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Breaking: Charlie Kirk murder horrifies the world · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. A seismic moment in American politics
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  Speaker 1: as Donald Trump's ally and free speech campaign at Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Kirk is murdered. Kirk was fatally shot at a university
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  Speaker 1: in Utah, where he was addressing a huge crowd, part
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  Speaker 1: of Kirk's habit of going to campuses to debate ideas
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  Speaker 1: with students. In the minutes before his death, Kirk welcomed
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  Speaker 1: a huge crowd from his seat under an open sided tent.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people you taught about it, He'd possible
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  Speaker 2: bring the best lips at UTI.
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  Speaker 1: He's answering questions from the crowd about gun violence and
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  Speaker 1: transgender people.
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  Speaker 2: So do you don't have any transgender? Americans have been
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  Speaker 2: mass shooters over the last eight years?
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  Speaker 3: Too many?
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  Speaker 1: When suddenly a shot rings out?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how many masses are there have been
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  Speaker 2: in America over the last ten years, counting or not
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  Speaker 2: counting gang violence?
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  Speaker 1: Kirk slumps over. A group of men can be seen
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  Speaker 1: rushing him to a car to drive to hospital as
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  Speaker 1: the FBI launches a massive manhunt, briefly detaining then releasing
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  Speaker 1: one person of interest. The president confirmed thirty one year
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  Speaker 1: old Kirk, a father of two young children, was dead.
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  Speaker 1: Kirk reveled in fiery clashes with his ideological opponents under
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  Speaker 1: the banner of his organization turning Point, USA.
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  Speaker 2: If I just happened to be pregnant, Oh, you're not
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  Speaker 2: happy to get pregnant? Like not like getting COVID.
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  Speaker 1: I know, okay, I know how it works.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get the flu. I know how about this?
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  Speaker 2: You take responsibility for your orgasms and stop eliminating people
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  Speaker 2: smaller than you.
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  Speaker 1: Kirk was a fervent supporter of the right to bear arms.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's worth to have a cost of a
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  Speaker 2: fortunately some gun DUTs every single year so that we
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  Speaker 2: can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God
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  Speaker 2: given rights.
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  Speaker 1: His last social post was about a twenty three year
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  Speaker 1: old Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death on public transport in Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, allegedly by a homeless man who's now been
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  Speaker 1: charged with murder.
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  Speaker 2: This individual should not have been on the streets fourteen
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  Speaker 2: prior arrests, and it really makes you wonder, why are
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  Speaker 2: we putting up with this? Why are we allowing so
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  Speaker 2: many people that have committed these crimes to keep on
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  Speaker 2: being released. The magistrate judge continued to release this individual,
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  Speaker 2: and this is a horrific thing.
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  Speaker 1: The Australian's chief international correspondent, Cameron Stewart says Kirk's death
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  Speaker 1: will have huge ramifications.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's quite a dangerous moment for America. We
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  Speaker 3: are seeing an era of populist political violence in America.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very polarized society politically, economically, and it's really
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  Speaker 3: manifesting itself in terrible ways.
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  Speaker 1: Also in the news today, tennis veteran Leyton Hewitt, Australia's
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  Speaker 1: Davis Cup captain, has been slapped with a two week
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  Speaker 1: suspension by the International Tennis Integrity Agency and fined thirty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. That's after he was found to have pushed
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  Speaker 1: a sixty year old volunteer anti doping chaperone. Hewitt denied
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  Speaker 1: any wrongdoing and said he was acting in self defense.
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  Speaker 1: His suspension won't kick in until September twenty four, after
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  Speaker 1: Australia hosts Belgium in a qualifying series this weekend. Check
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  Speaker 1: out those stories live right now at The Australian dot
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  Speaker 1: com dot AU and come back to the front first
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  Speaker 1: thing in the morning for our extended look at the
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  Speaker 1: Charlie kirkshooting with Cameron Stewart