December 10, 2024 • 32 mins
Don Mihalek comes on the show to talk about Luigi Mangione being arrested for allegedly killing the United Healthcare CEO. CBS reporter Ed O'Keefe backed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre into a corner on Friday over Pres. Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter. Red Dye 3 could be getting banned soon. A former LA Times columnist said that now is not the time for balance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
We're on every day from one until four and then
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So whatever you missed, you pick up on the podcast,
and that's available twenty four hours a day. We've been
talking a lot today about the killer of the health
insurance CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Manngione found him in a
McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and obviously what led him to
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get arrested was the police being able to disseminate the photograph,
the photograph of him pulling down his mask supposedly at
a Starbucks, maybe flirting with the one of the counter girls.
But it's also I think turned him into a folk
hero among the lunatic fringe that think killing business executives
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is a cool idea.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let's talk with Don Mahallak.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
He's with ABC News, the Law Enforcement contributor there also
retired retired Senior Secrets Service agent Don.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
And I'm happy to hear the wildfires are seemed to
be doing better out there.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yes, the Winds died down a bit, so that's giving
everybody a break.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
And so far, so far, so good. Let's talk about how.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Luigi Mangioni got caught without the photos, especially the ones
of his face I saw too, you know, one of
them at Starbucks, also one from an uber. Without those photos,
it would be much more difficult to kill him, to
catch him.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
No, absolutely, listen. Law enforcement has leveraged surveillance technology videos
extensively these days to catch suspects. It's phenomenal piece of
technology that they have. In this case, the law enforcement
went why to capture video or find video of the suspect,
put it together, pull out pictures of him. They probably
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use some red technology with the FBI to increase the
resolution of the pictures. You were able to put it
out to find the suspect. In similar fashion, the Trump
assassination attempted them down in West Palm, say Thing, a
licensed plate raader identified the play of the suspect, which
enabled law enforcement to catch the suspect. That's where round
technology has become critical for catching the suspects got aro
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on the loose looking for futures and finding people. Kudos
that we have that technology and kudos to McDonald's employee
that actually made the phone call.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, because there was some speculation watching the news last
night that since he kept his gun and his money,
he might have been on his way back to New
York because he'd gone to Pittsburgh and Altona is east
of Pittsburgh, and maybe he had other people that he
was planning to take out. He still had the manifesto
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on him, so maybe he thought he was going to
end up in another shootout and he wanted to leave
the message behind. Is that a possible.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, clearly the suspect had had an unusual direction of
interest towards a healthcare industry. The executive he killed he
had no relationship with other than knowing that he was
the CEO of United Healthcare, and he had an unusual
direction of interest against healthcare and health insurance targeted him.
Has he missed him on the streets in Manhattan. He
could hit any innocent bystander, and absolutely he could have
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been out to target other people had he not been caught.
So thankfully he was caught. Thankfully he's in jail now
and hopefully the full weight of justice will come against them.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Is there a flip side to this, and that he
becomes that photo turns him down into a folk here.
I mean people have been selling merchandise with his photo
on it online.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, well, I think you positioned it the right way
when you said the lunatic fringe in the opening here. Unfortunately,
we've seen there's an intrigue with assassins. Hinckley had marriage
proposals after the Reagan assassination attempt, but he was in jail.
So there's this part of society that has a fascination
with assassins and they and they become a cause of
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celebrities people. It's frankly can't understand that. It's kind of
disgusting considering the attack that occurred and the cold blooded
killing of the CEO of Manhattan, But it's there, it's
out there. And the flip side of that is the
fact now that health insurance companies across the country, including
their employees, are under a threat that they never anticipated.
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So let's hope that these companies do some cell searching
and looking at the security profile and some threat assessment
work to make sure that they're taking care of their
people as well.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right now, I was going to say, how does an
executive go home every night. I mean, how does his
family live? I remember, you remember the Columbine shooting. Those
guys have lived on to this day. It seems every
year there's at least one school shooting case where you
find out the shooter has some kind of a shrine
either in his room or in his computer to the
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Columbine shooters. And something about this case makes me think
that this guy might be a great inspiration for years
for other people with a grudge.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Well, right, so you have the copycat phenomenon that ken
has occurred in the past. The Secret Service to a
bunch of studies about assassins and school shooters and have
said that all of these individuals have an usual director
of interest. They have a pathway to violence that they follow.
They actually have told people that they are going to
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commit these acts of violence. And the key there is
a lot of people don't report it, don't say anything,
which is how these people are able to perpetuate the
act of violence, whether the Columbine shooters or the guy
we have here now in custody. People know that they
have a problem, People know that they're going to do something,
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but they tend not to say anything. And then the
act happens, and afterwards we do the way to do
the friends. That kind of comes out that, yeah, this
person knew they said this to this person and people knew,
but nobody said anything.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You know, often, I know teachers say they can tell
when in kindergarten. He kid's five years old if you
have a bad seed, right, and sometimes it's not surprising
that certain kids grow up to be criminals. This guy, though,
he was by every account up through high school and college,
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you know, valedictorian, very smart, lots of friends, played sports,
full social life. Not one person has said he was
kind of screwy, which you often get in those school
shooting cases. Right, Oh yeah, he was the guy we
thought would blow not with him. What do you think
might have gone wrong here?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well, the verver profile of a lot of these individuals
is kind of what you just said, is that they
are otherwise quote unquote normal. The attemptis in Butler, Pennsylvania,
same thing. All the reports out of his school was
he was otherwise quiet, normal. But then when you start
peeling back the onion, so to speak, you start seeing
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that there were some red flags that popped that people
were either ignoring not really paying attention to My guess
is when they do the forensics of this guy. Initially,
everybody says, after these events, he was a great guy,
he was a great neighbor. He would have never known.
He was fine, he was this, he was that. And
then as time goes on and the onion gets peeled back,
people start hearing about, wow, he did do this, he
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did say this, he did act this way, he did
do this way. So I am certain in the coming
weeks we're going to hear more about his unusual behaviors,
some unusual patterns that people knew about but nobody talked about.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You know, who reminded me of out here? We've had
an unusual number of activist types to get involved in
homeless activism. And they're wealthy kids from Hollywood families, they
live in mansions. The same thing up you know, in
c and in Portland, whether it was the guys who
joined Antifa, people who protest against the trade summit's all
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up and down the West coast, same type over and
over again, upper middle class to wealthy young men who
get involved in this kind of uh, you know, rebellious
violent activity.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
What's the psychology of the.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's one of the findings in all of the studies
of both assassin school shooters, they tend to be middle class,
white males who have mental health issues, whether diagnosed undiagnosed.
They have a history of an unusual direction of interest
towards something, They have a real or proceed grievance towards
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something or somebody, and and they put a plan to
action and act on it. There's some anomalies like the
female and Nashville that attacked the Christian school there a
couple of months back. That was an anomaly actually, But
the profile across the world for all these acts of
islands is just what you said, the middle class light
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mail from the middle class family. So often what happens
in these cases is they're issues but ignored. Their issues
don't get addressed because they're otherwise a normal person, you know.
But the subtle things, the red flags that pop nobody
focuses in on.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Thanks for coming on, Don, Don Mahallak, ABC News Law
enforcement contributor, retired senior Secret Service agent, Thank you for
coming on with.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Us like you're having me on. And I hope the
fires will rapidly for you guys.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, yeah, just need the wins to stay quiet, Thanks
a lot, Don all Right, more coming up, We got
some clips.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
To play the well. I mean, she's got to be the.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Most pathetic press secretary I've ever seen in my life,
Koreine Jean Pierre.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I mean, she she's perfect for Biden.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Biden is maybe the most incompetent president I've ever scene,
most incompetent vice president, most incompetent press secretary.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
What a collection.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Friday, Ed O'Keefe from CBS started grilling Karine Jean Pierre
about her lies and Biden's lies over Hunter Biden's pardon,
and they went at it for quite some time. We
got a series of clips to play coming up.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
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Speaker 1 (10:30):
We're on from one until four and then after four
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All right, one of the most absurd public characters I
have ever seen is Karine Jean Pierre trying to defend
the indefensible, explain the inexplicable with Joe Biden's horrible policies
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that he rightfully is getting kicked out of office for.
And of course one of Biden's parting shots was pardoning
his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed or
may have, may have committed or will commit. I mean
it was a blanket pardon like people have not seen
in decades. So Karis Jean Pierre told and we played
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the clips over time.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
We had a montage. I think just last week Kara.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Jean Pierre, the White House Press Secretary, constantly insisted that
that Biden was wasn't gonna partner and finally one reporter
ed o'keef from CBS on Friday.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
We have a number of clips here called her on it.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
When you're sitting there at the lectrin new or whyous
press secretary speaking on behalf of the president, conveying his
thoughts and used the administration. And it's for that reason
that you sat on his behalf all those times that
he had no plans to do what he did on Sunday.
Has he expressed any regret to you directly personally for.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Having put you in this position now having to go back.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Look, I understand this question, and you started off. I
think the way you started off the question is basically
how I feel right, and I think all of us
who work in this administration. I work for the president.
I speak for the president. I comment on behalf of
what he.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Feels and thinks.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Lie for the president.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
My job, that's my job, is the.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Pre secretary, the White House Press secretary, the person who
speaks on behalf of the President of the United States.
And that's how I feel.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So, Hey, if they give me a lie, I repeat
the lie, and then you're supposed to report the lie. Okay,
so you go on the network news and you just
broadcast a lie and a lot of the American people.
You work for a newspaper magazine, you write it down,
disseminate the lie. That's how the game works, don't you know,
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Ed well? Ed O'Keefe kept.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Going apologize to you.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
There's no apology. Apology needed maybe to answer that question,
no apology needed. What I will say is.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
This is a president.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
You've heard me talk about the legal experts, what they
have said said, how they agreed with the president in
taking this action. You've heard me say that over and
over again. I've laid out quotes from different US attorneys,
prosecutors who really laid out how the underlying factors of
Hunter's Hunter's case would not lead to what had occurred
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in the past several months. And I will also say this,
and you heard this president say this many times before.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
He believes, uh, stop this, stop this one.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, you get you get parties and attorneys who are
going to tell you that up is down and black
is white, in is out.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No, he did buy the gun and lied.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
About being a drug addict, and he did evade those taxes,
and those are the possible penalties. You go to jail,
You go to prison for X amount of time because
he really committed the crime. You don't get some some
US attorneys who are on your team to give some convoluted,
complicated excuse as for why hunter Biden should go to
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prison and why he deserves a part.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And that's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Here's at o'keef againtin going after Kree Jean Pierre whether
anybody should trust Biden.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
One of the other things he often says is that
voters should trust his quote words a bike.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Should they still?
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Yes, the president is the president of a.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Pretty big find public pronouncement by.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
He wasn't going to do this name.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I hear you, and I understand I hear you tellow
and people say that.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
The president wrestled with this. He truly did. And you know,
I called out the US Golf poll. We're sixty four
percent of Americans that's not a small number agree with
the president's decision to pardon his son.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Okay, and you stop, you stopp I'd read about this.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You had that clip there. Sixty four percent of the
public did not approve. It was sixty four percent of Democrats.
And it wasn't a US GOV poll. It was a
U GOV poll.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That was the name of it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
But the statistic was sixty four percent of Democrats approved
of the pardon. The public as a whole only thirty
four percent approved. Thirty four So she lied there another lie. Well,
while she's trying to explain why she lies for Biden
and how Biden doesn't have to apologize to her for lying,
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she gives out another lie, saying the American public approved, No,
they didn't. Is she stupid or is she's just compulsive
with her lies. By the way, the Democrats are only
one third of the country, the Republicans are a few
percentage points higher, and independent are a third. Actually, the
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Democrats are in third place right now. I think the
Republicans are at thirty six percent. Independence are at around
thirty four and Democrats are at thirty one. So that's
why you could have sixty four percent of Democrats approving
of the port but only thirty four percent of the
public as a whole. We got to take a break here,
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all right, We got more coming up. Oh, I forgot
I had a naked story before you leave. Yes, we've
got a naked story.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Okay, can't wait. Naked naked teacher in the classroom. That
and other things coming up.
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is why I like the crazy he's taken over the
Trump government, like Robert Kennedy, because it's actually forcing some
of these agencies to take action in advance of what's
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going to happen. Because Kennedy is big on the how
our our our food has got all kinds of poisons
and unhealthy things in it, and the FDA after debating this, now,
let me see would this be fifty five years. Yes,
they're finally going to uh, they're probably going to ban
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red dye number three, red dye you on top of
this story.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
No, but I don't like red dye.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I don't like red dye.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I thought you well, all rights to be in red
em and MS still Yes. For years they were claiming
that red dye number three was safe. But they've actually
reviewed this, believe it or not, twenty seven times, and
there have been twenty seven trials that show that these
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guys harm children. It messes up their nervous system and
the kids end up with symptoms very similar to ADHD.
Everybody's wondering why there's been such an outbreak of attention
deficit disorder. It might be all the red dyed candies
that kids eat. The evidence now shows pretty conclusively that
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when some kids eat these, they'll experience nervous system effects
that look like ADHD. Red Dye number three has already
been banned in California and banned in other countries, but
the US constantly.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Stud but never never got rid of it.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Why do we even need it?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The only purpose? And this according to Thomas Gallaghan, who
I just quoted he's with the Center for Science and
the Public Interest. The only purpose is to make foods
and candies look pretty so that we all want to
buy it.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Okay, well, we don't need pretty food.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It's just a marketing tool.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
If they make something redder and brighter, then people buy
more of it, and then they poison themselves and they
poison the children.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
It's all artificial.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, so it's.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I mean, these these dyes are known by their numbers.
We don't even know what chemicals go into the dyes.
It's just oh, red dye number three. Do you look
on the package and read ingredients. These are all identified
by numbers. I don't know how they got there. Apparently
they banned it in cosmetics some years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now, if you would ban.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It in cosmetics, why wouldn't why wouldn't you ban it
in the food. Is also banned in what they call
topical drugs. I guess any kind of creams or lotions, well,
anything that you can't put on your skin, you don't
want to put in your stomach exactly, say this is
this is this is why you know with Robert Kennedy coming,
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he's going to highlight embarrass They must have gotten paid
They must have gotten bribed all these years, and that's
why they allowed the red dye to go into the food.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Why do you think so many people have cancer?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You know there's something so many young people are getting
cancer exactly. No, I think it is a lot of
additives and ingredients and chemicals. I've jumped the ship on that.
Maybe this guy had too much red dye in him.
Florida teacher Joe Urious, age thirty four. This is over
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the Thanksgiving holiday at Windmill Point Elementary School. They discovered
him naked inside the classroom. He also had a strange
collection of items with him.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
What was he doing with those items?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Well, this is in Port Saint Lucie on Thanksgiving night.
He was spending Thanksgiving by himself. Poor guys, this grown man.
He's in an elementary school classroom. He has a laptop,
some food, some marijuana, women's underwear, sex toys. No, yes,
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he had sex toys.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
In an elementary school classroom.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And he was alone.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Well, I better to be alone than with elementary school kids.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I was looking at the photo trying to figure out
what kind of sex toy it was. I couldn't tell.
I don't know if they blurret it out or it's
just something I'd never seen before.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And he was naked.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He created a makeshift to bed uh and since the
school was closed for Thanksgiving, there was nobody else there.
It turns out he had well this is funny. They
sent the Port Saint Lucy police Chief Leo Nimchick said
there were no children present.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
There was no one inside the school at the time.
He was by himself.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
As to the vulgarity, I think I don't even want
to get into his mind and think about what he
was thinking. The vulgarity, I guess that would be the
sex toys. But when when he when they called to
the school because there was an alarm that went off,
they thought maybe it's a burglary, and a county deputy
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identified himself. He said, I held both of my hands up. No, yeah,
I held both of my hands up and said Sheriff's
deputy stop and he said no bro, and he tried.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
To run through me. No, broad dude, that's the naked dude.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yes, they come in and naked man jumps up and
tries to run through this guy, and we tussled a
little bit. Well he was naked, yes, and then he
bit the deputy right here in the lip. Oh oh no,
and I hit him in the jaw and I was
able to hold him with a jiu jitsu seat belt grip.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Uh oh, the seatbelt arm around the waist on the
naked guy.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
What was he gripping? He said he was homeless and
he had been teaching at the school. It's true, he
was a teacher. It turned out he was teaching during
the day.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Don't they vet these teachers.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
He was teaching at the school and hanging out at
Starbucks and then sleeping in public wherever he could. He'd
all have been a teacher at Somerset College Prep Academy.
The school issued a statement on social media emphasizing their
commitment to student safety and outlining their hiring practices.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Yeah, somebody missed a couple of signs here.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You know, children's safety is our highest priority. Yeah, here's
the statement. All prospective employees at our school undergo thorough
background checks and screening conducted by the local school district.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Okay, you missed one.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
We will ensure that this individual does not return to
our campus.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
I would hope not.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I don't want to be the kid that has to
use that desk after the sex toys were left out
all night. The one official said his behavior might have
been influenced by drug use or perhaps a mental health crisis.
Why nothing gets by these guys. That is a sharp
deputy there, all right? On a play clip.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
This is.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
This is actually pretty funny. This is a Democratic operative
named Evan Barker. I think this is a woman and
she was on Fox News and she is sounding the
warning against Gavin Newsom that if Gavin Newsom is the
nominee in twenty twenty eight, the Democrats deserve to lose.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
This is another Democrat saying, so play this clip.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
I am an independent now and I have officially left
the party, and I do want to say this about
Gavin Newsom. By the way, Yeah, Gavin Newsom, if he
actually becomes the nominee in twenty twenty eight, the Democrats
deserve to lose again because there's no way that a
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pretty boy from Moren County is going to be able
to win over swing voters in swing states.
Speaker 10 (25:52):
You don't think Gavin Newsom's working class enough to connect
with the everyday working man and woman of the heartland.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
I think people remember him dining at the French laundry
and that will definitely be brought up. So if they
nominate him again, they deserve to lose, right.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
Well, he does like to dress up and workers close
and play that role.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
We'll see if you can pull it off.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
The pretty boy from Marin County. They're not going to
nominate him. They already took a beating with the California Kennedy.
They're not going to go back with a second beating,
especially the guy who's actually responsible for all the mayhem
we're putting up with here.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I mean, she was kind of on the periphery of things,
although you know she.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Did have her at Prop forty seven title in summary
to stain her record. More coming up, Deborah Mark, I
think tomorrow you got to tell this story.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You like that?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Huh yeah, uh yeah, yeah, Yes, this is a muss okay.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
I told them a story off the air. They liked
it so much they were sad that I didn't share it.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I don't know if you want her as a neighbor
or you don't want her as a neighbor, But we'll
decide tomorrow.
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Speaker 2 (27:17):
Is this true? We need one thousand and two followers
to get to twenty thousand. That's actually a lie. We
need one thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Now, one thousand and one, all right, we want to
get to one. We want to get to twenty thousand followers,
so we need one thousand and one volunteers immediately. I
want to play this because you know this era is
going to pass very soon and journalists having hissy fits
and quitting the La Times. You know that Patrick Sun
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Cheong blocked the Kamala Harris endorsement, and now he's saying
the paper has to be poor balanced. They have to
for example, when the election was coming up, he wanted
them to publish pros and cons on both candidates. He
wants the editorial board to be more balanced. He wants
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to have some conservative viewpoints along with all the nutty
left wing nonsense. And this is just pissed off some
of the writers and they occasionally are resigning and the
latest is La Times. I think he's a business columnist. Oh,
legal columnist, Harry Littman, he resigned. Play this clip because
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he went he went online and thank you, ger.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
I think there's no other inference.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
But the owner of the La Times has decided sort
to curry favor with Trump, to move in that direction,
to be, in his own words, fair and balanced.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
And I just think this is not a time for
balance when you.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Have someone who's not telling the truth on the other side,
and it's a deep responsibility. And instead I think they
coward and are worried about their personal holdings and just
being threatened by Trump.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
And that's a really shameful capitulation.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
What is he talking about, We can't have balance. That's
a dirty word because because Trump lies? How about that
Biden pardon buddy, huh kind of blew a hole in
that claim. So he uh, he declared he had written
(29:29):
his last op ed for The Times. He's resigned his position.
I don't want to continue to work for a paper
that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on the
democratic rule for craven reasons.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Just report the news. That's all you have to do.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Just I can't do it. They are exactly what everyone thought,
a bunch of fanatics and they're all quitting. Now excellent,
Now here's a man you actually got up at two
in the morning, I got a fire coverage.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
Well, it's up all night anyway, and anything to get
out of the house. You know, you don't sleep. No,
So I see the fire at eleven o'clock. It's on
the eleven o'clock news. And anytime they break into Stephen Colbert,
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and they and they blow out
those shows.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
It's a big fire. They'll get a bigger audience.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no kidding, yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (30:20):
And so I called to management. I said, I live
a mile away. And then Matt Anderson showed me how
to take the station over from automation. Right, So now
I know how to do that, So I can come
in here any night now and really take the station
over from automation. That's right. It be like a pirate radio.
Watch them change the configuration tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 11 (30:44):
And then this fire went on and on. We had
the Steve Krieger, who was a retired captain with LA County,
and man, that guy was staying on with us for
three and a half hours from all the way till
six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I slept through the whole thing. Really.
Speaker 11 (30:59):
Yeah, yeah, you know, people in Malibu slept through it.
People had to knock on doors in Malibu to.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Wake people up. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
No, it was next time you do that, don't call me. Okay,
I'm not like, I have the ringer off. I got
the phone in another room.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
There is positives to living close to the station. One is,
I know, never have to deal with traffic.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Ever.
Speaker 11 (31:19):
Yeah, the downside is I'm always the first call.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Hey, what's going on? You are sliding?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Then?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, no, I volunteered. I volunteer. But but look, it's
you know, it's important.
Speaker 11 (31:30):
There's a lot of people who only have radio as
their's single source of information out there, you know, because
you know, when the electricity goes down or the cell
towers go down, you don't have your cell phone with you,
and you don't have Twitter and Facebook and all that
stuff you need, you know, AM radio.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, that's what we're trying to convince congressome that's right.
Speaker 11 (31:49):
Tim Lynn's coming on with us. We're talking about the
helicopters and the Malibu fire, and also out we'll start
with Alex Stone about they're calling it the Franklin fire,
and and we'll have all the details all night long,
plus a little more information on that crazy cat Luigi MANGEONI.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yes, you don't really something bad happen to him, Yester.
We were talking about this.
Speaker 11 (32:13):
If I understand, if you your empathize, empathize with him
or sympathize with him in in a weird way. Okay, okay,
but don't put anything on social media supporting this kid.
You'll never get a job in corporate America.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, that's absolutely never. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (32:26):
People are going to screw up their lives for their
entire lives over one text one.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, yeah one. Post Conway is next.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
We're on every day from one until four and then
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So whatever you missed, you pick up on the podcast,
and that's available twenty four hours a day. We've been
talking a lot today about the killer of the health
insurance CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Manngione found him in a
McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and obviously what led him to
(00:30):
get arrested was the police being able to disseminate the photograph,
the photograph of him pulling down his mask supposedly at
a Starbucks, maybe flirting with the one of the counter girls.
But it's also I think turned him into a folk
hero among the lunatic fringe that think killing business executives
(00:51):
is a cool idea.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let's talk with Don Mahallak.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
He's with ABC News, the Law Enforcement contributor there also
retired retired Senior Secrets Service agent Don.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
And I'm happy to hear the wildfires are seemed to
be doing better out there.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yes, the Winds died down a bit, so that's giving
everybody a break.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
And so far, so far, so good. Let's talk about how.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Luigi Mangioni got caught without the photos, especially the ones
of his face I saw too, you know, one of
them at Starbucks, also one from an uber. Without those photos,
it would be much more difficult to kill him, to
catch him.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
No, absolutely, listen. Law enforcement has leveraged surveillance technology videos
extensively these days to catch suspects. It's phenomenal piece of
technology that they have. In this case, the law enforcement
went why to capture video or find video of the suspect,
put it together, pull out pictures of him. They probably
(01:59):
use some red technology with the FBI to increase the
resolution of the pictures. You were able to put it
out to find the suspect. In similar fashion, the Trump
assassination attempted them down in West Palm, say Thing, a
licensed plate raader identified the play of the suspect, which
enabled law enforcement to catch the suspect. That's where round
technology has become critical for catching the suspects got aro
(02:21):
on the loose looking for futures and finding people. Kudos
that we have that technology and kudos to McDonald's employee
that actually made the phone call.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, because there was some speculation watching the news last
night that since he kept his gun and his money,
he might have been on his way back to New
York because he'd gone to Pittsburgh and Altona is east
of Pittsburgh, and maybe he had other people that he
was planning to take out. He still had the manifesto
(02:51):
on him, so maybe he thought he was going to
end up in another shootout and he wanted to leave
the message behind. Is that a possible.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, clearly the suspect had had an unusual direction of
interest towards a healthcare industry. The executive he killed he
had no relationship with other than knowing that he was
the CEO of United Healthcare, and he had an unusual
direction of interest against healthcare and health insurance targeted him.
Has he missed him on the streets in Manhattan. He
could hit any innocent bystander, and absolutely he could have
(03:24):
been out to target other people had he not been caught.
So thankfully he was caught. Thankfully he's in jail now
and hopefully the full weight of justice will come against them.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Is there a flip side to this, and that he
becomes that photo turns him down into a folk here.
I mean people have been selling merchandise with his photo
on it online.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, well, I think you positioned it the right way
when you said the lunatic fringe in the opening here. Unfortunately,
we've seen there's an intrigue with assassins. Hinckley had marriage
proposals after the Reagan assassination attempt, but he was in jail.
So there's this part of society that has a fascination
with assassins and they and they become a cause of
(04:07):
celebrities people. It's frankly can't understand that. It's kind of
disgusting considering the attack that occurred and the cold blooded
killing of the CEO of Manhattan, But it's there, it's
out there. And the flip side of that is the
fact now that health insurance companies across the country, including
their employees, are under a threat that they never anticipated.
(04:31):
So let's hope that these companies do some cell searching
and looking at the security profile and some threat assessment
work to make sure that they're taking care of their
people as well.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right now, I was going to say, how does an
executive go home every night. I mean, how does his
family live? I remember, you remember the Columbine shooting. Those
guys have lived on to this day. It seems every
year there's at least one school shooting case where you
find out the shooter has some kind of a shrine
either in his room or in his computer to the
(05:02):
Columbine shooters. And something about this case makes me think
that this guy might be a great inspiration for years
for other people with a grudge.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Well, right, so you have the copycat phenomenon that ken
has occurred in the past. The Secret Service to a
bunch of studies about assassins and school shooters and have
said that all of these individuals have an usual director
of interest. They have a pathway to violence that they follow.
They actually have told people that they are going to
(05:35):
commit these acts of violence. And the key there is
a lot of people don't report it, don't say anything,
which is how these people are able to perpetuate the
act of violence, whether the Columbine shooters or the guy
we have here now in custody. People know that they
have a problem, People know that they're going to do something,
(05:55):
but they tend not to say anything. And then the
act happens, and afterwards we do the way to do
the friends. That kind of comes out that, yeah, this
person knew they said this to this person and people knew,
but nobody said anything.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You know, often, I know teachers say they can tell
when in kindergarten. He kid's five years old if you
have a bad seed, right, and sometimes it's not surprising
that certain kids grow up to be criminals. This guy, though,
he was by every account up through high school and college,
(06:30):
you know, valedictorian, very smart, lots of friends, played sports,
full social life. Not one person has said he was
kind of screwy, which you often get in those school
shooting cases. Right, Oh yeah, he was the guy we
thought would blow not with him. What do you think
might have gone wrong here?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well, the verver profile of a lot of these individuals
is kind of what you just said, is that they
are otherwise quote unquote normal. The attemptis in Butler, Pennsylvania,
same thing. All the reports out of his school was
he was otherwise quiet, normal. But then when you start
peeling back the onion, so to speak, you start seeing
(07:10):
that there were some red flags that popped that people
were either ignoring not really paying attention to My guess
is when they do the forensics of this guy. Initially,
everybody says, after these events, he was a great guy,
he was a great neighbor. He would have never known.
He was fine, he was this, he was that. And
then as time goes on and the onion gets peeled back,
people start hearing about, wow, he did do this, he
(07:33):
did say this, he did act this way, he did
do this way. So I am certain in the coming
weeks we're going to hear more about his unusual behaviors,
some unusual patterns that people knew about but nobody talked about.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You know, who reminded me of out here? We've had
an unusual number of activist types to get involved in
homeless activism. And they're wealthy kids from Hollywood families, they
live in mansions. The same thing up you know, in
c and in Portland, whether it was the guys who
joined Antifa, people who protest against the trade summit's all
(08:07):
up and down the West coast, same type over and
over again, upper middle class to wealthy young men who
get involved in this kind of uh, you know, rebellious
violent activity.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
What's the psychology of the.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's one of the findings in all of the studies
of both assassin school shooters, they tend to be middle class,
white males who have mental health issues, whether diagnosed undiagnosed.
They have a history of an unusual direction of interest
towards something, They have a real or proceed grievance towards
(08:43):
something or somebody, and and they put a plan to
action and act on it. There's some anomalies like the
female and Nashville that attacked the Christian school there a
couple of months back. That was an anomaly actually, But
the profile across the world for all these acts of
islands is just what you said, the middle class light
(09:06):
mail from the middle class family. So often what happens
in these cases is they're issues but ignored. Their issues
don't get addressed because they're otherwise a normal person, you know.
But the subtle things, the red flags that pop nobody
focuses in on.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Thanks for coming on, Don, Don Mahallak, ABC News Law
enforcement contributor, retired senior Secret Service agent, Thank you for
coming on with.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Us like you're having me on. And I hope the
fires will rapidly for you guys.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, yeah, just need the wins to stay quiet, Thanks
a lot, Don all Right, more coming up, We got
some clips.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
To play the well. I mean, she's got to be the.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Most pathetic press secretary I've ever seen in my life,
Koreine Jean Pierre.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I mean, she she's perfect for Biden.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Biden is maybe the most incompetent president I've ever scene,
most incompetent vice president, most incompetent press secretary.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
What a collection.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Friday, Ed O'Keefe from CBS started grilling Karine Jean Pierre
about her lies and Biden's lies over Hunter Biden's pardon,
and they went at it for quite some time. We
got a series of clips to play coming up.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
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Speaker 1 (10:30):
We're on from one until four and then after four
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All right, one of the most absurd public characters I
have ever seen is Karine Jean Pierre trying to defend
the indefensible, explain the inexplicable with Joe Biden's horrible policies
(10:52):
that he rightfully is getting kicked out of office for.
And of course one of Biden's parting shots was pardoning
his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed or
may have, may have committed or will commit. I mean
it was a blanket pardon like people have not seen
in decades. So Karis Jean Pierre told and we played
(11:18):
the clips over time.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
We had a montage. I think just last week Kara.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Jean Pierre, the White House Press Secretary, constantly insisted that
that Biden was wasn't gonna partner and finally one reporter
ed o'keef from CBS on Friday.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
We have a number of clips here called her on it.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
When you're sitting there at the lectrin new or whyous
press secretary speaking on behalf of the president, conveying his
thoughts and used the administration. And it's for that reason
that you sat on his behalf all those times that
he had no plans to do what he did on Sunday.
Has he expressed any regret to you directly personally for.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Having put you in this position now having to go back.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Look, I understand this question, and you started off. I
think the way you started off the question is basically
how I feel right, and I think all of us
who work in this administration. I work for the president.
I speak for the president. I comment on behalf of
what he.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Feels and thinks.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Lie for the president.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
My job, that's my job, is the.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Pre secretary, the White House Press secretary, the person who
speaks on behalf of the President of the United States.
And that's how I feel.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So, Hey, if they give me a lie, I repeat
the lie, and then you're supposed to report the lie. Okay,
so you go on the network news and you just
broadcast a lie and a lot of the American people.
You work for a newspaper magazine, you write it down,
disseminate the lie. That's how the game works, don't you know,
(12:53):
Ed well? Ed O'Keefe kept.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Going apologize to you.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
There's no apology. Apology needed maybe to answer that question,
no apology needed. What I will say is.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
This is a president.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
You've heard me talk about the legal experts, what they
have said said, how they agreed with the president in
taking this action. You've heard me say that over and
over again. I've laid out quotes from different US attorneys,
prosecutors who really laid out how the underlying factors of
Hunter's Hunter's case would not lead to what had occurred
(13:34):
in the past several months. And I will also say this,
and you heard this president say this many times before.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
He believes, uh, stop this, stop this one.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, you get you get parties and attorneys who are
going to tell you that up is down and black
is white, in is out.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No, he did buy the gun and lied.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
About being a drug addict, and he did evade those taxes,
and those are the possible penalties. You go to jail,
You go to prison for X amount of time because
he really committed the crime. You don't get some some
US attorneys who are on your team to give some convoluted,
complicated excuse as for why hunter Biden should go to
(14:18):
prison and why he deserves a part.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And that's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Here's at o'keef againtin going after Kree Jean Pierre whether
anybody should trust Biden.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
One of the other things he often says is that
voters should trust his quote words a bike.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Should they still?
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Yes, the president is the president of a.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Pretty big find public pronouncement by.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
He wasn't going to do this name.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I hear you, and I understand I hear you tellow
and people say that.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
The president wrestled with this. He truly did. And you know,
I called out the US Golf poll. We're sixty four
percent of Americans that's not a small number agree with
the president's decision to pardon his son.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Okay, and you stop, you stopp I'd read about this.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You had that clip there. Sixty four percent of the
public did not approve. It was sixty four percent of Democrats.
And it wasn't a US GOV poll. It was a
U GOV poll.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That was the name of it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
But the statistic was sixty four percent of Democrats approved
of the pardon. The public as a whole only thirty
four percent approved. Thirty four So she lied there another lie. Well,
while she's trying to explain why she lies for Biden
and how Biden doesn't have to apologize to her for lying,
(15:37):
she gives out another lie, saying the American public approved, No,
they didn't. Is she stupid or is she's just compulsive
with her lies. By the way, the Democrats are only
one third of the country, the Republicans are a few
percentage points higher, and independent are a third. Actually, the
(16:01):
Democrats are in third place right now. I think the
Republicans are at thirty six percent. Independence are at around
thirty four and Democrats are at thirty one. So that's
why you could have sixty four percent of Democrats approving
of the port but only thirty four percent of the
public as a whole. We got to take a break here,
(16:28):
all right, We got more coming up. Oh, I forgot
I had a naked story before you leave. Yes, we've
got a naked story.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Okay, can't wait. Naked naked teacher in the classroom. That
and other things coming up.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
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is why I like the crazy he's taken over the
Trump government, like Robert Kennedy, because it's actually forcing some
of these agencies to take action in advance of what's
(17:20):
going to happen. Because Kennedy is big on the how
our our our food has got all kinds of poisons
and unhealthy things in it, and the FDA after debating this, now,
let me see would this be fifty five years. Yes,
they're finally going to uh, they're probably going to ban
(17:45):
red dye number three, red dye you on top of
this story.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
No, but I don't like red dye.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I don't like red dye.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I thought you well, all rights to be in red
em and MS still Yes. For years they were claiming
that red dye number three was safe. But they've actually
reviewed this, believe it or not, twenty seven times, and
there have been twenty seven trials that show that these
(18:16):
guys harm children. It messes up their nervous system and
the kids end up with symptoms very similar to ADHD.
Everybody's wondering why there's been such an outbreak of attention
deficit disorder. It might be all the red dyed candies
that kids eat. The evidence now shows pretty conclusively that
(18:42):
when some kids eat these, they'll experience nervous system effects
that look like ADHD. Red Dye number three has already
been banned in California and banned in other countries, but
the US constantly.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Stud but never never got rid of it.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Why do we even need it?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The only purpose? And this according to Thomas Gallaghan, who
I just quoted he's with the Center for Science and
the Public Interest. The only purpose is to make foods
and candies look pretty so that we all want to
buy it.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Okay, well, we don't need pretty food.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It's just a marketing tool.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
If they make something redder and brighter, then people buy
more of it, and then they poison themselves and they
poison the children.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
It's all artificial.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, so it's.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I mean, these these dyes are known by their numbers.
We don't even know what chemicals go into the dyes.
It's just oh, red dye number three. Do you look
on the package and read ingredients. These are all identified
by numbers. I don't know how they got there. Apparently
they banned it in cosmetics some years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now, if you would ban.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It in cosmetics, why wouldn't why wouldn't you ban it
in the food. Is also banned in what they call
topical drugs. I guess any kind of creams or lotions, well,
anything that you can't put on your skin, you don't
want to put in your stomach exactly, say this is
this is this is why you know with Robert Kennedy coming,
(20:23):
he's going to highlight embarrass They must have gotten paid
They must have gotten bribed all these years, and that's
why they allowed the red dye to go into the food.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Why do you think so many people have cancer?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You know there's something so many young people are getting
cancer exactly. No, I think it is a lot of
additives and ingredients and chemicals. I've jumped the ship on that.
Maybe this guy had too much red dye in him.
Florida teacher Joe Urious, age thirty four. This is over
(21:00):
the Thanksgiving holiday at Windmill Point Elementary School. They discovered
him naked inside the classroom. He also had a strange
collection of items with him.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
What was he doing with those items?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Well, this is in Port Saint Lucie on Thanksgiving night.
He was spending Thanksgiving by himself. Poor guys, this grown man.
He's in an elementary school classroom. He has a laptop,
some food, some marijuana, women's underwear, sex toys. No, yes,
(21:37):
he had sex toys.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
In an elementary school classroom.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And he was alone.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Well, I better to be alone than with elementary school kids.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I was looking at the photo trying to figure out
what kind of sex toy it was. I couldn't tell.
I don't know if they blurret it out or it's
just something I'd never seen before.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And he was naked.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He created a makeshift to bed uh and since the
school was closed for Thanksgiving, there was nobody else there.
It turns out he had well this is funny. They
sent the Port Saint Lucy police Chief Leo Nimchick said
there were no children present.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
There was no one inside the school at the time.
He was by himself.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
As to the vulgarity, I think I don't even want
to get into his mind and think about what he
was thinking. The vulgarity, I guess that would be the
sex toys. But when when he when they called to
the school because there was an alarm that went off,
they thought maybe it's a burglary, and a county deputy
(22:38):
identified himself. He said, I held both of my hands up. No, yeah,
I held both of my hands up and said Sheriff's
deputy stop and he said no bro, and he tried.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
To run through me. No, broad dude, that's the naked dude.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yes, they come in and naked man jumps up and
tries to run through this guy, and we tussled a
little bit. Well he was naked, yes, and then he
bit the deputy right here in the lip. Oh oh no,
and I hit him in the jaw and I was
able to hold him with a jiu jitsu seat belt grip.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Uh oh, the seatbelt arm around the waist on the
naked guy.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
What was he gripping? He said he was homeless and
he had been teaching at the school. It's true, he
was a teacher. It turned out he was teaching during
the day.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Don't they vet these teachers.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
He was teaching at the school and hanging out at
Starbucks and then sleeping in public wherever he could. He'd
all have been a teacher at Somerset College Prep Academy.
The school issued a statement on social media emphasizing their
commitment to student safety and outlining their hiring practices.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Yeah, somebody missed a couple of signs here.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You know, children's safety is our highest priority. Yeah, here's
the statement. All prospective employees at our school undergo thorough
background checks and screening conducted by the local school district.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Okay, you missed one.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
We will ensure that this individual does not return to
our campus.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
I would hope not.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I don't want to be the kid that has to
use that desk after the sex toys were left out
all night. The one official said his behavior might have
been influenced by drug use or perhaps a mental health crisis.
Why nothing gets by these guys. That is a sharp
deputy there, all right? On a play clip.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
This is.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
This is actually pretty funny. This is a Democratic operative
named Evan Barker. I think this is a woman and
she was on Fox News and she is sounding the
warning against Gavin Newsom that if Gavin Newsom is the
nominee in twenty twenty eight, the Democrats deserve to lose.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
This is another Democrat saying, so play this clip.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
I am an independent now and I have officially left
the party, and I do want to say this about
Gavin Newsom. By the way, Yeah, Gavin Newsom, if he
actually becomes the nominee in twenty twenty eight, the Democrats
deserve to lose again because there's no way that a
(25:45):
pretty boy from Moren County is going to be able
to win over swing voters in swing states.
Speaker 10 (25:52):
You don't think Gavin Newsom's working class enough to connect
with the everyday working man and woman of the heartland.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
I think people remember him dining at the French laundry
and that will definitely be brought up. So if they
nominate him again, they deserve to lose, right.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
Well, he does like to dress up and workers close
and play that role.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
We'll see if you can pull it off.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
The pretty boy from Marin County. They're not going to
nominate him. They already took a beating with the California Kennedy.
They're not going to go back with a second beating,
especially the guy who's actually responsible for all the mayhem
we're putting up with here.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I mean, she was kind of on the periphery of things,
although you know she.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Did have her at Prop forty seven title in summary
to stain her record. More coming up, Deborah Mark, I
think tomorrow you got to tell this story.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You like that?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Huh yeah, uh yeah, yeah, Yes, this is a muss okay.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
I told them a story off the air. They liked
it so much they were sad that I didn't share it.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I don't know if you want her as a neighbor
or you don't want her as a neighbor, But we'll
decide tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty Conway.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Coming up in minutes.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social
media platforms.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Is this true? We need one thousand and two followers
to get to twenty thousand. That's actually a lie. We
need one thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Now, one thousand and one, all right, we want to
get to one. We want to get to twenty thousand followers,
so we need one thousand and one volunteers immediately. I
want to play this because you know this era is
going to pass very soon and journalists having hissy fits
and quitting the La Times. You know that Patrick Sun
(27:46):
Cheong blocked the Kamala Harris endorsement, and now he's saying
the paper has to be poor balanced. They have to
for example, when the election was coming up, he wanted
them to publish pros and cons on both candidates. He
wants the editorial board to be more balanced. He wants
(28:06):
to have some conservative viewpoints along with all the nutty
left wing nonsense. And this is just pissed off some
of the writers and they occasionally are resigning and the
latest is La Times. I think he's a business columnist. Oh,
legal columnist, Harry Littman, he resigned. Play this clip because
(28:27):
he went he went online and thank you, ger.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
I think there's no other inference.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
But the owner of the La Times has decided sort
to curry favor with Trump, to move in that direction,
to be, in his own words, fair and balanced.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
And I just think this is not a time for
balance when you.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Have someone who's not telling the truth on the other side,
and it's a deep responsibility. And instead I think they
coward and are worried about their personal holdings and just
being threatened by Trump.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
And that's a really shameful capitulation.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
What is he talking about, We can't have balance. That's
a dirty word because because Trump lies? How about that
Biden pardon buddy, huh kind of blew a hole in
that claim. So he uh, he declared he had written
(29:29):
his last op ed for The Times. He's resigned his position.
I don't want to continue to work for a paper
that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on the
democratic rule for craven reasons.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Just report the news. That's all you have to do.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Just I can't do it. They are exactly what everyone thought,
a bunch of fanatics and they're all quitting. Now excellent,
Now here's a man you actually got up at two
in the morning, I got a fire coverage.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
Well, it's up all night anyway, and anything to get
out of the house. You know, you don't sleep. No,
So I see the fire at eleven o'clock. It's on
the eleven o'clock news. And anytime they break into Stephen Colbert,
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and they and they blow out
those shows.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
It's a big fire. They'll get a bigger audience.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no kidding, yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (30:20):
And so I called to management. I said, I live
a mile away. And then Matt Anderson showed me how
to take the station over from automation. Right, So now
I know how to do that, So I can come
in here any night now and really take the station
over from automation. That's right. It be like a pirate radio.
Watch them change the configuration tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 11 (30:44):
And then this fire went on and on. We had
the Steve Krieger, who was a retired captain with LA County,
and man, that guy was staying on with us for
three and a half hours from all the way till
six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I slept through the whole thing. Really.
Speaker 11 (30:59):
Yeah, yeah, you know, people in Malibu slept through it.
People had to knock on doors in Malibu to.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Wake people up. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
No, it was next time you do that, don't call me. Okay,
I'm not like, I have the ringer off. I got
the phone in another room.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
There is positives to living close to the station. One is,
I know, never have to deal with traffic.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Ever.
Speaker 11 (31:19):
Yeah, the downside is I'm always the first call.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Hey, what's going on? You are sliding?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Then?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, no, I volunteered. I volunteer. But but look, it's
you know, it's important.
Speaker 11 (31:30):
There's a lot of people who only have radio as
their's single source of information out there, you know, because
you know, when the electricity goes down or the cell
towers go down, you don't have your cell phone with you,
and you don't have Twitter and Facebook and all that
stuff you need, you know, AM radio.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, that's what we're trying to convince congressome that's right.
Speaker 11 (31:49):
Tim Lynn's coming on with us. We're talking about the
helicopters and the Malibu fire, and also out we'll start
with Alex Stone about they're calling it the Franklin fire,
and and we'll have all the details all night long,
plus a little more information on that crazy cat Luigi MANGEONI.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yes, you don't really something bad happen to him, Yester.
We were talking about this.
Speaker 11 (32:13):
If I understand, if you your empathize, empathize with him
or sympathize with him in in a weird way. Okay, okay,
but don't put anything on social media supporting this kid.
You'll never get a job in corporate America.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, that's absolutely never. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (32:26):
People are going to screw up their lives for their
entire lives over one text one.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, yeah one. Post Conway is next.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Michael Krazer the News Live in the KFI twenty four
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