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Speaker 1: This is the warning.

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Speaker 2: There is some terrible news that is unfolding in Utah,

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Speaker 2: and that is that the MAGA activist, the founder of

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Speaker 2: the youth organization Turning Point USA, has been shot. Charlie

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Speaker 2: Kirk has been shot in Utah. Let me say that

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Speaker 2: this is a terrible crime. It is an act of

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Speaker 2: reprehensible violence, and it should be condemned unequivocally and directly

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Speaker 2: by every American, but especially by all of those who

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Speaker 2: stand opposed to the descending curtain of fascism in America.

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Speaker 2: This act of violence stands the shooter on the side

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Speaker 2: of what we must be against, against the depravity, against

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Speaker 2: the violence, against the evil that the Trump regime has manifested,

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Speaker 2: and that Charlie Kirk, misguidedly, in my view, supported and endorsed.

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Speaker 3: But in this country we believe unequivocally and without exception

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Speaker 3: in the freedom of speech and conscience and thought.

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Speaker 2: And this act of violence directed by a democratic activist

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Speaker 2: will be used by the demagogues of the MAGA movement,

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Speaker 2: the propagandists to justify the use of force in the

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Speaker 2: imposition of control by government authority against the citizen.

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Speaker 3: Because at the.

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Speaker 2: Core of the mag ideology is a victim and grievance

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Speaker 2: industry that has told people for a generation that they

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Speaker 2: are victims and that they are hunted. And today the

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Speaker 2: evidence of that was laid down with bloody, perfect cloudy.

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Speaker 2: And so a political leader of an opposition that I

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Speaker 2: disdain and detest has been done down while trying to

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Speaker 2: persuade people that he was right. And the act of

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Speaker 2: evil perpetrated against him is an act of evil that

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Speaker 2: was perpetrated against America and against our highest ideals in

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Speaker 2: furtherance of an evil. Violence. Violence begets violence. And we

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Speaker 2: look at a democracy that's two hundred and fifty years old,

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Speaker 2: atendants of the United States, and we think about Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump inciting violence at the Capitol on January sixth, and

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Speaker 2: we know that hundreds of police officers were assaulted, but

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Speaker 2: the violence was dismissed. The violent criminals were pardoned and

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Speaker 2: said loose and now they will be ready for their war.

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Speaker 2: We know that a week ago, upon the celebration of

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Speaker 2: the destruction of a speedboat off of Venezuela, the eleven

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Speaker 2: human beings aboard, when it was pointed out to JD.

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Speaker 2: Vance that he lacked the authority the legality to word

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Speaker 2: a lethal strike. There, he responded with, I don't give

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Speaker 2: a shit the erosion that we have seen taken place

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Speaker 2: in the talk about killing and death and the escalation

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Speaker 3: There is no.

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Speaker 2: Voice that has ever been in the history of the

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Speaker 2: United States has done more to court violence in the

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Speaker 2: twentieth and twenty first century between US as a people

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Speaker 2: than Donald Trump and the MAGA movement constantly divided, calling

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Speaker 2: out to the American people that were each other's enemies.

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Speaker 2: And the answer to this hatred is etched in granite

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Speaker 2: at the memorial of doctor Martin Luther King in Washington

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Speaker 2: and in Atlanta, and in the permanence of the record

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Speaker 2: that makes clear the defeating hate requires the application of

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Speaker 2: love and the love of country and the ideas and

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Speaker 2: ideals that we hold dear about freedom, about liberty, the

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Speaker 2: rule of law, or the answer to the great crisis

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Speaker 2: at hand, the solution to the American crisis at hand,

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Speaker 2: and the only moral method of opposition and resistance to it.

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Speaker 2: And the man who shot Charlie Kirk tried to assassinate

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Speaker 2: today his country, tried to assassinate the rule of law,

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Speaker 2: tried to assassinate a human being because he didn't like

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Speaker 2: his politics, and he thought, in all of his sickness.

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Speaker 3: In all of his arrogance, that he had.

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Speaker 2: The fucking right to be the judge and the jury

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Speaker 2: and the executioner. And let every single one of us

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Speaker 2: make clear our contempt and our disassociation in our demand

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Speaker 2: that when we stand together, we do it with nonviolence

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Speaker 2: as patriots. This is madness and sanity. Earlier today, I

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Speaker 2: shared a story about a Life magazine that I've written about,

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Speaker 2: and it's from November of nineteen thirty eight. And on

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Speaker 2: the cover of that magazine is a toddler and there's

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Speaker 2: a cupcake with two candles. And I've always made the

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Speaker 2: point then and now the media believes the news is

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Speaker 2: about the media. The evidence, of course that upon the

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Speaker 2: second anniversary of Life magazine, with all that was going

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Speaker 2: on in the world, the thing that was on the

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Speaker 2: cover was the second anniversary of Life magazine. But inside

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Speaker 2: the cover were the first images of the events that

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Speaker 2: we remember as the Krystal Knock, the Night of the

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Speaker 2: Broken Glass, which followed the assassination of a Nazi official

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Speaker 2: in Paris and the act of collective revenge punishment spilled

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Speaker 2: out all over the Jews and those pictures are in

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Speaker 2: that Life magazine, and you turn the story and accompanying

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Speaker 2: those pictures for publication, where the first publicity photos of

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Speaker 2: the occasion of Hermann Goring's nieces christening, and you see

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Speaker 2: Hitler and you see Gouring together in the church with

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Speaker 2: the children surrounding them, and you see a ad in

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Speaker 2: the next pages for Coca Cola telling the American people

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Speaker 2: to relax and to take it easy during the hours

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Speaker 2: and the days ahead. This terrible crime will be the

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Speaker 2: foundation the basis to say that there is a cure

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Speaker 2: for the disease that we just witnessed, that there is

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Speaker 2: a type of justice that can be restored of, and

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Speaker 2: that justice is to give to Donald Trump and for

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump to use the power of the state to

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Speaker 2: avenge this terrible crime against who the criminal and the assassin,

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Speaker 2: or against all of Donald Trump's uponts. And so we

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Speaker 2: will hear now from the people who change the Department

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Speaker 2: of Defense to the Department of War, those people who

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Speaker 2: talk about lethality and violence and fetishize it and have

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Speaker 2: divided the American people and told the proud boys to

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Speaker 2: stand back and stand ready, and have said that the

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Speaker 2: country has been invaded and that we are at war. Well,

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Speaker 2: they have their Reichstock fire now. And that's what this

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Speaker 2: will become, the justification for the expansion of state power

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Speaker 2: to suppress political dissent name of punishing the side of

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Speaker 2: a political proposition from which this murderous scumbag came. And

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Speaker 2: it is important to understand that we must deplore the violence.

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Speaker 2: We must pray for Charlie Kirk, we must pray for

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Speaker 2: our country, but we cannot submit to the abuses of

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Speaker 2: power that will be asserted on the basis of this

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Speaker 2: terrible crime. Our children are not safe in their schools.

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Speaker 2: We live in a country that glorifies this in sanity

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Speaker 2: from billboards and with a gun shop on every corner,

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Speaker 2: and the rhetoric the cold civil war that Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: has stoked for many years a decade is flashing red,

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Speaker 2: lashing hot on the periphery, turning violence. Violence is a

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Speaker 2: cancer on a democracy. No democratic nation debates issues with

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Speaker 2: a rifle. Fascism rose in the nineteen thirties not because

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Speaker 2: it was strong, but because democracy was weak. And in

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Speaker 2: this country we are to descend into extremists left wing

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Speaker 2: violence versus right wing violence. I have bad news for

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Speaker 2: every left of center person who believes in democracy in America,

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Speaker 2: in the United States. In that fight, the dominant faction

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Speaker 2: is the fascisade, and it will win.

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Speaker 3: It will prevail.

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Speaker 2: The ideas that we must stand for require us to

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Speaker 2: have the bravery to embrace nonviolence and the wisdom to

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Speaker 2: reject hatred. If you know, people cannot see the humanity

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Speaker 2: of Charlie Kirk, young father, those people are the worst

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Speaker 2: of the worst, just like the worst of the worst

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Speaker 2: that so many of us in opposition to this are

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Speaker 2: so fiercely against, and so terrible day, an awful moment,

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Speaker 2: an act of political terror, on the eve of September eleventh,

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Speaker 2: twenty four years, on.

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Speaker 3: The eve to the day of a day that will live.

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Speaker 2: In infamy, as a fascist curtain descends on our country.

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Speaker 2: It's massed agents in the military, is threatened to be

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Speaker 2: deployed into the streets. Man who picked up the rifle,

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Speaker 2: the sick individual, it's responsible for his actions, his crimes,

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Speaker 2: and he is an enemy of the United States. He

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Speaker 2: the Constitution of the United States. And he stole something

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Speaker 2: from all of us today that he had no right

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Speaker 2: to take from any of us. But we must also

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Speaker 2: consider causations, and we must remember that just days ago,

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Speaker 2: an American president pictured himself as the Robert Duval character

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Speaker 2: from Apocalypse Now ready to wage war on an American city.

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Speaker 2: And there are unbalanced and sick people out there. When

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Speaker 2: the president of the United States declares that his enemy

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Speaker 2: is the American people, the sickness manifests itself, and the

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Speaker 2: violence that is coming and the violence that has already happened,

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Speaker 2: should cause the deepest of reflection. And for those of

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Speaker 2: you out there say fuck Charlie Kirk and all the

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Speaker 2: sick of fants, what I say to you is Ken

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Speaker 2: Goldsmith is no Ken.

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Speaker 3: You're the worst of the worst. The people who.

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Speaker 2: Are cheering for the assassins, for the violence, just as

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Speaker 2: responsible as MAGA for taking your country from you. And

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Speaker 2: what I want you to understand tonight is something that

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Speaker 2: Robert Kennedy said a long time ago. Well, we need

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Speaker 2: in America is not more hate, but we need more love.

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Speaker 2: And let everybody be resolved. And no matter what, we

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Speaker 2: reject the idea that the government has the right to

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Speaker 2: avenge this evil by attacking the American people.

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Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.

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