December 1, 2025 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
US officials say the Afghan man accused of shooting two
National Guard members near the White House was radicalized after
arriving in the US. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy
Nome said this on NBC's Meet the Press.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We do believe it was through connections in his home
community and state, and we're going to continue to talk
to those who interacted with him who were his family members.
We do know that we're talking to his contacts and
going through information, continuing to gather that as we go forward,
but we're going to use every tool at our disposable
to bring him to justice.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The suspect came to the US in twenty twenty one
during the Afghanistan withdrawal, under a program meant to help
Afghans who worked with US forces. Reports say he was
vetted by the CIA and the National counter Terrorism Center
before entry, but nom disputes how rigorous that vetting actually was,
arguing the Biden administration brought people in first and vetted
them later. When asked why the Trump administration granted the
(00:59):
suspect the asylum in April if vetting was inadequate, Gnome
avoided answering the question. President Trump says he's going to
honor the two West Virginia National Guard members who were
ambushed in last week's attack. He's invited parents of twenty
year old Sarah Beckstrom to visit the White House whenever
they're ready, and he extended the same offer to the
family of twenty four year old Andrew wolf who remains
(01:21):
in critical condition. Haven't heard a lot about Andrew Wolfe's status,
just that you know he's fighting for his life. He's
in critical condition. Hopefully he manages to pull through. But
this was like the one news story that I followed
when I was on vacation last week, only because it was.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So yeah, yeah, it was horrible. I mean read and
I covered it on the National Show, and it was
sad because the father of Sarah Bextrom, he was saying,
she has a mortal wound, she's not going to survive.
So they knew she was shot.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
In the head right right when you heard those details,
I think she was shot in the head in the chest,
and you got some of those eyewitness accounts. He knew
it wasn't gonna be good. We're gonna have a lot
on this throughout the course of the morning. There's some
new information on the suspect as well, in terms of
kind of his state of mind, his trouble assimilating here
(02:14):
in the US. And then of course there's this whole
thing about how much he was vetted. I've got some
thoughts on that, and I do think there were clearly
some problems with the vetting during the Biden administration. But
also I think the Trump administration has to answer some
questions about why was he granted asylum?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, he was granted asylum in April of this year,
so were they Was he radicalized after that? And if
he was radicalized after that, then how can you blame
the Biden administration for not vetting him four years ago?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah? Or if he was radicalized before that, then what
was your vetting process before granting asylum?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Way, blaming the Biden administration completely doesn't really make sense
in the scenario.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
No, no, So, according to a new report from the
Associated Press, the afghanman accused of shooting two National Guard
members near the White House had been coming apart for years,
cycling between deep isolation and sudden days long road trips.
Email show a community advocate repeatedly warned a refugee agency
(03:14):
that the suspect was unraveling it might be suicidal. His
behavior included quitting his job, hiding in the dark room
for long periods, and ignoring family and social services obligations.
And apparently his family was struggling too, with things like
eviction threats, The kids were going to school unwashed, and
his wife was reportedly relying on toddlers to communicate with
(03:38):
him because he wouldn't respond to adults. He then swing
into manic phases, jumping in the car and driving across
the country for weeks at a time, once to Chicago,
another time to Arizona, and then of course, ultimately to DC.
Despite all of this, he still secured asylum earlier this year.
(03:58):
The FBI still working determine exactly what pushed him to violence.
And then there was this story too. It kind of
seemed to go under the radar a little bit. Texas
police arrested a different Afghan national the day before the
National Guard shooting after he posted a TikTok video saying
(04:19):
he was building a bomb and planned to use it
in the Fort Worth area. That Afghan national entered the
US in twenty twenty two through Operation Allies Welcome, the
same program that brought in the suspected DC shooter. So
clearly there needs to be a review of all these people, Yeah,
(04:42):
of these people who were let into the country, and
I think there also needs to be a review of
both what the Biden administration was doing when they allowed
these Afghan nationals to come in. And look, some of
these Afghan nationals, they were so irving with US service.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Members were he was the CIA was.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right right in Afghanistan, and so you had a lot
of service members who were pushing for them to be
able to come to the US because if they were
left in Afghanistan, they were going to be killed by
the Taliban, right. Yeah, but I think we need to
look at what exactly was the vetting process during the
Biden administration when all of this was going on, and
(05:27):
then also what's been going on since President Trump took office,
and why did we grant asylum to somebody who liked
this report clearly lays out, was having serious, serious issues.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So what's going on there on the Biden administration?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
No, not not the granting of asylum, something that Trump
administration has kind of tried to push to.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
The side, and they've tried to dodge the question.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
About it, Yeah, and I've been I've been monitoring Fox
News throughout the morning, and it's all been about, you know,
what the Biden administration did well. I think there are
some questions the Trump administration needs to answer as well.
So I think the big Cyber Monday headline is that
retailers are using AI tools to help you find gifts.
This is the first AI enhanced Cyber Monday. And I've
(06:20):
noticed those little tools pop it up on different websites.
I haven't used any of them, but I think when
you're doing your Cyber Monday shopping, you'll see that, and
that's going to be the big difference, and I'll be
curious to see whether people think it's helpful or not.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So I use chat GPT because my son wants a
gaming computer. So I was asking it what can I
get for this budget? And it shot out a whole
bunch of stuff and then we kind of narrowed it
down and I found it to be very, very helpful.
So then I had a gaming computer in my Amazon
cart and I was like, just not gonna pull the
trigger and buy it because it's like six hundred bucks,
and I was like, I want to make sure i'm
(06:55):
getting the best thing and now it's gone oh really
probably yeah, now it's like it's empty. Now there's none
left that says no longer available. So Chatgypt was super helpful.
It was obviously a good computer because it's gone filled out, So.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It helped you find the right product. Did it also
help you find the best deal for that computer?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
So I think so, I mean, it told me what
my the budget was. But I know that some of
these AI tools are not working one hundred percent right
right there, like it's a little bit off. Yeah, you'll
go on there and you'll think that it's going to
be this price and then it's not available at your location.
I found this when I was looking for appliances too
for my new house. I used chat Sheept and it
(07:36):
was pulling all this stuff and then I'd actually go
to the best Buy website and it wasn't there. So
you got to be careful with it. It's helpful right
to a point, but it also doesn't always.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Get it right right now. A lot of the deals
for Cyber Monday started over the weekend and they run
through tonight, and Amazon's deals they've been going on since
November twenty, so it's just been one pre sale and.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
With Amazon again, it's the same thing as with Prime Day,
when some of these deals are not actually deals because
they looked like, oh, this thing is sixty percent off,
but then they jacked up the you know.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The retail proceum. Yeah, you got to watch out for
that Best Buys offering up to fifty percent off during
it's Cyber Sunday and Monday sale. You've got Cole's Cyber
Days and you get the whole Coal's Cash thing with that.
You got Target teaming up with chat ept for Cyber Monday.
They're letting shoppers complete an entire Target trip inside the
(08:27):
AI platform. I'm not sure exactly how that's gonna work.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Plus, you've got Walmart. They continued their Black Friday sale
into yesterday, and then Walmart Plus members got early access
to Cyber Monday deals last night. And so that's like
a new thing too, where you know, if you're a
Walmart Plus member or yeah, then you get early access,
(08:53):
you get special deals things like that. I feel like
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have really lost their luster
to be such a big deal Black Friday and now
it's not.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No it's not, and it's so confusing. It's overwhelming. It's
really overwhelming. So unless you're looking for something very specific,
then it's just a I can't even it's a mess house.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Armed Services leaders won a full accounting of a US
military strike on a suspected drug running boat in the
Caribbean back on September second. A Washington Post report says
Defense Secretary Pete Heggs told US forces to kill everybody
on board, and that a second strike targeted to survivors.
Haig Seth calls the reporting fake news, but Committee leaders
(09:35):
Mike Rogers and Adam Smith say they're taking bipartisan action
to gather all the details. Senators Roger Wicker and Jack
Reid have also launched their own oversight inquiries. Since early September,
the US IS carried out twenty one strikes on suspected
drug trafficking boats, killing at least eighty three people. Now,
the alleged issue with the September second strike is that,
(09:59):
even if the suspects who survived the initial strike were
considered combatants, terrorists, whatever, killing people who can no longer
fight violates the Pentagon's own basic laws of war. So
that's the question here with that September second strike, and
then I think there's this broader issue. I think it's
(10:22):
time to get a little bit of clarity from the
administration on what they're looking to accomplish here. Is it
regime change in Venezuela, It certainly seems like it. If
that's the case, how much more are they going to
ramp things up before they turn to Congress for approval
for some of these actions. I also think we need
a little clarity on these strikes and the evidence that
(10:43):
they have that the people they're taking out are in
fact narco terrorists, and if this is a battle against
the cartels, then we have a new question that kind
of popped up over the past couple of days. Why
is the president about to pardon the former president of
Honduras who's serving a forty five year sentence for drug
(11:05):
trafficking charges after working with the cartels four years?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah. Now, Trump says that the quote respected voices told
him that that former president was treated harshly and unfairly,
and that this whole thing was a Biden setup. But
I think again, if you're going after drug traffickers and
the cartels, and all of that, then you gotta show
your work. Uh, if he was treated unfairly and that's
(11:34):
why he's serving this forty five year sentence, then you
gotta explain beyond, you know, just it was a Biden thing,
like what exactly happened? Yeah, yeah, So Ryan Gorman Show
on news radio WFLA. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram
at Ryan Gorman Show, and find us online at Ryangormanshow
dot com
US officials say the Afghan man accused of shooting two
National Guard members near the White House was radicalized after
arriving in the US. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy
Nome said this on NBC's Meet the Press.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We do believe it was through connections in his home
community and state, and we're going to continue to talk
to those who interacted with him who were his family members.
We do know that we're talking to his contacts and
going through information, continuing to gather that as we go forward,
but we're going to use every tool at our disposable
to bring him to justice.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The suspect came to the US in twenty twenty one
during the Afghanistan withdrawal, under a program meant to help
Afghans who worked with US forces. Reports say he was
vetted by the CIA and the National counter Terrorism Center
before entry, but nom disputes how rigorous that vetting actually was,
arguing the Biden administration brought people in first and vetted
them later. When asked why the Trump administration granted the
(00:59):
suspect the asylum in April if vetting was inadequate, Gnome
avoided answering the question. President Trump says he's going to
honor the two West Virginia National Guard members who were
ambushed in last week's attack. He's invited parents of twenty
year old Sarah Beckstrom to visit the White House whenever
they're ready, and he extended the same offer to the
family of twenty four year old Andrew wolf who remains
(01:21):
in critical condition. Haven't heard a lot about Andrew Wolfe's status,
just that you know he's fighting for his life. He's
in critical condition. Hopefully he manages to pull through. But
this was like the one news story that I followed
when I was on vacation last week, only because it was.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So yeah, yeah, it was horrible. I mean read and
I covered it on the National Show, and it was
sad because the father of Sarah Bextrom, he was saying,
she has a mortal wound, she's not going to survive.
So they knew she was shot.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
In the head right right when you heard those details,
I think she was shot in the head in the chest,
and you got some of those eyewitness accounts. He knew
it wasn't gonna be good. We're gonna have a lot
on this throughout the course of the morning. There's some
new information on the suspect as well, in terms of
kind of his state of mind, his trouble assimilating here
(02:14):
in the US. And then of course there's this whole
thing about how much he was vetted. I've got some
thoughts on that, and I do think there were clearly
some problems with the vetting during the Biden administration. But
also I think the Trump administration has to answer some
questions about why was he granted asylum?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, he was granted asylum in April of this year,
so were they Was he radicalized after that? And if
he was radicalized after that, then how can you blame
the Biden administration for not vetting him four years ago?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah? Or if he was radicalized before that, then what
was your vetting process before granting asylum?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Way, blaming the Biden administration completely doesn't really make sense
in the scenario.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
No, no, So, according to a new report from the
Associated Press, the afghanman accused of shooting two National Guard
members near the White House had been coming apart for years,
cycling between deep isolation and sudden days long road trips.
Email show a community advocate repeatedly warned a refugee agency
(03:14):
that the suspect was unraveling it might be suicidal. His
behavior included quitting his job, hiding in the dark room
for long periods, and ignoring family and social services obligations.
And apparently his family was struggling too, with things like
eviction threats, The kids were going to school unwashed, and
his wife was reportedly relying on toddlers to communicate with
(03:38):
him because he wouldn't respond to adults. He then swing
into manic phases, jumping in the car and driving across
the country for weeks at a time, once to Chicago,
another time to Arizona, and then of course, ultimately to DC.
Despite all of this, he still secured asylum earlier this year.
(03:58):
The FBI still working determine exactly what pushed him to violence.
And then there was this story too. It kind of
seemed to go under the radar a little bit. Texas
police arrested a different Afghan national the day before the
National Guard shooting after he posted a TikTok video saying
(04:19):
he was building a bomb and planned to use it
in the Fort Worth area. That Afghan national entered the
US in twenty twenty two through Operation Allies Welcome, the
same program that brought in the suspected DC shooter. So
clearly there needs to be a review of all these people, Yeah,
(04:42):
of these people who were let into the country, and
I think there also needs to be a review of
both what the Biden administration was doing when they allowed
these Afghan nationals to come in. And look, some of
these Afghan nationals, they were so irving with US service.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Members were he was the CIA was.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right right in Afghanistan, and so you had a lot
of service members who were pushing for them to be
able to come to the US because if they were
left in Afghanistan, they were going to be killed by
the Taliban, right. Yeah, but I think we need to
look at what exactly was the vetting process during the
Biden administration when all of this was going on, and
(05:27):
then also what's been going on since President Trump took office,
and why did we grant asylum to somebody who liked
this report clearly lays out, was having serious, serious issues.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So what's going on there on the Biden administration?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
No, not not the granting of asylum, something that Trump
administration has kind of tried to push to.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
The side, and they've tried to dodge the question.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
About it, Yeah, and I've been I've been monitoring Fox
News throughout the morning, and it's all been about, you know,
what the Biden administration did well. I think there are
some questions the Trump administration needs to answer as well.
So I think the big Cyber Monday headline is that
retailers are using AI tools to help you find gifts.
This is the first AI enhanced Cyber Monday. And I've
(06:20):
noticed those little tools pop it up on different websites.
I haven't used any of them, but I think when
you're doing your Cyber Monday shopping, you'll see that, and
that's going to be the big difference, and I'll be
curious to see whether people think it's helpful or not.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So I use chat GPT because my son wants a
gaming computer. So I was asking it what can I
get for this budget? And it shot out a whole
bunch of stuff and then we kind of narrowed it
down and I found it to be very, very helpful.
So then I had a gaming computer in my Amazon
cart and I was like, just not gonna pull the
trigger and buy it because it's like six hundred bucks,
and I was like, I want to make sure i'm
(06:55):
getting the best thing and now it's gone oh really
probably yeah, now it's like it's empty. Now there's none
left that says no longer available. So Chatgypt was super helpful.
It was obviously a good computer because it's gone filled out, So.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It helped you find the right product. Did it also
help you find the best deal for that computer?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
So I think so, I mean, it told me what
my the budget was. But I know that some of
these AI tools are not working one hundred percent right
right there, like it's a little bit off. Yeah, you'll
go on there and you'll think that it's going to
be this price and then it's not available at your location.
I found this when I was looking for appliances too
for my new house. I used chat Sheept and it
(07:36):
was pulling all this stuff and then I'd actually go
to the best Buy website and it wasn't there. So
you got to be careful with it. It's helpful right
to a point, but it also doesn't always.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Get it right right now. A lot of the deals
for Cyber Monday started over the weekend and they run
through tonight, and Amazon's deals they've been going on since
November twenty, so it's just been one pre sale and.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
With Amazon again, it's the same thing as with Prime Day,
when some of these deals are not actually deals because
they looked like, oh, this thing is sixty percent off,
but then they jacked up the you know.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The retail proceum. Yeah, you got to watch out for
that Best Buys offering up to fifty percent off during
it's Cyber Sunday and Monday sale. You've got Cole's Cyber
Days and you get the whole Coal's Cash thing with that.
You got Target teaming up with chat ept for Cyber Monday.
They're letting shoppers complete an entire Target trip inside the
(08:27):
AI platform. I'm not sure exactly how that's gonna work.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Plus, you've got Walmart. They continued their Black Friday sale
into yesterday, and then Walmart Plus members got early access
to Cyber Monday deals last night. And so that's like
a new thing too, where you know, if you're a
Walmart Plus member or yeah, then you get early access,
(08:53):
you get special deals things like that. I feel like
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have really lost their luster
to be such a big deal Black Friday and now
it's not.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No it's not, and it's so confusing. It's overwhelming. It's
really overwhelming. So unless you're looking for something very specific,
then it's just a I can't even it's a mess house.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Armed Services leaders won a full accounting of a US
military strike on a suspected drug running boat in the
Caribbean back on September second. A Washington Post report says
Defense Secretary Pete Heggs told US forces to kill everybody
on board, and that a second strike targeted to survivors.
Haig Seth calls the reporting fake news, but Committee leaders
(09:35):
Mike Rogers and Adam Smith say they're taking bipartisan action
to gather all the details. Senators Roger Wicker and Jack
Reid have also launched their own oversight inquiries. Since early September,
the US IS carried out twenty one strikes on suspected
drug trafficking boats, killing at least eighty three people. Now,
the alleged issue with the September second strike is that,
(09:59):
even if the suspects who survived the initial strike were
considered combatants, terrorists, whatever, killing people who can no longer
fight violates the Pentagon's own basic laws of war. So
that's the question here with that September second strike, and
then I think there's this broader issue. I think it's
(10:22):
time to get a little bit of clarity from the
administration on what they're looking to accomplish here. Is it
regime change in Venezuela, It certainly seems like it. If
that's the case, how much more are they going to
ramp things up before they turn to Congress for approval
for some of these actions. I also think we need
a little clarity on these strikes and the evidence that
(10:43):
they have that the people they're taking out are in
fact narco terrorists, and if this is a battle against
the cartels, then we have a new question that kind
of popped up over the past couple of days. Why
is the president about to pardon the former president of
Honduras who's serving a forty five year sentence for drug
(11:05):
trafficking charges after working with the cartels four years?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah. Now, Trump says that the quote respected voices told
him that that former president was treated harshly and unfairly,
and that this whole thing was a Biden setup. But
I think again, if you're going after drug traffickers and
the cartels, and all of that, then you gotta show
your work. Uh, if he was treated unfairly and that's
(11:34):
why he's serving this forty five year sentence, then you
gotta explain beyond, you know, just it was a Biden thing,
like what exactly happened? Yeah, yeah, So Ryan Gorman Show
on news radio WFLA. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram
at Ryan Gorman Show, and find us online at Ryangormanshow
dot com
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