 275 00:10:44,181 --> 00:10:45,452 you by Liberty Counsel. 276 00:10:46,103 --> 00:10:48,016 We hope that we have motivated you to 277 00:10:48,016 --> 00:10:50,487 stand up for your faith, family and freedom. 278 00:10:51,044 --> 00:10:53,276 Get informed and get involved today. 279 00:10:53,927 --> 00:10:56,701 Visit Liberty Council's website at l c dot 280 00:10:56,701 --> 00:10:57,335 0RG.