Lee Habeeb

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This is Lee Habeeb, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

Did you know that the east and west parts of our country have two entirely different approaches to policing? Here to tell that story is former LAPD Sergeant Bob Alinas.

The officer who fingerprinted the hands of serial killer Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker.

We were doing lunch and there was also this, I think it was like a part-time professor.

His name was Lee Habib.

So he was also having lunch with us.

And Dr. Arndt was going around the table and he looks at me and I must have looked timid and insecure, which I probably was.

And he was like, oh, so what are you going to do when you're done? And I was like, hopefully work with vulnerable children in some way.

And he was like, oh, why would you want to do that? And I said, well, I grew up in the foster care system, and I just want to help kids who grew up like me.

And then Lee Habib like popped up and he was like, there is this there's this place called Big Oak Ranch in Alabama.

I think Lee.

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This is Lee Habeeb, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

October is Italian American Heritage Month, and all month long, we'll be celebrating the Italian Americans who helped shape our nation, from Columbus to Capra and everyone in between.

Up next, the story of a film that left an enormous mark on our culture.

Abdul, will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?

What's your name? No, what's your name? No, what's your name? No, no, what's your name? No, your friend's got the mic here.

I'm asking you a simple question.

You give me your name, I'll answer the question.

Tell us about it.

Well, this is the big one, Hugh.

Nobody really saw this one coming, but Governor Kathy Hochul of New York, who, as we all know, is not a big friend of school choice or education freedom over the years.

New York ranks, after all, 49th out of the 50 states in the ALEC report on education freedom.

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