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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Two Americans shot dead, a giant

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Speaker 1: back down by Donald Trump, and now a fresh debate

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Speaker 1: about gun rights. The President is scaling down a wildly

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Speaker 1: controversial operation in the state of Minnesota by the Immigration

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Speaker 1: and Customs Enforcement Agency. That's after officers shot dead Renee Good,

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Speaker 1: an unarmed woman in her own car, and Alex Pretty,

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Speaker 1: an emergency department nurse who was trying to observe an

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Speaker 1: ICE raid against alleged illegal immigrants. Donald Trump watched the

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Speaker 1: video of ICE agents shooting Pretty dead on an icy

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis street, a video that appears to show Pretty attempting

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Speaker 1: to help up a woman who had fallen to the ground,

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Speaker 1: then being tackled by numerous agents. The agents apparently withdraw

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Speaker 1: a gun from Pretty's pocket, then shoot him dead as

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Speaker 1: he lies on the street. To senior White House officials,

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam and White House Deputy Chief

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Speaker 1: of Staff Stephen Miller called Pretty a domestic terrorist and

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Speaker 1: a would be assassin. But Trump reacted by dramatically scaling

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Speaker 1: back the ICE operation and recalling its boss. US Border

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Speaker 1: Patrol Commander Gregory Bevino. Instead, Trump is sending in Tom Homan,

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Speaker 1: a senior official Trump has called his borderzar. The president

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Speaker 1: also had conciliatory discussions with Minnesota's Democrat governor and former

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Speaker 1: vice presidential candidate Tim Walls. Now Trump seems to be

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Speaker 1: changing his long standing position on guns. The President is

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Speaker 1: a staunch supporter of Americans' Second Amendment rights to bear arms,

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Speaker 1: and in Minnesota it's legal to carry a concealed weapon

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Speaker 1: within give a permit. That's what Alex pretty was doing.

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Speaker 2: Cat walk in. He said, what about You can barely

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Speaker 2: hear the president here because a helicopter is worrying. But

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Speaker 2: Trump said, while he didn't agree that Preddy was an assassin,

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Speaker 2: you can't have guns. You can't walk in with gums.

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Speaker 2: You just can't. But it's a very unfortunate incident. Our

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Speaker 2: correspondent Joe Kelly is on the ground in Minneapolis, and

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Speaker 2: you can check out his reporting, plus our analysis from

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Speaker 2: experts in the US and Australia right now at the

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Speaker 2: Australian dot com AU. Plus come back to the front

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Speaker 2: first thing in the morning for our close look at

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Speaker 2: another huge international story, a fresh escalation of tensions in

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Speaker 2: the Middle East. That's as the United States begins a

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Speaker 2: huge military exercise and Iram's leader reportedly goes into hiding.

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Speaker 2: That's right here on the front. First thing, Thursday,