Inside the Secret Service’s Most Elite Unit - #354

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

What’s it really like protecting the most powerful people on Earth? In this gripping episode, a retired Secret Service agent opens up about his 23-year career, including 15 years in special operations on the elite Counter Assault Team (CAT). From chasing threats across the globe to surviving the chaos of presidential schedules, you’ll hear unfiltered insights into what most Americans will never see. He breaks down what happened on July 13th — the recent presidential assassination attempt — what went wrong, what went right, and why the aftermath still haunts some agents. From vehicle hacking threats to high-stakes diplomacy and internal leadership failures, this is a rare behind-the-scenes look at America’s last line of defense.

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0:00.0	Black Ribble Coffee, baby.
0:02.0	Freedom kill him!
0:03.0	Oh!
0:04.0	John, I'll just go, I'm just going to let you kind of give your brief or not so brief background here to give a little bit of context as to how you ended up here.
0:22.5	I ended up here. Thank you for having me, by the way, so I appreciate it. I am a secret service agent or retired secret
0:33.4	service agent bought almost 23 years, non-traditional.
0:38.3	So everybody thinks Secret Service agent is more wearing suit and tie, following people on
0:42.3	Earpiece.
0:43.2	I spent 15 of those years in special operations, so specifically a counter-assault team.
0:50.8	So I started off in the Newark Field Office running around, trying to figure out what exactly a secret service agent is.
0:58.6	I'm not really sure what to this day one is now suit.
1:03.4	And then I was privileged enough to do 15 years special operations.
1:08.0	And then the last two and a half years I was in the Dignatory Protective Division where I was running around foreign heads of state and learning about
1:16.8	all different cultures and stuff so that was a good time too yeah and you were just talking about
1:21.5	how are the the pace that Trump is running at compared to some of the other presidents that you've served
1:28.2	voter in this term versus his last term.
1:32.3	And what's that looking like versus both the 45 stint and versus a couple of the other
1:40.1	ones that you've been a part of?
1:42.0	The 45, I was operational during the the 45 so I got to see him
1:45.9	I was around him all the time it was non-stop he'd get up early work late and his pace is and
1:54.3	I don't know what he what fuels him but he just doesn't stop And now it seems like whatever pace that was in 2016
2:04.2	to 2020 is amplified. So just from my perspective now where I'm in the dignitary pool,
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