This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.

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Today we're speaking to investigative journalist Ken Clippenstein.

He's going to be talking to us about the United Health CEO killer Luigi Mangione.

Of course, you know about the gunman.

We're going to go into detail about why he did this.

The problem with his manifesto and the press trying to hide it.

And we're also going to talk about the political motivations behind this assassination,

or perhaps lack thereof.

If you want to understand why so many people support this killing, listen on.

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If you can, let's just go over a timeline of the United Healthcare CEO assassination, carried out, as we know now, by Luigi Mangione.

If you can kind of start at the start and explain what happened.

Yeah, so I think part of the reason that this captured so many people's attention was that

the murder took place in broad daylight in front of a huge hotel, right in midtown Manhattan, which I have to

imagine other than Washington, D.C., must be the most heavily surveilled place in the United

States. I mean, cameras everywhere, rich people everywhere, the building that he was going

to, where he was gunned down in front of, I think,

was going to be holding the quarterly earnings conference for United Healthcare.

And so presumably there were all sorts of other suits there as well.

I mean, definitionally, the kind of thing that the huge NYPD in terms of budget, I mean, they have a multi-billion

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