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Cunningham, the Great American March Madness is here this Friday afternoon. Of course,
Kentucky's lost again. Cal in the last five NSAA games is one in
four, not good, bouncing the first round of the tournament. The faithful
in the Bluegrass not happy, and of course neither Xavier nor you see her
in anyway. But until then, so many issues are going on. I
think often the mainstream media gets up every day to think of new and terrible
ways to cover Donald Trump. It's not what is the news, It's about
Donald Trump. To Truth Social this morning, there was a reference to the
fact that he may make billions of dollars when he goes public. Of course,
there's a lock up period. He's got to wait, I don't know,
six or nine months or a year to sell. And then also there's
big rumors whether he's going to make the bond he puts something on truth Social
that indicated he would have the bond on money of some four hundred and sixty
five million dollars. He's already posted one hundred million on the Carrol situation.
But so much going on this week, also Tony Bobolinsky. It comes with
the receipts, with text messages, with emails, with photographs and deposit slips
and checks first hand account of the corruption of Joe Biden. And it was
like a tree that fell in the woods, and nobody was present to hear
it. Did the tree actually fall? The media did not cover it except
those News Nation did cover it and some others, but the so called so
called mainstream media ignored it completely. So with all that and so much more,
as Leland vettered of News Nation, Leland Vitter, welcome again to the
Bill Cunningham Show, and Leland before we get into a lot of that,
it appears in Nashville, Tennessee, a body's been found of Riley's, a
University of Missouri senior who went missing on March the eighth after going out downtown,
and it appeared he was found in a river. He'd been out of
Broadway drinking with friends at Luke Bryan's downtown bar called Luke's, and staff asked
him to leave. He was drunk as a skunk, and this video of
him stumbling and fumbling around, and it's awfully said. The body's been located.
And before I get your reaction, I want to relate to you that
about about ten years ago ahead on an FBI serial hunter a killer, and
the FBI has listed list of these individuals who go around the country killing certain
categories of people. And he brought up the fact that over a period of
some twenty years, there were a dozen or more white male students with college
kids with a blonde hair that showed up in bodies of water. Might have
been lakes, might have been the Cumberland River in West Nashville, which is
riley strained where he was located. His body was located. I guess he's
been there dead for about two weeks, so there's little left. But they
said there's no obvious marks on the body. And you've spent covering all over
the world. I've seen your history of anchoring your coverage in Baltimore with Freddie
Gray in the Middle East, have been everywhere, and so when you cover
this kind of a story about a missing kid, what comes to your mind,
especially since he's a white college kid and a college town with blonde hair,
who's drunk found in a body of water, what comes to your mind?
Well, one question I would ask if how many drinks do we actually
know emphasis know he had? Because there's been a lot of discussion that whoever,
if someone is responsible singularly for these groups of deaths, these clusters of
dead bodies Austin, Texas, Chicago, in Nashville as well, if it
is foul play, that they would have spotted someone at a bar and drugged
them and mark them drug them, so that would make someone appear much more
intoxicated after one drink plus whatever was given to them than than not. And
as someone who was once drugged a bar in London, I can tell you
that, uh, the incredibly your faculties just disappear from you. There's sort
of no way to overcome it. So I think you certainly think about that
if he was just stumbling out of how many drinks do we actually know he
had? And it's much more difficult once someone's been dumped a body of water
for a couple of weeks to get any kind of toxicology back. I would
think to you, as the former prosecutor, it seems as though police are
awfully quick in keeping in mind with that FBI profiler told you, the police
seem awfully quick to be willing to write these off to oh, it's an
accident. We don't have any evidence of foul play. We don't have any
evidence of foul play. Rather than really trying to run to ground. How
these these young men who seem otherwise healthy and of of full use of their
faculties end up in these bodies of water and drowned because you got to be
pretty drunk and completely incapacitated to somehow fall in a body of water and then
not be able to make your way out right. And how do you make
your way to a body of water at night? I mean, I don't
know how. And you went over that quickly. You said you were drugged
in a bar in London. Yes, explain that I was at a bar
in London. I was actually with my father and a woman I was dating
at the time. This was back when I was overseas. I was in
London seeing my parents, and I guess someone thought I was alone. It
was like a casino club and my dad said, somebody I had a drink
and I knocked it back and he said, hey, did you Is that
your drink? And I said yeah, and he said I think somebody just
put something in it. And I said, oh, come on, dad,
are you kidding me? And about ten minutes later I couldn't stand up.
So my dad and this woman I was with at the time, you
know, had my arms over their shoulders, got me, got me into
a cab, got me to the hotel, and I laid down on the
floor. I couldn't move. I was completely sort of paralyzed. I could
talk a little bit, but I had no control of my faculties for about
forty five minutes or an hour, and then suddenly I kind of came came
back around and was totally fine the next day. But you know, unquestionably,
if my father and you know had not been there to make sure nothing
happened to me, I think the results could have been extraordinarily different. So
someone who did that specifically targeted you. You appeared to have I served,
I believe certain assets. You were sitting in a bar, and uh,
when you're sitting at a bar, your attention is diverted you're looking left,
looking right, women be it was. It was at a casino. It
was a casino table, so it was it was like hard table now and
someone's looking that guy's got some money, let's do this. At some point
in ten minutes, he's going to become almost unconscious. We'll pick him up
by the arms and say, well, it's our buddy. We'll get him
out of here. And the rest is, did you realize how close you
were to being killed or injured? Well? Or or or injured? Then?
You know, look, being injured would have been the best case scenario,
right, So yeah, it was. It was. But it's one
of those things that's always stuck in my head because on the security tapes,
it would have looked like I was just completely hammered, right, It'd be
very easy to go, oh, that guy was just got so drunk he
couldn't handle anything, and you know we had to throw him out or you
know, his buddies took him or whatever. And obviously that was not the
case. So I think that that's sort of where my head goes when we
hear about these stories. And this one is the video coming out of Luke
Bryan's bar is illustrative as somebody just hammered completely drunk by himself. But if
somebody wanted to do harm and the same thing happens at truck stops, so
some of the lot lizards, the same thing happened with black females. That
this isn't racially isolated to white males, college kids and bars with blonde hair.
There are serial killers who will tell you that there's a few hundred who
look and take their time homicidal. We had a case in Covington about two
weeks ago in which a woman who looks to be completely normal, thirty years
old, a white female, and her thing was to kill people randomly and
take their life. And so she would wait on a street and when she
saw somebody walking, she would target them and run them over with her car.
And for no reason. He didn't know the man, had no relations
with him, he didn't flip her the bird. She simply wanted to kill
a man, and she did it a couple times. Finally caught this time.
And normally, if it's late at night and someone sees somebody on the
sidewalk and they want to run them over and kill them and move on,
the odds are getting caught are extremely small. But in this case, there
was a video to catch a license plate and the local prosecutor, Rob Sanders,
did his work with the police and they found the woman and her thing
in life was to kill someone and she wanted to keep killing people. Where
an how does that come from? But it happens. It's it's going all
the way back, right, I mean, there was you know, there
were serial killers in London going back, you know in London and other cities.
You know they're you know, famous, going going back to your point
from what the FBI profiler has told you, and I think it's you know,
something to come back to is I think we don't really know how many
really know ho riskic human beings. There are prowling and look, if you're
going to kill somebody and you just want to get away with it, there
are demographics target and there's ways to do it. If that that make it
a lot a lot easier if you will, right, if if people are
good at it and plan over over time. So yeah, I think it's
sary. You know. The thing you hope is that the prosecutor and the
police in Nashville take this as seriously as the prosecutor. Did that you just
talked about in uh in Ohio? The dot dot to that is boy.
If you are a parent now in your kid, a blonde haired kid who's
in college, or any college kids say hey, hey, hey, mom,
down to one in Nashville for the weekend, and they don't solve this
thing. That becomes a different conversation for parents. Unbelievable. Every day in
America, here's the number. The United States is a third country with the
highest number of deaths per day every day in America. Every day, eight
thousand Americans die every day, eight thousand a day. I'm looking at this
number. I'm going, how's that pot? Eight thousand a day? And
if those that are killed, you know, it's something in the range of
twenty to twenty five thousand a year are killed or murdered. And if somebody
wants to apply their trade and target certain individuals based upon race, ideology,
whatever it might be, that person could easily and those eight thousand a day.
Every month, there'll be a quarter of a million, quarter of a
million die every month. You could easily do that. And if you keep
your head down and do it. May I use the term the right way
you'll never be caught. Well, that's a scary reality, right. I
will tell you. I'll add another group of death to that eight thousand,
which is three hundred a day. And you know this better than anybody being
from Ohio. Guy from fentanyl. Now that is the leading cause of death
or eighteen to forty five year olds. There's an interesting piece that just came
out in Bloomberg. We'll be talking about it a lot on the show leading
up to election. Here eight and ten Americans in swing states report that fentanyl
is either a somewhat or very important issue for them in this coming election for
president. That's more than abortion, that's more than climate, that's more than
the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. I had a distant I went to the
funeral about a month ago in Indianapolis, a distant family member. I only
met her a couple of times. Early twenties, working popular, no suicidal
ideations. Simply goes to bed at night, doesn't wake up in the morning.
A girlfriend checks on her and she's cold and blue. Oh my god,
what is it? Turned out to be fentanyl and some girlfriends had given
her that's it. Gave her a pill thinking and it looked like a percoset,
had the right markings on it, but it was not percoset. It
was laced completely with fentanyl. And that family and I know in Ohio,
Kentucky, Indiana, Leland, we might be the epicenter of fentanyl addiction right
here, a working class white males and females overwhelmingly used fentanyl drugs and death
that we're that family will constantly for the rest of their life vote on issues
like keeping fentanyl out of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin.
It is a huge issue, a huge issue here and every family is going
to be touched by drug addiction and fentanyl at some point. And I don't
know. And for this kid, this Riley Strain, that why would somebody
want him dead? And the issue is I think about I'm going to figure
about this case in Covington in which she simply wanted to kill human beings.
In fact, I'm looking at News Nation now right now you have a network
has Riley Strain stumbling and falling out of that bar as if he can't even
keep his keep his legs underneath him. But he had to walk a long
distance to get to the Cumberland river. Why would somebody who's drunk on his
ass want to walk a long distance, stumbling and mumbling and falling and just
want to jump into a river. It doesn't make any sense. No,
it doesn't make any sense. And I think that's what that's what you know,
obviously, and we hope that the police are going to be looking into.
You know, Brian Antid from News Nation, one of the best crime
reporters, one of the best reporters period, there is joins us on this,
on this issue, and I think that this is one of this that
people are gonna have to stay on for a while, right, you know,
you're gonna have to have real reporting done. And I think you're you're
you're right there, which is at the question, Okay, he comes out
of a bar, how long does he have to walk? How do we
match the video of him being a bumbling, stumbling drunk to this idea that
he is gonna walk what a half mile full mile to the Cumberland River and
then just jump that night jump into the body, which is cold. I
would imagine the temperatures in the forties to cold. You know what I like
when you jump into a when you jump into a vat of cold water.
Your body just well what And the police say his phone pinged for the last
time around Gay Street, which is part of close to the Cumberland River,
And so it makes no sense. But when the police say, well,
we're gonna if the police say, okay, there was no signs on the
body. The body's been in the water for two weeks. It's largely devoid
of any objective evidence of crime. They simply mark it down as a I
don't know and accidental death and move on to the next case of some other
white male college dude or female. I mean, how many rupees, how
many illegal drugs are putting in women's drinks and bars and they simply wake up
somewhere and is not reported and they're raped or some some and all of a
sudden you move on to the next case. One of those eight thousand was
Riley strained is not alive today? Well, I'll tell you what, Leland,
we got to run. I wanted to talk about Trump and truth social
I wanted to talk about Tony Bobolinski. I wanted to talk about Palm Beach
County. Over a couple of days ago, three Guatemalans kidnapped off the street.
A woman walking with a purse, jumped out of a pickup truck,
grabbed her by the neck, picked up her body, threw in the back
of the pickup truck, raped her for three days, and then, thank
god, she got free of that. I wanted to talk about other crimes
being committed, but this one, this one has me baffled. And I
remember what happened in that serial profile. Well, I'll tell you what we
got to run. I'm sorry, Leeland, we got Next time we're together,
we'll talk about politics. But I found this case fascinating, and when
you bring up I think you and the rest of the country as well.
And lastly, fentanyl. If somebody would say to you, fentanyl it's a
more important issue than abortion, I'm not sure anybody would have believed that.
Wo when a family is touched by it and it came over the southern border,
and it's all over college campuses, and it's all over work sites,
and it's all over the drug community, that do you want to put the
right level of fentanyl in the drug to keep them hooked but not kill them.
That family is going to vote on fentanyl, and that may be the
reason that Trump becomes the president of the Southern Border. I want to get
your last reaction to that. I couldn't agree with you. I couldn't agree
with you more that the southern border has become a proxy for so many issues,
right is it sitting all now? When you say to somebody what's your
most important is they say immigration? Immigration is now a foxy for fetanyl,
because, as you point out, it touches so many people. I think
it's fifty percent of which you are now a member of America. Say they've
been personally touched by a ventanyl death. You can't imagine a twenty two year
old, attractive functioning a young girl who is dead because of a failure on
the southern border. And Leland Vedert of News Nation, there are tens of
thousands of Americans in the Midwest touched by this. And when they see those
charging the border, knocking down the barbed wire, when they see Guatemalins in
Palm Beach County, Florida raping off the streets and then released on bond,
you see what's happening in New York City, which is a terrible problem and
fentanyl. Keep an eye on that issue because come November, these stories are
percolating. People vote when it touches them personally. Leland veverter, once again,
Sorry, couldn't go on in politics. Will two it the next time,
but thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you,
Leland. We'll talk soon. God bless you. Let's continue with more.
Once you've been touched by something like this, it becomes personal. And when
you vote and it becomes personal, that's when you move in the needle.
And maybe that's why Trump is up in Ohio by eight or nine percentage points,
Michigan by four or five because these issues the southern border are issues that
touch, at one point or another, every American family. Let's continue with
more. Bill Cunningham, The Home of Your Reds three more preseason games.
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