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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold's in the States. Good morning to you, Good

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Speaker 1: morning make There's a few gaps in the front there,

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Speaker 1: but reasonably big crowd.

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Speaker 2: I guess, oh yeah, it's almost a capacity crowd. More

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Speaker 2: than hundred thousand gathered at this Arizona Football Stadium in

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Speaker 2: Phoenix for the memorial now under way for the murdered

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Speaker 2: political activist Charlie Kirk. Security tight. Who's the president and

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Speaker 2: the vice president attending? Will hear from him shortly? Ilin

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Speaker 2: Muskell so as showner. It is eleven days since the

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Speaker 2: murder of Kirk, which has been seen by most is

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Speaker 2: completely abhorrent. Alongside the grieving, we've also seen a growing

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Speaker 2: political debate, of course, over freedom of speech. That is

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Speaker 2: something Kirk himself might have focused on, since he spent

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Speaker 2: so much of his time in debates. Proved me wrong?

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Speaker 2: Was his tagline, wasn't it? He was a high profile

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Speaker 2: advocate of challenging people and seeking to persuade them politically

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Speaker 2: and in terms of his Christian thinking. Says one of

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Speaker 2: the women in the crowd right now.

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Speaker 3: PAULA good and righteous and hopefully it'll hit people who

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Speaker 3: have negatively about just our nation and maybe we can

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Speaker 3: argue down because that's what we need.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Events, of course, led to the suspension of TV host

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel after the head of the FCC, Brendan Carr,

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Speaker 2: seemed to call on television station owners to take action,

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Speaker 2: saying this could be dealt with in either quote easy

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Speaker 2: way or the hard way. That's been followed by a

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Speaker 2: social media post by Trump coming into this memorial today,

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Speaker 2: where he pressured his Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute

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Speaker 2: his political enemies. He wrote this, in part, quote Pam,

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Speaker 2: I have reviewed over thirty statements and posts saying that

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Speaker 2: essentially sam or stories last time, all talk, no action,

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Speaker 2: Nothing is being done. We can't delay any longer. It's

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Speaker 2: killing our reputation and credibility. They impeach me twice, they

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Speaker 2: indicted me five times over. Nothing. Justice must be served

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Speaker 2: now in quote Pam bonding And says she is cracking down.

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Speaker 3: We will absolutely target you, go out through you if

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Speaker 3: you are targeting anyone with hate speech.

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Speaker 2: Well, a few Republicans are responding to some of this,

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Speaker 2: amid a backlash by some Kimel supporters sending around. Paul

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Speaker 2: says the FCC chairs threats to the American ABC network

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Speaker 2: of a Kimmel were quite absolutely inappropriate. The government's got

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Speaker 2: no business in it, he says. Republicans Senator ten Ted

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Speaker 2: Cruz says of the FCC boss.

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Speaker 4: But he said there is dangerous as hell. He says,

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Speaker 4: we can do this the easy way, or we can

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Speaker 4: do this the hard way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And I got to say, that's right out of good Fellows.

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Speaker 4: That that that that's right out of a mafiosa coming

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Speaker 4: into a bar going nice bye, you have here. It'd

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Speaker 4: be a shame of something happened.

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Speaker 2: Deed, Hollywood, not on the line. Keep your day job,

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Speaker 2: as they say Trump's re actions of this.

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Speaker 1: I think Brendan Carr is a great American patriot. So

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Speaker 1: I disagree with Ted prison that.

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Speaker 2: The Pentagon has just issued new restrictions for journalists covering

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Speaker 2: the Defense Department and requiring them to sign a pledge

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Speaker 2: not to report on any information unless it's been authorized

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Speaker 2: for release. Not the way of things, says Democratic Senator

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Speaker 2: Chris Murphy.

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Speaker 5: This is one of the most dangerous moments America has

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Speaker 5: ever faced. We are quickly turning into a banana republic.

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Speaker 5: This is what happens in Iran. This is what happens

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Speaker 5: in Cuba. This is what happens in China, deeply repressive

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Speaker 5: states in which if you have the courage to stand

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Speaker 5: up and speak truth to power, you are silence.

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Speaker 2: Meantime, a judge is a smith Trump's fifteen billion dollar

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Speaker 2: lawsuit against the New York Times ruling the courts are

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Speaker 2: not quote a platform to rage against an adversary. As

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Speaker 2: for one other Trump multi billion dollar lawsuit, the one

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Speaker 2: against the Murdoch Wall Street Journal for describing the alleged

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Speaker 2: birthday doodle for Jeffrey Epstein, the Murdock feud might be easy.

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Speaker 2: Trump now saying Rupert and Laughlin Murdock are likely part

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Speaker 2: of the US investor group buying into TikTok.

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Speaker 1: On you might see you Wednesday, appreciate it. Original On

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Speaker 1: states that I read about the TikTok thing over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: and the Americans may not be getting everything that they

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Speaker 1: want out of that particular the deal. The Chinese might

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Speaker 1: be winners. But I'll come back to that other related matter.

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Speaker 1: As California's Governor Newsom has signed a bill and they

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Speaker 1: will ban local and federal law enforcement offices, including ice,

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Speaker 1: from wearing face masks while on duty. Comes in first

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Speaker 1: of January twenty six. Newsome calls it secret police roaming

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Speaker 1: the streets. We don't want it, so there are exceptions

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Speaker 1: for undercover agents, masks used to protect against disease or wildfires,

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Speaker 1: and tactical gear, but mainly it's the masks thing, as

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Speaker 1: they've had the Feds in town lately and they didn't

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Speaker 1: like it.

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