1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,080 Speaker 1: So said Richard Arnold. 2 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:01,400 Speaker 2: Morning. 3 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: What do you make So where are we at? Well, 4 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: they're on the trail. The FBI has just postponed a 5 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: news conference due to what is being described as rapid development. 6 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: In this case. What we know is that police have 7 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: been scouring a residential area near to where the killing 8 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk took place. So rapid developments, I guess 9 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: we'll find out. Shortly, the FBI had released photographs of 10 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 1: a university age man who had been described as the 11 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 1: key person of interest in the assassination of the trumpell 12 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: ion conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He is wearing sunglasses and 13 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: a black T shirt with some sort of message printed 14 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: over an American flag. There had been a bipartisan outpouring 15 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: of denunciation over the murder of this thirty one year old, 16 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: including statements by Trump and by every living former president 17 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: condemning this attack and any in all political violence that 18 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: doesn't silence some of the internet crazies. Of course, still, 19 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: Biden says there is no place for this kind of violence. 20 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: Obamacalls the murder despicable. Bush says there's sort of violence 21 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: and vitriol must be from the public square. In Clinton 22 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: has declared his sadness and anger. The murder is shocking 23 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: and reprehensible. The FBI and police have been at work 24 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: twenty four seven trying to track the killer. They found 25 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: his rifle, says Police Commissioner Beau Mason. 26 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 2: He have recovered what we believe is the weapon that 27 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 2: was used in yesterday's shooting. There's a high powered bolt 28 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: action rifle. That rifle was recovered in a wooded area 29 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 2: where the shooter had flat well. 30 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: Political messages were scrawled on some of what was discovered, 31 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: including pro transgender and anti fascist messages on countridges. They 32 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: also found a screwdriver, suggesting the killer Praps had tried 33 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: to dismantle the weapon as he ran. There are videos 34 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: of the killings which I won't be playing, and I 35 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: won't include either the graphic testimony of some of the 36 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: devastated eyewitnesses young students. Still, some are speculating that others 37 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: beyond the shooter might have been involved. This student who 38 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: I'll play now and just spoken with Charlie Kirk in 39 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: their question and answer session, which Kirk could build as 40 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: proved me wrong. 41 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 3: It was really weird because the second guests that I 42 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 3: talked to when before I went and asked him the 43 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 3: question what I was going to ask him, he was 44 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 3: talking to him about how he was going to ask 45 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 3: about transgenderism or something like that. 46 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: Well, police detained two people of interest who later were cleared, 47 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: with police now saying they're not suspects, quote, they don't 48 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: deserve harassment, so leave them alone. On this side of 49 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: the dateline, it is, of course nine to eleven, the 50 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: twenty fourth remembrance of the attack on the World Trade 51 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: Center and the Pentagon and so on, and Trump spoke 52 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: at ground zero today starting with this, let. 53 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 4: Me express the horror and grief so many Americans at 54 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 4: the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirker felt. Charlie was a 55 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 4: giant of his generation, a champion of liberty, and an 56 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 4: inspiration to millions and millions of people. 57 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: Kirk was a close ally of many in the Trump team, 58 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: including Don Junior and JD. Vance, who has gone off 59 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: to Utah to pay respects to the kirk family, his 60 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: wife and two young children. Meantime, among those for whom 61 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: this brings back visceral memories is Senator Mark Kelly, whose wife, 62 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: of course, Gabby Giffords, was shot in the head in 63 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: twenty eleven and left partially disabled. He says, today. 64 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: All sides of the political spectrum have been targeted. You 65 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: know my wife fifteen years ago, Melissa Hortman, the legislator 66 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,519 Speaker 2: from Minnesota, just months ago murdered along with her husband 67 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: and her home. The governor of Pennsylvania nearly killed from arson, 68 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: the governor of Michigan, the president, you know, targeted twice. 69 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the whole list, not alone instance. What 70 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: has happened now, There have been many Steve Scalis who 71 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: shot during a pickup baseball game with some political colleagues. 72 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's husband pummeled by an intruder with a hammer. 73 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: And so we now find that they quote, deluge of 74 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: US lawmakers are calling for heightened security with this country today, 75 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: Mike marking violence from without and with it. It is 76 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: a missa I might. 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