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The Left Celebrates the Assassin of the Healthcare CEO · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. It is really shocking and sick
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Speaker 1: to see what is happening on social media right now
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Speaker 1: because of the number of people that are advocating support
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Speaker 1: for the cold blooded assassin who has now been charged
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Speaker 1: with killing the healthcare CEO. Online, there are many radical
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Speaker 1: lefties that are celebrating the death of the CEO, saying well,
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Speaker 1: they deserve what they get. Many of them posting videos
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Speaker 1: now angry at the employee at McDonald's that called the
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Speaker 1: authorities saying, hey, I think this is the guy that
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Speaker 1: may have killed that CEO in cold blooded murder in
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Speaker 1: New York City. What are they saying? Listen to this
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Speaker 1: one On TikTok they caught the guy that killed the
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Speaker 1: UXC CEO for such a professional hit. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: weird that the gunman didn't leave the US. The guy
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Speaker 1: that reported it was a McDonald's worker.
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Speaker 2: I would never advocate for violence on they page, but
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Speaker 2: it would.
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Speaker 3: Be pretty funny if we beat out of him and
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Speaker 3: then when he went to the hospital that if he
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Speaker 3: was out of network and had to pay a huge bill.
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Speaker 1: I think that would be funny. Not advocating for it,
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Speaker 1: but it would bring a smile to my name. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is apparently a trans Tic talk influencer who wants
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Speaker 1: to beat the blank out of the McDonald's worker who
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Speaker 1: called the police on the alleged UHC CEO killer. This
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Speaker 1: might be one of the most disgusting trends that I've seen,
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Speaker 1: which is that there is now a legitimate group of
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Speaker 1: people in this country that are advocating for CEOs to
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Speaker 1: be assassinated. That's not the only one. Another influencer on
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Speaker 1: TikTok is slamming the worker who reported the CEO shooting suspect,
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Speaker 1: saying this on her page.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so they've arrested our hot co assassin. Turns out
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Speaker 4: his name's Luigi's twenty six years old. He's an IVY
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Speaker 4: League grad, did his undergrad and masters at Penn in
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Speaker 4: computer science. Sliptype, he's a little young for me, but ugh, babe,
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Speaker 4: what is you doing getting caught eating at McDonald's and
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Speaker 4: cursey u McDonald's employee for turning him in. But I
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Speaker 4: get it. They up the reward to sixty thousand. Maybe
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Speaker 4: you needed that money. They never understood those crazy women
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Speaker 4: that wrote inmates in jail, But I guess you always
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Speaker 4: loved doing that.
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Speaker 1: Now let's go to the transcript of the very first
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Speaker 1: thing that this woman says. Okay, so they've arrested our
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Speaker 1: hot CEO assassin. Turns out his name is Blank, He's
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Speaker 1: twenty six years old. He's an Ivy League grad, did
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Speaker 1: his undergrad and masters at Penn in computer science. That's
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Speaker 1: my type. This is how psychotic we be come as
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Speaker 1: a country where we are now advocating and supporting of
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Speaker 1: people becoming quote assassins as long as apparently they're hot.
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Speaker 1: And that turns on somebody on TikTok who is also
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Speaker 1: taking out CEOs of companies that now apparently the left
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Speaker 1: believes like, if you're a CEO in the healthcare industry,
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Speaker 1: you deserve to be killed. I'm going to give you
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Speaker 1: All right, so let's talk about this hit list that
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Speaker 1: has been put out there by the left as well.
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Speaker 1: Not only are they referring to this assassin as their
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Speaker 1: hot CEO assassin, making it clear they believe that any
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Speaker 1: major CEO of any major company should just get killed
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Speaker 1: if they're in the healthcare industry or maybe even in
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Speaker 1: some other industry that they don't like, but they have
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Speaker 1: also now put out there the compensation packages of health
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Speaker 1: insurance CEOs as a kill list to hey, if anybody
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Speaker 1: else wants to be another hot assassin, go ahead and
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Speaker 1: go after them. They put out that the Signat CEO
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Speaker 1: makes twenty one million, the Wellcare CEO twenty three point five,
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Speaker 1: Humanus CEO sixteen point three million, the Centen Corporation CEO
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Speaker 1: eighteen point six million, the Molina Healthcare CEO twenty one
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Speaker 1: point four million, CBS Health twenty one point six million,
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Speaker 1: Elevant's Health twenty one point nine million, and then in
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Speaker 1: a picture that has now been turned into black and
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Speaker 1: white like a kill list, when someone's been taken out
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Speaker 1: of the list. The only picture on the list is
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Speaker 1: in black and white is the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson,
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Speaker 1: who is assassinated. The rest of the pictures that I'm
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Speaker 1: describing to you have the CEOs in color. This when
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Speaker 1: I say this is a kill list, that is exactly
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Speaker 1: what it is. This is a list that they have
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Speaker 1: decided to put out there. And the only person who's
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Speaker 1: pictures black and white, meaning their deceased. Like we got one,
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Speaker 1: we now have another four, five, six, seven to go,
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Speaker 1: and if we take all those out, we'll give you
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Speaker 1: a new list. This is how corrupt the corporate media
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Speaker 1: is because they're not calling this out number one. It's
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Speaker 1: also what they are doing and indoctrinating your kids and
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Speaker 1: your grandkids at the ivy leagues, in the public school
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Speaker 1: system and in many schools, private schools, colleges in this country.
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Speaker 1: They are indoctrinating you to hate capitalism. This guy's manifesto
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Speaker 1: was a manifesto of hating capitalism. It was a manifesto
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Speaker 1: that people that make money are evil. We have the greatest,
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Speaker 1: by the way, healthcare system in the world. I want
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Speaker 1: to be clear about that. If I have a genital disease,
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Speaker 1: if I have cancer, there is no other country I'd
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Speaker 1: rather be in the United States of America. Now, do
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Speaker 1: healthcare companies make a crap ton of money, sure, no
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Speaker 1: doubt about it. But if I'm dying of a blood
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Speaker 1: disease or have cancer, where do I want to be.
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Speaker 1: I want to be in the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be in Russia. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to be in China. I sure as hell don't want
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Speaker 1: to be in canad after what we've seen about the
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Speaker 1: debacles in their healthcare system. I don't want to be
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Speaker 1: in the UK because I do not have the options
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Speaker 1: that I would want to have to be able to
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Speaker 1: save my life. Now, let's also be clear, some of
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Speaker 1: it costs a lot of money. There is a lot
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Speaker 1: of money, Okay, there is. There is a lot of
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Speaker 1: money that is spent on healthcare. You could argue that
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Speaker 1: some of it doesn't make sense and I couldn't agree
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Speaker 1: with you more. I believe that there should be truth
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Speaker 1: in billing pricing. I'll give you a great example. I've
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Speaker 1: talked about this before on this show. On a fourth
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Speaker 1: of July, I was throwing an anchor and the ring
8:36
Speaker 1: on the anchor dropped as I was throwing it around
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Speaker 1: my finger, and it almost snapped my entire finger off.
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Speaker 1: It ripped the skin from the bottom of the finger
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Speaker 1: all the way to the top, and I pulled it
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Speaker 1: back down held it. You know, your body goes in
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Speaker 1: a shock, you start sweating like crazy. I drove the
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Speaker 1: boat that we were on back to the boat dock
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Speaker 1: and then proceeded, and my wife thought I was insane
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Speaker 1: because at that point we didn't have health insurance. We
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Speaker 1: were in what they described as a health share, so
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Speaker 1: I knew I was going to be out of pocket,
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Speaker 1: and I said to her, I was like, all right,
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Speaker 1: call the hospital because I knew I was okay, and
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Speaker 1: I knew that my finger was not like detached. I
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Speaker 1: knew I was going to need stitches. I knew that
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Speaker 1: it may be some nerve damage. I didn't know yet,
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Speaker 1: but I knew that I was okay and I was
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Speaker 1: not going to get a bill for fifteen grand. And
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Speaker 1: so what I said to her was, I said, all right,
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Speaker 1: call the hospital and asked him what stitches cost? Give
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Speaker 1: me the top bottom line. They wouldn't give her an answer.
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Speaker 1: So then I got mad and I called him minor
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Speaker 1: med and I said, what is the max it's going
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Speaker 1: to cost me? I'm in the parking lot outside of
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Speaker 1: there because I didn't want them to see my finger
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Speaker 1: and then jacket up and then I could be no
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Speaker 1: more than I think it was like twelve hundred bucks.
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Speaker 1: So then I walked in and the doctor walked in.
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Speaker 1: He's like, did you really call up here and ask
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Speaker 1: us how much this cost? I'm like, yeah, I'm paying
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Speaker 1: for it out of my pocket. I was either here
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Speaker 1: the hospital, and the hospital wouldn't give me a number.
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Speaker 1: That's the problem that we have with a healthcare system.
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Speaker 1: We need truth in pricing. That would go long way.
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Speaker 1: But that doesn't have anything to do with want to
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Speaker 1: kill a CEO or putting out a kill list of
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Speaker 1: CEOs and celebrate online. And this is the radical left
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Speaker 1: that is doing this. Now, let's talk about this shooter
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Speaker 1: real quick and more of what we know about him
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Speaker 1: and why he decided to become an assassin that the
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Speaker 1: Left is celebrating. Apparently, he had suffered quote debilitating pain
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Speaker 1: and had back surgery last year. The reports indicate that
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Speaker 1: the United Healthcare CEO murder suspect suffered quote debilitating pain.
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Speaker 1: The New York Times reported the back surgery, and People
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Speaker 1: magazine report that one of his acquaintances met the man
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two and observed his pain was so
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Speaker 1: intense he had to switch out his mattress to try
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Speaker 1: to get relief. The individual on a co living space
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Speaker 1: where the man stayed January to June of twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: The Honolulu Civil Beat noted that Martin indicated the man
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Speaker 1: suffered chronic back pain from an apparent pinched nor. They
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Speaker 1: also said that his roommate said he went surfing the
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Speaker 1: shooter with RJ once, but it didn't work out because
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Speaker 1: of his back. CNN also quoted Martin saying that the
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Speaker 1: man never once talked about guns, never once talked about violence.
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Speaker 1: Martin added, he was absolutely not, absolutely a not violent
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Speaker 1: person as far as I could tell. The shooter was
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Speaker 1: taken into Cussey in Pennsylvania in that McDonald's on Monday
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Speaker 1: after being recognized from the photos that had been released
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Speaker 1: by law enforcement. Police found a handwritten note in his
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Speaker 1: possession which allegedly said these parasites had it coming, referring
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Speaker 1: to the CEO. A source within law enforcement told the
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Speaker 1: AP to Day the handwritten note and the man's possession
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Speaker 1: also said, quote to the Feds, I'll keep it. I'll
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Speaker 1: keep this short because I do respect what you do
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Speaker 1: for our country. To save you a LinkedIn investigation, I
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Speaker 1: state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. ABC News
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Speaker 1: observed that officers also discovered the man had a ghost
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Speaker 1: gun cable of firing a nine milimeters round and a suppressor,
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Speaker 1: and New York Police Commissioner noted that the gun and
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Speaker 1: suppressor were quote consistent with weapons used in the Brian
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Speaker 1: Thompson murder. The shooter is charged with murder shooting Dowth
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Speaker 1: of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. And the left
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Speaker 1: comes out and what do they say, Yes, we're glad
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Speaker 1: about this. Let's go. This is what we wanted, this
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Speaker 1: is what we need. We needed somebody to go out
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Speaker 1: there and start taking out these evil CEOs that make
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Speaker 1: too much money. You're the only person that says that
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Speaker 1: the radicals on the left they hate people that make money.
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Speaker 1: By the way, you won't know who's this like. You
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Speaker 1: want to talk about radical like ceo types, individuals that
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Speaker 1: are making insane money. Look at Nancy Pelosi and all
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Speaker 1: the insider trading that's made her rich. Look at all
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Speaker 1: the Democrats. By the way, the Republicans that do it too,
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Speaker 1: trade stocks and their family members trade stocks, and they
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Speaker 1: make millions and millions of dollars while they're making one
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Speaker 1: hundred and something thousand a year. And you're like, wait,
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Speaker 1: how do they go from one million to five million,
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Speaker 1: or one million to three million, or one million to
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Speaker 1: seventeen million. It's a form of insider trading and they
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Speaker 1: get away with it. At least the CEOs have an
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Speaker 1: honest job where they're going to work. Now, let's go
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Speaker 1: back to the core of this before I move on,
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Speaker 1: and that is we have an entire generation now of
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Speaker 1: people that have been indoctrinated to believe that if you
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Speaker 1: are successful, or you are in the healthcare industry and
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Speaker 1: you don't give away the hospital visits or the painkillers
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Speaker 1: or whatever they want for free, that you then deserve
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Speaker 1: to be assassinated. These are the people that are calling
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Speaker 1: for free healthcare. This goes back to the Bernie Sanders
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Speaker 1: and Barack Obama days. All of these people that are
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Speaker 1: out there demanding this, and I just played you two
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Speaker 1: of them, but they all wanted to be free. There's
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Speaker 1: a problem with that, and these people are so stupid
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Speaker 1: they don't understand it. Nothing is free, certainly not healthcare,
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Speaker 1: certainly not life saving healthcare. The friend of the CEO
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Speaker 1: killer suspect said this, for example, on Aaron Burnett's show
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Speaker 1: on CNN and out Front. Now.
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Speaker 2: R J Martin the owner of Surf bake Hnl Honolulu,
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Speaker 2: a co working and living space in Hawaii where Luigi
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Speaker 2: Mangioni lived around twenty twenty two. So, r J, I
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Speaker 2: mean you and I are speaking here in a conversation
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Speaker 2: that hours ago you never in your life would have
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Speaker 2: thought you would be having. Were shocked when you learned
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Speaker 2: that your friend was the suspected killer.
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Speaker 5: Beyond shock. It's unimaginable.
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Speaker 3: You know, I was roommates with them, friends, Heike Spontioga,
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Speaker 3: He's you know, his best to be athletic and unfathomable
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Speaker 3: knowing the kind person that I saw and knew.
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Speaker 2: So when did you meet him?
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Speaker 3: Well, actually, we have an interview process because when you
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Speaker 3: throw a bunch of people living together, you need to
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Speaker 3: hopefully make sure they work well. And I interviewed him
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Speaker 3: before he moved in. He works in tech, he has
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Speaker 3: a remote position. He was looking forward to living in
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Speaker 3: a wine and being healthy. He was excited about getting
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Speaker 3: new people, experiencing new culture.
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Speaker 1: And did he all right?
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Speaker 2: So I know this was back in two thousand and
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Speaker 2: around twenty twenty two, so you're coming out of COVID.
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Speaker 1: I'm curious, r J.
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Speaker 2: Did you know where he was working remotely or why
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Speaker 2: he had suddenly decided to DeCamp to Honolulu.
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Speaker 1: Was there sort of any.
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Speaker 2: Break in his life or anything that you ever became
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Speaker 2: aware of?
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Speaker 5: No, no, No, it's very natural.
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Speaker 3: Our members all have remote jobs, and Why is one
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Speaker 3: of those places, and people would love to live. So
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Speaker 3: we provide kind of an all inclusive living experience so
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Speaker 3: it makes it easy for them to move to the islands.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So I know you considered him from your interactions
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Speaker 2: with him, the time you spent together as someone who
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Speaker 2: would be a lifelong friend. What was he like when
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Speaker 2: you knew him? And I know you've shared some pictures
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Speaker 2: with us as well. I mean in terms of how
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Speaker 2: social he was and the sort of interactions that he
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Speaker 2: would have had with the other people in your co
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Speaker 2: living community.
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Speaker 5: He was.
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Speaker 3: He was a very thoughtful person, communicated really well with friendly,
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Speaker 3: had good relationships with everyone.
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Speaker 5: He was even in some ways a bit of a leader.
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Speaker 3: He helped spearhead a book club that we started just
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Speaker 3: so we could, you know, keep those inner intellectual pursuits
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Speaker 3: alive from back when we were in school.
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Speaker 2: So you mentioned that he was into health. How did
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Speaker 2: that manifest himself? And you mentioned you went hiking together
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Speaker 2: things like that.
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Speaker 5: Can you tell us.
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Speaker 1: More about that?
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Speaker 5: Why he cared about health?
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Speaker 2: And I understand also that at one point we had
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Speaker 2: become aware of some issues with his back.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So when I first interviewed him before he moved in,
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Speaker 3: I remembered he said he had a back issue and
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Speaker 3: he was hoping to get stronger in Wye. So he's
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Speaker 3: always focused on trying. When he first came, he went
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Speaker 3: on a surf lesson with other members, and unfortunately just
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Speaker 3: a basic surf lesson.
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Speaker 5: He was in bed for about a week.
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Speaker 3: We had to get a different bed firm that was
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Speaker 3: more firm and I know it was really.
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Speaker 5: Traumatic and difficult.
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Speaker 3: You know, when you're in the early twenties and you
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Speaker 3: can't you know, do some basic things, it can be really,
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Speaker 3: really difficult.
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Speaker 2: Did he have any conversations with you then or even
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Speaker 2: afterwards about that issue? And I mean his back how
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Speaker 2: we heard it, I mean, obviously anything to do with
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Speaker 2: the insurance process of it.
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Speaker 3: You know, I don't the only thing he ever mentioned,
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Speaker 3: you know, he mentioned, oh, I need to go back
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Speaker 3: to see my doctor, and then I'm going to have
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Speaker 3: to have three I encouraged him and brought him yoga classes.
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Speaker 5: He would do calisthenics on his own.
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Speaker 3: I know he was really focused on being strong and healthy,
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Speaker 3: but it also weighed on.
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Speaker 5: Him that he knew that there was an impending surgery.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's it's pretty darn clear now that
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Speaker 1: this is a disgruntled individual who is angry with his
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Speaker 1: pain level or the healthcare system, or both, who decided
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Speaker 1: then that it was his great course of action to
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Speaker 1: take out a CEO of a healthcare company, and the
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Speaker 1: Left is celebrating it and encouraging a hit list of
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Speaker 1: I want to get to another big subject that is
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Speaker 1: happening right now, and we are finding out a whole
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Speaker 1: lot about the regime change that is taking place in Syria.
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Speaker 1: We also now know that Israel is carrying out a
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Speaker 1: significant number of attacks in Syria, taking out weapons cachet
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Speaker 1: and chemical weapons areas so that they don't fall into
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Speaker 1: the hands of the terrorists that have in essence taken over.
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Speaker 1: This is something that I think is incredibly shocking is
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Speaker 1: how many people are just celebrating what's happening is Asads
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Speaker 1: regime falls, but not realizing exactly what's going on there.
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Speaker 1: Net Ya, who has come out saying, quote, we are
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Speaker 1: destroying the Syrian military like the British destroyed the Vichy fleet,
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Speaker 1: making it clear that he is not going to take
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Speaker 1: any risk. The Israeli Prime Minister said today that Israel
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Speaker 1: is destroying what is left the Syrian military, just as
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Speaker 1: the British destroyed the fleet of the defeated Vichi regime
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Speaker 1: in France so the Nazis could not use it. Israel
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Speaker 1: conducted hundreds of airstrikes and Syria since the dictator Asad
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Speaker 1: was ousted by rebels on Sunday. Israel wants to ensure
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Speaker 1: heavy weaponry and chemical weapons specifically do not fall into
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Speaker 1: the hands of the rebels. Destroyed aircraft, ships, missiles, air defenses,
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Speaker 1: and a variety of other heavy weapons. In a statement,
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Speaker 1: the IDF described the operation that had been undertaken as
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Speaker 1: well important, saying within the last forty eight hours, the
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Speaker 1: IDF struck most of strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria, preventing
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Speaker 1: them from following the hands of terrace elements naval operations.
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Speaker 1: They said the Israeli Navy missile missile ships struck two
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Speaker 1: Syrian naval facilities simultaneously. They also hit two different ports,
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Speaker 1: where they said fifteen Syrian naval vessels were docked. Dozens
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Speaker 1: of C two C missiles with ranges of eighty to
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Speaker 1: one hundred ninet kilometers were destroyed as well. Each missile
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Speaker 1: carried significant explosive payloads, posing threads to civilians and military
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Speaker 1: maritime vessels in the area. Manned aircraft flew hundreds of
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Speaker 1: hours over Syrian airspace, conducting over three hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: aerial strikes together with fighter jets. A wide range of
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Speaker 1: targets were struck, they said, including anti aircraft batteries, Syrian
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Speaker 1: Air Force airfields, and dozens of weapons production sites and
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Speaker 1: Damascus and many other cities. They also said that assets
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Speaker 1: were neutralized, saying numerous strategic weapons were neutralized, including SCUD missiles,
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Speaker 1: cruise missiles, service to sea, service to air, and service
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Speaker 1: to service missiles, as well as UAVs, fighter jets, attack helicopters, radars, tanks,
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Speaker 1: hangars and more. The Northern Command Fire Control Center, they
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Speaker 1: also said, conducted air strikes on one hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: assets in Syria, including weapons depots, military structures, launchers and
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Speaker 1: firing positions. In his own statement, ntna who said, we
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Speaker 1: have no intention of interfering in Syria's Seria's internal affairs. However,
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Speaker 1: we do intend to do what is necessary for our security.
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Speaker 1: As such, I approved the air force bombing of strategic
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Speaker 1: military capabilities left by the Syrian military so that they
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Speaker 1: will not fall into the hands of the Jihadis. This
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Speaker 1: is similar, he said again to what the British Air
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Speaker 1: Force did when it bombed the fleet of the Vichy regime,
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Speaker 1: which was cooperating with the Nazis, so that it would
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Speaker 1: not fall into the Nazis' hands. Saying this, we want
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Speaker 1: to have relations with the new regime in Syria, but
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Speaker 1: it is this regime that allows a Ran to re
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Speaker 1: establish itself in Syria or allow the transfer of any
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Speaker 1: weapons or weapons of any kind to hes Blah or
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Speaker 1: attack us. We will respond forcefully and we will exact
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Speaker 1: a heavy price. What happens to the previous regime will
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Speaker 1: also happen to this one. In other words, don't try us,
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Speaker 1: don't screw with us. Israel's primary concern they went on
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Speaker 1: to say, again is our own security. The Israeli government
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Speaker 1: spokesman also said that Israel has approached the US to
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Speaker 1: find ways to help minorities such as the Kurds who
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Speaker 1: are threatened by the Syrian rebels, who are backed by
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Speaker 1: Turkey and consist of a coalition that includes radical Islamic terrorists.
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Speaker 1: As you know, some of the people that have taken
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Speaker 1: over in Syria, those in the new quote leadership are
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Speaker 1: individuals that are on terrorist lists and even have bounties
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Speaker 1: on their heads by the United States government. So I
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Speaker 1: love that Israel is doing this right now. They absolutely should.
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Speaker 1: We also are getting worried right now that Russia confirms
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Speaker 1: that Putin quote personally approved the political asylum for Bashar As'ad,
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Speaker 1: Russia's top Kremlin spokesman confirming that the Strongman Putin made
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Speaker 1: the ultimate decision to grant political asylum to the former
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Speaker 1: Syrian tyrant and his family. As'ad disappeared in the late
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Speaker 1: hours off Saturday, shortly after the Sunni Jihadis affiliated with
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Speaker 1: a terrorist organization HTS, which you're going to hear a
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Speaker 1: lot more about in the coming weeks and months, announced
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Speaker 1: that they were entering Damascus, HTS and al Qaeda shootof
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Speaker 1: mounted a surprise offensive to topp of the decades old
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Speaker 1: Asad family regime that resulted in the capture of Aleppo,
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Speaker 1: Syria's second largest city. That happening in late November. Reports
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Speaker 1: from the ground suggested that many Syrians soldiers abandoned their posts,
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Speaker 1: fatigued by low pei and little munitions. Some reports indicated
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Speaker 1: that Asad's tanks and fighter jets were unusable because they
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Speaker 1: had no fuel to run. But this guy had billions
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Speaker 1: of dollars that he had stolen from his own people.
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Speaker 1: The capture of Damascus had largely been accepted as the
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Speaker 1: end to the Syrian Civil War, which began all the
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Speaker 1: way back in twenty eleven when Asad violently repressed protests
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Speaker 1: against his rule by the Sunni Arab majority. Fighting continues, however,
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Speaker 1: in the northwest as of the country, where Turkish bag
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Speaker 1: Melissas are attempting to dismantle the Syrian Democratic Forces known
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Speaker 1: as the SDF. They are a US back coalition of
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Speaker 1: fighters consisting mostly of members of the Kurdish People's Protection
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Speaker 1: Unit known as the YPJ. The YPJ, by the way,
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Speaker 1: we're instrumental in the destruction of the Islamic State Caliphate
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Speaker 1: in Raka in twenty seventeen. Neither the pro Turkish Syrian
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Speaker 1: National Army known as NSA nor the YPG are in
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Speaker 1: active combat with HTS. If this sounds confusing, it is.
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Speaker 1: It's total chaos right now in Syria. The next day,
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Speaker 1: what we are told is the top Kremlin spokesman said
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Speaker 1: that Putin was personally involved in approving the asylum requests
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Speaker 1: from Assad. Russia invested years of military support for the
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Speaker 1: Rasad regime in Syria, alongside Asad's most influential patron, Iran.
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Speaker 1: Such decisions certainly cannot be made without the head of state.
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Speaker 1: It was his decision, is what the ksman said. They
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Speaker 1: also clarified that Asad chose to resign on his own,
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Speaker 1: refusing to elaborate now. The US outlet Politico noted that
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Speaker 1: in addition to Pescal, a Russian diplomat in Austria, there
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Speaker 1: was also another statement that was issued on social media
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Speaker 1: in which he proclaimed Russia does not betray friends in
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Speaker 1: difficult situations, referring to Assad. In other words, Russia was like, look,
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Speaker 1: this guy's our guy. We know he's a bad guy,
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Speaker 1: but so are we and if we back a bad
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Speaker 1: guy and keep him power and he works with us,
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Speaker 1: when they're about to kill you, we'll give you asylum.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty much the signal that Vladimir Putin is giving
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Speaker 1: to the rest of the world.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: In reality, the Russian government had a poor modern track
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Speaker 1: record of supporting allies such as Assad. The Russian military
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Speaker 1: did little to stop the rapid advance of HTS in
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Speaker 1: the past month. Prior to the collapse of the Assad regime.
28:56
Speaker 1: Moscow entirely abandoned Armenia a long time ally when Turkish
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Speaker 1: ally invade the disputed region there, engaging the ethnic cleansing
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Speaker 1: of indigenous Armenian Christian population with the help of the
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Speaker 1: Turkish drones that they used. This is a perfect example
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Speaker 1: of just how much you never know what's really going
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Speaker 1: to happen until it comes down to it. Now, there's
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Speaker 1: also a good chance aside with siphoning off money to
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Speaker 1: Russia and giving Russia something so he would know that
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Speaker 1: he had a safe place to stay. Now, the reality
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Speaker 1: is the follow of the Assad regime will likely mean
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Speaker 1: that Russia's influence in Syria is significantly diminished. Russia operates
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Speaker 1: several military bases in the country and its ties to
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Speaker 1: a side granted access to the Mediterranean Sea, which international
29:49
Speaker 1: observers expect no longer will be the case. The Kremlin
29:52
Speaker 1: has insisted it is taking all necessary precautions with its
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Speaker 1: armed forces. Speaking to reporters today, Pescal gave away little
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Speaker 1: on how Russia views its future in Syria, but promise
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Speaker 1: that Moscow would play a role in the dialogue of
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Speaker 1: reconstructing the country. Now, of course, the best time for
30:11
Speaker 1: a thorough analysis of the unfolding events. It is difficult
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Speaker 1: at the moment to predict what will follow after the
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Speaker 1: period of uncertainty. According to the news agency, He went
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Speaker 1: on to say, Russia spokesman said, we will continue this
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Speaker 1: dialogue and we have well coinciding interests with many countries,
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Speaker 1: with a number of countries in the region. So Russia
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Speaker 1: basically having to admit, yeah, we hung them out to dry,
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Speaker 1: but we gave him a place to show up. You're welcome,
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Speaker 1: and we are been too distracted by what's going on
30:42
Speaker 1: with Ukraine. So that's our main focus right now, not Syria,
30:46
Speaker 1: and that's why Asad is now living in Russia. Don't
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