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Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

On this Wednesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid delivers his third to last show of the year as we inch closer to the show's extended holiday vacation beginning next week. In news of the day, the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione is indicted by a grand jury and is set to be extradited back to New York City by the end of the week, GOP rebels are reportedly plotting a mutiny against Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Kamala Harris delivers her first remarks since her concession speech after losing the Presidential election to Donald Trump, Doug Emhoff is still an especially "crappy Jew", Herschel Walker is named Trump's incoming Ambassador to the Bahamas, and Sid continues to look forward to tomorrow night's One Israel Fund Gala here in NYC. Frank Morano, Curtis Sliwa, Peter King, Sean Hannity, Elizabeth Pipko and Eve Harow join Sid on this hump day installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	77 WabC.
0:03.0	This is Sid and Friends in the morning.
0:05.4	No, I get by with a little help from my friends.
0:09.4	Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish,
0:14.0	announcing a grand jury has indicted Luigi Mangione.
0:18.3	He is now facing first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder
0:23.0	as an act of terrorism for the ambush killing earlier this month. In the middle of midtown,
0:29.5	the beginning of a busy day, tourists, commuters, business people. The intent was to so terror.
0:40.3	DA Bragg calling the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson,
0:45.3	frightening and well-planned. After a five-day manhunt, Mangione was arrested in Al-Tuna, Pennsylvania,
0:53.3	where he is currently being held on gun
0:56.2	charges, but he is expected to be extradited back to New York. The defendant is currently scheduled
1:03.6	to appear in court in Pennsylvania on Thursday morning. First, for a preliminary hearing on its Pennsylvania charges, immediately to follow that
1:14.6	will be an extradition hearing.
1:17.8	We have indications that the defendant may waive that hearing, in which case he brought
1:22.8	to New York forthwith.
1:24.7	The murder took place December 4th.
1:27.1	The next day, the NYPD released these clear photos of Mangione.
1:32.5	A sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department contacted the FBI.
1:38.1	After recognizing Mangione as possibly the same person whose mother had reported him missing.
1:44.9	They were vetting it.
1:46.1	Part of that vetting process was that they reached out to Mangione's mother in San Francisco, very late on the seventh.
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