In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been hold up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

Randy and his wife Vicky thought the government

was an agent of Satan on earth. When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government

had spent millions of dollars to catch one man. We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge

unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

What should we do about white supremacists? Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring

myth for the far right? And whose fault was it anyway?

Subscribe to Standoff, what happened at Ruby Ridge Ridge in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

This week, President Trump is taking his show on the road.

And Greg Carlstrom, from over at The Econom economist, he's got a front row seat.

I'm in Riyadh right now, following Donald Trump around on the first leg of his trip in the Middle East.

By Friday, Trump will have spent time in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

Greg says it's hard to overstate how thrilled Middle Eastern leaders are to host the president.

I mean, there was competition.

So he's coming for four days and three nights.

And everyone wanted to host him for two nights. Everyone wanted to

have him for an extra night. And so there was a lot of back and forth trying to figure out,

you know, who would win in the schedule in that way. In the end, he's spending one night in each

country so that he doesn't offend anyone. Yeah, I was struck by how comfortable Saudi Arabia seemed to want to make Trump.

Like, I was seeing that there's actually a mobile McDonald's, like, on site for the president,

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