Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.

Today is a special episode of the podcast.

Like all of you, I was horrified by the attempted assassination this weekend of former President Trump.

I am incredibly happy that he is safe and my thoughts are with the other victims of this cowardly attack on our democracy and our country.

I know that right now it feels like our country is tearing apart. There is anxiety and fear. There is outrage and

anger, but worst of all there is hate. Some people think that these historic

moments are preordained. you may have heard the expression,

the die is cast. But I don't believe in that. I believe that these moments in

history are opportunities. They give us a time for choosing. We have

the power to write the next chapter. And I hope that all of us can commit to stepping

away from the hate that has consumed our politics.

We must learn to disagree about policy without malice or resentment.

We must begin to debate without fighting.

I won't put on rose-colored glasses and pretend this type of violence is new to America.

Our deadliest war was against ourselves.

Four of our 46 presidents... deadliest war was against ourselves.

Four of our 46 presidents have been assassinated.

I arrived in America in 1968.

That year, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April.

When he received news of King's death on the campaign trail,

Robert F. Kennedy said,

what we need in the United States is not division.

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