Mitch McCann: International correspondent on Luigi Mangione's extradition to NYC, District Attorney Fani Willis conflict of interest and the drone ban.

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione has been extradited to New York.

Earlier this week the 26-year-old faced 11 charges at the state level, but now the FBI and and the US government have levelled federal charges against him. 

41% of young voters say the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO was acceptable, according to new research. 

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a month-long ban on drone flights over much of New Jersey after thousands of drones flew over military bases. 

International Correspondent Mitch McCan joins the show. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mitch McCann is our US correspondent, and he joins us now, Mitch,
nice to have you on the show. Hi, right, how
are you good? Thank you, thanks for being with us.
So the iconic images of Luigi Mangioni. He's now being
extradited to New York.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
That's right. This is the twenty six year old who
was accused of fatally shooting the United Healthcare chief executive
outside of Manhattan hotel a couple of weeks ago. And
there's been a few big developments in this case today.
So earlier this week he faced eleven charges at the
state level, but now the FBI and the US government
have leveled federal charges against him. So today they charged

(00:36):
him with murder through the use of a firearm, two
stalking charges, and a firearms offense as well. And as
you say, he was extradited back from Pennsylvania to New
York today and it was quite a show. They put
him on a helicopter and when he arrived in New
York there were around twenty or thirty police officers that
sort of paraded him in front of the cameras. New
York's mayor turned up as well, to really have a show.

(00:59):
Of force there and then he was in court this afternoon.
And it's interesting to note he's going to be staying
at the infamous Rikers Island prison in New York, which.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
That is not one place you want to be, absolutely not.
What's the US Attorney General saying about the charges.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, look, they're saying that this is a premeditated attack
what Luisgi Mangioni did, and they're really upset at what
they're calling kind of this fan fear or this promotion
of him at the moment. And there's been an interesting
poll that's come out from Pew Research I believe it
was or Emerson College, and forty one percent of young

(01:37):
voters say the killing of the United Healthcare chief chief
executive was quote acceptable. That's a very unusual level of
support for Luigi Mangioni. There is means about him over
the internet, this kind of sort of fan fiction writing.
It is very strange, but there is definitely some support
for him out there as well.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, truly shocking that number. Fulton counted the Fanny Willis.
This is the district attorney there, the local district attorney
in Georgia who was running that case against Trump and
the alleged election rigging. What's happened with her? Yeah, big
development today.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Now, this is the only one of Donald Trump's major
court cases that hasn't been thrown out or it hasn't finished.
It's the case where Trump and several co defendants were
charged over scheming to overturn the election loss in Georgia
in twenty twenty. Now it emerged at Funny Willis, the
district attorney was having a romantic relationship with one of
the prosecutors that she brought onto the case, and Donald

(02:33):
Trump initially asked her to be removed because of a
conflict of interest and failed at doing so. However, a
court of appeals in Georgia today said it was inappropriate
for her to be on this case and she's going
to be removed. So that's a win of sorts for
Donald Trump. But he's not in the clear yet in Georgia,
although this won't happen for a long time in the future.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
What's happening with all these drones there, well, pretty much everywhere,
but mainly round New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, thousands of drones. Lots of discussion about it in
recent weeks. Some people have been asking whether it's foreign
governments are surveilling Americans or even aliens. Ryan The US government,
though is it has investigated and the drones were a
combination of commercial drones, people using them as a hobby,
and law enforcement drones and adding to the mystery today,

(03:19):
the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a month's long ban
on drone flights over much of New Jersey for what
it calls special security reasons. And several of these restricted
zones where people can't fly the drones are around infrastructure
like power stations and things like that, but there's not
a clear reason why other than special security reasons, which

(03:41):
is having people asking a lot of questions again because.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
All the conspiracy theorists are saying, well, it's probably a
foreign government that's going to take out some infrastructure, So
that's probably just adding fuel to that fire, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Goodness man, And I think it didn't help that Donald
Trump said they need to be honest about what's going
on and adding fuel to the fire there as well
as he likes to do.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
All right, Mitch, thank you so much for that. That's
Mitch McCann, who is our US correspondent. For more from
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