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Speaker 1: Just go to the US now, where a man hunt's

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Speaker 1: still underway for the killer of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 1: David Smith is the Washington bureau chief of the Guardian,

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Speaker 1: with US Live this morning. David, the FBI has just

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Speaker 1: held a press conference. What's the latest on this man hunt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the FBI released images of this suspect. They

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Speaker 2: say they've recovered a weapon, but otherwise the manhunt continues.

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Speaker 2: There have been various rumors flying around about, you know,

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Speaker 2: what's something engraved on this bullet that is certainly not

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Speaker 2: confirmed so far, and we still don't know much about

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Speaker 2: who this is, what the motive might be, but certainly,

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Speaker 2: as you can imagine, a tragedy that is dominating many

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Speaker 2: headlines and much attention in America right now.

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Speaker 1: David, what do they think was inscribed on the bullet?

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Speaker 2: Well, there were some media reports suggesting that there were

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Speaker 2: statements there about fascism and about trans gender ideology and

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Speaker 2: so on. I think some members of Congress on the

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Speaker 2: Republican side have been quick to seize on that, but

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Speaker 2: just to underline, that has not been officially confirmed. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's very hard at this moment to discern the veracity

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Speaker 2: of that, and I think worth recalling that in other

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Speaker 2: major incidents such as this, like the attempt at assassination

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Speaker 2: of Donald Trump, you get a social media pylon of

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Speaker 2: people rushing to ascribe the motives once I try to

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Speaker 2: blame the other, and then later we often discover maybe

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Speaker 2: that was wrong or false, or maybe the motives who

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Speaker 2: are quite complex, or I think in the case of

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Speaker 2: the first Trump assassination attempt, we you know, last year,

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Speaker 2: we still don't really know what the motive was.

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Speaker 1: David, appreciate that update. Thanks so much for being with me.

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Speaker 1: David Smith, Washington bureau chief for The Guardian. The nets

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Speaker 1: closing in, they've got a footwear impression, they've got a

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Speaker 1: photo of the guy they think did it or a

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Speaker 1: strong person of interest, and a forearm print as well.

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