I first came across the Secret Service during Bill Clinton's visit to Northern Ireland when I was a young reporter running around town.

And, you know, when you meet these people from these organizations, let's say the British Army, you'd meet dumb soldiers and you'd meet smart soldiers.

Or you see smart cops and dumb cops. You know every organization there's always a couple of smart

people in it i met a lot of secret service people at that time in belfast and i was completely

unimpressed by all of them hello and welcome to the an affiliate scoopan Scoup. I'm Anne McElheny. Long time, no see. Very long time, no see. I don't know how long it's been, but you know. Weeks and weeks and weeks. I know, but obviously everyone's missed us terribly. Missed us terribly. But we've been keen out of it. I'm assuming nothing's really happened in the past

news. No, no. Nothing. That was that's, I mean, what could happen in a few weeks? What could possibly

happen? In July. In July. In July. Nothing. Summer, nothing happens. It's very, you know,

they say that about the news, about journalism. Journalists may as well take the whole summer off.

Nothing's going to happen in July.

You used to talk about a summer story because there's no real news happening.

You don't have to make something up.

Make something up.

That's what you have to do.

You had to go out.

You had to make something up.

He really had to make something up.

I know.

You could make up a story about, say, Trump almost getting assassinated. No, but turning it around into a kind of rallying cry to show his vitality and strength.

And then you could also make up another story like about Joe Biden, like trying to pretend that he's actually got fully encompassed mantis and the whole media Democrat complex collapsing and panicking because he's not.

But you couldn't, but that's, again, those are just, that's like a bad movie, right?

That's not true.

So we're coming to you from Ireland where we can report that the weather is atrocious and

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