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Kate Fisher: US Correspondent on the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Kate for sure. Our US correspondent is with us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: The CEO of United Healthcare has been shot did in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: The NYPD currently holding a prisser. They say this is
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  Speaker 1: not a random a shooting. This appears to be a
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  Speaker 1: targeted a tech Kate, what's the lightest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as you say, Lisa about to give a news
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  Speaker 2: conference in New York to get more details because at
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  Speaker 2: the moment things are pretty sketchy. We know that Brian
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  Speaker 2: Thompson was shot dead on the street outside the Hilton
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  Speaker 2: Hotel in Midtown, Manhattan just before seven am local time.
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  Speaker 2: He was making his way to the hotel for an
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  Speaker 2: investor's meeting. We're told everybody there is in shock, as
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  Speaker 2: our staff of the hotel. As you say, police think
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  Speaker 2: this was targeted and not something random to the Mayor
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  Speaker 2: of New York, Eric Adams, has tried to reassure New
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers that it is safe to be out on the streets,
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  Speaker 2: but clearly a shocking occurrence. Kind of seems to be
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  Speaker 2: some sort of execution. In the early hours of this morning.
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  Speaker 2: He was wearing a hooded black garment and escaped on
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  Speaker 2: a bike heading down an alleyway. Towards Central Park. But
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  Speaker 2: other than that, we still don't know what the motive
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  Speaker 2: could be. The police press conference is just starting as
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  Speaker 2: we speak.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could say they've got a fine number up
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  Speaker 1: for tips, so they're obviously wanting people to know, Dobbin
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  Speaker 1: what happened and a ten thousand dollars reward, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: sounds quite serious. Let's got to Trump and has picked
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  Speaker 1: for Secretary of Defense. There are allegations of drinking and
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  Speaker 1: treatment of women here. Is this going to be another
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  Speaker 1: one that falls by the wayside.
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  Speaker 2: It's certainly looking very tense at the moment as to
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  Speaker 2: whether he can hang on to this. This is Pete Heski,
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  Speaker 2: the former Fox News presenter, but there are many allegations
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  Speaker 2: about him being drunk on the job and about potential
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  Speaker 2: allegations of misconduct towards women, to the extent that Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump has apparently start to look for a potential replacement,
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  Speaker 2: including his former rival for the presidential nomination, that is
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  Speaker 2: Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida. They have had not
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  Speaker 2: the closest of relationships, given that they were fighting each
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  Speaker 2: other for the presidential nomination. So it has surprised some
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  Speaker 2: people that Donald Trump is looking to Ron DeSantis, but
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, Pete Heskiff is still the nominee. He's
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  Speaker 2: on Capitol Hill today trying to persuade some of those
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  Speaker 2: senators who are unsure about him that he is the
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  Speaker 2: man for the job. And his mother has even been
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  Speaker 2: on TV today trying to say that he is a
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  Speaker 2: great guy and not to worry, even though back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen she apparently emailed him and told him he
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  Speaker 2: was an abuser of women. Takes that back and has apologized.
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  Speaker 2: But you know it's not looking great, no.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll never good if you need to call your
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  Speaker 1: mum up to come out and do a prisser for you. Kate,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Kate, for sure you is correspondent.
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