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The Charlie Kirk assassination

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Rich, I won't ask how you are because none of us is very good right now, but good morning.

Yeah, it's a grim, grim times, grim event.

We do have a suspect in custody, as we learned right before we started recording.

We haven't reliably learned really anything except for that.

So any impressions on how this went down?

There are some criticisms of the FBI putting out information that had to be quickly withdrawn

and just generally how they've conducted themselves,

but they apparently have gotten the guy now.

Well, it's been a pretty incompetent investigation.

There's going to be major lawsuits that come out of it, obviously.

From arresting the wrong people?

Yeah, you know, we talk, Rich, because the grand jury stuff came up so much with the Epstein

Embrolio, we talk a lot about investigative secrecy.

Investigative secrecy is not just something that's done to protect the identities of people who haven't

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