INTERVIEW – DAN BONGINO – former Secret Service agent and author of the book “The Fight: A Secret Service Agent’s Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine”
TOPICS:
>> Donald And Melania To Texas (Breitbart) — President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump plan to visit Texas on Tuesday in the wake of the Hurricane Harvey, according to the White House. Details of the trip are still being worked out, but Texas governor Greg Abbot confirmed that the president will not interrupt rescue efforts in Houston, Texas after the city was hit with heavy flooding.
What kind of security considerations go into the Secret Service’s planning when visiting a disaster area?
>> Ahead of flood tour, Trump vows Texas will get all the funds needed despite shutdown threat. WASHINGTON – President Trump promised Monday that Texas will get whatever funds it needs to rebuild from Hurricane Harvey, despite his threat to force a government shutdown next month if Congress refuses to pay for a wall along the Mexico border. “It has nothing to do with it,” he said, asked about the potential standoff by The Dallas Morning News at an East Room news conference. “You’re going to have what you need and it’s going to go fast.”
>> Trump ends restrictions on giving surplus military gear to local police agencies (USA Today) — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Monday lifted a controversial ban on the transfer of some surplus military equipment to police departments whose battlefield-style response to rioting in a St. Louis suburb three years ago prompted a halt to the program. The new plan takes effect immediately and fully rolls back an Obama administration executive order that blocked armored vehicles, large-caliber weapons, ammunition and other heavy equipment from being re-purposed from foreign battlefields to America’s streets. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who led the campaign for the program’s reinstatement, outlined the President Trump’s new executive order Monday in an address to the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest police union, suggesting that Obama’s directive was a concession to political pressure applied by civil rights advocates.
