In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been hold up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

Randy and his wife Vicky thought the government

was an agent of Satan on earth. When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government

had spent millions of dollars to catch one man. We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge

unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

What should we do about white supremacists? Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring

myth for the far right? And whose fault was it anyway?

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To be honest,

Seth Tupper kind of thought he was done covering Christine Ome.

Seth is a reporter in South Dakota, chronicled Nome's rise from Congresswoman to governor,

and he thought, once she landed in D.C., he'd get to pass the baton, as it were. Turns out no such luck.

She's kind of inescapable. She's in the news every day, and it's hard not to think about her,

really. I called Seth, because I wanted someone to talk me through something Nome said last

week that I just kept thinking about.

I want to specifically thank the Army. I want to thank the Marines, the National Guard,

our soldiers, our military men and women who've shown up here.

Secretary Nome was speaking in Los Angeles, talking about what exactly federal agents

and troops were doing on the ground there.

She said her agents were trying to deport immigrants, but also that the feds were investigating protesters.

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