Kristi Noem

He's on the lam for nine days.

And before so many New Yorkers even know his name, they are celebrating him.

He is the death wish vigilante.

He has taken out these thugs, these animals.

What is really amazing about this story is that nobody dies.

Nobody knows what's happened.

But so many New Yorkers, I have to say, particularly overwhelmingly white New Yorkers have decided that they understand exactly what's happened as the story unfolds.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

And so in so many respects, this story is ground zero, not just for where we end up today with this.

unleashing of kind of rage and violence and how it's vindicated in the courts, but also this moment we're in where up is down and down is up.

And even if you see the video, you're kind of told, well, that's not what happened.

In this case, he actually will confess on a lengthy video taped confession where he says exactly what he did.

And even then, it's not going to matter, which is why this is such an interesting moment to revisit and unpack.

No, I did not.

So what is interesting?

No, no, no.

So what, this is my, the interesting story here.

I am a historian.

So I usually, I just start back in the beginning.

I'm doing the, recovering everything that was written at the time, every confession, every book.