Chased down Secret Service Director, Kimberly A. Cheatle.

0:00 Speaker 1 With us is Sunday morning. Is Senator Marshall Blackburn from the great state of Tennessee, and they just finished. The Republicans just finished a big convention in Milwaukee, and Senator Blackburn tell us, how did Milwaukee go?

0:17 Speaker 2 I think Milwaukee was the best convention that we have ever had. I really give President Trump’s team a lot of credit for the works that they did, the way they adjusted their plans after the shooting last Saturday and that assassination attempt. I give the Trump family so much credit for the graciousness that they showed, for the humbleness,

0:50 the gratitude, for the way the American people have stood with them through this situation and through this attempted assassination.

1:02 Speaker 1 It was I mean, in a week we had so many news and the tragedy of what happened in the Pennsylvania with the former president. You were very I saw you on Fox. You were chasing me the Secret Service director around and you were very angry. Tell us about it.

1:24 Did you ever give you any answers? The head of the Secret Service, her name was Kimberly Chiddoks.

1:33 Speaker 2 Yeah, we were not able to get the answers that we wanted here is what had happened. Republican senators had requested a phone call, and Senator Schumer put together a call for all senators, everyone is concerned about this John, and it was with the Director of the Secret Service and also with the FBI director Race. So we had

2:06 our phone call. It seemed to be a bit abbreviated. We all didn’t get to ask questions. On Wednesday night, I found out that she was in the building. So some of my colleagues and I there at the convention went to the suite where she was introduced to ourselves, asked her if we could have a few minutes of

2:30 her time and get some answers to the questions that we had because we were not able to get the questions answered on the phone call. And she proceeded to say she didn’t think it was the time and place.

2:45 But when you’ve had an assassination attempt, when you have an event that is currently taking place with thousands of people, when you have a political season with rallies that are going to be take making place across the country, people want to know when they attend they’re going to be safe.

3:07 They want to make certain they are in that safe environment. So We pressed her to go with us to a spaith that was quiet, that was not in the reception the party that she was hosting. She really did not want to do that. We said, let’s move somewhere else so we can all get answers to our questions. That

3:31 would have been the appropriate thing to do. So then she said she was leading. We said, well, we will go with you. We need answers on behalf of the people that we represent. She wasn’t, you know, she just was not interested in doing that. She was more concerned about the reception she was holding for who she termed

3:57 their partners, their donors, people that had worked with on security. And we just think the American people deserve to know. How could you have known an hour in advance that you had a suspicious person. At five point fifty one, you knew you had a potential threat. At five point fifty three, the sharpshooters are alerted, and at six o’clock

4:23 you clear, the Secret Service cleared President Trump to go on the stage. This is what people want answers to. How could that happen?

4:35 Speaker 1 It’s mind boggling that we almost had a major accident and President Trump is so lucky he turned his head, otherwise we’ll be running a funeral right now.

4:47 Speaker 2 We are just devastated at the trauma, the injury, the comfortory loss of life, Corey’s loss of life, the the launch for his family. Everyone in the country is grieving that law. And Thursday night at the convention, I thought President Trump handled that in a very appropriate manner.

5:15 Speaker 1 Understood what else you know? It was a busy week, you know, an assassination, a big convention week. What do you want to tell you American people?

5:28 Speaker 2 I think it’s important for them to know that Republicans are unite it. I encourage all of your listeners go to my website Marshall Blackburn dot com. They can pull down a copy of our Republican platform. The President talked about it Thursday night in his speech. I chaired the Platform committee and we did a very simple twenty promises

5:55 of things we will do, like secure the border, address inflation, get always out of girls’ sports, and then some our principles, a statement of our principles so they can pull that down. It is good, it is simple, it is focused. You’re going to see us work hard and make certain that we win in November.

6:20 Speaker 1 Sent to Marsha Blackburn, Great State of Tennessee. Thank you so much for coming on this Sunday morning. God bless you, and God bless America you too.

6:30 Speaker 2 My friends. Bye bye,