WEBVTT - REACTION: Charlie Kirk Shot Dead on Utah Campus

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<v Speaker 1>This is the warning.

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<v Speaker 2>There is some terrible news that is unfolding in Utah,

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<v Speaker 2>and that is that the MAGA activist, the founder of

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<v Speaker 2>the youth organization Turning Point USA, has been shot. Charlie

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<v Speaker 2>Kirk has been shot in Utah. Let me say that

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<v Speaker 2>this is a terrible crime. It is an act of

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<v Speaker 2>reprehensible violence, and it should be condemned unequivocally and directly

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<v Speaker 2>by every American, but especially by all of those who

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<v Speaker 2>stand opposed to the descending curtain of fascism in America.

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<v Speaker 2>This act of violence stands the shooter on the side

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<v Speaker 2>of what we must be against, against the depravity, against

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<v Speaker 2>the violence, against the evil that the Trump regime has manifested,

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<v Speaker 2>and that Charlie Kirk, misguidedly, in my view, supported and endorsed.

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<v Speaker 3>But in this country we believe unequivocally and without exception

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<v Speaker 3>in the freedom of speech and conscience and thought.

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<v Speaker 2>And this act of violence directed by a democratic activist

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<v Speaker 2>will be used by the demagogues of the MAGA movement,

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<v Speaker 2>the propagandists to justify the use of force in the

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<v Speaker 2>imposition of control by government authority against the citizen.

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<v Speaker 3>Because at the.

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<v Speaker 2>Core of the mag ideology is a victim and grievance

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<v Speaker 2>industry that has told people for a generation that they

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<v Speaker 2>are victims and that they are hunted. And today the

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<v Speaker 2>evidence of that was laid down with bloody, perfect cloudy.

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<v Speaker 2>And so a political leader of an opposition that I

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<v Speaker 2>disdain and detest has been done down while trying to

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<v Speaker 2>persuade people that he was right. And the act of

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<v Speaker 2>evil perpetrated against him is an act of evil that

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<v Speaker 2>was perpetrated against America and against our highest ideals in

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<v Speaker 2>furtherance of an evil. Violence. Violence begets violence. And we

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

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<v Speaker 2>atendants of the United States, and we think about Donald

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<v Speaker 2>Trump inciting violence at the Capitol on January sixth, and

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<v Speaker 2>we know that hundreds of police officers were assaulted, but

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<v Speaker 2>the violence was dismissed. The violent criminals were pardoned and

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<v Speaker 2>said loose and now they will be ready for their war.

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<v Speaker 2>We know that a week ago, upon the celebration of

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<v Speaker 2>the destruction of a speedboat off of Venezuela, the eleven

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<v Speaker 2>human beings aboard, when it was pointed out to JD.

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<v Speaker 2>Vance that he lacked the authority the legality to word

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

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<v Speaker 2>a shit the erosion that we have seen taken place

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<v Speaker 2>in the talk about killing and death and the escalation

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<v Speaker 2>and rhetoric.

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<v Speaker 3>There is no.

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<v Speaker 2>Voice that has ever been in the history of the

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<v Speaker 2>United States has done more to court violence in the

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<v Speaker 2>twentieth and twenty first century between US as a people

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<v Speaker 2>than Donald Trump and the MAGA movement constantly divided, calling

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<v Speaker 2>out to the American people that were each other's enemies.

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<v Speaker 2>And the answer to this hatred is etched in granite

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<v Speaker 2>at the memorial of doctor Martin Luther King in Washington

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<v Speaker 2>and in Atlanta, and in the permanence of the record

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<v Speaker 2>that makes clear the defeating hate requires the application of

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<v Speaker 2>love and the love of country and the ideas and

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<v Speaker 2>ideals that we hold dear about freedom, about liberty, the

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<v Speaker 2>rule of law, or the answer to the great crisis

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<v Speaker 2>at hand, the solution to the American crisis at hand,

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<v Speaker 2>and the only moral method of opposition and resistance to it.

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<v Speaker 2>And the man who shot Charlie Kirk tried to assassinate

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<v Speaker 2>today his country, tried to assassinate the rule of law,

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<v Speaker 2>tried to assassinate a human being because he didn't like

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<v Speaker 2>his politics, and he thought, in all of his sickness.

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<v Speaker 3>In all of his arrogance, that he had.

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<v Speaker 2>The fucking right to be the judge and the jury

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<v Speaker 2>and the executioner. And let every single one of us

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<v Speaker 2>make clear our contempt and our disassociation in our demand

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<v Speaker 2>that when we stand together, we do it with nonviolence

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<v Speaker 2>as patriots. This is madness and sanity. Earlier today, I

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<v Speaker 2>shared a story about a Life magazine that I've written about,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's from November of nineteen thirty eight. And on

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<v Speaker 2>the cover of that magazine is a toddler and there's

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<v Speaker 2>a cupcake with two candles. And I've always made the

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<v Speaker 2>point then and now the media believes the news is

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<v Speaker 2>about the media. The evidence, of course that upon the

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<v Speaker 2>second anniversary of Life magazine, with all that was going

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<v Speaker 2>on in the world, the thing that was on the

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<v Speaker 2>cover was the second anniversary of Life magazine. But inside

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<v Speaker 2>the cover were the first images of the events that

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<v Speaker 2>we remember as the Krystal Knock, the Night of the

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<v Speaker 2>Broken Glass, which followed the assassination of a Nazi official

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<v Speaker 2>in Paris and the act of collective revenge punishment spilled

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<v Speaker 2>out all over the Jews and those pictures are in

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<v Speaker 2>that Life magazine, and you turn the story and accompanying

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<v Speaker 2>those pictures for publication, where the first publicity photos of

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<v Speaker 2>the occasion of Hermann Goring's nieces christening, and you see

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<v Speaker 2>Hitler and you see Gouring together in the church with

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<v Speaker 2>the children surrounding them, and you see a ad in

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<v Speaker 2>the next pages for Coca Cola telling the American people

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<v Speaker 2>to relax and to take it easy during the hours

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<v Speaker 2>and the days ahead. This terrible crime will be the

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<v Speaker 2>foundation the basis to say that there is a cure

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<v Speaker 2>for the disease that we just witnessed, that there is

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<v Speaker 2>a type of justice that can be restored of, and

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<v Speaker 2>that justice is to give to Donald Trump and for

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<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump to use the power of the state to

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<v Speaker 2>avenge this terrible crime against who the criminal and the assassin,

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<v Speaker 2>or against all of Donald Trump's uponts. And so we

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<v Speaker 2>will hear now from the people who change the Department

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<v Speaker 2>of Defense to the Department of War, those people who

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<v Speaker 2>talk about lethality and violence and fetishize it and have

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<v Speaker 2>divided the American people and told the proud boys to

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<v Speaker 2>stand back and stand ready, and have said that the

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<v Speaker 2>country has been invaded and that we are at war. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>they have their Reichstock fire now. And that's what this

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<v Speaker 2>will become, the justification for the expansion of state power

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<v Speaker 2>to suppress political dissent name of punishing the side of

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<v Speaker 2>a political proposition from which this murderous scumbag came. And

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<v Speaker 2>it is important to understand that we must deplore the violence.

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<v Speaker 2>We must pray for Charlie Kirk, we must pray for

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<v Speaker 2>our country, but we cannot submit to the abuses of

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<v Speaker 2>power that will be asserted on the basis of this

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<v Speaker 2>terrible crime. Our children are not safe in their schools.

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<v Speaker 2>We live in a country that glorifies this in sanity

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<v Speaker 2>from billboards and with a gun shop on every corner,

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<v Speaker 2>and the rhetoric the cold civil war that Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 2>has stoked for many years a decade is flashing red,

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<v Speaker 2>lashing hot on the periphery, turning violence. Violence is a

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<v Speaker 2>cancer on a democracy. No democratic nation debates issues with

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<v Speaker 2>a rifle. Fascism rose in the nineteen thirties not because

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<v Speaker 2>it was strong, but because democracy was weak. And in

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<v Speaker 2>this country we are to descend into extremists left wing

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<v Speaker 2>violence versus right wing violence. I have bad news for

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<v Speaker 2>every left of center person who believes in democracy in America,

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<v Speaker 2>in the United States. In that fight, the dominant faction

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<v Speaker 2>is the fascisade, and it will win.

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<v Speaker 3>It will prevail.

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<v Speaker 2>The ideas that we must stand for require us to

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<v Speaker 2>have the bravery to embrace nonviolence and the wisdom to

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<v Speaker 2>reject hatred. If you know, people cannot see the humanity

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<v Speaker 2>of Charlie Kirk, young father, those people are the worst

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<v Speaker 2>of the worst, just like the worst of the worst

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<v Speaker 2>that so many of us in opposition to this are

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<v Speaker 2>so fiercely against, and so terrible day, an awful moment,

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<v Speaker 2>an act of political terror, on the eve of September eleventh,

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<v Speaker 2>twenty four years, on.

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<v Speaker 3>The eve to the day of a day that will live.

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<v Speaker 2>In infamy, as a fascist curtain descends on our country.

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<v Speaker 2>It's massed agents in the military, is threatened to be

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<v Speaker 2>deployed into the streets. Man who picked up the rifle,

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<v Speaker 2>the sick individual, it's responsible for his actions, his crimes,

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<v Speaker 2>and he is an enemy of the United States. He

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<v Speaker 2>is a he is a domestic enemy of the of

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<v Speaker 2>the Constitution of the United States. And he stole something

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<v Speaker 2>from all of us today that he had no right

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<v Speaker 2>to take from any of us. But we must also

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<v Speaker 2>consider causations, and we must remember that just days ago,

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<v Speaker 2>an American president pictured himself as the Robert Duval character

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<v Speaker 2>from Apocalypse Now ready to wage war on an American city.

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<v Speaker 2>And there are unbalanced and sick people out there. When

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<v Speaker 2>the president of the United States declares that his enemy

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<v Speaker 2>is the American people, the sickness manifests itself, and the

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<v Speaker 2>violence that is coming and the violence that has already happened,

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<v Speaker 2>should cause the deepest of reflection. And for those of

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<v Speaker 2>you out there say fuck Charlie Kirk and all the

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<v Speaker 2>sick of fants, what I say to you is Ken

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<v Speaker 2>Goldsmith is no Ken.

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<v Speaker 3>You're the worst of the worst. The people who.

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<v Speaker 2>Are cheering for the assassins, for the violence, just as

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<v Speaker 2>responsible as MAGA for taking your country from you. And

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<v Speaker 2>what I want you to understand tonight is something that

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<v Speaker 2>Robert Kennedy said a long time ago. Well, we need

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<v Speaker 2>in America is not more hate, but we need more love.

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<v Speaker 2>And let everybody be resolved. And no matter what, we

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<v Speaker 2>reject the idea that the government has the right to

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<v Speaker 2>avenge this evil by attacking the American people.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm Steve Schmidt, this is the warning. I invite

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<v Speaker 1>you to join this community, where I promise to be honest,

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<v Speaker 1>blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.

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