it s truly unprecedented. it s a horrific event that occurred. we have political terrorism going on right now. the president keeps talking about people from honduras eventually showing up at the border, but in our country now there is a bomber that has been sending so far ten packages out there, two presidents with assassination attempts. the whole world is watching and we have a largely mute donald trump. he just doesn t want to believe this is happening. and so, you know, it s never a good idea in a national crisis for a president to be flippant. i remember when george w. bush right when katrina hit on august 29th, 2005 continued to give a speech in san diego on foreign affairs and then played air guitar. and he was round lily criticize for that. you have a situation here where donald trump did a little bit in wisconsin last night talking about what happened and then did a typical political rally.
we are back. you re watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin. as we cover as we continue our special coverage rather, not to be lost in all of this chaos, there have been two assassination attempts on two former presidents. that is extraordinary and horrifying, yet the current president has not mentioned them by name in public, nor has he reached out to them, and there is a precedent for how former presidents react to any kind of terrorism. bush 43 of course defending islam immediately after 9/11. and bill clinton, let me take you back to 1993 defended his successor against an iraqi plot to assassinate bush 41 in kuwait. my fellow americans, this evening i want to speak with you about an attack by the government of iraq against the united states and the actions we have just taken to respond.
this past april the kuwaiti government uncovered what they suspected was a car bombing plot to senate former president george w. bush while he was visiting kuwait stcity. this attempt is particularly loathsome and cowardly. we thank god it was unsuccessful. the authorities who foiled it have the appreciation of all americans. it is clear that this was no impulsive or random act. it was an elaborate plan devised by the iraqi government and directed against a former president of the united states because of actions he took as president. as such, the iraqi attack against president bush was an attack against our country and against all americans. i asked my team to pull this clip this morning because in this extraordinary moment, republican, democrat, doesn t matter. humanity. this is about the right thing to
shepard: continuing coverage now. let s go to the former secret service agent that protected agents clinton, bush 43 and the bombs while they were in the white house. charles marino is from opsec alliance partners, a global security firm. thanks for coming. thanks, shepard. shepard: i don t recall you might, if such a thing has existed, targeting of multiple presidents in such a way. do you? i can tell you that what you re seeing today, shepard, is an example of success regarding the mail screening process that is employed by the secret service and the capitol police for those that they safeguard. i can tell you this was not created just last year in response to a security event. this is something that has been thought habit for a long time. it s opinion in place for such
ago. the president sent national guard troops to the border earlier this year in a sort of show and president presidents bush 43 and obama did the same thing. but laws limit what federal troops can do there. the national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. are they making preparations? the secretary said he spoke to jim mattis about sending troops to the border. there s no formal requests from the white house suggesting it s not a serious proposal but was made for political purposes. the president is very frustrating not having received money from congress to build the wall and having these caravans of thousands of migrants coming up from honduras. here s a tweet in addition to stopping all payments to these countries, which seem to have no control over their population, i must in the strongest of terms ask mexico to stop this