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Speaker 2: Some of the responses, the online maga mob threatening people,

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Speaker 2: aimed at certain groups. And I always go back too.

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Speaker 2: Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to

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Speaker 2: said that those words were inappropriate, insensitive, and unacceptable, and

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Speaker 2: then went on we apologize for her statements. There's no

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Speaker 2: it is very very important that we talk about some

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Speaker 2: things with honesty and some integrity. There are three parts

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Speaker 2: to what happened been around Charlie Kirk, and I want

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Speaker 2: to go through all of them, and I want to

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Speaker 2: start in the middle with the murder. And what we

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Speaker 2: all saw online was the preciousness of life. And in

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Speaker 2: that moment, Charlie Kirk's was obliterated by an assassin. And

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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk was a thirty one year old father, and

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Speaker 2: he was a husband, and Charlie Kirk had a lot

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Speaker 2: the possibility that whatever Charlie Kirk was going to become,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what Charlie Kark Kirk would have become.

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Speaker 2: I was stolen by cowards. Act. You should be condemned,

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Speaker 2: and that coward did great injury to the cause I

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Speaker 2: believe in, which is freedom in the United States Constitution,

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Speaker 2: in the United States of America. Because Charlie Kirk didn't

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Speaker 2: The appropriate venue was to debate this, and my side

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Speaker 2: by this despicable action. I have contempt for the anger

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Speaker 2: words of Robert Kennedy, who spoke extemporaneously from the back

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Speaker 2: informing them of the murder of Martin Luther King. And

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Speaker 2: he talked about love and we need more love, just

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Speaker 2: like we needed more love in nineteen sixty eight. Charlie

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Speaker 2: Kirk's legacy is finished. When his life was obliterated, his

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Speaker 2: many people saw is gone. There's too much gun violence.

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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk's legacy is what Charlie Kirk said, and the

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Speaker 2: things that Charlie Kirk stood for were reprehensible. When an

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Speaker 2: eighty year old man, the husband of the Speaker of

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Speaker 2: out the attacker. He was an apologist for the violence

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Speaker 2: against the police officers. On January sixth, I give consideration

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Speaker 2: right now to the life of one of the great

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Speaker 2: And that's why it is an obscenity that there'd be

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Speaker 2: the murder of Charlie Kirk, which I have condemned, was

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Speaker 2: not a singular action by a loan assassin who fired

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Speaker 2: the murder was a collective act. And the collective act

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Speaker 2: was a conspiracy of all of us who object to

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Speaker 2: that says for the first time ever in this country

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Speaker 2: an organization, say the ACLU, say the Democratic Party, say

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Speaker 2: the Save America movement, a bulwark subscriber, a contrarian subscriber.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you read too much Tara Palmer, then he's going

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Speaker 2: well you're complicit in the murder. And so what do

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Speaker 2: we know? Like I said, in that terrible instant of

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Speaker 2: the stoking of hatreds that have played out NonStop a

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Speaker 2: an election where we now all understand the consequences. Joe

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Speaker 2: what he said. And so Joe Scarborough gets paid twenty

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Speaker 2: telling you the truth. Now, what's important to comprehend about

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Speaker 2: This is the living memorial to the Holocaust the Museum

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Speaker 2: But that's what's happening. You are seeing a fascist regime

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Speaker 2: Don't tolerate the gaslighting, my friends, stand up against it.

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Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt.

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Speaker 1: what is happening in this country. America is in crisis.

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