This is Jim Garrity with the National Review Ricoche Podcast from CPAC.

We are joined by Dan Vongino, the former congressional candidate, former US Secret Service

agent and author of the now two-time bestseller, Life Inside the Bubble.

I say that to you, congratulations to you with great passion and more than a little bit of envy.

Thank you very much.

So a lot to cover, one of the first things that comes to mind,

the book being a second time bestseller.

By any chance of the secret service being in the news again, being terrible for the country but may be very

good for you in your book sales.

Yeah every time someone Google Secret Service my name and book comes out so you know the

drone flies over the fence I sell 10,000 copies totally

unintentional but you're right hey we're all free markets it's almost like you've

got an incentive to fly something over one house so as we say there's certain

parts of government we come to expect incompetence from.

We're coming to the CEO or disappointing performances from healthcare.gov when the IRS makes terrible mistakes

we're not surprised but the US Secret Service has always had this like quasi-mythic

image in American's eyes and you know, known for being very competent, having this

unbelievable responsibility. And then it's just like one story after another. As a former Secret Service agent and a guy who knows it from the inside and out,

were you, this is all after you've left, right?

None of this can be pinned on you.

But like, so what's happening over there what what happens

up the the so that the culture of the organization changed pretty

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