December 10, 2024 • 32 mins
Assad regime has fallen, now what??!!
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But to fact check, Joe Biden in twenty twenty had
eighty one million popular votes nationwide Barack Obama in two
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I'm not sure they're is an audience for such a narrative.
Another big story is the fall of Syria. Now there's
an old saying in military and foreign policy that the
enemy of my enemy is my friend. But in the
case of the Assad regime falling, who now rises to
replace Assad in Syria and is the enemy of our
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enemy still our enemy? Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano from the
largest thing tank in the world, the Heritage Foundation, back
in the good old Ussa joins us. Good morning, Lieutenant colonel,
what do you make of the fall of the Assad regime?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
This is actually.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Really, really an important story because most people get this
exactly wrong.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
No, no, no.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
They focus on how wars end, but usually how the
next war starts is not dependent on how the war ends,
but on what's done after the war ends. So the
reason why there's a second invasion of Ukraine is because
after the first invasion of Ukraine, the West did nothing.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
The we're all fixated on when does the fighting stop
in Ukraine.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
We're not spending nearly enough talking about what's going to
happen the day after to ensure there's not another war.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
In the future.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Now the really hard work in Sirius stops. First of all,
we don't know, we have literally no idea the capacity
of the people that have, you know, overrun the country
to actually run the country.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
We have, you know, isis running around.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
It's not like the Russians are going to say forever,
say oh yeah, lost.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Syria, No big deal, They're coming back. It's not like
the Iranians aren't going to try to come back.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
They use Syria as the main logistical line to support
has a lot to attack Israel. The Turks have enormous
interests there because ra LEAs have interests there. President Trump
got it exactly right when he said, it's not our fight,
because it's not our fight, and it's not like the
enemies of the enemies or our friend I mean literally,
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we don't really have a lot of friends in this
part of the world, and it's really not a vital interest.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
In the United States. Here's what here's what to watch
out for.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
If the Turks have significant interest there, the Israelis have
significant interests there. Neither of their interests coincide with the
Russians of the Iranians. And so if the Turks in
the Israelis can reach an accommodation on their interests and
they can both adevoately protect their interests, it's probably the
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most stable situation in the region that we can hope for.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
What do you make of Abu Muhammad Algalani and hts.
I mean, this is a former al Qaeda. Now I
will say he stepped away from al Qaeda, but what
do we know about him?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Again, who knows how this how these people will turn out.
I mean, if you remember Jimmy Carter said the day
after the Irun revolution. Oh, this will probably be fine
if you actually read Carter's diaries, which yeah, but I
always tell people to read Jimmy Carter's diaries because the
good thing about them is he didn't edit them after
the fact. He left what he originally wrote in there,
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and if you could, you see his kind of unsupported
optimism and then watch it fade away over time to
finally being oh my god, we're screwed.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
So, you knowef, do you want to give a brief
history in that? So Carter metals with the shaw, the
shaw gets overthrown, but then we get the Ayatola and
the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the most probably
obvious clear threat to the world even as we speak.
That's Shia Muslims versus Al Qaeda Sunni Muslims. This is
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a former, I presume, still a Sunni Abu Muhammad al Galani,
not Shia, though not al Qaeda.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
But you know again, right, yeah, character you looked at
you know, if you look at what's happening after the Foot,
nobody knew what kind of government was going to look on.
They made some early signals that maybe the you know,
things we get along with the US and so, and
you don't even have to go back that far. Just
go back a few years to when the Taliban conquered
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Afghanistan and there was all US talk about the Taliban
two point zero and how reasonable they were going to be.
And today, you know, women can't even talk to each
other in Afghanistan. It is it is the the the
human rights black hole of the universe. So I don't
think we can presume what we're going to see in Syria.
You know, I have to say this because one of
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the things that we often get is because there is
a Christian minority in Syria, and you often hear from Christians, well,
at least Asad was protecting the Christian minority, and we
have to protect the Christian minority.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
But the reality is, you know, and I.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Say this as a loving Christian, these guys are in
bed with a sod. He left them alone because you know,
they paid to the mafia and and so it's not
it's kind of innocent community. It was just a bunch
of bystanders. I mean, I know they're living in a
tough part of the world. That's that's really true. But
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you know, there are there's no such thing as the
pristine goods side here well, because at the end of
the day, whether it's Schia or Sunni, it's still cheri
a law right which is anathetical to everything we believe
in or what freedom represents. You know, there's this whole
thing right, and of all these kinds it's it's like
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somebody that goes to the seven eleven and makes their
own slushy.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Right.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
You have Sunni, you have Shia, you have tribal influences,
you have the external influences from the Uranians and the
Russians and everything else you have. Uh so you have
all these kind of things at play, and then then
you have people who are actually nationalists and want to
have a coherence Syrian state. And then you have these
kind of transnational terrorist influence. You have all these things
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that play and you throw them in a ball and
there's no you know, telling what it's.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Going to look like.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
So what the US really has to do here is
one not jump in with both feet, because that's not
necessary or useful for us. It's we really have to
look at what the Israelis and what the Turks are doing,
and if we can get those guys to kind of align.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I think that's the most stable situation we're going to have.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
The one thing, the most important thing that we can
do that to contribute is one is put a hammer
on the Iranians. The more we push on the Iranians,
the less they're going to be able to crawl back
in Assyria and and create trouble. And then you know,
it's all situational awareness and really keeping track of these
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Isis and other guys, because we have a very dangerous
situation here and it actually has very little to do.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
With ISIS in Alcada.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
It has to do with actually people like George Soros
and a lot of other people that have funded this
globe and the Chinese and the Russians and others that
have funded the funded this global intofada, this somehow global
movement that somehow fighting for the Palestinians is like a
human rights thing that is going to create the potential
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for operationalizing real terrorist attacks against the West, some of
them that may come out of the West, some of
them may walk across the border, some of them may
come out of this region and other places as well.
We have to get our I know, it's kind of
counter terrorism's gone out of fashion, huge mistake.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
You know, I get it, China, Russia ran I get that.
CT has to come back on the Ageta in a
serious way.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
James can joining us from the Heritage Foundation. Let's do
a couple of the quick questions that have risen as narratives.
Number one, why would Russia have allowed this because they're
too busy in Ukraine? Why would Iran allow this because
they're too busy dealing with all of their surrogates that
are att acting Israel.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Or have they played their card?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
No?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
I no, No, I think I think it's you know
a lot of you know, Biden's running around taking credit
for all that, which is kind of laughable since he's
the one that empowered both the Russians to invade Ukraine
and and the Iranians to launch wars against Israel. But
what is absolutely true is they both strategically overreached. And
so the reason why these things not because the guys
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are suddenly strong and powerful. It's because the Russian and
Iranian influence, which is propping up the Asad regime was
so brutal that that the opening was here.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
That's why this happened, all right, And materials that are
on Syrian soil that we don't know who's ultimately going
to have them in their hands.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
What about that them?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
I mean the Israeli you know, you know, we should
have done this in Afghanistan.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
We should have carpet bombed the hell out of everything
left behind.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
And yeah, and there's I think the Israelis and their
churchs are are taking care of that.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Really it As far as escalation goes, it's yet to
be known. But this could play out in escalation or
it could play out in de escalation. What's your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I mean, I think.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Donald Trump showed up exactly the right time because that
is going to make the Russians and the Iranians risk
averse to begin with.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
And so I think now they have I honestly think
they have.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
To worry more about how they keep their core and
their regime than they are about how they regain last territory.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I think that's a game for another day.
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Well, it turns out the suspect arrested for the murder
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Luigi Mangioni, the twenty six year old man facing charges
in the assassination of Brian Thompson, graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania in twenty twenty with a bachelor and master's
degree in computer science who was valedictorian of a private boys' school,
Gilman's School, in Baltimore.
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The NYPD said.
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Mangioni was found with a handwritten manifesto. Newsweek reporting that
it said that violence is the only way to change
the healthcare industry and that, in his words, these parasites
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Daniel Penny was charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in
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Now of course been proven to be true, and what
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The other thing I like is bringing very smart people
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Miriam Webster Dictionary unveils it's choice for word of the Year. Well,
at least it tailor you're the story first, and we'll
talk about.
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The dictionary publisher announced Monday that polarization is twenty twenty
four's defining word. Polarization is defined by Miriam Webster as
division into two sharply distinct opposites. Other words that made
the Dictionary's Words of the Year list include democracy, pander, weird,
and cognitive. Recently, Collins Dictionary named Bratt word of the Year,
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while Oxford University Press selected brain rot.
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I missed Taylor.
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Brain rot boy was my dad before his time. My
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to rot your brain.
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And that was in the seventies. Think of those words
the runner ups. Democracy.
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Remember, democracy was at stake in this election as the
ones claiming the threat to democracy, and they were the
real threat and Americans sought through it, pandering for votes,
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I mean really, in the end, we never did get
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we went from peaceful transfer of power to premature transfer.
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I mean, Joe Biden has checked out. Donald Trumps alreadyrunning country,
hasn't even taken the other of office, democracy, pandering, cognit
and then the ultimate winner.
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Polarization. You think we were in an election year.
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By the way previous winners authentic in twenty twenty three,
gas lighting in twenty twenty two, vaccine in twenty twenty one,
pandemic in twenty twenty.
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You get the feeling.
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Just I know it's a stretch, but just going through
Miriam Webster's Word of the Year, in the Words of
the Year for the past decade, well, the gas lighting,
the misinformation, the propaganda, the narratives, it just seems like
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it's all ending, doesn't it, That there's already an awakening
and a healing and a moving on that has taken place.
We saw that in our Sounds of the Day listening
to Kamala Harris going to Christmas party after Christmas party,
Like America is suicidal over her loss. She's the only
one suicidal over her loss. Everybody else is filled with
great hope, determination and confidence. But boys, doesn't that say
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a lot about our journey so far this decade? Pandemic,
the weaponization of COVID, the release of COVID as a
political weapon, vaccine, how we felt about him, then, how
we treated people who were against them, then gaslighting authentic
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and now polarization with the word of the day will
be in twenty twenty five. Sure feels like it might
be hope, but time will tell. If you're just waking
up forty four minutes after the hour, sixteen minutes to
be to work on time in the Central time zone. Well,
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it turns out the suspect in the CEO of assassination
of a United Healthcare CEO in Manhattan was not a
professional hit man at all. He was a rich kid
from Maryland, an Ivy League graduate with many degrees, even
a high school valedictorian of a very expensive private school
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eating chicken McNuggets in Altoona. Who could have thought this,
Sarah Lee Kessler reports.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Luigi Mangioni, the twenty six year old man facing charges
in the assassination of Brian Thompson, graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania in twenty twenty with a bachelor and master's
degree in computer science. He was valedictorian of a private boys' school,
the Gilman School, in Baltimore.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
The NYPD said.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Mangioni was found with a handwritten manifesto. Newsweek reporting that
it said that violence is the only way to change
the healthcare industry and that, in his words, these parasites
had a coming. Sarah Lee Kessler, I.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
You know, I don't like to smell a rat. But
here's the guy. How did he know where the CEO
would be? How was he just waiting in the darkness?
So professionally carries out an assassination, walks briskly across the street,
rents a bike, takes it to city park.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Jumps the backpack but not the murder weapon.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Then takes a taxi to a bus terminal and a
bus to Altuna, and he finally gets caught eating chicken
McNuggets and a McDonald's. It's almost too strange, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The Marine.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, it's been quite a year for McDonald's, from Trump
to a Coli to now this. The Marine veteran charged
in a deadly New York City subway choke hold has
been found not guilty.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Daniel Penny was charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in
last year's chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a subway train.
The jury phone Penny not guilty of negligent homicide after
he was acquitted of the top charge of manslaughter last week.
When the jury could not reach a verdict. Penny's defense
argued that Neely was threatening to hurt people. All prosecutors
say he went too far in holding his chokehold grip
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Maybe with democracy being one of the words of the year,
more people will learn what it means.
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Well, one can only hope.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I was a big fan of Clue, and when in
doubt I would always go with Colonel Mustard in the
conservatory with the rope. Turns out it was Luigi in
the McDonald's with the manifesto. Rory O'Neil here with what
a difference twenty four hours makes right? Good morning, Rory, Yeah,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Apparently they were someone recognized Luigi Manjon in the McDonald's
called the cops, and boy, they seem to have caught
him with the goods, the manifesto, the gun, the fake
ied and a guilty conscience because they said, had you
been to New York recently?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And he started trembling in front of the officers. That
was it.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Well, first they said lower your mask. He took a
good long look at him. They pretty much knew they
had their guy. I go back to first the worker
at McDonald's, because you know, when we got off the
area yesterday Red and I were talking. You felt very
strongly they knew who this was, they just couldn't find him.
I felt like, well, whether they do or they don't,
we've all seen his face. Because he was sloppy, someone's
going to recognize him, not even thinking imagining for a
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second that would happen within sixty minutes in an Altuona McDonald's.
But for that worker, you know, you're seeing this image
online on the news and then it's standing before you.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Kind of a gutsy call. Good thing, he made it right. Indeed.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
What's interesting though, too, is that we believe that man
Jone had sort of had a falling out with his family,
hadn't been in touch with his parents after having this
back surgery, and his mother, we believe, actually reported him
missing back on November eighteenth, which would have been a
week before he showed up in New York. So here's
a guy who's reported missing and his face is all
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out there and no one connected the dots.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Here's what's the most doubt about the story.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
This guy comes out of the shadow, caught on surveillance camera,
very professional. I think you were the one that brought
up early on his gun jams and he just works
his way through the jam, carries out the assassination, kind
of shuffles across the street, disappear into the darkness, gets
a rented bike, rides it to Central Park, throws the
backpack in the lake, but not the murder weapon, that
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hops a cab, where his face is caught on camera.
He already showed his face at the hostel, and then
he was flirting at the Starbucks. Then he takes the
taxi to the bus station. The bus presumably now we know,
to Pennsylvania, where he's sitting eating a chicken McNugget with
the weapon, the murder weapon still on him and a manifesto.
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I'm sorry, Rory, some things just smell fishy to me.
This guy either looks like a professional assassin. Now we're
to believe he's a rich twenty six year old who
stopped his big job after his IVY League degrees, has
a back surgery, becomes disgruntled with insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
In one sense, he knows how to find this guy.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Carry out this murder, flee the scene, get out of
the state. But in the other side of it, he's
showing his face at the hostel. He's still got the weapon.
I mean, something doesn't add up, does it. Well, what
if he wasn't done yet. Well, I guess that's a possibility.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
An interesting there were other Fortune five hundred CEOs and
healthcare CEOs that he wanted to target.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Then maybe that's why he didn't get rid of the gun.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
The same but the same guy that knows how to
make a gun at home that's untraceable, the.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Same guy that okay, don't know that. Well that's the presumption.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Well, we don't know where yet, we don't know if
he had a three D printer, you know where he
may purchase the gun otherwise, but yeah, go through that.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Then you have this special backpack that you can put
a phone in to make it untraceable. He knows where
that CEO is going to be. He's lying in wait
after arriving a few days before. All that's so professional.
And then one of the last things on his computer
allegedly is he was reading the manifesto of the unibomber.
He's got the manifesto in his pocket with the web tie.
(31:52):
I just want to go on record as saying some
of this is so slick, and some of this is
so sloppy. I don't I don't know if it adds up,
but that may be just me. I do this every day.
I'm getting cynical in my old age.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
It's you, it's.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Wet in doubt.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
No maybe involved, it's me. So what a day for news.
Here's this one that everybody's looking for. At a McDonald's
and Altoona having McNuggets at nine am. Meanwhile, the marine
veteran Daniel Penny, the lesser charge gets acquitted, found not
guilty the higher charge. They were leading towards being a
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hung jury over and he's free. And now BLM says
they're going to start trouble all over the country. You
can't make this stuff up, all.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Right, twenty six both twenty six years old to twenty
six year old men, by the way.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah for the coincidence. All right, Roy and Neil always
gets the final story. We'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
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This is your Morning Show with Michael O'Dell Jordan. I
think we were just talking about two different things.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
But to fact check, Joe Biden in twenty twenty had
eighty one million popular votes nationwide Barack Obama in two
thousand and eight, and not since John F. Kennedy has
there been that kind of a popular president. He was
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actually bigger than the election. Barack Obama in two thousand
and eight had sixty nine five million votes. In twenty twelve,
after Hope turned out to be changed changes in nickels
and dimes, it fell to sixty five point nine percent,
still enough to beat Mitt Romney. But if you look
at it, two thousand and four, John Kerrey fifty nine million.
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Two thousand and eight, the Obama Saiah sixty nine million
twenty twelve, the Obama Saiah sixty five million, Bill Clinton
sixty five million in twenty sixteen. And then there's Joe
Biden eighty one million right to Kamala Herrin. I mean,
it just sits there like about a ten million anomaly
that I don't think.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Many people can explain as accurate.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
All Right, Altoona police got our assassin from New York.
He's sitting eating chicken McNuggets at a McDonald's. He's now
in custody and it will face extradition to New York. Meanwhile,
Daniel Penny is acquitted in the subway case in New
York City BLM, promising disruption and vigilanteism across the country.
(01:58):
I'm not sure they're is an audience for such a narrative.
Another big story is the fall of Syria. Now there's
an old saying in military and foreign policy that the
enemy of my enemy is my friend. But in the
case of the Assad regime falling, who now rises to
replace Assad in Syria and is the enemy of our
(02:19):
enemy still our enemy? Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano from the
largest thing tank in the world, the Heritage Foundation, back
in the good old Ussa joins us. Good morning, Lieutenant colonel,
what do you make of the fall of the Assad regime?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
This is actually.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Really, really an important story because most people get this
exactly wrong.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
No, no, no.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
They focus on how wars end, but usually how the
next war starts is not dependent on how the war ends,
but on what's done after the war ends. So the
reason why there's a second invasion of Ukraine is because
after the first invasion of Ukraine, the West did nothing.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
The we're all fixated on when does the fighting stop
in Ukraine.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
We're not spending nearly enough talking about what's going to
happen the day after to ensure there's not another war.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
In the future.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Now the really hard work in Sirius stops. First of all,
we don't know, we have literally no idea the capacity
of the people that have, you know, overrun the country
to actually run the country.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
We have, you know, isis running around.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
It's not like the Russians are going to say forever,
say oh yeah, lost.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Syria, No big deal, They're coming back. It's not like
the Iranians aren't going to try to come back.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
They use Syria as the main logistical line to support
has a lot to attack Israel. The Turks have enormous
interests there because ra LEAs have interests there. President Trump
got it exactly right when he said, it's not our fight,
because it's not our fight, and it's not like the
enemies of the enemies or our friend I mean literally,
(04:02):
we don't really have a lot of friends in this
part of the world, and it's really not a vital interest.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
In the United States. Here's what here's what to watch
out for.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
If the Turks have significant interest there, the Israelis have
significant interests there. Neither of their interests coincide with the
Russians of the Iranians. And so if the Turks in
the Israelis can reach an accommodation on their interests and
they can both adevoately protect their interests, it's probably the
(04:33):
most stable situation in the region that we can hope for.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
What do you make of Abu Muhammad Algalani and hts.
I mean, this is a former al Qaeda. Now I
will say he stepped away from al Qaeda, but what
do we know about him?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Again, who knows how this how these people will turn out.
I mean, if you remember Jimmy Carter said the day
after the Irun revolution. Oh, this will probably be fine
if you actually read Carter's diaries, which yeah, but I
always tell people to read Jimmy Carter's diaries because the
good thing about them is he didn't edit them after
the fact. He left what he originally wrote in there,
(05:10):
and if you could, you see his kind of unsupported
optimism and then watch it fade away over time to
finally being oh my god, we're screwed.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
So, you knowef, do you want to give a brief
history in that? So Carter metals with the shaw, the
shaw gets overthrown, but then we get the Ayatola and
the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the most probably
obvious clear threat to the world even as we speak.
That's Shia Muslims versus Al Qaeda Sunni Muslims. This is
(05:42):
a former, I presume, still a Sunni Abu Muhammad al Galani,
not Shia, though not al Qaeda.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
But you know again, right, yeah, character you looked at
you know, if you look at what's happening after the Foot,
nobody knew what kind of government was going to look on.
They made some early signals that maybe the you know,
things we get along with the US and so, and
you don't even have to go back that far. Just
go back a few years to when the Taliban conquered
(06:11):
Afghanistan and there was all US talk about the Taliban
two point zero and how reasonable they were going to be.
And today, you know, women can't even talk to each
other in Afghanistan. It is it is the the the
human rights black hole of the universe. So I don't
think we can presume what we're going to see in Syria.
You know, I have to say this because one of
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the things that we often get is because there is
a Christian minority in Syria, and you often hear from Christians, well,
at least Asad was protecting the Christian minority, and we
have to protect the Christian minority.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
But the reality is, you know, and I.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Say this as a loving Christian, these guys are in
bed with a sod. He left them alone because you know,
they paid to the mafia and and so it's not
it's kind of innocent community. It was just a bunch
of bystanders. I mean, I know they're living in a
tough part of the world. That's that's really true. But
(07:13):
you know, there are there's no such thing as the
pristine goods side here well, because at the end of
the day, whether it's Schia or Sunni, it's still cheri
a law right which is anathetical to everything we believe
in or what freedom represents. You know, there's this whole
thing right, and of all these kinds it's it's like
(07:33):
somebody that goes to the seven eleven and makes their
own slushy.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Right.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
You have Sunni, you have Shia, you have tribal influences,
you have the external influences from the Uranians and the
Russians and everything else you have. Uh so you have
all these kind of things at play, and then then
you have people who are actually nationalists and want to
have a coherence Syrian state. And then you have these
kind of transnational terrorist influence. You have all these things
(07:59):
that play and you throw them in a ball and
there's no you know, telling what it's.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Going to look like.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
So what the US really has to do here is
one not jump in with both feet, because that's not
necessary or useful for us. It's we really have to
look at what the Israelis and what the Turks are doing,
and if we can get those guys to kind of align.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I think that's the most stable situation we're going to have.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
The one thing, the most important thing that we can
do that to contribute is one is put a hammer
on the Iranians. The more we push on the Iranians,
the less they're going to be able to crawl back
in Assyria and and create trouble. And then you know,
it's all situational awareness and really keeping track of these
(08:48):
Isis and other guys, because we have a very dangerous
situation here and it actually has very little to do.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
With ISIS in Alcada.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
It has to do with actually people like George Soros
and a lot of other people that have funded this
globe and the Chinese and the Russians and others that
have funded the funded this global intofada, this somehow global
movement that somehow fighting for the Palestinians is like a
human rights thing that is going to create the potential
(09:17):
for operationalizing real terrorist attacks against the West, some of
them that may come out of the West, some of
them may walk across the border, some of them may
come out of this region and other places as well.
We have to get our I know, it's kind of
counter terrorism's gone out of fashion, huge mistake.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
You know, I get it, China, Russia ran I get that.
CT has to come back on the Ageta in a
serious way.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
James can joining us from the Heritage Foundation. Let's do
a couple of the quick questions that have risen as narratives.
Number one, why would Russia have allowed this because they're
too busy in Ukraine? Why would Iran allow this because
they're too busy dealing with all of their surrogates that
are att acting Israel.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Or have they played their card?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
No?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
I no, No, I think I think it's you know
a lot of you know, Biden's running around taking credit
for all that, which is kind of laughable since he's
the one that empowered both the Russians to invade Ukraine
and and the Iranians to launch wars against Israel. But
what is absolutely true is they both strategically overreached. And
so the reason why these things not because the guys
(10:26):
are suddenly strong and powerful. It's because the Russian and
Iranian influence, which is propping up the Asad regime was
so brutal that that the opening was here.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
That's why this happened, all right, And materials that are
on Syrian soil that we don't know who's ultimately going
to have them in their hands.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
What about that them?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
I mean the Israeli you know, you know, we should
have done this in Afghanistan.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
We should have carpet bombed the hell out of everything
left behind.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
And yeah, and there's I think the Israelis and their
churchs are are taking care of that.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Really it As far as escalation goes, it's yet to
be known. But this could play out in escalation or
it could play out in de escalation. What's your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I mean, I think.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Donald Trump showed up exactly the right time because that
is going to make the Russians and the Iranians risk
averse to begin with.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
And so I think now they have I honestly think
they have.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
To worry more about how they keep their core and
their regime than they are about how they regain last territory.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I think that's a game for another day.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Attendant Colonel James Carafano, you can read his great work
and his colleagues great work at Heritage dot org.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We visit every Tuesday. Good to have you back in
the country, sir.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
That's the holidaysue for my friend you too.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I think we're going to talk one more time before
Christmas or I hope and pray. And it sounds like
you got a cold. Get better, all right?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
No, just just sniffles, all right. It's your Morning Show
with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
By Michael del Journal, Jeffrey Lyons as the sounds and
bored Redd keeping an eye on the content. And if
you're just waking up, Daniel Penny is acquitted in New
York City, and we have our ceo assassin turns out
to be a rich kid, twenty six year old Luigi Mangioni.
More on that with Roy O'Neil in about ten minutes
from now.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Top five stories of the day.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Well, it turns out the suspect arrested for the murder
of a United Healthcare CEO in Manhattan last week as
a Maryland man from a well to do family with
ivy league degrees. Sarah Lee Kessler has our shocking report.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Luigi Mangioni, the twenty six year old man facing charges
in the assassination of Brian Thompson, graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania in twenty twenty with a bachelor and master's
degree in computer science who was valedictorian of a private boys' school,
Gilman's School, in Baltimore.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
The NYPD said.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Mangioni was found with a handwritten manifesto. Newsweek reporting that
it said that violence is the only way to change
the healthcare industry and that, in his words, these parasites
had it coming. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
The marine veteran charge in the deadly New York City
subway chokehold has been found not guilty. Mark Mayfield has
the story.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
Daniel Penny was charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in
last year's chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a subway train.
The jury found Penny not guilty of negligent homicide after
he was acquitted of the top charge of manslaughter last week.
When the jury could not reach a verdict, Penny's defense
argued that Neely was threatening to hurt people. All prosecutors
say he went too far in holding his chokehold grip.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Bym Mark Mayfield, Elon Musk is on a mission from
God to make the government more efficient, but he's not
going to be able to do it alone.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Brian Shook reports.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
He must work with a new Congressional Caucus, co chaired
by Texas Republican Pete's Sessions, who says they have a
simple goal.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Every dollar the government needs, but not a pin anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
He says a key part of the process will be
to roll back the work from home movement that started
during COVID. The lack of oversight, he says, has made
workers less efficient. Sessions invited Democrats who called Musk's department
unconstitutional and illegal, to be a part of it.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
I'm Brian Schuk.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Number four on my list, probably number one on my
daughter Anda's list. Morgan Wallan's chair throwing case will be
presented to a Tennessee grand jury.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Nass Save, the CMA entertainer of the Year, is accused
of tossing a chair off the rooftop of Eric Church's
Nashville bar Chiefs back in April. It narrowly missed the
Metro Nashville Police officers who were standing on the ground
below while in his charge with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
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Attorneys for the singer said to appear in court on Tuesday.
I'm Lisa Taylor, a.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
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Speaker 11 (15:00):
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Thanks to my friend John Watts, the only beer eyed
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the Cowboys lost at home twenty seven to twenty to
the Bengals. Both now five and eight. Ducks lost in
a shootout three to two to Montreal, but they get
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hundred and sixty nine yards and three touchdowns last night.
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I think that's a happy birthday. Quarterback Joe Burrow twenty eight. Today.
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Big John Active at the your Morning Show. Sportsbook. Hey,
that colonel is the real deal. Love when he is on,
he is in the know book.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I've often said, and this was true even when we
were just local, my favorite thing is going through life
with you because we're not going to remember the particulars.
We just remember that we went through it together. You
ask any NFL football player what do they miss? It's
(17:11):
not the two A days in spring camp. What they miss?
Famous line from any given Sunday, those eyes looking back
at them in the huddle. You might remember a couple
of big plays, a couple of big wins, a couple
of really painful losses, but mostly you miss the camaraderie.
(17:32):
Famous true when you pump into somebody from high school,
it's not so much the classes you took, but that
you went through the entire journey together. So I love
still the old fashioned intimacy of radio. I have a theory,
and it's kind of dying along with journalism. But universities
kind of produced TV people that re teleprompters, life produces
talk personalities, and nobody's a know it all. We just
(17:55):
go through it together and we're better for having lived.
Like I got a text from Core the yardboint you
told the story of Shannon Ryan and your chap lips.
Why don't you tell the story of your other girlfriend
watching fireworks where you accidentally pass gas sitting on an
air conditioner. And I thought to myself when I heard
that I refused to tell that story on national radio
Number one my most embarrassing adolescent moment. But isn't that
(18:22):
everything that's great about radio? I mean, all the things
that we've discussed, from Sharia law to radical Islam, to
shadow campaigns to save or steal the democracy or COVID
when we went through that in real time, all of
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which at the time could have gotten us fired.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
All at the time was considered taboo.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Now of course been proven to be true, and what
do they remember stories like that? The other thing I love,
in addition to us going through life together because it's
I don't care what we do tonight, I do care
about who we do it with. Like you get the
right people around the kitchen table, does it really matter
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what you talk about? If you get the right people
out to dinner, does it really matter how the food was?
The other thing I like is bringing very smart people
to you always have And I think God knows my
heart and that's probably why He's expanded my reach so
we could expand David Snatti's reach, so we could expand
like Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano needs me to expand his reach.
(19:31):
But I have often said, this is the most brilliant
military and foreign policy mind I have ever come across,
and God has given me a great favor with him.
We've done things weekly on the air, even when I
was just locally for over fifteen years. And now I
get to bring him to Los Angeles, to Seattle, to
Dallas to Washington, d C. And the other markets that
we go in. And the same is true for David Bonson,
(19:53):
same is true for Chris Walker. It's yeah, you're right,
big John. That guy really knows.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That's what he's talking about. This story seems like a
throwaway story.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Miriam Webster Dictionary unveils it's choice for word of the Year. Well,
at least it tailor you're the story first, and we'll
talk about.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
The dictionary publisher announced Monday that polarization is twenty twenty
four's defining word. Polarization is defined by Miriam Webster as
division into two sharply distinct opposites. Other words that made
the Dictionary's Words of the Year list include democracy, pander, weird,
and cognitive. Recently, Collins Dictionary named Bratt word of the Year,
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while Oxford University Press selected brain rot.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I missed Taylor.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Brain rot boy was my dad before his time. My
dad used to say, turn that television off, it's going
to rot your brain.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And that was in the seventies. Think of those words
the runner ups. Democracy.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Remember, democracy was at stake in this election as the
ones claiming the threat to democracy, and they were the
real threat and Americans sought through it, pandering for votes,
through fear, through promises, cognitive hello, Joe Biden, the cognitive impairment.
(21:26):
I mean really, in the end, we never did get
an explanation, right, he was too cognitively impaired to finish
his run for president and seek reelection, but he wasn't
too cognitively impaired to be president. And now you know
we went from peaceful transfer of power to premature transfer.
(21:49):
I mean, Joe Biden has checked out. Donald Trumps alreadyrunning country,
hasn't even taken the other of office, democracy, pandering, cognit
and then the ultimate winner.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Polarization. You think we were in an election year.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
By the way previous winners authentic in twenty twenty three,
gas lighting in twenty twenty two, vaccine in twenty twenty one,
pandemic in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
You get the feeling.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Just I know it's a stretch, but just going through
Miriam Webster's Word of the Year, in the Words of
the Year for the past decade, well, the gas lighting,
the misinformation, the propaganda, the narratives, it just seems like
(22:54):
it's all ending, doesn't it, That there's already an awakening
and a healing and a moving on that has taken place.
We saw that in our Sounds of the Day listening
to Kamala Harris going to Christmas party after Christmas party,
Like America is suicidal over her loss. She's the only
one suicidal over her loss. Everybody else is filled with
great hope, determination and confidence. But boys, doesn't that say
(23:19):
a lot about our journey so far this decade? Pandemic,
the weaponization of COVID, the release of COVID as a
political weapon, vaccine, how we felt about him, then, how
we treated people who were against them, then gaslighting authentic
(23:39):
and now polarization with the word of the day will
be in twenty twenty five. Sure feels like it might
be hope, but time will tell. If you're just waking
up forty four minutes after the hour, sixteen minutes to
be to work on time in the Central time zone. Well,
(24:00):
it turns out the suspect in the CEO of assassination
of a United Healthcare CEO in Manhattan was not a
professional hit man at all. He was a rich kid
from Maryland, an Ivy League graduate with many degrees, even
a high school valedictorian of a very expensive private school
(24:20):
eating chicken McNuggets in Altoona. Who could have thought this,
Sarah Lee Kessler reports.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Luigi Mangioni, the twenty six year old man facing charges
in the assassination of Brian Thompson, graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania in twenty twenty with a bachelor and master's
degree in computer science. He was valedictorian of a private boys' school,
the Gilman School, in Baltimore.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
The NYPD said.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Mangioni was found with a handwritten manifesto. Newsweek reporting that
it said that violence is the only way to change
the healthcare industry and that, in his words, these parasites
had a coming. Sarah Lee Kessler, I.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
You know, I don't like to smell a rat. But
here's the guy. How did he know where the CEO
would be? How was he just waiting in the darkness?
So professionally carries out an assassination, walks briskly across the street,
rents a bike, takes it to city park.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Jumps the backpack but not the murder weapon.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Then takes a taxi to a bus terminal and a
bus to Altuna, and he finally gets caught eating chicken
McNuggets and a McDonald's. It's almost too strange, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The Marine.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, it's been quite a year for McDonald's, from Trump
to a Coli to now this. The Marine veteran charged
in a deadly New York City subway choke hold has
been found not guilty.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Daniel Penny was charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in
last year's chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a subway train.
The jury phone Penny not guilty of negligent homicide after
he was acquitted of the top charge of manslaughter last week.
When the jury could not reach a verdict. Penny's defense
argued that Neely was threatening to hurt people. All prosecutors
say he went too far in holding his chokehold grip
(26:06):
by Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Breaking the Guinness Book a world record for the highest
grossing tour of all time.
Speaker 12 (26:14):
Taylor Swift You Had Pop Star Taylor Swift wrapped up
her Eras concert tour in Vancouver Sunday, The New York
Times saying the twenty one month tour featured one hundred
and forty nine shows and sold a total of two
billion dollars in tickets. She said, we toured the entire
world with so many adventures in a video posted on
the tour's official X Page's.
Speaker 11 (26:35):
The most exciting, powerful, electrifying, eight tens most.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Challenging thing I've ever done in my entire life.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
The concert series also inspired a blockbuster concert movie and
the best selling the official Eras Tour book.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Selling Live Say I Got a blank, Spady and all
right Janey.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Every year, one in four ninety million night lights are
purchased in America, and they're not just for children afraid
of the dark. Pre Tenna says more of the surprising
number of adults who are afraid of the dark.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
A study by light company Ecano Light shows fifty percent
of all adults have some fear of the dark and
just like children, and we compensate by using night lights.
But the Sleep Foundation says that white light can interfere
with your internal clock. It can cause an increase in
heart rate and even add to chronic illness. They say
it's okay to leave the light on, but make sure
(27:36):
it's not white. It needs to be red or amber.
Those colors are warm and soothing and support the best sleep.
I'm pre Tennis, I'm Tom Bodette and we'll leave.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
The red light. This is your morning show with Michael Detrono. Well,
this comes in from Kathy and Nashville. Michael.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Maybe with democracy being one of the words of the year,
more people will learn what it means.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Well, one can only hope.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I was a big fan of Clue, and when in
doubt I would always go with Colonel Mustard in the
conservatory with the rope. Turns out it was Luigi in
the McDonald's with the manifesto. Rory O'Neil here with what
a difference twenty four hours makes right? Good morning, Rory, Yeah,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Apparently they were someone recognized Luigi Manjon in the McDonald's
called the cops, and boy, they seem to have caught
him with the goods, the manifesto, the gun, the fake
ied and a guilty conscience because they said, had you
been to New York recently?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And he started trembling in front of the officers. That
was it.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Well, first they said lower your mask. He took a
good long look at him. They pretty much knew they
had their guy. I go back to first the worker
at McDonald's, because you know, when we got off the
area yesterday Red and I were talking. You felt very
strongly they knew who this was, they just couldn't find him.
I felt like, well, whether they do or they don't,
we've all seen his face. Because he was sloppy, someone's
going to recognize him, not even thinking imagining for a
(29:03):
second that would happen within sixty minutes in an Altuona McDonald's.
But for that worker, you know, you're seeing this image
online on the news and then it's standing before you.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Kind of a gutsy call. Good thing, he made it right. Indeed.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
What's interesting though, too, is that we believe that man
Jone had sort of had a falling out with his family,
hadn't been in touch with his parents after having this
back surgery, and his mother, we believe, actually reported him
missing back on November eighteenth, which would have been a
week before he showed up in New York. So here's
a guy who's reported missing and his face is all
(29:40):
out there and no one connected the dots.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Here's what's the most doubt about the story.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
This guy comes out of the shadow, caught on surveillance camera,
very professional. I think you were the one that brought
up early on his gun jams and he just works
his way through the jam, carries out the assassination, kind
of shuffles across the street, disappear into the darkness, gets
a rented bike, rides it to Central Park, throws the
backpack in the lake, but not the murder weapon, that
(30:08):
hops a cab, where his face is caught on camera.
He already showed his face at the hostel, and then
he was flirting at the Starbucks. Then he takes the
taxi to the bus station. The bus presumably now we know,
to Pennsylvania, where he's sitting eating a chicken McNugget with
the weapon, the murder weapon still on him and a manifesto.
(30:28):
I'm sorry, Rory, some things just smell fishy to me.
This guy either looks like a professional assassin. Now we're
to believe he's a rich twenty six year old who
stopped his big job after his IVY League degrees, has
a back surgery, becomes disgruntled with insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
In one sense, he knows how to find this guy.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Carry out this murder, flee the scene, get out of
the state. But in the other side of it, he's
showing his face at the hostel. He's still got the weapon.
I mean, something doesn't add up, does it. Well, what
if he wasn't done yet. Well, I guess that's a possibility.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
An interesting there were other Fortune five hundred CEOs and
healthcare CEOs that he wanted to target.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Then maybe that's why he didn't get rid of the gun.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
The same but the same guy that knows how to
make a gun at home that's untraceable, the.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Same guy that okay, don't know that. Well that's the presumption.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Well, we don't know where yet, we don't know if
he had a three D printer, you know where he
may purchase the gun otherwise, but yeah, go through that.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Then you have this special backpack that you can put
a phone in to make it untraceable. He knows where
that CEO is going to be. He's lying in wait
after arriving a few days before. All that's so professional.
And then one of the last things on his computer
allegedly is he was reading the manifesto of the unibomber.
He's got the manifesto in his pocket with the web tie.
(31:52):
I just want to go on record as saying some
of this is so slick, and some of this is
so sloppy. I don't I don't know if it adds up,
but that may be just me. I do this every day.
I'm getting cynical in my old age.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
It's you, it's.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Wet in doubt.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
No maybe involved, it's me. So what a day for news.
Here's this one that everybody's looking for. At a McDonald's
and Altoona having McNuggets at nine am. Meanwhile, the marine
veteran Daniel Penny, the lesser charge gets acquitted, found not
guilty the higher charge. They were leading towards being a
(32:30):
hung jury over and he's free. And now BLM says
they're going to start trouble all over the country. You
can't make this stuff up, all.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Right, twenty six both twenty six years old to twenty
six year old men, by the way.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah for the coincidence. All right, Roy and Neil always
gets the final story. We'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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