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Speaker 1: Trump news was just a huge news across the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Lest since drag myself away from the telly for of course, it's.

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Speaker 2: Been a pretty amazing twenty four hours. I still cannot

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Speaker 2: believe that he cheated death by centimeters.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, sentiments gone in his temple, no matter how many

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Speaker 1: secret security agents are jumping on top of you. Vigonski.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're going to cross the Channel seven's US correspondent

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Speaker 2: to get the latest on the Trump assassination attempt. David Woward,

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: David, Good morning, guys. How are you good?

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Speaker 2: A huge story? You know, these things don't happen that often,

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Speaker 2: and of course happening to one of the most controversial figures.

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Speaker 1: Of our lifetime. What is the latest, Well.

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Speaker 3: We are starting to learn more about this gunman and

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Speaker 3: this twenty year old man who had launched this spectacular

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Speaker 3: and stunning attack really on the former US president yesterday.

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Speaker 3: We've all seen the pictures by now. He was a

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Speaker 3: twenty year old man by the name of Thomas Crooks.

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Speaker 3: He was from Pennsylvania. We have learned that police found

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Speaker 3: explosives in his car and back at his home. We're

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Speaker 3: also learning that he was a little bit of a

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Speaker 3: loaner at school too, that his classmates said that he

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Speaker 3: didn't have to any mates, so he didn't have much

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Speaker 3: of a network or community around him, which is pretty

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Speaker 3: common for these loan actors. It is a story that

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Speaker 3: we often hear in these situations. We're also learning those

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Speaker 3: that he had attracted the attention of law enforcement in

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Speaker 3: the hours leading up to this attack, that he'd sort

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Speaker 3: of been walking around the perimeter of that rally venue

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Speaker 3: and for whatever reason, he had sort of drawn a

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Speaker 3: little bit of a spotlight on him. Now, the big

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Speaker 3: question is why didn't law enforcement then act on that.

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Speaker 3: So that's going to form a major line of questioning

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Speaker 3: now in this investigation, and also major questions of course

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Speaker 3: for the Secret Service to answer as well. It's their

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Speaker 3: job to secure a perimeter like this, to secure the

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Speaker 3: former US President Donald Trump. He has all of those

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Speaker 3: resources at his disposal. We know that they responded within

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Speaker 3: seconds obviously of the gun shots actually ringing out, and

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Speaker 3: we saw that we sort of jump on him, and

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Speaker 3: we saw those other officers firing back towards the gun fire.

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Speaker 3: But how did it get to that point? This man

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Speaker 3: was only one hundred meters away from Donald Trump when

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Speaker 3: he has unleashed this.

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Speaker 2: And I know hindsight it's twenty twenty, but the guy

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Speaker 2: looked like he was just lying so openly on a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he'd had enough time to actually walk up there.

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Speaker 3: He'd walked past other members of the crowd there, and

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Speaker 3: they had seen him and they thought something, he looks

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Speaker 3: a bit suss So they had raised the alarm. Another

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Speaker 3: of a number of others had raised the alarm. But

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Speaker 3: he still had enough time to scale that building, set

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Speaker 3: up shop there, and then opened fire. And look. Police

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Speaker 3: have said that the actual gun fire itself was quite

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Speaker 3: scattered had it not been had he had a little

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Speaker 3: bit more training. Perhaps we don't know his background exactly.

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Speaker 3: We do know that he was a bit of a

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Speaker 3: gun nut that he subscribes to a number of online

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Speaker 3: accounts and things like that. It's kind of glorified gun

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Speaker 3: new but it was quite a scattered approach. He's sort

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Speaker 3: of unleashed with that high powered AAR style weapon.

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Speaker 1: Hey, David, the person who's lost their lives in the

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Speaker 1: crowd sadly, do you believe it was someone who was

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Speaker 1: in the sort of the grand stand set up behind

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Speaker 1: Now they won't. They won't have he followers behind him.

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Speaker 3: Now. Yeah, well, it'd be very interesting to see how

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Speaker 3: and it sort of gives the old pics of a

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Speaker 3: massive crowd at your event, whether or not that is true.

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Speaker 3: That man though he was a fifty year old firefighter,

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Speaker 3: a father, he is a Trump supporter, a local man

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Speaker 3: from Philadelphia, and a man by the name of Corey comploratory.

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Speaker 3: So very sad for your family. Have had those condolences

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Speaker 2: And a couple of other people are in a critical condition,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well some actually some good news on that front.

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Speaker 3: It's just come through in the past few hours. Their

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Speaker 2: Now it's this week that Trump is actually been presented

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Speaker 2: as the candidate officially, isn't it that that's happening in Michigan.

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Speaker 3: I think is it Friday, No Milwaukee having in Milwaukee here,

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Speaker 3: at the Republican National Convention right now, So it'll begin

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Speaker 3: tomorrow Monday here local times will start and that is

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Speaker 3: that formal process by which, yeah, yeah, the party actually

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Speaker 3: gives that official nomination and Donald Trump will accept that.

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Speaker 3: He's put out a statement today, in fact, saying that

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Speaker 3: he is going to come to Milwaukee. Nothing's going to

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Speaker 3: we are also expecting a major announcement from Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: this week, and whether or not that has now been

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Speaker 3: it's always going to be a massive week for Republicans

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Speaker 3: and Donald Trump, you got it.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that this is going to change the

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Speaker 3: I think so. I think it has to. This has

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Speaker 3: been a tectonic shift. And we're expecting to hear from

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Speaker 3: So this is going to be a moment for Joe

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Speaker 3: Biden to try and lower the temperature here in the

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Speaker 3: the moment and the level of vitriol, anger, flat out

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Speaker 3: in politics, it's just at another level right now, as

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Speaker 3: you could well imagine. Look, Donald Trump bears a lot

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Speaker 3: man whipping that up. He has long used that very

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Speaker 3: powerful language. She's been the master of insults and takedowns

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Speaker 3: and really weaponizing language in a lot of ways. But yeah, really,

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Speaker 3: something needs to change you because after what happened yesterday,

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Speaker 3: I mean, it could have ended very differently.

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Speaker 1: What about Trump insisting as he's been lifted to the

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Speaker 2: Let's just say Trump.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very Trump. He's taken the opportunity to in

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Speaker 1: that moment to have the Wherewithal? I have the you know,

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Speaker 1: he's very lucid at that point in time. And what's

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Speaker 1: strength for Republicans.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is a man who is a master

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Speaker 3: of the image, right, So he's an old school TV executive,

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Speaker 3: knows the power of images. He's used it for a

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Speaker 3: had that as you say, Wherewithal in that instance, that

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Speaker 3: moment he has heard that bullet wing past his head,

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Speaker 3: He's gone to ground very deliberately, but within seconds he

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Speaker 3: have known that in that moment all eyes were on him,

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Speaker 3: if they weren't already, he had the stage and he

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Speaker 2: You know something that Clercy and I noticed yesterday, David,

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Speaker 2: with all that's been going on with Joe Biden and

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Speaker 2: his image, we'd never seen him so lucid and clear

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Speaker 2: in the way he responded to this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah he was good, wasn't he quite forceful in his

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Speaker 3: response to this? And I suppose there has been Look,

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden has really lifted his game and he had to.

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Speaker 3: I mean it was quite die there. It still is

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Speaker 3: quite dial lets. We can't know the fact that there's

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Speaker 3: still a lot of pressure under Joe Biden right now

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Speaker 3: because he just hasn't been performing in the way that

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Speaker 3: But it has to be said, the last couple of

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Speaker 3: public performances and rallies that he's held, look they've been

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Speaker 3: markedly better, but yeah, still not up to scratch. But

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Speaker 3: then there was that address yesterday, those remarks and now

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Speaker 3: quite conciliatorate to Donald Trump. They had a chat between

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Speaker 3: each other as well, and we've got some more details

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Speaker 3: about that. It was described as brief but respectful. And

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Speaker 3: then today Joe Biden has been back out again and

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Speaker 3: he has offered Donald Trump and the Republican Party all

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Speaker 3: the support that they need now ahead of this convention.

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Speaker 1: It was Bizari the current presidents to call him Donald

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Speaker 1: twice in one statement, which was quite bizarre but very presidential.

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Speaker 2: Well, it'll be interesting to see how it pans out

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Speaker 2: over the next few days, and let's just hope that

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Speaker 2: perhaps we can reign back with some of the mad

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Speaker 2: conspiracy madness sprung out of this. But David, thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for your time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys,