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Speaker 1: for everybody who has played a part in this investigation.

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Speaker 2: So that's the sheriff there in orum Utah, Tony Katz,

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Speaker 2: Tony Katz today, good to be with you. I wanted

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Speaker 2: else regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk and how they

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Speaker 2: were able to get this suspect into custody. Remember, they

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Speaker 2: had a person, a suspect of interest. They then released

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Speaker 2: that person. Then there was a man hunt this twenty

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Speaker 2: two year old admitting to his father that he did

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Speaker 2: at his father. I believe a former sheriff, sheriff's deputy

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Speaker 2: kept him there, informed authorities or informed others to inform authorities,

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Speaker 2: and that's when he was apra ended. We're gonna learn

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Speaker 2: a lot, and I want to bring the Q and

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Speaker 2: whether or not he was known to anybody to be

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Speaker 2: a threat to himself, a threat to others. There are

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Speaker 2: some people on my side, right our side of the aisle,

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Speaker 2: right side of the aisle. Maybe you're not with me

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Speaker 2: on the side of the aisle, but you listen to

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Speaker 2: the show because you love a good show, and I

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Speaker 2: appreciate it and thank you. Discussing on the FBI didn't

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Speaker 2: do a good job. The FBI didn't do this, The

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Speaker 2: FBI didn't do that, The FBI bungled this. I have

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Speaker 2: no idea if any of that is true. At this moment.

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Speaker 2: We are two days, not even since the assassination of

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Speaker 2: How many times they turned in? I would assume there's

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Speaker 2: actually a fair amount of this that takes place that

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Speaker 2: is not somehow a kind of carte blanche to oh,

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Speaker 2: they didn't do the job. We don't know what job

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Speaker 2: kind of issues. Certainly there was a fair amount of

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Speaker 2: been purposeful to try and not give anybody a full

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Speaker 2: I just want to say special thanks. It's an honor

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Speaker 2: to be a part of the Department of Justice. Back

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Speaker 2: now to the Governor, Spencer Coppet, you again to our

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Speaker 1: Shareff, I got a solid ninety minutes last night, so

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Speaker 1: I'm probably the most well rested person up here. Ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, I get the microphones, so I hope you

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Speaker 1: will permit me a moment just to share a few

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Speaker 1: more thoughts about where we are and how we got here,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get too preachy, but I think

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Speaker 1: it's important that we, with eyes wide open, understand what's

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Speaker 1: happening in our country today. I've heard I've heard people say,

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Speaker 1: why are we so invested in this? There's violence happening

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Speaker 1: our love and respect and dignity. This is certainly about

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Speaker 1: the tragic death assassination political assassination of Charlie Kirk. But

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Speaker 1: it is also much bigger than an attack on an individual.

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Speaker 1: It is an attack on all of us. It is

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Speaker 1: an attack on the American experiment. It is an attack

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Speaker 1: we could be in better times. Political violence is different

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Speaker 1: One because in the very act that Charlie championed of expression,

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Speaker 1: especially especially those ideas with which you disagree. Why this

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Speaker 1: Charlie said, when people stop talking, that's when you get violence.

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Speaker 1: He said that week can never forgive. Forgiveness is the

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Speaker 1: without condition, forgive without limit. He said, always forgive your enemies.

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Speaker 1: Nothing annoys them so much. A few months ago, I

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Speaker 1: real life. It's going to be okay. He again said,

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Speaker 1: He said. What we as a culture have to get

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Speaker 1: an option. Now again, to my young friends out there,

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Speaker 1: It feels like rage is the only option. But through

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Speaker 1: suffering through right now, not by pretending differences don't matter,

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Speaker 1: hear all the time that words are violence. Words are

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Speaker 1: not violence. Violence is violence. And there is one person

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Speaker 2: And clearly very emotional Governor Spencer Cox there speaking about

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Speaker 2: of the well something that we absolutely believe to be true. Right.

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Speaker 2: The violence is the violence. The violence is the violence.

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Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. I believe that people can be

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Speaker 2: very very ugly ends. I have said this about MSNBC

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Speaker 2: threat to democracy. I absolutely believe that's the case. But

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Speaker 2: we have to counter it with more speech, with us

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Speaker 2: trying to persuade more people. The Q and A. I'll

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Speaker 2: can keep it here this is Tony Kats today,