anybody who wants to ask me at this moment in time but that free advice won t last forever. diplomat rick wade, great to see you. thank you, sir. now we move on to the security situation of the campaign trail and the department of homeland security has received requests from the trump and carson campaigns for secret service protection. now, it s a shift for ben carson, who has said he wasn t interested in receiving that extra protection. i don t feel the need for it, quite frankly, but the secret service thinks that i need it. i recognize that someone like me who is very truthful and who really doesn t subscribe to all the traditional power structures is probably going to be a target. the final decision as to whether secret service protection will be granted will be decided by a five member bipartisan congressional advisory committee.
confirmed today that they ve been asked, those two campaigns have requested secret service protection for each of those candidates. now, just asking for secret service protection doesn t mean you automatically get it. but apparently what happens now is that the homeland security secretary and a high-level congressional advisory committee which includes the top leadership of both houses of congress and both parties, apparently they will now make that decision as to whether or not donald trump and herman cain are going to get secret service protection. and as remarkable as that seems, it is not unprecedented for candidates like trump and carson to get this sort of thing. everybody remembers the decision to give barack obama very early secret service protection in 2008. but other leading candidates have had it early in the process as well including mr. 999, mr. pokemon theme song, including herman cain. and one of the ways that the republican establishment has tried to dismiss the profoun
protection for each of those candidates. now, just asking for secret service protection doesn t mean you automatically get it. but apparently what happens now is that the homeland security secretary and a high-level congressional advisory committee which includes the top leadership of both houses of congress and both parties, apparently they will now make that decision as to whether or not donald trump and herman cain are going to get secret service protection. and as remarkable as that seems, it is not unprecedented for candidates like trump and carson to get this sort of thing. everybody remembers the decision to give barack obama very early secret service protection in 2008. but other leading candidates have had it early in the process as well including mr. 999, mr. pokemon theme song, including herman cain. and one of the ways that the republican establishment has tried to dismiss the profound weirdness of reality tv show star donald trump being their party s front-runner for the r