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Welcome back to Battleground podcast. We are at part two with Secret Service agent, retired Secret Service agent, Jeff James. We talked a lot about Jeff's background and his history and why he wanted to join the United States Secret Service.

And unexpectedly so, but I think appropriately, we also talked about child trafficking and what

you can do to insulate your children and your family from this threat that, frankly, most

Americans turn a blind eye to. It a modern day slave trade in in this country

every day only it's not public it happens online behind the scenes but it's a crisis in this

country that we can't afford to ignore anymore so this is part two so today i want to talk

about what jeff's experience was like protecting presidents of the United States.

Jeff, welcome back to part two of Battleground. Thanks for coming back.

Oh, no, I'm honored to be here again. Thank you.

So you have, you've done just so

much with your career. You're a Pittsburgh guy like me, Western Pennsylvania. But I want to talk

about how you get selected for, and correct me if I'm, if I'm not saying this properly, but the

presidential protection detail on the Secret Service,

because that's not an assignment that everybody gets, right?

Yeah, correct.

You know, the actual number of people who are assigned to the President's details classified,

but it is something that not every Secret Service agent gets to do, and it's, very frankly,

something I'm proud I was able to achieve.

And it's, you know, it happens for you in a couple of ways.

You know, they look at your assignments prior.

They look at, you know, recommendations from your bosses.

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