Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - CHARLIE KIRK MEMORIAL SPECIAL

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00:00:26.660 Talk to a lot of young people on campuses, at our events, on my radio show, podcast and social media.

00:00:33.980 Said differently, I visit college campuses so you don't have to.

00:00:41.640 We're talking to so many voters that know it is time for change.

00:00:46.080 They know that something is wrong.

00:00:48.280 America's future is a series of choices.

00:00:51.360 Our current state of slow motion national decline is a choice.

00:01:00.320 Today is our two-year-old's birthday.

00:01:04.860 And I look at my daughter, and that is my why.

00:01:08.640 For those that are parents, you know exactly what I mean.

00:01:10.820 There is no mountain that stands tall as your faithfulness.

00:01:19.860 And there's nothing else I'll ever need.

00:01:29.380 All of my days, your mercy follow me.

00:01:36.000 If the people want it, the people get it.

00:01:38.260 And we, the people, take back America. 0.88

00:01:40.760 God bless Arizona, and thank you so much.

00:01:43.020 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

00:02:05.760 I'm Jack Posobiec here, live in Washington, D.C.

00:02:13.480 And today, I'm sitting in a chair that I never wanted to sit in.

00:02:19.960 I'm sitting in a chair that I never hoped to be in, that I don't want to be in.

00:02:27.880 But I'm going to be here.

00:02:29.020 Because I know that's where Charlie would want me to be today.

00:02:36.020 And I'm not just here as, I don't know,

00:02:42.140 MAGA, Posobiec, or fellow conservative firebrand, to the world.

00:02:48.840 You know, Charlie Kirk was conservative firebrand, hero, cultural icon.

00:02:56.980 But to me, he was my friend.

00:03:06.680 And it's been the honor of my life to be standing shoulder to shoulder with him in this great fight.

00:03:14.640 And so it's with a very heavy heart that I sit in this chair, on this show that he built, on the platform that he poured his soul into.

00:03:24.340 Because Charlie is no longer with us, he was taken from us in an act of left-wing political violence, of terrorism, assassinated.

00:03:36.640 Yet, even in his final moments, Charlie was doing what he always did, standing tall, speaking boldly, proclaiming the truth without fear.

00:03:46.040 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

00:03:56.420 Charlie Kirk isn't just an American martyr.

00:04:01.340 Charlie Kirk is a Christian martyr.

00:04:04.460 And I've got right here, one of those, one of those hats.

00:04:12.520 And Charlie signed, right there.

00:04:14.380 I'm never going to let it go.

00:04:20.160 And I'm always going to keep it right here with me.

00:04:25.040 Because Charlie's always going to be here with me, with you, with all of us.

00:04:30.440 And he's watching us all right now.

00:04:32.940 And what is Charlie saying?

00:04:35.840 It's your turn.

00:04:38.020 It's your turn.

00:04:41.340 Lock in, patriots.

00:04:44.380 Charlie's faith in Christ Jesus was not just a private belief.

00:04:48.260 It was the foundation of his entire life.

00:04:52.400 The courage that he had to go into the battle that he went into every day, on every campus, was the courage straight from heaven.

00:05:00.560 It was the Lord's.

00:05:01.880 He spoke with the conviction because he believed the truth of scripture and he was unshakable.

00:05:07.480 And he gave of himself tirelessly.

00:05:09.220 He loved his family, his friends, and this country that he knew God had blessed in a very special way.

00:05:17.120 So today, we're not just going to remember the man who founded Turning Point USA or hosted this show or owned the libs.

00:05:26.880 Charlie Kirk died with his boots on and a microphone in his hand, proclaiming the truth on campus, his eyes fixed on eternity.

00:05:49.460 He'll be forever 31.

00:05:53.640 So as we begin this memorial podcast, let us not only mourn his loss, Erica's loss, their children's loss.

00:06:04.000 Let's also commit ourselves to carrying forward his mission.

00:06:08.820 Because the mission of Charlie Kirk, the mission of Turning Point USA goes on and it will never stop.

00:06:16.780 Charlie wouldn't want us to retreat.

00:06:18.840 No, the word was not in his vocabulary.

00:06:22.120 He would want us to fight with truth, with faith, with love for this nation and for each other.

00:06:31.780 They couldn't debate him, so they shot him.

00:06:35.860 That's what happened.

00:06:36.680 And everybody needs to understand that.

00:06:39.820 What was his crime?

00:06:41.380 Talking.

00:06:42.800 He just wanted to talk.

00:06:46.980 And that was too much for you.

00:06:49.880 We're going to be here today.

00:06:51.780 We're going to be remembering Charlie.

00:06:53.800 And we are going to do everything we can to make sure that his sacrifice, that his fight,

00:07:00.940 will never end, will never stop, and will never quit.

00:07:07.520 We'll never quit, because he never did.

00:07:11.160 We'll be right back.

00:07:12.140 Jack Posovic here, the Charlie Kirkman World Show.

00:07:14.900 Folks, we're back here.

00:07:42.920 Jack Posovic, the Charlie Kirk, Charlie Kirk Memorial Show.

00:07:48.860 We've got our hats right here.

00:07:50.500 And if you were ever anyone who happened to have a hat that was thrown out by Charlie Kirk

00:07:55.740 or signed by Charlie Kirk, I'm actually going to say something right now that, you know,

00:08:03.120 kind of outside of Memorial, but I'm just going to say it because I think it needs to be said.

00:08:06.340 If you have one of those hats that's signed by Charlie Kirk, do us all a favor.

00:08:09.960 Don't put it on eBay.

00:08:11.400 Don't be that person.

00:08:13.220 Just, just, that's not what Charlie was about.

00:08:16.060 Charlie was never about that.

00:08:17.800 He was never about trying to, trying to turn this into something that was personal, because

00:08:22.660 it wasn't about him.

00:08:24.200 It was about the country.

00:08:26.100 It was about students.

00:08:27.440 It was about young men, young women connecting.

00:08:30.500 And it was about winning.

00:08:31.900 It was never about playing these, these games.

00:08:35.060 It just, it just wasn't about, and as a guy who knew Charlie, it was not about that.

00:08:40.100 Guys, do we have, did I see Andrew there?

00:08:45.860 Okay.

00:08:46.560 So working on, I want to get one of the guests on, but I'd love to play now some of the,

00:08:53.000 I think we have some visuals, these visuals, vigils that have been popping up overnight and

00:09:00.760 completely organic, completely not planned at all.

00:09:05.540 All across the country, the South, the North, the East, the West, they're everywhere.

00:09:15.420 They're praying rosaries in Scottsdale where Charlie and Erica lived.

00:09:21.300 They're spontaneously doing this.

00:09:25.640 You know, Charlie Kirk spent his entire career trying to inspire,

00:09:35.540 a turning point in America.

00:09:39.460 He spent his entire career trying to inspire a turning point in America.

00:09:45.200 And he's done it.

00:09:47.460 He has completed that mission.

00:09:51.860 America now has a turning point.

00:09:54.420 And that was Charlie's gift to all of us.

00:09:57.440 Charlie's gift of his time, his energy, his courage, and ultimately his life.

00:10:07.240 Got my good friend and Charlie's good friend, Andrew Colvett.

00:10:12.000 You guys know him, producer Andrew.

00:10:13.840 We'll get him on here.

00:10:14.780 Andrew, how are you holding up, man?

00:10:16.800 Hey, Jack.

00:10:21.180 I just want to say thank you, first of all, for hosting today.

00:10:25.500 I know it's not easy for you either.

00:10:27.640 And, I mean, I'm holding up as well as you can imagine.

00:10:31.520 You know, I was hosting this show yesterday for Charlie so that he could go to the campus stop in Utah.

00:10:38.780 And, you know, you're never prepared for something like this, obviously.

00:10:47.200 And, you know, but I know he would want me and he would want you and all of us to keep going.

00:10:58.220 I know he'd want me to do this.

00:10:59.420 And so we do the best we can and, and...

00:11:09.420 Well, you know, the thing with Charlie, too, is I remember when even when you and I were chatting or, you know, some of the gang was chatting last night, there wasn't even a question of would we have a show today?

00:11:22.020 There wasn't even a question of, you know, would Turning Point keep moving forward?

00:11:28.080 There wasn't a question of that because, because that's who Charlie was.

00:11:32.040 And I remember, you know, I remember we were saying, should I, should I, you know, come up and do shows?

00:11:37.640 Should I fly out there?

00:11:38.560 What, you know, what do you think?

00:11:39.920 And I could hear Charlie's voice in my head.

00:11:42.120 And he would always say to me, he said, because whenever I would go to him with, with a question and say, Charlie, I've got a, you know, a choice I have to make.

00:11:49.360 Do I need to, you know, gut check?

00:11:50.840 What do you think?

00:11:51.280 Do this or do that?

00:11:52.040 He'd say, do everything.

00:11:53.460 Do everything.

00:11:54.480 Yeah.

00:11:55.020 Do it all.

00:11:55.300 Keep going.

00:11:56.300 Do it all.

00:11:57.000 Do everything.

00:11:57.640 Be everywhere.

00:11:58.760 That was Charlie.

00:11:59.720 I think he was secretly mad we weren't streaming last night.

00:12:02.820 You know, I, I, a hundred percent.

00:12:05.260 We all had the same thought at the same time that we all know that when, when something big is going on, when something big is, is happening, Charlie Kirk would be like, let's get in there.

00:12:19.680 Let's go live stream it, get it up, make sure we get the rumble live, make sure it's all going.

00:12:25.000 And we've got everybody in freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com.

00:12:27.480 Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com.

00:12:29.100 Make sure you're all signed up, subscribe to the podcast.

00:12:31.680 And that's, that's, that was Charlie, right?

00:12:34.460 Because he just wanted to gather people together.

00:12:37.600 And I think, I actually think that's, that's sort of Charlie's mission, or maybe it was his great skill in life.

00:12:43.680 That he was a gatherer of people or, of course, to use the biblical phrase, a fisher of men.

00:12:50.660 Charlie Kirk truly was a fisher of men.

00:12:54.460 And I actually hadn't even thought about it that way until just this minute.

00:12:58.020 But that's exactly what he was, is that he had that ability to go into a, into a crowd of strangers.

00:13:03.700 And he could, he could get everyone together.

00:13:06.180 And he could turn them into followers.

00:13:07.680 And he could activate them, you know, politically.

00:13:09.800 And he could get, he could motivate people.

00:13:11.760 And that, that, that is not something that you can learn.

00:13:17.340 That, that is a talent that was given to him from God.

00:13:21.820 And now he's on another assignment for God.

00:13:24.320 And we don't know.

00:13:25.400 And we can't really understand that.

00:13:27.760 But that's what it is.

00:13:29.040 That's what it is.

00:13:29.900 You know, my, my one pushback, Jack, is that I watched Charlie Kirk be terrible at a bunch of things.

00:13:36.380 And he learned how to be good, he, he learned how to be good at them by sheer force of will.

00:13:45.040 He refused to not be good at things that he needed to be good at.

00:13:49.020 And he learned a lot of that stuff.

00:13:51.220 Yes, he was blessed by God with this, just this engine, this motor that you couldn't hold back.

00:13:56.580 He was blessed by God with just a spirit that you couldn't keep down.

00:14:02.820 He was a happy warrior.

00:14:04.500 He genuinely was a happy warrior.

00:14:07.560 And he loved this country.

00:14:10.400 He loved his family.

00:14:11.660 And he loved God.

00:14:13.460 And all of those things were true.

00:14:15.840 And that drove him to be the absolute best he could be.

00:14:18.680 It drove him to study the ancient texts.

00:14:22.440 It drove him to study political philosophy and read the important books and the great books.

00:14:27.080 And it drove him to like, I mean, I have a story.

00:14:29.520 We were coming back from Aspen with Dr. James Orr from Cambridge, who's become a good friend.

00:14:34.500 And we spent the whole plane ride and then talking about what James knew, picking his brain.

00:14:41.620 And then Charlie looked at him and said, hey, what are you doing tomorrow?

00:14:43.740 Can you spend the entire day with me on a Sunday?

00:14:45.840 And I'm just going to ask you questions.

00:14:47.200 And so Cambridge professor sitting there teaching, coaching Charlie for an entire Sunday.

00:14:54.100 That was his idea of a good time.

00:14:56.180 And that was Charlie.

00:14:59.380 He wanted so badly just to keep growing and be infinitely curious and getting better so he could articulate his ideas better to the next generation.

00:15:08.600 So that he could go out to these campus events and be more equipped and ready no matter what the question was.

00:15:15.060 And he ultimately put that same sort of energy into his family and into his marriage.

00:15:20.760 And he wanted to be the best husband he could be.

00:15:22.380 And he wanted to be the best father he could be.

00:15:24.580 And he knew that the demands on his time were extraordinary, that they were superhuman.

00:15:28.600 And so he threw himself into biohacking and how he could get the most out of his body and how he could sleep the deepest and how he could keep his energy the highest.

00:15:38.960 And then he would spend his day.

00:15:40.280 We should actually talk about the biohacking because I actually don't think that people know that about Charlie.

00:15:47.560 And he would probably appreciate if we shared it because he was actually a huge – as much of an evangelist as he was for Jesus, he was also an evangelist for biohacking.

00:15:55.580 In fact, if you talk to him long enough, he would say that they're connected.

00:15:58.980 Because that's exactly how he saw it.

00:16:01.280 I mean, Charlie was a cold plunge every single morning kind of guy.

00:16:05.740 Those – Andrew, you know better than anyone.

00:16:09.260 Was there coffee in those coffee cups from Starbucks?

00:16:11.820 No, there was not.

00:16:13.460 There was a very specific mint tea with two honeys and not that fake honey.

00:16:17.980 It had to be the real honey and that syrup stuff.

00:16:21.720 And he had a regimen of supplements he would take.

00:16:24.960 And he was very big on sleep.

00:16:28.580 He felt he could get the most out of his body if he got proper sleep.

00:16:32.400 And so he was religious about how much sleep he got because he noticed that that kept him high, kept his retention high.

00:16:39.700 And he did that also – and this is kind of the final point – that he did that because he knew that the demands on him were so extraordinary that if he was going to go home and be with his family and his kids,

00:16:53.500 he had to have energy left.

00:16:55.800 And so he did everything he could to make sure that he had maximum energy left for his kids.

00:17:00.560 And he would – he's not Jewish, but he would do a Shabbat where he would unplug. 0.87

00:17:03.720 It was like a digital Shabbat.

00:17:05.520 At Friday at sundown, he was off and he wouldn't come back on until usually late at night on a Saturday.

00:17:11.580 And I know because anytime there was a Saturday, whenever something would come up, it's like Andrew has to figure it out.

00:17:22.120 So it always falls to Andrew if it's – if it was big enough, you got to call Erica or get some other people involved.

00:17:30.460 I've never taken some of those calls from you on a Saturday.

00:17:33.300 Jack, I can't get to Charlie.

00:17:34.480 But, you know, Andrew, before we go, there is something that just broke right before we came into the segment here,

00:17:43.680 and I think it would be – we'd be remiss to miss it regarding this situation that, of course, everyone's looking into.

00:17:50.040 I do want to cover this, though, because it is breaking news.

00:17:52.460 The FBI has released images of who they believe is a person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University.

00:18:04.480 They put out a tip line, 1-800-CALL-FBI.

00:18:09.740 There are also digital media tips.

00:18:13.000 It is FBI.gov slash Utah Valley shooting.

00:18:18.260 And so you can see this individual, seems to be college age, thin, you know, I'd say real thin, average height, glasses, again, a hat.

00:18:30.000 You know, clearly someone who – some kind of patriotic lettering or logo.

00:18:35.020 So clearly someone who was attempting to blend in with the crowd who was there.

00:18:39.740 They have not told us whether or not this is the shooter.

00:18:42.320 But here's what I'm going to say.

00:18:43.900 If you were – even if you didn't see that person, okay, if you were at that event yesterday – and, Andrew, I certainly hope, you know, if the team's available or has footage that they haven't yet turned over to the FBI, scroll through your phone.

00:18:58.260 Scroll through your videos.

00:18:59.820 Go frame by frame.

00:19:00.980 Just see if you can find this person, these glasses, this hat, this logo anywhere in the crowd because that is – and they could throw that back up again real quick – because that is going to be a way to potentially determine if he was talking to anyone, what he was up to, what direction he went in, any of those things.

00:19:20.980 So if you were there or if you just recognize him from this, please go ahead and share that out with the FBI.

00:19:27.940 You know, we'll cover that as we can.

00:19:30.000 Obviously, there's been a lot of questions as going on as to what happens, and I don't want to turn this into huge speculation about that.

00:19:36.460 I want to make this about Charlie.

00:19:37.660 But at the same time, if there are official updates, we're going to share them as we can.

00:19:43.260 Andrew, do you want to take us out?

00:19:44.740 Yeah, I mean, I hope they get this guy or guys.

00:19:51.060 If it was coordinated, if it was sophisticated and well-funded, as some of the rumors that I'm hearing are, I hope they get them all.

00:19:58.060 From root to stem, I hope they get them all.

00:20:00.720 And I hope righteous justice is visited upon whoever was behind this.

00:20:05.200 And so please –

00:20:05.820 There's no question about that.

00:20:08.440 Jack Posobiec will be right back.

00:20:09.620 The Charlie Kirk Memorial Show.

00:20:11.800 The Marker's Voice.

00:20:14.740 Jack Posobiec, we are back here.

00:20:37.480 We're live in Washington, D.C.

00:20:40.880 This is the Charlie Kirk Memorial Show.

00:20:42.580 Well, a memorial for a fallen friend.

00:20:47.020 I'm very honored that we are now joined by someone who knew Charlie very well.

00:20:51.320 It is the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

00:20:54.280 Mr. Speaker, thank you so much for joining on this today.

00:20:56.860 And although I just have to say for myself, and I'm sure you as well, I would much rather be talking to you about literally any other subject.

00:21:03.140 Of course, Jack, you're doing a great job with an impossible assignment today.

00:21:09.260 I mean, I should have wondered last night who would be in the chair today because the nation needs to hear what you're sharing and what we're all sharing.

00:21:19.420 I can tell you it has changed the atmosphere of Capitol Hill.

00:21:22.460 It began immediately after this event.

00:21:24.440 I was I was in a high level meeting and my chief of staff burst in the door and handed me a card and said, Charlie Kirk has been shot.

00:21:32.220 And I stopped.

00:21:33.880 And I mean, we had, you know, these are like heads of state and we all just paused and I told them what was on the card.

00:21:40.100 And it's it's it still seems unbelievable to me.

00:21:42.880 I mean, we're all kind of in shock here.

00:21:44.340 Charlie was a singular voice, as you know.

00:21:48.840 I mean, this show is about him.

00:21:50.040 It's a tribute to him.

00:21:50.980 He deserves it.

00:21:51.860 He deserves so much more because there's there are few people who had such an effect on the country and on his generation.

00:22:00.680 I did all the, you know, media shows last night.

00:22:04.420 I was on I think on CNN.

00:22:06.300 I said, you know, he we talk a lot about the free marketplace of ideas.

00:22:10.200 And I think it is undeniable.

00:22:12.100 I don't think anyone can argue Charlie Kirk contributed more productive content, the free marketplace of ideas than anyone in his generation and arguably in several generations.

00:22:22.840 I mean, he just was that kind of figure and he's irreplaceable.

00:22:27.380 But I'm comforted to know, Jack, that his his legacy will continue because what he did and what he started will go on.

00:22:34.440 And I hope it inspires in the hearts of everybody who followed and loved him and believed in him and prayed for him.

00:22:39.760 And that same spirit that Charlie carried, you know, to not give in, to stand for freedom, stand for the truth and love the people on the other side of the argument.

00:22:50.000 And that's what he represented.

00:22:50.880 You know, and I was saying this, we were on last night and, you know, when you would go to these events with Charlie, he would he would actually say, if you disagree with me, come to the front of the line.

00:23:03.260 I don't want you.

00:23:03.960 I don't want you to ride in the back of the bus.

00:23:05.460 Come to the very front of the line.

00:23:07.020 Let's have it out.

00:23:07.780 Let's talk.

00:23:08.380 And he had this ability to kind of get past the argument, the politics of it and see if there was this was this was his move, right?

00:23:17.520 It's his skill.

00:23:18.220 He would he would try to connect with the person, find out what made them tick, find out who they were at their core and then start there.

00:23:27.020 And you've never seen anyone do it like that before.

00:23:29.580 Yeah, he was so talented because he had that that gift.

00:23:33.700 It's a gift from from God, a gift from the Lord to be able to go to the heart of the matter and the heart of the person, because he what Charlie was motivated by, you and I both know I knew him so well.

00:23:43.860 And he was a man of deep faith as I am.

00:23:46.140 And we talked about this a lot, that the objective is not just when the argument, the objective is to move the heart.

00:23:52.880 Right.

00:23:53.420 And what Charlie was about was trying to advance the permanent things.

00:23:57.180 He was a master in the temporal things.

00:23:59.700 Right.

00:23:59.860 He could he could argue any issue better than anybody, better than most people on Capitol Hill or could ever hope to.

00:24:05.860 And he could talk about public policy or issues that were pending.

00:24:09.600 He was he was a master of his of his of his science in that regard, political science and all of that.

00:24:16.060 But really what it was really about was not winning the temporal argument or that particular issue is about the permanent things, the eternal things, the scripture says.

00:24:24.920 Yes. The apostle Paul said we don't focus on the temporal.

00:24:27.220 We focus on the eternal. And that's what Charlie was about, because he was trying to be an ambassador for the king of kings.

00:24:33.080 He was trying to be an ambassador for his savior, Jesus.

00:24:35.920 And he modeled that.

00:24:37.440 And so, you know, what I love about Charlie and I said this to a big gaggle of reporters here this morning because they're following me around.

00:24:42.880 They want me to just give comment at every turn about this and because they know I knew him well and loved him.

00:24:48.880 And, you know, it's moved us so much.

00:24:50.940 But this is what I said about Charlie is I said, you know, the thing about it was he was the sharpest wit.

00:24:56.080 He could argue and win any debate, but he never held it personally against the person on the other side, no matter how far to the other end of the spectrum they were.

00:25:04.440 In fact, the further they were, the more compassion he had for their heart, because he he he believed that he was ultimately trying to lead people to the truth that we know, the eternal truth.

00:25:13.020 Right. And so what Christ taught us is that it says in Romans 12 that you stand strong, you you you be courageous and bold and you you stand firm and you act like men, it says, which Charlie was a man's man.

00:25:25.980 But do let all that you do be done in love.

00:25:30.040 That's what Scripture says. And that's what Charlie was about.

00:25:32.880 And he was motivated by his love for his fellow man.

00:25:35.120 He didn't hate anybody. He was trying to win him over the argument because he knew that would be better for them in the long run.

00:25:40.400 And that's what we appreciated about him so much.

00:25:44.160 And we opened the show with that. And I said, greater love hath no man than this.

00:25:48.820 He gives himself give his life for his friends.

00:25:50.780 And and I'm sure speaker, I'm sure you're on Charlie's list as well, because you could always tell what Charlie what what Charlie was focusing on in the Bible, because he would he would pull a quote every morning and he would just text it to his whole list of people individually.

00:26:04.100 I said, how are you doing this, Charlie? And I would see him doing it sometimes if we were together and he and it wasn't just, you know, some, you know, ephemeral thing where he's, you know, pulling it from one of those verses of the day or, you know, different things.

00:26:16.640 And it was fine. But no, this was deep study. And he pulled those verses for a specific reason.

00:26:23.460 And in a strange way. When I woke up this morning and I didn't get that text from Charlie.

00:26:31.820 It's almost like that's when it hit me. Yeah, because he always does that every single day.

00:26:38.120 But every single day and today didn't. Yeah, it leaves a big void, not just in the text chain.

00:26:46.640 But in our society, there were more than twenty five hundred chapters, turning point chapters on university campuses around the country.

00:26:55.020 I mean, it's just an unequaled movement that he began and grew and stewarded as a great steward, by the way, of the platform that God gave him.

00:27:05.060 You know, he was faithful in the little things and then God trusted him with more and more.

00:27:09.540 He had one of the biggest voices in the culture and he and he knew the responsibility that came with that.

00:27:14.340 And he was very careful with it. And that's why he was so deep in the scripture and in prayer, because he wanted to make sure that he he carried that mantle well.

00:27:24.900 And he did. You know, we know where he is right now. I'm absolutely convinced where he is.

00:27:29.440 And he's hearing that great, that great call. Well done, good and faithful servant. Right.

00:27:35.400 But the people that are behind. Mr. Speaker, we're coming up.

00:27:39.600 We're coming up on a quick break here. Are you able to hang out for a couple more minutes on the other side?

00:27:46.180 All right. We'll hold Speaker Johnson for just a little bit more on Charlie Kirk Memorial Show.

00:27:51.800 There's a flag at half mass in front of the White House for our friend, Charlie.

00:28:04.160 Folks, we're back. Jack Posobiec. This is the Charlie Kirk Memorial Show.

00:28:08.480 You're looking at the Stars and Stripes half mass there.

00:28:12.340 Leave us the north lawn of the White House that you're looking at.

00:28:15.240 And today we are holding a memorial for Charlie.

00:28:20.040 Greatest man we knew.

00:28:21.540 And we're on with Speaker Mike Johnson.

00:28:23.940 And we're discussing the Speaker Johnson, President Trump earlier today at the 9-11 memorial.

00:28:29.760 Of course, today is 9-11.

00:28:31.940 It certainly feels like 9-11 again.

00:28:35.720 That he announced that Charlie will be at some upcoming date,

00:28:41.940 that posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

00:28:46.540 Do you know anything about that or potential other memorials around D.C.

00:28:53.100 that maybe at the Capitol that are being discussed?

00:28:56.820 Yeah, there's a lot being discussed.

00:28:59.100 It's interesting.

00:28:59.780 I talked to the president at length yesterday,

00:29:02.780 probably about an hour before this event took place.

00:29:05.640 And I have not spoken to him since.

00:29:07.040 And so he was busy all last night and I was.

00:29:09.560 And this morning, I'm going to call him here shortly.

00:29:12.120 But I know that the president felt very close to Charlie.

00:29:16.240 He was like family, as you know, in the Trump family.

00:29:19.720 And we all shared that same.

00:29:22.460 So many people, so many members of Congress, Republican members in the House,

00:29:26.080 for certain all of my closest friends here,

00:29:27.640 they all felt a close connection to Charlie because he made everybody feel that way.

00:29:31.940 And because of that, there's just sort of this big movement now that members are just one after the other

00:29:40.440 are coming up with ideas on how to memorialize him and how to have an appropriate, you know, remembrance.

00:29:47.420 And there are lots of ideas.

00:29:48.620 There are different resolutions.

00:29:50.080 Some of them were begun to be filed in the record, you know, last yesterday evening,

00:29:55.460 shortly after all this took place.

00:29:57.760 So we've got to sort all that out.

00:30:00.520 I'm going to have a collection, a stack of ideas of things of how to do this, and we'll figure it out.

00:30:05.500 But we want to do something certainly that is appropriate for his stature and what he meant to the country,

00:30:10.100 what he meant to the conservative movement, what he meant to our party.

00:30:13.940 But it does, it really does transcend party because Charlie, in so many ways,

00:30:18.020 represented the best of America, like all of us, right?

00:30:20.700 He obviously was on our team.

00:30:22.240 He was one of the principal conservative voices in the culture.

00:30:27.800 But even larger than that, he represented the best of America.

00:30:32.260 And, you know, Charlie believed in and he tried to advance and share with the next generation the principles of freedom.

00:30:39.060 He believed and he understood that the foundation of all this is our Judeo-Christian heritage,

00:30:43.540 the great tradition that we have that began 250 years ago when we boldly proclaimed the self-evident truth

00:30:49.480 that our rights come from God, not the government, and that God made us in his image and we owe a responsibility to him.

00:30:55.880 I mean, Charlie understood what made America different and exceptional and the greatest nation in the history of the world,

00:31:00.280 and he was so passionate about making sure the next generation understood that.

00:31:04.360 Even the people that didn't agree with him, that was his drive.

00:31:07.820 And so he represents so much.

00:31:09.960 And all that is to say that, you know, there's an appropriate level of memorialization of this great life that is, you know, not suited for most.

00:31:18.380 And we've got to sort that out and figure it out, and that's what we'll be doing in the next couple of days.

00:31:23.480 I think that's absolutely right.

00:31:25.140 I think that's absolutely appropriate.

00:31:26.740 And I've also been privy to some of the ideas and memorial ideas and perhaps naming ideas of, you know,

00:31:34.880 maybe a park or something that, you know, tied with the 250th, people have been kicking around.

00:31:40.680 Because Charlie loved the outdoors.

00:31:42.080 That's something that actually people don't, you know, you see him on campus, you see him on camera,

00:31:45.680 but, you know, every single minute he could get in the sun, he was a big believer, you know,

00:31:51.140 big Maha guy and always believed in the power of being outside and believed in our country.

00:31:56.600 You know, this past weekend he went to Korea, which I believe Korea and Japan will end up being his last tour.

00:32:03.720 And that was the first time he'd been to that part of the world.

00:32:06.820 And he just loved America so much and traveled to – I remember he used to tell me he was so proud that he'd visited every state twice.

00:32:14.840 He said, I got every state twice, Jack.

00:32:16.220 You have all 50 yet?

00:32:17.480 You know, and that's – so he and I were always ribbing each other.

00:32:20.640 And that's the – I think that's what I'll – you know, in many ways I'll miss that the most,

00:32:24.640 just the little debates and the camaraderie that you have with him.

00:32:28.140 Mr. Speaker, I understand you obviously have quite a lot on your plate as well today.

00:32:32.600 Just is there any other message that you wanted to give for the folks that are watching before we take off?

00:32:38.720 Well, I'll just say this.

00:32:40.600 I mean, because you touched on it there, he traveled to all 50 states more than once.

00:32:44.880 He was a singular figure in history because I heard yesterday some people comparing Charlie in a way,

00:32:51.140 his stature, his intelligence, his character, his demeanor, his integrity to that of the founding fathers.

00:32:56.300 I mean, he kind of had that spirit about him, right, as we know.

00:32:58.780 And what's interesting about Charlie as opposed to our forefathers is that he had the ability of technology,

00:33:05.700 of modern transportation means he could take the voice everywhere, and he did.

00:33:09.980 I mean, he used every platform available.

00:33:12.000 I mean, radio, podcast, everywhere, television.

00:33:14.760 He was ubiquitous.

00:33:16.440 And he used, again, the platform that God gave him to the greatest extent possible.

00:33:22.320 In fact, he was a pioneer in that regard.

00:33:24.760 People said, well, he aspired to be like Rush Limbaugh.

00:33:29.160 He went further than Rush in many ways because he mastered all these other mediums, right?

00:33:34.760 And he did more than the founders could have ever imagined to advance the principles that they set in place.

00:33:40.720 And it is very appropriate on the eve of our 250th birthday as a nation, the greatest nation in the history of the world,

00:33:46.140 that we had a figure like this for such a short time.

00:33:48.880 And he left such a tremendous legacy for the next chapter of American history that we're all going to forge together.

00:33:55.480 And I hope we do it in the spirit that Charlie left us with, not timidly, but boldly, but in love.

00:34:02.100 And that is his greatest contribution.

00:34:05.020 So, Jack, thanks.

00:34:05.900 You're doing an extraordinary job on an impossible assignment.

00:34:08.920 Appreciate you, brother.

00:34:09.700 We'll see you soon.

00:34:10.300 Thank you, brother.

00:34:40.300 People are talking about the ages of the revolutionary generation.

00:34:44.380 And one thing that I don't think people realize, so Charlie is 31.

00:34:49.480 When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, 1776, he was 33 years old.

00:34:55.060 John Hancock was 39 when he signed it.

00:34:57.180 Patrick Henry, 40.

00:34:58.180 John Adams, 40.

00:34:59.980 James Monroe, 18 years old.

00:35:02.540 Alexander Hamilton, 21 years old.

00:35:05.220 James Madison, 25 years old.

00:35:07.220 And Edward Rutledge and Thomas Hayward, 29 years old.

00:35:11.100 And Washington was 44.

00:35:12.860 Ben Franklin, of course, was the old man of the group.

00:35:14.780 He was 70.

00:35:15.540 So when you look at the revolutionary generation, they were the exact same age as Charlie and the age of the people that he's trying to reach.

00:35:25.520 And even the next generation, I want to bring on Tyler Boyer here, the COO of Turning Point Action and just Charlie's right-hand man in so many things.

00:35:34.180 And Tyler, as a student of history as you are, you know, had it ever occurred to you that, you know, that's the exact age Charlie was?

00:35:43.540 Well, first off, Jack, I just want to say this is thank you for taking taking on the the job of standing up for Charlie's show today.

00:35:54.300 He wouldn't have wanted it any other way than, you know, his partner in crime in which you've been his his his right hand guy and doing so much media on real America's voice and on radio and everything else.

00:36:07.840 So thank you for that. But yeah, I mean, I look at the group, you know, that picture just came up of the four or five of us, you know, Andrew, who I think was on earlier yourself, me, Charlie, like we have some young guys like when I got got involved with Charlie, I'm eight years older than him.

00:36:25.780 And I was in my mid 20s. Yeah, when I when I was getting involved with Turning Point and with Charlie and starting to take, you know, that bull by the horns.

00:36:35.820 Charlie was a teenager. So, you know, we now we we feel old, you know, and we're we're on the precipice here because you me, I think Benny Johnson and Andrew are all basically the same age.

00:36:51.080 And we're a little bit older than Charlie, about seven or eight years older than each of us.

00:36:55.860 And but, you know, we're all under the age of 40, clearly, and have been doing this work for the last 10 to 15 years.

00:37:02.740 Charlie's legacy is that he was the young guy in that group when you make the comparison to that.

00:37:09.780 But he was the leader. And the thing that we've reflected on this entire time for the last 24 hours in particular is Charlie has always been a leader amongst men.

00:37:24.380 And I remember meeting him again in my 20s. And he was basically just coming out of his teenage years.

00:37:31.620 And I just thought to myself, I was like, oh, my gosh, this guy's like an 85 year old trapped in a 20 year old body.

00:37:38.160 He was an old soul. He always was.

00:37:39.880 But he was like that. He was like that Lincoln ask, you know, Ben Franklin ask, you know, the way you read it in the textbook as a wise person.

00:37:50.140 That's the kind of I know everybody's listening, but listens to the show.

00:37:54.520 He said that sense. He had that sense that came from somewhere else.

00:37:58.160 Tyler, we're up on a hard break. Just just hold that.

00:38:01.080 We'll we'll we'll bring you over because I know exactly what you're talking about.

00:38:04.700 And that's what I want to do here today. I want to talk about who Charlie the person was, the Charlie that beyond the cameras and screens and tick tocks and debates and everything else, the man that Charlie was a friend, our fallen friend.

00:38:34.700 Jack, we're back here. Just I would I would rather be talking about anything else today, anything else under the sun.

00:38:45.020 But we're here because I know this is what Charlie would have wanted.

00:38:50.080 And I know that. For once, Charlie Kirk is in the audience right now and Charlie Kirk is watching all of us.

00:38:57.800 I said in the beginning of the show, I'll say it here again.

00:39:01.360 I know what Charlie's message would be to everyone asking, what do I do next?

00:39:08.100 What do I do next? It's very simple. Charlie would say, it's your turn now.

00:39:14.840 I want to bring back on Tyler Boyer, you know, one of one of Charlie's closest closest associates.

00:39:22.100 And Tyler, you know, we were we were just kind of talking about that, about how, you know, personally, as as many things that Charlie was interested in and involved in, even nonpolitical things.

00:39:33.380 Andrew and I were talking about the biohacking, you know, earlier that that he was just fascinated with that and lived it theology that that he was a simple.

00:39:43.000 He was he had this tenacity and this ability to make the complex simple and just in so many realms outside of the things that you see or that you know him for.

00:39:54.580 That's that's just who he was, no matter what he was doing.

00:39:58.320 Yeah, you know, and that's really the legacy of Turning Point USA.

00:40:01.660 I mean, we talked about this all the time.

00:40:03.280 And, you know, most people don't really connect the dots on this.

00:40:07.780 But when we we came onto the scene and really Charlie started Turning Point USA, there were no battle tanks.

00:40:16.880 It was all think tanks.

00:40:18.120 And we used to talk about this this point, which is, you know, there's all these think tanks out there making things really hard to reach for the average American.

00:40:27.860 A little bit overcomplicated, a little bit over convoluted, and there just weren't enough battle tanks of people going out and fighting the good fight or just as you said, is making the really smart things, the complex things simple so that the average American could understand them, that the average American would want to understand them, that they would want to engage them.

00:40:52.520 And this is the whole thing is like, this is what Charlie died doing was this very issue.

00:40:58.960 I mean, you listen to Charlie and you and I both know Charlie better than just about anybody.

00:41:03.600 You know, Andrew, who was on earlier, and there's a number of us in our senior team at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.

00:41:11.280 But people knew Charlie is a genius.

00:41:14.580 You met Charlie, you talked to him.

00:41:16.940 He was an absolute genius of a man.

00:41:19.380 But he spoke and broke things down so simply and so easily so that everybody could really approach it.

00:41:28.500 And that's what's made politics approachable.

00:41:30.760 That's what I think has got so many young people through Turning Point USA involved.

00:41:36.380 That's what's got so many young men being able to embrace the qualities of what the Christianity that Charlie professed.

00:41:48.320 And that's what he would want everybody to know him by.

00:41:52.060 But his activism as well, being a dad and being a husband, those things are not complex things.

00:42:01.480 But the world is complicated and the challenges are complicated.

00:42:06.140 But the application of those things is really simple.

00:42:10.020 And I think that's the memorial that we'll have for Charlie forever.

00:42:13.700 And I hope that my dear friend that I have known for so long, since essentially the beginning of time, I was joking with Benny Johnson earlier today that we had to convince Charlie to start his Instagram.

00:42:27.720 And you wouldn't believe that knowing Charlie today of how Speaker Johnson just said he dominated all these mediums.

00:42:37.040 Rush Limbaugh didn't dominate social media or have a full 501C3 or C4 and employ thousands of people.

00:42:44.980 The man did everything.

00:42:46.500 He did it all.

00:42:47.680 But he made it so simple for everyone to approach and be able to engage with.

00:42:52.780 And I will greatly, greatly miss him for that because there's no one that is like Charlie.

00:43:00.120 There's no one.

00:43:01.300 It's not likely we'll ever encounter someone that's able to do all those things.

00:43:06.520 No, and I agree with you that there was something timeless, but also outside of time about Charlie.

00:43:15.940 There was just, he, he just didn't seem to be of this era and I'm not even sure what era he belonged in.

00:43:22.880 He just, the way he fit in the world, but also was different from anyone else that you would meet.

00:43:31.380 I mean, it's, it's, it's just God knew what he was doing when he made Charlie.

00:43:37.160 God gave him assignment and now God's got him on another assignment and, and that's how it is.

00:43:44.180 And he's up there with rush now.

00:43:46.340 And well, Tyler, let me, let me ask you this though.

00:43:50.280 You know, Charlie, obviously he's been building turning point USA building turning point action.

00:43:55.820 All of these years.

00:43:59.040 He built these institutions to last.

00:44:02.020 And, and I, I, I, I always got the sense.

00:44:04.460 I never, never really talked to him about this directly,

00:44:07.080 but I always got the sense that he wanted turning point USA to be separate from him in the sense that it would always go on

00:44:16.080 because it was always about the students.

00:44:17.640 It was always about the chapters and the chapters were constantly changing.

00:44:22.020 And, and what, what does that look like from your perspective?

00:44:25.740 Well, and we talked about that all the time, you know, having the honor of being COO of turning point USA for many years

00:44:34.960 and now turning point action and, and having, you know, hired and worked with thousands and thousands of people.

00:44:43.460 Uh, the greatest legacy that Charlie Kirk has is that he infused his energy, his resilience, his, uh, constant need for improvement for the conservative movement.

00:44:57.820 Because when we, uh, really start engaging on many of these things, you know, the, the question was, was, wow, why doesn't the conservative movement have good enough events?

00:45:07.220 Why, why aren't we attracting enough people?

00:45:08.560 We got to do a bigger and better.

00:45:10.420 Why did, why did, why is there no one that has a real legitimate field program and operation that supports young people?

00:45:17.540 We got to do a bigger and better.

00:45:19.200 Why is there no 501 C for a political operation that's out there actually, you know, doing it the way that the left does it with community organizers.

00:45:26.980 And we got to do a bigger and better and, and just each and every one of those things.

00:45:31.000 And that's not even touching all the individual unique things on the media front, the podcast front, the, uh, you know, Tik TOK obviously is the second.

00:45:38.560 The second largest voice on Tik TOK next to Donald Trump this year.

00:45:42.700 And I mean, you're just talking about a monster of a human being irreplicable that desire to fight and work.

00:45:52.480 And, you know, I was just talking about this as well.

00:45:56.160 It's just like, we, you know, one of the quotes was, you know, don't care, keep working, don't care, work harder.

00:46:01.040 Uh, you know, we talked about hating to lose, you know, how devastating the 2020 election was and how, how horrified we were to learn that there wasn't enough work being done on the political side, which, which caused turning point action to really, you know, kick into gear, you know, really following in the lead up to 2022 and following 2022 for 2024.

00:46:24.400 I mean, that was the, really the first time anyone's ever done anything like we did was throwing the kitchen sink at the thing.

00:46:32.260 And Charlie was leading from the front on that.

00:46:35.460 And there's just no one else.

00:46:36.980 And I could, I could tell because, you know, of course there's that election night live stream, 2022, it's me, you, Charlie, Andrew was in and out and we were doing the, uh, we were doing the, remember the batches and other batches in other batches in other batches in.

00:46:55.180 And, and I remember doing the math till late in the wee hours and I can remember the moment where Charlie just turns to me, I don't even know if it was on air and he just, he just turns to me sitting there and says, Jack, we need to start doing ballots.

00:47:09.380 And you could just see it in his eyes.

00:47:12.560 He said, they won this thing with ballots and we need to start doing that.

00:47:16.460 And I could tell you just in that moment, again, very simple that he took this whole complicated thing and he had figured it all out and he was doing the math.

00:47:24.220 You could see him doing it furiously, just scribbling away and doing the math in real time, like, like, like rain man, you know?

00:47:32.160 And, uh, and he said, it's all ballots.

00:47:35.060 And so we need to chase ballots.

00:47:36.740 And I could tell in that movement, everything that was going to happen in that moment, everything that would happen between then and 2024.

00:47:43.120 And that's exactly what happened.

00:47:44.620 And he knew that he had you to execute it.

00:47:47.720 Well, I was talking with his sweet wife who all the prayers, we need to be praying unceasingly for Erica and his two sweet babies.

00:47:58.400 Um, that I just was talking, talking with her about this yesterday, the look on Charlie's face when he figured when he would figure something out.

00:48:07.860 He kind of gave you that.

00:48:09.080 Yeah.

00:48:09.300 Oh, look.

00:48:11.160 And I'd seen that a million times because I've been in these rooms.

00:48:15.960 Oh, sorry about that.

00:48:17.200 I've been in these rooms with Charlie, you know, fighting these battles and these wars.

00:48:21.400 And we'd figure out the problem that existed and then try to come up with a solution and then applying the right solution and, you know, going and getting the donors to pay for it and work, work towards it.

00:48:33.920 And then we build it.

00:48:35.420 And then we do the next thing.

00:48:36.840 And then the next thing.

00:48:37.840 And then the next thing.

00:48:38.620 And it never stopped.

00:48:40.080 And we'll always remember Charlie for that.

00:48:41.980 It was just, what, what are we doing today?

00:48:45.180 What are we doing next?

00:48:47.140 What are we doing next?

00:48:48.920 Who's next?

00:48:50.900 It's our turn next.

00:48:52.340 Right back.

00:48:53.460 Charlie Kirkman.

00:49:04.500 Man, Charlie, uh, I remember when we were starting these out and.

00:49:10.100 It was that, like that.

00:49:11.180 You know, it was like this.

00:49:12.460 It was like, it was like your average.

00:49:14.180 First three rows.

00:49:14.680 It was like your average political meeting where there was like 12 people in a room.

00:49:17.600 And, uh, this is, this is awesome.

00:49:20.500 This, in my personal opinion, was the most over the top Trump event that I've ever covered.

00:49:27.100 This is the number one boots on the ground operation in the country.

00:49:29.580 We're working directly in harmony with the Trump campaign.

00:49:31.860 It's been vetted.

00:49:32.660 It's been cleared.

00:49:33.100 It's been blessed, as you can see there.

00:49:34.340 And we're going to try to win this thing.

00:49:35.780 No guarantees.

00:49:36.700 It's what we do that matters.

00:49:37.940 Mr. President, I can tell you this room is 100% with you.

00:49:41.180 And we have your back.

00:49:42.100 God bless you.

00:49:43.060 You really do.

00:49:44.000 Thank you.

00:49:44.400 Thank you.

00:49:44.540 Thank you.

00:50:14.540 Thank you.

00:50:44.540 Charlie would want us to be. That's what Charlie would say. He would say, be better. Work harder. What are you doing next? What's the next fight? Take the next hill. Finish the job.

00:51:00.540 Finish the job. Complete the task. Complete the mission.

00:51:07.740 Thank you.

00:51:09.740 We have the editor of Breitbart, Alex Marlow now joining us. Alex, you knew Charlie as well as any of us, obviously. And for you, coming from Breitbart, this is now the second time you've had to go through something like this in this moment.

00:51:30.800 Talk to me a little bit about the legacy of going through the legacy of Andrew, and now we have the legacy of Charlie.

00:51:38.540 Thanks, Jack. You've been doing a wonderful job on this. It's a beautiful tribute so far. I guess I'm unique in this regard, that I was Andrew Breitbart's right-hand man when he passed away at 43.

00:51:50.620 Different circumstances certainly wasn't an assassination while he was just trying to debate people on a campus.

00:51:58.120 But a similar situation in a genuinely great man who was here and called to do great things for this country and in this life and got taken from us.

00:52:08.000 And one thing that was so heartening that after Andrew passed, people understood the importance of hard work, of determination, of trying to externalize all the messages that Andrew had given us that we'd internalized.

00:52:20.680 And he became the pioneer of citizen journalism. He already was, but people, not everyone stopped and thought about it until he was taken from us, until that light was extinguished.

00:52:32.860 And that has got to be the exact approach, if not twofold, tenfold with what Charlie's done.

00:52:40.180 Tyler was touching on something really important I've been trying to share with people, is that Charlie wasn't just a giant in talk radio and podcasting.

00:52:47.140 He wasn't just a giant in activism, and he may have been the biggest at that, but he was also meeting people where they were.

00:52:54.880 He was on the campuses 100 hours a semester. He was on the platforms that conservatives wouldn't even go on, things like TikTok.

00:53:02.180 He was someone who was reaching people who might not get news from anywhere else.

00:53:07.000 Now, I wish people got news from all over the place, but a lot of the times they were relying on Charlie.

00:53:11.420 He was an international sensation. We at Breitbart today were covering how the international press is reacting to Charlie's assassination.

00:53:19.860 And they've strong opinions. They've thought long and hard about this guy.

00:53:23.340 And he did it all with a smile, with joy. He was always trying to run up that next hill and summit it.

00:53:30.340 That spirit always inspired me as one of his peers and colleagues, and it is just infectious to be around.

00:53:36.480 And my heart breaks for his family, for the whole Turning Point team, but Charlie's message was loud and clear.

00:53:43.320 We need to be those happy warriors. We need to be fearless. We need to be determined.

00:53:48.220 And the fight, sadly, has only just begun.

00:53:53.160 You know, it's one of those things, too.

00:53:55.720 And obviously, we're still getting more and more information out about the shooter who is still at large.

00:54:02.360 And I know we have these photos that have come up as well.

00:54:06.560 Alex, can you can you put us just give us a little bit of that taste?

00:54:11.360 You know, where do you think we stand with this this manhunt?

00:54:14.900 Well, it's not great. It's not great news. We're getting nothing but bad news.

00:54:18.100 First of all, there were some false hope that we caught the guy right away and then the person got away.

00:54:25.000 And I think that that already is a disgrace.

00:54:27.960 A person like Charlie should have protection.

00:54:31.260 I think we need to be very cautious going to these universities going forward.

00:54:35.520 And I think that that's a shame because we need free speech now more than ever.

00:54:38.980 And they're going to use this as an opportunity.

00:54:41.320 They, the left, who's responsible for this, they're going to use this as a victory because they're going to see that there will be a chilling of speech because they hate free speech.

00:54:50.120 They want control. They want authoritarianism.

00:54:52.660 Charlie was an affront to that, and that's why he was targeted.

00:54:54.540 And law enforcement needs to get the job done as soon as humanly possible.

00:54:58.540 And I know our guys are in charge at a federal level.

00:55:00.960 I don't know much about the local law enforcement, the state law enforcement, but it doesn't matter.

00:55:05.720 We need to demand answers.

00:55:06.880 We need to demand accountability right away, and we must be better.

00:55:10.040 I'll tell you, I was just reading a lot about Butler recently and how we still don't have answers from Butler.

00:55:15.720 That's a warning to people.

00:55:17.000 I was on campus with Charlie Kirk over a year ago at UC Davis.

00:55:20.080 They're smashing windows.

00:55:21.200 They're trying to break into the building.

00:55:22.600 Antifa's present.

00:55:23.280 It is very dangerous to be a conservative right now.

00:55:26.180 And I'll tell you, Jack, my audience right now, we feel hunted.

00:55:28.540 We feel hunted down right now, and that is not a good thing.

00:55:33.400 No, and this one has certainly hit close for my family as well, as I'm sure it has yours.

00:55:38.580 That's right.

00:55:38.860 Right back here, Jack Posobiec, we're on with Alex Marlowe.

00:55:42.600 This is the Charlie Kirk Memorial Show.

00:55:44.700 Right back.

00:55:45.140 Oh, it was great.

00:55:46.960 I'm good to have happen.

00:55:51.820 Again, I can see you there.

00:55:58.820 You're not lying there.

00:56:01.020 You're not lying there.

00:56:02.080 I'm sorry.

00:56:03.080 Thank you.

00:56:04.140 You're not lying there.

00:56:05.020 I'm sorry.

00:56:05.500 You're not lying there.

00:56:06.320 You're lying there.

00:56:07.120 You're lying there.

00:56:07.340 We're not lying there.

00:56:07.900 ...

00:56:08.560 That's why I mean it all.

00:56:08.940 Jack Posobiec, we're back here, Washington, D.C., the Charlie Kirk Memorial Show,

00:56:28.060 and we're just showing some of these images that are now coming in from all over the country last

00:56:34.480 night. Spontaneous vigils, prayer services, rosaries, people coming out and putting up

00:56:42.500 pictures of Charlie. I don't even know how he gets something that printed so quickly, and the candles

00:56:47.920 going up everywhere, and it's all organic. This is nothing that was directly from

00:56:56.400 the organization, even the Turning Point's own headquarters, which are showing there.

00:57:01.200 They held a vigil last night that was completely spontaneous and organic, which is exactly what

00:57:09.040 Charlie would have wanted. People becoming activated, people doing things on their own,

00:57:15.400 stepping up, taking agency. That's what he always wanted, and I remember him saying this. He would

00:57:21.300 say, if I can just get people to step up and start doing things, then we win. If we just get people

00:57:29.800 motivated, we will win. I said it before, Charlie spent his entire life trying to inspire a national

00:57:38.300 turning point, and he has accomplished that. He has now done so. Alex Marlowe, what do you make of

00:57:47.720 this, where it really is just a very positive outpouring. We're seeing it from around the world.

00:57:55.000 We're seeing it from members of, you know, across the aisle of liberals, Democrats, people saying,

00:58:02.420 you know what? I think even the New York Times, Ezra Klein, they said, Charlie did politics the way it

00:58:08.960 should be done, with moxie, with smarts, with boldness, but never with anger. Yeah, a pretty 0.99

00:58:15.500 remarkable contrast to the initial reactions from the J.B. Pritzkers of the world and the MSNBCs of the

00:58:20.300 world who were suggesting maybe Charlie brought this on himself. The New York Times was very

00:58:24.660 intentional today when they put in his obituary, they called him a provocateur. That word is on

00:58:28.900 purpose. They believe he provoked his own assassination, and that's disgusting, but you 0.91

00:58:33.820 did start seeing some people start getting a hold of themselves, start understanding, as Ezra Klein

00:58:39.380 flagged on his own, not the paper itself, but, and as well as some of these leaders all around the

00:58:44.620 world were saying, this is not the humanity we want, and this is a spiritual fight we're in,

00:58:51.620 Jack, and Charlie knew this. He wasn't just an evangelist for conservatism and for our constitution.

00:58:56.040 He was an evangelist for Christ. He was an evangelist for Judeo-Christian values. Charlie stood for that,

00:59:02.260 and people around the world who observe him know that, that he was as fluent in biblical matters as he

00:59:07.680 was in political matters, and this is the spiritual battle that we need, and people who might not agree

00:59:13.020 with his politics need to understand that Charlie did do things the right way. He did things with

00:59:17.140 debate. He did things with non-violence. He did things with just trying to meet people where they

00:59:21.380 were and convince them, trying to get them to change their minds if he disagreed, and happily

00:59:27.420 accepting them if they didn't. That's what he stood for. That's who he was, and I think smart people

00:59:31.860 always knew that. Maybe today they're finally starting to admit it.

00:59:36.780 Yeah, and I remember being on campus with them or being at wherever we were, and, you know,

00:59:41.860 he would always say, if you disagree, come right to the front. If you disagree, come right up here.

00:59:48.360 Let's have it out. Let's have that conversation, but you can watch the, I don't know, hundreds of

00:59:53.220 hours of videotape of Charlie on these campuses. You'll never once see him raise a hand in anger.

00:59:59.400 You know, he's got conviction. Of course, he's got boldness. Absolutely. When you're debating,

01:00:04.900 you're going to, but he doesn't get angry. He doesn't get physical. There's no,

01:00:08.280 there's never been a violent bone in his body. I've never seen that in private. I've never seen,

01:00:14.440 I've never known him to be like that. And it, it, it really does just sum it all up. They,

01:00:19.980 they couldn't debate him. So they did this. And that's exactly right. Do you think, do you think

01:00:25.740 this will be a turning point against, and we've seen a wave of left-wing violence. We've seen a

01:00:31.280 wave of political violence and anti-Christian violence that's going on just this month.

01:00:37.340 Do you think that it will wind down or are we going to see more?

01:00:41.980 I run very pessimistic in this regard. And I think some of those initial reactions we saw from people

01:00:46.640 in the left-wing commentariat make me think that maybe it won't be. And I've seen some of the

01:00:51.840 reactions on Blue Sky and TikTok. But if you look around the world, there are so many bright spots.

01:00:57.680 We at Breitbart, we are tracking today conservatives in Spain, in Latin America, in Brazil, in El

01:01:03.300 Salvador, all over the world, that they're in Argentina. We're seeing even the Mexican president,

01:01:09.720 Claudia Scheinbaum, condemning it. So many people are out there saying, this is not the way forward

01:01:14.160 for the human race. And it does give me some hope. There is a layer of hope, but there is a deep

01:01:20.780 spiritual problem that we have in this country. There is a yearning for God in so many American

01:01:27.240 households that is absent right now. And it's the absence of God that provided this in people's

01:01:32.640 lives. It's a demonic impulse that we're witnessing day after day in this country. And people need to

01:01:37.740 confront it. They need to confront it, though, on a micro level. It's communities, it's families.

01:01:41.540 And until we fully address that, then I'm going to be in fear that this will continue to some degree

01:01:46.640 or another.

01:01:47.020 No, and and I've seen it all. I've seen every single piece of it. People are sending me stuff

01:01:55.520 like crazy phone, you know, blew up yesterday. I was on air when this happened. And I've seen the

01:02:02.360 comments, the tick tocks. And there's no other word for it than demonic. The way people are cheering,

01:02:10.360 celebrating a man whose life was cut down in his absolute prime when he was just getting to the

01:02:20.620 top of the mountain. I think he was just there and he had other mountains yet to climb. And we all knew

01:02:25.760 that he did. And he wanted us to be along there with him. And and these these these monsters want

01:02:32.020 to celebrate it. And you see it all across blue sky. You see it across tick tock. You can find tweet

01:02:36.760 after tweet, you know, sort of the big names have kind of, you know, realized they have to be careful

01:02:41.360 now. But I've said this for a year now at this point, that there will be more Mangione's and the

01:02:50.640 cult of Luigi, the fandom of Luigi was there because now that they have lost political power, they are

01:02:58.620 now choosing physical kinetic power. And it was Chairman Mao himself who said political power grows from

01:03:05.620 the barrel of a gun. Alex, I know you've got to run. And where can people go to to follow and

01:03:13.120 everything you guys are putting up? The Alex Marlowe show. I have a long tribute to Charlie

01:03:17.000 today on my podcast. And I can't thank you enough, Jack, for having me and including me in this and

01:03:23.760 Real America's Voice. Wonderful job over there. And we're going to honor Charlie at Breitbart News all

01:03:29.140 day, every day. We're putting up dozens and dozens and dozens of pieces of content about Charlie. He got

01:03:33.540 his start writing for us as something we're deeply proud of and will always be a part of that in history.

01:03:38.520 Charlie was my friend. I was spoke with him virtually every day. I was on his program once a week. He was a

01:03:44.640 good man. And people need to understand that. If you're motivated to get involved right now, know that he

01:03:50.080 wasn't just a conservative warrior. He was a good person, a genuinely good person. He was that guy.

01:03:57.280 Absolutely was, Alex. Thank you for being here today. Thank you for being a part of this.

01:04:00.480 President Trump has just put out a new statement. He's been talking to reporters. He brought up

01:04:08.820 Charlie. I want to play that now. You don't replace Joe.

01:04:13.820 No, as well as I do. He was a unique man. But for the best we can.

01:04:20.080 Anything on the investigation or anything on the latest that you've heard from the FBI or

01:04:23.740 Cash Patel, they've reported to me so far, pretty much what you seeing in the news is what it is.

01:04:30.620 They have a virtual manhunt out there. So we'll see what happens. We hope we get them, sir. Thank you.

01:04:37.140 Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.

01:04:40.300 All right, that's President Trump, a virtual manhunt. I hope we get him. I want to go

01:04:47.160 now to Harrison Field's press team of the White House. Harrison, thank you so much for joining us

01:04:53.500 and being here today. It's good to be here, Jack. I wish it was better circumstances, but it's good to

01:04:58.020 see you. Absolutely. Can you tell us just, you know, beyond the politics of this, Charlie had so

01:05:05.400 many friends in the White House. Can you tell me what the mood is like in there or how it's been in

01:05:09.560 the last 12 hours or so? Well, I recently departed, so I'm actually back in the private sector. But

01:05:15.020 I've been talking to my friends back at the White House. They're just all devastated. There are no

01:05:20.380 words, right? And first and foremost, our prayers, our thoughts, everything in our bodies is going

01:05:25.540 towards Erica and the kids. We can't fathom it. I am a young father myself, recently married, kind of

01:05:31.600 following that Charlie Kirk motto, get married, have babies. This is what it's all about. You're at a

01:05:37.780 loss for words. There is just no making sense of the unsensible tragedy that took our friend's life.

01:05:44.120 And even if you didn't get to know him, you felt like you did know him. I was talking to friends

01:05:48.520 from all over the country, and they're at a loss. They don't understand how something like this could

01:05:52.760 happen. They got my friends engaged in politics. After years of me trying to convince people to

01:05:58.280 become conservatives, all they needed was one Charlie Kirk video, and here they were voting for

01:06:02.760 the president. That's the type of impact that he had. And his legacy will be a lot of things. But one

01:06:08.300 thing, and I know you guys have been talking about it, his legacy as a man of faith, as a Christian,

01:06:12.980 as a lover of Jesus will be of paramount importance. I mean, this is a man that when

01:06:19.080 he saw my pin, it's right here on my lapel right here. It has a cross over the United States flag.

01:06:24.060 He pointed it out to me. He noticed it. And I kind of joked with him. I said, it's my Christian

01:06:28.220 nationalist pin. And he got a chuckle out of it. Because we cannot be afraid to be Christians in

01:06:34.060 this country. And, you know, just minutes before he passed, we knew that he was professing his faith

01:06:38.820 once again. And I heard Kayleigh McEnany mentioned this quote, and I think it's beautiful. It's not

01:06:43.020 about left or right. Just remember above and up. And we know that our brother Charlie is in the arms

01:06:49.420 of Jesus Christ and the angels up there. And as a Christian, that gives you some level of comfort

01:06:54.800 when you're just grasping for something to make sense of it all.

01:06:57.520 No, and martyrs, martyrs, absolutely go straight in. You know, Harrison, we got about a minute here

01:07:08.940 until the break. But, you know, it's something that Charlie always led with. And he was so

01:07:15.620 unapologetic about his faith. And I think that's something that to Gen Z, I really, really was able

01:07:23.140 to connect with them at a time when so many people are asking, what's going on? It felt like,

01:07:27.720 you know, through COVID, everything was collapsing. And then here comes Charlie. It's God. It's the

01:07:31.980 Bible. It's Jesus. And he's there serving it to you right on campus.

01:07:36.140 Yeah, we talk about it all the time. We have a loneliness epidemic between our younger population.

01:07:41.120 Charlie was able to influence them in a way to introduce them to God. With God in your life,

01:07:46.000 you can't be lonely. You are so fulsome and wholesome in your life. So he's been able to

01:07:50.640 evangelize in many ways to people. You know, you became a Christian and a conservative just from

01:07:55.240 listening to him. That's the type of impact he has. You look throughout history, there's not many

01:08:00.160 people that have been able to do that. You look at the Graham family. You look at people like, you

01:08:04.600 know, MLK or, you know, other prominent people in our country that have had such a platform. The

01:08:10.480 president of the United States, such a palpable platform, one that doesn't die with them,

01:08:17.600 but really lives on. But the reality is, you know, again, as Christians, we know that he's very much

01:08:22.560 alive in heaven, a place where he prayed and wished and knew he probably would end up one day.

01:08:28.660 By no means did we think it would be at 31 years young. But again, our hearts and our thoughts and

01:08:34.460 prayers are with his family right now. Absolutely. Harrison Fields, thank you so much for joining us

01:08:39.900 today. And obviously, we hope that Erica and the family are feeling those prayers right now.

01:08:49.420 Jack Posobiec coming back. Charlie Kirkman, World Show, here at Real America's Voice.

01:08:52.960 Jack Posobiec now, here live on the Charlie Kirk Memorial Show. What you're looking at is live. This is

01:09:20.820 not pre-recorded. This is not pre-taped. This is a live shot, a camera that we have up at the

01:09:27.140 Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where a makeshift memorial has been set up

01:09:36.140 where people are just coming in. These aren't people who work for TPUSA. These are some of the

01:09:43.620 people who work there have come out. But this is really just people coming by, well-wishers,

01:09:51.480 fans, friends in many cases. Charlie, of course, lived in Phoenix. His family still lives in the

01:09:58.340 Phoenix area in Scottsdale. And people are just coming by, watching this in real time as people

01:10:04.140 are putting this memorial together for Charlie at the work that he did and the campus of the

01:10:12.440 Turning Point USA. I've visited many times. I've been there many times. I've been there with Charlie

01:10:18.260 many times. And it's his life's work. You are looking physically at these buildings at Charlie's

01:10:28.800 life's work. They would not exist without Charlie Kirk. Turning Point USA would not exist without

01:10:36.140 Charlie, without Charlie Kirk. Without Turning Point Action, who knows? Maybe you don't have

01:10:42.300 a President Donald Trump, a Vice President J.D. Vance. And the Vice President had put up an incredible

01:10:51.340 1,000-word eulogy to Charlie last night. And you could tell, you could just tell from the way it was

01:11:00.300 written, that J.D. wrote it himself, that he had been so close with Charlie all the way back to 2017.

01:11:09.260 And so what we are also told right now is that the Vice President Vance will be, of course, he was not

01:11:20.420 at the 9-11 Memorial because he is on his way, he's en route to Salt Lake City, where he can be with Erica

01:11:30.260 and the family as they work through the arrangements and the preparations for saying goodbye to Charlie.

01:11:42.160 And that's something that we're all going through. It's something we'll all have to go through for

01:11:51.520 everyone in our life, saying goodbye. And last night, FoxNews.com reached out to me and asked if I would like

01:12:04.240 to write something for Charlie that they would publish on their opinion side. And so I did.

01:12:11.920 And that is up now. You guys can go read it. Charlie Kirk died as he lived, bold, unashamed,

01:12:21.680 and anchored in faith. And you can go check it out. I said on September 10th, America lost a warrior

01:12:31.200 and family lost a father. Charlie Kirk was my brother. He was a man who stood tall with his feet firmly

01:12:39.360 planted and a microphone in his hand. He was taken from us at Utah Valley University while proclaiming

01:12:46.480 truth. He did not flinch. He did not waver. He did not run. He died as he lived, bold, steadfast,

01:12:55.520 and unashamed of the gospel and the truth. When America needed a hero, God sent us Charlie Kirk.

01:13:07.120 And there's something about Charlie that no matter how big Charlie got, and I was with him and I knew

01:13:12.480 him as he went from being well-known to an international celebrity. And it didn't matter because he was always

01:13:22.880 kind. He was always generous to everyone, super generous with his time. And he could make a nobody

01:13:29.520 feel like a somebody because he would listen to every single person, whether it was an event or just

01:13:36.000 on the street who wanted to talk to him.

01:13:37.680 Man, Charlie, I remember when we were starting these out and it was that like that, you know,

01:13:50.800 it was like this. It was like it was like your average three rows. It was like your average political

01:13:54.960 meeting where there was like 12 people in a room. And this is this is awesome. This, in my personal

01:14:00.960 opinion, was the most over the top Trump event that I've ever covered. This is the number one boots on

01:14:07.440 the ground operation in the country. We're working directly in harmony with the Trump campaign. It's

01:14:11.360 been vetted. It's been cleared. It's been blessed, as you can see there. And we're going to try to win

01:14:14.560 this thing. No guarantees. It's what we do that matters. Mr. President, I can tell you this room is

01:14:19.280 100% with you. And we have your back. God bless you. Thank you.

01:14:49.280 Thank you.

01:15:19.280 Jack Sobek, here we are back. We're looking at a live shot. Turning Point, USA Headquarters,

01:15:31.360 Phoenix, Arizona, where it's so incredible that this organic, that's live, by the way,

01:15:38.800 it's live footage, organic live tributes and memorials to a great man, a great fighter,

01:15:50.160 great father, great husband, and a great friend. We're all going on right now. Because it's times

01:15:58.560 like these, that people turn to prayer. And that's what Charlie Kirk would have wanted. I know that's

01:16:05.760 what Charlie would ask you to do. He would ask you to pray. And then he would ask you to get in the fight.

01:16:11.440 Get activated. Because it's your turn next. And there's someone I know who's been in this fight for

01:16:20.720 a long time and continues to fight and serve this country at the highest levels. But beyond all that,

01:16:29.440 a great friend of Charlie Kirk's. Darren Beattie joins us now from the US State Department.

01:16:35.120 Hi, Jack. I don't even know where to start with any of this, but tell us what your thoughts are. Tell us where you're at today.

01:16:46.240 Well, as you know, we had a chance to see each other not too long ago. And we're discussing,

01:16:53.840 oh, I'll come on and do Charlie's show, do the show here. And so ordinarily,

01:17:00.320 you know, it would be a situation where I'd say, it's so great to be back. But it's really the

01:17:07.920 circumstances that occasion my appearance here are terrible. You know, just like everyone else in

01:17:16.880 the country, I'm really heartbroken. It's, there's no words to really capture the magnitude of what

01:17:23.360 happened and the magnitude of the loss. You know, there's one sense in which, you know, as the

01:17:31.120 president said, Charlie, among his other attributes, was a man of fearlessness. And that kind of courage

01:17:40.160 is contagious and will live beyond him as one of the many aspects of his legacy. But there's another

01:17:49.400 sense in which I think he's just irreplaceable. He is probably, I would say, without question,

01:17:57.560 the best youth political organizer in America's history. And I think people who don't understand

01:18:05.860 sort of the history of how all this developed may not understand the magnitude of what he accomplished.

01:18:11.800 That's just one of the things. But to create what he created, have these political events

01:18:18.020 with young people engaged, which are more than political events, like, like with Trump's rallies,

01:18:26.100 these were rock concerts, and he was a rock star. And that's something that so many people

01:18:33.040 desperately wanted to achieve for so long and couldn't do it. And it took someone of unique

01:18:39.840 character, unique capabilities, like Charlie. And so, you know, they're just a handful of people in the

01:18:47.420 world who are not replaceable. And he was one of them.

01:18:54.960 And when we look across this at the situation, how many times did I did I or you come on the show

01:19:05.120 with Charlie, and we talked about this violence that had started creeping up in our society,

01:19:11.080 probably with the first Trump campaign and throughout the first Trump administration,

01:19:15.180 which you were serving in leading up, of course, to Butler.

01:19:22.420 And now this, and in a way, Charlie saw it coming. And, and he knew he knew going out there.

01:19:30.140 The threat that he was under, I talked to him about it. Everyone talked to him about it.

01:19:34.980 And he did it anyway. He did it anyway. And yet we are in this situation, Darren, in our country,

01:19:42.780 where we're in, we're in very dire straits, because there are so many people who were who

01:19:47.900 refused to condemn it. There are so many people who celebrate it. And I really hope that

01:19:54.840 better angels of our nature can prevail in this country. But I worry that that perhaps someone

01:20:03.980 else wants to be the next Luigi, or whoever this person is, I believe the FBI, by the way,

01:20:09.840 I'll just announce because it's because it is just breaking that the FBI has two piece of information,

01:20:15.580 the FBI has announced a $100,000 reward for information regarding the shooter. It's number one.

01:20:23.660 Number two, this was something that I had actually heard about last night, but I wasn't able to,

01:20:31.740 to say it publicly yet. And that J.D. Vance will meet with Charlie Kirk's wife, Erica,

01:20:42.740 and their two children in Salt Lake City today. And following that,

01:20:49.180 J.D. is going to be giving Charlie one last ride on Air Force Two, and he will

01:20:54.860 be flying him back to Arizona, to his home state. So that's, that's the updates that we have today.

01:21:03.500 Darren, where do we go at a time like this?

01:21:06.260 It's, it's, it's simply a tragedy. And I think it'll take a long time for us to recover as a country,

01:21:15.700 if we can at all. I think right now, you know, just want to focus on, you know, love and positivity,

01:21:24.300 which, you know, Charlie was a warrior. He was also a happy warrior. He was somebody full of love

01:21:30.380 for his fellow citizens, for his country. And I think that's really part of the legacy that we

01:21:38.340 should, we should remember today. But yeah, I think in time, I trust, of course, the president

01:21:47.500 and the appropriate authorities to deal with this in the manner in which it is appropriate.

01:21:53.820 No, I think that's right. And of course, we've heard President Trump and, and others, Darren,

01:22:01.500 you've spoken out so forcefully in the past and, and are now working your capacity regarding

01:22:09.540 the ideas of censorship, the ideas of silencing speech. Isn't political assassination,

01:22:16.620 just the final step of censorship? Isn't that entirely the point?

01:22:23.820 Yes. I mean, it's, it's the, it's the ultimate, it's the ultimate silencing, but it doesn't achieve

01:22:33.660 its intended effect because it really just, it will make us all, all louder, more forceful,

01:22:40.580 more committed to the cause that Charlie fought for so bravely and so effectively. And yeah,

01:22:49.660 I think it's appropriate to say, don't want to get into too much of the, you know, the personal

01:22:54.780 history. But the first time I really had the chance to engage with Charlie was a very long time ago when

01:22:59.860 I was a speech writer for President Trump and we're doing an event with him. And, um, it was an event on

01:23:08.220 free speech in college campuses. This was all the way back in 2018.

01:23:15.020 And he'd been around for a while since then. He, so it's just such, at such a young age to achieve so

01:23:22.980 much and be so committed to all of these critical fights for our nation's history, um, is really just

01:23:31.980 a remarkable thing. And, uh, you know, sure it's been pointed out, but there's something appropriate,

01:23:41.020 but also very poignant and adds to the tragedy is that, you know, he's wearing a shirt called freedom

01:23:49.660 when his life was taken away and, you know, he was for freedom to the very end.

01:23:58.540 That's exactly right. Charlie Kirk was a martyr of, of many causes, interlinked causes, but first and

01:24:08.380 foremost, freedom of speech, the bedrock upon which the American experiment was built. Right.

01:24:15.980 The idea that we have this freedom and we will use this freedom and Charlie would want us to continue

01:24:24.140 using this freedom. And that's why we're doing the show. And that's why when I reached out to them last night

01:24:32.380 and I said, if you guys need any help, let me know. And they said they, they want to keep the,

01:24:38.300 keep doing the show because that's what Charlie would have wanted because Charlie, and by the way,

01:24:43.580 Charlie would, I know for a fact that Charlie would be saying, Jack, don't talk about me the whole time.

01:24:49.020 Talk about what's, what's going on. Talk about the news, get into things. What's, what's happening.

01:24:54.060 And, you know, Charlie used to, he would, he would take Saturdays off and he would use Saturdays

01:25:02.060 to sort of stand still and be there with his family. And so I only think it's appropriate that

01:25:09.740 we take one day and stand still for Charlie. Final minute to you, Darren B.

01:25:15.580 Amen to that. And I can only reiterate, this was an irreplaceable individual, a great family man.

01:25:27.500 Our hearts go out to his family, obviously a profound loss for the family, but also a profound loss for us,

01:25:36.540 for the movement, for the country. And the only consolation we can take is that

01:25:45.580 the courage and the fight and the legacy will live on. So I very much commend you for doing this

01:25:52.860 today, Jack, because I know it's not easy.

01:25:58.700 What can I say, Darren? We know Charlie would do it for us. So.

01:26:02.620 Amen.

01:26:05.420 It's rough, but when you stand with a man, you stand with him.

01:26:10.620 God bless Darren Beattie. Godspeed to you as well. Jack Posobiec. We're here. Charlie Kirk.

01:26:15.020 Quirk Memorial.

01:26:32.700 All right, folks. Jack Posobiec here.*

01:26:40.540 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec here, Charlie Kirk, on assignment, on assignment from the

01:26:51.080 King right now.

01:26:54.600 We are hosting a memorial to him, the live shot you're looking at, and if you're listening,

01:27:00.380 these are images of people now gathering, looks like dozens of people, it's actually

01:27:06.140 growing quite large now, outside of Turning Point USA headquarters there in Phoenix, Arizona,

01:27:11.620 where people are bringing balloons, candles, pictures of Charlie, actually looks like people

01:27:18.920 are gathering in prayer, they're holding their heads, bowing their heads, and this is just

01:27:24.720 incredible moving, it's completely organic, these are happening all over the country today,

01:27:30.500 and it's just, it means so much to know how beloved Charlie was to this country, what

01:27:41.920 a hero that he was and is, such an icon, and, you know, having been along for the ride, to

01:27:54.120 see how he went from, from where he started to where he is now, or, or to have achieved

01:28:03.320 this level of success and become this beloved figure, it's, it's impossible, but it, you

01:28:11.120 know, it just, I never saw him that way, because to me, he's just my buddy, to me, he's my friend,

01:28:19.180 and I'm always just kind of wondering what, what the, what's the next fight, Charlie, where

01:28:25.960 are we going next, what's the next hill we're going to take, where are we going to plant

01:28:29.120 the next flag, and so today we're taking a day to step back from all of that, and we're

01:28:37.200 talking to some of Charlie's closest friends and associates all about the man Charlie was,

01:28:44.120 the way that he lived, and the reason that he stood head and shoulders above all of us.

01:28:49.900 Mike Benz joins us now, Mike, I mean, it's, it's horrific that we have to be here in such

01:28:59.140 circumstances, but in, in a way, for me, and I think for a lot of us, we weren't, we weren't

01:29:05.220 surprised because we saw the trajectory of the way our country was going, and it was only

01:29:10.460 a matter of time before another act of senseless, hate-filled violence came after one of us,

01:29:18.740 and of course, they went after Charlie.

01:29:25.360 Yeah.

01:29:28.900 Mike, do you, do you think that this is going to turn the temperature up?

01:29:32.740 Is it going to turn it down?

01:29:34.120 What's your sense?

01:29:34.660 I don't know.

01:29:39.560 I think it, I think it has to be.

01:29:46.740 You can't forget this.

01:29:49.360 That was the most graphic, horrifying video I or anyone I could ever imagine could see in

01:29:59.300 their life.

01:30:01.240 It was in broad daylight.

01:30:04.240 Thousands of people watching mid-sentence.

01:30:08.700 Shot in the jugular vein.

01:30:12.540 And this was our child prodigy.

01:30:17.680 We would not be here without Charlie.

01:30:19.980 I would not be here without Charlie on so many levels.

01:30:24.840 Charlie was our bridge to the young.

01:30:26.300 Charlie made it okay to believe in this for people whose minds were growing and developing.

01:30:35.900 When I was in college, I was afraid to just be friends with anybody who considered themselves 0.99

01:30:44.100 conservative.

01:30:45.740 I hid away from the label because there was no institution. 0.97

01:30:49.320 There was college Republicans, which sucked and nobody wanted to be a part of.

01:30:57.760 And what he did with Turning Point is he built really the first mega institution and probably

01:31:04.180 the most important one, the pipeline of people, networks, of community, of solidarity.

01:31:12.880 And I can't do something like that.

01:31:16.720 I used to joke with people about when people would say, oh, Ben's, you know, you work so

01:31:24.360 hard.

01:31:25.400 Like, and I would say, well, there's someone who works harder than me, actually.

01:31:30.340 How would you like to be Charlie Kirk?

01:31:32.380 He has to do all this.

01:31:33.520 And then he has to manage teams of thousands of people.

01:31:38.920 He has to bridge divides from all of the different splintered factions of MAGA so that they have

01:31:44.480 one unified vision.

01:31:48.240 He has to be the peacemaker, the diplomat, the communicator, the long-term strategic planner.

01:31:56.280 Every room he walked in, he looked like he would be president one day.

01:31:59.120 You see him next to presidents.

01:32:00.460 He looks like he's going to be president.

01:32:01.960 And all of this responsibility was on the shoulders of a kid, of a kid.

01:32:11.780 He was 17 years old, 16 years old when he started all this.

01:32:17.100 Started Turning Point at, what, 18 years old?

01:32:20.920 And all of that weight and responsibility.

01:32:25.580 And he never lost.

01:32:27.620 I never saw him lose a debate.

01:32:29.420 I never saw him lose his composure.

01:32:31.960 He had a unique and probably the perfect skill set for something that is very, very rare

01:32:38.560 in somebody under 60, let alone somebody in this movement, which is in many ways motivated

01:32:47.500 by passion and to some extent the kind of chaos of newness and reform.

01:32:55.280 But Charlie was the steady hand.

01:32:59.820 He never lost his cool.

01:33:02.380 Even in that moment.

01:33:04.760 It's completely surreal.

01:33:06.080 Mike, I couldn't agree more.

01:33:14.800 And I'm as shaken up about this as anybody.

01:33:17.420 And I don't even think I slept last night, honestly.

01:33:22.460 And I've been up with my wife and she barely slept.

01:33:28.700 And we're just praying, talking.

01:33:35.300 And I know, though, because I can hear Charlie's voice in my ear.

01:33:42.120 He would say, keep fighting.

01:33:44.160 Keep up the fight.

01:33:46.180 Keep going.

01:33:47.840 Finish the mission.

01:33:48.800 Complete the task.

01:33:49.700 Work harder.

01:33:50.200 He'd actually, and he'd be saying, what do you think?

01:33:54.060 You guys think you get a day off?

01:33:55.620 No.

01:33:56.140 No, we don't take days off.

01:33:57.340 No, we don't.

01:33:58.900 I want to show very quickly, since we are covering the breaking news, we do have a new

01:34:06.400 image that's been released by the FBI.

01:34:09.160 And so, that's the original image right there.

01:34:13.260 And then, let's show the new image that's been released.

01:34:16.020 This clearer image that is zoomed in.

01:34:19.860 The tighter, clearer image.

01:34:22.320 If we don't have it, we don't have it.

01:34:23.480 But those are the images that were released earlier.

01:34:28.600 We're trying to get a sense of this right now.

01:34:32.060 Okay, here's the new image that's been released.

01:34:34.840 Mike, as you look at the situation, what do you make of the fact that the shooter is

01:34:40.800 still at large?

01:34:44.880 Hustled.

01:34:47.580 I know that this is the most wanted person on earth.

01:34:52.560 I have faith in Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Pam Bondi, to make sure this killer is brought

01:35:00.180 to justice. 0.98

01:35:00.820 And I want the slowest, most painful, most gruesome, most public execution of this man 0.99

01:35:13.880 possible. 0.99

01:35:15.780 I want a video that I am.

01:35:16.960 Well, we certainly have to...

01:35:18.780 Look, I'm...

01:35:21.280 Emotionally, I know exactly where you're coming from.

01:35:23.520 And obviously, cross our T's, dot our I's, but look, I get it.

01:35:32.800 Something has to give.

01:35:34.700 A line was crossed yesterday that we can't go back from.

01:35:41.380 We can't go back from the...

01:35:48.380 We can never turn back into the America that we were before we lost Charlie Kirk, but we

01:35:56.480 can still move forward to become something good, because that's what Charlie stood for.

01:36:04.460 But make no mistake, we were robbed yesterday.

01:36:11.780 Erica Kirk was robbed yesterday.

01:36:16.140 Charlie's children were robbed yesterday.

01:36:19.900 And there is now a debt.

01:36:22.760 There is a debt that must be paid.

01:36:25.980 And it will be.

01:36:30.700 But as for Charlie's kids...

01:36:33.420 I'm going to make sure that they knew who their father was.

01:36:40.520 Because I'm going to make sure to tell them myself.

01:36:45.100 I'm going to tell them who Charlie was.

01:36:46.480 We are heading on campus here momentarily at the University of South Florida, throwing

01:36:54.420 it down with the students.

01:36:56.520 It's going to be a lot of fun.

01:36:57.940 We are excited to continue this cultural movement that we have started at Turning Point USA.

01:37:02.960 More high school chapters, more college chapters.

01:37:06.260 And disagreement is not just welcome, it is invited.

01:37:09.340 We want to have those tough conversations.

01:37:11.180 That's what it's all about.

01:37:16.480 Every day, the American people demand certain accomplishments and victories.

01:37:27.060 Disagreement is what keeps a movement alive, keeps a movement fun.

01:37:31.000 Here in this country, we are a country of flourishing.

01:37:34.540 We're a country of risk-taking.

01:37:36.360 We're a country of building.

01:37:38.160 We will achieve American greatness.

01:37:40.480 And we are just getting started.

01:37:46.480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard.

01:38:02.100 Today's edition, Human Events Daily.

01:38:06.260 We are live in Washington, D.C.

01:38:09.320 Today is September 11th, 2025, Anno Domini.

01:38:17.300 And even though this is Human Events Daily, this is actually functioning as the third hour

01:38:24.620 of the Charlie Kirk Memorial Show, which we've been holding the fort down for Charlie while

01:38:35.900 he's on assignment with God.

01:38:39.320 And we have this incredible live shot I want to pull up right here for you right now outside of TPUSA headquarters

01:38:47.660 where one of these makeshift, organic, spontaneous vigils has been directed for Charlie right outside the headquarters there

01:39:01.020 where well-wishers, people are coming to pray, people are gathering.

01:39:05.960 And that's who Charlie was.

01:39:10.400 He was a gatherer of people.

01:39:13.480 Or as the gospel says, fisher of men.

01:39:19.380 What does our Lord say?

01:39:20.600 He says, come with me and I will make you a fisher of men. 0.77

01:39:25.060 And that's exactly what he did with Charlie.

01:39:29.940 The Lord made Charlie a fisher of men.

01:39:33.760 And now he has another task for him.

01:39:38.760 We can't understand it.

01:39:41.340 And we won't understand it.

01:39:44.160 You don't get answers this side of perdition.

01:39:46.540 That's not how it works.

01:39:47.520 But what I do know is that God sent Charlie Kirk to America when America needed a Charlie Kirk.

01:39:59.300 And it's been the finest honor of my life to stand shoulder to shoulder with a man like that

01:40:09.500 and to fight for this country, to fight for our Lord, to stand in the breach.

01:40:17.820 And if Charlie was willing to do that, then we need to be willing to do that for him

01:40:27.780 and to continue his work and continue his mission to carry the torch, to honor the legacy.

01:40:36.920 Turning Point USA was never about Charlie Kirk.

01:40:39.460 Turning Point Action was never about Charlie Kirk.

01:40:42.900 He was the brains behind it, the energy, the drive.

01:40:45.600 But it was never about himself.

01:40:48.040 It was about you.

01:40:49.860 It was about the people.

01:40:51.140 It was about students.

01:40:52.320 It was about ideas.

01:40:53.720 It was about values.

01:40:54.980 Eternal values.

01:40:56.680 Timeless values.

01:40:57.720 Classic values.

01:40:58.400 The American values.

01:40:59.640 The American way.

01:41:03.500 And he worked his whole life.

01:41:05.180 Dedicated his entire life.

01:41:06.460 And he gave his life.

01:41:09.080 Gave his life.

01:41:13.840 To achieving that turning point.

01:41:15.600 In America.

01:41:19.040 That's what he was always fighting for.

01:41:20.980 And he has done it.

01:41:22.720 He has absolutely done it.

01:41:26.340 I'm told we have another one of Charlie's and my close friends now joining us.

01:41:32.860 Raheem Kassam from the National Pulse.

01:41:35.900 Raheem, we've got about two minutes left in the break, or until the break, but I'll hold you over.

01:41:40.080 You just come back to the United States. 0.80

01:41:44.020 I can't imagine that you thought you'd be arriving with news like this.

01:41:49.560 Yeah, Jack, and you know, what I want to say as well, firstly, for the audience, is, you know, for people like Jack, for people like Tyler, for people like Andrew, who are not just colleagues of Charlie's, but really, really close friends.

01:42:13.040 I would just want to express, you know, my deepest consolation to you guys.

01:42:17.360 There's no way to, you know, I've lost a lot of friends in recent years.

01:42:20.880 There's no way to comfort and console, especially with an incident as horrific as this.

01:42:25.700 But landing back in the United States and, you know, having Wi-Fi on the plane and sort of seeing it all take place and feeling helpless to do anything.

01:42:35.740 And, you know, I knew Charlie and just disbelief, right?

01:42:41.180 I was texting with a friend of mine, a reporter friend of mine, while it was all happening, while, you know, in that fog of war moments immediately after.

01:42:49.060 And I just said, you know, can you believe it? And he said, no. And then he replied, yes, because that's where we are.

01:42:57.380 And people like you and I, we talk about this all the time, right?

01:43:00.400 We talk about our safety. We talk about going to these events.

01:43:03.460 People don't realize just how much it comes up, how often it comes up.

01:43:08.360 Now, I hope people won't forget, you know, just how much, you know, somebody like Charlie puts themselves out there for the country, for his family, for his faith every single day.

01:43:17.080 You know, just how much stress and risk and concern and worry and everything that there is.

01:43:24.680 And it's very, very hard to talk about it.

01:43:30.760 That's exactly right. And it's been, I think it's been a rough night for America.

01:43:35.000 It's been a rough night for all of us who knew Charlie, who were close to Charlie.

01:43:41.400 Raheem, tell us, tell us, you know, you always have such a good way of putting things.

01:43:47.080 You know, I've got right here on my desk one of the ubiquitous Turning Point USA MAGA hats that Charlie signed.

01:43:57.260 And it's and it's here and it's it's a testament to the legacy of this man that he would go on these campuses and draw thousands of people, students.

01:44:09.000 And Raheem, it wasn't always like that on college campus.

01:44:12.980 It certainly wasn't when Charlie started, when either of us got started.

01:44:16.800 Tell us about this incredible effect that he achieved.

01:44:21.340 Yeah. You know, when I when I first met Charlie, I think it was over at the old Trump Hotel in D.C.

01:44:28.300 And, you know, you try and get a measure of a person as quickly as possible.

01:44:31.300 And I thought to myself, you know, is this just your sort of run of the mill politico trying to carve a niche out for themselves in Washington, D.C.?

01:44:38.580 Perhaps run for a seat somewhere and then, you know, sell out their principles.

01:44:42.260 And Charlie couldn't have been the more polar opposite of that.

01:44:45.140 Right. You could sort of tell that immediately.

01:44:47.300 Everything he did was with drive and with passion and with love and with charm and with help and with respect and with faith and with heart and with principle and with courage.

01:44:55.660 And, you know, I pride myself on having words, you know, knowing the best words.

01:45:01.180 But I can't I can't there aren't any enough to describe, you know, when you were feeling when I would feel lazy or down and I was doing Charlie's show, you know, in the breaks, he'd just be like, yeah.

01:45:13.820 So anyway, so we're going to do this. Let's talk about that.

01:45:16.220 Let's talk about how we get there.

01:45:17.300 There was none of this waste of time, waste of life, kvetching at things and wringing your hands over stuff.

01:45:24.560 He was just he was just such a remarkable doer.

01:45:27.420 He you know what? The irony of ironies, he understood the finitude of the time we all have.

01:45:33.340 And he put every second to use in a way that, frankly, embarrasses me and probably embarrasses us all.

01:45:40.980 You know, to say he'll be missed is just a just a heinous understatement.

01:45:45.920 You know, Jack, it's it really, truly is.

01:45:51.280 I don't go in for hyperbole. You know that.

01:45:54.020 I'm a very realistic person, but it really, truly is one of the one of the worst things that could have that anybody could ever, ever told me would happen is that has happened.

01:46:03.680 It is. And it is it is absolutely the worst.

01:46:08.580 And yet I see I suppose I see there's two tracks right now that I see happening.

01:46:14.680 I see the vast majority of people are choosing to embrace the love and the light that Charlie Kirk stood for.

01:46:23.740 He was he was he was always the the one who was always looking to find a positive edge, a way to put a positive spin on no matter what happened.

01:46:33.480 He was he was was endlessly optimistic.

01:46:36.380 And yet. And you and you have seen this outpouring across the aisle and really across the world, international leaders singing his praises, calling out political violence.

01:46:48.600 And yet in the initial wake of this, we also saw horrific comments about Charlie being made from major cable networks, major figures.

01:47:02.100 And although that has been tamped down on very quickly, we still see this across much of certain parts of social media, blue sky, tick tock, where people are cheering, people are celebrating.

01:47:16.480 What? What? Yeah. What are we going to make of the book?

01:47:19.700 Right. I mean, you wrote the book on this this narrative and this the way these people behave.

01:47:25.040 And there's no there's no other way to describe it. 0.84

01:47:27.680 You know, these are these are cockroaches of life. 1.00

01:47:30.160 These are the scum of the earth. And I'm you know, people have been texting me the last 24 hours. 0.99

01:47:35.920 Just, you know, be careful when you're out there, when you're doing things.

01:47:38.440 And I just you know, I'm not going to worry about these cockroaches, quite frankly, I'm going to keep doing what Charlie would have wanted us to do,

01:47:44.300 we just keep working for the for the right cause. And, you know, I'm flying out tomorrow to Indiana with Senator Jim Banks and Alex Brusewitz.

01:47:51.840 And we're doing an event out there. And this you know, you're not going to stop us.

01:47:55.880 You're not going to put fear into us. You're not going to cow us. We're not afraid.

01:47:58.900 I've lived with this for 20 years now. You know, it's it's it's it's you put your hat into this ring.

01:48:05.660 These are the these are the stakes. You asked about college campuses and I didn't I didn't get to it because I was very publicly grieving.

01:48:11.820 But, you know, nobody had a bigger impact. Nobody had a bigger impact on America's youth.

01:48:17.720 This is what this was about. Right. This is about jealousy. This is about envy. 0.74

01:48:21.680 You know, Charlie Cook was targeted and assassinated because he wanted to keep deranged men out of his daughter's bathroom.

01:48:28.860 He was targeted because he believed in Jesus Christ.

01:48:32.140 He was targeted because he believed in freedom and free speech and free expression.

01:48:36.540 He was targeted because he believed in the Constitution.

01:48:40.240 He was targeted because he believed in the right to life.

01:48:42.440 He was targeted because he believed in doing the right thing.

01:48:46.520 And we will never stop doing the right thing.

01:48:49.440 You can come for all of us. But this movement is bigger than any single one of us.

01:48:54.380 And Charlie would be the first one to say so.

01:48:57.840 Now we all you know, there should be monuments going up to Charlie Kirk all across the country over the next few months.

01:49:02.640 That's what I will say. But I think right now we all have to be monuments to Charlie Kirk.

01:49:06.920 I am. I actually got a message from a he hasn't said it publicly yet, but so I won't I won't name names, but someone most people know and he he he thinks that perhaps a national park is in order.

01:49:27.440 And time it with the 250th celebration of America, Utah, perhaps Utah, Arizona, you know, wherever wherever is most appropriate, obviously work with the family on all of this.

01:49:44.240 But I think that's something that would just be an incredible legacy, because not everybody knew this about Charlie, but he loved the outdoors.

01:49:51.900 He loved being outside. He loved hiking.

01:49:54.360 It's one of the things that he loved about Arizona.

01:49:56.560 That's why he made it his home. He's not a native born son of Arizona, but it's something that he just loved so much.

01:50:03.380 Loved hiking, Utah, as well, where he where he met his destiny.

01:50:10.380 And there's something about naming a national park that I think is just it's it's so eternal.

01:50:17.020 It's so eternal. And it's it's certainly something I'd love to see.

01:50:21.560 And then obviously, in conjunction with the family and their wishes that I think I think it would certainly be appropriate.

01:50:28.380 And and many of these things are appropriate. But, you know, Raheem, before we before we go down that road, we still have to deal with the matter at hand that unfortunately, we do still have a developing news situation where.

01:50:45.200 We're. At the same time that all these vigils are taking place.

01:50:50.820 This shooter is still at large.

01:50:52.320 And yet the vigils. Actually, let me say this for a second.

01:50:55.940 These vigils are taking place even though the shooter is still at large, even though they know that there is a killer at large.

01:51:04.600 Who shot Charlie Kirk. These people are not being cowed.

01:51:09.820 They're not being afraid. They're standing up. They're being bold.

01:51:13.880 They're going out and they're gathering in Charlie's name, despite the fact that the shooter is still at large.

01:51:23.400 I'm sorry, Raheem.

01:51:24.900 Yeah, no, I agree with you. And to come back on another point, you know, they're building they're building a ballroom in the White House and and it will need a forever name.

01:51:35.340 And they named the they named the press briefing room after after James Brady, who was shot in in Reagan's Secret Service detail.

01:51:47.120 And he went on to advocate for gun control.

01:51:53.020 And I think to bring a semblance of balance, if you're not going to rename the Brady press briefing room, then then have have the Charlie Kirk ballroom on the White House grounds.

01:52:03.640 I think for a man who gave so much to his country and I was I was at the Reform Party conference, you know, Nigel Farage's party last week in England.

01:52:12.600 And I just can't tell you the number of people that came up to me, young people who came up to me and said, oh, you know, Raheem, I think it's great.

01:52:20.520 I love Real America's voice and War Room.

01:52:23.460 But what I really love is Charlie Kirk.

01:52:25.780 You know, it's always the same way.

01:52:28.920 You know, we like everything you do.

01:52:30.860 What we really love is Charlie Kirk.

01:52:33.240 And I think that's because, you know, I'll be very honest about it.

01:52:35.540 But as a more sober figure, Charlie was always more action oriented.

01:52:41.540 You know, he's always had more energy.

01:52:43.140 He always had more drive.

01:52:44.180 He always had more purpose.

01:52:45.020 He was always giving you things to do and finding places for people.

01:52:49.780 You know, often political movements and political friendships and groups and whatever can be quite exclusionary.

01:52:55.400 He was always about bringing people in.

01:52:56.800 I can't tell you the number of times where I picked a particularly unpopular position, even on the political right.

01:53:02.280 And Charlie had my back.

01:53:03.580 And he was always for making sure we could find room for people in the movement and find things for them to do.

01:53:09.920 Never, hey, sorry, we don't need your help.

01:53:11.840 Or, hey, we're full.

01:53:13.240 It was, no, yes, more shoulders to the wheel.

01:53:16.140 You get over here.

01:53:16.880 Do this thing.

01:53:17.420 What do you get at?

01:53:18.140 Let's put you to work over here. 1.00

01:53:19.760 And again, there was never a wasted moment.

01:53:22.700 It always left me awestruck and frankly quite envious that he had those energy levels and he had that ability.

01:53:29.680 Because, you know, if we had, gosh, just a few more, there would be no problem that we couldn't solve.

01:53:38.620 But we had just one and he was taken from us.

01:53:41.360 So we have to, have to, have to.

01:53:44.280 And I know, you know, I know that the Turning Point people and the people that you have working there and the people, and especially I want to say this, right?

01:53:52.900 And I don't work for Turning Point doesn't mean anything to me to say this.

01:53:56.500 I don't want people to go away thinking like, oh, he was fundraising off this.

01:53:59.460 No, I want you to support Turning Point, Charlie's group, Charlie's family, and help them grow and help train more because we need more now.

01:54:08.120 We especially need more now.

01:54:09.660 So if you're looking for something to do in this moment, go and support Charlie's endeavors, his causes, his groups, his people.

01:54:15.800 Because that is what, that is what the right thing to do is in this moment, is to lift these people up.

01:54:23.600 And it's what Charlie would have wanted.

01:54:26.240 And his, his events, AmFest, which was his baby AmericaFest, it's, it's got to be a tribute.

01:54:34.180 It's, it's just got to be, again, you know, barring, uh, in consultation with the family, but it's, it's got to be the biggest tribute to Charlie Kirk that this country has ever seen.

01:54:47.800 And the biggest event where everyone, I just, I just want everyone to be there to see that we will not be scared.

01:54:56.160 We will not be cowed.

01:54:57.340 We're not going to put our hands, our heads in the sand.

01:54:59.880 Of course, we have JD Vance, Air Force Two now on its way over, pick up Charlie and give him one last ride.

01:55:10.640 And, you know, Raheem, it's something you mentioned about, about young people.

01:55:14.200 I'm getting text messages from people who have children who are 11, 12, 13, 14, not even voting age.

01:55:25.400 And people telling me that my, my son cried himself to sleep, to sleep last night.

01:55:33.500 This, this is a generational moment.

01:55:38.760 Something that I don't even think that we, uh, you and I being a little bit of the older cohort here, at least in terms of this, I don't even think we realize the deep affection that, that this generation had for Charlie.

01:55:54.840 I, I don't even know who to compare it to.

01:55:56.840 I couldn't even, I can't even think I've been trying to rack my mind to compare it to someone, but he really was an icon for the youth.

01:56:05.280 Yeah, I, I mean, just undoubtedly, undoubtedly, the number, the sheer number and the fact that it resonates all across the world.

01:56:16.440 We've had, you know, unfortunately failed attempts to honor him in the European Parliament. 0.99

01:56:21.660 They, they wouldn't allow for it because they're scumbags. 0.96

01:56:25.480 Um, but in the British Parliament today with Nigel Farage, tributes pouring in from obviously all around the world, from Brazil and from El Salvador and from Korea and you name it. 0.98

01:56:35.220 There isn't a single place really on God's green earth that has been untouched.

01:56:40.220 And it's, it's wild when you think about it because number one, he was so young and number two, you know, the political left, his, his philosophical enemies put so much work into trying to tamp down on his activity and to demonize him and to discredit him and to mock and humiliate him.

01:56:59.620 And it was just, Jack, it was just a couple of weeks ago when he was on South Park, you know, and, and we were all sort of saying, you know, wow.

01:57:08.440 I mean, that's the big, the biggest of the big leagues that you could possibly get.

01:57:13.580 Yeah.

01:57:13.980 And I'm just going to say this by the way, that I know that I've seen this news that they have pulled the episode, but I'm just going to say it.

01:57:22.180 Haven't talked to Charlie liked the episode.

01:57:23.940 He liked what they did.

01:57:24.880 He liked the way they portrayed him.

01:57:26.600 He, he, he had a good laugh about it.

01:57:28.720 But that, that's how he was.

01:57:30.100 I don't know.

01:57:31.880 I mean, I can understand it's their decision, but I just, I just know that that's the way Charlie responded to it because we talked about it and he thought it was funny.

01:57:40.660 Raheem, we've got to let you go because we do have to take a break and we have some folks coming up.

01:57:45.940 Where can people go to follow you?

01:57:47.260 And obviously you've got a lot of reporting coming out.

01:57:50.640 Yeah.

01:57:50.840 Look, as I say, Jack today, I really don't want anybody following me or anything like that.

01:57:56.580 I want you all to take this moment in the break to go to turning point and say a prayer, especially for Charlie's family, especially for the people around him and donate to that group so they can rebuild from what is, you know, a horrific loss.

01:58:11.280 And Jack, you as well, you know, my number, anything you guys need in this time, I'm here for you.

01:58:18.440 God bless Raheem.

01:58:19.520 Thank you so much.

01:58:20.220 We'll be right back.

01:58:21.420 Jack Posovic, Charlie Kirk Memorial Show.

01:58:23.020 We'll be right back.

01:58:53.020 Welcome to AmericaFest, everybody.

01:59:01.020 Thank you, Charlie.

01:59:02.860 Thank you, Charlie.

01:59:07.060 Thank you, Charlie.

01:59:09.800 Thank you, Charlie.

01:59:12.500 Thank you, Charlie.

01:59:15.180 Thank you, Charlie.

01:59:16.360 Thank you, everybody.

01:59:17.360 The real thank you is the Turning Point team that worked their tail off this last year.

01:59:21.340 That's who you should be applauding.

01:59:22.420 By the way, I like this touch.

01:59:25.900 Look at all these students that we have at Turning Point.

01:59:27.840 You look at this.

01:59:29.700 I like that.

01:59:34.800 They helped win the election, everybody.

01:59:36.920 Young people moved by 30 points this election cycle.

01:59:39.640 I'll tell you what.

01:59:43.240 The kids are all right.

01:59:44.440 Welcome, everybody.

01:59:46.140 It feels good.

01:59:47.140 It feels good.

01:59:56.180 Jack Posovic, we're back live.

01:59:57.800 We're here.

01:59:59.200 You're looking at a live shot of Turning Point headquarters where the memorial for Charlie Kirk, one of the many memorials, is now up.

02:00:08.000 And we have this live shut up of people.

02:00:11.220 And they just haven't stopped coming all day.

02:00:13.700 They haven't stopped coming all day.

02:00:15.000 I've been watching this shot for three hours now.

02:00:17.680 I think some of these people haven't left for that entire time.

02:00:21.020 I wanted to bring on our next guest, special guest.

02:00:25.620 Also, he's in Washington, D.C., along with myself, the Associate Deputy Attorney General, Ed Martin.

02:00:34.360 Ed, how are you?

02:00:36.740 Well, Jack, I'm okay.

02:00:38.360 It's always good to see you.

02:00:39.520 You're an old friend.

02:00:40.260 It gives me some comfort.

02:00:41.440 But I know your heart is broken and mine is.

02:00:43.940 And I'm in one of those moments for your listeners that are younger that maybe didn't live through 9-11 or other things.

02:00:51.780 You just almost, there's an unreal feel to it, right?

02:00:55.620 It doesn't feel, it feels like you shake your head and wake up, but it was a dream.

02:00:59.380 And that part of it is just, you know, it's terrible.

02:01:03.200 So it's always good to see you.

02:01:04.960 It's always good to talk to and be with listeners and especially Charlie's great audience.

02:01:09.620 It's always special, but it's a haunting day.

02:01:12.660 It's really tough.

02:01:13.360 You know, Ed, I was just thinking about when we were putting the call out to see who we'd get together for this memorial show.

02:01:23.140 And every single person we reached out to said yes.

02:01:26.120 And then other people heard about it and wanted to get on and be a part of it.

02:01:31.380 And then when your name came up and I said, it just clicked.

02:01:34.480 And I said, wait a minute.

02:01:36.460 And it's something I haven't thought about in years.

02:01:38.080 But it was at an event with Ed Martin, an Eagle Forum event, I don't even know how many years ago now, that I met Charlie.

02:01:49.080 And out there in St. Louis.

02:01:52.300 And I remember being there and our first son had just been born.

02:01:59.720 He was only a couple of months old.

02:02:01.020 And Tanya was there.

02:02:03.380 And I remember you coming to me and saying, hey, Jack, I know you have a car here.

02:02:08.900 Would you mind picking somebody up at the airport?

02:02:11.180 And I said, I said, who is it?

02:02:12.940 You know, and he wanted to use me as a gopher.

02:02:16.360 And I said, who is it?

02:02:17.820 And he said, well, it's this guy, Charlie Kirk.

02:02:20.440 He's coming in and he was still flying commercial and still just kind of riding coach, you know.

02:02:25.800 And he says, and I said, oh, yeah, yeah, I think I follow that guy on Twitter.

02:02:30.780 Let me go pick him up.

02:02:31.700 And that's where I met Charlie.

02:02:34.660 Yeah.

02:02:35.220 Well, a couple of things on that.

02:02:36.700 One is, as you know, we all met Charlie Kirk.

02:02:40.160 And then in many ways that we all acknowledge, he sort of outshined us all, outgrew us all.

02:02:46.900 I mean, one of the really funny things is when you have somebody who's so capable and talented and, you know, 25 years younger than me.

02:02:53.400 And I learned from him and, like, so he was extraordinary.

02:02:56.840 I will give a little hat tip.

02:02:58.460 Phyllis Schlafly, who founded Eagle Forum and was my mentor, she was really good at bringing people together.

02:03:04.260 And one of the things that happened with Charlie is we could get together and you and others.

02:03:08.880 That was an extraordinary time.

02:03:10.540 And we all grew together and we kind of grew up.

02:03:13.320 But it was that was awesome.

02:03:15.000 And Phyllis was great at that. 1.00

02:03:16.060 But that's the thing I've been thinking a lot about, Jack, is we got to watch Charlie grow over these years.

02:03:24.060 And it was something that was so inspiring, meaning when he was 18 and started Turning Point and for maybe till he was like, I don't know, 23 or 24, he was like a young buck.

02:03:34.840 And he was like he was energetic and he was doing lots of things.

02:03:37.880 And he was he had a sort of feel of him that was like contagious.

02:03:42.000 You know, everyone wanted to kind of get near him.

02:03:43.960 But you were like, this guy's almost like a college kid.

02:03:46.580 And then he grew and then he was a builder of an organization.

02:03:50.140 And then suddenly he was this mature leader.

02:03:54.060 I think his wife played a role and then having kids played a role.

02:03:57.160 And by the time I mean, I can't even say it.

02:04:00.420 By the time he's gone, he was this extraordinary presence as a builder, as a charismatic person, as a father, as a Christian and as a communicator.

02:04:12.540 And to see that he like lived his life.

02:04:16.020 We all saw it.

02:04:17.460 And he most of us don't succeed like he did.

02:04:21.000 We kind of go in fits and starts.

02:04:22.940 You know, you have some things that go well and some things that don't.

02:04:25.160 He had this kind of gradual success that has been extraordinary to see.

02:04:30.040 And as he got bigger and better, more successful, what he somehow did was he really honed in on other people.

02:04:39.600 I was at the White House today and I had someone tell me who was not a big name or anything, not somebody, you know, or anybody, you know.

02:04:45.500 And she said he was so good at making you feel special.

02:04:49.840 And I have had a privilege of knowing John Paul II and Mother Teresa and, you know, the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

02:04:58.080 One of the gifts that people have that are truly special is that they make the other person feel valuable, valued.

02:05:07.580 And when you heard Charlie in some of the clips talking about everyone's made in the image and likeness of God, if you really believe that, then sunsets and mountains are extraordinary, a part of God's creation.

02:05:20.300 But any person, and you see this on Charlie with these crazy lefties that would talk to him, he just loved it.

02:05:27.000 He loved people.

02:05:28.060 He loved those people.

02:05:29.540 And that shined through him.

02:05:32.000 And it's extraordinary to realize.

02:05:35.300 And I'm rambling because I can't stand it, Jack, but it's a wonderful thing to have had Charlie Kirk in our lives.

02:05:46.440 And it's a tribute to America that Charlie Kirk has created.

02:05:50.780 I mean, it's an extraordinary gift.

02:05:55.800 Amen.

02:05:56.680 Ed Martin, God bless to you.

02:05:58.380 God bless to everyone at the White House and everyone for everything that they're doing for Charlie's memory and for the family.

02:06:08.860 Thank you, Ed, for joining us.

02:06:10.760 God bless you.

02:06:12.800 All right, folks, right back.

02:06:13.720 Jack Sobik.

02:06:14.320 Jack Sobik.

02:06:28.380 Jack Sobik, we are back live here at the Charlie Kirk Memorial Show.

02:06:36.720 You're looking at a live shot there at Turning Point USA headquarters.

02:06:43.760 And we've been bringing on all of the posse here on the show today and finally tracked down the elusive Blake Neff.

02:06:55.600 Blake is joining us now here on the program.

02:06:59.880 And Blake actually was not only there in Salt Lake City, but was there on the campus yesterday when all this happened.

02:07:11.380 Blake, first of all, man, how are you?

02:07:15.340 I mean, given the totality of everything that's going on, I'm doing about as well as I can.

02:07:21.840 It's awful.

02:07:23.580 I'm very numb about everything.

02:07:26.040 But you know what?

02:07:27.560 You know what Charlie would want us to do.

02:07:28.900 He would want us to suit up, soldier on.

02:07:32.080 And that's what that's what we all intend to do.

02:07:34.140 Yeah, I mean, it's it's that's the talking to just everybody last night and you and I spoke briefly and, you know, going around the horn.

02:07:43.060 It's it's it's the one thing that nobody has any question of is what Charlie would want us to do.

02:07:49.040 He would just say, keep going.

02:07:51.440 He would keep going.

02:07:53.340 Just keep going.

02:07:54.400 That's here you go.

02:07:55.640 Here's the baton.

02:07:56.220 It's yours now.

02:07:56.700 Keep going this.

02:07:58.000 And that's and that's that's who he was.

02:07:59.800 He didn't, you know, even people talk about his Saturday off.

02:08:03.740 And he didn't even really take the day off.

02:08:06.280 He's always he's out hiking.

02:08:07.780 He's out, you know, working on something else.

02:08:09.680 It's it was the most like aggressive day off possible.

02:08:12.920 It is like this is yes, the family day all in on this.

02:08:17.260 Like it is not this is not a passive day off.

02:08:20.680 It's not it was it was part of the totality of who was Charlie Kirk, that he was 100 percent on the mission at all times.

02:08:28.420 And sometimes that mission was saving America.

02:08:30.460 And sometimes that mission was Charlie Kirk's family.

02:08:33.300 And he was 100 percent for both of those things all the way to the end.

02:08:39.680 So, I mean, Blake, look, you were there yesterday.

02:08:42.860 Obviously, there's some I'm sure there's some sensitive stuff that I don't I don't want to get into until the appropriate time.

02:08:48.520 But, you know, what was it?

02:08:51.320 I mean, you go there, you've been to, you know, how many of Charlie's campus events at, you know, what was it like?

02:08:57.320 Did you sense that something was off before the gunshot rang out?

02:09:02.480 Kind of paint the picture for us.

02:09:04.920 You know, I don't want to I don't want to lead too much into it.

02:09:08.100 But after it happened, I talked to some other members of the team and several of us did say we we experienced some sort of unsettling feeling.

02:09:18.000 I think for me, it was that it was in this amphitheater, which really emphasized like the size of the crowd.

02:09:24.220 But also it emphasized, you know, the buildings in the background.

02:09:28.180 And actually, for the first few minutes, you know, before Charlie walked out, I remember I was scanning.

02:09:33.420 I was just looking around idly like, oh, where would someone be if something happened?

02:09:37.880 And I didn't think too much of it.

02:09:39.980 I stopped, you know, by the time Charlie came out.

02:09:42.280 But I immediately thought back to that as soon as it happened.

02:09:46.280 When it did, I was about I would say I was about 10 feet to Charlie's left when it happened.

02:09:51.320 And it was just it's, you know, one of those moments that will crystallize in your mind forever.

02:09:56.920 You know, you hear that the pop and it's not completely clear immediately what it is.

02:10:01.640 But then I I looked to my right and I saw immediately what it was and I'll never forget it.

02:10:10.160 No. And was there was there a thought?

02:10:14.120 I mean, obviously, Charlie's got great security that that I know got what got to him immediately.

02:10:20.220 These guys are incredibly well trained.

02:10:22.240 I know Dan and I know everybody, I know the whole team.

02:10:24.800 And I'm sure they got him the medical attention immediately that he needed, got him where he, you know,

02:10:30.780 to hire medical facilities at the hospital.

02:10:35.360 And, you know, just so when that happened, you know, is it.

02:10:40.880 Did it did it seem surreal in the sense that it seemed like Butler?

02:10:44.420 Did it seem like everyone sort of, you know, you know, scatters or was it just just just kind of as confusing as it sounds?

02:10:53.520 It was definitely confusing, but it was also, you know, it was how to describe it.

02:10:59.680 It was clear what had happened.

02:11:01.040 There was there was only one shot.

02:11:04.360 We all immediately saw what had happened.

02:11:06.600 You're correct.

02:11:07.240 The security got him immediately, got him into the car immediately, got him out immediately.

02:11:11.720 They could not have done their job on that front any better.

02:11:14.560 And then at that point, it was, you know, what do we do?

02:11:20.080 And I know on my end, I think the first thing I did was I sent a message to I opened telegram and I went to our turning point thing and I said, lockdown turning point.

02:11:32.200 And I imagine they'd already seen it, too.

02:11:34.240 But I just said, lock it down.

02:11:36.400 Something happened.

02:11:37.140 Do it right ASAP.

02:11:38.640 And then I'll be honest.

02:11:40.320 I called my mom because I didn't know if there would be anyone else out there, if anything else would happen.

02:11:45.060 So I just called my mom and said immediately, I can't say more.

02:11:48.640 But mom, Charlie got shot.

02:11:50.480 I love you.

02:11:51.200 I have to go.

02:11:51.820 And then from there, I met up with some other members of the team.

02:11:56.040 We got to the hospital within, I'd say, about 25 minutes or so.

02:12:01.860 And the rest of the day unfolded from there.

02:12:06.760 You know, Blake, you, you know, as a producer for Charlie, you worked so closely with him every single day and directly on, you know, so much of the content that.

02:12:20.360 That's we all got to experience and enjoy as as the beneficiaries of this work.

02:12:28.680 I mean, what's what's running through your mind now in terms of.

02:12:33.400 Not having Charlie.

02:12:36.840 It really does.

02:12:39.140 It's painful to say, but he is he is irreplaceable and people would ask about this and I would say Charlie is not he's not just a show host.

02:12:48.140 And that was what stood out about him.

02:12:49.680 It's that he could be in everything.

02:12:52.160 He was a guy in media.

02:12:54.320 He was in, you know, an organization builder.

02:12:57.340 He could do get out the vote.

02:12:58.500 He could do grassroots outreach.

02:13:00.320 He could do, you know, he cared about all of the policy stuff.

02:13:03.940 So he could go into the White House and talk to them about appointments, about policy, about what the Senate should be doing.

02:13:09.220 He went.

02:13:10.500 He was in every part of it because he cared about all of it so much.

02:13:14.220 You know, the world of politics is so it's full of a lot of people who are in it for, you know, they care a bit about, you know, the issues, but they also care about themselves, about getting famous, about getting rich, about resolving some grievance.

02:13:29.760 But Charlie, every single day, he was going all out for the things he cared about the most, which was how does he make America better?

02:13:35.440 And also that he was a man of, you know, deep Christian faith and he wanted to advance Christianity.

02:13:43.100 He wanted a spiritual revival in America.

02:13:45.440 And what, truthfully, what I kept thinking of after the news broke was just before this tour happened, Charlie did a quick visit to Korea and Japan.

02:13:56.320 He gave some speeches there.

02:13:58.680 And so the last kind of normal, you know, the last speech he gave was in Japan.

02:14:04.460 And this is to an audience of conservative Japanese people.

02:14:07.660 They're anti-immigration.

02:14:08.900 They're anti, they're like, they're Japanese nationalists.

02:14:12.560 There's very few Christians in Japan.

02:14:14.500 And I was telling Charlie about that.

02:14:16.060 You know, this is not your normal audience where it's going to be a lot of Christians. 1.00

02:14:18.880 And he said, you know what, Blake, I would still like to provide some witness to Christian faith for these people.

02:14:25.780 Where could we put that in?

02:14:27.660 And we did.

02:14:28.520 And he put it in there.

02:14:31.280 You know, he was saying, you guys have to save your country and you're going to need to believe in something transcendent, something eternal.

02:14:37.280 And for me, that is my faith in Jesus Christ.

02:14:40.640 And so the last speech Charlie gave, he was witnessing to Christianity, to an audience overwhelmingly of non-Christians. 0.97

02:14:49.460 And then the last question he answered before, you know, the one he was answering when the shooting happened, he was talking about his Christian faith with, it was, you know, Mormonism versus Protestantism.

02:15:01.080 But he was witnessing to the gospel there.

02:15:03.060 And I know that if Charlie, you know, if Charlie had to go the way he did, he would have wanted it to be while he was witnessing to Christ in that way.

02:15:16.220 There's no question.

02:15:17.680 There's no question.

02:15:18.820 That's obviously, anyone who spent five minutes with Charlie would know that it's not politics that is his driving force.

02:15:27.520 It's that because he would he'd find a way to switch it to that or once he got to know that you were into it, he would send you, you know, hey, Jack, here's this this five hour course that I'm doing on the book of Genesis.

02:15:39.580 You got it.

02:15:39.920 You got to listen to all five hours.

02:15:41.260 No, let's talk about it.

02:15:42.360 You know, and that's just that's what he that's what he was like.

02:15:45.840 That's that's just what he was like and and constantly on fire for the Lord.

02:15:52.200 And I've said it.

02:15:53.400 I do consider him a Christian martyr.

02:15:55.400 I really do.

02:15:57.520 Yeah, I think that's entirely fair or no, it's just true. 1.00

02:16:02.220 It's true.

02:16:03.100 Charlie Charlie died a martyr for the two things he cared about most.

02:16:07.220 He cared about the Christian religion and he cared about, you know, the freedoms, the Constitution of the United States.

02:16:13.360 He's a martyr to Christianity and he's a martyr to the freedom of speech that he so earnestly believed in the power of, you know, going out, engaging with people.

02:16:24.260 And it wasn't that he had to own every single lib is that, you know, he would always say one of the lines he would do when he was arguing with someone on campus is, you know, we don't have agreement, but we have clarity.

02:16:34.460 And he was always looking for that he believes that when you debate, you learn more about the other person, you understand what motivates them.

02:16:43.040 And that's a deeply humanizing thing about another person.

02:16:46.480 And I think it's so powerfully symbolic of what we are against that it was while he was doing that, that some, this pain would strike him down like that.

02:16:59.040 I know you've got some logistics to run to.

02:17:00.800 We're headed up to break here, but I'll see you soon, man.

02:17:04.360 I just want to let you know, I'll be there.

02:17:06.260 I'll see you soon.

02:17:07.380 Be great.

02:17:23.900 Jack Posobiec, we're here.

02:17:27.180 Human Events Daily, Charlie Kirk Memorial Show, Washington, D.C.

02:17:31.560 And when I look at the tributes coming out, by the way, I have to, something I haven't mentioned, the sports tributes.

02:17:40.740 Charlie was an incredible sports fan and Yankee Stadium put him up something completely outside of politics, but it didn't matter because Charlie was bigger than politics.

02:17:54.820 He was an icon.

02:17:55.800 And he just visited Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs, recently.

02:18:04.260 Dream of his since he was young.

02:18:06.620 Since he was young, but since he was a little boy.

02:18:11.520 And you're starting to see even now athletes.

02:18:15.240 Some people are sending me tweets and messages that are coming in where there were so many people in the sports world, in the corporate world, in the tech world, who were great fans of Charlie.

02:18:29.280 And yet, because of the circumstances of the situation our country is in, they previously were not able to publicly voice that support because of what we've been living through in this country.

02:18:45.400 And that's the saddest part of all, because everything that Charlie Kirk did to get us out of the situation we were in is what led them to do this.

02:18:59.380 They couldn't debate him, so they shot him.

02:19:05.840 I want to bring Libby Emmons on now, editor-in-chief of the Post Millennial and a good friend of Charlie, as well as the editor of Human Events.

02:19:16.660 Libby, how are you holding up?

02:19:19.700 I'm finding this to be a difficult time.

02:19:21.460 I'm sure that it's much more difficult for the people who are close to Charlie, an unforgettable presence.

02:19:27.900 And certainly, this is a loss the world will not soon forget.

02:19:31.960 I think it's really interesting in telling what you're talking about with the sports figures who have come out and given their sadness and shared that grief with the world now that Charlie has passed.

02:19:43.860 And you said something very interesting, which is that a lot of people did not feel that they were able to do that previously.

02:19:50.220 And I think that that attitude, that attitude that we are cowed, that we will not speak out the truth, that we will hide what we really feel and really think, that we will let our blue-haired cousins or our HR departments or anybody else tell us what we can and cannot say, what we can and cannot think.

02:20:13.900 That comes to an end, that comes to an end now, because there is absolutely no good reason when you look back on it, when you look back over the past 10 years or so, there's absolutely no good reason that we shouldn't all have been speaking up and speaking the truth and being honest and direct and forthright this entire time.

02:20:33.320 And if there's anything that we move forward with in terms of something to take from this, it is to speak out, it is to be honest, it is to be direct and forthright with a smile on your face.

02:20:52.000 It is to share the word of God in your actions and in your deeds and to do that unflinchingly, just unflinchingly, no more bowing, no more keeping silent because you're afraid of your friends.

02:21:06.300 Absolutely, that comes to an end right now.

02:21:09.040 If we all just speak up together, if we all have that courage, then they can't take us.

02:21:14.320 Then there's nothing that can be done to silence us because we would be too loud.

02:21:19.520 As loud as a turning point event, frankly, because those things get really loud.

02:21:25.200 Well, that's right.

02:21:26.360 And I know that Charlie would tell us exactly that.

02:21:32.020 If he were here today, he would say, keep going.

02:21:36.100 Be loud.

02:21:37.860 Take up space.

02:21:39.760 Get out there.

02:21:40.480 Show him what you're made of and don't back down because Charlie never backed down.

02:21:47.460 Yeah, no.

02:21:48.040 And this is something I was talking to the human events columnist about.

02:21:50.840 I just never stopped.

02:21:54.040 Yeah, I was talking to the human events columnist and we yesterday had basically started putting together a tribute,

02:22:01.580 something that we, I think, collectively hoped would be a giant get well card that we could send with a big teddy bear and balloons.

02:22:08.740 And that, of course, changed as the day went on.

02:22:12.540 But everybody had something to say.

02:22:14.920 Everybody was touched by Charlie, whether they had met him or not or just been to an event or had seen his clips and seen what he was capable of and seen what he had done.

02:22:25.720 Everyone had something to say.

02:22:27.780 And there was, when I, when I talked to our, you know, columnist chat and I said, you know, we're going to need a column on Charlie and everyone wanted to write it.

02:22:38.780 Literally everyone wanted to write it, you know.

02:22:41.220 And so we gathered, Kenny Cody and I, the opinion editor, we gathered together everybody's thoughts and put that together.

02:22:47.120 And you can read that on humanevents.com.

02:22:50.040 Um, it's something that I think is definitely worth, uh, taking the time to look at.

02:22:56.240 And, um, you know, I certainly hope that it's something that, that Charlie would, would like himself, ideally, you know, that's, that's who it's for.

02:23:06.080 Well, and, and Charlie has just always been such a supporter of the post-millennial, millennial of human events, uh, really integral, a story that we haven't really even told to, you know, taking those platforms to the next level.

02:23:23.900 Just so much that he did behind the scenes to encourage new media, building institutions, taking things to the next level, even stuff that he didn't need his name on, didn't want his name on, didn't, because he wasn't about that.

02:23:37.420 He didn't need his name on everything.

02:23:40.020 He just wanted people to be doing well.

02:23:43.560 And I think that that was sort of, I mean, just one of his many, many incredible talents that he wanted, he truly lived for others and not himself.

02:23:58.380 Yeah, I think that's right.

02:23:59.760 And that story of, of Charlie's hand in the post-millennial and human events and bringing those two properties together and then boosting them and boosting them.

02:24:10.000 And, uh, I'm, uh, I'm forever grateful to Charlie for that and, um, you know, for, uh, making it so that we can have this platform and that all of my staff who are wonderful people are able to, um, speak out and are able to write the truth.

02:24:27.280 I think that's so important.

02:24:29.180 And literally everyone on staff at post-millennial had something positive to say.

02:24:33.740 All of the editors and writers came together and shared their thoughts.

02:24:37.380 And these were all, these were all personal memories, you know?

02:24:41.120 I mean, this isn't just like Charlie Kirk is a great figure and I've seen him from afar.

02:24:45.920 This was Charlie Kirk is someone who touched my life personally.

02:24:49.700 And, um, I, I was very moved by what everyone had to say for that.

02:24:54.880 And thinking back on the times that, um, I, I was on Charlie's show a couple of times.

02:24:59.680 I shared the stage with him once or twice and every single time I was honored to be part of the thing that he was doing, quite frankly, because it always felt like something that was urgent and integral and really important for the future of this country that he loved, that I love, that we all love so much.

02:25:18.560 And when I think back on, you know, those times, he always was so generous with himself, with his intelligence.

02:25:26.560 Uh, he was always direct and just so, just so open and, um, you know, willing to share what he had with everybody.

02:25:34.880 Always willing to share the spotlight too.

02:25:37.220 Always willing to share.

02:25:38.800 Yeah.

02:25:39.520 Libby Emmons, thank you so much for being here today, for sharing your voice.

02:25:44.200 I know it's a tough day to do this.

02:25:46.340 Thank you so much, Jack.

02:25:47.460 I appreciate it.

02:25:48.560 All right, folks, uh, this is not the end of the story.

02:25:54.320 We're going to be wrapping for now, but this isn't, isn't the way the story ends.

02:25:59.600 The story keeps going.

02:26:02.440 The fight keeps going.

02:26:05.160 We stay on mission.

02:26:07.160 We lock in for Charlie.

02:26:11.900 And we will respond to the people who did this.

02:26:18.560 There is a debt.

02:26:21.320 There is a debt.

02:26:24.320 You robbed the world of Charlie.

02:26:26.980 You robbed his family.

02:26:28.980 You robbed his children.

02:26:30.180 And the debt will be paid.

02:26:32.320 And the debt will be paid.

02:26:33.540 It's as simple as that.

02:26:38.260 I wanted to end on this and to say,

02:26:42.060 God bless you, Charlie.

02:26:44.500 I will tell your children who you were.

02:26:47.520 You fought the fight.

02:26:50.260 You died with your boots on.

02:26:52.560 And I know now you are in the presence of the king.

02:26:56.360 Until we meet again, brother.

02:27:03.000 Until we meet again, brother.

02:27:03.020 I will be right back.

02:27:06.840 You are right.

02:27:08.780 Bye.

02:27:09.440 Bye.

02:27:09.780 Bye.

02:27:12.000 Bye.

02:27:12.560 Bye.

02:27:12.960 Bye.

02:27:13.480 Bye.

02:27:14.940 Bye.

02:27:23.280 Bye.

02:27:24.060 Bye.

02:27:24.880 Bye.

02:27:24.980 Bye.

02:27:25.360 Bye.

02:27:25.860 Bye.

02:27:27.640 Bye.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - September 11, 2025

CHARLIE KIRK MEMORIAL SPECIAL

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