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Brian Kilmeade Show

Inside the Perimeter: Salena Zito on the President’s Security Concerns & Butler Lessons

Brian Kilmeade Show

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4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Salena Zito joins Brian Kilmeade to reveal what she has learned from her conversations with the President following two harrowing assassination attempts. Drawing parallels between the failure in Butler and the recent White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, Zito breaks down the President’s insistence on showing strength and the growing frustration within his inner circle regarding security protocols. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's bring in Selena Zito now.

0:02.0

Selena, of course, syndicated columnist, watching an examiner, national political reporter,

0:06.2

and author of Butler, the untold story of the near assassination of Donald Trump in the fight for America's heartland.

0:12.6

Selina, this is one of these meetings where it's not just ceremonial.

0:16.1

If the king wants to do his job, he's going to start to, he has to start, I guess, healing relations

0:22.7

between the countries, don't you think?

0:24.8

Yeah, I absolutely think so.

0:26.3

And I think it's the best way to, the best steps to do that is a relationship between

0:32.7

President Trump and King Charles.

0:35.5

I think they have always had an amicable relationship,

0:39.1

and they both have mutual respect for what each wants to accomplish.

0:44.3

And, you know, they both sort of came up in that same era, right?

0:49.0

70s, 80s, where the culture was changing, where the world was changing. And so they have that sort of

0:58.0

cultural connection as well. I once met King Charles when he was Prince Charles in an alley in

1:07.4

Pittsburgh when he was coming into a couple cities across the country, former steel cities

1:14.7

that were trying to remake themselves. I didn't know he was going to be in town. It wasn't

1:19.6

the age of, you know, sort of the internet, right? Like you knew everything. And I was just

1:24.9

taking a shortcut, walking with my newborn through an alley, and he was getting out of his car. And I was just taking a shortcut walking with my newborn through an alley and he was

1:29.4

getting out of his car. And nice guy? I was very nice. I knew the mayor. So the mayor like sort of

1:38.3

felt obligated and introducing me. But I was just so embarrassed that I found myself in that place.

1:46.9

But he was very gracious.

1:48.5

So, you know, you talk about the relations between these two countries, the stormers

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