Complex sentence: Walsh bluntly responds "Well you'll have to Jack, because you are the only guy that I can trust" he continues "If Palmer gets hit, the first African-American with the first shot at the white house will tear this country apart".
Split into simpler sentences: Walsh bluntly responds, "Well you'll have to, Jack, because you are the only guy that I can trust". He continues, "If Palmer gets hit, the first African-American with the first shot at the white house will tear this country apart".