Remembering Charlie Kirk, with Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., and Benny Johnson, and What We Know About the Assassin | Ep 1146

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Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Channel 111 every weekday at Noon East.

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly.

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We're about to be joined by one of Charlie Kirk's closest friends, Donald Trump Jr., for Don's first interview since Charlie's passing yesterday.

Later in the show, Tucker Carlson will be here, and so will Benny Johnson, both of whom knew Charlie well.

But first, we we want to update you on the latest in the search to find his assassin, because the news is breaking by the minute in what we know right now about motive.

Charlie Kirk's killer engraved the ammunition used to murder him with pro-transgender ideology, according to reporting in multiple outlets, to the surprise of literally no one.

I have a lot of thoughts on this.

I have more to report to you, okay?

But I just have to pause here.

Of course, that's the first thing I thought yesterday.

I'm sure it ran through a lot of the minds of you watching this program as we did it live.

Stephen was outspoken, sorry, not Stephen.

Charlie was outspoken on the trans issue and many issues, many issues.

But there's one particular group that's been running around killing Americans.

in the name of transgender ideology lately, and it's transgender activists or individuals or those who proclaim that they are.

Doesn't mean they're all murderous,

but there's a particularly high percentage committing crimes these days.

And it is responsible and important to say so, which is what Charlie was doing.

The thought

that

this was a person acting to avenge some sort of trans person or objecting to Charlie's stance on the trans issue is

entirely chilling to me because when Charlie and I first became friends, this was an issue he wasn't even talking about that much, but he was seeing

was resonating with some on the right and was a growing issue.

And he told me that one of the reasons why I kept coming into his algorithm and catching his attention was because we were talking about this issue and his sister, who's also outspoken and a a Christian, had been forwarding him, I guess, a bunch of videos she'd seen on our show.

That's what he told me.

And of course, like many on the right, it became more and more in his lens over the past few years because it's grown in the public sphere.

It's hard to avoid.

And you've got the vast majority of Americans right now ignoring it out of a sense of politeness or kindness, a misperceived sense of kindness and not saying anything about it.

And then you've got this smaller faction of us who have been jumping up and down about it.

And Charlie became one of them.

And I, of course, had become one of them and am one of them and will continue to be one of them.

And on that front, to Charlie's killer,

there's no such thing as a trans child.

Men cannot have babies or chest chest feed an infant.

A man cannot become a woman.

A woman cannot become a man.

Those are truths, and you will hear them here relentlessly.

And it won't just be me.

It'll be many of us on the right who will not be silenced and who will make it our mission now to continue saying all the things that you thought you silenced with that bullet.

And guess what?

You can't take us all out.

If people are true to Charlie's legacy, if college students and high school students who felt inspired at all by Charlie feel the need to live up to his example, they'll say it too.

And they can't take us all out

for speaking the truth about one of the most divisive, awful issues we've ever had infect our culture.

I would love to say the left is learning, that the media is is learning, and that now, now that they see yet again that this was an issue behind a brutal assassination, a murder of one of our national gems, that they'll

see the error of their ways, that they'll start realizing they cannot keep coddling this dangerous ideology.

But I know

it won't be this way.

I know it's not true.

I know because I understand the media.

And I know because because I saw CNN after Stephen Crowder was the first to report this, what was on

the cartridge.

CNN, and then the Wall Street Journal ultimately matched his reporting, but he broke it, Stephen Crowder.

CNN popped up a Chiron on their screen and put up an article at cnn.com that that

that said cultural phrases were engraved.

Cultural phrases were engraved on the cartridges.

Here's what the reporting actually says, that it was phrases on the cartridges expressing, quoting here, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.

Transgender and anti-fascist ideology.

Not cultural phrases.

And CNN fucking knows that and won't write it because it's still a sacred cow.

You can't say anything about the transgender thing because they're so unstable, you might cause another one to do it.

And because they're in the protected category that cannot be criticized or you're a bigot.

How many times has that word been used against me for speaking truth on trans?

Me, Billboard Chris, Riley Gaines, take your pick.

Anyone on the right.

Anyone who speaks the truth about this issue and not just this issue.

Not just this issue.

The anti-fascist ideology is clearly a reference to Charlie's Trump support.

Because that's what the left says about Trump.

He's a fascist.

His attempts to undo Joe Biden's immigration mess.

That's fascism.

Take your pick.

And the left and the media, but I repeat myself, uses these phrases about him,

this phrase, as though it's not even controversial.

It's regularly thrown out there as though it's just factual.

But when it comes to actual facts about trans violence, that needs to be buried with amorphous, meaningless phrases like cultural phrases were on the ammo.

The Stephen Crowder reporting this morning, I pulled it up for you,

was given to him, he reports, by

an ATF source.

And it's an ATF or by a law enforcement source, and it is an ATF document.

And it reads in part as follows.

This is clearly an ATF write-up of what they've learned so far, some of which was repeated in the FBI pressure this morning, some of which was not.

On September 10th, at approximately 12-24 p.m., conservative political influencer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at the Utah Valley University in Utah.

Mr.

Kirk was speaking at the university as part of the American Comeback Tour.

Multiple law enforcement agencies responded immediately.

The suspect fired one shot from an elevated position on a rooftop in an adjacent building building on the campus, and surveillance video shows the suspect jumping off and fleeing the area on foot.

ATF and other law enforcement located an older model imported Mauser.30-06 caliber bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus.

All of this has been confirmed by the FBI after the fact, after Stevens' report.

Wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus.

The location of the firearm appears to match the suspect's route of travel.

The spent cartridge was still chambered in addition to three unspent rounds at the top Fed magazine.

All cartridges have

engraved wording on them expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.

What the exact quotes are, we don't know.

An emergency trace has been submitted to an ATF

law enforcement working leads generated by the trace.

The firearm and ammo have been taken by the

FBI for DNA analysis and fingerprint impressions.

Upon completion of forensics, the firearm will be disassembled

for additional importer information.

Multiple people of interest having contacted or detained because of eyewitness testimony and review of video footage have been, I guess they meant it right.

The primary suspect is yet to be identified.

ATF is assisting the investigation with multiple other federal, state, and local partners.

The case is co-led by the FBI and the Utah Bureau of Investigation, State Bureau.

Now, the FBI

has also just released two images of what they call a person of interest.

This just happened.

It's 1209 Eastern on Thursday.

He is seen here with a baseball hat, sunglasses, and a shirt that appears to have an American flag on it, along with something else, though it's difficult to decipher.

Here's another image taken from a different angle.

Again, you can see he's wearing blue jeans, a dark shirt, sunglasses, and a hat.

And on the front front of his shirt, there appears to be a flag with something else on it.

He appears to be white, young, male, in his early 20s.

If you have any information on this individual and law enforcement is asking for your help, you are asked to call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.

1-800-CALL FBI, 1-800-225-5324.

They don't have him.

He remains at large.

and obviously is considered dangerous.

This morning, the FBI held a press conference and reported the following.

Investigators have obtained, quote, high-quality video of the assassin, but will not yet release that to the public.

The suspect who the FBI referred to as a man appears to be, they said, quote, of college age.

Other evidence they have collected includes a palm imprint, they said, on the gun, a forearm imprint, and quote, a footwear impression.

Obviously, we believe that's from the ground, leading to or from the college.

They also have tracked the shooter's movements from the moment he arrived on campus thanks to all the security cameras that they have right up to the moment he escaped.

Take a listen.

Through all that work last night we were able to make a few few breakthroughs.

We were able to track the movements of the shooter.

Starting at 1152 a.m.

the subject arrived on campus shortly away from campus.

We have tracked his movements onto the campus, through the stairwells, up to the roof, across the roof to a shooting location

after the shooting we were able to track his movements as he moved to the other side of the building jumped off of the building and fled

off of the campus and into a neighborhood our investigators have worked through those neighborhoods contacting anybody they can with doorbell cameras, witnesses, and have thoroughly worked through those communities trying to identify any leads.

We do have good video footage of this individual.

We are not going to release that at this time.

We are working through some technologies and some ways to identify this individual.

If we are unsuccessful, we will reach out to you as the media and we will push that publicly to help us identify them.

But we are confident in our abilities right now and we would like to move forward in a manner that keeps everyone safe.

and moves this process appropriately.

Just getting this in, and it's no surprise, per the New York Times, efforts to identify the suspect through facial recognition technology did not work.

And that's why they are now asking for the public's health help to catch him.

It's amazing.

He appears young in the pictures, and that would track because virtually all of us could be caught by facial recognition.

I mean, it's very, it's quite vast, the number of pictures that they have of all of us online, not just people like me who are more familiar, but any of us.

We had somebody on who walked us through the vast abilities of the facial recognition technology.

They can get you when you're just three quarters of a face, two-thirds of a face, one-third of a face.

So

I suppose the fact that this guy's young limits the number of public pictures of him.

Again, assuming it's a hymn, it looks like a hymn on

the limited pictures that they've released.

And what they've said is that they've referred to him as he.

The New York Times also reported a short time ago, citing its law enforcement sources, that the weapon and the ammo are being traced by ATF analysts in West Virginia, but that evidence has not yet led to a person of interest.

In short, the FBI reported literally everything that was in the Stephen Crowder ATF report, except

what was written on the cartridges.

And I believe we'll get to that.

There wasn't a reporter there who asked those questions because clearly no one there follows Stephen Crowder because the reporters in that room probably think Stephen Crowder is not someone they should pay any attention to.

They probably think he doesn't have any credibility because they don't know anything about our side.

They don't know anything about truth.

Yesterday when I was reporting the news that Charlie had died

and I'm seeing the reporting from just the news, John Solomon, and I'm seeing the reporting from Deseret.

And I know, I know these are right.

I trust them.

And the old mainstream news reporter in me was waiting.

I

was thinking, well, the AP has to say it.

You know, the New York Times has to say it.

And And then it just dawned on me in real time.

What am I doing?

I don't listen to them.

I don't go to them for my news.

I go to John Solomon.

I do go to Deseret.

I do listen to Stephen Crowder, whose experience in reporting law enforcement leaks has been impeccable, impeccable.

And he had it right, and he's been verified now in large part by the FBI directly and the Wall Street Journal, matching his reporting, including on the trans and Antifa or anti-fascist messaging that was on the cartridges.

More on that as we get it.

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Don, thank you so much for being with us today.

Let me just ask you first for your reaction to the horrible news.

I know you've said that Charlie was like a brother to you.

He was.

I honestly have no words to describe it.

I got the call yesterday and I was in shock.

I mean, it's the third time I've got that call in a little over a year about a close friend or a loved one, you know,

almost being killed because that was when we didn't actually know what was going on yet.

And so obviously a lot of mix of emotions.

Then we got a report that, hey, he's getting blood.

It may be stable.

Then 20 minutes later, we got the news that he didn't make it.

And so

it was a really rough day for someone who's been a very close friend, confidant, incredible warrior for the things that we all believe in for a very long period of time.

So it's been hard.

Can you talk about the beginning of your relationship and how you got to know him?

It's actually sort of funny.

And you remember these days because I was doing your show back on Fox News at the time and

a couple of friends came up to me and said, hey, you got to meet this guy.

He knows so much about politics.

He wants to help out.

And, you know, I'm like, okay, give me some more information.

Cause, you know, at the time, we didn't know anything.

We didn't know what was going on.

We had no idea about politics.

I didn't know what a caucus was when we got to Iowa.

We were clueless.

And, you know, they're like, okay, well, he's 20 years old.

And I was like, just

stop.

Just stop.

Like, I go, if I need another person that doesn't know what's going on, like, I can just go to the room next door.

Like,

there is no shortage.

There's no shortage of people who don't know what the hell is going on right now working on this thing.

We just had a good message.

We had people that could speak.

And they're like, no, no, no, trust me on this one.

They're good friends.

So

I took the meeting reluctantly.

And I sat down with Charlie Kirk for the first time.

This must have been, I guess, end of 15.

And in five minutes, I was like, oh my God, this kid's brilliant.

I I mean, this kid himself could be president one day.

You know, I just, I saw a talent, perhaps, you know, that's maybe my knack in politics, whether it was Charlie or JD or a couple of the others.

It's like, wait a second, I saw something there.

And I was like, just congratulations, you're on my team.

I think Turning Point had a million dollar operating budget that year.

And in the decade since, I mean,

pushing 200 million, the guy was just.

incredible.

And from that day, I mean, he literally, for the rest of the 16 campaign, was basically, you know, with me every day, fundraising, speaking, getting coffee.

It didn't matter.

There was no task that was beneath him.

There was nothing there.

He was just an incredible guy

and a true warrior.

And to watch how he's matured and had matured even since then is nothing short of astounding.

The amount of growth that he had over the next nine years was just exponential.

I mean, I can't think of anybody else who matched it in terms of their influence, their success, his growth as a man, as an orator, as a compelling public figure whose opinion mattered at all levels, at all levels.

He had the president of the United States listening to him down to my 14-year-old daughter.

I mean, there's just not many people who can say that.

Why, Don?

What was it about him?

You know what?

He could just relate to people.

He could take complex things and explain them simply.

He did so so kindly as well.

I mean, even, you know, even his biggest detractors, I mean, on a daily basis, Charlie Kirk gave them a platform to debate these ideas.

He gave them his platform that he actually worked for and created.

He let them speak and he calmly, you know,

he'd push back with ideas, with words.

And, you know, I say, you know, when they talk about him being a threat and you have all these left-wing radical-funded NGOs labeling him, you know, domestic terrorist and these sorts of things, he wasn't a threat.

Charlie was the kindest person I probably knew.

I mean, Charlie was certainly the calmest,

you know, in many cases, the least aggressive of all the people, you know, I know in politics.

And, you know, all, I mean, I guess his quote was, when discourse ends, violence begins.

That was his quote.

And they killed him for it, Megan.

Fucking killed him.

He gave them a platform.

I guess the problem was, I guess his real threat

wasn't anything other than he was so effective.

You know, he gave them that platform.

He'd push back with words and ideas.

And in minutes, you'd see this on a college campus, some radical giving, you know, just insane, you know, leftist talking points.

And he'd push back and, you know, they were left speechless.

Many of them, okay, they'd walk away just humbled.

And I think half of them probably became believers.

But the people who came to hear him speak, the people who went in there with an open mind, they were like, oh, oh, this is right.

The indoctrination that we've dealt with since probably kindergarten is bullshit.

The stuff that we're being force-fed by our college professors is absolute nonsense.

And, you know, I remember that I was doing college campus tours with him in 16.

And even me, and I'm, you know, I don't exactly shy away from these things.

You know, I was, wow, are we really going to go on a college campus?

Like,

okay, let's see what happens.

And it was incredible.

I remember one of the early ones we did.

It was, I think it was the University of Michigan.

We get to Michigan and we get there.

And, you know, of course, the university makes it very difficult for us to get a room.

So

three times oversold.

They won't let us even have a platform.

And then they got to make sure all the radicals get in.

And I remember we're going to go on stage and the Michigan State Police pulled us aside.

They were there, not because we had them, but they were just monitoring all of it.

And they go, basically pulled me and Charlie aside and said, hey, guys,

we can't stop you from going out there, but we can't guarantee your safety and we think it's a bad idea.

You should cancel.

And Charlie and I both sort of simultaneously looked at us and we're like, you know, we'd rather take an ass kicking than give them that win and be silenced.

And we went out there and we pushed back and we had the haters and we had the protesters and we went at them kindly with words.

And you could see the entire dynamic of the room.

It went from being, you know, probably 60, 40 leftist to like 90, 10, 95, 5 when people were like, wait a second, let these guys have a conversation, let them speak.

You could see the shift in the room.

And Charlie did that day in and day out.

for nine years

till yesterday when he was killed doing just that.

And he changed so many minds.

He got people to be unafraid to speak up and to speak out and to actually voice their opinion and to embrace common sense.

It's truly a loss for our country.

Have you gotten to speak with Erica or his family at all, Don?

You know what?

I haven't.

I called

pretty immediately.

We were, then Erica actually called back

while I was with Bettino.

You know, she called her her back.

Somehow it didn't go through, whatever it was.

We saw the missed call, but nothing, and we've tried calling back.

But in that time was when we found out, you know, it went from shot to stable and maybe okay to

he had passed.

And so we have not yet, unfortunately.

And so, you know, we obviously said notes and whatever, but

that's not going to matter much.

What's going to matter to him in the end is going to be.

preserving the legacy of what he's created and not not going away, not going to cower in a corner and die.

We just got to fight.

That's exactly right.

I mean,

I'll get to that in one second.

Let me ask you about your dad because he said he's going to speak with, I think, the family, Eric, I think, later today.

He mentioned that this morning at a 9-11 remembrance event.

And also announced that he's going to award Charlie the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously.

He also ordered the staff, the flags to go at half staff, which is very unusual for a private citizen.

Can you talk about what Charlie meant to your dad?

A lot.

I mean, I think, you know, Charlie single-handedly, you know, other than perhaps, you know, other than my father, I guess, would have been the, you know, the single-handed most important player of the last election cycle, and probably frankly, 2020 as well.

I mean, you know, the gains were being made, but I mean, I think he single-handedly won Arizona for us, probably Michigan, probably Wisconsin as well,

you know, moved, you know, the youth vote 20 plus points.

And again, that's not just youth vote to 18 year olds.

This is the 18 to 29 people who could actually vote

so significantly.

I mean, especially the male.

I mean, the male vote, you know, like a 40-point swing towards common sense and American values and decency.

And, you know, what were the things that they hated Charlie for speaking about?

I mean, for

loving God,

your country.

you know, as you pointed out in your monologue, sort of, you know, men can't be women.

I mean, this isn't exactly rocket science or anything that's all that controversial.

He was just willing to say those things that were verboten for so many people for so long.

He made it okay for them.

So for my father, he meant a lot.

I spoke to my,

I don't know for sure, but I think, you know, sort of unbeknownst to me, I think, you know, my father was calling me and I had just heard,

you know, from Charlie's team that was on the ground when it passed.

So I think he may have heard it directly, you know, sort of from me first.

And

he called me back later on that evening and we were just talking about it and how much he meant to my father and how good a fighter he was.

My father truly recognized his genius and his excellence, his work ethic, everything.

It was amazing.

That's the thing, is like Charlie had a seat at the table.

He had real influence in the administration with you guys, and all of it was earned.

At just 31 years old, people recognized what a savant this kid was and how special he was and his truly genius-like abilities to understand the scenes in the story and to

communicate with a group that had been totally ignored by most all Republicans, Don, until Charlie came along and said, let's fight for them.

Why not try to get the youth vote?

Maybe we can get it.

100%.

I mean, you know, and again, when it's coming from

your peers, Charlie was of that age.

Charlie was younger than most college students when he was speaking on college campuses and started doing that when we started.

doing it.

He recognized, Megan, that

we can scream in our echo chamber as much as we want.

And everyone can nod along because they agree with what you're saying.

But he understood how important it was to go to the places we weren't supposed to be and have that conversation and have that discourse.

He went into the lion's den more than anyone.

And again, when you're that age,

it's a little bit more effective than sending an 85-year-old establishment politician who can't possibly relate, doesn't understand social media, doesn't do his own, doesn't feel the vibe of what's going on.

Charlie did those things.

I was looking through photos yesterday

and

pretty heart-wrenching.

But I went back down to Election Day of 2016, and Charlie was in my office at Trump Tower in New York.

And he's there, and it's a picture of him on my computer because I was doing radio, I was doing TV.

He wasn't really even yet a presence

in sort of that digital media.

Obviously, I had a social following, but was just starting.

I remember screaming at some of your colleagues on Fox News back in that year, be like, put this kid on.

I'm telling you, he's really good.

I had that conversation with Sean.

I think the first time I was like, he was like, I can't, I'm not putting on a kid.

Like, what do you, what do you, I'm like, just trust me, please, for the love of God, put him on.

And he did.

And, and, and that was it.

He just, you know, went like a rocket ship from there.

And I have this picture.

He was just, he was literally sitting on my desktop with access to my Twitter account, just putting out just.

the tweets, you know, mobilizing people here, whatever message was going to work in whatever place was coming, literally as the time zones were shutting down.

Because, you know, the polls closed on the East Coast at whatever it was, seven seven o'clock.

Well, now we're switching to the central time zone.

And I'm getting on radio and I think I did 100 something radio interviews that day.

So he was manning the social feed and it was just, you could see just the willingness to just step into any role, any position, anywhere that he could move a needle.

He just jumped in wholeheartedly.

He was doing it this election too, saying, I don't like what I'm seeing in Michigan.

Or he would pick the state and send out tweets and we would all amplify them, letting people know, like, you need to get out.

Like, this one's tight.

Like, don't, don't take anything for granted.

He fought to the last minute and obviously had great results in 24.

You know, Don, it was 14 months ago that we were talking about the attempted assassination of your father by a shooter who got on a rooftop in a place he never should have been allowed to take a shot that was fatal for one man in the audience and was almost fatal for your dad.

What do you make of the fact that Charlie, who who was

as cognizant as any of us of the dangers of that day and how close your dad came to being killed in that way, wound up dying in the exact same way by a different assassin's bullet.

It's just sick.

I mean, you know,

Charlie knew the threat.

I mean, I know you, I'm sure, deal with it.

I know I've dealt with it and I've had, you know, I think I was, you know, in the first term, I was number two most threatened person, you know, according to the Secret Service in government.

You know, we deal with these things every day.

Charlie was well aware, but that was never going to stop him.

And I think his faith, I mean, he was a true believer.

He believed he was being

handled by God to do what was right for our country.

And there was nothing that was going to stop him.

I mean, he had a security detail, but there's only so much you can do.

Like I said,

they almost killed the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party during a presidential

election.

and allowed that to happen.

So you can take a lot of precaution, but

you can't do everything.

And I think this shows us, you know, no one's there to protect you.

No one's going to save you.

A big part of the whole conservative ethos and certainly Charlie, you know, that individualism.

You have to learn how to take care of yourself.

You have to be able to do that.

And I think his faith got him through that each and every day because he understood the threat.

He knew it.

One of the last events I did with Charlie before the election, you know, we were in Arizona, which again, I think him and his team at Turning Point single-handedly won for us.

We were doing events all over the place, and

we got a deranged letter about a threat to me at some event that we were doing.

It was going to be basically a B-Y-O-B.

It was bring your own ballot, not booze, although I imagine there was probably some drinking because it was a college campus event.

And I was like,

we're going anyway.

And

it turns out at the last minute, I guess they caught the guy before the event.

But these things were a regular occurrence, these kinds of threats where they're literally threatening our lives or anyone that's effective.

They've shown that.

This isn't the bullshit that I see.

Oh, well, it's violence from both sides.

No, it's not.

It's not violence from both sides, Megan.

It's violence coming from the left, created by the left.

When you call someone a Nazi, when you call them a fascist, when you call them a dictator, and you say they're the greatest threat to democracy, you know, every one of us has been the greatest threat to democracy, depending on, you know,

if they're leading the news cycle that day, you know, each and every day, they enabled this.

They created it.

It's not both ways.

It's one way.

And if it's not them calling us those things, it's their silence, like we saw from that just young Ukrainian woman just stabbed for no reason on the bus in the Carolinas two weeks ago.

Absolute silence about it because it didn't go for the narrative.

You know, rather than talking about a 14-time repeat offender who literally slit someone's throat on a bus, sitting there on her phone, minding her business.

You know, guys like Charlie, you, you know, myself, you know, we talk about these things.

We bring it up.

And that puts us in their crosshairs, quite literally.

You know, I love your open and monologue about sort of the, you know, the transgender bullshit.

You know, I've been talking about it for a long time, and that's where those threats are coming from.

And you're 100% right, Megan.

Like, think about per capita.

I can't name, including probably like Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, a group that is more violent per capita than the radical trans movement.

I mean, when you think of the mass killings, when you think of this, each and every one, and I'm sure there's plenty that we don't even know about because they wouldn't release the manifesto like they didn't, you know, in Wisconsin or

because you're not allowed to talk about the truth, you know, because I mean, I'm sure it's totally normal.

I'm sure people are totally sane after jacking themselves up on hormones given to them by some, you know, rainbow-haired freak doctor because, you know, they think men can somehow magically become women.

You know, I'm sure it has nothing to do with that, Megan.

It can't possibly, right?

That

wouldn't be convenient.

That wouldn't be nice.

But the reality is, you know, we've shown, and we've seen they're not willing to be nice.

Again, the violence is only going one way.

You know, Charlie.

Again, probably the kindest soul I know in politics, the least radicalized.

He was just, again, effective because he was able to use his words so well.

But to the left, words are violence, as we've heard so many times, because it doesn't suit their agenda, which I don't know what it is, actually.

I mean, the irony of this is, you know, you hear the stuff that they're saying and it's like, these people are, they're actually insane.

It's not like there's moderate Democrats anymore.

I'm sure there are in middle America some moderate Democrats, but they certainly have no representation in Congress or the Senate because you need the crazy California or New York money

to fund those things.

And therefore, they never actually get there.

So I believe there's moderate Democrat voters.

I don't believe there's any moderate Democrats anymore.

And, you know, frankly, that's evidenced by some of the craziness and the insanity that we saw coming out of MSDNC yesterday and CNN and blaming Charlie.

He's to blame for this.

Oh, yeah, he's to blame for this.

It is truly sick.

And

it's everywhere.

It's still going.

I have no tolerance for what's happening on Blue Sky with these lunatics.

I am going to play one slot for you.

It's of Jen Saki having a conversation with Senator Mark Kelly.

Here's just a bit.

But he put out a four-minute video, and I'm not going to play the video.

I don't want to play the video.

But there was a line at the end that I think I just wanted to raise and read.

At the end of this four-minute video, he says: For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's most worst mass murderers and criminals.

This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.

And obviously, there's a lot of rhetoric that is problematic.

A lot of it is coming from one particular side and from one particular building.

But what can be done?

I fear when this is an escalation already in less than 24 hours of this shooting.

Yeah,

I think historically, presidents have looked for opportunities to bring people together.

You know, right now, we need a president that'll bring the country together and not try to further divide us.

It's unbelievable, Don.

I mean, it's mind-blowing.

I mean, that they can say that with a straight face after vilifying everyone, after Jen Saki, I believe was press secretary still, when Joe Biden got before that demonic red platform and vilified over 50% of the country.

uh you know you know these same people spewing the idea that you know white men are the greatest domestic terror threat it's like i don't know guys like i'm gonna go out on here and limb here and say you know it's the radical trans that have killed

It feels like they've done practically every mass shooting in America for the last few years, but we're not allowed to talk about it.

You know,

it's those responses that are so tone deaf, that are so sick, that you realize the debate with the left is over.

They've lost the debate.

They're not even trying to debate anymore.

So they have to basically resort to violence.

That's all they have left to get what they want.

And they've historically shown that.

I mean, I've always said, I've been saying it forever.

You know, we need, you know, and this is not an encouragement of violence, but we've been playing two different games.

They have been playing hardball forever while we sit back and we play t-ball.

You know, and even so many of the Republicans on the right, you saw sort of Rand Pauls, you know, who I very like and agree with a lot of what he says, but when he was talking about, well, maybe we should have let those drug dealers on the high-speed, you know, cigarette boat come into America and forgive them.

I was like, no, no, no, these people, fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year.

They're coming to kill our young people.

Regime that does this, we have the intelligence.

You know, maybe if they come to America and we let them sell a little bit of their goods, maybe, Megan, they'll come around and see it our way.

You know, was it Genisaki or the other press secretary?

No, no, no.

Trendo Aragua only took over a few buildings at Aurora, Colorado, in Austin, Texas.

It's only a few buildings.

Just let them have the buildings.

These people are nuts, Megan.

They're imbecile.

They're not serious people.

That leads me to this question.

What's next?

Because

there's a lot of talk about is now a moment to reach out, have a kumbaya moment with the other side, lower the temperature.

Is now a moment to step over the other side and forge forward without them.

You know, just what you say, we're winning.

Just complete the victory without them.

I'd love to do the former, but

who was better at that or kinder in doing that than Charlie Kirk?

And they killed him.

I don't think it's possible.

Again, you know, you see it, you know,

the amount of normal people who aren't even political who have re,

they've hit a breaking point.

You know, they're not having these conversations on Twitter, I'm sure.

They are sick of this crap.

When my 12-year-old calls me, they killed Charlie.

It's 12 years old.

He found out before I could even call them and give them a heads up because they're seeing these things.

My 16-year-old, my 18-year-old, all reaching out

and they're like,

we are so sick of this stuff.

Now, maybe, maybe it's a little bit more personal to them because they know him.

They knew Charlie and they went through it twice with my father.

I mean, I've had to, like I said earlier, I've had to deliver

sort of hard, hard news to kids and try to explain stuff you should not have to explain to any kid

three times now over the last 14 months.

That's not acceptable.

And again, you see what they're saying, and I'm not just talking about Blue Sky and, you know, I mean, that's truly deranged, but these are the people who were in the Biden White House on TV saying these things.

You saw the guy that got fired.

Luckily, he got fired.

I'm actually shocked.

They

Matthew Dowd.

They'll bring him back in in three weeks, probably, but they have to do the obligatory thing because even the sickos there were like, okay, that's probably a little step too far.

I mean, they're saying these things on regular television.

So I would love for there to go back, but I think what we have to do is we have to plow forward with our ideas, reaching out to those who are not indoctrinated, who haven't been infected.

with the woke mind virus.

Get those people.

Let them watch it.

You know, I saw people saying, take down the video of what happened to Charlie.

Trust me, and someone who spoke to him every day for a decade.

It was brutal to watch, but I think we have to watch it.

I think we have to understand what they're capable of doing and what they will gladly do.

It's not just Charlie.

They'd go after anyone.

They just don't know your name, maybe.

They don't know you, so they don't know where to attack.

But you think that if they'll try to take out a sitting president of the United States, if they'll try to successfully take out Charlie Kirk,

if they'll stab people on buses for no reason,

you think

they're not coming for you eventually?

It's a truly scary thought, and we have to start thinking that way.

Don, he said

the following about why he goes out there and why he approaches the turning point events the way he did.

Here it is in SOT 9.

My name is Charlie Kirk, and I love America.

Because I love talking with people I disagree with.

Started an organization that's now on a thousand plus campuses to save the greatest culture and country ever to exist.

Is it necessary?

Well, considering I've been assaulted, followed, stalked, and had things thrown at me, the greatest protection I have is cameras.

We record all of it so that we put on the internet so people can see these ideas collide.

When people stop talking, that's when you get violence.

That's when civil war happens.

Because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity.

Marriages break apart when you stop talking, churches fall apart.

And I think what makes this country on the verge of going to a place we don't want it to go right now is we're afraid to go to places like this and have these conversations.

I'm not.

The cameras are what protect us, where people can see ideas collide.

And it did have me wondering:

would Charlie want that video out there?

Would Charlie want to see what they resorted to to stop his ideas?

I don't know.

i don't know um but but i think so because i think he'd want people to understand you know

the problem is he'd love to be able to shield it from his incredible young kids and his wife uh but you know some some guys flipped it and you know i'm sure they're playing it with glee over on blue sky over and over again uh i don't even want to see those machinations but again i think we have to understand

where we are that you could take a 31-year-old who is, again, one of the kindest people I've ever met that just has conversations with people, a father of two young, incredible children who's out there every day trying to have a conversation.

They would assassinate him in cold blood, in front of thousands,

while he's simply trying to have a conversation, tells you everything you need to know about the left.

And so, you know,

it's brutal.

I certainly don't want my kids seeing it, but I do think adults may have to just understand

the level of where we are at and really where the left is at.

They have to understand that so that they can react accordingly, so they can take care of themselves, so that they can stay engaged.

So they don't just show up to vote because Trump happens to be at the top of the ballot and he's our guy.

No, we have to have representation from top to bottom, from the president down to the dog catcher.

I truly hope that this instance, and I think Charlie Charlie would as well, that this just red pills even further

the entire youth demographic of people who'd otherwise

perhaps be indifferent or apathetic to our election process and just understand

where we are.

No pun intended, but I mean, I think we really are at a turning point.

I think...

we can harness that and we can make sure that Charlie's legacy lives on by, again, continuing this dialogue.

There's no one that can replace Charlie, I don't think.

We have to do that collectively.

We have to all be willing to be unafraid, outspoken.

We cannot let them silence us.

That's why they do this.

If they don't like what you're saying,

whether it was my father, whether it was Charlie, whether it was threats to the Supreme Court justices, if they don't like what they're getting, you know, that's where they resort.

We have to band together.

We have to be so unified that that radical faction faction can't possibly continue to win elections.

And I think if we do that,

that would be an incredible thing for Charlie's legacy, and I think he'd be very proud of it.

Yeah, I completely agree.

I wonder

what is going to happen at Turning Point.

You know, you're right.

You can't replace Charlie Kirk.

It was a big, it is a big and important organization, but what's what should happen?

Is there anyone who could step in?

Will it be a collective save by the rest of us?

Like, what do you see happening there?

Listen,

there is some great talent.

Again, I think Charlie is a unique individual.

But

if you would have asked

in 1916, after Trump, who was there?

There was no bench.

It took the hardship of the Biden administration.

It took those four years for America to realize how fragile our democracy is, how fragile our economy is,

how the incompetence of the left.

It can really affect your life.

It took that for people to actually truly understand and appreciate Trump.

So

I hope from this tragedy, we understand all that is at stake, that we all step up.

And I think you're right.

I think it's a collective for now

until someone steps up.

I know

I probably spoke at

every major turning point event for the last decade.

I will continue to do so.

I hope people like yourself, I've seen you there a bunch, I hope we all stay.

uh engaged and you know maybe there you know comes you know another light like charlie that can you know that can take the helm and do all of that.

But in the meantime, I think for the first time ever, we as a party, we do have a great bench of talent who aren't just mainstream folks.

They're guys that will do this, that have followings, that are, again, unafraid, who are willing to do that, who can articulate those things.

And I think if we all band together,

you know, and none of the infighting, you know, I guess we'll probably always have some infighting with sort of the Washington establishment who wants to go back to the good old ways because there's no consequence to them.

But if the whole entirety of the America First MAGA movement bands together and does this, I think we have an incredible future.

And I think Charlie was one of the great people who truly created and paved that path for us.

Yeah, he led by example.

It's quarter to one Thursday afternoon.

And

as of this hour, we still haven't caught his killer.

You saw the update at the top of the show, the FBI put out a picture.

What do you believe, Don?

Do you think we're going to get this guy?

I sure hope so.

You know,

if you've gone through sort of what I've gone through, Megan, over the last, you know, again, eight, nine years, between, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia, the assassination of the attempts on my father, this,

I just, I wish I had more faith in our institutions.

And it's why, again, we have to be so involved so that we can actually decide the people who put this in.

You can't just elect a president and walk away.

You need all of those other steps because there's a whole bureaucracy that needs to be replaced, and there's a lot of other people that have to go into those things.

So,

you know,

I certainly hope so.

so.

I do believe so many of the people in American law enforcement,

they're on our side, the door kickers, those guys,

they're going to do whatever it takes.

But unfortunately for me right now, it is difficult to not be a cynic given everything I've seen and experienced.

I sort of always use the example of Russia, Russia with me.

When they started it, I was like, I was the number two target of this whole hoax.

And even me at the time, as a target that they want to jail for life, or the death penalty, as Adam Schiff had said, it's like, well, there has to be something here, guys.

You know, the FBI said it.

Like, I took a thousand selfies yesterday.

You know, maybe someone was in the room that was from Russia.

Like, I don't even, like, I wanted to legitimately believe.

And so, you know, I come at this as a cynic from experience, but I do think, you know, the team as led by Kesh and Dan Bongino, I mean, these people do,

they are believers.

I know there's incredible people on the ground.

So I truly, I truly hope they do.

I really want to believe.

But, you know, until it it happens,

I'm just going to pray.

It's the anniversary of 9-11.

After 9-11 happened, I know you guys are New Yorkers.

One of the things we did was we bought stock to send a message to the terrorists that they weren't going to change anything about America for the worse, that they hadn't shut us down, that we were still going to do all the things they hated about us.

And here we are again, right, on 9-11.

And I wonder if there's anything you think we can or should do right now to send a similar message to the people who are taking out our people,

to the assassins who are trying to take out our people in what your dad accurately called last night, terrorism.

Yeah, again, I think it's band together, be unafraid, speak your mind, and don't ever stop.

I mean, that's what Charlie, you know, he opened the door for us to do that.

He showed so many people the way to actually do that.

And I think we can do that.

And with that, I think we can win.

After 9-11, obviously as a New Yorker and with

friends there, obviously Howard Lutnick lost his entire office.

He's our commerce secretary, the dear friend for decades.

We were there.

When it happened,

this tragedy was just so terrible, the greatest terror attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, probably by numbers ever.

And yet, In New York, this rough and tumble city, you know, the months, even the years following, I mean, there was a different mindset.

People were kinder to each other.

They were friendly.

It was like,

I got back to New York.

I was, you know, right, basically right out of college, I was like, what's going on here?

I mean, it was a different vibe.

Now, again, some of that got more radicalized.

It's a little scary to think of what's going on in New York with this coming election.

But I think you can

turn that tragedy

and try to get something positive for our country.

I think that's what Charlie would have wanted.

I know that's what he was fighting for each and every day.

And again, I think if we we do that, we can preserve that legacy and make sure that it never dies.

Donald Trump Jr., God bless you, your dad, your entire family.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much, Megan.

I really appreciate it.

We're very lucky to have him.

Very lucky to have the Trump family willing to serve, notwithstanding the enormous risks to all of them too, and to those who support them and have stood side by side with them, like Charlie.

We'll be right back with Benny and Tucker.

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A couple of headlines for you now before we get to our next guest.

The FBI just announcing that it is offering a reward of up to $100,000 now for information leading to the identification and arrest of the individual parentheses S, they don't know how many are responsible, responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk on September 10th, 2025, quoting here, at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL FBI.

1-800-CALL FBI.

And they're asking for people to submit photos and video if they have, like, that's for you, Utah students who are out there

at fbi.gov forward slash Utah Valley.

I'm just trying to get the exact,

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I don't know, we'll put it, we'll put it, but in any event, they want you to call them at 1-800-CALL FBI.

That's the FBI with a $100,000 reward now for information leading to the identification and arrest of the individuals responsible for Charlie's murder.

They're also revealing a picture now of the actual murder weapon recovered from the woods on the trail that they believe the killer took when leaving the campus.

It is a bolt-action rifle that was recovered near the scene.

The picture was obtained here by the New York Post.

A bolt-action rifle, we're told, fires off one bullet at a time.

You can pull back the bolt to load the bullet into the chamber.

They are used very often by hunters.

And that seems indeed appropriate because it's exactly what was done to our friend Charlie yesterday.

He was hunted by an assassin with his four bullets in the chamber, and it only took one to take out one of the most important voices in America.

The videos of Charlie's murder are so disturbing and incredibly jarring.

I mean, I told you yesterday we did our live coverage, I really do wish I hadn't seen the one of the up close,

the up close video.

I am,

I just, it was the first thing I thought about when I woke up this morning.

It was the last thing I thought about last night when I went to sleep.

Unfortunately, my son saw it because he's a teenage boy, and they all look up to Charlie, and it was big news that he had been shot and killed.

And teenagers sometimes forward those things around.

And, you know, my son, who's normally very stoic,

you could see he was jarred by it.

Everyone's jarred by it.

by his death, by the violence of it,

the destruction of a human body in such a violent way and it belonging to such an important human soul in this case.

There are reports that Charlie was wearing a bulletproof vest underneath the shirt.

It appeared that way to me as well.

And some have speculated that the bullet hit the vest and ricocheted into Charlie's neck.

But however, the specifics of it went down, and I'm sure we'll have a full forensic accounting.

It was an effective shot.

Obviously, the assassin had been training for this moment to take this one shot and have it work from 200 yards away.

Right now, one other piece of news, the State Department just putting out, oh, before I get to that,

here's the site.

If you have pictures of YouTube, it's fbi.gov forward slash Utah Valley Shooting.

FBI.gov forward slash Utah Valley Shooting.

Or just call the FBI, 1-800, call FBI.

The State Department putting out the following moments ago.

This is from the Deputy Secretary of State.

In light of yesterday's horrific assassination of a leading political figure, I want to underscore that foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.

I've been disgusted to see some on social media praising, rationalizing, or making light of the event and have directed our consular officials to undertake appropriate action.

Good for him.

Please feel free to bring such comments by foreigners to my attention so that the State Department can protect the American people.

That's great.

That's beautiful.

Why?

They're guests in our home.

Get the fuck out if you're going to celebrate the murder of one of our most beloved citizens.

You're not allowed to stay here.

You have no right to be here.

We just now finally have a State Department that recognizes that and will do what it can to protect us.

I've done so many turning point events with Charlie, you know, both with him and for him and you know, on his campus and otherwise.

And one of the people you always see when you go to a turning point event is Benny Benny Johnson.

He was on the show recently.

We were talking about his expose, you may recall, on Jasmine Crockett, you know, woman of the people, and, you know, real soul sister of the working class, all a bunch of bullshit exposed by Benny and his trip to her hometown, just like he did for AOC.

He's an intrepid reporter.

He was a dear friend of Charlie's.

Benny had gotten in some sort of social media trouble, some ridiculous thing.

And I asked Charlie about it on the show last time he was on, and he started by saying, Benny's a dear friend, and I will never say anything bad about Benny.

So, obviously, he not only cared about him, he cared about protecting him and not jumping in on any storms that

would lead people to dislike him, that would besmirch him, because Charlie had been the victim of it himself so many times.

Benny's my guest now.

Benny, thank you so much for being here.

I know it's a hard day for you.

Let me just get your reaction now, less than 24 hours after the news.

Well, Megan,

I have not slept, and I stayed up into the small hours of the morning, pondering Charlie and what he would want next.

And I have two thoughts on that.

They begin like this.

One, Charlie died as he lived.

sharing salt and light

in the darkest corners of our country and in our culture.

And it is a culture that has been overcome by darkness, and Charlie was a beacon of light.

Charlie would want us to carry that beacon forward.

Charlie was cut down in the moments.

His last words

were decrying violence and radicalization

of the political left.

What do we do next?

One,

we make Charlie a martyr.

Charlie is a martyr for America.

He's a martyr for free speech.

He is a martyr for peaceful disagreement.

He is a martyr for Christendom.

And then two,

we remember his life.

I got to witness up close, Megan, Charlie's

miraculous life, and there's no other way to describe it other than

prophetic.

Charlie Kirk had a calling on him from a very young age.

And as I watched him grow, and as I watched him mature, and as I watched him gain exponential influence on our culture and on our land, and and be able to call up President Trump who viewed Charlie Kirk as a son,

as a child,

as someone so close to him.

I knew that he would become a target.

And I believe Charlie knew this as well.

And Charlie got struck down by an assassin's bullet

because of his power and because of his influence and because of something something that we all well knew, those who were close to him, which is that Charlie Kirk

would become the President of the United States one day in his life.

Yep.

They sought to cut that life short.

And so,

what must we do now?

We must rise up.

with full hearts and remember who Charlie was and what he stood for.

Light

in the darkness, truth in the face of evil,

fearlessness,

and most importantly, and as Charlie has said again and again and again,

a desire to evangelize his faith in Christ Jesus our Lord.

to a lost world that so desperately needs it.

And with the last note of his life,

stating that he wants peace and salvation for this country, Charlie Kirk is an American martyr, a Christian soldier,

dying with honor and grace and delivered up to his Lord and Savior, Megan.

And his legacy then passes on to the rest of us in our own poor and inefficient and insufficient ways to carry it forward.

God help us.

This is America's turning point.

Benny,

you know the turning point people better than most and Charlie's friends and family.

What kind of contact have you had with them?

How is the inner circle doing?

Very poorly.

I mean,

how do

you fill

a life like Charlie's?

He was a prophet.

And I'll just say it.

I just don't care anymore.

I was able to witness Megan,

Charlie, from a very early age.

I met Charlie when he was a teenager.

And I was able to watch him work, and I was able to see God, not only, not only God's hand on what he was building, but also the providence

of

his actions.

And I experienced it.

And everybody who was near Charlie knew that there was a specific energy that only he had.

And sometimes, as it goes with martyrs, you don't even appreciate it when it's right there in front of you.

But now looking back, you say, My goodness, God has his hand on this man.

And I will never understand why God took him from us.

I will never understand

why he is gone today.

But I do understand what he wanted.

And so your question is, how are people holding up?

Well, they're holding up exactly the way that Charlie would want us to hold up because Charlie is right now smiling with that

iconic

and

irreplaceable smile down from heaven on us.

And he is saying,

buck up.

Don't cry.

Continue the work.

I've built this incredible organization in Turning Point USA.

I've begun this movement that has started the process of saving a generation of Americans

who followed him by the tens of millions, who listened to his every word,

and continue that work.

And that is what Charlie has said to me so many times.

I'm sure he said it to you in private text messages.

He said it to so many hundreds of activists and people of influence, politicians and so on, that Charlie Kirk was there constantly stiffening the spine.

It's not our time to cry.

It's not our time to be sad.

He did this to me after the 2020 election and his entire team.

Okay, now we get to work.

Good.

Good.

So something terrible happened to us?

Good.

Now we get to work.

And that was the man who Charlie was.

Megan, I'll tell you, I have wept bitterly on my knees, and I've done that in my own private space.

And what it will

require of us moving forward is to remember that that is not who Charlie was.

He was not somebody who ever felt sorry for himself ever.

He was someone who only ever served those around him and built up.

And it's not easy to kill a martyr, Megan.

Martyrs Martyrs get more powerful after

their martyrdom.

And what you are seeing now today is that the world is gathering around Charlie, praying for him and his family and his beautiful wife, Erica.

He is survived by Erica and their two children.

They're gathering around Charlie, and people are now looking with more intensity than ever at what was Charlie saying that got him killed.

What was Charlie doing, Megan, that got him killed?

You cut out a man's tongue.

You just prove that you're scared of what he's saying.

You don't silence him.

You actually make him louder.

And now today, now today we get the news that it was about his speech, that it was about his opinions, or so say the bullets that remained chambered.

They're reporting out at the Wall Street Journal, originally broken by Stephen Crowder, is that the three rounds not yet fired had pro-trans, anti-fascist messages written on them.

No pictures yet released of that, though I'm sure it's coming.

And yet another piece of evidence in that,

that Charlie's haters didn't know him at all.

We pulled just this one.

We could be here all day playing similar exchanges.

between Charlie and a trans advocate or activist or someone who said they just were trans at these events.

This is the real Charlie Kirk.

This is the actual Charlie Kirk and how he handled that issue.

Watch.

I just want to say, I'm a transgender male.

What age should kids be able to get things like hormone therapy?

Because I don't know what's true, what's not.

Tell me, are you comfortable telling me your story?

I've known that since like third grade,

and I am currently 19, almost 20.

I've known basically since then, I didn't start going by like a different name until seventh and eighth grade.

I just don't know like with the med like the whole medical stuff like what's true, what's not, what's helpful, because I've heard so many different opinions.

First of all, thank you so much for that.

Of course.

So I'm going to have an opinion that very few people will ever tell you, which is I want you to be very cautious putting drugs into your system in the pursuit of changing your body.

I instead encourage you to work on what's going on in your brain first.

I think what you need first and foremost is just a diagnosis, just someone that is going to listen to what you've gone through, listen to what else is going on.

My prayer for you, and again, very few people will say this: I actually want to see you be comfortable in how you were born.

Yeah, I know that you might not feel that way, but I think that is something that you can achieve.

I think that with the right team and the right people, you don't have to wage war on your body, you can learn to love your body.

It's absolutely beautiful and respectful in its honesty and its frankness.

That's who he was.

And it appears to have gotten him killed.

What of the news, Benny, that this may have been somebody motivated by Charlie's messaging on the trans issue and on, quote, fascism, which is a code for Donald Trump on the left?

Well, I want to take a moment here,

Megan,

and

give your audience a little window into what

demonic activity the left has been engaging in from a corporate media level through a dark money level through an activist and terrorist level.

And the playbook is quite simple.

You demonize at a corporate media level.

You call everyone Hitler

and fascist

and irredeemable irredeemable and deplorable.

Then you fund groups to organize against those people who you've demonized.

Then

you arm them.

You ensure that they have a militia style mindset.

This is done through TikTok and mass formation psychosis.

and the allowance of left-wing violence and the promotion of Luigi-style left-wing, murderous terrorism.

You lionize and venerate, like the transgender shooter that just massacred children in Minneapolis.

You hop people up on pharmaceuticals and drugs to make them out of their mind.

And then

you say, you'd be a hero if you went and shot Hitler.

And that's the playbook.

And that, I believe, is what needs to be destroyed in this nation.

That is a playbook that is going to end in civil war, Megan.

It's something that is going to end horribly in secretarian violence in this country.

And the left

is running that playbook.

We are not.

I hear that Joe Biden has terminal cancer.

I say prayers and blessings to his family.

I think Joe Biden wrecked the country.

I think there hasn't been a worse president in my lifetime, but I'm not going to sit there and wish ill on him.

Never have I ever wished ill or harm on a fellow American ever, nor will I.

That is the difference between us and the animals, Megan,

because

they are celebrating right now.

They want more of this.

They're targeting you.

They're targeting me.

Yes.

They're saying, who's next?

Ben Shapiro, Stephen Crowder, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly.

That's what's happening.

That's what needs to be targeted.

That is, and I will say it to its face, that is evil, demonic activity from the pit of hell.

You have lost your humanity, but it is the end stage of the dehumanization

of the other, of your political enemy.

And this has been an op that has been run on this country.

And Charlie Kirk is

in part

a victim and a martyr because of that op.

And shame and a pox on the house and a forever curse on every media organization, including and up to just a few hours ago, Van Jones on CNN calling Charlie Kirk a demagogue and an irredeemable racist.

And that is what Van Jones did on CNN's airwaves.

Shame upon all of them.

In fact, in just the hours after Charlie Kirk's announcement that he was shot, we didn't even know what was happening, there were guests on MSNBC that were saying he deserved it.

These filthy demons.

That

is the problem, Megan.

We mentioned this in the Don Jr.

interview.

I'm going to play it now.

Matthew Dowd, who's now been fired from even MSNBC because they had to, sat there across from Katie Tur and said the following in SOP 23 when Charlie was clinging to life.

I emphasize what you just emphasized.

We don't know any full details of this.

We don't know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration or so we have no idea about this.

But following up with what was just said, he's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups.

And I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.

And I think that's the environment we're in, that people just, you can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.

And that's the unfortunate environment we're in.

That's crazy.

He counts himself as a Christian man.

He's constantly pushing that online.

And as Charlie was lying there dying, that's where he went.

Benny, I'll give you the last word.

They just ran this off on my family, and I know they've done the same thing to you, Megan.

The New York Times just ran a piece that said that when my family was in a life-threatening situation that included fire and bullets raining down on our home in Washington, D.C., that they weren't in enough danger

for

the father of this newborn child to be concerned.

That was the premise of a New York Times article on my family just a few weeks ago.

This is the mindset of these people, that we are not worthy of sympathy.

This is how they think.

And it is worth internalizing that.

And whether you want to share a country,

can you sing Kumbaya and join arms with that?

Or is that something that must be defeated?

Is that a worldview that is so

despicable and so dark

that you must actually

ensure that it does not continue?

Meaning, in a peaceful way, we must set about the business of defeating

the evil that stole Charlie from us.

And that evil is an inhumane spiritual darkness that has overcome and washed over the left, Megan.

And you see it in so many examples, but I'll give you just one final one in conclusion.

The final one in conclusion is these are the same people that told us that when President Trump took a bullet to the head, that it was a Republican who did it, that it was a Trump supporter who did it.

It's the same playbook.

These people.

Or that it didn't happen at all.

That was their other.

It didn't happen at all.

Go-to.

And so that's what we must fight and defeat.

Benny, thank you.

Thank you, Megan.

You know, he and I are talking about the disgusting media and how they gin up these lies about people.

They have no qualms whatsoever about what it will do to your life or your safety.

I mean,

in the realm of Charlie Kirk, you know, when you look at the public media figures who have been subjected to that kind of targeting,

you can't think of one more well-known than Tucker Carlson.

The New York Times has literally run front-page article after article on him, trying to convince the world that he's a racist, which is a pernicious lie.

He was dear friends with Charlie, and he's here next.

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Tucker, it's so awful.

I've been really wanting to hear your reaction to the news.

I know you were traveling yesterday.

Where are you at right now, less than 24 hours later?

Well, I mean, of course, bewildered.

You know, I got back last night and stayed up until probably like everybody until one in in the morning talking to people and texting people and then, you know, on X looking at the reaction.

And I woke up this morning and I thought to myself, you know, that's really not the way at all

to sit and marinate in the hate, which I did.

I couldn't help it.

It's like pornography or snuff videos or something.

You're just like mesmerized by it.

It's like watching, you know, a tragedy over and over.

Not the violence, but the

just the hate.

I mean, I must have watched 15 videos of young women celebrating Charlie's death.

And my first thought was, well, you know, this is obviously some kind of, you know, manufactured attempt to divide the country against itself.

And it's probably all fake.

And then you look and it's actually not fake.

You know, here's a teacher from an elementary school in Idaho.

And here's a yoga instructor from West Hollywood.

And these are like real people with real names.

And then you realize, boy, I mean, the depth of evil out there is...

is really overwhelming.

Like, what country, what, do I know the country?

Do I know who lives here?

Like, what is this?

And I was just, I couldn't turn away.

And then I realized when I woke up this morning, that's really hurting me.

And I woke up to a group text from my wife, to our family text.

Of course, everyone knew Charlie.

He was just at our house.

And, you know, very upset, very upset

for a bunch of different reasons.

And she sent Luke 6, which is like the most radical thing that anyone's ever said.

And it's like, no, no, no, love your enemies.

Pray for your persecutors.

When someone assaults you, don't fight back.

Which is impossible, of course.

I mean, no one can do that.

And it literally takes supernatural intervention for anyone

to live that way, much less to feel that way.

And that's what's called for is supernatural intervention.

I mean, you can take all kinds of steps.

We do need to restore order in the country, and no one's kind of done that for the last 50 years.

And this is the end result of true disorder.

And by order, by the way, that doesn't mean authoritarian behavior or eliminating people's constitutional rights or racism.

There's nothing like that i mean order is the key to happiness and peace order is what god creates out of chaos at the beginning of genesis like order is a prerequisite for joy so we we need order we don't have it i hope it's restored but much more deeply people need to be transformed and see each other as god sees them you know including their enemies as human beings who are doing bad things but are still created by god like without that worldview, then you descend into hell.

In fact, you already live there, which is where in some sense we live now.

And

boy, that just became clear because it happened to me.

I mean, I was sitting there fuming in despair and like, by the way, what was this?

You know, there's always a lot going on in the backdrop.

Yeah.

A lot.

And I don't know, of course, the answer, but everyone's got an opinion on that.

And it really took me away from Charlie.

Erica and their children and the things that you should be meditating on and praying about.

It's totally took me me out of that into this place of hate.

And I don't want to go there.

So let me just say quickly about Charlie.

I've known him since he was a teenager and just an amazing person.

But the two things that stick out, he's a Christian man.

And we talked about that a lot, including just the other day.

There's a lot of pressure on public people, people who run huge $100 million a year nonprofits, and there are a lot of pitfalls and traps.

It's why so many of them are destroyed.

And Charlie really did, without, you know, betraying details, like he walked the line for real.

It was the topic of many conversations between us, because I've seen so many people destroyed.

You know, most people are destroyed by power, and he wasn't.

And I just really admire that.

I mean,

to his last moments, you know, in order, he cared about God, his wife, and his children, and then his country.

And that was totally real, completely real.

I can affirm that because I just talked to him about it so much.

And I admire that.

And he was a model, really.

I mean, he didn't have hate in his heart.

And it was funny.

And again, it's one of the reasons I couldn't stop looking at these videos last night.

People were describing the opposite of what he was.

He was filled with hate.

No.

And if you talk to him about people who had attacked him or who were truly his enemies up to, and I think including the people who assassinated him yesterday, he would never, ever express hate, ever.

He would always turn to, no, this person has been led astray.

This person is clearly possessed by dark forces.

This person person is a perpetrator, but also a victim of evil.

I mean, that really was his worldview.

That's the Christian worldview.

And he expressed that in public and especially in private.

And I think that faith, which was completely real, not the fake faith that you see on display so often, but a real one.

That was the root of his courage.

And he had real courage.

He loved being with people who disagreed with him, not theoretically with them, but physically with them, you know, like close enough to smell.

He would wade right in the middle of everything.

I mean, I could tell you a million stories that I saw, but

that was absolutely real.

Like he loved people, even people who hated him.

And people he loved, he was the rare person who was willing to tell them what he thought was true.

I mean, he really believed, as a political matter, by the way, that, you know, I don't think he had animus toward anybody in no other country, but he really believed in his own country and the obligation of his government to stand behind his country.

He was truly America first in the nicest, most decent, non-ideological, but sincere way.

He was one of the only people, I mean, truly one of the only people to go to the president, whom he loved.

He loved Donald Trump, like personally as well.

And I think the president really loved him in a real way.

But he was one of the only people to go to the Oval Office and say, sir, I totally understand and think Iran's really bad, but a war with Iran is not, you know,

is something that could really hurt our country.

I mean, boy, that was an unpopular position.

He didn't need to express it.

Oh, of course.

And he did it again.

He didn't have some weird agenda.

He wasn't mad at anybody.

He was for his country and he was for doing the right and wise and difficult thing.

And he said that.

He went to the Oval Office to say that.

He took massive, massive abuse from his own donors, which is also something that you don't see people.

And he loved his donors.

It wasn't a hostile thing, but they had a different view, a lot of them, not all, but a lot.

And they expressed it to him in a very intense way, I know because he showed me.

And he said, look, I understand your perspective.

This is my perspective.

And we're going to do what we think is the right thing, the wise thing.

And in that way, too, he was the voice of young people.

I mean, there are no young people in the country anymore supporting this war and wanting Israel to continue its bombing campaign.

That's just the truth.

Look at the polls.

And he was in touch with them.

And even where his own opinion may have differed from their opinion, he felt like he owed it to them to bring their message to the sitting president of the United States.

I mean, it was

that's what's been snuffed out

Well, as he has been unfortunately, but he was one of the very few people very few people I have met who combined a

like a love for everyone involved with strong views So again, he was not animated by anything creepy or weird.

I mean you knew him intimately, so you know this is true.

He if you talk to him off camera, he would say, you know, I really, like, I love whoever I'm talking about, but I think this is wrong.

It's immoral.

It's bad for everybody involved, both sides.

And he would say that.

And he could say that because it was sincere.

It was completely sincere.

But I cannot overstate the amount of attacks he took privately over this, like absolutely for real.

And having lived in Washington most of my life and seen people run nonprofits, I've never met one who was willing, stand up is too strong.

He wasn't confrontational, but he would just say, no, I'm sorry that you feel that way, but I think this is the right thing.

The people we represent, which is mostly young people, they believe this, and I believe it also.

It was brave, but loving at the same time.

And I'm not sure he made a lot of headway, by the way.

I mean, I think he made real enemies in doing that, but his view didn't change.

Anyway, he was just

a wonderfully decent, loving man.

That is true.

What do you think about the actual assassination?

Who was potentially behind it?

Do we believe this business about the New York Times is trying to cast doubt on what was on those cartridges and whether those messages were really there?

Not saying it didn't happen, but suggesting like, be careful because it may not be true.

And even if it is true, it could be a situation where there's much more to it than that, than what was on those bullets.

Do you have any thoughts?

Not knowing what the truth is anything about.

Well, of course,

I have so many thoughts,

but I

got a call about an hour ago from one of the very few people I trust in Washington and really love and like a true friend who said, I bet like everybody you're tempted to go to dark places or focus on

the violence here or what was clearly a well-planned assassination and

you should just take a break from that.

And this is someone who I agree with on everything.

It's not, you know, this wasn't trying to control me, but just like out of concern for, you know, me as a person, like you should focus on Charlie and who he was and

proceed with wisdom and restraint.

And so that's all I'm going to say.

I mean, of course, you can imagine all kinds of things, and I don't think anything is necessarily implausible.

I do think that we should always, and I try to live by this, be skeptical of everything that we're presented as a pat explanation for anything.

I mean, of course,

there's an awful lot of deception in this world, but we shouldn't allow

the potential that what we're hearing is fake to convince us that it is fake fake before we know that it's fake.

In other words, wait, you know, wait for the facts.

But I mean, of course, it goes without saying that I would never,

after 35 years of doing this, ever accept the first explanation from anyone.

And I mean, literally from anyone.

So,

but I, you know, so we'll find out.

But clearly, the way that it was done with maximum violence with a.30 out 6, not a.223, by the way.

I don't know, guns.

What does that mean?

Okay, so the.223, the.556, the AR-15 round, the little.22 caliber high-pressure round that is, you know, thought to be the most dangerous gun in the world and weapon of war and all this stuff, you're constantly hearing about it, is in fact designed basically to wound under most circumstances.

The gun that murdered Charlie was what is often referred to by Chuck Schumer as a deer rifle.

But of course, it's a much larger round.

It is in fact an old-fashioned military round.

It's a.30 out 6, 30 caliber, big, big round.

And that, you know, people who understand guns, I mean, I guess all I'm saying without getting like sidetracked is,

you know, whoever

contemplated this and pulled it off and committed the murder, you know, had thought about it and was clearly, you know, I'm not saying it was, I mean, I don't know who it was, but it wasn't clearly not some random guy who got mad yesterday morning and decided to do it.

I mean, obviously.

Yeah, I agree with that.

There was great forethought in this.

So that's all we know.

Again, I think

my life certainly over the last 10 years proves that I'm not an acceptor of the official story

just because it's the official story.

By the way, the official story can be right.

Just because it's the official story doesn't mean it's a lie.

But

I think

it's a good thing to do.

Well, that's true.

And part of the problem with living to 56 is you've seen so much, and I grew up around a lot of this stuff already, that you can just get lost in it, completely lost in it, you know, because you know a lot of things over time that are, you know, the truth about some things.

You don't know the truth.

I don't know the truth about everything.

That's for sure.

There's, I'm, there are many more things I'm ignorant on that I'm knowledgeable about.

However, I've seen enough and been into enough dinners where people are like, well, da, da, da, da.

And you're thinking to yourself, you have no idea what actually happened, you know, and you can get a new kind of mindset.

Not for nothing, but on that front, Tucker's got a documentary out today on TuckerCarlson.com on 9-11 and some hard truths we weren't told.

And of course, you're going to be called a conspiracy theorist, as people love to say.

But I will say, just this week, Catherine Harridge, who nobody's ever accused of being a conspiracy theorist,

has matched some of your reporting and she's reporting it on X.

So people should check it out.

Obviously, he's

not.

Well, look, I don't know.

There are a million things I don't know, including what was really going on at 9-11.

All we proved was that the official story was like completely, ridiculously false.

It It doesn't mean that I have a pat explanation for it and probably never will, and for a million other things.

But I guess what I'm saying is, I think that's super important.

We need to get to the bottom of it, and to a lot of other things, including the shooting at Butler, which for some reason we still know nothing about.

And you can't have a country where someone can try to assassinate the president and then we never get to the bottom of it.

Like, it can't continue like that.

So, we need radical transparency, just what I've been saying for years.

But I do think we also need to be mindful that we are

in a form of civil war right now.

That's obvious.

Violence is a huge component of it.

You don't want it to become a bigger component of it.

And what's the answer to that?

And I've just been around a couple wars.

I'm like, I don't want that.

And I certainly don't want it here.

There are really no winners and its effects last for generations, centuries, really.

And so what is the answer?

And the answer is to see one another as God sees us.

It doesn't mean to excuse inexcusable behavior.

It doesn't mean moral relativism.

It means exactly the opposite of moral relativism.

It means recognizing that we are created by a creator, all of us, no matter what our views or our appearance, all of us, and proceed with that in mind always.

It doesn't mean excusing, you know, murder or anything else or pretending that transgenderism is like not evil.

It's evil.

But it means remembering always that these are human beings.

Okay.

And that's, I just know from my experience online last, I don't go online all that much, but oh my gosh, I'm like, how did this young sort of pretty yoga instructor from West Hollywood become genocidal and become totally indifferent to the murder of my friend?

Like, how could this even be?

And of course,

it's downstream from,

but it's a lot of, a lot of people have become that way, you know?

And

don't be kind of

a good way.

It's a dark couple of hours.

Do you worry, Tucker?

People have asked me this in the last 24 hours, and I'll ask you the question.

There's not another another more prominent newspaper than you, and there's not one that's been attacked with the same terms they used against Charlie that have been used against me too, than you.

So do you worry now?

Because the shooters at large, and even once they catch this guy, and I think they will catch this guy,

he's not the only deranged person out there or agenda-driven.

I mean, I kind of don't want to answer the question, but if I'm being,

okay, I will.

Yeah, I mean, I've had some things happen in the last few years that I'm never going to talk about because my family doesn't want me to.

But like, I've had cause to think about this a lot.

And I really feel like it's up to God.

I really sincerely feel that.

Now, I have a very big family.

I'm at the head of the family.

So I have concerns that extend far beyond me.

And that is a subject of.

of prayer every single day, including this morning.

But I don't think that we can choose the time.

I don't.

I don't think we can can extend our lives.

I really believe, and I really mean it when I say this.

I'm not just posing

that all of this is in God's hands.

So, I do believe that doesn't make me not take precautions or whatever.

Actually, it has made me not take precautions, but I've been encouraged to take precautions anyway.

So,

I'm not, I'm not actually worried.

I mean, I, you know, I've had a couple or several things that I consider very, very close calls.

And so, over the last 20 years, so I've thought about it a lot.

And

feel, you know,

I just feel sad for Charlie's family.

I feel sorry for Erica in a way that's really kind of hard to express.

And it's definitely not about me.

And we've set up a fund for Erica and the children.

I think it's going to go online in a minute.

We seeded it with a bunch of money, and I hope others will follow because

I think.

Yeah, I mean, what can you do?

I mean, I don't have it.

I mean, I talk for a living.

I've written a bunch of books.

I feel like I'm more eloquent than average.

I have nothing wise or edifying to say.

You know, you stare in the face of a 31-year-old man assassinated, obviously, to send a message to the rest of us.

And it's like, what do you say?

I have nothing to say.

I know.

That's how I felt yesterday when it was unfolding.

It was like, I wish I had some profundity to offer.

It's hard to know even where to categorize this.

It does feel like an

after moment.

It feels like a before and after moment.

We haven't seen open season on political commentators before.

It does feel like it's evil incarnate, that we have to accept there's evil amongst us.

You see a bunch of Christian children shot down in their school church.

That's evil.

There's not a lot of other words for it.

But as with all these situations, in order to go forward, you have to look for the helpers.

Mr.

Roger Style, you're one of them here.

J.D.

Vance, an amazing post online last night talking about how much Charlie meant to him.

And this just came in as we were talking, Tucker.

The New York Times reporting that Vice President J.D.

Vance and his wife Usha, we knew that they were planning on going and meeting with Charlie's family, but now it comes out that they are meeting with them, okay, in Salt Lake City.

That's what Charlie's body was brought there, and that Kirk's family and friends, as well as his casket,

will then be flown on Air Force 2 to Phoenix, Arizona.

This is where Charlie lived in Arizona, according to an official familiar with the matter.

Vance is retrieving Kirk's casket

while paying his respects.

That's extraordinary.

It is extraordinary.

And I would say J.D.

Vance is an extraordinary man.

He's not like any other politician I've ever met in a lifetime of knowing them.

So I will say that.

He talked about how he...

I've never seen that, but it's true.

No, but he talked about it in his post last night about how he'd been on your show a couple times and Charlie helped him and gave him some advice.

And Charlie brought him through some rooms when he hadn't even yet declared for Senate and kind of gave him feedback on like, you know, maybe this is something you could do that's great.

It was always there.

That even when he became a public figure and was thrust in the national spotlight as VP nominee, his kids were thrown.

Like, this is a lot of attention.

Charlie was one of the first to call and repeatedly check on how they were doing.

I mean, it's just such a,

I know you knew him well.

You know, Mark Halperin, I asked you this one time you were on, had said that you and Don Jr.

and Charlie Kirk, you described you as the board of directors, you know, to Trump.

You humbly said no, but you knew him well.

You talked to him all the time.

It's just trying to understand the void that's been left by this senseless murder is, it feels impossible.

I agree with that, but I do think it makes a kind of sense.

I mean, above all, Charlie represented belief in God, and that is the divide.

I'm sorry to say that, and I'm certainly not trying to inspire religious-based conflict.

That's the, I mean, that's, it's a contradiction in terms.

Read Luke 6.

I mean, you know, Jesus does not endorse violence, honestly, even in self-defense, he says.

So, you know, people can grapple with that as they will, but that's what it says.

And so I am totally opposed to violence, but that is the dividing line.

It's not left or right, Republican, Democrat, trans, straight, or whatever.

I mean, there's an effort to recast this as a different kind of

contest between worldviews.

It's no, the dividing line is, do you think God exists or do you think you are God?

And it's that simple.

It has always been that simple.

It will never change.

And I would, and I think our souls are at stake.

I really, really believe that.

I think Jesus is the only answer.

Sorry.

And that is, in some ways, a very triggering thing to say, which tells you right there

is true.

Yeah.

Well, it's true.

And I'm not saying that to provoke.

I'm saying that because I believe it.

And it is the only answer because you can see exactly where this goes.

And so, you know, the one religion in the world that stands up and says no.

And then is hated for it, like that tells you this is a spiritual war and that's the only way out.

And I really, I've thought a lot about this.

And the last thing I'll say, you said, now they're killing commentators.

But as you know, since you're in this business, ask anyone in this business, has anyone ever tried to do this to you?

And you'll find a lot of people who will say yes.

This has been going on a while, actually, and no one wants to talk about it.

It freaks your family out when you talk about it, but in public.

But the truth is,

this has been, whatever this is, has been, this is not new.

And I'm just so sad.

They got one.

I'm truly sad.

They got one, Tucker.

and that's why I say it's a before and after

an after moment it's a before and after because you know now

now you have to grapple with copycats now you have to grapple with this as an option in the same way that Columbine crossed a line and created this new genre of violence this is yes this is potentially where we're at now with political dialogue and it's it's so antithetical to yes goodness and and Christianity and all of it but also just to the First Amendment and being an American yes that's right well which Which is based on Christianity, by the way.

We have a First Amendment because we believe God gave us the right to decide and to say the right thing.

It's the only reason we have the Bill of Rights.

I don't know.

I worry about whether this is a tipping point, yeah, a turning point, yeah, sure, for the country in a negative way.

You know, this could be a descent into something, this could be the beginning of a descent into something even darker, right?

As opposed to a period at the end of some terrible things that have been happening.

What do you see?

I just want to repeat, I've gotten hundreds, of course, of texts, and like they're all the same.

You know, I'm so sorry.

I know you were close to him.

Be safe.

And I appreciate every single one.

I've responded with gratitude to everyone.

But the one that stands out among the hundreds and hundreds I've received comes from my cousin Jake, who's one of the wisest people I know.

And he said,

I'm not praying for your safety.

I'm praying that you would more fervently seek wisdom than ever before.

That just stuck out to me right there.

It's seek wisdom more than ever before, fervently.

That's what we need to do.

You can't protect yourself in the, I mean, you should be reasonable, of course.

I'm not saying, I'm not preaching recklessness, but I'm saying the goal is wisdom.

Seek wisdom.

And I just, boy, you know, you go through these texts and like that one.

That's the truth right there.

Well, that's why we called you.

Check.

I'll tell you what the one I've been.

I'm doing fine.

Thank you.

I've been repeating, you know, St.

Michael prayer and praying that he'll help us, help defend us against the wickedness and snares of the devil, which seem ubiquitous these days.

Tucker, deliver us from the evil one.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I appreciate it.

Stay well.

Obviously, stay well.

And everybody,

check out Tucker's latest podcast, by the way, with Sam Altman of Chat GPT, GPT, which we didn't even get to, but basically, there's an extraordinary change that you need to see.

Okay, we got to run because we're out of time, but I want to thank all of you for rejoining us again today.

Don't forget the FBI is still asking for you to call them.

If you have any information, they need your help.

They put out a $100,000 reward.

It's 1-800.

Call FBI.

They still do not have the shooter in custody.

Say a prayer for Charlie's family and for the second family, the Vance's, who are going to have a very difficult job ahead ahead of them today.

That's a very noble and brave thing to do, but it's going to be a tough day.

He was supposed to be at the Ground Zero 9-11 commemoration.

And before we go,

all my sympathies and heart goes out to the families of the 9-11 victims.

My son and others were planting flags at their school this morning in commemoration of their loss, and they added one extra flag, one for Charlie Kirk.

They all died for the same thing:

standing up for American freedoms because they lived it every day.

We'll see you tomorrow.

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