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# Watch President Obama Defend a Protester at His North Carolina Rally

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## Video: Watch President Obama Defend a Protester at His North Carolina Rally

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_Published 2016-11-04. When a protestor interrupted President Obama’s afternoon rally for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina on Friday, the crowd was not having it. The Fayetteville crowd attempted to drown the heckler out with chants of U-S-A and boos._


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## Transcript

Hold up it's okay, hey hold up [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Hold up, hold up, [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Hold up, hold up, hold up. Hey, listen, listen, listen, listen. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ SOUND ] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, listen up. Hey everybody, everybody. Hey, hey, listen up hey. I told you to be focused, and you're not focused right now. Listen to what I'm saying hold up. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Everybody sit down and be quiet for a second. Everybody sit down and be quiet for a second. Now listen up, I'm serious listen up You've got an older gentlemen who is supporting his candidate- All right, all right. He not doing nothing- [ LAUGH ] You don't have to worry about him.

[ APPLAUSE ] [ INAUDIBLE ] This is what I mean about folks not being focus. First of all, first of all We let- Hold up. [ NOISE ] Hold up. First of all, we live in a country that respects free speech. [ APPLAUSE ] So, second of all, it looks like maybe he might have served in our military, and we ought to respect that. [ APPLAUSE ] Third of all, he was elderly and we got to respect our elders. [ APPLAUSE ] And fourth of all, don't boo. No. No. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] Don't boo. Vote. Come on. Now, [ APPLAUSE ] I want you to pay attention. Because if we lose focus, we could have problems. This is part of what's happened here, during this election season we just get stirred up for all kinds of Reasons that are unnecessary [ APPLAUSE ] Just relax.

[ LAUGH ]

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