The Derek Hunter Show · WMAL | CMLS Washington DC

Hour 1 March 19th, 2026

·35 min·2 clips

Investigators said the girls thought killing their classmate could somehow bring the Sandy Hook shooter back to life.

1. The Derek Hunter Show Hour 1 for March 19th, 2026 opens with Derek Hunter discussing a Florida case involving two teenagers accused of plotting to murder a Lake Brantley High School student. 2. Hunter frames the segment around the names Isabel Valdez and Lois Lippert, ages 15 and 14, and says the girls were taken to jail after their arrest. 3. The episode asks what the hour is for: whether a disturbing juvenile case, a Trump foreign-policy joke, and caller debate about Iran can all fit the same political-rush format. 4. Hunter says a classmate tipped off authorities, which stopped the reported murder plan before it could happen. 5. He quotes reporting that prosecutors linked the alleged target to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and said the girls believed killing the student could somehow bring the shooter back to life. 6. Hunter says prosecutors told the judge the girls were a danger to the community and that the concept of murdering someone to resurrect a school shooter was 'unfathomable.' 7. He notes that the judge denied bond after watching video from the police vehicle and hearing the girls laugh about being arrested. 8. Hunter describes the girls talking about mugshots, makeup, plushies, and a previous arrest, which he says made the footage more disturbing. 9. He plays a longer police-car clip in which one girl says, 'I don't feel guilty for my actions,' and follows it with a comment about feeling bad only for her mother. 10. Hunter argues that the conversation shows 'cultural rot, institutional rot, familial rot,' and says the case is not just childish foolishness. 11. He compares the girls' behavior with his own childhood vandalism story at an ice-rink parking lot, where police arrived and he and his friends had to pay for broken windows. 12. Hunter says that as a child he knew he was doing something stupid, but these teens joked about the arrest and asked about looking good for a mugshot. 13. The show then shifts to the White House, where Hunter says the new Japanese prime minister was in town with an interpreter. 14. He highlights Trump's line on the Iran strike: 'Nobody knows more about sneak attacks than Japan,' after Trump compared the secrecy of the operation to Pearl Harbor. 15. Hunter says the exchange was awkward but funny, and he argues that Trump's blunt style helps blue-collar listeners feel he speaks like them. 16. He says Trump explained that surprise mattered because the U.S. and Israel wanted to hit Iranian leadership while it was gathered in one place. 17. Hunter adds that he thinks the strike timing mattered because it targeted a meeting of senior Iranian officials rather than scattered locations. 18. The tone moves between outrage, sarcasm, and radio chatter, with Hunter cutting to callers and traffic-style station promo breaks. 19. People who follow Trump, Iran, Florida crime stories, and conservative talk radio would likely want this episode. 20. People who want calm, apolitical discussion of current events would probably skip it.

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