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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Schmid Storm. You've got questions,

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Speaker 1: I've got answers. Let's get started. The first question is

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Speaker 1: do you think Jimmy Kimmel will be back on ABC?

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. The firing of Jimmy Kimmel, and

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Speaker 1: that's what it is, was the most outlandish act of

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Speaker 1: political cowardice corporate cowardice.

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Speaker 2: Thus far is free speech more under attacking Britain or America.

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Speaker 3: Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings

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Speaker 3: more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing

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Speaker 3: about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy

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Speaker 3: Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad

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Speaker 3: ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago. So,

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Speaker 3: you know, you can call that free speech or not.

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Speaker 3: He was fired for lack of talent.

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Speaker 1: We don't know all of the details yet. Who did

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Speaker 1: what at ABC? Ultimately, what was the decision that Bob

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Speaker 1: Biger made? How did he make that decision? But it

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Speaker 1: was a decision that built on the earlier ABC capitulation

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Speaker 1: to Donald Trump to payout because of things that were

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Speaker 1: said by George Stephanopolis that were absurd to settle over.

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Speaker 1: Yet they did, and what it purchased them is what

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Speaker 1: appeasement always purchases, which is more aggression. And so what

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Speaker 1: we are seeing is demands from conservative broadcasters that Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Kimmel has to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk's family in

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Speaker 1: order to get back on the air.

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Speaker 2: According to The New York Times late Wednesday, I'm just

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Speaker 2: quoting here, Sinclair, another owner of many local TV stations,

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Speaker 2: said that it would also suspend mister Kimble's program and

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Speaker 2: calling mister Kimmel to apologize and make a meaningful personal

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Speaker 2: donation to mister Kirk's family. The activist political group Turning

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Speaker 2: Point USA. Do you think that's an appropriate remedy of

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Speaker 2: the situation.

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Speaker 4: I think Sinclair it's a right to call for that.

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Speaker 5: Again.

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Speaker 4: You know, Sinclair affiliates with Disney. They take Disney contract,

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Speaker 4: They have a contractual relationship with Disney, and that's between

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Speaker 4: the two of them to figure out, you know what's

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Speaker 4: going to make sense to make both of them comfortable

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Speaker 4: with the relationship going forward. Again over the years, it

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Speaker 4: would be unthinkable for Sinclair, for Nextstar, for local TV

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Speaker 4: stations to actually say, you know what, you know, we're

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Speaker 4: not going to take this particular programming that's coming out

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Speaker 4: of New York and Hollywood and send it to Pennsylvania

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Speaker 4: and Utah. And so the idea that local broadcasters feel

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Speaker 4: like they can push back, I think that's a much

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Speaker 4: much healthier dynamic for the country.

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's obscene and it's unconstitutional.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 1: Most people when they talk about freedom of speech in

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Speaker 1: America are pretty ignorant about what it is that they're

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Speaker 1: talking about. The tradition of freedom of speech, the idea

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Speaker 1: that you should be open to hearing something that offends you,

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Speaker 1: and that you should tolerate it, and you should meet

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Speaker 1: it with additional speech. That free speech tradition in the

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Speaker 1: United States is different than the First Amendment. The First

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Speaker 1: Amendment says is the government will not restrict speech. And

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Speaker 1: when it comes to Jimmy Kimmel, that's exactly what we

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Speaker 1: will find is a pressure campaign and overt threats from

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Speaker 1: the government to curtail's speech critical of a man who,

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Speaker 1: though President thinks he is king or tyrant, or who

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Speaker 1: knows whatever rattles around in the mind of our dime store, Mussolini.

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Speaker 1: But the government cannot restrict speech and that's what's happening.

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Speaker 1: What we are seeing in America in this moment is appalling,

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Speaker 1: and there's a couple of things that deserve direct attention.

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Speaker 1: The first is the ugliness of the digital mob and

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Speaker 1: all of the irresponsible and reckless political leaders like this

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Speaker 1: person and this one and this one who are inflaming

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Speaker 1: the situation and demanding that the price of an assassination

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Speaker 1: is the end of two hundred and fifty years of

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Speaker 1: American free speech tradition. And it's not going to happen

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Speaker 1: because the First Amendment isn't up for debate renegotiation. It is.

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Speaker 1: It endures, and it will always be the rights to speak,

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Speaker 1: the right to pray, the right to think, to have

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Speaker 1: a conscience in America. These things don't exist at the

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Speaker 1: whim of Donald Trump or Steven Miller or any of

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Speaker 1: the other fascists. These are things that come from God,

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Speaker 1: and in America people have a right to think whatever

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Speaker 1: it is they wish to think. There's no such thing,

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Speaker 1: though Steven Miller or implies there is as the crime

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Speaker 1: of wrong think. Not in America. The other thing that

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Speaker 1: you see is the assignment of collective guilt like here.

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Speaker 7: And let me tell you something I'd not share with anybody.

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Speaker 7: But the last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me

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Speaker 7: before he joined his creator in heaven was he said

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Speaker 7: that we have to dismantle and take on the radical

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Speaker 7: left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That

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Speaker 7: was the last message that he sent me before that

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Speaker 7: assassin stole him from all of us. And we are

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Speaker 7: going to do that under President Trump's leadership. I don't

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Speaker 7: care how it could be a rico charge, a conspiracy charge,

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Speaker 7: conspiracy against the United States insurrection, but we are going

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Speaker 7: to do what it takes to dismantle the organizations and

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Speaker 7: the entities that are fomenting riots, that are docsing, that

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Speaker 7: are trying to inspire terrorism, and that are committing acts

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Speaker 7: of wanting silence. It has to stop. But my message

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Speaker 7: is to all of the domestic terrorists in this country

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Speaker 7: spreading this evil hate. You want us to live in fear.

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Speaker 7: We will not live in fear, but you will live

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Speaker 7: in exile because the power of law enforcement under President

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Speaker 7: Trump's leadership will be used to find you. We use

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Speaker 7: a take away your money, take away your power, and

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Speaker 7: if you've broken the law, to take away your.

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Speaker 1: Freedom shown and even on the propaganda video released from

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Speaker 1: the White House by Charlie Kirk's widow, she does not

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Speaker 1: blame the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a gunman who

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Speaker 1: we know, one man, one rifle, one bullet. Instead, it

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Speaker 1: was a collective act, a murder on which we all

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Speaker 1: participated in, a collective conspiracy. Because you may happen to

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Speaker 1: oppose Donald Trump.

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Speaker 6: The evildoers responsible for my husband's assassination have no idea

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Speaker 6: what they have done. They killed Charlie because he preached

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Speaker 6: a message of patriotism, faith, and of God's merciful love.

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Speaker 6: They should all know this. If you thought that my

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Speaker 6: husband's mission was powerful before, you have no idea. You

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Speaker 6: have no idea what you just have unleashed across this

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Speaker 6: entire country, in this world. You have no idea. You

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Speaker 6: have no idea the fire that you have ignited within

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Speaker 6: this wife, The cries of this widow will echo around

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Speaker 6: the world like a battle cry.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing you're seeing is a demand that

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Speaker 1: you kneel, not in mourning to Charlie Kirk, but in

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Speaker 1: submission to Charlie Kirk's ideas, which were obnoxious, to say

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Speaker 1: the least.

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Speaker 5: The writer accuses Charlie of saying, and I quote, black

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Speaker 5: women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously.

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Speaker 5: But if you go and watch the clip, the very

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Speaker 5: clip she links to, you realize he never said anything

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Speaker 5: like that. He never uttered those words.

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Speaker 8: If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle

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Speaker 8: Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Catangi Brown Jackson were

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Speaker 8: affirmative action picks, we would have been called the blis.

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Speaker 8: But now they're coming out and they're saying it for us.

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Speaker 8: They're coming out and they're saying, I'm only here because

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Speaker 8: of affirmative action. We know you do not have the

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Speaker 8: brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You

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Speaker 8: had to go steal a white person slot to go

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Speaker 8: be taken somewhat seriously.

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Speaker 1: The next question is whatever happened to Donald Trump's promise

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Speaker 1: to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. Well, I

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Speaker 1: guess it's up in smoke. Here's the reality of the situation.

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Speaker 1: A few hours ago, MiG fighter jets Russian flew into

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Speaker 1: Estonian airspace, a NATO country. Russian drones have flown into

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Speaker 1: Polish air space. They're testing and they're probing what Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump promised was peace, and what he will bring his war.

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Speaker 1: War and fascism go together like Christmas and candy canes.

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Speaker 1: Fascism was once described by The Observer up in Sinclair

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Speaker 1: as capitalism plus murder. Fascists always run on a platform

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Speaker 1: of prosperity in peace. What they bring is economic misery

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Speaker 1: and war. The last question is what can you say

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Speaker 1: to a young person about the assassination of Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 1: in this moment, when there's so much chaos and so

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Speaker 1: much division. What I would like to introduce a young

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Speaker 1: person too. If I had the opportunity to go talk

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Speaker 1: to a bunch of college kids, is I would show

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Speaker 1: them the video of Robert Kennedy speaking to a group

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Speaker 1: of black Americans in Indianapolis on the night of Martin

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Speaker 1: Luther King's assassination. And he gives what is I think

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Speaker 1: the most powerful extemporaneous speech in American history, and he

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Speaker 1: talks about the death of his brother by an assassin's hand.

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Speaker 1: And Indianapolis did not burn that night, there were no riots.

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Speaker 1: The crowd went home. And what Robert Kennedy talked about

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Speaker 1: was that in America we need more love, and we do.

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Speaker 1: And here's an excerpt from that speech.

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Speaker 9: In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the

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Speaker 9: United States, it's prehaps well to ask what kind of

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Speaker 9: a nation we are? Direction we want to move in.

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Speaker 9: For those of you who are black, considering the evidence

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Speaker 9: evidently is that there were white people who were responsible.

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Speaker 9: You can be filled with bitterness and with hatred and

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Speaker 9: a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction

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Speaker 9: as a country and greater polarization black people amongst blacks

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Speaker 9: and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another.

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Speaker 9: Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did,

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Speaker 9: to understand and to comprehend and replace that violence, that

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Speaker 9: stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with

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Speaker 9: an effort to understand and compassion.

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Speaker 5: And love.

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