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A former president was shot, an American citizen killed,

while simply exercising his freedom to support the candidate of his choosing.

We cannot, we must not, go down this road in America.

We've traveled before throughout our history.

Violence has never been the answer.

Hey, everyone. Good morning.

I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels.

That was President Joe Biden addressing the nation from the Oval Office last night.

It is Monday, July 15th.

The first day of the Republican National Convention.

It's coming at a tumultuous time in American politics, just two days after the attempted

assassination of former President Donald Trump. President Biden used a rare oval office address

on Sunday to condemn political violence and plead with Americans

to turn down the temperature in this increasingly toxic political system after the attempted

assassination of Trump. There's no place in America of this kind of violence for any violence

ever. Period. No exceptions. We can't allow this violence to be normalized.

President Biden has long emphasized the importance of national unity. And if you remember,

he jumped into the 2020 presidential election because of political violence in Charlottesville,

Virginia. I want to walk through what we know at this point about the shooting and the investigations.

Just so you guys know, it is Sunday night, so it's possible that things have changed in this

very evolving news cycle.

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