Hello, everybody. Welcome to Crystal Kyle and Friends. It is just me today. We had some

kid stuff going on. So no Kyle, but no worries, because we are very lucky to be joined by a great

friend, Ken Klippenstein, who is an independent journalist and who has been making

all sorts of waves and probably is getting himself set up for his next FBI visit as we speak.

So, Ken, great to see you.

Hey, good to be with you again.

Yeah, of course. So you have broken so many scoops with regard to Luigi Mangione and have also

been, I think, helping really inform people about the way the media has

handled the story. But before we jump into any of your specific scoops, just tell people how they

can support the work that you're doing because I think it's never been more obvious how important

it is and all of the incredible ways that the media not only drops the ball, but really goes above

and beyond to

manufacture consent.

So I'd encourage everyone to just go to my substack, which is at Ken Clippenstein.com.

And one of the most important parts of that is you can actually look at the source documents

on which all these interviews are based.

And that's really the point of my doing this.

And there's a throughline in a lot of my reporting. I published the J.D. Vance dossier, the Trump campaign's research into Rubio as well. The point of a lot of this is to give you the underlying stuff so you can make your own judgment and determination. And that's a big part of my frustration, which we'll talk about in a second, I'm sure, with the news media that they say, trust, you know, I call it trust us journalism, where they just say, here's what we paraphrase this says.

So I think it's really important that people just read the actual thing and decide what they think.

Yeah, well, that paternalistic attitude is on full display in this latest piece.

I can actually put this up on the screen that you can see here.

So you publish, The New York Times does not want you to see Luigi Mangione's face.

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