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Former Secret Service Agent Jonathan Wackrow, now managing director at Teneo Risk, explains how the Service protects the President and other VIPs. Wackrow details the many steps required to ensure the safety of protectees, and describes how the Service has changed due to changing technology and lessons learned from historical events. Wackrow served in the…

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Former Secret Service Agent Jonathan Wackrow, now managing director at Teneo Risk, explains how the Service protects the President and other VIPs. Wackrow details the many steps required to ensure the safety of protectees, and describes how the Service has changed due to changing technology and lessons learned from historical events. Wackrow served in the Presidential Protection Division in Washington, DC, and managed numerous high-level security operations in the U.S. and abroad.

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25 Comments

  1. Mark Mallorca

    December 2, 2019 at 1:02 pm

    Instructions unclear, air missiles ready at 1003KM horizon N65 S58, spotting the President at anytime, any second, any minute and just in an hour.

  2. Mark Mallorca

    December 2, 2019 at 1:03 pm

    I need to keep bounderies with this man’s daughter.

  3. Astral'o Pithecus

    December 2, 2019 at 1:04 pm

    So sad how much money is spent and how many people risk their lives to protect an orange man that has turned the country into a fascist habitat.

  4. Salman Gul

    December 2, 2019 at 1:06 pm

    How does it feel to protect Trump?

  5. Minien

    December 2, 2019 at 1:13 pm

    This isn’t real.

  6. EDVARD ARMANDO DELGADO DELGADO

    December 2, 2019 at 1:27 pm

    i think them presidentes will do well, if like a dozen of them could fleece The FED, they sure don’t need no secret service.

  7. Black Excellence

    December 2, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    This guy must know so many secrets 🤔🤔🤔

  8. Vitringur

    December 2, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    “Protectee” has now lost all meaning.

  9. Jeez Gaming

    December 2, 2019 at 1:40 pm

    Him: make the circle as far out as possible

    Me: will there be nuclear bomb?

  10. Jeez Gaming

    December 2, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    The only word I heard in the whole video is ‘protecteeeeeeeeeeee’

  11. AsHalt

    December 2, 2019 at 1:46 pm

    pretty sure this video was vetted by the agency and the agent did tell em about this interview… like how most news media check with the government to confirm news, even if the 45 makes it harder to do so nowadays

  12. GCT10/31/1990

    December 2, 2019 at 1:55 pm

    … You guys die in every “Fallen” movie,thank God for Gerard Butler otherwise we’d have no president

  13. Safaa Lag

    December 2, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    Can you imagine all this being done for trump? What a waste

  14. Alex Clementino

    December 2, 2019 at 2:25 pm

    So if you have a general anxiety disorder you already are a couple steps ahead with thinking about all the ways you can die/escape in a room lmao

  15. Rad J

    December 2, 2019 at 2:32 pm

    The secret service is ordered to take any bullets for the president, Anyone that would take a bullet for Trump has a mental illness lol

  16. DrZaius3141

    December 2, 2019 at 2:40 pm

    Must be weird living in a third world nation that has so much violence, missinformation among the populace and hatemongering there’s a legitimate threat of a leader being assassinated.

  17. KingFluffs

    December 2, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    0:10 The headline should have said “By CIA”. Because it’s pretty clear they were the ones who bumped him off because he wanted to get rid of them for constantly false flagging.

  18. Henry James

    December 2, 2019 at 2:49 pm

    Hey guys, you’re wearing a jacket that has SECRET printed on it – hilarious!! You do know you look stupid right.

  19. upstartmike

    December 2, 2019 at 2:54 pm

    Ughh … imagine having to take a bullet for donald-throw-anyone-under-the-bus-trump.

  20. Gabriel Hunt

    December 2, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    That woman hugging President Obama was super excited, huh?

  21. David Ramsay

    December 2, 2019 at 2:56 pm

    Okay, that’s how you protect a president. Now how do you protect a school?

  22. Lacombe57

    December 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm

    Too much information?

  23. YouCantClapMe

    December 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm

    Secret service was down my road because mike pence was down there staying in town

  24. UComments

    December 2, 2019 at 3:13 pm

    Secret Service will also monitor the surrounding area of airports the US President is due to land in before he lands. They will also monitor air traffic control operations being done, if they see things are not going as expected they will take over operations. There are many things that go into the planning of their protectees not mentioned in this video. They are not “giving away information”.

  25. Eric Spicer

    December 2, 2019 at 3:20 pm

    He told you nothing but common sense and widely discussed observations

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