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Speaker 1: Right now, We're going to our US correspondent Dan Hutson. Dan,

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Speaker 1: what is the lightest on the accused Manhattan shooter.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Ryan, good afternoon. Well, he was denied bail today

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Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania. He's finding an extradition to New York. He

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Speaker 2: was arrested yesterday, as we know that in Pennsylvania for

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Speaker 2: the alleged shooting death of the new United Healthcare CEO,

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Speaker 2: Brian Thompson. Kind of interesting though, today. I mean, he

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Speaker 2: was caught, you know, going into court and he arrived

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Speaker 2: for his extradition hearing and was just sort of yelling

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Speaker 2: at the at the media saying, you know, whatever it

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Speaker 2: means in his terms, it's completely out of touch. It's

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Speaker 2: an insult to the intelligence of the American people. He

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Speaker 2: got into the court room, he was a little bit

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Speaker 2: more composed. And now we're finding that a book that

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Speaker 2: was published a number of years ago, back in twenty ten,

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Speaker 2: and the title is similar to the words that were

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Speaker 2: found on the shell casings near where the CEO was shot,

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Speaker 2: has risen to number two on Amazon's nonfiction bestsellers list.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about this because the public, the

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Speaker 1: sentiment seems to me that this guy is a hero,

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Speaker 1: even though he's well, he's accused of shooting someone in

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Speaker 1: cold blood in the middle of a street in Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: This is I got to tell you, this is strange,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's something that a lot of people,

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Speaker 2: considering what happened, are still trying to wrap their heads around.

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Speaker 2: But you're right. I mean, they're just marveling it has

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Speaker 2: escape on that e bike and they've taken to social

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Speaker 2: media like TikTok and blue Sky and x and there

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Speaker 2: was a lookalike contest that was held in New York

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Speaker 2: City and on Spotify. Even there there's these dedicated playlists

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Speaker 2: and it's just a head scratcher about why this person

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Speaker 2: has has, you know, become this fascination to so many people.

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Speaker 2: The only thing one can imagine is that there are

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Speaker 2: so many people that are frustrated with the healthcare system

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Speaker 2: over here, as he appears to have been that for

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Speaker 2: some reason. This is how they're they're showing it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, fascinating to see how this plays out. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about Mitch McConnell and Senator he's had a bit

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Speaker 1: of a health emergency at lunch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had he had a fall, yet he sprained

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Speaker 2: his wrist and he had some cuts to his face.

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Speaker 2: And this source said that he has always had a

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Speaker 2: weak leg from when he had polio as a child.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, he's eighty two, He's had a number

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Speaker 2: of health issues or a couple of incidents last year

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Speaker 2: where you thought this guy has to step down. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he just froze up when he was speaking to reporters.

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Speaker 2: I mean nothing, it was just like he glazed over.

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Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of talk over the years

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Speaker 2: that he's just been too old to serve and that

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Speaker 2: he should have stood down and not run again. He's

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Speaker 2: refused to and you know his term will continue until

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Speaker 2: January of twenty twenty seven. But you know, just another

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Speaker 2: one of those things. Agism was brought up, as it

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Speaker 2: was with Joe Biden earlier this year during the election.

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Speaker 1: It's a hard one, isn't it, Because he's the one

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Speaker 1: that had that. He's stopped and steered like a deer

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Speaker 1: in a headlights for a couple of minutes, didn't he

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Speaker 1: And it was he had to be led away. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you've got to feel for Mike. And parts of

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Speaker 1: Melibu have been evacuated because of a huge wildfid.

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Speaker 2: I'll say you, this is just this is sort of

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Speaker 2: one of those things that you hope doesn't happen, just

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Speaker 2: because we get these sant Ana winds blowing through southern

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Speaker 2: California even this time of the year over here, even

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Speaker 2: though we're heading into the winter months, and we've had

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Speaker 2: winds up to ninety miles an hour. There have been,

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Speaker 2: you know, humidities down to the single digits, and the

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Speaker 2: power company is shutting off power to tens of thousands

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Speaker 2: of people. This is in the hills near Pepperdine University,

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Speaker 2: which is a well known college out there. You've had celebrities,

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Speaker 2: Patrick Dempsey shared, Dick Van Dyke, Mel Gibson has had

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Speaker 2: a home out there that have had to leave. And

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Speaker 2: it's just unsettling because we're seeing more and more of

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Speaker 2: these kinds of fires out here in California. We've had

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Speaker 2: about maybe twenty five hundred acres on this fire that's

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Speaker 2: burning right now. But as we've seen in the past,

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Speaker 2: these fires, you know, get out of control. It just

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Speaker 2: takes a second like that, and you know, we've lost

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Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of acres and it's something that Californians

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Speaker 2: have had to get used to unfortunately.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan, thank you very much for that. Great to

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Speaker 1: have you on the show. Is always Dan Mitchison, our

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