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THEY TRIED TO MURDER TRUMP!!! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, Sendra Cruz with you. And the
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  Speaker 1: headline says it all. Trump rushed off the stage after
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  Speaker 1: assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally. Think the Lord the
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  Speaker 1: President is fine, that coming from his spokesperson, but there
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  Speaker 1: are others who have lost their life. Center your reaction
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  Speaker 1: to the shocking news.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is shortly after eight pm East Coast time
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, and the entire world just witnessed what appears
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  Speaker 2: to have been an assassination attempt. I'm President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: All of the world is reeling. I am sitting here.
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  Speaker 2: Heidi and I watched it together. We are filled with
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  Speaker 2: anger and horror and shock. I can tell you that
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  Speaker 2: Heidi and I have been praying for Donald Trump. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that there has been a moment when more
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  Speaker 2: people have prayed for Donald Trump than in the last hour.
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  Speaker 2: Feting him up. Uh, it appears that he was struck
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  Speaker 2: in the ear. At this point, they're conflicting reports whether
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  Speaker 2: it was a bullet or a fragment of glass or
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  Speaker 2: something else. That he was bleeding from his ear. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And and we are praying praying number one for protection
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  Speaker 2: number two that that he is all right, but we're
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  Speaker 2: also praying for for the reports are right now UH
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  Speaker 2: that that at least one person in attendance at the
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  Speaker 2: rally is dead and that another is in critical condition.
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  Speaker 2: And the report is also UH that that the suspected
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  Speaker 2: gun man is dead as well, presumably at the hands
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  Speaker 2: of Secret Service or local police. It is so recent
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  Speaker 2: that that we recognize that the facts are going to
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  Speaker 2: come out in hours and days to come as to
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  Speaker 2: who exactly this shooter is. That there are all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of reports on the internet, but I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: speculate right now because I don't know if those tweets
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  Speaker 2: are accurate or not. But I am sure we will
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  Speaker 2: find out more about the shooter or if there was
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  Speaker 2: more than one shooter. There have been conflicting statements on
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  Speaker 2: that and what their motivation is. But I will say
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  Speaker 2: sitting here, I am horrified. I am grateful for the
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  Speaker 2: Secret Service agents and for law enforcement who presumably stepped
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  Speaker 2: in and took out the shooter. I am incredibly grateful
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  Speaker 2: for God's providence that Donald Trump appears not to be
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  Speaker 2: seriously injured. And I'm praying. At this point, we don't
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  Speaker 2: know how many people at the rally may have been
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  Speaker 2: injured or worse, so I'm certainly praying for everyone there
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  Speaker 2: who was in harm's way. This is a horrific and
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  Speaker 2: dark moment in American history. We have not had an
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  Speaker 2: attempted presidential assassination since Ronald Reagan, since I was ten
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  Speaker 2: years old. That was a horrific moment in American history.
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  Speaker 2: And now twenty four years later, we're once again in
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  Speaker 2: a comfortable moment. Thankfully, then, as now the president survived.
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  Speaker 1: There are emotions that so many people listening to this
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  Speaker 1: are having. One is thankfulness that the president is okay.
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  Speaker 1: There's also sorrow that we hear that others have not survived,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's also this anger and frustration, and people
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  Speaker 1: look to leaders for advice, for wisdom, for comfort. I
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  Speaker 1: ask you the same question that my kids asked me,
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  Speaker 1: Why did this happen? And what happens next? And it's
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  Speaker 1: a question that all three of my boys asked me
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  Speaker 1: as I was watching this unfold on TV, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why this happens. There are bad people
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  Speaker 1: in the world, and there's good people, and sometimes evil
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  Speaker 1: comes after good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's right, and I hope what comes of this
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  Speaker 2: is that everyone counts to ten and exhales. I hope
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  Speaker 2: that the political anger and rhetoric that it ratchets down.
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  Speaker 2: There is so much vitriol, there is so much hate.
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  Speaker 2: There's been so much hate directed to Donald Trump, so
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  Speaker 2: much just just just vile bitterness. You and I and
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  Speaker 2: many others have worried for some time that that some
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  Speaker 2: lunatic would attempt to harm the president. And and you know,
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  Speaker 2: there is zero place for political violence on any side
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  Speaker 2: of the aisle. This has no place regardless of whether
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  Speaker 2: you agree or disagree with the office holder. If you
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  Speaker 2: disagree with the office holder, you can make your views plain.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we have debates, that's why we write off eds,
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  Speaker 2: that's why we vote the ballot box. But political violence
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  Speaker 2: has no place. And I hope the overheated and in
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  Speaker 2: far too many instances, unmitigated hate. My prayer is that
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  Speaker 2: that that some of that is diminished, that that that
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  Speaker 2: that that we move in the direction of having a
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  Speaker 2: civil and real public discourse rather than just just screaming
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  Speaker 2: at each other. I will tell you then, I fear.
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  Speaker 2: I fear things are going to escalate, that there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be anger on both sides of the Aisle. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to see this happen. I will tell you.
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  Speaker 2: I sat there. You know, my immediate thoughts were thinking back,
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  Speaker 2: thinking back to the nineteen sixties, thinking back to to
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  Speaker 2: to win in rapid succession. JFK and Martin Luther King
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  Speaker 2: Junior and Bobby Kennedy were all assassinated, and the horrors
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  Speaker 2: that brought this country through what I will not at
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  Speaker 2: that moment in time, and I pray that we are not.
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  Speaker 2: But it is going to take the leaders be escalating
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  Speaker 2: for a moment, and I hope that's what we see.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, I just want to humanize the president for a second,
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  Speaker 1: because I think sometimes people forget that not only is
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  Speaker 1: he a husband, he is a dad, he is a grandfather.
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  Speaker 1: I've spent time with President Trump. You've spent a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time with President Trump. I know personally that he is.
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  Speaker 1: When I see him, I don't always see him as
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  Speaker 1: this guy that was the president. I see him as
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  Speaker 1: a genuinely sincere and kind man. I remember when he
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  Speaker 1: found out we were having twins. He said he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Anna and tried to convince her for
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes to name one of the boys. Donald saying
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  Speaker 1: it was presidential and he was so happy that we
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  Speaker 1: were gonna have kids. And he called and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I hear you're expecting twins. I said, yes, or miss
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  Speaker 1: President I am? He said, he said, well you got
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  Speaker 1: a name? Two of them? Are they? What are this?
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  Speaker 1: They're boys. He goes, well, you need a good name.
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  Speaker 1: Donald's a pretty pretty good name. And I laughed at
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  Speaker 1: He said, well, you'd have to talk to my wife
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  Speaker 1: about that. And he goes, well, where is she And
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  Speaker 1: I said, she's downstairs and he goes put her on
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  Speaker 1: the phone. That is the human side of him. He
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  Speaker 1: also called after they were born. It wasn't done that day.
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  Speaker 1: He called after they were born. And that's the side
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  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump that I want people to understand to night,
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  Speaker 1: these are human beings. You're a human being, Senator. People
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  Speaker 1: that say horrible things about you and come after you,
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  Speaker 1: and I remind people. I try to remind me, and
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  Speaker 1: they say it about me, not at the same level
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  Speaker 1: as you get it every day and the president gets
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  Speaker 1: it every day. But we're still people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I spoke with President Trump on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was three days ago, and he was
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  Speaker 2: in good spirits. I have to say watching the footage
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  Speaker 2: tonight when the shots are fired, when he's hits, and
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  Speaker 2: then when he surrounded by Secret Service and being escorted off,
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  Speaker 2: and he eats, clunches his fist and pounds his fist
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  Speaker 2: into the air. It's extraordinary. I mean, it is breathtaking
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  Speaker 2: after being shot. The leadership he demonstrated. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: reminded me when when Reagan was shot and in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty one, and when he when he was going into
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  Speaker 2: the hospital and he said to Nancy Reagan, he said, honey,
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  Speaker 2: I forgot the duck. And he also said to the
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  Speaker 2: doctors as he was being wheeled into to surgery, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people don't remember how close Ronald Reagan
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  Speaker 2: came to dying that day, and that the bullet, had
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  Speaker 2: it been just an inch further over, would have killed
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  Speaker 2: him that day. And and and he said to the doctors,
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  Speaker 2: I hope, I hope you all are all Republicans, And
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  Speaker 2: and and having the sense of humor to and and
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  Speaker 2: the presence to say that even while going into surgery
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  Speaker 2: is extraordinary President Trump, like crowning fist and standing up strong.
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  Speaker 2: It was a remarkable moment of leadership, but also was
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  Speaker 2: reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt when he was shot giving a
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  Speaker 2: speech and kept on giving the speech. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: is a fighting spirit that that is inspirational. And I
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  Speaker 2: just want to call on everyone listening. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: time when we learn more about what exactly happened. We
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  Speaker 2: learned more about the shooter and who he was and
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  Speaker 2: what his motivations were, and there's going to be time
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  Speaker 2: to figure out what went wrong, what could have been
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  Speaker 2: done to prevent this. But right now, just as a country,
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  Speaker 2: I hope we have a moment, a moment, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think back to after after nine to eleven, After
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven, we had a moment where's a country
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  Speaker 2: we came together and we had unity, and we hugged
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  Speaker 2: each other and we just lifted our country up. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask every one in the country prayed
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  Speaker 2: for President Trump, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: Pray for President Trump so that that that that he
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  Speaker 2: is our right now, but also that he'd be protected.
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  Speaker 2: But also pray for President Biden and and pray for
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  Speaker 2: all of our leaders that they be protected from political violence.
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  Speaker 2: That we don't see uh crazed angry, zealous, UH, engaging
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  Speaker 2: in violence. We have seen that shoe. We have seen
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  Speaker 2: that to nice and and and my prayer is that
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  Speaker 2: our country steps back from this brink and and and again.
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  Speaker 2: I I just just want to express my my, my
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  Speaker 2: incredible thanks for secret service at law enforcement, and also pray,
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  Speaker 2: pray for the people who who may have been shot today,
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  Speaker 2: but the bystanders, the families of anyone injured or killed,
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  Speaker 2: and just pray for our nation. I I really believe
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  Speaker 2: America that needs God's grace right now. That's my prayer,
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  Speaker 2: and and and and I hope it shaers stuck.
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  Speaker 1: It is hug your family, hug your kids, call your
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  Speaker 1: friends and tell them you love them. And I just
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  Speaker 1: think this is, like you said, a very pivotal moment
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  Speaker 1: in our country's history. And I hope that we all
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  Speaker 1: take that deep breath and pray for the president and
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  Speaker 1: especially those at that rally. Senator Cruz and I will
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  Speaker 1: be back with you, I can promise you in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. We'll have a lot more to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought it was important that we come on
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  Speaker 1: here and have this conversation now. Senator take care of
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  Speaker 1: the fam and UH and I will see you, and
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  Speaker 1: to everyone listening, we'll see you guys soon.