Trump Capitalizes On The National Guard Shooting

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

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Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot just a few blocks away from the White House, on Wednesday. One of the two shooting victims, 20-year-old Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, died of her injuries on Thursday. The alleged shooter is a 29-year-old man from Afghanistan who served in a “Zero Unit,” an Afghan military force that helped the US military. He moved to the United States in 2021 as part of a Biden-era program to help Afghan nationals who had assisted US troops. He was living in Washington State with his family before making the cross-country trip to commit the attack, and he’d reportedly been struggling with mental health issues for years. For more on what role, if any, mental health considerations might have in the judicial process and the overall effectiveness of the DOJ under U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, we spoke to Ken White. He’s a federal criminal defense attorney, former federal prosecutor, and the co-host of the legal podcast, Serious Trouble. And in headlines, Secretary of State Marco Rubio pursues peace between Ukraine and Russia at a lavish Miami golf club, Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz defends himself after a New York Times report detailed massive fraud targeting his state’s social services programs, and the person who drew Alabama’s new state Senate map is… an 18-year-old?

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0:00.0	It's Monday, December 1st, I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waday.
0:06.2	The show that is working its way through Thanksgiving leftovers and wondering what else it could do with turkey.
0:11.4	Cake? Ice cream? A ceremonial dance, perhaps?
0:35.6	No. On today's show, Secretary of State Markerubio pursues peace between Ukraine and Russia at a lavish Miami golf club.
0:38.2	And the person who drew Alabama's new state Senate map is an 18-year-old. But let's start with the horrifying shooting of two National Guardsmen
0:44.6	in Washington, D.C. last week and the blame game and legal fallout. On Wednesday, two members
0:49.9	of the West Virginia National Guard were shot just a few blocks away from the White House.
0:54.0	One of the two shooting victims, Army specialists Sarah Bextram, died of her injuries on Thursday.
0:59.5	She was 20 years old.
1:01.4	The alleged shooter is a 29-year-old man from Afghanistan who served in a zero unit,
1:05.9	an Afghan military force that helped the U.S. military.
1:09.1	He moved to the United States in 2021 as part of a Biden-era program to help Afghan nationals who had assisted U.S. military. He moved to the United States in 2021 as part of a Biden-era
1:12.1	program to help Afghan nationals who had assisted U.S. troops. He was living in Washington State with his
1:17.4	family before making the cross-country trip to commit the attack. He had reportedly been struggling
1:22.0	with mental health issues for years. In response to the shooting, the Trump administration
1:26.9	halted all asylum decisions and stopped issuing visas to anyone from Afghanistan on Friday.
1:32.3	The shooter's asylum claimed to stay in the United States was approved just this past April.
1:36.1	But on Sunday, Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristy Knoem, seemed to argue that maybe former President Joe Biden was somehow responsible.
1:43.1	I just want to be very clear about this because his asylum was approved in April of this year
1:48.7	on the Trump administration's watch.
1:50.9	So just to be very clear, was there a vetting process in place to approve that asylum request?
1:58.7	Yeah, the vetting process all happened under Joe Biden's administration.
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