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your support. So the manhunt for the Brown University murderer

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ended at a storage locker in New Hampshire. This from

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the Associated Press. The frantic search for the suspect in

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last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University ended at a

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New Hampshire storage facility, where authorities discovered the man dead

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inside and then revealed he also was suspected of a

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killing in Massachusetts of an m I T. Professor. So

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I don't know if I covered them I T professor's

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murder on the show.

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Speaker 2: I can't recall. Uh. Stuff kind of bleeds over into

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each other.

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Speaker 1: I know I talked about it on live stream this

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week because when the news broke that this professor had

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been murdered at his home the state media out of

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Iran posted the picture of or tweeted out a story

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about his murder, and then you know, showed a picture

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of him with the head of the i a e A.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency. The i a e A,

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you know, is the agency that monitors the Iranian nuclear

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program that's totally for peaceful purposes, and the implication there

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was that, and then there was investigations that followed and

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are probably still going on as to whether or not

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the MIT professor was murdered because of the attack on

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Iran's nuclear facilities, like that this was retribution for the

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murder of the nine Israel or Iranian nuclear scientists as

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part of that twelve day war between Israel and Iran,

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where you know, we flew the bomber over, or yeah,

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we flew the bomber over and dropped the bombs, or

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maybe there were multiple bombers I forget, and blew up

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their their reactors and their centrifuges and all that, and

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so there were at the time, I said, like, there

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are two ways to read this, you know. Number one

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is that they're claiming success for something that they did

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in fact do or had a hand in, or because Iran.

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By the way, this is what they do. They go

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around and assassinate people. It's why you know they like

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Australia uncovered a couple of plots based out of Iran,

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and then they cut off all diplomatic ties to Iran

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a couple of months ago. I think New Zealand did

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as well. So that's one read on it, is that

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Iran did have a hand in it. But the other

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read on it, which is that Iran did not, but

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they wanted people to think they did, because they are

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so impotent that they could not do something like that,

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but they want people to think they could. And I

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suspect that would mainly be for a domestic audience. It

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was State TV after all, right, so this is a

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message they wanted to put out to their people. So

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this is a way to kind of flex and say

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we still got it. Like, okay, fine, they may have

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wiped out our totally peaceful, civilian purpose nuclear facilities, and

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they took out nine of our nuclear scientists, but we

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sent an assassin and shot an MIT professor whose field

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of work is in nuclear fusion and such, right, like,

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look at us, we still got it. So there's and

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I don't know, I'm just saying, those are the two

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theories that I could conjure up just immediately.

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Speaker 2: I did not think that at first.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think that these two attacks would have been

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related because remember the first, the first attack at Brown University,

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we were hearing reports or rumors that one of the victims,

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this nineteen year old girl who was like the vice

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president of the campus Republicans, that she may have been targeted.

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And so if that was the case, then that doesn't

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seem like you would have any connection to this MIT

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professor up in Massachusetts. But apparently now authorities say they

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were connected, and the guy who is accused or I

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guess suspected of carrying out both murders or all three murders,

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because there was two there were two students that were

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killed at Brown. He is a former Brown University student.

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His name is Claudio Nevez Valente, forty eight years old,

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a Portuguese national, so he's from Portugal, which he was

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also not. The MIT professor was also from Portugal. So

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the suspect was found dead last night from what appears

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to be a self inflicted gunshot wound that according to

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Oscar Perez, the Providence Police chief, investigators believe that Nevez

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Valente is responsible for fatally shooting two students and wounding

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nine other people in a Brown lecture hall last Saturday,

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and then killing MIT professor Nuno Lorrero two days later

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at his home in the Boston suburbs, about fifty miles

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away from Providence. The chief said that, as far as

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investigators know, Nevez Valente acted alone. Brown University President Christina

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Packson said Nevez Valente was enrolled there as a graduate

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student studying physics from the fall of two thousand to

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the spring of two thousand and one, so twenty five

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years ago. He was a grad student, and apparently he

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studied at this same building where he carried out the attack,

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Which would that would explain why he went into this building,

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because that was one of the outstanding questions I had was,

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you know, this is a Saturday. He shows up on

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campus on a Saturday. How does he gain access to

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the building. Why would you go and try to commit

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a mass murder on a Saturday unless you had some

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knowledge that maybe classes were It wasn't even a class.

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It was like a study session for the final exams.

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It's like an optional study class. So it seemed to me,

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like somebody had to be familiar with the campus enough

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to know that there would be this kind of a

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study session occurring. Now, maybe he did not know that

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there was a study session, and maybe he just went

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to that building to try to kill anyone, right, Like

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he just went to that place to try to murder

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somebody at this building that he used to be a

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grad student in.

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Speaker 2: Don't know.

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Speaker 1: He then apparently drives in a rental car up to

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Boston and murders this MIT professor. So what's the connection there?

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The Associated Press reports Neves Valente and Lorrero, the MIT professor,

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had previously attended the same academic program at a university

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in Portugal between nineteen ninety five and two thousand, so

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they were enrolled at the same school, in the same

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physics program at the Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal's premier engineering school.

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In two thousand. That same year, Nevs Valente was let

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go from a position at the university, so they were

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both there at the same time between ninety five and

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two thousand, and in two thousand, Nevis Valente was let

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go or fired.

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Speaker 2: Again. Twenty five years ago.

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News as they make the media landscape more transparent. We

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have an identity now of the suspect in the Brown

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University murder as well as the murder of the Massachusetts

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Institute of Technology professor. Police say that it was the

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same suspect involved in both of the murders, a man

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by the name of Claudio Nevez Valente, forty eight years old.

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He was a former Brown University student. He was a

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Portuguese national and he went to the same school at

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the same time in Portugal with the MIT professor. He

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was let go from a position at that university in Lisbon,

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Portugal in two thousand, according to an archive of a

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termination noticed from the school's president at the time. This

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would have been February of two thousand. So how did

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he end up in America? How did he end up

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at Brown University? Well, he had come to Brown on

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a student visa. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status

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in September of twenty seventeen, so that would mean that

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that was long after his student visa and his student

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career was over. This would have been fifteen years after

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the fact. Right, he was a grad student from two

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thousand to two thousand and one, so he was in

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the country for sixteen years after being a student, yet

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he was on a student visa. It's not immediately clear

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where he was between taking a leave of absence from

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the school in two thousand and one and then getting

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the visa in twenty seventeen. So it's got a bit

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of a gap in the timeline. I'm sure we're going

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to find out more about that in the days and

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weeks to come. But he's got this, uh, you know,

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the missing years. Basically, his last known residence was in Miami, Florida.

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After officials revealed the suspect's identity, President Donald Trump suspended

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the program that he used or benefited from in order

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to get his permanent residency.

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Speaker 2: I have it here. I thought I had it here.

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I printed it out.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be someplace in my stack of stuff

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because it's like the Green Card lottery or something. Yeah,

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it's in here. I'll find during the break. Which is

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pretty amazing. I was unaware that this program exists. But

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the Green Card lottery program where they basically just pick

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your name like out of a hat, I mean it's well,

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it's like the computer randomly generates the winners and then

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you won the lottery. Congratulations, Now you have permanent residence status.

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But that was sixteen years after he took the leave

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of absence from Brown University.

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Speaker 2: So how did they track this guy down? Would you believe.

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Speaker 1: It was a Brown University student or former student who

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was homeless and living in the basement of the school

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building that was the break in the case. Police credited

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a person who had several encounters with Nevez Valente for

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providing a crucial tip that led authorities to him. December sixteenth,

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so this would have been three days ago. The tip

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Command Center received information from an anonymous source referencing a

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Reddit post. Okay, so somebody is on a subreddit for Providence,

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Rhode Island. I think they're calling this guy John. The

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Speaker 2: Stated.

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Speaker 1: The reddit poster said they suspected the shooter was walking

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in the area. Investigators obtained a copy of the reddit post,

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and here is what the reddit post said quote, I'm

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being dead serious. The police need to look into a

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gray Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental. That was

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the car he was driving. It was parked in front

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of the little shack behind the Rhode Island Historical Society

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on the Cook Street side. I know because he used

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his keyfob to open the car. He approached it and

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then something prompted him to back away. When he backed away,

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he relocked the car. I found it odd. So when

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he circled the block, I approached the car, That's when

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I saw the Florida plates. He was parked in the

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section between the gate of the Rihs and the corner

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of Cook and George Streets. So that was the That

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was the Reddit post, and other users of Reddit then

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started urging John to tell the FBI, and John did.

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John said he had encountered him earlier hours earlier in

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the bathroom of the engineering building where the shooting occurred,

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and noticed he was wearing inappropriate clothing for the weather. Again,

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bumped into Neves Valente a couple blocks away and saw

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him suddenly turn away from a Nissan Sedan when he

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saw John. So that's from the affidavit that I just

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read to you from the Reddit post. So he was

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describing that. But that was the second time he had

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encountered this guy. The first time was in the bathroom

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in the building that John was squatting in.

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Speaker 1: Apparently he's homeless, and so he was living in the basement,

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which like that raises some more questions about Brown University's management,

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but we're gonna move on. The tip pointed investigators to

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a Nissan CenTra with Florida plates that enabled Providence police

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to tap into a network of more than seventy street

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cameras that are operated around the city by a surveillance

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company called flock Safety. Make sure I pronounced that one correctly.

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Really enunciate L you know, just for FCEC purposes Flock Safety.

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Those cameras track license plates and other vehicle details. After

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leaving Rhode Island, Providence officials say nevz Valente stuck a

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main license plate over his rental car's plate to help

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conceal his identity. Then they get the footage of Nevez

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Valente entering an apartment building near the MIT professor's building

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in the Boston suburb. About an hour later, he's seen

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entering Salem, New Hampshire at the storage facility, and that's

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where he is found dead because they got cameras at

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the storage facility as well. Brown officials say there are

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twelve hundred cameras on campus, but the attack happened in

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an older part of the engineering building that has few,

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if any cameras well, we know because they provided a

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map of their camera coverage area, like why would you

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do that? But also there's all dead zone around the

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engineering building, and there are rumors and theories out there

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that Brown University took down their cameras because of the

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ice raids. They were like, we don't want any of

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the protesters or obstructors, you know, or or we don't

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want to allow ice to get access to this stuff,

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so they blinded their cameras or they were blinding their

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cameras during the Tenttifada and the protests against Jews and

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all of that. Either way, they took the if that's true,

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which a reporter was grilling the Brown University president on

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the other day, just you know, did you take down

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the cameras? And either way, if either of those scenarios

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about the Brown situation is that a Brown student and

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or graduate is homeless.

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Speaker 2: I would say, I'd just.

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Speaker 1: Say that a Brown grad couldn't find gainful employment.

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Speaker 2: That's a eye kid.

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Speaker 1: Brown is a very good school, Okay, but that does

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actually remind me. I saw this from one of the

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most hilarious accounts on Twitter named Jarvis Jarvis Underscore Best

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is actually the Twitter handled Jarvis Underscore Best Jarvis Best,

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and he says, Uh, my entire life, I have dreamed

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of being a hobo redditor who travels from town to

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town solving mysteries. But this guy just falls into it. Yeah,

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and then somebody did some AI graphic about like the

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homeless detective or something living on the streets solving crimes.

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Speaker 2: Now I will say this is from a g. Hamilton,

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also on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: He says, pointing out that CBS News has well has

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turned a corner. It seems under the leadership of Barry Weiss.

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And I'm going to get to this as well. Barry

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Weiss from the Free Press, not a conservative. I'm not

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touting her as a conservative, but but she has a

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different approach to news gathering, and so they put her

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in charge of CBS News and the way they have

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like it seems like there has been a pretty significant

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and observable shift in the stories that they are.

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Speaker 2: Focusing on, this being one of them.

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Speaker 1: All Right, So after they found out that this guy,

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Nevez Valente was in the country on a student visa,

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and then sixteen years after he leaves Brown University, don't

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know what happens to him, don't know what he's doing.

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Sixteen years and then he wins the Green card lottery

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in twenty seventeen and he becomes a permanent resident. In

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response to this information, President Donald Trump suspended the Green

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card lottery program.

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Speaker 2: So what is this?

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Speaker 1: Well, interestingly enough, in February this year, Representative Mike Collins,

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Republican from Georgia, introduced the Security and Fairness Enhancement for

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America Act of twenty twenty five. And the idea here

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was to scrap this program altogether. So this is from

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Fox News at the time. Republican lawmakers are seeking to

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end a government program that undermines national security quote unquote

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by allowing a quote faceless computer code to randomly distribute

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visas to migrants through a lottery system, the Diversity Immigrant

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Visa Program. They call it the DV program, But I

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don't see why you would call it the DV program

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unless you're because it's the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, So

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it would be the div P or the DIVOP as

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I would call it. But this is the Green card lottery.

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Republicans tried to end this thing. It did not pass.

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It's run by the State Department. It holds an annual

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lottery where up to fifty five thousand green cards are

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given out to immigrants, who are then granted permanent resident

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status through a randomized draw. This program was actually established

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in nineteen ninety. The program has been in political debate

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for years among lawmakers who have raised national security concerns

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over randomly choosing migrants to receive residency rather than going

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through a merit based selection process. Now, according to the

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government's website, they vet all of the people that get

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the lottery tickets here. But Congressman Collins said, quote, the

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Diversity Visa Program is a needless exercise in government virtue signaling.

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We've opened our country up to an almost endless system

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of chain migration while throwing a dart at the globe

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and letting faceless computer codes determine a path to citizenship

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for fifty thousand immigrants per year. To apply, the applicants

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have to come from countries that have historically low rates

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of immigration, like Portugal. Right they also have to complete

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at least a high school education. In twenty seventeen, several

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Republican lawmakers raised concern over the visa lottery after one

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of the winners, Sefulo Sapov, a terrorist who has granted

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residency through the program back in twenty ten, who then

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went on to kill eight people in New York by

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driving a truck into a crowd on Halloween. That was

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twenty seventeen. By the way, twenty seventeen, when the Republicans

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tried to dismantle this program, that's when Valente got his

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lottery ticket same year. Oh and there's another accused terrorist,

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Akayed Ulah, who was also granted a visa through the program.

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Ryan Walker, Heritage act and executive vice president at the time,

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said issuing visas based on arbitrary diversity quotas undermines national security,

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restricts opportunities for skilled talent, and fails to foster true diversity. Yeah, Like,

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the only criteria here is that you have a high

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school diploma or the equivalent. I guess, and you come

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from a country that historically doesn't have a high immigration

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rate into America. Like that's the criteria. Why what's the

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point of that? Diversity is our strength? I guess that's it.

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Speaker 2: It's bizarre.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no reason to be handing out these lottery tickets.

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Doesn't make any sense, especially now that we've got several

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people that have won these tickets and then have gone

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from Allan, what will the President's response be to Ron

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if it's proven to be behind the MIT killing. I

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know you're eventually going to get to that, so I need.

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Speaker 2: To be patient.

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Speaker 1: Well I just got to it, Alan, and I had

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not considered that because until last night it was a possibility.

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But now it does not seem to be the case.

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Now maybe facts get uncovered that reflect otherwise.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know why Iran, you know.

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Speaker 1: Would send an assassin after the target at MIT. Now,

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maybe they found a guy who had a previous beef

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with Brown University, and so he's like, well, you know,

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I'm going to go and assassinate this this nuclear scientist guy,

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this professor but you know what, I'm on my way

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from Miami up to Boston, I might as well, you know,

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make a detour through.

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Speaker 2: Through Brown and you know, murder.

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Speaker 1: Some innocent people, some students on the campus because you know,

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I don't like them, or don't like the campus.

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Speaker 2: Or something like, I don't know to once again, in

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any kind.

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Speaker 1: Of situation like this, In all these cases, I always

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urge people to keep in mind that you're approaching it

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from a rational, sane perspective, and so you're trying to

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figure out the why, right, And with most of these

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people that commit these types of acts, they are not

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sane and they are not rational. So our explanations that

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we can come up with never I should say never,

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but rarely line up with their delusions. It's very difficult, right,

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And when you hear like even times when they tell

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you like this is why I did it, Like, for example,

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my next door neighbor's dog was telling me to go

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murder people, right, Berkowitz like that, that's insane And how

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easy if that story were to emerge today, How easy

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would it be for everybody to say that couldn't possibly

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be true. Somebody must have hired this guy to do it.

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He's probably working for somebody, or there's some other reason

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for it or whatever. Nobody wants to accept that the

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person is insane and irrational carrying.

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Speaker 2: Out these acts. So I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's an investigation going on. I saw a

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report that the Israelis are looking into the are looking

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into this to see if there are any connections, because

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they've got fantastic intel over in the Middle East, so

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we'll see. And then there's this story Bill Malugin from

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Fox News ICE confirms that a murder suspect arrested for

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shooting and killing a man in Reston, Virginia is a

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Salvadoran illegal alien who had just been released from the

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Fairfax County jail the day before, and he had an

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ICE detainer on him, and the ICE detainer was ignored.

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This was a policy decision made by the sheriff, Stacy

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Kincaid when she first won in or well, I shouldn't

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say when she first won, because I don't know when

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she was first elected, but she made this decision in

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twenty eighteen. Do you remember our own sheriff, Gary not

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my fault McFadden, as well as like three or four

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other sheriffs up in Durham and Bunkham and Wake. That

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was the same year they all won election promising the

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very same type of non cooperation with ICE. At the time,

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she issued the statement saying, after the date of termination

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the fair Fed which was May twenty third, twenty eighteen,

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the Fairfax County Sheriff saw will not honor any requests

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to detain individuals subject to an administrative detention request unless

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there is a corresponding, lawfully issued criminal detainer. Does that

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sound familiar. It should. That's the exact same thing that

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not my fault McFadden has been saying for the better

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part of eight years. Luckily, in North Carolina, unlike in Virginia, here,

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our legislature passed a series of laws that McFadden kept

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trying to dodge and skirt and find loopholes in, so

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then they would come and pass another law. They passed

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a series of law to force him to do what

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he should do as the top law enforcement officer of

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no such luck, and now a guy is dead. They

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a citizen of l Salvador, was arrested following a man

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of a home in rest in Virginia. Morales Ortes had

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been in Fairfax County jail while facing charges for brandishing

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a gun and assaulting and injuring somebody, but he was

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released when the case was dropped. Why was the case dropped, Well,

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the victim told police that they were out of the

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country and would not be coming to court to cooperate

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in proceedings. So without the victim's necessary testimony, they could

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not move forward with the case. And so Ice says, hey,

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this guy's got a rap sheet. He's a criminal, illegal alien.

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Hold on to him. We'll come get him. And the

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Virginia Sheriff's Office said pound sand Ice, and they released him.

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If you get a criminal detainer, which doesn't exist. By

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the way, these criminal this immigration system. It's a civil proceeding.

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These were administrative warrants. This has never been an issue

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until Democrats chose to go down this path and try

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to be a little clever by half find the loopholes

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in the laws, or it got to be criminal, not civil,

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and all of this after his release, I say, I

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said that their detainer to transfer him to their custody

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was ignored.

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Speaker 2: After his release.

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, Fairfax County Police said an emergency custody order

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was obtained for Morales Ortez due to mental health slash

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danger concerns. They looked for him to take him into custody,

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but they couldn't find him. He's accused of committing the murder.

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Just hours later, he's got a rap sheet showing he

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has been charged with at least seven crimes since twenty twenty. Again,

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these are choices. These are choices that Democrat leaders have

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made in various jurisdictions that they control, voters that put

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them there, chose to put them there, and until they

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choose to remove them, you will get more of this crap.

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All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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For listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.