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like Simplysafe. Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favarra.

I'm John Lovett.

I'm Tommy D.thor. On today's show, we're going to talk about a possible U.S.-China deal to save TikTok.

Ooh, thank God. Trump's war on the legacy media and the split among New York Democrats over endorsing the party's nominee for mayor, Zoran Mamdani. Then Lovett talks to Senator Chris Murphy about his latest warning that, quote, something dark might be coming.

No shit.

Speaking of which, let's start with the fallout from the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which

right now is the central focus of the president, the White House, the Republican Party,

right-wing media, and the MAGA movement.

The suspected killer is said to be charged in court on Tuesday.

More on that in a bit.

But before the FBI had any idea who killed Kirk or why,

Trump promised to go after any organization that has contributed to any of what he calls, quote, radical left political violence.

What does he mean by that?

We still don't know for sure, but Trump has expanded on his remarks.

He did it over the weekend and then in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, as did Stephen Miller on Monday when he appeared on Charlie Kirk's show, which was guest hosted by Vice President J.D. Vance. Let's listen. Well, the problem is on the left. If you look at the problem, the problem is on the left. It's not on the right, like some people like to say on the right. The problem we have is on the left.

You know, they're already under major investigation.

A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left.

They're already under investigation.

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