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🗓️ 13 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, Charlie Kirk's widow speaks out about the future of his organization. |
| 0:12.0 | And we look at rising concerns about political violence following the conservative leaders' assassination. |
| 0:18.0 | Then, health care cuts are already here, how state and local governments are |
| 0:23.5 | making tough decisions now in the wake of major cuts in federal funding. And your |
| 0:29.7 | presence is requested. The final Downton Abbey movie is now out. We speak with show |
| 0:35.1 | creator Julian Fellows about the much-loved drama. I suppose, if I'm honest, |
| 0:41.5 | there is a kind of longing for order, really. I don't know that I long for a Victorian way of |
| 0:48.1 | life and all of that stuff. I don't think I do, but I do long for a world of order and good manners and where people are pleasant to each other. |
| 0:58.3 | And everyone stops getting so angry about everything. Good evening. I'm Lisa Desjardin. John Yang is away. |
| 1:17.8 | The assassination of American conservative leader Charlie Kirk is drawing reaction and concern around the world. |
| 1:24.6 | In London, a massive crowd today estimated at over 100,000 people gathered in a |
| 1:30.3 | march organized by anti-immigration activists who remembered Kirk as part of the event. |
| 1:35.8 | This, as the 22-year-old suspect in the killing, is being held without bond due to appear in |
| 1:41.0 | court Tuesday. As the investigation into the shooter's motives goes on, |
| 1:45.4 | Kirk's widow, Erica, spoke for the first time last night, |
| 1:48.9 | vowing that his movement will not only continue but will grow. |
| 1:52.8 | You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife? |
| 2:00.3 | The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry. |
| 2:06.8 | Concerns about security for political figures and of political violence in general continue to rise. |
| 2:13.5 | Cynthia Miller Idris is the director of the Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab at American University, and she joins me now. |
| 2:22.3 | Cynthia, looking at the pattern of violence in recent years, what fits into that pattern from this and what might be new? |
| 2:31.7 | Well, we've been seeing rising political violence, rising hate-fueled violence |
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