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Trump’s courage under fire · The Front

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  Speaker 1: on the front. I'm Claire Harvey. It's Monday, July fifteenth.
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  Speaker 2: The said, take a look at what happened.
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  Speaker 1: An unforgettable moment in American politics. A gunman shoots Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump and kills the spectator at a rally in Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's right ear was grazed by a bullet apparently fired
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  Speaker 1: by a twenty year old man who had climbed on
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  Speaker 1: top of a building, reportedly armed with a high powered
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  Speaker 1: automatic weapon. Secret Service shot the man dead as attendees
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  Speaker 1: rushed to help the spectator.
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  Speaker 3: Who'd been shot dead.
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  Speaker 1: Here, a witness in a blood drenched USA T shirt
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  Speaker 1: speaks to CBS News.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I'm an Emerging Department physician, Bobby help you.
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  Speaker 2: The guy had spun around, was jammed between the benches.
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  Speaker 2: We had a headshot. Here, there's lots of blood and
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  Speaker 2: here brainmatter.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, Republicans gather to endorse Trump as their candidate
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  Speaker 1: at the National Convention in Milwaukee, as global condemnation of
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  Speaker 1: the attack is led by Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 2: It's sick. It's sick.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of the reason were to unite this country.
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  Speaker 4: You cannot allow for this to be happening.
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  Speaker 1: Week Live now at the Australian dot com dot au
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  Speaker 1: we have video, graphics, explainers and analysis and in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment I'm joined from the United States by our
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  Speaker 1: foreign editor Greg Sheridan, who says Trump's courage under fire
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  Speaker 1: changes everything. Shots ring out at a rally in Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 1: where Donald Trump is speaking to supporters. Secret Service agents.
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  Speaker 5: Pounced shoots down.
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  Speaker 1: The former president and presidential candidate is whisked from the podium,
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  Speaker 1: blood splashed across his face. He lifts his fist to
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  Speaker 1: the crowd, bold and defiant. There would be assassin Twenty
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  Speaker 1: year old Thomas Matthew Crooks laised dead on a rooftop
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  Speaker 1: more than two hundred and fifty meters away. One rally
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  Speaker 1: attendee killed, a couple more critically injured. I discussed that
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  Speaker 1: stunning scene with The Australian's Foreign editor Greg Sheridan. He's
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  Speaker 1: in the US ahead of the Republican National Convention happening
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  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin this week. I'm sure you haven't spent much
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  Speaker 1: time imagining what it would look like if Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: was ever in mortal danger. But he responded in a
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  Speaker 1: very defiant and strong way, didn't he?
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  Speaker 2: He certainly did, And I think that will be the
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  Speaker 2: iconic out of all this. When Ronald Reagan was shot,
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  Speaker 2: he famously said to Nancy Reagan, Honey, I forgot to duck.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Roosevelt was my favorite president of all time,
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  Speaker 2: Teddy Roosevelt, when I want to ask.
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  Speaker 4: Is American who is destroyed for social and industrial justice?
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  Speaker 2: He was shot while he was delivering a speech when
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  Speaker 2: he was running as bull moose Independent after it left
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  Speaker 2: the presidency, and the bullet lodged in his breastplace. There
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  Speaker 2: was a book or something that prevented it from going
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  Speaker 2: through and killing him, but it did cause him pretty
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  Speaker 2: bad bleeding, and he told the audience he had been shot,
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  Speaker 2: but that wasn't enough to stop a bull mouse and
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  Speaker 2: even just speech, and then went to hospital.
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  Speaker 6: Secret Service personnel neutralized the shooter, who has now deceased.
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  Speaker 6: The Secret Service spokesperson goes on to say that one
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  Speaker 6: spectator was killed, two spectators two spectators were critically injured
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  Speaker 6: so badly hurt One.
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  Speaker 1: Of the most moving parts of the video of Trump
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  Speaker 1: being shot, apparently in the ear on stage in the
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  Speaker 1: rally was the actions of the Secret Service agent Greg
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  Speaker 1: They rushed towards him and then they got him up
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  Speaker 1: once they understood that the shooter had been neutralized, and
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  Speaker 1: put their bodies around him and their heads around his
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  Speaker 1: head to shield him from a bullet.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we really saw the best of America there.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't We absolutely you could see under there that they're
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  Speaker 2: wearing best, thank god they are. But they fellanks around
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  Speaker 2: the person they're protecting, so that the next bullet that
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  Speaker 2: goes towards the person they're protecting them. And in fact,
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  Speaker 2: this happened in Ronald Reagan chip.
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  Speaker 3: A fu silat of shots fired a close range.
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  Speaker 4: The President has hit, then thrown into his car by
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  Speaker 4: an agent, a press secretary wounded in the head, a
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  Speaker 4: secret serviceman, and a policeman wounded, a gunman captured.
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  Speaker 2: One of the second agents rushed in front of the
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  Speaker 2: president and was shot. And now he recovered, but he
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  Speaker 2: was shot. He took a bullet for the president, and
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  Speaker 2: if Reagan in another bullet, I would think that Reagan
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  Speaker 2: would have been killed. So these folks. They rushed towards danger,
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  Speaker 2: and they make a shield out of their own bodies.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, the most famous presidential shootings are Abraham Lincoln
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  Speaker 3: and John F. Kennedy. Those two presidents did not survive
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  Speaker 3: their injuries.
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  Speaker 1: But every moment of in Lincoln's case, the description of
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  Speaker 1: that instance and in Kennedy's case, the video that we've
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  Speaker 1: all seen a billion times is seed into our memories,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: This is the latest information we have from Dallas. I
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  Speaker 4: will repeat with the greatest regrets, two priests who are
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  Speaker 4: with rether than Kennedy saying he has died of bullet wars.
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  Speaker 2: That certainly is this is a and terrible situation. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, we can't yet completely apportioned blame or anything.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, people accuse Trump of in temperate language.
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  Speaker 2: But I've been here in the United States this last
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  Speaker 2: week or ten days, and every day the New York Times,
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  Speaker 2: the liberal media are full of the idea that Trump
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  Speaker 2: is the devil in Karnate, that he is an existential
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  Speaker 2: threat to democracy, that a Maria cannot survive a Trump victory,
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  Speaker 2: that this is the end of times and everything, and
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  Speaker 2: you can just about imagine some idiot getting the idea
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  Speaker 2: that well, wouldn't have been good if someone had assassinated
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  Speaker 2: Hitler the four he took power, And the truth is
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  Speaker 2: Trump's first term was a bit chaotic, but there was
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  Speaker 2: nothing undemocratic about and he lost the election. The courts
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  Speaker 2: overruled his objections to the election. Is perfectly entitled to
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  Speaker 2: make legal objections to the way the vote was counted.
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  Speaker 2: The courts ruled against him in all occasions, and no
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  Speaker 2: injury was done to American democracy, Whereas I think the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats now far outdone Trump in the way they've been
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  Speaker 2: willing to rip up American institutions and destroy American norms.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of the view that these prosecutions of
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  Speaker 2: Trump are a great, tesque, abusive process. They're intensely politicized prosecutions.
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  Speaker 2: Now Trump engages in very intemperate rhetoric too, sure does.
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  Speaker 2: But the comby our liberal left of American politics has
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  Speaker 2: fostered an fear of hysteria and irrational alarmism about the
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  Speaker 2: idea of what might happen if Trump wins the election.
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  Speaker 1: The one rational part of the fear about Donald Trump is,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the January sixth disorder at the Capital. Greg
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  Speaker 1: we saw their Trump speak to a crowd, members of
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  Speaker 1: which crowd then subsequently went to the Capitol and stormed it.
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  Speaker 3: Several people have gone to jail over their conduct on
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  Speaker 3: that day.
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  Speaker 1: If there was going to be sort of armed disorder
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  Speaker 1: in this campaign, Americans might have thought it would come
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  Speaker 1: from those kinds of people, from proud boys or Maga
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  Speaker 1: Trump fans. It hasn't, as far as we know, come
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  Speaker 1: from that side of politics. What does that say about
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere that we're in.
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  Speaker 2: Well, January sixth was not only spaceful, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: Trump sections on the day were at disgraceful. But even
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  Speaker 2: here you've got to try to keep in touch with
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  Speaker 2: the facts. Trump, in his speech, which was emotionally inciting,
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  Speaker 2: actually say march peacefully. He did use the word peacefully.
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  Speaker 2: I heard it, I reported it, I saw it. I
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  Speaker 2: know that everyone here will soon be marching over to
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  Speaker 2: the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices
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  Speaker 2: heard today. So you can't just kind of say that
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  Speaker 2: that didn't happen. The Capitol police were wildly understaffed. These
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  Speaker 2: vandals who stormed into the Capitol buildings. That was grotesque,
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  Speaker 2: thoroughly deserves to be condemned. It was not a civil war.
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  Speaker 2: It was a demonstration which became violent, And of course
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  Speaker 2: there were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of demonstrations that
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  Speaker 2: became violent over the next few months in the Black
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  Speaker 2: Lives and defund the Police demonstrations. Now, none of those
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  Speaker 2: rendered Joe Biden morally responsible for the people who lost
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  Speaker 2: their lives. And there is just a grotesque double standard
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  Speaker 2: in which the absolutely condemnable and horrible things that Trump
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  Speaker 2: says are presented as though they were a statement at
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  Speaker 2: Dolf Hitler, which they.
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  Speaker 1: Weren't coming up what an attempted assassination means for gun
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  Speaker 1: control in America and for the presidential race. Today is
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  Speaker 3: Back after the break.
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  Speaker 1: Greg The reports that the shooter was using an AR
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  Speaker 1: fifteen semi automatic weapon, which is the gun of choice
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  Speaker 1: for mass shootings in the United States. Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 1: said in recent months that mass shootings are not a
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  Speaker 1: gun problem, that they're more of a mental health problem.
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  Speaker 2: These people are mentally ill, and we have to study
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  Speaker 2: that also, because you know it's them.
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  Speaker 3: They pull the trigger.
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  Speaker 4: The gun doesn't pull the trigger, They pull the trigger.
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  Speaker 1: He's promised the National Rifle Association that if elected, no
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  Speaker 1: one will lay a finger on their firearms. He's also
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  Speaker 1: promised to undo some Biden gun restrictions if he's re elected.
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  Speaker 4: If the Biden regime gets four more years, they are
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  Speaker 4: coming for your guns, one hundred percent certain.
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  Speaker 3: Crooked Joe has a forty year record.
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  Speaker 4: Of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of
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  Speaker 4: law abiding citizens. He's always wanted.
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  Speaker 3: To do that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have the feeling, Greg that this very hot
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  Speaker 1: issue of gun control in America, will the conversation be
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  Speaker 1: touched by this incident or not?
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  Speaker 2: No? I wouldn't think so, not at all. I think
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  Speaker 2: overall the incident will probably would be very very helpful
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  Speaker 2: to Trump electorally and politically. The iconic give intell but
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  Speaker 2: Trump defiant taking a bullet for America. Sometimes people don't
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  Speaker 2: even think of Trump really as a human being. But
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  Speaker 2: the truth is, if this bullet had been a quarter
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  Speaker 2: of an inch closer to him, he would now be dead,
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  Speaker 2: and the sheer shock of that would render most people paralyzed.
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  Speaker 2: So Trump often seems like he's full of bluster and
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  Speaker 2: where's the substance? But Trump was in possession of he
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  Speaker 2: knew what he was doing, and he wanted to make
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  Speaker 2: a gesture of defiance. I think this would be tremendously
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  Speaker 2: beneficial to politically. Now, my own view of gun control
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  Speaker 2: is the Americans of bananas on gun control. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: you might say the Democrats are in favorite gun control,
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans aren't, but the Democrats never make a serious
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  Speaker 2: effort at it. You know, Urbata was president for eight
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  Speaker 2: years and for a number of those years he controlled
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  Speaker 2: the Senate and the House of Representatives, and nothing of
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  Speaker 2: any consequence happened on gun control.
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  Speaker 1: So how do we think this will change the calculus,
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  Speaker 1: if at all, for the Democrats? Greg We now have
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  Speaker 1: Trump in a moment of mortal danger, presenting himself bravely
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  Speaker 1: a contrast to Joe Biden's image of frailty and confusion.
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  Speaker 1: Does this make it more urgent for the Democrats to
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  Speaker 1: persuade Joe Biden to step aside?
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  Speaker 2: I think it does, Claire. So look, I only give
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  Speaker 2: away a recorded quote here which will come to haunt
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  Speaker 2: me of what I'm suggesting doesn't take place. But I
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  Speaker 2: find it very hard to see how Joe Biden can
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  Speaker 2: continue in a long run as a Democratic candidate. The
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  Speaker 2: American system is very powerful, and it kind of runs
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  Speaker 2: itself to some extent, but you do need a presidential leadership,
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  Speaker 2: and Audrow Wilson famously in about nineteen nineteen had a
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  Speaker 2: stroke and at another two years of its term to
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  Speaker 2: run and his white friend things while he was more
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  Speaker 2: or less incapacitated. America can do that, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: the right way to run, and if you do do that,
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  Speaker 2: you don't furnt up the sick reelection. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: see how Biden can possibly continue on as the Democratic candidate,
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  Speaker 2: although you know, we live in an age of infinite impossibilities.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing is, I don't know if the New
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  Speaker 2: York Times and CNN and we'll be able to talk
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  Speaker 2: about Trump in exactly the same way as they have
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  Speaker 2: been doing the last couple of years, when we could
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  Speaker 2: go through a litany of things. Hillary Clinton paid for Dossia,
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  Speaker 2: which was completely alleging collusion between Russian intelligence agencies and Trump,
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  Speaker 2: absolute hoax, complete belooning Hunt. Biden's laptop turned up before
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  Speaker 2: the last election, full of incriminating evidence about him, including
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  Speaker 2: a lot of evidence of criminal activity and very embarrassing
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  Speaker 2: stuff about his dad. Biden and his son both denied
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  Speaker 2: that the tape was real, and the Biden campaign got
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  Speaker 2: fifty one former intelligence chiefs to say it looked like
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  Speaker 2: Russian disinformation, which turned out to be completely untrue. It
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  Speaker 2: was one hundred percent of authentic laptop of Hunter Biden.
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  Speaker 2: So those fifty one intelligence chiefs just trashed the reputation
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  Speaker 2: of the which they had been involved in leading. And
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  Speaker 2: then now Biden is asking the whole of the world
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  Speaker 2: not to believe what it saw with its own eyes
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  Speaker 2: in the debate when I'm.
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  Speaker 4: In a fix the Texas, for example, we had one
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  Speaker 4: thousand tillionaires in an.
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  Speaker 2: Antic and in fact, I think the Democrats have been
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  Speaker 2: much better serve to have little mini primary and select
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  Speaker 2: one of their good state governors and a red hot
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  Speaker 2: new vice president, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Sheridan is The Australian's Foreign editor. We'll have live
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  Speaker 1: updates from the Republican National Convention and all the other
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  Speaker 1: flashpoints in American politics as today unfolds. Live at the
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