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On today's show, we're going to get into the news that inflation and jobless claims are higher, the latest with the looming government shutdown and Tommy's interview with Senator Chris Van Hollen who stopped by the studio on Wednesday. But we're going to spend the first part of the show on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist and media personality,

who was very close to Donald Trump in the White House. A killer who, as of this recording,

has yet to be found, fired a single shot from a rooftop that hit Kirk in the neck while he was

answering questions from students during an event at Utah Valley University. It was what he did

for a living. He'd go places and hold events where he talked to people who cared about politics

and tried to organize them. Among the many reasons I've been so shaken up by this assassination

is admittedly the most self-interested, which is that's what we do too.

That's what other media figures and politicians and organizers and activists do all over

the country every day to see if we can argue and persuade and maybe change some minds. Charlie Kirk did that for more than a decade,

and he probably encountered hundreds, if not thousands, of libs like us, who didn't just disagree

with his pretty extreme views, but found them odious and even hateful.

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