The federal death penalty is off the table.

And then someone shows up at the Brooklyn MDC, the Metropolitan Detention Center,

pretending to be an FBI agent to try to break the accused killer Luigi Mangione out of the MDC.

You simply cannot make this stuff up.

Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests

in all of true crime. Here's your host Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waltman.

This story has everything high stakes, lawyering, some massive prosecutorial missteps so far,

and one of the strangest jail break attempts ever today.

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Welcome to Survive and Survivor.

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We do it day in and day out with panelists, three panelists, every night, Monday through Thursday, 7 p.m.

Eastern Friday, it's 1 o'clock with my mom, the child Holocaust survivor, Karm, hence surviving the survivor.

She likes to give me a tough time, but people wonder why that name and now you know.

I roll solo when there are moments of big breaking news, and that's what happened today, while we

are on verdict watch for Brendan Banfield, and it all revolves around Luigi Mangione, you know, that handsome,

now indicted potential murderer, not convicted yet, but that's what he's accused of,

accused of murdering United CEO Brian Thompson in the early morning hours back in 2024.

And now he's beginning to really face the long arm of the United States federal justice system.

Number one, a federal judge has just barred prosecutors from seeking the death penalty.

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