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Speaker 1: Well he's done it. Donald Trump has given his much

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Speaker 1: anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention. He started by

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Speaker 1: speaking about the assassination attempt on him last week.

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Speaker 2: When I heard a loud, whizzing sound and felt something

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Speaker 2: hit me really, really hard on my right ear. I

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Speaker 2: said to myself, Wow, what was that. It can only

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Speaker 2: be a bullet and moved my right hand to my

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Speaker 2: ear brought it down. My hand was covered with blood.

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Speaker 1: At times, Donald Trump seemed almost philosophical.

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Speaker 2: I'm not supposed to be here tonight, not supposed to

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Speaker 2: be here.

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Speaker 1: At the end of his speech, he promised to be

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Speaker 1: a president for all.

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Speaker 2: I am running to be president for all of America,

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Speaker 2: not half of America, because there is no victory in

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Speaker 2: winning for a half of America.

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Speaker 1: One News US correspondent Logan Church to spend the week

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Speaker 1: at the Republican National Convention and is with us this evening,

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Speaker 1: Calder Logan, what did you make of Donald Trump's speech?

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Speaker 3: Well, good evening, Jack. Well, it was certainly a record

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Speaker 3: setting speech, if anything, just because of how long the

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Speaker 3: thing was. It went over well over an hour, and

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Speaker 3: from my very great research since it appeared to be

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Speaker 3: one of the longest acceptance speeches of a party candidate

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Speaker 3: at one of these conventions. Well, look, Donald Trump promised

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Speaker 3: that this would be a speech promoting unity in a

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Speaker 3: divided America. Very much started that way, as you said,

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Speaker 3: and as you heard from Donald Trump himself. He started

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Speaker 3: speaking about his experience during the shooting, describing how there

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Speaker 3: were bullets flying towards him. There was a round of

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Speaker 3: applause as he describes the quote brave secut service agents

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Speaker 3: rushing onto the stage, finishing with that quite poignant quote,

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Speaker 3: so I'm not supposed to be here tonight. But then

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Speaker 3: it very quickly descended into what we would typically see

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Speaker 3: and hear from Donald Trump, which was a loss of

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Speaker 3: very fiery rhetoric. He accused the Democrats of weaponizing democracy,

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Speaker 3: saying they were the ones that had been trying to

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Speaker 3: steal the election, which is somewhat ironic considering those are

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Speaker 3: some of the charges that Donald Trump himself faces. It

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Speaker 3: was a speech though overall, despite how long it was

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Speaker 3: that cercially riled up the Republican base. The atmosphere in

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Speaker 3: that room was electric. However, this won't be an election

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Speaker 3: decided by the Republican base or the Democrat base for

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Speaker 3: that Master it's going to be decided by the people

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Speaker 3: in the middle. Those are undecided as to which way

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Speaker 3: they're going to vote come November, and it is ours

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Speaker 3: as to whether this is going to be the speech

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Speaker 3: that will draw them to Donald Trump. Because in many ways,

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Speaker 3: we got a best of new Donald Trump, but we

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Speaker 3: also got a little bit of what we've always seen

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Speaker 3: of Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think that's totally fear. It took us

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Speaker 1: through the way he actually told the story about the

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Speaker 1: assassination of temp What was your view, Logan, Did he

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Speaker 1: seem like he had kind of gone over the shock

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Speaker 1: of it all?

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Speaker 3: Yet I don't think you could ever get over the

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Speaker 3: shock of having bullets shot at you, especially in a

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Speaker 3: situation like that. In many ways, he seems borderline emotional

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Speaker 3: talking about some of this. I think it's also important

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Speaker 3: to note, and you weren't seen this if you were

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Speaker 3: just listening, but as Donald Trump spoke about his experience,

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Speaker 3: the production team put up giant photos of many of

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Speaker 3: those moments you would have seen over the recent days.

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Speaker 3: Some of the incredible photographs taken by press photographers who

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Speaker 3: were there covering the rally, just like any other rally,

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Speaker 3: one now quite famous picture show Donald Trump speaking with

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Speaker 3: the bullets. The blur of the bullet was in through

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Speaker 3: the air and that was put up on the big

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Speaker 3: screens behind Donald Trump as he describes that experience. And

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Speaker 3: it was quite surreal actually watching a leading presidential candidate

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Speaker 3: and former president speak quite candidly about the experience of

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Speaker 3: actually being shot and almost losing his life. That's something

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Speaker 3: we've never seen before really, so quite some incredible scenes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was remarkable. Thank you so much, Logan. That

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