Jack Posobiec, a commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran, talks about the tragic loss of his brother, Charlie Kirk, in a shooting that took place in Phoenix, Arizona on September 22, 2025.
00:01:22.180The United States of America will endure.
00:01:25.480For Charlie, we will continue the mission.
00:01:30.340For Charlie, we will end the evil disease that split us and took Charlie from us.
00:01:36.520And for Charlie, Turning Point USA will last forever.
00:01:41.120And we will come to find, we will come to find that in the final moment, that Western civilization was saved through Charlie's sacrifice in the only way possible.
00:01:58.820By returning the people to almighty God.
00:02:08.980For greater love hath no man than this.
00:02:12.360Than he who lay down his life for his friends.
00:02:17.180Are you ready to continue the mission?
00:04:52.900And I see a lot of people misunderstanding the Bible's teaching on this, misunderstanding what Charlie said about this, misunderstanding so much of our Christian duty here.
00:05:06.660There is a difference between the personal and the public.
00:05:12.920You have a personal duty to seek forgiveness.
00:06:44.320And when a life is taken in a war on society, then the only way to protect society and prevent future instances of this is the ultimate punishment.
00:09:42.160Well, he was saying there is like, it's almost, it's disrespectful to a victim to say, like, you can take life endlessly without consequence that you're basically saying, you know, to some extent we view criminal punishments.
00:09:55.160They're not merely a deterrent to future things.
00:09:57.160They are also, you know, they're sort of a tariff, a compensatory thing to reflect like the harm that you have done.
00:10:04.160And we can't undo a harm that is done when you kill somebody, but we can signal that like what you did was an atrocious act.
00:10:11.160And, you know, one of the oldest principles is, you know, if you harm somebody, some harm will be done to you in compensation for this.
00:10:20.160And if you're going to say that you can murder somebody and the compensation for that is you do five years and then you're out on parole, that is sending the message that a life taken is not really that big of a harm, is it?
00:10:33.160So it's about the value of life in society.
00:10:36.160So it's, it's, it's basically saying that society should have a pro-life position that, and, and this is actually consistent.
00:10:43.160So, because I hear this a lot when people talk, I will say, what about abortion?
00:10:46.160I'm saying, well, that's an innocent life.
00:11:14.160And it's like brought up, I feel like it's only brought up by people trying to do like a gotcha to manipulate you.
00:11:19.160And like the, it always comes up with the pro-life thing.
00:11:21.160It always comes up with the pro-life thing where they're like, well, you just don't think the unborn life has any value and you just want to do any gotcha to continue doing abortions because you like that.
00:11:30.160Like, it's always seemed insane to me like, okay, is there tension between like, oh, you say life matters so we shouldn't abort people, but like you're okay with the death penalty versus I guess the opposite is like, it's bad for, the left's position is it's bad to execute criminals, but it's good to execute babies.
00:11:50.160Like I'd love to just, you know, push back on that.
00:11:52.160So, so this is also, and, and walk us back here because I keep getting, I'm blown up by the media today because the media doesn't understand any of this.
00:12:01.160And then they'll say, well, wait a minute, how can you say that you forgive Charlie's killer?
00:12:08.160How can you say that you forgive, but then you also want justice to be done?
00:12:15.160Can the ultimate justice be done because the media doesn't understand Christianity, doesn't understand any of this is very confused and they see opposition there.
00:12:23.160Yeah. Well again, first of all, this is only ever brought up in this context.
00:12:27.160Whereas it seems like they should rationally apply this to anything that we do like, oh, someone steals from you.
00:12:33.160We should forgive those people as well.
00:12:35.160And yet, okay, we do have to punish thieves.
00:12:52.160That's what St. Paul talks about in the letter to the Romans, that the state has been given the sword by God to do justice.
00:12:58.160And like, that is why we must obey, you know, just authority, because they have been empowered by God for the benefit of everyone.
00:13:05.160And, you know, that's actually a great progress.
00:13:08.160A thing that like Christianity embraced and built upon is that old forms of justice were based around revenge, that a wrong done to you is compensated by basically getting revenge from the wronged party.
00:13:20.160Like kind of ancient pagan, like Germanic laws, a lot like that.
00:13:24.160You know, you'd even see that where there actually is no government prosecution of offenses at all.
00:13:44.160And, you know, we have moved beyond that where we say there are, there is a authority that is above, you know, vengeance, that is, its job is to do justice impartially.
00:13:55.160And that is who will have to act here, that we will have an authority, our government that will say, this person did an atrocious act that our society cannot condone.
00:14:05.160And it is Erica Kirk's duty as a Christian believer to forgive her persecutors, the people who took away, the man who took away her husband.
00:14:13.160But it is the state's responsibility to say, we cannot have assassins in our country.
00:18:38.160And, and to your point, whenever they do attempt to, it's to sort of like use the, play these gotcha games on,
00:18:44.160Oh, well the Bible says, welcome the stranger and you're for borders security.
00:18:48.160And it's like, yeah, they don't say you're, you should allow them to invade your country.
00:18:52.160It's that, it's that meme we've all seen where it's just like, I have nothing but contempt for your beliefs, but I don't know your Bible says you have to do this.
00:19:00.160We're coming up on a break here, but we're digging into this because I can already see this fracture going on.
00:19:05.160And I I'd love to just be able to talk about how beautiful and moving the service was yesterday, but, but no, no, I see people trying to twist it and use it for their own devices.
00:19:15.160And I'm not going to let that happen. Jack Posobiec, Blake Neff, human events daily, real America's voice.
00:20:01.160He was one of the reasons that East Palestine is on the map because of the, the fact that he brought me on the show so early on from the ground in East Palestine, Ohio.
00:20:06.160So, you know, those people are very fit.
00:20:07.160I mean, talk about, talk about a story that just changed every, like the entire course of our country was changed by the trajectory of that.
00:20:15.160And you were a huge part of it because you told that story to a mass audience.
00:20:18.160Well, because the mainstream media just didn't want to talk about it.
00:20:20.160So, you know, people like Charlie Kirk, I didn't have a platform at the time.
00:20:22.160That was the first story that I had covered because I didn't live too far away.
00:21:25.160He just, he just showed up and he ended up sitting like right in front of me.
00:21:31.160So, you know, of course I was going to, you know, have a conversation with him at some point.
00:21:36.160Just especially with some of the, I'm not, I'm not going to actually disclose what we talked about,
00:21:43.160but there were some points about Charlie that he was very impressed by.
00:21:48.160I did post a video of him where he was speaking.
00:21:51.160And that's when he first used that quote that Charlie was murdered by the light or by the dark because he was bringing people to the light.
00:21:59.160And, and then he ended up tweeting that line where he was like, yeah, I like that line.
00:22:04.160So that's when that, that tweet went out for him actually saying that, but I thought that was a, a really good line.
00:22:09.160And as many people know, one of Charlie's missions in the past few months was bringing the two back together because these are conservative powerhouses.
00:22:20.160We talked about it all the time with, with Trump and Elon.
00:22:22.160He said, if there's some way we can just bring this back, it's the most powerful political lions and, and they should be together.
00:22:30.160And I know that he wanted that to happen so much.
00:22:33.160Yeah. And I, I was watching Elon's reaction to the speakers.
00:23:58.160And, and we know that when the histories are written, Charlie's sacrifice will have saved the West by the only means possible by returning the people to God.
00:24:11.160And he stood up first out of anybody in the section, he stood up and he clapped for it.
00:24:32.160And, and the fact of the matter is that, and, and, and, you know, obviously thank you to Elon for doing that, but, but it's, it's not just what I said.
00:24:40.160The whole event was, and is now being criticized for and attacked for, for being very just overtly Christian, overtly Christian, overtly Godly, because you know what?
00:24:50.160That's who Charlie Kirk was Christian memorial service held for overtly Christian man who could believe it, who could believe it, but then, you know, even having, but you would see, I could see that, you know, and Elon is always, he's, he's always kind of like on the edge of whatever's going on, you know, the zeitgeist of, of whatever the zeitgeist is.
00:25:09.160And the zeitgeist has been this sort of return to, I guess you could call it public religiosity and the, the use of and embrace of religion in the public square.
00:25:23.160And you can't know, no one looking at Charlie's extraordinary body of work can deny that that's explicitly what Charlie was doing.
00:25:32.160I mean, Blake, you, you worked with him on these.
00:25:34.160No, no, it was so core to his mission.
00:25:36.160And it's exactly like, first of all, it's also what his events often were in life in a more scaled back sense, but he always wanted it to be a bigger and bigger thing.
00:25:45.160He was always a witness to his faith in a very public way.
00:25:48.160And that, that is clearly why we had this incredible global outpouring reaction.
00:25:54.160If Charlie had purely been a politics guy, there would have been a lot of shock.
00:25:58.160There would have been a lot of reaction, but it was the fact that he was simultaneously a Christian witness, so open and proud about it.
00:36:56.160Even, even, uh, even Milo Yiannopoulos tweeted.
00:36:59.160He said, he said, that's the second time I've cried this year.
00:37:02.160I don't see president Trump being a, uh, an emotional guy either.
00:37:07.160And he doesn't put on that public face, but the way that he called her up on stage and embraced her at the end, that was making me tear up for sure.
00:37:14.160I mean, you could tell how much that meant to her, how much that meant to Erica, uh, in that moment.
00:37:18.160And Trump stood up there for what, you know, three, four minutes with her, just her and almost felt like she was a granddaughter to him.
00:38:55.160He said, every time, every time you were coming to an event, if it was turning point, they were like, right up front, bring him up, bring him up, set him up, get him a pass, get him up there.
00:40:06.160And he was, he was training us through those reps.
00:40:09.160It's like, when you go to the gym, you do reps.
00:40:11.160And so it wasn't, it wasn't the crowd that I was, I was worried about or the cameras or any of that.
00:40:21.160I just, I just wanted to do it right for Charlie.
00:40:28.160I just wanted to do, do the job right and give Charlie the honor that he deserved in passing because of the way that he lived because he was our commanding officer because he was my commanding officer.
00:40:45.160And, and also the understanding that this wasn't an accident.
00:40:54.160This was done to him by specific people and a specific series of events.
00:41:00.160And it's, it's that group that's standing between us and actually being able to unite as a country.
00:41:09.160I said, they are splitting Western civilization.
00:41:12.160And I just, I wanted that all to get across and that, that line, I guess, where, you know, if you take Charlie, you take Charlie down, who's going to replace him?
00:41:22.160Every single one of us, every single one of us is going to get up on that line now, because Charlie was able to give us that last extra bit of courage to say, all right, now I'm going to step up.
00:41:36.160And so I knew that Charlie was with us and then, and that it didn't matter what I thought because, because I could hear Charlie's voice in my ear saying, Jack, get out there.
00:41:55.160And like I said, I mean, I thought your speech was great.
00:41:57.160Um, I think, uh, that was probably the message that took away the most, you know, as you saying that, well, you know, all of us are going to replace him.
00:42:05.160And I think everybody's got a piece that they got to bring to the puzzle here that puts it together.
00:42:10.160Um, and I think Erica at the helm is just fantastic.
00:42:13.160No, I mean, Erica is, well, well, well, actually, because, because you've known Erica for, you know, from the events for a while now.
00:42:50.160And it's so, can we expect the same type of media cadence out of her event cadence out of her as we could with Charlie? Probably not. That may not be realistic.
00:43:01.160I'd say, but it, so what's, what's, what's so remarkable about this is you watch someone and you think about it, right?
00:43:08.160There's the burden of, of, of running a massive organization like that with all the chapters and high school chapters and, and, and donors and all the rest.
00:44:49.160And for the four year, for a boy, at least, right.
00:44:52.160That's something that he can wrap his mind around, but, but they don't understand scale.
00:44:56.160They don't understand, you know, time or any of this.
00:45:00.160And I, I just, I love the fact that, that they got to meet him, that they got to know him a little bit.
00:45:06.160And that we have, we have these videos now.
00:45:09.160And will you actually, and let's bring this up because you have a great idea, which not only get ahead of anything, but may already be in the works regarding an app that we could use for this, this gigantic body of work.
00:45:47.160So, I mean, what, you know, what I, what I sent to you was a suggestion that it would be wonderful if there was a turning point landing page that you could go to and say, you know, what did Charlie Kirk say on this topic?
00:45:58.160A dropdown list, you select it, and then it gives you any clips in which that's related.
00:46:04.160So you could go and see like, you know, and where it was at, this is at this debate on this speech.
00:46:09.160And some of those segments may have one or two schedules, I mean, one or two subjects.
00:46:13.160And so they might get cross indexed and be in two different things.
00:46:20.160This used to be something they used to do for candidates.
00:46:22.160And it would be, it was like the worst formatted website in the world, but it would, it had this, this is like back.
00:46:27.160There's like nineties technology where it would just go through each candidate on the issues.
00:46:31.160And, you know, you could, you could pull different quotes, but it would be well resourced and footnoted and what you'd have the, whatever it was.
00:46:38.160But you're saying with Charlie, because of the technology that we have now, you know, we don't need to just go to, you know, written quotes.
00:46:46.160We can have that too, but you could actually pull up the video.
00:46:49.160And so, you know, what did Charlie think about, and you could do the spiritual, you could do the political, you could do the personal.
00:46:56.160And even his last interview was, was about, was about business really, you know, and entrepreneurship.
00:47:08.160And I look, the one thing I always say is obviously there's no silver lining in this, but if you had to pick one, it's how many new people are now actually looking into Charlie Kirk.
00:47:19.160Not what the media says about him, not the garbage on Wikipedia, but they are actually looking at what he said.
00:47:27.160They're looking at videos of him giving speeches, his interactions, the way he answers questions, all the prove me wrongs.
00:47:33.160New people, and I mean to the tunes of millions, are coming to the message of freedom and liberty through this horrific tragedy.
00:47:41.160And so I think, yeah, the more that we can do to memorialize some of Charlie's positions and all the kind of assets or the, the production teams, you know, things that they've put out.
00:47:50.160I think it's better because I think you're going to continuously have people that want to know who is Charlie Kirk.
00:47:56.160Maloney, Bricksuit, I want to thank you for being here today.