‘So Cold-Blooded, So Calculated…Wow’: CNN’s Dana Bash Reacts to New Content From Luigi Mangione’s Notebook Disclosed in Fed Filing

CNN Inside Politics anchor Dana Bash reacted to the newly revealed contents of Luigi Mangione’s notebook from a federal indictment Thursday afternoon, remarking on how “cold-blooded” and “detailed” the accused killer’s writing was.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed early in the morning on Dec. 4 outside of the New York Hilton Midtown, where UHC was holding an investor conference. Police have said they believe this was a premeditated and targeted attack. After Mangione was recognized at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, he was taken into custody by local police, who found a ghost gun, suppressor, and manifesto that railed against the health insurance industry in his possession.

Mangione has been charged with murder, second-degree possession of a forged document, and both second and third-degree criminal possession of a firearm in New York. So far, investigators have announced that fingerprints and shell casings found at the murder scene match the prints taken from Mangione and the gun he had on him when he was arrested.

New federal charges were unsealed Thursday against Mangione: murder through use of a firearm, two stalking charges, and a fourth charge related to the 3D-printed gun and suppressor.

Senior crime and justice correspondent Shimon Prokupecz reported on the latest developments in the case on Thursday’s show, telling Bash that these new charges were “really, really significant” and “way more serious.” The FBI would take Mangione into custody once he landed in New York City from Pennsylvania after waiving extradition, Prokupecz said, and then he would be taken to the federal courthouse to face these new charges.

The federal complaint, Prokupecz continued, included “new information about the notes” that Mangione allegedly wrote, specifically mentioning notes that were marked August 15 in which the writing “describes how, quote, the details are finally coming together” and that he was “glad in a way that I’ve procrastinated because it allowed me to learn more about [company one],” indicating a company name that the feds had redacted from the publicly filed document. Prokupecz added that the notebook entry said that the “target is insurance because, quote, it checks every box.”

Another entry marked October 22 said that the “investor conference” was “a true windfall” and “describes an intent to quote whack the CEO of one of the insurance companies at its investors conference,” Prokupecz continued, a date that the Department of Justice highlighted as about six weeks before the date of Thompson’s murder.

This new information from the notebook was “really remarkable” and “chilling,” said Bash, who was also reviewing the federal complaint.

“The fact that it was so cold blooded, so calculated, so detailed — uh, wow,” said Bash.

Watch the clip above via CNN.