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me in the way that I needed to be supported. And a pivotal week in the disturbing Lindsey Clancy trial. She can be in and out of psychosis, but she did murder three children. The courts do not ever have to allow her to leave out of the mental health facility.

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Thanks for having me. So the President addressed a lot yesterday, but perhaps most importantly, he was asked about several theaters of geopolitical tension.

“First, what did we hear from the President on where things stand in the conflict with Iran?”

So yes, the President addressed a lot of the drama that's been going on with Iran with Gaza with Jared Kushner. He specifically talked about how Jared Kushner held these direct, high-stakes diplomatic talks in Egypt with Hamas leadership before he went to Jerusalem for hours of negotiations with Netanyahu.

The central roadblock here is this major dispute over timing. Israel wants Hamas to fully disarm before troops withdraw while Hamas insists on an Israeli military exit before they lay down any arms. And Trump has expressed a lot of frustration with the stalled timeline while he's backed Kushner's push to see this measurable disarmament progress within 30 to 90 days.

But Kushner has really made it clear that the international funding for rebuilding Gaza will remain strictly blocked until Hamas is completely disarmed. Now, no final deal has been signed, but negotiators have agreed to establish working groups on disarmament oversight and public health logistics. So that's kind of what we're at right now.

So there was a sense that there was progress from these meetings. Yeah, I think you could say that. There's a little bit of progress, but as we've seen over and over and over with these situations, there's a lot of details, a lot of haggling and slow, slow progress over the course of a period of time.

Now, there's also been a shift in the U.S. military's plans for exercises with South Korea. So what did we learn about that? Yes, the president announced in a true social post on Monday that he is not happy with South Korea. He worded it in kind of an amusing true social post where he talked about how he wants

to substantially reduce joint military exercises with South Korea. And that came less than 24 hours before the old chief freedom shield war games were set

So he revealed this move after South Korea refused a recent U.S. request to participate

in efforts aimed at denuclearizing Iran. And he had argued that the large-scale joint military drills ascend an unnecessarily hostile signal to Kim Jong-un while he attempts to kind of have this peaceful, happy relationship with Kim Jong-un. So high operational costs were part of the reason that he said he doesn't want to do

this. And South Korea officials were kind of left working out how to scale down the exercise

“footprint while they're preserving their essential readiness training.”

So it's an interesting situation, and the president made no bones about the fact that he's doing this because essentially he's angry with South Korea for not helping with Iran. So a bit of punishment there in the decision. But we also want to ask you about news regarding the Trump administration's plans for military action in Latin America.

They're saying they've struck agreements with several countries to conduct operations on their soil. So on land against drug traffickers, how big a step is this and what more do we know about these plans? Well, it's a pretty big step.

I mean, this sort of stemmed from Pete Hague Sett's trip to Panama. What we learned was that Pete Hague Sett, he had shared the America's counter-cartel coalition and observed some joint jungle training exercises. And while he was there, he announced that the U.S. intended to bring the same kind of target and strike tactics used in maritime operations onto foreign land.

So this caused quite a stir. Now, Trump announced that we had signed this regional security pact with 12 Latin American

“nations forming the shield of the America's coalition to launch ground-based military”

operations against drug cartels. Obviously, we know this has been a massive initiative of the United States to target these drug cartels. We've seen that happen. And the water in now apparently is going to happen on land.

So we'll be moving U.S. combat troops onto foreign land. And that marks a huge step up from traditional kind of CNR efforts that we've already done. Yeah. The White House says it's secured these agreements with regional partners like Ecuador,

Colombia, and Honduras. But not everyone is on board. Guatemala's leadership has publicly pushed back. They're saying that foreign ground strikes are illegal without explicit legislative approval. And the Trump administration, for their part, their designating cartels is foreign terrorist

organizations. And they've already done this to establish an international self-defense legal basis for these strikes. So a big deal and definitely something that the legacy media is going to have so many questions about, of course, we will too, but a massive step in this fight against the cartels.

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just 36 years old. Joining us now with more is daily wire culture reporter, Meghan Basham. So Meghan police are saying they found no immediate evidence of foul play, but of course we have seen some speculation based on these early reports.

Yeah, Georgia, Panatea, her leaves quite a legacy in Hollywood, and she was still acting.

“But over the years, she had started to talk about some struggles that she had had with”

her mental health and drug and alcohol abuse. And so there's a lot of speculation right now about whether those issues may have played a role in her death.

Officials are telling us right now is that first responders were dispatched to her residents

just before 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon and they found her in a state of cardiac arrest. They administered CPR and other lifesaving measures, but it was too late and she was pronounced dead unfortunately only a few minutes after that. And that dispatch audio does include a reference to possible overdose, but it is likely going to be a couple of months before we have any certainty about her cause of death.

One thing we do know is that the coroner did say that right now, the autopsy did not show any signs of trauma and the police say that their preliminary investigation revealed no suspicious circumstances, but some neighbors have said that the apartment that she was discovered in was a temporary Airbnb rental. Now, what about the neighbor who spoke to Page 6 about what she witnessed and/or heard coming

from that apartment and then also about her on again off again boyfriend who may have been

traveling with her on that day or the day before.

Yeah. So, a tenant at Panateeer's complex told Page 6 that she was shocked to even learn that the actress was there because she had said, "I'm not even sure she ever left her apartment. I never saw her." Now that boyfriend in question is Brian Hickerson.

He is an aspiring actor. He was from South Carolina himself.

“And their relationship began around 2018 and I think you could call it turbulent to say”

the least. So in 2019, he faced a felony domestic violence charge that was later dismissed in 2020. He was accused of punching her in the face and in 2021, he pleaded no contest to two different

felony counts of injuring a spouse or girlfriend and he was sentenced to 45 days in jail

as well as some domestic abuse classes. Now Panateeer did detail his abuse in her memoir that she released just a couple of months ago and in that, she claimed that he slammed her head into a wall and that he beat her face so badly that she couldn't leave her house for weeks and it's worth pointing out that Hickerson has since publicly acknowledged that he did abuse her.

Now flight records place them traveling together from Los Angeles to South Carolina only the day before her death. So even though police have emphasized that they don't believe that foul play was involved here, that has raised some really serious questions about how little support Panateeer may have had at the time of her death and who was present with her.

Well, and it wasn't just that boyfriend immediately after the news of her death hit the media. People were also bringing up some allegations she'd made about being abused in Hollywood. The boat story was particularly shocking. Can you share that?

“Yeah, Georgia, I think this tragedy is once again spotlighting how many girls and women in”

Hollywood have said they have been abused at the hands of predatory men and that story in particular is getting a lot of attention right now. Just a couple of months ago, the actress told Jay Shetty that she was when she was only 18 years old, tricked by an older woman that she trusted onto a yacht of an unnamed famous singer in his 30s.

This is very small room, and she physically put me in the bed next to this address man who was very famous, I was like, this is not happening, but I had nowhere to hide. And I bolted, there was no jumping off and swimming away. So I think these incidents are likely to come in for a lot more scrutiny as this story unfolds.

Such a tragedy and people want to see justice for her, I'd love to see those individuals named personally. Megan, thanks for reporting. Yes, my pleasure. This week marks a pivotal moment in the Lindsey Clancy Murder Trial in Massachusetts.

The mother is accused of killing her three children by strangulation before attempting to take her own life back in 2023. She's pleaded not guilty. Daily wire host of that so criminal, Lyndon Blake joins us now with where the trial stands now as the fourth week is underway.

So Lyndon, we haven't covered this case extensively. Can you just go over the basics for our audience? Yeah, well, this trial is leading every new cycle because it's the unimaginable. Yet a mother who has a defense team claiming postpartum psychosis, they are saying she was not in her right state of mind when these killings happen that she was hearing these voices

saying that there was premeditation, there was intent that she sent her husband to run

errands to get in out of the house so she could kill the children and that she was aware that day. She had the brain capacity there to go through organized and really take out her three children in such a gruesome way. And that's what this week is all about them trying to prove that despite other doctors

saying that Lyndon showed no signs of psychosis that they failed her that they did not diagnose so clearly there were signs of psychosis and you had the prosecution interview her doctors, her medical providers and that's what we got to see that long list of medications last week, 13 medications, five of them and tied to presents that she was on.

“It's one of those things where you have to wonder, what were the doctors not doing?”

They weren't communicating, we know a lot of these appointments were on Zoom and it just seems like no one had the full picture of what was going on in Lyndsey, Clancy's mind. Now I will say that she admitted to the killings. She said, I did it. I killed my three children, but the defense is saying she should not be held criminally

responsible for those killings.

Now, we got some very powerful testimony from her mother and her sister, some insight into

her mental state. What did they say? Yeah, so this was powerful. Her mom and I'll just say she remembers the text that Lyndsey sent her that said, I'm really sick.

I started taking the medicine, the doctor prescribed for anxiety and I think it's made things worse. Her sister took the stand following the mother and said that by Thanksgiving of 22, Lyndsey was really off physically and mentally. She wasn't even looking well at the time.

She was calling the suicide hotline some days. There was a time where she tried to check herself into a psychiatric hospital, they dismissed her shortly after.

“I mean, there were signs there and of course, that's what the defense is trying to place”

together and where the gap was.

When her mom was on the stand, she was able to testify that she remembered the day that Lyndsey came to her and Patrick, Lyndsey's husband at the time, and Lyndsey said she was scared she was going to harm the children. This was not too much before the tragedy took place. As you said, postpartum psychosis is a major part of the defense here.

How are health and legal experts responding to that? Dr. Sunny Slaughter is someone I talked to on Monday. She says legal analysts who's following this case closely, she says, look, it's hard to prove a mental state. Everyone knows that.

It's hard to prove that. But the amount of evidence showing Lyndsey wasn't okay and that she was taking steps to seek help leading up to the killings is going to be heavily factored in in this trial. And it's been heavily debated whether psychosis played a role in this. And Dr. Slaughter made the good point that for those online saying that Lyndsey if she's

not found criminally responsible will be able to walk free soon enough, she's saying that she's simply not true. Well, if you have a new mom who's verbalizing that she's afraid she's going to hurt her kids. That is a huge red flag, a huge red flag that was missed.

And thanks for reporting. Thanks, of course. And we're going to have the full interview with Dr. Slaughter on that so criminal dropping today. So be sure to check that out.

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