This is another of those common redundancy in spoken English. When we want someone to say what he had said earlier, we do not request him to "repeat again" what he said. The correct way is to ask him to "repeat" what he said.
Repeat means to say or write something again. The prefix re means again. So we say" Please repeat that", or "Please say that again", NOT "Please repeat that again". In the last sentence "again" is superfluous.
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