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Speaker 1: And let's talk now to Kurt Bardella. He is a

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm doing okay. How are you doing today?

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Speaker 1: I'm all right. You know, there's a lot of video

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Speaker 2: I think we all are digesting this information in real

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Speaker 1: Now, UH, describe for people who are not familiar what

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Speaker 2: You know, we saw in the last election President Trump

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Speaker 2: The that's not the version of America that I want

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show, and we're still trying to get more details.

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk a very influential activist and conservative politics podcaster organizer.

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Speaker 3: And this is just such a terrible, terrible day. It's

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Speaker 1: Talk about Charlie Kirk, what's he like personally?

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Speaker 3: This guy's brilliant. I mean, he built this national organization.

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Speaker 1: John all right, Carl Tomeile, Republican Assemblymen from San Diego.

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Speaker 1: right now reporting that thea Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk is dead.

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Speaker 1: I'll read you Donald Trump's post on truth social from

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Speaker 1: And today somebody shot him from the top of a building,

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Speaker 1: We'll tell us the latest. And we don't know who

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