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LIVE: FBI Expert on How the Reiner Family Lost Their Ability to Perceive Danger
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We're going live to discuss the hardest question in the Reiner case: How did accomplished, intelligent people with resources and access to the best treatment end up sleeping in the same house with someone in crisis—hours before they were found stabbed to death? Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—21 years with the Bureau, former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—joins us to analyze what happened inside the Reiner family over two decades. How does a family go from calling police in 2019 to going to bed on December 13th, 2025, after watching their son behave erratically at a party? Rob Reiner publicly said he regretted listening to professionals instead of Nick. Robin explains how someone trains their family to distrust outside expertise over time—the mechanics of it.
Nick co-wrote "Being Charlie" with his father, shaping the public narrative of his illness. That's extraordinary influence over the family story. What does that tell you about power dynamics? There's a concept in Robin's world about how trust gets exploited—reciprocity, vulnerability, shared identity. Nick had all of those levers plus manufactured guilt. The Reiners blamed themselves for treatment failures. Robin explains how that guilt becomes a tool. We'll take your questions live. And we'll address the question Robin can't stop thinking about: Could anyone have broken through to the Reiners? If you'd sat down with them a month before—what would they have needed to hear to see the danger they were living with?
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