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Speaker 1: And we're joined by US correspondent Richard Arnold. Morning, Richard,

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Speaker 1: good Now. It is a particularly grim twist, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: That's the Rhiner's son involved. Yeah, there is still widespread

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Speaker 1: shock over all the details of this, these brutal murders

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Speaker 1: of actor director Rob Ryaner and his photographer wife Michelle,

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Speaker 1: as police say their son, Nick is responsible their words,

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Speaker 1: and Nick Reiner is expected to make his first court

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Speaker 1: appearance over this pretty soon. Leading up to this court appearance,

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Speaker 1: he is in custody without bail and booked for murder.

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Speaker 1: He had checked into a hotel before police arrested him.

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Speaker 1: In the state of that Santa Monica hotel room is

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Speaker 1: something no one needs really to know about in detail,

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Speaker 1: just a trail of blood. Horrendous, they saying. Earlier, Rob

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Speaker 1: and his wife had taken their thirty two year old

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Speaker 1: son to a party at the home of television host

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Speaker 1: Cone and O'Brien, where Nick Reiner was said to be

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Speaker 1: disruptive and tweaked out, with one account that led to

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Speaker 1: a shouting match between father and son. Former President Obama

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Speaker 1: and his wife Michelle were said to meet with the

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Speaker 1: Rhiners on the night the murders happened. Michelle Obama now

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Speaker 1: has spoken with late night host Jimmy Kimmel about what

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Speaker 1: has taken place.

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Speaker 2: Rob and Michelle Reiner are some of the most decent,

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Speaker 2: courageous people you ever want to know. They're not deranged

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Speaker 2: or praised. What they have always been are passionate people

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Speaker 2: in a time when there's not a lot of courage

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Speaker 2: going on.

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Speaker 1: Deranged of course the term that the President Trump has

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Speaker 1: taken to using more of that and tick. From the

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Speaker 1: age of fifteen, Nick Hiner was a drug abuser who

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Speaker 1: went in and out of Rehabit was homeless for a while.

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Speaker 1: Rob Ryan, of course known as the son of brilliant

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Speaker 1: comedian Carl Reiner, and he became known for his Sarola

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Speaker 1: normally as All in the Family of the TV sitcom.

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Speaker 1: He then went on to make so many brilliant movies,

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Speaker 1: including the drama A Few Good Men, The Rock Sataire,

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Speaker 1: This Is Spinal Tap, The romance When Harry Met Sally,

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Speaker 1: the fantasy Princess Brian, so many really great films in

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Speaker 1: so many many different areas. Back in twenty sixteen, though him,

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Speaker 1: he made a film called Being Charlie, based on a

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Speaker 1: script by his son Nick and talking about Nick Ryaner's

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Speaker 1: drug abuses, including well everything, cocaine, heroine, whole list. He

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Speaker 1: had a heart attack once on a plane because of

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Speaker 1: cocaine us He threw a rock to a treatment center

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Speaker 1: window one time, and so on. Rob Reiner said that

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Speaker 1: the family had tried everything to deal with all of this,

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Speaker 1: and he said of the film versions they put together,

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Speaker 1: making this film not only forced me to see what

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Speaker 1: he was experiencing, but I think it forced him to

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Speaker 1: see what I went through and what his mother went through.

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Speaker 1: Now this, well, there's been a flood of reactions and

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Speaker 1: tributes to Rob Reiner and Michelle. Comedians Billy Crystal and

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Speaker 1: Murray David went off to the Rhiner's home after their

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Speaker 1: bodies were found Billy Crystal near tears By accounts. Harry

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Speaker 1: Sheer from the Spinal Tap movie says of Rob Reiner,

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Speaker 1: he was a deeply caring character in his own right,

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Speaker 1: and he brought that to his work The Wonder Center.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, Michelle Reiner actually took the Trump photo on

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Speaker 1: the original cover of Trump's Out of the Deal book.

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Speaker 1: Right after the murders, Trump posted this on social media,

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Speaker 1: calling Rob Reiner quote a tortured and struggling, but once

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Speaker 1: very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away

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Speaker 1: together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger

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Speaker 1: he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction

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Speaker 1: with a mind crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome,

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Speaker 1: sometimes referred to as teds end quote. You know, there

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Speaker 1: was an instant backlash to those disgusting remarks suggesting these

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Speaker 1: brutal murders were all about Trump, Republican Senator John Kennedy

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Speaker 1: saying Trump should have shut up, Republican Marjorie Taylor Green

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Speaker 1: saying this atresia, while the Republican speaker Mike Johnson simply

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Speaker 1: ran away from reporters when questioned today about the Trump remarks,

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Speaker 1: at most find beyond the pale. Now, what do we

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Speaker 1: know about this plots that the FBI foiled? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: in the midst of the mayhem, we know that they've

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Speaker 1: stopped a bomb that the bomb plot they said could

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Speaker 1: have turned New Years Eve into a blood bath in

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Speaker 1: southern California, arresting four men who had the ingredients in

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Speaker 1: detailed instructions for bomb making. These are said to be

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Speaker 1: members of some anti capitalist group calling themselves the Turtle

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Speaker 1: Island Liberation Front or whatever says prosecutor is say, Lee.

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Speaker 2: We disrupted this terror plot before buildings were demolished or

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Speaker 2: innocent people were killed.

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Speaker 1: These suspects are being arrested in the Mohave Desert. So

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Speaker 1: a couple of hours out of LA and officials had

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Speaker 1: taken aerial surveillance as these four were said to be

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Speaker 1: rehearsing their bomb plot. Richard Scods talk to you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for that. It's Richard Arnold are US correspondent.

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