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Ryan Bridge: Is there a lesson in Trump's shooting for NZ's political leaders? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Barring any other major ugly affronts to democracy this US
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  Speaker 1: election season, the image of a bloodied former president gripping
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  Speaker 1: his fist, blanketed in a human shield of Secret Service agents,
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  Speaker 1: gripping his fist pumping it into the air after narrowly
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  Speaker 1: avoiding an assassination attempt will surely be one of the
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  Speaker 1: most enduring and iconic. He's reported that is Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: to be mouthing the words fight, fight, fight, with a
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  Speaker 1: somewhat and understandably angry look on his face. Donald Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump cheated death. What's interesting of all the eyewitness interviews
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  Speaker 1: I watched over the weekend, all of them felt that
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  Speaker 1: this was no surprise. It was only a matter of time.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that? The Washington Post looked at in an
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  Speaker 1: article the extreme language being used by both the both campaigns,
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  Speaker 1: both sides of it, the extreme left and the extreme right.
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  Speaker 1: After the shooting, the Republican Senator JD. Vance, who's a
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  Speaker 1: potential Trump running mate by the way, blamed the Biden
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  Speaker 1: campaign for inciting this finance. He said, the central premise
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  Speaker 1: of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 1: an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.
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  Speaker 1: That rhetoric. He says, this is a potential running mate
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  Speaker 1: of Trump's. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempt
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  Speaker 1: at assassination. Now, at this time we don't know the
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  Speaker 1: shooter's motive. We should make clear that. But is there
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  Speaker 1: a lesson here for our political leaders, for the Chloe's
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  Speaker 1: chanting river to the sea, for the Maldi party calling
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  Speaker 1: lux and a white supremacist, for David Seymour who was
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  Speaker 1: joking about the guy Fawkes, and the Ministry of the
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  Speaker 1: Pacific People's The fact is, you don't know what nutbar
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  Speaker 1: is out there listening and waiting for a cause big
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  Speaker 1: enough to prompt some sort of lone wolf attack. Here,
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  Speaker 1: most of the attacks are pretty minor. You know the
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  Speaker 1: old dildo to the face that Lamington on the Here,
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  Speaker 1: John Key was attacked by two men at White Tongue
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine. They were both charged for that.
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  Speaker 1: The question is whether the use of extreme political language
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  Speaker 1: can raise the temperature and cause violence. Clearly Hitler answers
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  Speaker 1: that question for us. So politicians here on the far left,
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  Speaker 1: like Chloe and Yit should take note and lower the
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  Speaker 1: tone of some of their attacks. But the same goes
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  Speaker 1: for the far right, those keyboard warriors too. What I
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  Speaker 1: would hate to see, though, is the day where our
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  Speaker 1: politicians can't joke and take the mickey out out of
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  Speaker 1: one another, speak forthrightly about their issues and their beliefs,
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  Speaker 1: just because some idiot might be at home with a
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  Speaker 1: shotgun harboring hate. Question for the US now is whether
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  Speaker 1: does this whether it quells the extreme left and right,
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  Speaker 1: or will this bloodshed be answered with more bloodshed? There
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