A Conversation About Political Violence In The United States
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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What do experts make of this moment of political violence, what is driving it and what can be done to address it?
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| 0:17.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. It's 2006 PM on Monday, September 16th. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Deiba Shivaram. I cover the White House. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Odette Youssuff. I cover domestic extremism. |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm Domenical Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 0:33.0 | Today on the show, a conversation about political violence. |
| 0:36.3 | By now, you all know, a man was spotted holding a rifle in the bushes close to former |
| 0:42.2 | President Trump who was golfing at his Florida |
| 0:45.2 | resort yesterday and that man was arrested and is now facing federal weapons |
| 0:50.5 | charges law enforcement officials are describing it as an apparent |
| 0:54.8 | assassination attempt and they are continuing to investigate. Now this all |
| 0:59.5 | follows the previous assassination attempt against Trump which took place in |
| 1:03.4 | Pennsylvania in July when a shooter fired several rounds at an outdoor |
| 1:07.6 | rally. A lot to start with but Odette you know it's kind of hard to put a time stamp of sorts on all of these instances of violence |
| 1:15.5 | because political violence is not new in this country. |
| 1:19.0 | And, you know, I wonder from all the experts you've been talking to, does this era feel like a newer range of |
| 1:25.7 | politically violent events or is this happening at all on an escalated level? |
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