Dan Mitchinson: U.S Correspondent on earthquake in California and the New York shooter who killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO

U.S Correspondent Dan Mitchinson gives the latest on the New York shooter who killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO. 'Deny' 'Defend' 'Dispose' written on the gun's shell casings.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dan Mitchinson US correspondence with US. Now, Hey Dan, Hey Heather. Okay,
so this guy, we've got some theories as to why
he shot the CEO, and it's basically because of the
engravings on the casings.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right, Yeah, I mean that these these words delay and
depos were found on the live rounds of shell casings.
And I mean, the shooter's motive is still unclear, but uh,
CNN's reporting that the parent company of United Healthcare, which
is the largest insurance company that we have over here,
was aware of threats against this guy. And it's interesting

(00:34):
because CEOs have all types of security around them, and Thompson,
as we saw in this video that's been circulated right
now if you've seen it on social media, he was
out on his own with no security when this happened.
And so it's they're they're they're saying right now, because
this this shooter arrived early before he was there, it
looks like there was some kind of surveillance going on
and he knew where to be at the exact place

(00:55):
at the exact time.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah. Okay. Now, the reason that that what was written
on the casings as important is because he written he'd
written deny, defend, deposed, delay, and the words delay, deny,
defend are the title of a book a and the
book is why insurance companies don't pay claims and what
you can do about it.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yes, so that's where they're kind of connecting everything right now,
I mean, and seeing that you know this guy is
an assassin, yes, is he a professional? Probably not, because
you wouldn't do something like that. We've also got a
good shot of his face right now. We don't know
if this was before after the assassination, and they may
have some DNA samples too. There there was a phone
that was found nearby. There was a water bottle founder
the scene of the shooting that may have belonged to

(01:34):
the guy. And they even think they have a fingerprint
as well that looks like it's pretty well. The fingerprint
itself is a little smeared, but you know, they're still
working on getting some out of the other items.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah. So some some pretty rooky mistakes, but then some
stuff that he did which makes him look like he
might have known what he was doing as well, like
he obviously had a jamming in his gun. First of all,
he surveyed the guy knew that the guy was there,
and then his gun jammed and he did what's called
a tap wreck bang, which fixes up. So he's not
a nervous with a gun, is he.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, he's not. And you look at that video on
you it's not something that you want to look at.
It's just it's hard not to because you look at
the guy and he looks very professional initially, and he
gives off a number of shots before the gun jams.
Like you said, he fixes that problem in a minute,
and he goes back and he does it again, and
then he you know, he takes off. There was one
witness right there who ran the other ways, and he

(02:23):
witness would at the time, and they're hoping that person
might be able to help identify that or maybe some
of the people that shared that hostel that you were
just talking about in the World wires.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Hey, how are you guys going after that quake?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I got to tell you, Heather, I mean, I didn't
feel that I was right sort of in the middle
of it. It was up to the north of Sacramento.
It was felt hundreds of miles to the south down
in the Bay Area in San Francisco. But because it
was off the coast here there wasn't any serious damage.
I mean, this was a magnitude seven point zero, and
I mean there were five million people that were put

(02:56):
under a tsunami warning and that was eventually canceled. But
that's something that doesn't happened very often along the California coast.
And I mean, you had this quick been inland or
in a more populated areas we've seen before in places
like Los Angeles and San Francisco, I mean, that could
have caused a heck of a lot of damage, and
you know, I don't even want to think about the
number of deaths too. But fortunately, again it was off
the coast and blew off some steam from the tectonic

(03:17):
plates that we have around here, so hopefully we won't
have a bigger one after this.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Now, what's this business with time limits on coverage and
for the anesthetic that you take if you have surgery.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, I mean there was an anesthesiologists The insurance company
was planning to limit the amount of time it would
cover anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. This was Anthem,
Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and they said, okay, we're
not We're going to halt this or you're going to have
a limited amount of time that you can do that.
After that, the patient's going to have to, you know,
pay for anything additional. Well then a couple of hours ago, boom,

(03:50):
they did a complete U turn on this, and they're saying, Okay,
maybe this wasn't such a good idea. We were trying
to do this because we were trying to cut down
on the strain that providers and patients go through and
and a lot of the costs, and we thought this
would actually save money for some people. But oh man,
did this did this give attle black eye? I mean
this they said, this is a whole misunderstanding of how

(04:12):
things work. And no, it was just a really bad
decision by somebody that you know, at the upper levels
of management.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Right, Dan, So this is the last time I'm going
to talk to you for the year because I've got
to the big dog, the HOSK. Yeah early, because.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
They got three months here.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh Jesus that all anyway. So he's going on the Hollybobs,
so I've got to go into his show, and so
I'm not going to talk to you again. When do
you hit off on the.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Hollybobs, I'm on and off. It won't be until probably
towards the Christmas time, a couple of days ahead of that.
But unlike you guys, we don't get, you know, a
month off or six weeks, which I think is fabulous.
We just sort of take it in bits and pieces
throughout the year. So I wish you, you and the
whole family a whole wonderful holiday at Christmas. And I

(04:57):
was show hosking how it's done in the morning.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Okay, Oh, I wish she's settled down. Lord, go and
have yourself a lovely bit of a summer break. And well,
it's a winter break for you, isn't it a little
bit of a break over Christmas?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Dan?

Speaker 1 (05:09):
And it's been lovely to have you on the show
this year. Thank you so much. For more from Hither
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