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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. A seismic moment in American politics

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Speaker 1: as Donald Trump's ally and free speech campaign at Charlie

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Speaker 1: Kirk is murdered. Kirk was fatally shot at a university

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Speaker 1: in Utah, where he was addressing a huge crowd, part

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Speaker 1: of Kirk's habit of going to campuses to debate ideas

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Speaker 1: with students. In the minutes before his death, Kirk welcomed

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Speaker 1: a huge crowd from his seat under an open sided tent.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people you taught about it, He'd possible

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Speaker 2: bring the best lips at UTI.

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Speaker 1: He's answering questions from the crowd about gun violence and

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Speaker 1: transgender people.

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Speaker 2: So do you don't have any transgender? Americans have been

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Speaker 2: mass shooters over the last eight years?

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Speaker 3: Too many?

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Speaker 1: When suddenly a shot rings out?

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Speaker 2: Do you know how many masses are there have been

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Speaker 2: in America over the last ten years, counting or not

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Speaker 2: counting gang violence?

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Speaker 1: Kirk slumps over. A group of men can be seen

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Speaker 1: rushing him to a car to drive to hospital as

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Speaker 1: the FBI launches a massive manhunt, briefly detaining then releasing

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Speaker 1: one person of interest. The president confirmed thirty one year

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Speaker 1: old Kirk, a father of two young children, was dead.

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Speaker 1: Kirk reveled in fiery clashes with his ideological opponents under

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Speaker 1: the banner of his organization turning Point, USA.

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Speaker 2: If I just happened to be pregnant, Oh, you're not

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Speaker 2: happy to get pregnant? Like not like getting COVID.

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Speaker 1: I know, okay, I know how it works.

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Speaker 2: You don't get the flu. I know how about this?

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Speaker 2: You take responsibility for your orgasms and stop eliminating people

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Speaker 2: smaller than you.

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Speaker 1: Kirk was a fervent supporter of the right to bear arms.

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Speaker 2: I think it's worth to have a cost of a

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Speaker 2: fortunately some gun DUTs every single year so that we

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Speaker 2: can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God

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Speaker 2: given rights.

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Speaker 1: His last social post was about a twenty three year

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Speaker 1: old Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death on public transport in Charlotte,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, allegedly by a homeless man who's now been

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Speaker 1: charged with murder.

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Speaker 2: This individual should not have been on the streets fourteen

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Speaker 2: prior arrests, and it really makes you wonder, why are

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Speaker 2: we putting up with this? Why are we allowing so

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Speaker 2: many people that have committed these crimes to keep on

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Speaker 2: being released. The magistrate judge continued to release this individual,

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Speaker 2: and this is a horrific thing.

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Speaker 1: The Australian's chief international correspondent, Cameron Stewart says Kirk's death

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Speaker 1: will have huge ramifications.

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Speaker 3: I think it's quite a dangerous moment for America. We

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Speaker 3: are seeing an era of populist political violence in America.

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Speaker 3: It's a very polarized society politically, economically, and it's really

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Speaker 3: manifesting itself in terrible ways.

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Speaker 1: Also in the news today, tennis veteran Leyton Hewitt, Australia's

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Speaker 1: Davis Cup captain, has been slapped with a two week

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Speaker 1: suspension by the International Tennis Integrity Agency and fined thirty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. That's after he was found to have pushed

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Speaker 1: a sixty year old volunteer anti doping chaperone. Hewitt denied

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Speaker 1: any wrongdoing and said he was acting in self defense.

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Speaker 1: His suspension won't kick in until September twenty four, after

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Speaker 1: Australia hosts Belgium in a qualifying series this weekend. Check

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Speaker 1: out those stories live right now at The Australian dot

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Speaker 1: com dot AU and come back to the front first

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Speaker 1: thing in the morning for our extended look at the

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Speaker 1: Charlie kirkshooting with Cameron Stewart