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Speaker 1: Stard side Richard anold morning, what do you, Mike? And

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Speaker 1: Trump's just tweeted out looking forward to speaking to our

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Speaker 1: great nation at the RNC. So presumably we don't hear

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Speaker 1: from him again until later on the week.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think at previous Republican conventions he

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Speaker 2: would make appearances, which is not the usual way these

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Speaker 2: things go. But Trump is very communication savvy, so we'll

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Speaker 2: see how this plays. But he is telling associates privately

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Speaker 2: today that he's doing well right now, despite his ear

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Speaker 2: being grazed by that would be assassin's bullet, says Republican

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Speaker 2: Senator Tom Cotton, who spoke with Trump a short time ago.

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Speaker 1: He's doing well, He's in good spirits.

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Speaker 2: President Biden spoke with Trump last night in what was

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Speaker 2: described as a respectful brief telephone calls. Three rally goers

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Speaker 2: were shot. As you know, one man was killed and

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Speaker 2: two others still are in critical condition. The twittery year

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Speaker 2: old shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot dead by the

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Speaker 2: Secret Service moments after he at least those six to

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Speaker 2: eight bullets from an AR fifteen style rifle. And most

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Speaker 2: everyone will have seen the video of the shooting.

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Speaker 1: Take a look at what happened.

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Speaker 2: Which shows Secret Service agents in putting their lives on

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Speaker 2: the liners. They took Donald Trump off the stage after

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Speaker 2: his ear was bloodied by the bullet, his face was spatted,

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Speaker 2: and he pumped the air with his fish, shouting fight, Fight, Fight.

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Speaker 2: There were also heroics from Corey compre Tore, the Pennsylvania

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Speaker 2: firefighter who was shot dead. Says the state's Democratic governor,

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Speaker 2: Josh Shapiro.

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Speaker 1: Cory died a hero.

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Speaker 2: Cory dove on his family to protect them last night.

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Speaker 2: So the whole situation is shocking, but is it surprising?

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Speaker 2: There are serious questions about the security perimeter that was

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Speaker 2: in place and about access to the rooftop of an

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Speaker 2: adjacent building. One person saw the shooter scramble to the

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Speaker 2: roof of this place, right alongside the rally and well

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Speaker 2: within range of the semi automatic rifle the shooter was

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Speaker 2: carrying with him, and there's rally goer says that Crooks

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Speaker 2: was up there for several minutes as this crowd member

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Speaker 2: tried to get police to react, like hey man, the

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Speaker 2: guy in the roof for the prave for and the

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Speaker 2: police are like, oh, you know, like didn't know what

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Speaker 2: was going on, you know, we're like, hey, right here

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Speaker 2: on the roof, we can see him from right here.

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Speaker 2: You see him, He's crawling. And next thing, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm thinking myself, I'm like, why is Trump

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Speaker 2: still speaking? So several minutes of this, we now find

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Speaker 2: that this twenty year old shooter had an AR fifteen

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Speaker 2: style weapon that appears his father had purchased legally. These,

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Speaker 2: of course, are the weapons that former President Clinton banned

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Speaker 2: back in ninety four, but former President George W. Bush

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Speaker 2: back on sale ten years on. Biden has sought to

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Speaker 2: ban them again, not effectively. These are the weapons used

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Speaker 2: in seemingly endless shooting massacres from Stockton to Sandy Hawk

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Speaker 2: to the Las Vegas massacre where you reicre more than

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Speaker 2: one hundred rounds were fired from a hotel room across

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Speaker 2: from a music concert, Sixty people killed, at least four

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirteen others wounded. A bump stock was used

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Speaker 2: to turn that rifle into a virtual automatic. Trump banned

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Speaker 2: those bump stocks, then just the other day, the conservative

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Speaker 2: majority Supreme Court allowed them to go on sale. Thanks

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Speaker 2: a lot in the Trump crowd. Last night, another rally

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Speaker 2: goer says this later, shooting easily could have led to

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Speaker 2: Trump's assassination. He had not moved his head at that

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Speaker 2: neck of time, it could have been a lot. So

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Speaker 2: that's the close up view. Again. Shocking, but is it surprising.

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Speaker 2: There have been many reactions, starting with Biden calling the

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Speaker 2: shooting sick and then pledging a full and open investigation

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Speaker 2: in comments a short time ago, I urge everyone, everyone,

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Speaker 2: please don't make assumptions about his motives or's affiliations. Let

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Speaker 2: the FBI do their job. Compare this to three of

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Speaker 2: the Trump vice presidential wannabes who blamed the Biden campaign

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Speaker 2: within minutes of the shooting. Mind you said, JD Vance

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Speaker 2: the Biden campaign retory quote led directly to President Trump's

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Speaker 2: attempted assassination end quote. Well, we didn't even know who

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Speaker 2: the shooter was at that point and still do not

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Speaker 2: know the motive except that he was a lone acute

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Speaker 2: at high school. Biden also said there is no place

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Speaker 2: for political violence in the United States. So that's an

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Speaker 2: encouraging hope, But look at the history. Twenty eleven Democratic

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Speaker 2: congress Member Gabby Gifford shot in the head while campaigning.

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Speaker 2: Twenty seventeen Republican Steve Scalise nearly killed when shot while

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Speaker 2: playing in a congressional baseball game. Charlottesville, twenty seventeen. One

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Speaker 2: person killed, as then President Trump said they were very

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Speaker 2: fine people on both sides. Twenty twenty one, multiple people

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Speaker 2: died during violence at the US Capitol. So this week,

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Speaker 2: Republicans gather for their big presidential convention starting tomorrow in Milwaukee,

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Speaker 2: where we can expect most every speaker to address these issues.

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Speaker 2: Late in August, Democrats will do the same. We can

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Speaker 2: see right now that politicking aside Mike, those questions are

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Speaker 2: key to America's future.

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Speaker 1: Exactly good one. We'll see Wednesday, Mate Richard Donold stateside.

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