My friend Charlie Kirk was a good man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his biblical values, and who tried to live up to those values every day of his life. I can't imagine the pain of his family, and I weep for my country today.
00:00:42.000But for the rest of us who have to deal with the fallout and who have to witness the pain left behind, it is truly horrific.
00:00:50.000I'm I'm gonna read you what I wrote on Twitter yesterday about Charlie.
00:00:55.000I wrote, like all of you, I'm utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today.
00:00:59.000It's unimaginable to write these words.
00:01:01.000I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined.
00:01:04.000I immediately turned to a friend and said that kid is gonna be the head of the RNC one day.
00:01:08.000Charlie became even bigger and more important than that.
00:01:10.000It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America.
00:01:17.000But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his biblical values.
00:01:28.000We must pick up the baton where Charlie left it fighting for the things he believed in so passionately, and we must fight for a better America in America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet.
00:01:39.000I weep for Charlie's family, and I weep for my country today.
00:01:46.000The horror of the videos, which we are not going to show, because Charlie should never be remembered the way that his killer would like for him to be remembered as a victim of a bullet.
00:01:56.000He should be remembered as fully alive as he was.
00:02:00.000I'm not sure I've ever known a more energetic human being than Charlie Kirk.
00:02:03.000As I say in that post I met Charlie when he was 18 years old.
00:02:06.000I was working at the David Horwitz Freedom Center at the time.
00:02:11.000Charlie was 18, and he was walking around, meeting with donors, trying to gin up support for an organization, a little organization called Turning Point.
00:02:19.000And I remember, as I say, turning to Jeremy Boring and saying to Jeremy, that kid's gonna be the head of the RNC because Charlie's energy was infectious.
00:02:28.000And one of the things that that I saw in Charlie that was really amazing is how much better he got at things over time.
00:02:34.000When you watch somebody progress from an 18-year-old high school graduate, I mean never went to college, to become one of the most important political figures in America, the creator of the most important political organization by all rights in the country.
00:03:05.000Charlie was always very good at fundraising.
00:03:07.000He became the best fundraiser literally in the country.
00:03:11.000He went from an activist to an activist leader, somebody who inspired literally millions of people across the country.
00:03:18.000They're legitimately tens of millions of young people today who are in mourning because they feel like they knew Charlie, or they did know Charlie.
00:03:25.000One of the amazing things about Charlie as a human is because Charlie was so energetic, because he was so garrulous and outgoing.
00:03:32.000Everyone I know was friends with Charlie.
00:03:36.000And that doesn't mean we're all close friends with Charlie.
00:03:38.000And I knew Charlie for 13 years, and obviously he had his close circle of friends.
00:03:41.000And you would never want to put yourself, you know, in that category unless you actually were.
00:03:47.000But Charlie was friendly with everyone.
00:05:14.000And it is, I think, an element of our infectiously evil social media apparatus that people watch this, they become inured to it, they glorify it.
00:05:24.000We'll get to that in in a little bit on the show.
00:05:27.000Something terrible is happening in the country.
00:05:30.000Truly terrible is happening in the country.
00:05:32.000A wave of violence, a true wave of violence.
00:05:42.000We've seen the congressional baseball shooting.
00:05:44.000We've seen twice people attempt to assassinate President Trump.
00:05:47.000We've seen the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. We've seen the murder of the United Healthcare CEO on the streets of New York celebrated by people over in the blue sky left.
00:06:01.000One of the things that I've been grappling with, obviously, on a sort of personal level, aside from knowing Charlie and believing that Charlie was a wonderful human being, is the fact that for 10 years, more than that, I went to college campuses, did the same thing that Charlie did.
00:06:19.000And I always said to my wife and the people around me, they would say, well, you know, is it safe?
00:06:36.000I think that we've entered into a new world, a world where huge percentages of the American public by the polling are okay with violence against one another based on speech.
00:06:47.000Where excuses are made, permission structures are created for murder because you disagree with the political position of another human being.
00:06:57.000I'm not sure how we get back, except by appeal to the exact values that Charlie stood for.
00:07:18.000For that he was shot down at the age of 31 with a young wife and two extremely young kids.
00:07:25.000He has a daughter aged three and a son aged one.
00:07:30.000President Trump announced Charlie's death yesterday.
00:07:33.000I mean, this is one of those moments in American history where, especially if you knew Charlie, but even if you didn't, you're going to remember where you were when you found out that Charlie Kirk had been murdered by a gunman.
00:07:42.000I was at lunch with somebody, and I mean, it stopped us cold.
00:08:19.000And what he accomplished in his 31 precious years of life on this planet, unmatched by virtually anyone in the history of modern American politics, as we will get to as we pay tribute to Charlie today.
00:08:33.000President Trump announced that the American flag would be lowered across the country at all federal properties to half half massed until Sunday evening at 6 p.m.
00:08:45.000The White House flag last night was lowered in honor of Charlie Kirk.
00:08:49.000It is unthinkable to talk about Charlie in the past tense.
00:09:28.000He was murdered for doing the thing that makes America unbelievable and different from virtually every other country on earth for having the discussions that allow us to achieve some semblance of truth that allow us to conduct ourselves as fellow citizens.
00:09:43.000And for that, he was shot in the neck and murdered in legitimately the prime of his life.
00:09:49.000Here's the president of the United States last night.
00:09:52.000To my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah.
00:10:03.000Charlie inspired millions, and tonight all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror.
00:10:11.000Charlie was a patriot who devoted his life to the cause of open debate and the country that he loved so much, the United States of America.
00:10:21.000He fought for liberty, democracy, justice, and the American people.
00:11:03.000Charlie Kirk traveled the nation joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good faith debate.
00:11:11.000His mission was to bring young people into the political process, which he did better than anybody ever.
00:11:19.000To share his love of country and to spread the simple words of common sense.
00:11:25.000On campuses nationwide, he championed his ideas with courage, logic, humor, and grace.
00:11:32.000It's long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible.
00:11:51.000For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals.
00:12:02.000This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.
00:12:13.000My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country.
00:12:34.000From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others.
00:12:52.000Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.
00:12:59.000Tonight I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died, the values of free speech, citizenship, the rule of law, and the patriotic devotion and love of God.
00:13:15.000Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country.
00:13:22.000An assassin tried to silence him with a bullet, but he failed because together we will ensure that his voice, his Message and his legacy will live on for countless generations to come.
00:13:35.000Today, because of this heinous act, Charlie's voice has become bigger and grander than ever before.
00:13:55.000And we'll get to the ideology of the alleged shooter in a moment.
00:13:59.000The shooter at this moment has not yet been found, but we do have some evidence on that.
00:14:03.000President Trump has announced that he will posthumously award Charlie the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an award that Charlie should have earned five decades from now, after maybe being president himself.
00:14:41.000We miss him greatly, yet I have no doubt that Charlie's voice and the courage he put into the hearts of countless people Especially young people, will live on.
00:14:54.000I'm pleased to announce that I will soon be awarding Charlie Kirk posthumously the presidential medal of freedom.
00:15:03.000The date of the ceremony will be announced, and I can only guarantee you one thing that we will have a very big crowd.
00:15:15.000I mean, well deserved for Charlie Kirk, that presidential medal of freedom.
00:15:20.000J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, who's very close with Charlie, put out a tweet as well in honor of Charlie, praising him for his emphasis on dialogue.
00:15:30.000The Vice President of the United States said, if you actually watch Charlie's events, as opposed to the fake summaries, they are one of the few places with open and honest dialogue between left and right who would answer any question and talk to everyone, which of course is true.
00:15:43.000Yankee Stadium last night held a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, which I thought was quite beautiful.
00:15:48.000Here's what it looked like at Yankee Stadium last night.
00:16:50.000Well, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting based on original reporting via Stephen Crowder.
00:16:55.000Stephen texted me this morning because Stephen and I go a long way back when it comes to campus events.
00:17:00.000Actually, it was an event at Utah University of Utah back in, I believe 2017, where Stephen and his team actually infiltrated the Antifa crowd and found weapons among them.
00:17:10.000There were 300 protesters outside that particular event.
00:17:12.000There were several arrests made at that event.
00:17:14.000Stephen reminded me this morning that he actually found a an Antifa protester who had brought a sought-off shotgun.
00:17:22.000This has been a serious problem for a while.
00:17:23.000Again, you know, for those of us who do this sort of thing on the regular, you tell yourself that this can't happen in America.
00:17:30.000This is not a thing that happens in America.
00:17:31.000You don't get shot for saying things in America.
00:17:36.000It's the it's the essence of anti-Americanism, the essence of it.
00:17:39.000Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, investigators found the ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and anti-fascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk that was first reported again by Stephen, who deserves the credit for the breaking news.
00:17:54.000He had gotten a piece of leaked information from the ATF.
00:17:57.000The older model, 30 caliber hunting rifle, which By expert testimony is essentially what people thought it was because it didn't sound like an AR, was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with the spent cartridge still in the chamber.
00:18:11.000There are also three unspent rounds in the magazine, all with wording on them, which has become a traditional mode of communication for some of the world's worst human beings is to engrave the cartridges of the bullets with political statements.
00:18:27.000Here is law enforcement announcing the finding of the rifle.
00:18:31.000We have recovered what we believe is the weapon that was used in yesterday's shooting.
00:18:37.000It is a high-powered bolt-action rifle.
00:18:42.000That rifle was requivered in a wooded area where the shooter had fled.
00:18:49.000And again, the bullets were apparently engraved with transgender and antifa writing.
00:18:56.000The violence that is growing upon our nation is enabled by a permission structure that says that your political opponents are not just your opponents, they are your enemies, that they are a threat to you personally, that their views are a threat to you personally.
00:19:14.000The ideology of the shooter, if this report is correct, rooted in the basic idea that has been promoted for literally a decade, that if you say a man is not a woman, that you are engaged in eliminationist erature, a form of genocide, results in a permission structure for murder.
00:19:36.000In the same way that there has been a permission structure created by many on the left that suggests that healthcare CEO is about to be shot on the streets of New York, and that the shooter Luigi Mangion was some sort of righteous martyr against the capitalist system.
00:19:54.000In my book, I have a whole section about violence performed by what I call the scavengers, people who seek to tear down the person who shot Charlie Kirk, is the worst that humanity has to offer.
00:20:05.000The worst that somebody who wished to destroy the fundamental institutions of free speech, the fundamental basis of the country.
00:21:16.000The philosophy of the scavenger, I say, is a variety of phantom conspiracies.
00:21:20.000The racialist conspiracy theory of a dominant white supremacist superstructure in the United States, or the Marxist conspiracy theory of an economic elite seeking to rig the economy to the detriment of the working class, or the transgressive conspiracy theory of a heteronormative society using its power to fascistically enforce traditional sexual mores.
00:21:37.000The international conspiracy theory of a settler-colonialist West using its power to promote its ethnocentric ideology.
00:21:44.000Every conspiracy theory carries with it the implicit promise of violent opposition deemed morally praiseworthy by the conspiracists.
00:21:56.000It is growing, it has been enabled, it has been massaged, it has been championed by major figures.
00:22:03.000And when you add in the sickness of social media, where people who are naturally predisposed to violence, people with dark triad personalities find each other and find common cause and pat each other on the back and boost each other up to do murder, you will get more murder.
00:22:34.000Blue sky accounts were celebrating Charlie's death yesterday, celebrating it outright.
00:22:40.000Yesterday, when I was broadcasting live, I saidn't want to bring that to you because it's fringe.
00:22:44.000But the truth is that fringe is dangerous.
00:22:47.000And the broader permission structures that allow that fringe to grow and to marinate.
00:22:54.000That is making our country unlivable, truly unlivable.
00:22:59.000It is making it so that you cannot walk in public if you have a strong political point of view publicly expressed.
00:23:05.000It is making it so that people require 24-7 security for them and for their children.
00:23:10.000That Charlie Kirk, even with six security people, can still be murdered in cold blood in front of the entire world.
00:23:17.000And then snuff films of his murder passed around the internet like candy.
00:23:23.000Blue sky is replete, not just with celebration today, but of people calling for more of this against anyone on the right that they deem to be part of the conspiracy theory against them.
00:23:35.000TikTokers yesterday were celebrating Charlie's death.
00:23:39.000I mean, here's here's what some of these TikTokers the only reason to play this is just to show you a sickness growing, a cancer that is growing inside our nation.
00:23:48.000And it's not enough, as we're going to talk about in a minute, for Democrats or even Republicans to just say we need to lower it with the violent rhetoric.
00:25:00.000I want to go more into that, but I want to draw back, and I want to talk about my friend Charlie Kirk, because I think that truly, in order to understand what the world lost yesterday, you have to understand who Charlie was.
00:25:09.000And I've said this many times on the program before.
00:25:16.000To be a great man very often just means you have an impact on the world, that you change people's lives, that you create structures that make the world a better place.
00:25:25.000To be a good man requires you to put yourself last and your family first, to believe in the promises of the Bible and its values, to believe that there is a good and there is a bad.
00:25:50.000And I think as he got older, Charlie focused more and more on being a good man.
00:25:56.000Again, he's a husband with two babies, three, one.
00:26:02.000As a father of four with very small children, I cannot even imagine.
00:26:06.000I cannot even imagine the feelings of Erica today, or the children that you will have to raise without their father there.
00:26:15.000And all the words that we tell ourselves about how Charlie died for something meaningful, which is obviously true, isn't going to replace him in their lives.
00:26:25.000It isn't going to fill that hole because nothing can.
00:26:28.000July 27th, 2025, Charlie tweeted, quote, get married, have kids, stop partying into oblivion, leave a legacy, be courageous.
00:27:35.000I know what this is like to feel this.
00:27:38.000I know what it's like when you, you know, get home from speaking at a university or speaking in a very fraught place and hug your children.
00:27:47.000And the fact that Charlie won't be able, he won't be there to hug his children.
00:28:11.000I would love to be a very popular radio host, podcast host, great father, great husband, and live a very happy life where I can run a major organization that influences the country, and I could pick up the phone of the president answers on the first ring.
00:28:24.000But I feel like you're doing that right now.
00:28:26.000So maybe I'm living the life of the thing.
00:28:31.000What Charlie will be known for through the clips for an entire generation of people is, of course, the exact debate that he was doing when he was struck down in cold blood by a murderer's bullet.
00:28:44.000Here, for example, is Charlie debating some of these students at again, one of his events, asking, you know, talking about marriage and family.
00:28:52.000These again are traditional, normal conservative values.
00:28:55.000And don't believe a media that tries to sell you soap about how Charlie was some sort of extremist.
00:28:59.000It wouldn't matter if he were, you don't get to murder people for having extreme views in the United States.
00:29:06.000Charlie was a mainstream normie conservative who believed traditional American things about family and about liberty, about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
00:29:14.000And he said these things in public and he debated these things openly, and for that a murderer killed him.
00:29:20.000And that is a turning point for the United States.
00:29:23.000That is a turning point for the United States.
00:29:26.000We can turn it for good or we can turn it for ill.
00:29:28.000Here is the kind of thing that made Charlie Kirk famous.
00:29:30.000Here he was talking about marriage and family with a with a student in the audience.
00:29:36.000If you want to have a privileged life in America, very simple.
00:29:43.000Why do we what do you mean act a certain way?
00:29:45.000Get married to one person and stay married to that person and don't abandon them of what 75% of black men do.
00:29:53.000So, okay, we have two black men right here.
00:29:55.000By that statistics, one of us is not gonna get married to one woman.
00:30:06.000And that's why you are probably here, because that elevates my argument.
00:30:09.000Our belief system is that you come down to the most foundational family unit.
00:30:14.000And when that breaks down so severely, don't be shocked if that group, when it acts that way, stays in poverty over a longer period of time.
00:30:24.000Again, it's this sort of thing that made Charlie a phenomenon.
00:30:27.000Charlie, again, I watched him over his career.
00:30:30.000When he started off, he had kind of a strangely awkward persona, and he turned himself into an incredibly charismatic speaker, a terrific debater.
00:30:40.000Here he was debating college students about the trans issue.
00:30:43.000An issue that may very well have gotten him killed, speaking the truth about basic human nature.
00:31:36.000The college kids of America going hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt who think it's a trick question when you ask them what a woman is.
00:31:43.000The college kids of America are a lot of people who think it's a trick question.
00:31:49.000The world lost something in Charlie for sure.
00:31:51.000Here he was debating students about abortion.
00:33:26.000Even though America's constitution explicitly forbids racial discrimination, our government ordered people to do it anyway.
00:33:33.000People were denied jobs and denied promotions.
00:33:35.000Kids were shut out of universities based on the color of their skin rather than their ability.
00:33:40.000Companies were denied federal contracts because their owners didn't look a certain way.
00:33:44.000People who didn't discriminate enough in hiring could be sued by the government.
00:33:47.000Every company in America lived in fear of their government deciding to target them for offenses against DEI.
00:33:54.000Trump has ordered DEI to be torn down.
00:33:58.000But I want him to tear it down faster.
00:34:00.000I want every university told that they're losing all federal dollars immediately if they don't stop racial discrimination.
00:34:06.000I want the Department of Justice to start auditing, auditing every federal contractor to find DEI and shut off contracts immediately wherever we find it.
00:34:15.000This is a kind of cancer that cannot be phased out.
00:34:53.000is this kind of thing from Charlie's TPUSA.
00:34:56.000Again, This is the organization that Charlie built from scratch.
00:35:12.000And of course, Charlie had a truly massive impact on election 2024.
00:35:16.000Because he got young people out to vote because he changed their minds.
00:35:20.000Young people went Republican, moved toward the Republican Party by double digits, by double, particularly young men, but young women as well.
00:35:28.000One of the most moving videos of Charlie, and I remember he and I talked about this actually.
00:35:31.000We talked about it on air at the TPUSA event a few months ago, was this video of Charlie getting emotional hearing that Trump had won.
00:35:38.000This is on election night, which I think was, you know, one of the highlights of Charlie's life for sure.
00:35:44.000Fox News decides Donald Trump is president of the United States.
00:38:22.000And again, you know, one of my great irritations is when people use the third person plural without specifying who they're talking about and say they.
00:39:12.000Everyone needs to look into their own heart and determine whether the things they say create the kind of structure where you end up defending murder, or incentivizing murder, or giving tacit permission to people who are unwell and who hooked together on social media in networks of scavengers to go and do murder.
00:39:35.000The media response yesterday, large parts of it were predictably awful.
00:39:39.000MSNBC's Matt Dowd got himself fired for this particular take, as all of this was developing yesterday.
00:39:46.000But following up on what was just said, he's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive, younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups.
00:40:00.000And I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.
00:40:08.000And I think that's the environment we're in that people just you can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.
00:40:20.000And that's the unfortunate environment we're in.
00:40:26.000He ended up losing his job for that, as well he should have.
00:40:29.000The basic idea that Charlie had it coming, that he does he deserved what happened to him because of the speech in which he engaged.
00:40:35.000That wouldn't even be true if Charlie were saying extreme things.
00:40:38.000But he is not he never said anything remotely like that.
00:40:44.000Not only that, the media infrastructure, which gins up hatred against perfectly normal people, calling them Nazis, as the president said, treating their statements as forms of genocide, suggesting that people who disagree with you are a deadly threat.
00:41:00.000This is why you know I'm I'm seeing some folks on the right who are saying this about people quote unquote on the left in general.
00:41:08.000Before we label people deadly threats, we should be very careful about whom we label.
00:41:11.000The left has not been capable careful about this.
00:41:14.000Many people on the left have not been careful about this at all.
00:41:16.000And they've incentivized what is a rising tide of violence that makes it nearly impossible to speak freely in the country.
00:41:25.000If Charlie Kirk can get shot, anyone can get shot for speaking their mind.
00:41:31.000That is why it is empty verbiage when I hear the governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, blaming President Trump for a quote unquote new era of political violence and giving us selling us soft words about the supposed increase in in political rhetoric.
00:41:51.000And I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country.
00:41:55.000I think the president's rhetoric often foments it.
00:41:57.000We've seen the January 6th rioters who clearly have tripped a new era of political violence.
00:42:15.000Why don't you condemn the movements that you are creating and facilitating that actively say that people like Charlie Kirk are a deadly threat to them?
00:42:26.000And I will tell you, I do not see a reaction that is on the social media right that matches the reaction on the social media left to the to the news of Charlie Kirk's death.
00:42:37.000When two Minneapolis politicians of the left were shot, it turns out by a patronage supporter of Tim Walls, under disputed circumstances, I saw zero celebration from the online right.
00:42:51.000I I I've yet to see tremendous celebration of something similar from the from the online right.
00:42:59.000If it's there, it ought to be condemned.
00:43:02.000But to pretend that this is sort of an even-handed problem would be to ignore the ideological underpinnings of violent conspiracism that lead to assassinations.
00:43:14.000Alexander Casar Cortez did her usual routine, she blamed it on gun violence.
00:43:47.000Yesterday, controversy broke out on the floor of the House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House asked for a moment of silence for Charlie, which was given.
00:43:56.000Lauren Boebert then got up and asked for a prayer to be settled out, and many Democrats objected, because apparently, if you if you're not going to do that for other victims, other victims of assassination, then you shouldn't do it for Charlie.
00:44:15.000The Chair would ask that all members president in the chamber and those in the gallery please rise for a moment of prayer for Charlie Kirk and his family.
00:44:28.000What purpose of the gentlelady from Colorado rise?
00:44:33.000shh People shouting, no, what the hell is wrong with you?
00:44:50.000Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?
00:45:42.000What I want is a rejection of the movements that create incentive structures that openly call for political violence, that openly create the permission structure to do violence.
00:45:52.000Not every political point of view does that.
00:45:54.000Not every political movement does that.
00:45:56.000Disagreeing on tax structures does not create the incentive structure for political violence.
00:46:01.000Saying that if I say that a man is not a woman, that I am erasing you as a human being and threatening your very existence, or engaging in a transgenocide or erasure or whatever the hell you want to call it, and that speech is violence, and therefore violence can meet speech.
00:46:31.000When Zor Mamdani says I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah, political violence has no place in our country.
00:46:39.000And the reason I don't believe you believe that is because you are perfectly willing to make excuses for people who do violence depending on the cause that they are pursuing.
00:46:47.000The same person who is fine with globalize the antifada, literally a call for violence, is now saying that political violence has no.
00:47:09.000They say we are asking for the public's help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, 1-800 call FBI.
00:47:18.000The picture appears to be of a young white male wearing sunglasses, a black hat, dark jeans, and a black hoodie that appears to be emblazoned with the picture of President Trump shaking his fist after the assassination attempt, or alternatively, that maybe it's a little vague, hard to see.
00:47:40.000Could be an American eagle in front of an American flag.
00:48:55.000And people aren't going to agree with every decision that's made along the way or every view expressed.
00:48:59.000What they are going to remember Charlie for, the thing that people will build statues to Charlie for, and they should, is the thing that he died doing.
00:49:08.000Expressing truth in public places through open and honest debate with people who disagree.
00:49:15.000That is the thing they're going to build statues of Charlie Kirk for.
00:49:51.000He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
00:49:54.000Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
00:50:00.000Thou prepares a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.
00:50:03.000Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over.
00:50:06.000Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
00:50:14.000As I said yesterday, Charlie will be dwelling in the house of the Lord forever.
00:50:19.000He's a good man who leaves behind a beautiful family.
00:50:25.000And when people that you know enter the pages of history, which is what Charlie will do, he'll go down as one of the most transformative political figures in American history, Charlie Kirk.
00:50:34.000When a person that you know is a full human being with all of the wonderful things about them and all the flaws becomes a part of history, something happens, and that is the brightest part of them shines through everything else.
00:50:48.000The bar the brightest part of Charlie, the part of him that was about faith and family and community and biblical values and God and country and American patriotism, and yes, free speech and debate and discussion, and the vibrant bustling democracy that America is, and that Charlie spent his entire life, literally his entire life from the time he was young, fighting for all that shines through.
00:51:17.000And every time you see a picture of Charlie, you can see it in his face, the joy with which he engaged the world, the willingness to go to battle on behalf of the country, the willingness to say things, the willingness to go to places where people disagreed.
00:51:33.000He was what made America great and will continue to make America great going forward because we're going to have to pick up that baton.
00:51:42.000There's a prayer that we do at Jewish funerals that I want to read as well.
00:51:56.000Grant perfect rest beneath the sheltering wings of thy presence, among the holy and pure, who shine as the brightness on the heavens, unto the soul of Charlie, the son of Robert, who has gone unto eternity, and in whose memory charity is offered.
00:52:57.000We're going to pick up that bloodstained microphone where Charlie left it.
00:53:01.000And to those who would intimidate, who would seek to stop us, who would seek to end free discussion, who believe that they have ownership over public spaces and can violently threaten and kill people who speak freely.