Tensions between the United States and Iran continue to escalate. President Trump returns home after a G7 summit early, and a new report says he opposed a recent Israeli plan to kill Iran s supreme leader. What does that mean for the chances of a peace deal between the two countries?
00:04:13.380But you've got the globalists and the neocons running around Fox News and everyone else telling you this is the smartest thing in the world to do regime change right now.
00:04:40.280And folks, we've got, and there are maps of this out there somewhere,
00:04:43.940American troops in harm's way all across the Middle East and more to come as the USS Nimitz with 5,000 souls on it steams closer and closer to Iran's missiles.
00:05:26.200We're told that he's currently convening the National Security Council in the Situation Room to discuss potential strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
00:05:34.600We're going to be giving you the breaking updates on all of that as this hour continues.
00:05:39.960Folks, do you ever notice how gold doesn't get much airtime until the system, of course, starts to shake?
00:07:14.160I think the public deserves the truth about everything that's going on in Washington, D.C. at the moment.
00:07:21.980And rather than a lot of what other people are doing out there, speculating,
00:07:26.680I think it should be made clear to people that the people in government who are supposed to be out there making things clear to people about what's going on
00:07:36.860are currently just not talking a lot, right?
00:07:38.880And you would expect that at a time like this.
00:07:56.680Yeah, and it's hard to know at any given moment what exactly, you know, the thought process is.
00:08:01.860So you have to kind of play a game of, well, I hear it's not this, so then what about this?
00:08:08.780And you're sort of constantly chasing little nuggets of information to create a bigger picture of the conversations taking place inside.
00:08:15.440I've been doing that now for the last, I don't know, 48 hours, really talking to as many people as I can.
00:08:20.460And as of last night, you know, the conversations that were being had were not, hey, are we going to enter the war in the next 24 hours?
00:08:29.300But hey, are we going to let Israel use, you know, a bunker buster bomb to attack Iran's nuclear facilities?
00:08:37.980Are we going to allow them to assassinate the Ayatollah as the next step up in this?
00:08:42.860And as of last night and as of this morning, the latest information I was getting was that they are still pursuing diplomatic ends.
00:08:50.040This is not a situation, as I hear it, that they are currently handing this over to the Pentagon and DOD.
00:08:56.940No, the conversation remains at the State Department and White House levels.
00:09:00.920And I expect it to do so for the for at least at least the next 12 hours.
00:09:06.400And I just I want to throw up as you as you go through that, Rahim, we've got a map prepared of all of sort of the U.S. assets in the region, as well as the Iranian assets.
00:09:16.640The Persian Gulf is a very small place, and I think a lot of people don't always realize that.
00:09:22.900And so just as you as you go and break this down, I want people to realize what we're talking about.
00:09:27.700And yes, we do currently have a lot of Americans that are within easily within range of Iran's response, whatever that retaliation may be.
00:09:38.260And I just want people to be aware of that as more assets are now being brought into the region.
00:09:44.320We're told the USS Nimitz, the carrier strike group.
00:09:47.400And of course, these U.S. assets do certainly have the ability to defend themselves as well.
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00:22:39.340Want to bring on now, and folks, we're going to be, of course, monitoring all real-time developments from the National Security Council, from Iran, from the Persian Gulf.
00:22:49.520There's some reports potentially of U.S. Navy ships being deployed.
00:22:53.860We know that some were already on the move on the way from the South China Sea up through the Straits of Malacca.
00:22:58.260So, of course, we're going to be tracking all of those movements as the day progresses.
00:23:03.180But as we await that breaking news, I wanted to bring in now Liz Collin, investigative journalist from Alpha News in Minnesota, Minneapolis specifically, to break us down, break us through all of the insights right now that have gone on with this horrific – it's an attack.
00:23:21.940It's an attack that took place last weekend.
00:23:32.580Thank you, by the way, for being there on the stream on Saturday as all of this was going down, the massive manhunt, which you were able to report in real-time.
00:23:43.340Walk us through – let's assume someone who's listening hasn't heard any of this yet.
00:23:57.100Horrific what has taken place yet again.
00:23:59.480It seems like in Minnesota, I think we're dubbed now the capital of chaos and really some horrific moments.
00:24:06.600So, this all begins Saturday at 2 a.m.
00:24:09.900just outside of Minneapolis in a suburb with the shooting of Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.
00:24:17.120We now know the man you're seeing now on your screen, Vance Bolter, a 57-year-old man from Minnesota.
00:24:23.700He shoots Senator Hoffman – he's now charged with these crimes – and his wife.
00:24:30.720And then he stops at two other locations of different legislators in Minnesota in the same area before he ends up finally at former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark's home.
00:24:45.720That's in Brooklyn Park, so just a few miles from Champlin, about a quick drive.
00:24:51.180And this is where he kills the former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.
00:26:05.780He was even driving what looked to be a police cruiser.
00:26:09.980That's what was in the driveway with lights on and sets him back to a Minneapolis residence.
00:26:17.800Turns out he'd been renting a room for the last couple of years in Minneapolis where he'd stay a couple of times a week.
00:26:24.860So there's more to be said about just that address in Minneapolis as well.
00:26:28.440Finally, the manhunt for him comes to an end.
00:26:31.760It's about 43 hours later in Green Isle, Minnesota, not very far from his actual residence in Green Isle that he where he lived with his wife and five children and basically surrendered.
00:26:46.220They had him surrounded in a field in Green Isle, a rural area.
00:26:49.540He came out with his hands up and basically identified himself as Vance Bolter.
00:26:55.020So that's, I mean, and what a harrowing story.
00:27:01.220Clearly something that no one in the state of Minnesota was expecting to wake up to or hear about.
00:27:08.320And a horrifying word happened anywhere.
00:27:10.900At this point, and I've seen in Post Millennial had some stuff earlier today, I'm sure you have this as well, about these handwritten notes that he had been making using publicly available databases to look up some of the addresses.
00:27:27.360Clearly not the sign of someone who is operating, to my estimation, in their right mind.
00:27:32.140I mean, the handwritten notes, all of this.
00:27:33.800Is there any indication, Liz, what his motive was in terms of what was he hoping to accomplish with any of this?
00:27:44.020Was there, was he trying to send a message?
00:27:46.020Had these people wronged him in some way?
00:27:47.840Was there, was there any payoff whatsoever?
00:27:50.780Or, because it just seems like this is wanton violence.
00:27:57.600And you had the acting U.S. attorney, Joe Thompson, fielding questions yesterday at the first press conference.
00:28:03.980Since these charges, he was asked that multiple times.
00:28:06.360But he said there doesn't seem to be any sort of clear-cut motive at this point.
00:28:10.180At first, they described a manifesto that he left.
00:28:13.120But really, more than anything, it was a hit list.
00:28:15.740Alpha News obtained that hit list, if you will.
00:28:18.580And there were about 60 Democrats on it.
00:28:21.480Also, some Planned Parenthood locations.
00:28:23.660So one would think if this had something to do with the abortion issue.
00:28:28.020But really, yesterday, authorities kind of backed off anything to do with that.
00:28:33.560He'd clearly been stalking and doing some, you know, reconnaissance surrounding some of these people for some time.
00:28:41.020And I think more of that will come out.
00:28:44.180And actually, the people that lived in Minneapolis were aware of him showing up just a couple of times a week.
00:28:49.560They thought it was strange, but they thought he was a detective.
00:28:51.820He would leave every day with his briefcase when he would stay at that residence and drive off in what looked to be a police cruiser.
00:29:00.180And there's a lot of information about, you know, some different companies he was attached to.
00:29:05.060And I know much has been made about this Workforce Development Board that Walls did appoint him to.
00:29:12.100And he was not reappointed back in 2023.
00:29:14.240However, Walls or a source from Walls told the newspaper here in Minnesota that Governor Walls did not know him.
00:29:24.760But Governor Walls has not said anything publicly about that yet.
00:29:28.340And so, has there been any information about others that he may have been working with?
00:29:39.380So, we saw that his wife apparently had also been arrested in this, you know, really blaring headline, blaring headline.
00:29:46.320That she had money and cash, passports, others, five children that they heard between the two of them, yet don't necessarily seem to be involved.
00:29:58.320Was this some sort of plot between the two of them?
00:30:00.880You know, I think that's a good question, because we learned yesterday, just in the charging documents attached to this case, that Vance Bolter did text his wife that morning.
00:30:13.980So, these texts came in after 6 in the morning.
00:30:17.020So, this would have been a few hours after the murders of the Hortman family.
00:30:22.660But he sent a text to his wife that said, Dad went to war last night.
00:30:27.640Words are not going to explain how sorry I am for this situation.
00:30:31.520There's going to be some people coming to the house armed and trigger happy.
00:30:38.740So, this is when my law enforcement sources have said they're pinging, you know, the wife's phone, which wouldn't be uncommon in, you know, a situation like this.
00:30:46.400And this is when she's pulled over, she's pulled over in Onemia, Minnesota, Onemia, Minnesota, excuse me, which is quite a drive from Green Isle.
00:30:56.720So, is, you know, she leaving at that moment?
00:30:58.680She has been released, and they have said that she is cooperating with authorities.
00:31:02.980But obviously, these text messages, you know, I think raise some questions as well.
00:31:12.100I suppose a number of things are possible.
00:31:13.600That could be a set phrase that could be something where, you know, she's told to go but had no idea what, you know, quote, unquote, daddy was doing.
00:31:24.280So, it very well be – or potentially, you know, something that – and, of course, I'm just positing here.
00:31:38.980I'm just trying to play devil's advocate here as to various, you know, various scenarios that could be playing out.
00:31:45.840And, of course, we'll see what remains to be found out when lawyers get involved, when debriefings get involved, interrogations, interviews, all the rest of it.
00:31:56.540And, Liz, what has been the response, I guess, politically – and, obviously, this is politically charged – there in Minnesota?
00:32:05.100You know, yeah, I think that in the world we live in, Jack, you know this better than most of us as well.
00:32:11.660It seems that everybody has to – there has to be a side.
00:32:14.680There has to be a political angle to this.
00:32:17.320Clearly, this guy is a monster more than anything else.
00:32:21.260You have the mainstream media in Minnesota, of course, saying, you know, he's a Trump supporter because his roommate has said that,
00:32:28.820and they don't seem to be wanting to look much further than that, of course.
00:32:33.660And he certainly seemed to align himself with, you know, pro-life – the pro-life movement.
00:32:38.060If, you know, this list of 60 Democrats and this Planned Parenthood is, in fact, this hit list.
00:32:42.980They also found flyers that had no kings scrawled across them in his vehicle as well.
00:32:52.100So I think, you know, you see that more than anything it does seem like there is, you know,
00:32:57.820some unity trying to take place in Minnesota among Republicans and Democrats, you know,
00:33:05.000as the loss of the Horton family is mourned.
00:33:08.620I know her two younger children released a statement yesterday about their deaths.
00:33:15.580Well, I think that goes without saying, regardless of politics.
00:33:17.540Liz, you have been tireless and dogged on this.
00:33:20.200Where can people go to get all the breaking updates from you?
00:33:23.660Yeah, it's at Liz Collin on X, at AlphaNewsMN on X, or AlphaNews.org.
00:33:29.140We'll continue to stay on the story here.
00:33:32.000What an incredible job she's been doing, folks.
00:33:34.000Liz Collin, the minute that I saw something that was going on in Minnesota, I said, just call Liz.
00:33:40.320Just call Liz right now, and she will know everything that's going.
00:33:43.820She was at a baseball game with her family, and yet she knew every single detail before anyone else.
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00:39:20.280It's only been going on for about 25 minutes.
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