program that is informative and highly entertaining. these guys know how to tell a story, and it is a rare treat to have the curtain pulled back by the people that protect the president and the first lady. there is three former secret service agents. his role in stopping an assassination attempt. it was the security chief with the united states olympic committee. joe clancy is with us tonight. he served for president bush, or trailblazer, mrs. bush was tempo. his nearly 30 year career culminated in 2015 when president obama named joe the 24th director of the u.s. secret service. so he was in charge. today he is the chief security officer at comcast corporation. nick trotta is here. they worked on large scale events like leader summits. post 9/11 travel including trips to iraq and afghanistan that you will hear about tonight. he was in yankee stadium as president bush through out the first pitch before game three in the world series. also tonight, spencer geissinger. he was un
the president making an announcement or there is a press conference that is interesting or something. and you listen to bush and i think a lot of people thought well he is very well informed and well spoken and this is not what i was expecting because most people are busy with their lives. is he funny . there was a . kind out who your audience is. and things of that natch. however, it is the president speaking and therefore as he always told us, everybody is important. we were not to think of a small rose garden event for teacher of the year as not important. it was part of the full jol yum of statements that he made at president of the united states. he was always after us to never skip a step in making a case. even if you re speaking to the people that an audience of people likely to be in agreement of what you re saying, he always has a broader audience. and if he is making his case for social security reform and he skips the hard part, a
we are honored to be joined tonight by three former secret service agents, and the combined services are 32 years, and larry was honored with a role in stopping assassination attempt on president gerald ford in 1972 in sacramento, and then larry served 25 years as the security chief with the united states olympic committee. joe clancy is with us, and he served on the protective details of four presidents, including president bush and trail blazer as he would have called them by the secret service code name, and he was tempo, and mrs. bush was trail blazer. the 32 years experience culminated in 2014 when joe was named the director of the secret service and he was in charge from the obama administration. and today, he is the chief security officer at comcast corporation. and nicholas trotta is with us, and helped to protect five presidents, including president bush. worked on large scale events such as world leader summits and a lot of the post 9/11 trips and even trips to afg
orleans. tell us how things are looking there right now. hey, look, the river is closed to all traffic at this point. you can see it is behind us here. barry, a troecal storm, you a talking about. forecasters believe it will be a category 1 hurricane. water is the main concern here. reporter: the rush to get ready just about over now. time running out as barry moves in. there are three way louisiana floods, storm surge, high rivers and rain. we are going to have all tee. time is short. if you have preparations you need to complete, now is the time. you doot have much more time at all before the impact of barry will be here. reporter: a dangerous triple threat, the misriver is normally 6 to 8 feet. already 16 feet in climbing. the levies arelimbing. visitors are packing the airport hoping to take off before barry lands. i like new orleans a lot but i didn t want to sleep here tonight at the airport. reporter: the national guard has been called in. water is alread
knowing our panelists who are here with this will be one of the engaged program that is both informative and highly entertaining. it is a rare treat to have the curtain pull back from those who are on the front lines of protecting the president and the first family. we are honored to be joined tonight by three secret service agents whose combined years of service almost approach 82 years. privilege to have larry buendorf with us. he was honored with the u.s. secret service award for those who stopped the assassination attempt against gerald ford in sacramento. later he served 25 years with the security chief with the united states olympic committee. joe clancy is with us tonight, joe served on the productive details of four presidents, including president bush. trail blazer as he would have called him by his secret service code name. mrs. bush was tempo, president bush was trail blazer. the 30 year when fresno bomber named him the 24th director of the u.s. secret service. h