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🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Charles Fain Lehman, Ilya Shapiro, Renu Mukherjee, and Daniel Di Martino discuss the attack on two Minneapolis state lawmakers, the rallies against Trump, the military parade in D.C., and the New York City mayoral race.
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1:24.8 | I want to take us right into this weekend's news. Over the weekend, |
1:30.5 | two Minneapolis state lawmakers and their spouses were attacked. One couple was murdered. The |
1:35.3 | others look likely to recover. I think they're awake. They're just to give a statement. Maybe by the |
1:39.8 | time this comes out, they will have given the statement. The alleged suspect, Vance Bolter, |
1:44.8 | has been apprehended after a multi-day manhunt. Bolter was reportedly a Trump supporter. His list of targets |
1:50.3 | included Planned Parenthood clinics. We don't really know the full motivation, but it sure looks |
1:56.6 | like the right-wing instantiation of the political violence we've been talking about on this show. |
2:03.4 | So, you know, do we see this as part of that broader trend? And what do we make of this incident |
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