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Speaker 2Our greatest evangelist for liberty became a mortal.
That's all.
President Trump paid tribute to Charlie Kirk at a memorial attended by tens of thousands.
I have all the details from the emotional service, plus the latest on a horrific mouse shooting at a New Hampshire wedding.
What the shooter yelled during the attack could offer clues to a possible motive.
And the kids aren't all right.
Senator Ron Whitin's children have been blamed for driving his wife's assistant to commit suicide, according to a bombshell lawsuit.
Those stories and more Today, Monday, September twenty second.
I'm Kaitlin Becker and this is the New York Postcast.
He's a martyr.
Now, that's just part of how President Trump helped lay Charlie kirk arrest in front of a football stadium filled with mourners in Arizona.
The president described the shock he felt when he learned of Kirk's death and said he believed that Kirk was killed because he was winning on what he called progressive college campuses.
Trump also shared the last words Charlie said to him, quote, please, sir, save Chicago.
The President promised to do just that, as he has for several weeks now, to send the National Guard in federal agents to the city to kirk crime.
The most emotional moments, though, as you'd expect, they came from Kirk's widow, Erica, my husband Charlie.
Speaker 3He wanted to save.
Speaker 1Young men.
Speaker 2Just like the one who took his life.
Speaker 3That man, that young man, I forgive him.
Speaker 2Speakers who took the stage included Donald Trump, Junior Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Vice President Jade Vance, who ended his speech by speaking right to Charlie, saying, quote, I love you, my friend.
We've got it from here now to New Hampshire, where one couple's fairy tale day turned into an absolute nightmare when a gunman stormed into the sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua and opened fire during their wedding, leaving one dead and several others injured.
Twenty three year old Hunter Nadou was later idd as the alleged shooter armed with a handgun.
One wedding guest who was killed is being hailed hero.
Witnesses say Robert de Caesar went after the gunman as soon as he kicked through the door of the dining room in an attempt to protect his family.
The father of two was shot and killed, while two others were injured by the shooter.
Other injuries were sustained as roughly one hundred wedding guests ran for cover.
One witness said it appeared as if the shooter was specifically going after to Caesar, but police haven't indicated whether or not he was actually targeted.
Another witnesses reported Nadou shouted free Palestine during the shoot.
The alleged shooter was promptly taken into custody.
He's been charged with second degree murder and is set to be arranged later today, and while Nadau's motive is unclear at this point, his apparent shouting of free Palestine suggests this might be the latest instance of the polarizing topic turning violent here in the US, but globally the tide is taking a different term.
This week marks the beginning of the high profile meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York.
The UK, Canada, and Australia all took the opportunity to officially recognize a Palestinian state, and while the move was largely expected, it was still met with outrage from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel's representatives are reportedly in discussions with Disney over how his situation post Charlie Kirk comments and subsequent indefinite suspension can be resolved.
Their goal is for Kimmel to be able to resume taping and get back on the air.
The Sideline star is said to be concerned for his crew, according to sources who talked to Vanity Fair and what a permanent cancelation would mean for their livelihoods, and Insider notes that a lot of them are still trying to recover from the twenty twenty three actors strike that took the show off the air, which stopped paychecks.
Meanwhile, Kimmel got some surprising support.
I guess we'll call it from Republican Senator Ted Cruz.
While the Texas lawmaker was careful to note that he was not a fan of Kimmel's, he also criticized FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr's threats to revoke ABC's broadcast license as something out of a quote mafioso playbook.
Here's some of what he said on his podcast on Friday.
Speaker 4I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said.
I am thrilled that he was fired.
But let me tell you, if the government gets in the business of saying we say what you the media have said, we're going to ban you from the airwaves if you don't say what we like, that will end up bad for conservatives.
Speaker 2President Trump spent part of his weekend calling for former FBI Director James con Senator Adam Schiff, and New York Attorney General Letitia James to be prosecuted by the Justice Department, swiftly saying all three are quote guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.
Guilty as hell of what he didn't say, but the President also claimed to have reviewed thirty statements and posts, saying Attorney General Pam Bondi's team at the DOJ is quote all talk, no action.
The President has sung the praises of Bondi several times since taking office for a second term, but now he's pressuring her to do more to prosecute people perceived as his enemies.
The President complained that Bondi's Justice Department nominated a quote Democrats supported US attorney in Virginia.
That man, Eric Sebert, had his nomination withdrawn over the weekend and was replaced by Trump's former attorney Lindsay Halligan.
So is Bondi really in the hot seat?
And should the people Trump name checked be worried too?
The Post's political reporter Ryan King has been following all of this, and he joins me.
Now, So Ryan, let's start with Pam Bondi.
The President previously was a Bondie stand praising her work for the DC crime crackdown and his plans for the kind of sequel that he wanted to see in Memphis.
Now he's taking jobs that are at truth social and then an hour later praising her again.
He's hot and he's cold.
So what exactly is Pam Bondi's status in Trump World?
Speaker 3Yeah?
Well, I think President Trump clearly put her on notice.
He made clear later on that he is supporting her and still believes that she's doing a great job, but he made sure to list out a few complaints that he had with her, particularly over the DOJ's handling of investigations into three of his rivals.
In particular, he was also unhappy with how she handled the federal Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, Eric Sebert, who of course is in charge of or had been in charge of, overseeing investigation into Letitia James.
Trump recently over the weekend moved to oust him, and it was pretty dramatic for the President to go on truth social and to criticize for not being more aggressive in investigating his rivals now.
He did again walk it back in a subsequent truth Social post, but then to reporters when he was questioned about this, he said that he just wants to get these issues resolved, and he said that he thinks it's just taking too long, regardless of whether or not there's evidence to ultimately prosecute them.
He just wants this issue to be settled now.
As for Bondie standing in magaworld, generally, I'd say it's pretty fair to say that she's underwater right now.
She might be okay with President Trump, but you know, on somewhat then nice with him.
But like with magastars such as Steve Bannon, Megan Kelly, Laura Luma, et cetera, it's very clear that they're not happy with her because of a number of things that she's done, particularly her handling of the Epstein drama and in more recently her suggestion that the government can go after hate speech.
She said that last week, and I kicked up a bit of a firestorm, and there are multiple Conservice stars that called for her to be fired.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's really two late is to view her through right now, her relationship with the President and the Trump administration and with the President's base and the MAGA following, so that there is a bit of a differentiation there.
Now, you mentioned Letitia James there, and I want to dig a little deeper into the president's beef with the New York ag.
The issue here is also connected to the Virginia US Attorney drama, as you said, So can you just explain a little bit of what the heck is going on here?
Where does the real issue where's it rooted?
Speaker 3Yeah, and this really seemed to be the issue that Kado was big undercurrent in the President's criticism of Bondie.
So Letitia James had of course overseen a big investigation into the Trump organization and ultimately brought forward a civil case against his business empire, and that resulted in a half a billion dollar fine that was recently overturned by an appeals court.
But that of course angered President Trump and the federal prosecutor that had been in charge of Scayness, Eric Seburn, who the President recently ousted.
Trump was complaining that he was basically dragging his feet in this investigation.
It wasn't being more aggressive.
And his investigation into Lichisia James really revolved around accusations that surfaced in April of mortgage fraud and it's really technical stuff.
But the President felt that the dj just has not been making enough progress quickly enough on that case.
And he was particularly concerned that that federal prosecutor that he ousted had the support of two Democrats, So he was ripping him as a rhino, and he was kind of blaming pamp Bondi for him being in that acting role, and he recently of course replaced him over the weekend.
And again this is just really I think the big undercurrent between the President's lashing out at Pam Boondi.
Speaker 2I want to just turn your attention to the other names that the President rattled off in that truth Social kind of tirade that he had, Shiff and Comy.
So what is President Trump asking of Bondi in those cases?
Speaker 3Yeah, he was a little bit less specific, but I think his general complaint was that those cases are still being too slow, that the dj isn't making enough progress fast enough on those fronts.
So this includes accusations of mortgage fraud by Adam Schiff.
Now Schiff, like Latista James Says, of course, denied this.
It also includes Russia Gate concerns about James Coney.
All three of these people have been really, really prominent adversaries of President Trump, particularly during his last administration and in the time in between his two terms in the White House.
So it is pretty significant.
And I should know also that President Trump really had beefed with his prior to attorney generals during its first administration.
He really had big beef with Jeff Sessions and then later with Bill Barr, So he does have a history of kind of clashing with the head of the DOJ.
Speaker 2He definitely does seem to not only have a history of the clashes, but that kind of rollercoaster of up and down, up and down and down, support not supporting, support not supporting.
So I guess we are seeing a bit of rinse and repeat as we have seen previously.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3For joining us, Ryan, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2A new lawsuit is making disturbing claims that the children of Oregon Senator Ron Wyden bullied a personal assistant working for the family to the point of suicide.
Brandon O'Brien worked for the Democratic senator's wife, Nancy, owner of the famous Strand bookstore in New York, and according to court dox, he was often tasked with taking care of the couple's children.
Now, when I said the claims in this case were disturbing, I not only meant the suicide itself, but also the twisted things the family is accused of doing.
Skip ahead sixty seconds if you don't want to hear it.
The suit, which was filed by Brandon's husband, claims the widens, then ten year old daughter, allegedly exposed herself to O'Brien, making quote sexually explicit comments and asked about his quote intimate life during school drop offs.
The senator's teenaged son is accused in the suit of taunting O'Brien with homophobic slur and threatening him physically, and in one alleged violent encounter, Nancy Widen reportedly tried to mace her son in an effort to restrain him, but hit O'Brien instead.
Now Widen's lawyers are seeking to get this lawsuit tossed, calling it quote baseless and deeply misguided, riddled with false accusations.
Now O'Brien quit in frustration in September of twenty twenty four, and at the time, Nancy Widen accused him of stealing six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
He then took his own life this past May, and finally today.
A dating app love story Maybe a woman on Hinge is ready to playball with one suitor For a very interesting reason.
This single lady posted a picture of herself at a baseball game on the app, and she asked prospective dates if they could tell where she was.
One guy replied not just with the location, but the date of the game and even the inning during which the photo was snapped, his bizarrely specific guess was right.
The location arguably pretty easy to guess any Yankee fan, and many Yankee haters could easily see it was taken at Yankee Stadium.
The rest of it was some CIA level work.
The guy deduced the rest based on the fact that the Baltimore Orioles in the field include their catcher and pitcher, and the time of the year on the clothing being worn in the stands.
Yeah, it's a lot.
The online reactions were split between a for effort and s for scare the girl away.
Now the post was not able to confirm whether or not that you actually ever went on a date, but my fingers are crossed, both for their potential love match and for her head not ending up in his freezer.
Maybe he just likes puzzles, Maybe he's really smart.
Maybe he'd be ace at trivia or an escape room.
Maybe she'll need to escape from shackles and his basement.
Love is a gamble, my friends, but there is no gamble with this podcast, though.
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