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Shooting at FSU, Polls Bring Reality Check, Federal Grant Fraud & Abuse | April 18, 2025

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Tragedy at Florida State University, the shooter is alive and in custody. Despite political drama, a swath of approval polls continue in the administration’s favor. A whistleblower discovers massive waste and fraud in federal medical grants. Subscribe to The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-kinnett-cast/id1714879044 Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email     Subscribe to our other shows:  Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women  The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown    Follow The Daily Signal:  X: https://x.com/DailySignal  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/  Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal  Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal    Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tragedy at Florida State University, the shooter is alive and in custody.

0:04.8

Despite political drama, a swath of approval polls continue in the administration's favor.

0:09.4

And a whistleblower discovers massive waste and fraud in federal medical grants.

0:14.4

I'm Tony Kinnett from the Daily Signal's Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern.

0:19.6

It is Good Friday, April 18, 2025.

0:22.7

This is the Daily Signals, top news in 10.

0:29.3

A terrible situation yesterday at Florida State University

0:33.0

after a 20-year-old shooter opened fire on a crowd killing two, whom are not students at the

0:40.5

university, and then injuring five more who are still in the hospital. The shooter has been

0:46.7

identified, is in the hospital, and in custody. Here's law enforcement from Florida on the

0:52.3

situation. And we understand that you all have been devastated because of this person's actions.

0:59.5

The question that relates to who is a shooter.

1:02.9

The shooter is 20-year-old Phoenix Echner, Eichner.

1:10.5

And he's a son of a Leone County Sheriff Deputy. Our deputy, Deputy,

1:15.8

Deputy Eichner has been with the Leone County Sheriff's Office for over 18 years. She has a

1:23.2

tremendous job that she's done. Her service to this community has been exceptional.

1:30.4

Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons, and that was one of the weapons that

1:39.1

was found at the scene. And we are continuing that investigation into how that weapon was used and what other weapons perhaps

1:48.2

he may have had access to.

1:50.5

Though the shooter's political history is a bit checkered and messy, it doesn't necessarily

1:55.2

mean that this particular shooting was politically motivated will get you updates as the investigation continues.

2:02.6

That didn't stop members of the media from asking the president yesterday if this meant that

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