00:00And knowing the venue personally, this ballroom as well, and the hotel, the Hilton, how difficult
00:05is it here to protect a president or other top government officials in a venue like this
00:12hotel with thousands of guests, including what was the shooter who was a guest at the
00:18hotel?
00:18Right.
00:19So any guest is just treated like a member of the outside public that's going to have
00:23to come through the security screening, just like at an airport.
00:28So just outside an airport security screening area, anything can be happening, but it's
00:33not until they get into the security area of getting a magmatometer checked and looked
00:40over, even patted down if needed, that's the secure area.
00:44So anything can happen outside of there, and there's no guarantees.
00:47But the Secret Service is there to prevent what you just saw in the video, a man with
00:52a rifle coming in, and they succeeded doing that.
00:56My experience there, it always went flawlessly, never a problem, always had enough people
01:02there.
01:02And the Secret Service has home field advantage because they know that building so well.
01:07If they need to evacuate, they know the city because it's the city that the White House
01:11is in, and they know how to get to the hospital.
01:14They know the routes very well, as opposed to if this was some city in Europe and they don't
01:19know where they're going, it would make the job harder.
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