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president. is store of value and that will continue in fall the price reaches some equilibrium point let's call it a hundred thousand for a client or you'll be seeing it more used as a medium of exchange at some point that becomes a unit of account as things are priced in bitcoin as money disappears. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it means to win the death penalty just because they think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying those just move the us hasn't been that we're even many of victims families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to. it's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite prepared
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for that this isn't their way. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back to politicking and here's more of my interview with robert kennedy jr environmental attorney activist president of the waterkeeper alliance and son of
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the late u.s. senator and u.s. attorney general robert f. kennedy is another kennedy on the horizon your nephew joe kennedy. he's joking with you a third from message who says he's sometimes mentioned as a dog course for speaker of the hunt. the subject most of whom i had an idea i haven't talked to if he is interested in oh he's a. he is a he's a genuine leader oh i wouldn't be surprised at any level of success he needs if he's got it as he has every if to where is your party the soul of that which is goes a good breakfast that way. if your party goes left the left you're going to lose you have to. you know if if your father were alive he'd be a progressive today right he was reported as a bam you're
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a progressive can the progressives women nationally. don't they have to come together with the center of the democrat. you know what i'm smart enough to be the democrats ought to be i think if there's. you know i think the party is going to be penned in on whether good leaders who are who are talking the truth and who are reminding americans about what this nation is supposed to represent and make you feel like we're all part of one enterprise and having our i think those. you know those are issues i mean wasn't my father my father and he brought people like other he he he and you know that that last train ride i took with him when we were on
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a from. the penn state new york to union station washington did you say that would two million people and. or white people and black people and rabbis and and priests. nothin's there were people in military uniform and there were hippies untied it and radical militant radicals and every kind of cross-section of people they were all people. at participated in his campaign and. who believed who we were made to believe they were part of something that. would allow them to step out of their narrow interests and do something good but he was a great leader for years after my father died though those
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demographic data show that most of the white people that interact voted on nine hundred seventy two not for george mcgovern who is aligned with my father but rather for george wallace. segregation. and ethical day everything. and it struck me that it has been reinforced many to understand that every nation and like it remained in has a darker so i had in the lighter side in the easiest thing for a politician is to appeal to our readers self-interest our fear our anger our bigotries our prejudiced stuff that will trump i don't think it's much more difficult but often more successful who remind americans that we can advance ourselves a people by leaving our poor brothers absurd to make sure our souls. you. have three are meeting with. the man who killed your father serve him serve him is
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that in the world now why did you meet with him. and that. i had a i had been. urged by paul was one of if others close it and political as it was a united auto workers official who recruited same as the. united farm workers he was. and it was absolute trust other. work on my father's california campaign and when my father was. first. he was probably the first of two bullets fired or hand toward other he was hit in the head the boat was most of. the. he and paul many believe. but let's never reach.
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that two shoes. b. and this is you know paul has been trying to get me in all for a decade in this case and i finally it was hard for me to go to him. and went and spent time with them and he got me the autopsy report which was a. you know the autopsy is the autopsy report an autopsy report there were seventy seven people and. every one of them says sir it was always other and he never got within three feet the majority. of always in front. he according to thomas who is probably the coroner and america he my father. for bloods the other were all
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fired from behind. a were fired were contacts which means the barrel of the gun was actually touching my father's body and the trigger was polled what did sir and i'm gucci came to the conclusion that sir and could not have killed it would two shooters. what is certain and sorry sir and believe. it or did he have a connection with the second shooter no he isn't a memory of he's been consistent for. forty years or fifty years and saying that he has no memory of what happened. so how did you spend most of the people i mean virtually all the all the psychiatrists who have examined him that have said he's telling the truth not memory so what did you spend time talking about i i couldn't talk about what i was going to argue. can we have to solve that. it should be investigated the earth never been investigated
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you know because and pled guilty he had a lawyer. was a lawyer who represented. a mobster who had been involved in the cia. and he and that attorney had urged her and to plead guilty and to avoid a trial in which his guilt you know that. it was a short paddle or a sentencing hearing in which the narrative was written and nobody ever and nobody ever looked at. there's been six experts examine the other none of them could have come from. it came from a different on its own clearly gucci come forward and say something. and in
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fact she was. a. district attorney at that time because he wouldn't tell all because he was you know he was thinking that he is but what's could not have come from. and this was rehired under pressure japanese community and from other people and in a good she was quite a guy. the book american values support personal memoir part political history why did you write it. i wrote it because. there's been over a thousand books. and my family has written what it was like from the inside and there's so much misinformation. about my family you know stuff going from my you know my and a lot of it is land as a grandfather was
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a blue earth. that you know that mike and my grandfather had a relationship mobster ers that sixty election and on and on and on and all those things are. in the psyche of the on the american political and scapes that people just accept a straw on have anything to do and a part of this. book is kind of straight record out looking at the facts. and some of it is. my gift to my children and their hundred five kennedy cousins who who are part of our family and part of all the in of all to what it means to be our of our family and it was my attempt to explain our family's role in american history the last book is
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about your mother who's ninety nine right she just and always will she is wonderful she's amazing when i was a. sharp and in our great storyteller really hill and she you know she's old hickory. ten years ago. and she now lives in palm beach during the winter and she's at the cape autumn spring and summer you praise or but you also say we were times when her love didn't feel unconditional i had it all just relationship which i talk. with my mother from the time. and that really. and when i was young i couldn't see these really heroic qualities as as clearly as you can where you made it i was just you know i was rebellious
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kid i think. you know and like i own kids. our cars have six children an inch and there are constantly looking for evidence of hypocrisy or or whatever mean living in consistence that isn't. challenging kids. and i think that's what kids have to i think you're supposed to divorce your parents are supposed to do it at a older age i did a very young age. you know her role as i experienced as petty to. make a nice. time running away and doing things. and then i got drugs after my dad of course that whole relationship so i was unable to see. all of these extraordinary qualities at other.
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and then i got sober earning twenty nine years old and i've had six kids my own and i be and marvel at. how do you at eleven kids didn't. get them all up on time for their hair brushed their nails brushing their hair. and force everybody to participate in a single conversation or so i had bars are you know are illegal. and all of and you know forced to memorize poetry and. every day at the summer sometimes twice a day. and you know you start to appreciate it and you have kids at.
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