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FMR Navy Seal Jared Hudson - Jeff Poor Show - Tuesday 7-16-24
from Bucks pocket to the shores of Orange Beach at all points in between an insider's perspective on Alabama politics. It's the Jeff Porsche show. I don't think me done it this way. Look back to the Jeff Porsche show that the top 1006 5 they just stay with us on this Tuesday morning tech side will be a touch for the show. All you do is text me two five one three four three zero one zero six. That's how we communicate on the program. Still a couple on the program. Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wall will join us from Milwaukee. We'll kind of get his view of what's going on there. Talk about the mood. It's really strange for me to watch about TV. These things on TV right now, but we'll get a little more from someone who is there. But in the meantime, I'm very pleased to bring on my next guest. He's a former Navy SEAL. He runs a bunch of different things. The Shooters Academy, the Covenant Rescue Group, but Jared Hudson joins us on the line. Jared, good morning. How are you? Good buddy. How you doing? Good. Well, thanks for coming on. And I was listening to you my friend Phillips radio show yesterday. I thought this this will be really a good segment for our audience. But the way you kind of explained Saturday and try to figure all this out. We're we're we're Monday morning quarterbacking and all but it's it's a very it's a very unless you're there, it's hard to really know the circumstances that led to why that happens with the tip of the assassination. Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's that's the biggest thing. I mean, it's like you said, you know, Monday morning quarterbacking doesn't do anything for anybody. Obviously, we all know now a guy was there to shoot the president because well, I got shot at the president, right? Um, you know, everything else that that you that you did you everything else that you do in these process, we're trying to actually figure that out. You don't actually know it in the moment. That makes sense. So if I'm a I'm a sniper, sniper instructor actually running training for East Coast Hill teams right now. And, you know, as a shooter, whether just a cat guy, your counter salt team, or whether you're on the CST counter sniper team, you're just trying to figure stuff out. Because the last thing you want to do is shoot somebody or hurt somebody that doesn't need to be. Does that make sense? Yeah, especially, you know, maybe it's different now for secret service. But I mean, think about this, Jared. Other than other than the Donald Trump era of presidential politics, I mean, these big events he puts on and having to protect him with all these, you know, potentially thousands of people there has to present a lot of challenges. Yeah, I guess I'll repeat what I said. The Trump era of politics that we're in right now, the presidential politics where he has these massive events with thousands of people. And where we are right now, with all these people there, bigger, biggest presidential events we've had in a long time has to present a lot of different challenges to protecting the president. Well, yeah, I mean, there's that, you know, and I'll be honest with you, it's just always any sort of close protections always difficult. Again, because you're trying to you want to mitigate the risk if something does happen, but your goal was for something not to happen, right? So, and you put things in place, in my opinion, the biggest issue that you see with what's going on now, let's say Trump era politics, is you have a system that is obviously against Trump. It's obviously against this man, you know, whether you like Trump or not, I don't think anybody can reasonably say the system, the bureaucracy is not against him. And so when that happens, you see things put in place where it's not necessarily that they, you know, plan to hurt the man, you know, like, hey, we've got this whole plan that we're going to take him out, but they do things that lead to the ability for somebody to do. Does that make sense? Just kind of like, if I was to burn your house down, then like I said, well, I really didn't burn your house down. I just started a fire in your yard. Well, yeah, I started the fire in the yard that burned the house down. So technically, I really did burn your house down. But in reality, well, they're just kind of spread over. That's kind of what we see going on in my opinion. We kind of see the house is is being burned down, but it's not being burned down by an actual act of light and house on fire. It's kind of tertiary because of the things that that we did off to the side. And one of the big things is the eyeball crap that we see going on. That has been the biggest detriment to our combat forces to the military to look at secret service, right? Everybody sees the pictures in the videos, pictures worth a thousand words. And you see the same thing happening there. You got some lady cheetah that's in charge of the secret service. Never done anything. Yeah, I'm sure she's a nice lady, but she's emotionally doesn't like Trump. So she's not going to give him what he needs. And that's the biggest thing is there is a shortfall across the board on the amount of people that you would normally have on a high profile event, like, like a truck rally. So the way I've been kind of like it, Jared, is it's like, you'll lead the keys in the car with the windows down and it's sitting on your driveway and you wonder why your car got stolen. Like it's just the ground laid. It's too fertile for something like this to happen. And maybe maybe it wasn't intentional. Maybe it was, but there is sort of a bias there, like you said, especially government. And I heard Eric Prince say this recently, he's another for those who don't know Eric Prince is he's another seal. He's like a good girl. The knee came up generation. Why didn't he started a company, Blackwater, everybody's heard of Blackwater, right? He was talking about this and he he had to know on the head, any private security company or any any private sector contract or anybody in that role as a private security professional that was running a security program, like was running for president Trump that day and to not get him off the X. It's more than just, you know, how did the guy get on the roof? That guy actually that that can happen. And I don't fault any of the snipers for that. I just fault the administration for not having enough people in place to mitigate that. But neither handle there. The biggest thing is is they do not do the things they're supposed to do in any private security company would be sued. They would be sued for that lack of effort. So again, we see the bureaucracy, we see the government, we see the water reason the secret service exists. And I'm sorry, people say, Oh, what is the secret service? Yeah, it was because that's your one job. Now, I will say this, president didn't get shot, but that was the handicon that protected him on that 100% because it definitely wasn't anything that they did to keep those rounds from ultimately hitting him in the ear, hitting in the head. Let me ask you this, I bet probably 100 or so of these presidential political events to have a layer of secret service protection in my career. And you do see like, you know, for a while, New Gingrich or Carson or Ted Cruz, they all had secret service protection. But it really wasn't the footprint that the secret service protection of a president or even a former president in the like Trump had. Is it possible the secret service right now? There's like a lot of law enforcement is stretched very thin. And you didn't have the B team, you didn't even have the C team there. You had a lower level D team because this secret service is stretched so thin right now with presidential candidates, vice president, the first lady, and so on. No, I mean, so I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I know some of the guys that are on that that operation. I know some of the guys on the counter sniper team, and they're solid, they're solid dudes. Again, I don't know if it's so much that there's any more and maybe at 18, the B teams, like the standard, the training, the selection process is still the same. But I say the selection process, you know, with take that with a grain of salt because the selection process is changed. Again, it's the DIA thing. Instead of having pipe hitters there, do what pipe hitters do. And that's fight and die to protect whatever you're just complete the mission. Right? That's what I did as a seal overseas. That's what still do with with a lot of my buddies as contractors overseas. We will literally die to complete the mission. We won't come home to share families to complete the job. When you don't have that anymore, and that's part of the selection process is fun and individual. When you don't have that anymore, I think that's where you run into bigger issues. And then when you have the higher levels, not necessarily making a call saying, hey, you can't, you can't fire this shot. That doesn't exist. Those guys work under compromised authorities. So they fire the shot as soon as they see it, see that there's a thread or a compromise in place. With that being said, it's the, it's the bureaucracy at the leadership level where you have a lot of DEI things implemented to where they say, put people in a position of leadership. They don't need to be in. I mean, look at Afghanistan for a while. Look at all these generals and admirals and all these dudes too, are supposedly supposed to be, you know, the George Patton's of our era. And they literally, they literally couldn't lead a kindergarten field trip, much less the US military in war in Afghanistan. And it goes to show with what has happened to us in Iraq, in Afghanistan. And it's the same thing with the Secret Service. You know, those people get in charge. They change the standard. They change the selection process to the point where it's so watered down. There's no such things in A, B, or C team. Everybody's the same. Everybody's equalist equity. It's not, it's not equality. It's equity, which means you can suck at your job, but you're going to be put on par with me, even though I don't suck at my job because of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Oh, let me ask you another question about this. The, the shooter would be assassin. Now the late would be assassin from his perks where he was to where the president was standing. How difficult of a shot was that? You talking about for the shoot him or for him to shoot the president? Either one, but mostly for him to hit the president. Now it looks like all your counter snipers, but he wasn't exactly using that kind of gear, was he? No, I think he had a 15 maybe with a red dot. I mean, he did a good job using dead space, using deflades, where he called out on the roof. I mean, he was definitely in a position. And I've got again, talking to my buddies in the in the different on the different counter sniper teams there around the president. Like they legitimately couldn't seem. And when there were portions where they could seem, they couldn't identify if it was him or if it was, you know, let's say a bird bouncing around on the roof would be one of the, one of the guys told me just because it was, you know, so far he was hitting so well. So he did a good job moving to the position as far as the shot that he took, not a super difficult shot to make necessarily, but it is a difficult shot when you're, you know, he could definitely hear people pointing at him, screaming at him. Obviously, he's got incoming rounds. He was shot at by the snipers. A few times there was multiple shots taken. I want to get too much into that because I don't know how much that can or can't say on that. But I do know that kind of the way he was shot was because you took one round that calls him to sit up, which allowed, you know, snipers from another side to actually be able to seem to engage him. So with that being said, it wasn't a hard shot, but at the same time, again, that was a kid pulled off a pretty, a pretty good little, a pretty good little stock and stock and shoot. And he almost had it. He should have been able to hit that shot. But again, you know, the Lord seems to have protected trouble that day. And then finally, like I hear a lot of this, but I tend to think a competency of government just makes me think it's not possible. But that this could have been an inside job and they were staying down orders. I mean, I don't want to dabble too much of this realm. But what do you think we do here stuff like that? No, it's not true. Like I said earlier, I mean, it's we work on compromise authority. I mean, as a law enforcement officer in the state of Alabama, you know, I'm making arrests to share if a police chief can't tell me not to make an arrest or even better can't tell me not to shoot somebody who's an active shooter in a school. The reason is, is because in that position, I'm the one who has to make this decision even as a special operation sniper in the still teams. It's the same way. I didn't have anybody telling me that I could or couldn't make a shot. I made that decision. And I would call it compromise authority. Whatever the compromise is based on our threat matrix dictates whether we shoot or not. So all the stuff of I was told not to take the shot. I mean, look at the DMV. They can't even get you in and out to get your tag in less than 30 minutes. Do you think the government can capitulate at that level? It's not that they're that small and that great at doing the forest things. It's there that dumb and that stupid. They put D I stuff in place. They're emotional with their decisions. We don't like Trump. So they limit the security that's provided for him at the higher levels. They limit it. And these are the type of things that happen when that goes down. Jerry, I leave it there. Thank you so much for making time for us this morning. I know you're very busy, but I best look to you. Let's talk for you. Thanks, brother. Have a good one. All right. Jared Hudson there on the program, former Navy SEAL. We're going to get a break here. Be right back. This is Jeff or show it up. Talk about our six five. I'm sure you knew when I fit off more than I could choose. But through it all. When there was now.