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Speaker 1: Top Ink Club Park Good even in the world is

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the one and know the CEO Fortune and I'd like

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to welcome you out to another episode of top Ink

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World News. We got a news report, of course from

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ABC News about two lawmakers that was actually shot. Our

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Codonis goes out to the family from top of the

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food chain.

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Speaker 2: Ink.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into this news report tonight top Ink World News.

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Speaker 2: Thanks.

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Speaker 3: We're going to again give some updates and we will

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be available to answer some questions once all the speakers

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have had that opportunity to say a few words. So

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with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Superintendent Drew

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Evans of the BCA.

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Speaker 4: All right, thanks, Commissioner, and today we are asking for

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the public's help at this point in time and locating

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advance Luther Bolter, who is a fifty seven year old

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white male who's six feet one inches tall, two hundred

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and twenty pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. I

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know this name has been reported in the media so far,

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and we are confirming as a person of interests that

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we are looking to locate in relation to this. At

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this time, we had ask the public, if you do

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locate him to see him, to call nine one one.

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Do not approach him. You should consider him armed and dangerous,

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and you should call nine one one immediately with the information.

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He was seen last this morning wearing light colored cowboy

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hat that you can see up here in the clothing there,

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with dark colored long sleeve colored shirt or coat like pants,

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and carrying a dark bait. If you have any tips

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about the whereabouts or any information that would be helpful,

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you can call local police department, or you can call

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our BCA tip line at eight seven seven nine nine

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six six two two two or email us at BCA

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dot at State mn US. We still don't know if

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additional people are involved, but this individual is the one

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that we're looking as a person of interest right now,

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but there may be other people with him, and we

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would like to speak to anybody that may have had

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contact with him at any point in time. So please

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connect with us, even if this has been some time

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ago today, so that we can follow up and continue

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to work together to keep our communities safe. And we,

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as the Commissioner noted, we'll take some questions at the end,

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but again we're seeking the assistance of the public and

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locating him. I want to continue to say, as you see,

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there's hundreds of law enforcement officers working on this right now,

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for the partners that you see up here today as well,

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from Champlain, a Champlain of Brooklyn Park, the State Patrol,

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Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, FBI, ATF just a myriad of

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partners working to try to locate this individual. And with

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that I will turn it over to the mayor and

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we'll answer questions at the end.

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Speaker 5: So, Hi, my name is Hollis Winston, Mayor of the

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city at Brooklyn Park. First, I want to extend my

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prayers to the Hawkman family, but also to the Hortman

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family as well. You know, there will come a time

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down the road for healing within us as a community.

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But right now, I think what's required as a calming

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words and rhetoric, I want folks to make sure they

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listen to the facts from credible sources like law enforcement,

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but also to resist spreading misinformation, and then again asking

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folks to listen to law enforcement in general when law

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enforcement has those specific asks. In Brooklyn Park and Chaplain

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and our surrounded communities in fact, the state, we're very

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much family. The Hoffman and Hortman families are very much

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our family, and so our prayers continuously go out to them.

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And it's very much a time for us to come

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together as a community and as a family, and I

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think people need to see it that way. I want

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to thank law enforcement. Governor Waltz, Commisioner Jacobson, Sheriff with FBI,

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various counties, local law enforcement, even with our city of

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Brooklyn Park. We're seeing a ton of local law enforcement

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and county law enforcement just supporting our city overall, and

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we want to thank them for doing that. They're dedicated

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to keeping us safe and to securing justice. I would

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say to support them again. If you have information, there'd

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be information behind me, please share that information, and again

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please look and listen for valid information and share that.

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There will be a time to come together, and I

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think specifically for the city of Brooklyn Park and within

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our area, there'll be a time where we come together

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when we work through what we're going through now as

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a community. But I want to say this, you know

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this individual did this to instill fear into our community,

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but they also wanted to create a distinct and singular

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point of view. When I listed all of that law

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enforcement coming together, that was really us as a state

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as a community from all different walks of life, coming

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together to work on what's happening. And I received calls

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from folks across the state from all different ethnicities and

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communities as well, with an outpouring of support. So I

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want people to understand that as a city, but as

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a state, as a community, we're very much gonna come together.

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We're going to see this through, and we're all going

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to work together to figure this out. So again, I

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want to thank our law enforcement and I want to

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turn it over to the Mayor of Champlain Park.

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Speaker 6: Good afternoon. My name is Ryan Sabus, Mayor of Champlain

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and on behalf of the City of Champlain, our Police Department,

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and our city Council. I want to extend a heartfelt

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thoughts and prayers to Senator John Hoffman and Representator excuse me,

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Representative Melissa Hortman and their families are deeply sat in

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by the senseless act of violence, and our hearts are

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with all those that have been affected. Our police department

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is working close partnership with state, local, and federal agencies

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to pursue this active investigation. We are incredibly grateful for

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their swift and responsible, professional response. And for the collaboration

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of commitment of every officer involved. We ask everyone to

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stay attentive, report anything that feels concerning, and most of all,

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continue to show kindness, respect and care for one another.

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This is how we move forward together. And again, thank

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you all for being here. And again, I think Mayor

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Winston said it well that Hoffman family and Hortman family

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are very much part of our communities, part of our

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fabric of our communities, and we really wish the families

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all the best.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. As folks have said, will take a few questions,

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Please don't forget to in the first question.

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Speaker 2: As yourself media organization with the.

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Speaker 3: Weather, and if you have a question for a specific.

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Speaker 2: Individual, Paul, thanks, do you have a look at instead

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of the complems?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 4: The question was do we have an update on Center

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Hoffman's condition. We don't at this time. The last information

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we had is that he was out of surgery and

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was in stable condition at that time. But that certainly

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experienced significant injury, so we'll have to continue to monitor that.

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Speaker 2: Caroline, you said person of interest, so.

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Speaker 4: Not a sess of course, she's a suspect one and

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the same for this particular case. At this point in time,

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you can say, suspect a.

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Speaker 2: Bestort that screwcor You know, this guy is at least

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as relating some sort of security company ord in its

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on website that has a highly transparent Can you speak

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to the level of knowledge this person we have about

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using the gun or you know, it's different security tactics

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that quite separate from it the whole versus walking.

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Speaker 5: On the street.

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Speaker 4: So the question was regarding the sophistication of the individual

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based on reports that you owned a security company. I

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certainly can't get in the details of the investigation. That'll

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all be part of that and we'll explore all of that.

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team will be dissecting that between the investigators Brooklyn Park

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Police Department and all of the state, the local and

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federal partners that are working on that. Certainly an individual

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they're in with some of the tactics that you noted,

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but we'll be exploring that more fully.

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Speaker 5: Question about the Jackie is that phototating today?

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Speaker 4: That is photo is today?

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Speaker 2: And is it the residents of either of our.

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Speaker 4: Long the question is is it from a ring camera.

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It's not. This is from a business, so this is

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that a business location, and there we believe as noted

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that we believe he's was still in at this time,

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he was in the Twin Cities area, and that we

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are continuing to work and follow up on that. We

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believe he's working to potentially flee the area, and so

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that's why we're sharing that with that information now so

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that we can safely apprehend him.

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Speaker 2: You have mentioned.

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Speaker 3: Work.

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Speaker 4: So the question is are we in contact with TSA.

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We've been in contact with all of the federal authorities

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that are relevant to this investigation. We will continue to

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be The question is going to share the time and location.

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This was this morning when this was taken. It was

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in the city of Minneapolis. That's at this point. I

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think all that we can share is we work to

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follow up on that. Well, the question is there's surveillance

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or ring camera. We do have various uh video from

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different locations. I don't want to get in the specific

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it's part of the active investigation, but there's video that

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has been obtained by the investigators, so we can The

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locations you know, because our teams are very active as

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part of an active investigation, I can't talk about the specifics.

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noted in Minneapolis and in green Isle. They are related

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to this investigation and the follow up that the teams

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Speaker 2: And then we're gonna have one more question, a.

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Speaker 4: Little more manifestel and motivating long motia here At this

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point in time, it'd be premature. The question was is

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the manifesto and the information that we have received as

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their motivations. We are working diligently on that. There's certainly

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some indications within that, but there's not specifics enough. We

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have been this is a very active and fluid investigation

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throughout the day as you've been waiting, and these teams

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have been out working out in the field and they

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have been gathering more documents and information. So it would

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really say exactly what the motivation might be from these writings,

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but we will be continuing to work on that and

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provide that information when we're able each other.

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Speaker 2: Did this man know either for mint?

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Speaker 4: The question is do they know each other in any capacity?

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We are still exploring that there's certainly some overlap with

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some you know, public meetings. I will say with Senator

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Hoffman and the individual, but we don't know the nature

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of the relationship or if they actually knew each other.