magnetometer. thank you for saying it for me. would they have confiscated anything else like a recording device? you have to look at what was the construct of the meeting? it was a campaign meeting and they were doing hundreds of them concurrently at that time. anything that came into trump tower they went through a bag screening. anything that was in your bag. what is a recording device? a cell phone is a recording device. so do you confiscate cell phones? no. it wasn t the secret service s responsibility to take any type of recording devices because it didn t pose a physical threat at the time. again, back in june, trump tower solely concerned about physical threats and preventing any harm to the president or the first lady at the time. again, nothing to do with counterintelligence. so what strikes me though, here, is the secret service has responded in a statement like this very quickly. is that typical? they don t usually seem like a