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Sept. 11 and Charlie Kirk killing frame this moment in America

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with NPR’s Ron Elving about the moment we find ourselves in, 24 years after the 9/11 terror attacks, and as we try to make sense of the killing of conservative political influencer Charlie Kirk.

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