Andrea Canning

It's a devoted father whose young son collapses and is diagnosed with an enlarged heart.

When he discovers that the family's health maintenance organization, HMO Insurance Policy, will not cover the cost of a life-saving heart transplant and his own resources are exhausted, he takes drastic measures driven by desperation.

He takes the hospital's emergency room hostage.

to force the medical board to put his son's name on the transplant list.

And, you know, it just seemed like it just popped into my head, that movie, when I heard about this case, thinking that, like, Luigi Mangione has been done wrong by UnitedHealthcare somehow.

Like, they denied his back surgery.

You know, I'm making that up, but there's like nothing there, which is so odd.

Right.

I mean, yeah, there was so much fanfare, Lester, from the very beginning.

I think, you know, all these elements, right?

Like the chase, the, you know, searching for this suspect, the bullets, you know, then finding this...

alleged shooter in the McDonald's.

And even bringing him back to New York, I mean, off of that helicopter, I swear it looked like El Chapo was arriving in the city.

You know, it was intense, right?

And so there's all these people now who are –

Support Luigi Mangione.

And you showed some of the clips, you know, from social media, free Luigi and his beautiful eyebrows, you know, America rooting for the assassin.

And then we have these ladies more recently outside of court.

They call themselves the Mangionistas, and they actually were able to get press passes for court.

And it sparked a review of press passes.