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How Charlie Kirk's assassination portends a national crisis

The murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week follows a litany of violent acts against political targets, from Democratic lawmakers and officials, to a police officer at CDC headquarters, to President Trump himself last summer. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham talks with Robert Costa about the existential questions facing our nation right now, and how the current climate of political violence must be addressed if American democracy is to endure.

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