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Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon, This is the GYMP in Valencia.
Speaker 3: I like that you're talking about the Hart Mountain with you.
Speaker 2: I'm from Atlanta, and like, I like hearing all the
Speaker 2: people call up in the South.
Speaker 3: With their accent because that then you know, all the time.
Speaker 2: Start speaking with an accent. Anyway, y'all have a great day, y'all.
Speaker 1: I started saying y'all. I got called out on it
Speaker 1: at the stadium when I was like, thank you. It's like,
Speaker 1: it's like that that Southern accent. It just kind of
Speaker 1: you sit in it for a while and it just
Speaker 1: kind of rubs off a little bit.
Speaker 2: And then you go to Pittsburgh people think you're a bumpkin. Hey, Shannon,
Speaker 2: hate to correct you. Bet you Who's not chocolate milk.
Speaker 2: It's a chocolate drink mainly water, no milk in it
Speaker 2: at all. I looked it up. Water is what's in you? Who?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Water, high fruitos corn syrup, way less than two percent
Speaker 3: of cocoa, non fat, dry milk, natural and artificial flavors,
Speaker 3: sodium cassi in.
Speaker 4: Eight something for everybody is all I'm hearing.
Speaker 3: Corn syrup, solids, ye, calcium phosphate, die potassium phosphate, palm oil, guar, gum,
Speaker 3: x anthon, gum, mono and diglyceride, salt, spice, soy less
Speaker 3: than nia s sinamide which is vitamin B three, superlos
Speaker 3: vitamin A palmitate, diabetes ribal flavor which is vitamin B
Speaker 3: two and vitamin D three.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: To be honest and full disclosure, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've had a Yahoo I you who I. I was
Speaker 1: a Neslee's powder in the milk person.
Speaker 4: My grandparents would how are the syrup powder?
Speaker 2: Oh? Really?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: They had the canister of the Nesley powder and I
Speaker 1: would spoon that into the milk.
Speaker 2: I had the Hershey's squirty stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: There is not an ounce of anything natural in that.
Speaker 4: I feel like I was.
Speaker 1: I feel like I was more healthy with the powder,
Speaker 1: but it was probably the same damn stuff.
Speaker 2: Right, It's just a powdered version. It's time for Swamp Watch.
Speaker 2: Swamp is horrible. The government, We're come man, We're gonna
Speaker 2: make this like a reality TV show. Was a bad news.
Speaker 4: Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: A jel, a town.
Speaker 5: Hall too, clearly built on a swamp and in so
Speaker 5: many ways still a swamp.
Speaker 4: I have a watch of malarkey, he said, drain the swamp.
Speaker 2: I said, Oh, that's so hope keep happens.
Speaker 3: You know the thing, Well, this week you in General Assembly,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have a lot of dignitaries in the United States.
Speaker 3: Today President Biden sat down and talked with the President
Speaker 3: of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Mohammad bin Zayed, after
Speaker 3: Israeli airstrikes. We do know that that meeting took place,
Speaker 3: but in terms of what we're doing, it's just basically
Speaker 3: that the President wants to de escalate tensions there in
Speaker 3: the Middle East.
Speaker 2: Thanks for that news brief.
Speaker 3: This is sort of a In the next segment, I
Speaker 3: wanted to read for you part of this article that
Speaker 3: I found today, and it's unseerious candidates in a seriously
Speaker 3: dangerous world. You look at the two candidates at the
Speaker 3: top of the two major parties right now, and there's
Speaker 3: not a lot of confidence in either one of them
Speaker 3: to handle the potential crises. The temperature that has been
Speaker 3: turned up in some of the foreign relations places that
Speaker 3: we need to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: There was an article in Politico about grocery prices, what
Speaker 1: presidents can and can't do to lower grocery prices, that
Speaker 1: the next president will have few options to significantly or
Speaker 1: quickly lower food costs, although voters believe otherwise. This is
Speaker 1: something I've been harping on for months, a couple of
Speaker 1: years now, where it's just you thought that the prices,
Speaker 1: the inflation slash shrink flation, we're going to go down.
Speaker 4: They have not.
Speaker 1: Who's taking advantage of that? I don't know, but we've
Speaker 1: got to do something. There's really not a lot that
Speaker 1: can be done. Is as the majority of US consumers
Speaker 1: believe elected officials, one party or the other can help
Speaker 1: lower grocery bills, an expectation that could help help swing
Speaker 1: the election, but the truth they write is likely to
Speaker 1: disappoint them. Despite what both Harris and Trump are promising
Speaker 1: on the campaign trail, they really whoever the next leader is,
Speaker 1: has very limited options to lower food costs. It's not
Speaker 1: going to be a widespread way, and it's not going
Speaker 1: to be quick. It'll be some time before if there
Speaker 1: is change made that we feel it in the grocery store.
Speaker 2: And it's one of those.
Speaker 3: It's a third rail basically because if you do try
Speaker 3: to control prices from the executive branch of the government,
Speaker 3: how is that not just communism or socialists? Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean that's the issue, is that you can't You can
Speaker 3: complain about inflation and tr inflation, like you said, but
Speaker 3: then over manipulating the market is not what we're about.
Speaker 2: No, and never really have been.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said yesterday he doesn't think he'd run again
Speaker 1: for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4: No, don't. I think that will be that will be it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And for two reasons this thing is making headlines. One,
Speaker 3: he would rule out this fourth bid for a White House.
Speaker 3: But this is also that sort of very rare time
Speaker 3: when he says that it's a possibility that he would
Speaker 3: lose the upcoming election. This is as rare as when
Speaker 3: he admits that he lost in twenty twenty. That those
Speaker 3: kinds of things don't happen very often. And I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's just a matter of him misspeaking, or
Speaker 3: if it's him having some amount of foot in the
Speaker 3: real world kind of thing. It was about a twenty
Speaker 3: two minute interview he defended his record on COVID. He
Speaker 3: took credit for development of the vaccines developed during his presidency,
Speaker 3: also saying that they're doing studies on the vaccines and
Speaker 3: we're going to find.
Speaker 2: Out if they're safe. Wait a minute, that was four
Speaker 2: years ago. I thought they were safe.
Speaker 3: I thought you determined that, and now we're still having
Speaker 3: the discussion about whether.
Speaker 2: Or not they were safe. That's always fun.
Speaker 3: In terms of the latest polls that have come out,
Speaker 3: the New York Times Sana College poll found that Trump
Speaker 3: has now a five point lead in Arizona over Kamala Harris,
Speaker 3: five points that went to Biden four years ago, a
Speaker 3: four point lead in Georgia over Harris that also went
Speaker 3: to Biden in twenty twenty. And in North Carolina, Trump
Speaker 3: does have a two point margin, which is closer than
Speaker 3: it's more notable, I suppose, because North Carolina hasn't voted
Speaker 3: for a Democrat since two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: That's the latest. A quick note.
Speaker 3: Also, congressional leaders announced an agreement on a short term
Speaker 3: spending bill. There will be no federal government shutdown, at
Speaker 3: least not this week or next.
Speaker 1: Okay, so coming up this hour, we've got a couple
Speaker 1: mysteries that we're going to get to the bottom too,
Speaker 1: or try to. And we told you about that alone
Speaker 1: judge in rural Kentucky, which sounds like an oxymoron being
Speaker 1: shot and killed in his chambers by a local sheriff.
Speaker 1: We're now hearing that too. Have been friends for a
Speaker 1: long time. As you can imagine, small town situation. They're
Speaker 1: very protective there at the small town over gossip and people.
Speaker 4: Coming and calling about what went down.
Speaker 1: These two apparently married sisters at one point, So we'll
Speaker 1: tell you about that. Also, that super yacht that was
Speaker 1: sunk in Apparently it's believed to have contained watertight safes
Speaker 1: with sensitive intelligence data.
Speaker 2: I knew it, did you know? Oh, but that would
Speaker 2: be fun.
Speaker 3: One of the other political scandals that's going on right
Speaker 3: now is Mark Robinson. This is the lieutenant governor in
Speaker 3: North Carolina who is running for governor. A bunch of
Speaker 3: people on his campaign team resigned three days after he
Speaker 3: had to deny making years old posts on a pornographic website.
Speaker 3: The general consultant and senior advisor, a campaign manager, a
Speaker 3: finance director, and a deputy campaign manager all stepped down.
Speaker 3: Just a couple of weeks now before the election. He
Speaker 3: has vowed not to exit the race. He has remained defiant,
Speaker 3: and he has stated that there will be new incoming
Speaker 3: staff members moving their way up the ranks of the
Speaker 3: campaign a campaign. The problem with the timing of this
Speaker 3: is that absentee ballots go out this week to voters
Speaker 3: who requested them. They've already been sent to military overseas
Speaker 3: voters over the weekend. Polling in recent weeks has shown
Speaker 3: him down by more than a dozen points, in some cases,
Speaker 3: trailing Josh Stein, who is currently the Attorney General. The
Speaker 3: news reports last week, most of them from CNN, talked
Speaker 3: about his past online activities, including making posts on a
Speaker 3: pornographic website Nude Africa, said that he enjoys watching training
Speaker 3: on girl porn and that he wears that he was
Speaker 3: a black Nazi, among other things. He supposedly had an
Speaker 3: account registered on Ashley Madison, a website for married people
Speaker 3: looking for affairs. He has denied all of that. He
Speaker 3: has denied making any posts, says he has never signed
Speaker 3: up for that website.
Speaker 1: This is an article out of the National Review about
Speaker 1: unseerious candidates in a seriously Dangerous world, and it starts
Speaker 1: this way. On the campaign trail, it's all coconut tree
Speaker 1: memes and Oprah touting joy that's on the Hair side
Speaker 1: and official coins designed by me and gold sneakers on
Speaker 1: the Trump side.
Speaker 4: Rates.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, US commercial airline pilots are experiencing more GPS jamming
Speaker 1: when they fly internationally. North Koreans are conning US companies
Speaker 1: out of cash through fraudulent remote work schemes. China's outpacing
Speaker 1: the US has negated our military advantage in the Western.
Speaker 4: Pacific, and oh right, the Middle East.
Speaker 3: This is sort of the worst version of nobody messes
Speaker 3: with my family but me like, you can fight within
Speaker 3: your family and say siblings, right, You're going to continue
Speaker 3: to bicker with your siblings, for that's what you do.
Speaker 3: But if somebody ever picks a fight with your brother
Speaker 3: or your sister, you.
Speaker 2: Defend them, yes, at all costs.
Speaker 3: Sure, now, this is sort of that version of that
Speaker 3: where we are now bickering with each other, but we're
Speaker 3: forgetting that there are outside threats to this country that
Speaker 3: threaten not just your sibling but you also and we're
Speaker 3: not doing anything about them.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say we're not doing anything.
Speaker 3: It does not appear that the two main candidates want
Speaker 3: to do anything about them.
Speaker 1: Noah Rothman offers this grim assessment. Kamala Harris cannot say
Speaker 1: that she wants America's most stalwart ally in the Middle
Speaker 1: East to win its war against Iran backed terrorists. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump will not say that he wants a Western facing
Speaker 1: country which is being dismembered by one of America's oldest enemies,
Speaker 1: to win its righteous war of self defense. Both campaigns
Speaker 1: pay lip service to the need to confront China without
Speaker 1: leveling with us, the American people, about what it would
Speaker 1: take to achieve these executive objectives. Say these maybe serious times,
Speaker 1: but they have not generated commensurate seriousness in our politics.
Speaker 3: And pray that it doesn't take some ridiculous disaster for
Speaker 3: America to come to its census. I mean, we saw
Speaker 3: un paralleled, at least in our lifetimes, obviously unparalleled.
Speaker 2: What would be the.
Speaker 3: Togetherness after the September eleventh attack? Right the community that
Speaker 3: was the United States of America was on fire at
Speaker 3: that time, in those months, the very end of two
Speaker 3: thousand and one.
Speaker 1: I wasn't paying enough attention, being a twenty year old
Speaker 1: at the time, but was it like this was it
Speaker 1: this bad because like, I don't think even nine to
Speaker 1: eleven could bring us together.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a great point. It was not that we
Speaker 3: were as divided. I mean, we've always been divided. It's
Speaker 3: what has defined our country. It's what makes us that
Speaker 3: bickering sibling that we are with each other. That's kind
Speaker 3: of a given. But it just felt like we got lazy,
Speaker 3: We got kind of lazy about what was going on
Speaker 3: around the world and assumed that we were not vulnerable
Speaker 3: here at home. That proved to a lot of people
Speaker 3: that we absolutely are vulnerable to even a very low
Speaker 3: tech version of a terrorist attack, which in all honesty,
Speaker 3: that was a low tech version. You mentioned these pilots
Speaker 3: that are now talking, you know, about having airliners have
Speaker 3: their GPS completely scrambled.
Speaker 1: With right American Airlines Captain Dan Carey knew his cockpit
Speaker 1: equipment was lining to him when an alert began blaring.
Speaker 1: Pull up as his Boeing Triple seven passed over Pakistan
Speaker 1: in March. An altitude of thirty two thousand is what
Speaker 1: he was cruising at, far above any terrain is The
Speaker 1: warning stem from a kind of electronic warfare that hundreds
Speaker 1: of civilian pilots encounter each day GPS spoofing. The alert
Speaker 1: turned out to be false, but illustrated how fake signals
Speaker 1: that militaries use to warn off drones and missiles are
Speaker 1: also permeating growing numbers of commercial aircraft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not a gradual thing. In February there
Speaker 2: were a few dozen instances of this GPS spoofing affecting
Speaker 2: commercial aircraft. It was eleven hundred last month, eleven hundred.
Speaker 2: We just saw, I mean, we are arguably on their side,
Speaker 2: but we just saw Israel detonate thousands of small bombs
Speaker 2: that they had gotten into the Hesbola's hands over the
Speaker 2: course of the last year or so. What makes us
Speaker 2: think that we would be immune to it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look at you know, the movements we've seen
Speaker 1: near the Aleutian Islands and what's going on there. It's
Speaker 1: almost like a global shell game of risk where where
Speaker 1: we're not paying attention, or the powers that be are
Speaker 1: not paying attention, maybe because we've got weekend of Bernie's
Speaker 1: administration or what have you. The infighting between democratocrats and
Speaker 1: Republicans pointing fingers. The world's taking notice and they're on
Speaker 1: the move.
Speaker 3: The one thing that has happened is that the Biden
Speaker 3: administration has been talking about banning components built in Russia
Speaker 3: or China from connected vehicles those cars. Every car now
Speaker 3: is going to have an Internet connection, it's going to
Speaker 3: have a GPS locator, it's going to have all of
Speaker 3: this stuff in it. And they're talking about making sure
Speaker 3: that the components built in China and Russia, which could
Speaker 3: potentially house sort of that sleeper mechanism, that that stuff
Speaker 3: is banned from connected vehicles going forward. There's at least that,
Speaker 3: but it's still not enough in terms of the potential
Speaker 3: threats that do exist outside.
Speaker 1: Do you want your jeopardy question? Oh yes, okay, get off.
Speaker 4: The dark web.
Speaker 2: I was trying to find the Lieutenant governor of North Carolina.
Speaker 5: Oh time to fall into autumn for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: Baby boo and autumn gold, or varieties of this gourd
Speaker 5: that's popular during fall holidays.
Speaker 2: The pumpkin.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, don't ever think it. I didn't know pumpkins
Speaker 1: had names.
Speaker 2: Of those are so bad.
Speaker 4: Baby boo, pumpkin.
Speaker 1: Oh, this shows up on Urban Dictionary, the baby boo
Speaker 1: or the white pumpkins.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, my wife has a handful of those on
Speaker 3: our table already. Yeah, we put out some of the week.
Speaker 3: She put out some of the Halloween decorations because there's
Speaker 3: kind of that dead part between August and September when
Speaker 3: you wanted to be a little cooler and chillier, Right,
Speaker 3: the only way to actually push that is to actually
Speaker 3: put some Halloween decorations up.
Speaker 2: And the included the little baby bit.
Speaker 1: That's how your wife praise to the rain gods with
Speaker 1: baby boot pumpkins.
Speaker 3: Yes, that and the the dog skeleton that we have
Speaker 3: that we put out.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's not really not what you think.
Speaker 4: Dog died.
Speaker 3: That dog was was cremated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's creepy, kind of creepy.
Speaker 2: It's a plastic skeleton dog.
Speaker 1: I didn't The autumn gold is just like the every
Speaker 1: day kind of pumpkin.
Speaker 4: You get the pumpkin patch pumpkin. Yeah. How many types
Speaker 4: of pumpkins do you think there are?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Gosh, there's just I've never thought about such an intriguing question.
Speaker 2: How many kinds of pumpkins are there?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't nimes of pumpkins are there?
Speaker 2: Eighty?
Speaker 1: There are over one hundred and fifty varieties of pumpkins,
Speaker 1: different varieties for each season. Did you know they're technically
Speaker 1: a fruit? Technically a fruit, yes, but actually a winter
Speaker 1: squash in the cue cer bitasa family. It also includes
Speaker 1: cucumbers and melons.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 1: Some names include Hooligan, cotton candy, Orange Smoothie, Long Island Cheese,
Speaker 1: sugar Pie, pumpkin, Happy Jack Prize winner, fascinating.
Speaker 2: Long Island Cheese. I'd be interested in that.
Speaker 1: That's an heirloom pumpkin with a smooth flesh and string
Speaker 1: free interior a high nutritional content. It's named for its wide,
Speaker 1: flat shape, which resembles a wheel of cheese, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't taste like cheese.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately for you, Italian prosecutors have opened up a criminal
Speaker 3: investigation into multiple charges of manslaughter and negligent shipwreck in
Speaker 3: the Baysian sinking.
Speaker 2: This is the superacht, this forty.
Speaker 3: One million dollar one hundred and eighty four foot yacht
Speaker 3: that went down one hundred and sixty four feet the
Speaker 3: bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. And there is a concern
Speaker 3: that inside the high security vault on this super yacht
Speaker 3: are a couple of hard drives, encryptied hard drives that
Speaker 3: hold highly classified information including past coodes sensitive data and
Speaker 3: if you're a fan of any of the Mission Impossible movies,
Speaker 3: a full knock list the people who have what is
Speaker 3: a knock list?
Speaker 2: Does it non operative cover something like that?
Speaker 3: Basically it explains who's a secret agent and what their
Speaker 3: fake identity is.
Speaker 2: OK.
Speaker 3: That's the thing that Ethan is trying to get all
Speaker 3: the time. It seems like Ethan played by Tom Cruise.
Speaker 3: Now they said that the British tycoon Mike Lynch, British
Speaker 3: tech tycoon, was associated with British, American and other intelligence
Speaker 3: services through his various companies, including a cyber security company
Speaker 3: that he founded called dark Trace. Oh yeah, that sounds
Speaker 3: exactly like it came from a spy novel. That company
Speaker 3: was sold to a Chicago based private equity firm. Lynch's
Speaker 3: wife's company, Rev Tom Limited, owned the actual ship itself
Speaker 3: was an advisor to British Prime Ministers David Cameron and
Speaker 3: Teresa May.
Speaker 2: According to the British government.
Speaker 1: So Lynch and his eighteen year old daughter Hannah died.
Speaker 1: Attorney American attorney Chris Marvillo, his wife, British banker Jonathan Bloomer,
Speaker 1: his wife Judy, the onboard chef.
Speaker 4: They all died.
Speaker 1: There were fourteen others who survived along with Lynch's wife
Speaker 1: and some of the survivors and reportedly told prosecutors that
Speaker 1: Lynch did not trust cloud services and always kept data
Speaker 1: drives in a secure compartment of the yacht wherever he sailed.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Some of these, some of these survivors may have secrets, perhaps.
Speaker 2: That they don't want released.
Speaker 3: There's a you would assume that if a ship goes
Speaker 3: down like this, a yacht goes down, everybody drowns, right
Speaker 3: all I mean those that die end up drowning, they said.
Speaker 3: The preliminary autopsies were are showed that the couples, the
Speaker 3: Bloomer and Morvillo couples died of suffocation or dry drowning
Speaker 3: when the oxygen and an air bubble and a sleeping
Speaker 3: cabin ran out because they weren't rescued. Autopsy results for
Speaker 3: Lynch and his daughter were less clear. The chef the
Speaker 3: body was actually found outside of the yacht, and they
Speaker 3: said that that one was pretty clear died by drowning.
Speaker 3: None of them had suffered any physical injuries when the
Speaker 3: boat went down, so they're still trying to figure out
Speaker 3: exactly what happened. The Baysi and take a few hours
Speaker 3: before Chamberlain died in the hospital, Lynch would not have
Speaker 3: known about his partner's death, and Chamberlain was in a
Speaker 3: coma so would not have known about the shipwreck apparently.
Speaker 3: But that's just a strange little coincidence, isn't it that
Speaker 3: he died on the same day that the yacht sank,
Speaker 3: hiding a couple of super encrypted hard drives, but may
Speaker 3: be very valuable to Western intelligence agencies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've asked for more security around this. They of
Speaker 1: course had security around the yacht because they figured people
Speaker 1: would go in for jewelry and money and all the
Speaker 1: other things rich people travel with. But now they requested
Speaker 1: additional security to guard in case foreign governments want access
Speaker 1: to this data.
Speaker 2: And you know what they're going to do.
Speaker 3: They're going to say, oh, we have to be super
Speaker 3: careful because we don't want the fuel or the oil
Speaker 3: to spill out into the ocean that's still on board.
Speaker 3: So we're going to have to be very careful about
Speaker 3: how we bring this yacht back. This is a book
Speaker 3: you would read, for sure. I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 3: which author or would do this. I don't know if
Speaker 3: this is Jack Car could be a Jack Carr novel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we still have work to do on space wars,
Speaker 1: So why don't you just pump the brakes a little
Speaker 1: bit on your spot them? All Right, There's a carnival pumpkin,
Speaker 1: a sweet dumpling pumpkin, Jaradale pumpkin, Cinderella pumpkin, a black
Speaker 1: footsoup pumpkin, buckskin, pumpkin, spaghetti pumpkin, baby bear pumpkin, great white.
Speaker 4: Pumpkin's puk black peanut pumpkin.
Speaker 2: You're gonna do all one but.
Speaker 4: Black and silver pumpkin.
Speaker 6: I know that I have listened to you guys for
Speaker 6: such a long time that when you guys start talking
Speaker 6: about a variety of pumpkins and how many they are,
Speaker 6: it completely brings me back to when y'all were see
Speaker 6: y'all Now I'm doing that too, When you guys were
Speaker 6: going through the apples sat you guys were so obsessed
Speaker 6: with different types of apples, and I think Shannon would
Speaker 6: eat one and it was just apple craziness.
Speaker 2: There was apple crazy.
Speaker 1: We went through a period of apple We had an
Speaker 1: apple every day for a long time.
Speaker 4: We don't do that anymore. We don't do it anymore.
Speaker 2: Were gonna have apples in a long time.
Speaker 1: We should get back into apples. We we We sidelined
Speaker 1: the apples for some green tea for a few months.
Speaker 1: You don't remember you started the green tea thing.
Speaker 3: I made it a good probably eight months with one
Speaker 3: cup of green tea.
Speaker 1: Yeah a day, right, and then I we need a
Speaker 1: new obsession. Maybe it's pumpkins.
Speaker 2: Could you do with it?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Look at it, spin it around.
Speaker 2: That sounds like fun.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump says he won't run again if he
Speaker 1: loses in November. Says, I think that would be it
Speaker 1: were his words. In the meantime, the man suspected of
Speaker 1: that assassination attempt against Trump from the golf course left
Speaker 1: a letter detailing his plans, saying he intended to kill
Speaker 1: Trump on behalf of Ukraine.
Speaker 3: Former President Trump is had to Pennsylvania for a policy
Speaker 3: event this afternoon. He's going to hold a rally tonight.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris doesn't have any campaign events scheduled today. I
Speaker 3: understand she's supposed to meet with the president of the
Speaker 3: UAE today after President Biden did, and then she is
Speaker 3: going to be in Pennsylvania Wednesday, and then heads out
Speaker 3: west later this week.
Speaker 1: We reported to you last week a judge in Kentucky
Speaker 1: was shot and killed in his chambers in the courthouse,
Speaker 1: and a local sheriff was charged with his murder. It's
Speaker 1: a very small town population of about seventeen one hundred
Speaker 1: people this place, it's called Whitesburg, Kentucky, southeast of Lexington,
Speaker 1: and people are being very closed off when it comes
Speaker 1: to people digging into what happened. These two, the judge
Speaker 1: and the sheriff, had been friends four years, worked side
Speaker 1: by side at one time in the county courthouse. In fact,
Speaker 1: the sheriff was the judge's bailiff at one point, still
Speaker 1: in charge of the judge's salary. To u high profile
Speaker 1: elected officials in a town where everyone knows one another.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's so odd that the sheriff, Sean
Speaker 1: Mickey Steins, walked into the chambers, pulled out a gun
Speaker 1: and killed district Judge Kevin Mullins. Unprecedented. This kind of
Speaker 1: town goes years without a homicide.
Speaker 3: The sheriff had been deposed earlier in the week in
Speaker 3: a lawsuit that was filed by two women. One of
Speaker 3: them alleged that a deputy not the sheriff, but a
Speaker 3: deputy had forced her to have sex inside the judge's
Speaker 3: chambers for six months in exchange for staying out of jail.
Speaker 3: And the lawsuit said that the sheriff may it did
Speaker 3: accuse the sheriff of deliberate indifference in failing to adequately
Speaker 3: train and supervise the deputy. That now former deputy has
Speaker 3: already pleaded guilty. He's sentenced to six months in jail
Speaker 3: six and a half years probation for a series of charges.
Speaker 3: This second woman apparently had already died by the time
Speaker 3: this lawsuit came to fruition, so it doesn't she's.
Speaker 2: Not part of it anymore.
Speaker 3: But so the sheriff fired that deputy who succeeded him
Speaker 3: as the judge's bailiff. So there's this triangle of relationship here.
Speaker 3: But it fired the deputy for conduct unbecoming after the
Speaker 3: lawsuit was filed a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: It seems like the judge knowingly let his deputy coerce
Speaker 1: these women in sex in his chambers, is it not,
Speaker 1: and that the sheriff didn't like that.
Speaker 2: Well, it's possible.
Speaker 3: There were also witnesses who said that they saw Judge
Speaker 3: Mullins and Sheriff Steins together just before noon on Thursday.
Speaker 4: They were supposed to go to lunch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they're about three hours before the shooting.
Speaker 3: And said they went into the judges chambers to ask
Speaker 3: him to sign some papers and they were getting ready
Speaker 3: to go out to lunch together. This witness walked in
Speaker 3: there and he said it seemed like an ordinary interaction.
Speaker 3: It's accept that the sheriff seemed quieter than usual, and
Speaker 3: he said he thought the pair had a good working relationship.
Speaker 3: They didn't know anything that could have prompted the violent encounter.
Speaker 1: The county's council attorney, Matt Butler, has recused himself from
Speaker 1: the case because yes, small town right. He's got long
Speaker 1: family ties with a judge. The two once married to
Speaker 1: a pair of sisters. He says his two daughters called
Speaker 1: the judge unkie, and he is being very closed off.
Speaker 1: He says that he posted it on social media that
Speaker 1: he would not be a source of gossip and asked
Speaker 1: everybody in this community to be the same.
Speaker 4: Do the same.
Speaker 1: Do not give my cell phone number to people, don't
Speaker 1: let people into our community if you're only looking to gossip.
Speaker 1: He said, or be a troublemaker or a stir or
Speaker 1: up of gossip. Leave me out of that conversation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Maan, I guess it had to be something like
Speaker 3: what you suggested. That the judge may have known that
Speaker 3: this deputy was using his chain.
Speaker 2: Right like that.
Speaker 1: But this judge had no public discipline history. He had
Speaker 1: a reputation in the country of working with drug offenders
Speaker 1: to get them into treatment instead of jails. The sheriff
Speaker 1: had friends all over town. Ben a fixture for decades,
Speaker 1: working for years as a bailiff in that courtroom before
Speaker 1: winning the race for sheriff in twenty eighteen. They said
Speaker 1: that this guy, you know, the sheriff, was always offering
Speaker 1: up a big hug that he would say, you know,
Speaker 1: do you need anything, If you need anything, call me,
Speaker 1: she said, No matter how many times I saw him
Speaker 1: in a day, it was always a hug, and those
Speaker 1: were always the specific words that he would say, do
Speaker 1: you need anything, let me know.
Speaker 2: This is one of those stories that's it will be.
Speaker 3: Uh, there's more. There's a lot more. There's a lot more,
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