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Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. You're listening to The 1A. Podcast. I'm Naila Boodoo, and it's time for the news roundup.

Let's get into it. Deny, defend, and depose. The gunman who shot dead Brian Thompson, the boss of United Health Care,

is still at large, as police continue to investigate those inscriptions on bullet casings found

at the murder scene in Manhattan. So far, they point to a grievance held by the killer

against the health insurance industry. Also this week, a controversial presidential pardon,

the Supreme Court wrestles with the Equal Protection Clause. And in California, they've counted the very last votes from the

election. Lots of news this week and joining us for all of it, our fabulous panel, Steve Clemens,

founding editor at the Washington Note. Hi, Steve. Great to be with you. Also with us from Michigan, Zoe Clark,

political director at Michigan Public and host of It's Just Politics. Zoe always good to have you with us.

So good to be here, Naila. Hi. And here with me in Washington, D.C. in our studios, Arthur Delaney,

senior reporter at Huff Po. Arthur, great to have you. Love being here.

Let's start in New York.

Police are hunting a gunman who killed Brian Thompson, the boss of United Health Care on Wednesday.

The chief of the country's biggest private health insurer was shot outside a hotel in mid-Manhattan.

The NYPD have described it as, quote, a brazen targeted attack. But as of now, the gunman remains at large. He was last spotted in Central Park on Wednesday. So we, how much do we know about this situation and what don't we know? Yeah, I mean, the list of what don't we know seems to be longer than what we do. I mean, it has been, as you know, 48 hours since this killing, and we know very little. You know, NYPD are calling it premeditated, preplanned,

and targeted. As you note, it happened right outside of the hotel where Thompson was about to

speak at the company's annual investor conference. There is

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