the main point there expected to zero in on this time around as they make their case. we have gone through our retirement savings more quickly than we had anticipated. plus, recognizing inflation putting the squeeze on senior citizens. a dire economic situation forcing some retirees to make sacrifices in order to survive. we are always grateful for your company and you take time to be with us this morning. thank you for being here. always a pleasure to be with you. we begin with this developing story out of utah where more than two dozen people believed to be members of a hate group have been arrested for conspiracy to riot near a pride parade. police say the suspects were all wearing similar clothing and they bore the insignia of a known white nationalist organization. patriot front. yes. so police in couer d alene, idaho where this happened, pulled as many as 31 men from the back of a uhaul yesterday afternoon. investigators believe those men were in possession of
so they came from at least 11 states. yes. i used to live in idaho, couer d alene is beautiful, a long way from most other cities. it only takes about 40 minutes, though, to get from spokane, which is the closest airport as we understand it. why do you think that specific pride parade would have been targeted? so it has been described in media reports as one of the larger ones in idaho. couer d alene is an interesting area. it is where the bundy family has ties. idaho is in the middle of a gubernatorial election where amman bundy, the right wing supremacist who vandalized federal law and is now out of jail, this is where he s running for governor. it is a complicated state right now. lots of rifts within the republican party and patriot pride, this is the story, from 11 states, they formed out of
a lot of pressure. pressure to abort a baby. i wasn t going to do it. reporter: taking a page from the trump play book, in moments of controversy, remaining unapologetically define. this is all you ve got to intimidate me? bring it on. reporter: and in idaho, amman bundy is running for governor. bundy rising to national prominence after leading a 41-day armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in oregon in 2016. we re going to stay here until we have secured the land and the resources back to the people and where they can get back to ranching, back to logging, get back to using these lands without fear and intimidation. reporter: and is keeping up the an tag nix. since the beginning of the pandemic, chiling mask mandates.
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tactical approach into forcibly removing them? there s no reason for a tactical approach, fred. look, the reason we re in this situation right now is because there s a lack of dialogue. setting aside the thing that i can t understand with this legal process of having these individuals, the hammonds, serve a period of time in jail, releasing them and then saying you need to serve more time, you know, i m not an attorney, but that sounds like double jeopardy to me. and so we ll set that aside. what i see now a the problem besides that is the fact that you have these different militia groups who have agendas and, you know, some of them rightfully so. but they re choosing a location to go and set up and take a stand on these things. meanwhile, you have federal agents or federal judges that are also taking a stand on this. and there s no dialogue in between these people. i mean, when i heard that interview this morning with the junior bundy ammon bundy. i couldn t make heads or