The Ben Shapiro Show - UNTHINKABLE: Charlie Kirk, 31, Assassinated

00:00:00.000 My friend Charlie Kirk yesterday was gunned down in Cobla, dead at the age of 31.

00:00:06.000 And you know, it's incredibly difficult to broadcast on days like this to talk about this.

00:00:12.000 We talked about it yesterday, live as the aftermath was happening.

00:00:18.000 It's truly horrifying in every possible way for it to be horrifying.

00:00:22.000 It's horrifying for the country.

00:00:24.000 It's horrifying for people who knew Charlie.

00:00:26.000 It's horrifying mostly for his family.

00:00:29.000 And of course, you know, the there's nothing to say about the horror for Charlie himself.

00:00:37.000 Charlie was a religious person, which means that he's with the Lord now.

00:00:40.000 He's with God right now.

00:00:42.000 But 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.

00:00:50.000 I'm I'm gonna read you what I wrote on Twitter yesterday about Charlie.

00:00:55.000 I wrote, like all of you, I'm utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today.

00:00:59.000 It's unimaginable to write these words.

00:01:01.000 I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined.

00:01:04.000 I immediately turned to a friend and said that kid is gonna be the head of the RNC one day.

00:01:08.000 Charlie became even bigger and more important than that.

00:01:10.000 It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America.

00:01:17.000 But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his biblical values.

00:01:23.000 All of us will miss him.

00:01:24.000 I can't imagine the pain of his beautiful young family.

00:01:26.000 We must all pray for them.

00:01:28.000 We 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.

00:01:39.000 I weep for Charlie's family, and I weep for my country today.

00:01:43.000 Most of all, I weep for Charlie.

00:01:46.000 The 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.

00:01:56.000 He should be remembered as fully alive as he was.

00:02:00.000 I'm not sure I've ever known a more energetic human being than Charlie Kirk.

00:02:03.000 As I say in that post I met Charlie when he was 18 years old.

00:02:06.000 I was working at the David Horwitz Freedom Center at the time.

00:02:09.000 I was 28.

00:02:11.000 Charlie was 18, and he was walking around, meeting with donors, trying to gin up support for an organization, a little organization called Turning Point.

00:02:19.000 And 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.

00:02:28.000 And one of the things that that I saw in Charlie that was really amazing is how much better he got at things over time.

00:02:34.000 When 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.

00:02:49.000 You get to watch somebody develop.

00:02:51.000 And I watched as Charlie got better at everything.

00:02:53.000 He was an autodidact.

00:02:54.000 He is somebody who taught himself how to become a great speaker.

00:02:58.000 I'm not sure that Charlie was naturally a great speaker.

00:03:00.000 He became a great speaker.

00:03:01.000 I'm not sure that Charlie was naturally an amazing debater.

00:03:04.000 He became an amazing debater.

00:03:05.000 Charlie was always very good at fundraising.

00:03:07.000 He became the best fundraiser literally in the country.

00:03:11.000 He went from an activist to an activist leader, somebody who inspired literally millions of people across the country.

00:03:18.000 They'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.

00:03:25.000 One of the amazing things about Charlie as a human is because Charlie was so energetic, because he was so garrulous and outgoing.

00:03:32.000 Everyone I know was friends with Charlie.

00:03:36.000 And that doesn't mean we're all close friends with Charlie.

00:03:38.000 And I knew Charlie for 13 years, and obviously he had his close circle of friends.

00:03:41.000 And you would never want to put yourself, you know, in that category unless you actually were.

00:03:47.000 But Charlie was friendly with everyone.

00:03:49.000 He was energetic with everyone.

00:03:51.000 There's not a person who interacted with Charlie who came away not liking Charlie as as a human being.

00:03:55.000 I mean, his energy was so infectious, it was it was exhausting at times.

00:03:59.000 And more than that, he just never stopped.

00:04:01.000 And he never stopped because he cared deeply about the country.

00:04:04.000 He cared deeply about the fundamental principles of the country.

00:04:06.000 And he tried to enact that in his daily life every single day.

00:04:09.000 That's why he was on a college campus in Utah when he was shot to death at 1210 PM Utah time yesterday.

00:04:16.000 He was doing the thing that made him famous.

00:04:18.000 He was talking to people who disagreed.

00:04:21.000 I mean, Charlie did a thing that I think is wonderful.

00:04:24.000 He would always tell people who disagree to go to the front of the line, so that he could have conversations and discussions.

00:04:30.000 This is the video of Charlie just a few minutes before he was shy.

00:04:32.000 You can see the joy at this event.

00:04:34.000 There were 3,000 people in this outdoor space.

00:04:38.000 He's throwing hats to them.

00:04:40.000 Everybody's excited to be there.

00:04:41.000 Everybody's smiling.

00:04:43.000 Everybody's having a great time.

00:04:44.000 Charlie built this organization ground up.

00:04:48.000 His seminal figure in the American conservative movement, in the Trump MAGA movement, for sure.

00:04:55.000 And it was shortly thereafter that he was sitting there.

00:04:57.000 He was asked a question about trans shooters.

00:05:00.000 And as he picked up the microphone to answer, he was shot in the neck.

00:05:04.000 It's pretty clear, again, we're not going to show the video here because nobody should truly, nobody should watch the video.

00:05:10.000 It is horrifying in the extreme.

00:05:14.000 And 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.

00:05:24.000 We'll get to that in in a little bit on the show.

00:05:27.000 Something terrible is happening in the country.

00:05:30.000 Truly terrible is happening in the country.

00:05:32.000 A wave of violence, a true wave of violence.

00:05:34.000 We've seen it before.

00:05:36.000 We've seen it happen in the 60s and in the 70s.

00:05:38.000 And honestly, I didn't think that we were here.

00:05:41.000 We've obviously seen violence.

00:05:42.000 We've seen the congressional baseball shooting.

00:05:44.000 We've seen twice people attempt to assassinate President Trump.

00:05:47.000 We'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.

00:05:58.000 But I didn't think we were here.

00:06:01.000 One 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.

00:06:19.000 And I always said to my wife and the people around me, they would say, well, you know, is it safe?

00:06:23.000 And I'd say, of course it's safe.

00:06:24.000 This is America.

00:06:25.000 And sure, security would tell you to put on a bulletproof vest, but do you need a bulletproof vest to speak freely in America?

00:06:30.000 Do you need hundreds of- I always thought it was overkill.

00:06:32.000 I always thought it was overkill.

00:06:34.000 I do not think it's overkill anymore.

00:06:36.000 I 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.

00:06:47.000 Where excuses are made, permission structures are created for murder because you disagree with the political position of another human being.

00:06:57.000 I'm not sure how we get back, except by appeal to the exact values that Charlie stood for.

00:07:02.000 Open debate, normal discussion.

00:07:05.000 The thing about all the videos of Charlie is he's unfailingly polite in these videos to people.

00:07:09.000 When he is having these discussions, he is polite.

00:07:11.000 He was having polite, normal conversations with people who disagreed on these college campuses.

00:07:16.000 And for that, he was murdered.

00:07:18.000 For that he was shot down at the age of 31 with a young wife and two extremely young kids.

00:07:25.000 He has a daughter aged three and a son aged one.

00:07:30.000 President Trump announced Charlie's death yesterday.

00:07:33.000 I 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.

00:07:42.000 I was at lunch with somebody, and I mean, it stopped us cold.

00:07:47.000 There's nothing to be said.

00:07:48.000 It's it's honestly.

00:07:50.000 I'm very as a human being, I'm very rarely at a loss for words.

00:07:53.000 I'm I'm at a loss for words now.

00:07:56.000 President Trump put out a statement.

00:07:58.000 The great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead.

00:08:00.000 No one understood or had the heart of the youth in the United States better than Charlie.

00:08:05.000 He was loved and admired by all, especially me, and now he's no longer with us.

00:08:08.000 Milani and my sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erica and family.

00:08:12.000 Charlie, we love you.

00:08:13.000 It's unthinkable.

00:08:14.000 It's truly unthinkable.

00:08:17.000 31 years old.

00:08:19.000 And 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.

00:08:33.000 President 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.

00:08:45.000 The White House flag last night was lowered in honor of Charlie Kirk.

00:08:49.000 It is unthinkable to talk about Charlie in the past tense.

00:08:52.000 It truly is.

00:08:53.000 President Trump last night made a statement from the Oval Office, which will play in its entirety.

00:09:01.000 Here is the president of the United States talking about the murder.

00:09:05.000 It wasn't just the death, it's just a tragic death.

00:09:08.000 It was an overt act of assassination against Charlie Kirk, directed at the mechanisms of free speech in America.

00:09:15.000 That's what this was.

00:09:18.000 Charlie is by all by all rights a free speech martyr.

00:09:22.000 He literally was killed for having discussions with people who disagreed with him.

00:09:26.000 He was murdered for that.

00:09:28.000 He 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.

00:09:43.000 And for that, he was shot in the neck and murdered in legitimately the prime of his life.

00:09:49.000 Here's the president of the United States last night.

00:09:52.000 To my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah.

00:10:03.000 Charlie inspired millions, and tonight all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror.

00:10:11.000 Charlie 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.

00:10:21.000 He fought for liberty, democracy, justice, and the American people.

00:10:25.000 He's a martyr for truth and freedom.

00:10:28.000 And there has never been anyone who was so respected by youth.

00:10:33.000 Charlie was also a man of deep, deep faith.

00:10:38.000 And we take comfort in the knowledge that he is now at peace with God in heaven.

00:10:43.000 Our prayers are with his wife, Erica, the two young, beloved children and his entire family who he loved more than anything in the world.

00:10:54.000 We ask God to watch over them in this terrible hour of heartache and pain.

00:10:59.000 This is a dark moment for America.

00:11:03.000 Charlie Kirk traveled the nation joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good faith debate.

00:11:11.000 His mission was to bring young people into the political process, which he did better than anybody ever.

00:11:19.000 To share his love of country and to spread the simple words of common sense.

00:11:25.000 On campuses nationwide, he championed his ideas with courage, logic, humor, and grace.

00:11:32.000 It'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.

00:11:51.000 For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals.

00:12:02.000 This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.

00:12:13.000 My 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.

00:12:34.000 From 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.

00:12:52.000 Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.

00:12:59.000 Tonight 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.

00:13:15.000 Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country.

00:13:22.000 An 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.

00:13:35.000 Today, because of this heinous act, Charlie's voice has become bigger and grander than ever before.

00:13:43.000 And it's not even close.

00:13:45.000 May God bless his memory.

00:13:47.000 May God watch over his family.

00:13:49.000 And may God bless the United States of America.

00:13:53.000 Thank you.

00:13:55.000 And we'll get to the ideology of the alleged shooter in a moment.

00:13:59.000 The shooter at this moment has not yet been found, but we do have some evidence on that.

00:14:03.000 President 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.

00:14:14.000 I mean, this is just it's yeah.

00:14:20.000 Here's here's the president of the United States.

00:14:24.000 Charlie was a giant of his generation, a champion of liberty and an inspiration to millions and millions of people.

00:14:32.000 Our prayers are with his wonderful wife Eric and his beautiful children.

00:14:38.000 Fantastic people they are.

00:14:41.000 We 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.

00:14:54.000 I'm pleased to announce that I will soon be awarding Charlie Kirk posthumously the presidential medal of freedom.

00:15:03.000 The date of the ceremony will be announced, and I can only guarantee you one thing that we will have a very big crowd.

00:15:12.000 Just um absolutely horrifying.

00:15:15.000 I mean, well deserved for Charlie Kirk, that presidential medal of freedom.

00:15:20.000 J.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.

00:15:30.000 The 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. 0.79

00:15:43.000 Yankee Stadium last night held a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, which I thought was quite beautiful.

00:15:48.000 Here's what it looked like at Yankee Stadium last night.

00:15:51.000 The two children is 31 years old.

00:15:55.000 The two children is 31 years old.

00:16:00.000 Again, well, well deserved.

00:16:03.000 Meanwhile, the manhunt continues yesterday.

00:16:06.000 Utah Governor Spencer Cox announced it was a political assassination, which of course you knew the moment that the bullet hit Charlie.

00:16:11.000 The moment the shot was fired.

00:16:12.000 Of course it was a political assassination.

00:16:14.000 It was not.

00:16:15.000 Just a murder.

00:16:17.000 It was it was clearly politically oriented.

00:16:19.000 Charlie Kirk was murdered.

00:16:21.000 He was killed by a subhuman piece of debris for the great crime of speaking truth in debate. 0.78

00:16:30.000 That is why he was killed.

00:16:31.000 Here was Spencer Cox, the Utah governor.

00:16:36.000 This is a dark day for our state.

00:16:40.000 It's a tragic day for our nation.

00:16:42.000 And I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination.

00:16:46.000 Thank you.

00:16:50.000 Well, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting based on original reporting via Stephen Crowder.

00:16:55.000 Stephen texted me this morning because Stephen and I go a long way back when it comes to campus events.

00:17:00.000 Actually, 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.

00:17:10.000 There were 300 protesters outside that particular event.

00:17:12.000 There were several arrests made at that event.

00:17:14.000 Stephen reminded me this morning that he actually found a an Antifa protester who had brought a sought-off shotgun.

00:17:22.000 This has been a serious problem for a while.

00:17:23.000 Again, 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.

00:17:30.000 This is not a thing that happens in America.

00:17:31.000 You don't get shot for saying things in America.

00:17:35.000 That's not an American. 0.99

00:17:36.000 It's the it's the essence of anti-Americanism, the essence of it.

00:17:39.000 Apparently, 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.

00:17:54.000 He had gotten a piece of leaked information from the ATF.

00:17:57.000 The 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.

00:18:11.000 There 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.

00:18:27.000 Here is law enforcement announcing the finding of the rifle.

00:18:31.000 We have recovered what we believe is the weapon that was used in yesterday's shooting.

00:18:37.000 It is a high-powered bolt-action rifle.

00:18:40.000 all.

00:18:42.000 That rifle was requivered in a wooded area where the shooter had fled.

00:18:49.000 And again, the bullets were apparently engraved with transgender and antifa writing.

00:18:56.000 The 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.

00:19:14.000 The 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.

00:19:35.000 That is what it does.

00:19:36.000 In 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.

00:19:54.000 In 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.

00:20:05.000 The worst that somebody who wished to destroy the fundamental institutions of free speech, the fundamental basis of the country.

00:20:13.000 That is what this person was.

00:20:14.000 And the people who do this sort of thing, they do so because they believe that they are acting righteously.

00:20:20.000 They believe that they are acting in order to destroy those who, in fact, are somehow after them.

00:20:30.000 That that is that is the way they excuse this.

00:20:32.000 And anyone who makes excuses for this sort of stuff is making it significantly more common.

00:20:39.000 One of the things that I write in the book is that the philosophy of the scavenger says your grievances are justified.

00:20:44.000 You're the center around which the rest of the universe turns.

00:20:47.000 If you suffer, you suffer unjustly.

00:20:49.000 If you suffer unjustly, that must be the result of systems designed purposefully by a cadre of others.

00:20:55.000 The only way to fight the great conspiracy against you, say the scavengers, is to seize power.

00:21:01.000 Once you have power, you can destroy the great conspiracy and free yourself and those who fight alongside you.

00:21:06.000 All you require is power.

00:21:10.000 And power requires violence.

00:21:14.000 Violence is the corrective.

00:21:16.000 The philosophy of the scavenger, I say, is a variety of phantom conspiracies.

00:21:20.000 The 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.

00:21:37.000 The international conspiracy theory of a settler-colonialist West using its power to promote its ethnocentric ideology.

00:21:44.000 Every conspiracy theory carries with it the implicit promise of violent opposition deemed morally praiseworthy by the conspiracists.

00:21:52.000 And that's what this is.

00:21:54.000 That's what this is.

00:21:56.000 It is growing, it has been enabled, it has been massaged, it has been championed by major figures.

00:22:03.000 And 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.

00:22:23.000 You will.

00:22:23.000 The reaction to Charlie on social media in particular is a reminder of a sickness growing inside of our nation.

00:22:32.000 A true sickness growing inside our nation.

00:22:34.000 Blue sky accounts were celebrating Charlie's death yesterday, celebrating it outright.

00:22:40.000 Yesterday, when I was broadcasting live, I saidn't want to bring that to you because it's fringe.

00:22:44.000 But the truth is that fringe is dangerous.

00:22:47.000 And the broader permission structures that allow that fringe to grow and to marinate.

00:22:54.000 That is making our country unlivable, truly unlivable.

00:22:59.000 It is making it so that you cannot walk in public if you have a strong political point of view publicly expressed.

00:23:05.000 It is making it so that people require 24-7 security for them and for their children.

00:23:10.000 That Charlie Kirk, even with six security people, can still be murdered in cold blood in front of the entire world.

00:23:17.000 And then snuff films of his murder passed around the internet like candy.

00:23:23.000 Blue 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.

00:23:35.000 TikTokers yesterday were celebrating Charlie's death.

00:23:39.000 I 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. 0.53

00:23:48.000 And 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.

00:23:54.000 It's not just about that.

00:23:55.000 It's about creating thought structures that give permission for murder.

00:24:00.000 And here's what it looked like on TikTok yesterday.

00:24:02.000 TikTok People celebrating.

00:24:10.000 Thumbs up.

00:24:11.000 Happy smiles.

00:24:13.000 People cheering.

00:24:15.000 And the only reason you do this is because you will receive plaudits for it.

00:24:19.000 The only reason you do this is because you believe people will celebrate you for doing this.

00:24:23.000 That you will get likes and clicks.

00:24:26.000 And this is being exacerbated.

00:24:28.000 Yes.

00:24:29.000 Yes, it is being exacerbated by people who do the systematic algorithmic tweaking on TikTok and X and Blue Sky.

00:24:38.000 Yes, it is.

00:24:40.000 Facebook accounts were celebrating Charlie's death yesterday.

00:24:45.000 On Telegram, people were celebrating Charlie's death yesterday.

00:24:48.000 There is a sickness that is growing in our nation.

00:24:51.000 A true sickness.

00:24:53.000 And that sickness needs to be extirpated.

00:24:56.000 It needs to be extirpated.

00:25:00.000 I 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.

00:25:09.000 And I've said this many times on the program before.

00:25:16.000 To 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.

00:25:25.000 To 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.

00:25:41.000 This is, and that's what Charlie was.

00:25:43.000 Charlie was a good man.

00:25:47.000 Charlie was a good man.

00:25:50.000 And I think as he got older, Charlie focused more and more on being a good man.

00:25:56.000 Again, he's a husband with two babies, three, one.

00:26:02.000 As a father of four with very small children, I cannot even imagine.

00:26:06.000 I cannot even imagine the feelings of Erica today, or the children that you will have to raise without their father there.

00:26:15.000 And 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.

00:26:25.000 It isn't going to fill that hole because nothing can.

00:26:28.000 July 27th, 2025, Charlie tweeted, quote, get married, have kids, stop partying into oblivion, leave a legacy, be courageous.

00:26:39.000 Happy Sunday.

00:26:40.000 God bless all the parents out there.

00:26:41.000 And I think that that's what overall, that's really what Charlie was at the end of the day.

00:26:46.000 Yes, obviously, he's a public figure.

00:26:48.000 A hugely important public figure, a transformative public figure, particularly for young people.

00:26:53.000 Transformative in allowing them to open their minds about politics and consider things from a different point of view.

00:26:59.000 But what he Really was is this video of Charlie with his daughter on the Fox set.

00:27:07.000 Fox and Friend set.

00:27:08.000 This is just a few weeks ago.

00:27:10.000 His very small three-year-old daughter running to daddy to give him a hug.

00:27:16.000 Here's the footage.

00:27:31.000 That is not that.

00:27:34.000 I have kids this age.

00:27:35.000 I know what this is like to feel this.

00:27:38.000 I 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.

00:27:47.000 And the fact that Charlie won't be able, he won't be there to hug his children.

00:27:52.000 Is a sin.

00:27:54.000 It is a satanic act, truly satanic.

00:27:59.000 Here is Charlie reflecting on his career with George Janko, which I think is again.

00:28:05.000 Charlie was a good man, and his goodness came out when he spoke.

00:28:10.000 You know what I would love?

00:28:11.000 I 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.

00:28:23.000 That would be awesome.

00:28:24.000 But I feel like you're doing that right now.

00:28:26.000 So maybe I'm living the life of the thing.

00:28:31.000 What 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.

00:28:41.000 Debating issues that really matter.

00:28:44.000 Here, for example, is Charlie debating some of these students at again, one of his events, asking, you know, talking about marriage and family.

00:28:52.000 These again are traditional, normal conservative values.

00:28:55.000 And don't believe a media that tries to sell you soap about how Charlie was some sort of extremist.

00:28:59.000 It wouldn't matter if he were, you don't get to murder people for having extreme views in the United States.

00:29:03.000 That's not an American. 0.99

00:29:04.000 But Charlie wasn't even that.

00:29:06.000 Charlie was a mainstream normie conservative who believed traditional American things about family and about liberty, about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

00:29:14.000 And he said these things in public and he debated these things openly, and for that a murderer killed him.

00:29:20.000 And that is a turning point for the United States.

00:29:23.000 That is a turning point for the United States.

00:29:26.000 We can turn it for good or we can turn it for ill.

00:29:28.000 Here is the kind of thing that made Charlie Kirk famous.

00:29:30.000 Here he was talking about marriage and family with a with a student in the audience.

00:29:36.000 If you want to have a privileged life in America, very simple.

00:29:43.000 Why do we what do you mean act a certain way?

00:29:45.000 Get married to one person and stay married to that person and don't abandon them of what 75% of black men do. 0.73

00:29:53.000 So, okay, we have two black men right here.

00:29:55.000 By that statistics, one of us is not gonna get married to one woman.

00:29:59.000 So I hope you guys defy the odds.

00:30:02.000 Okay, so D. Were you raised by a two?

00:30:04.000 Were you raised by two parents?

00:30:05.000 Yes, I was.

00:30:06.000 Okay, good.

00:30:06.000 And that's why you are probably here, because that elevates my argument.

00:30:09.000 Our belief system is that you come down to the most foundational family unit.

00:30:14.000 And 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.

00:30:24.000 Again, it's this sort of thing that made Charlie a phenomenon.

00:30:27.000 Charlie, again, I watched him over his career.

00:30:29.000 He got so good at this.

00:30:30.000 When he started off, he had kind of a strangely awkward persona, and he turned himself into an incredibly charismatic speaker, a terrific debater.

00:30:40.000 Here he was debating college students about the trans issue.

00:30:43.000 An issue that may very well have gotten him killed, speaking the truth about basic human nature.

00:30:49.000 Basic, the most the most basic.

00:30:53.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:30:54.000 What is a that's a stupid question? 1.00

00:30:56.000 That's a dumb question. 1.00

00:30:58.000 It can't answer what a woman is. 1.00

00:30:59.000 It's not a trick question.

00:31:01.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:31:05.000 What is that thing?

00:31:06.000 You can't answer the question with the question.

00:31:08.000 Define woman without saying woman.

00:31:10.000 It's a social soul.

00:31:13.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:31:14.000 This is not a trick question, everybody.

00:31:16.000 You're in college paying for an education.

00:31:18.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:31:22.000 You don't need media training.

00:31:23.000 It's not a trick.

00:31:25.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:31:28.000 You can't answer the question with the whole thing.

00:31:34.000 What is a man?

00:31:36.000 The 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.

00:31:43.000 The college kids of America are a lot of people who think it's a trick question.

00:31:49.000 The world lost something in Charlie for sure.

00:31:51.000 Here he was debating students about abortion.

00:31:54.000 If you killed a baby, that's murder.

00:31:56.000 But killing a fetus isn't murder.

00:31:59.000 What species is the fetus?

00:32:01.000 Human.

00:32:01.000 Then how is it not murder?

00:32:03.000 Because it hasn't been born yet.

00:32:04.000 Why does that make it human?

00:32:06.000 Because that's when like it's not dependent on the mom, and it can be like its own thing.

00:32:12.000 If you have a pacemaker, you're a dependent.

00:32:14.000 If you have a ventilator, you're a dependent.

00:32:15.000 Babies are in NICU units, neonatal intensive care units, they're dependent.

00:32:19.000 Dependency does not equal its degree of moral worth.

00:32:24.000 And so I need to understand the moral consistency.

00:32:28.000 Here is a baby at 31 weeks that can survive outside of the womb.

00:32:32.000 It has its own brain waves, its own consciousness, its own heartbeat, its own ability to clean its bladder.

00:32:38.000 How is that not a human being?

00:32:39.000 It just happens to be in a mom. 0.99

00:32:41.000 Because it hasn't come out yet.

00:32:42.000 It's still living in the mom.

00:32:44.000 It's still part of the mom.

00:32:45.000 Right, but it's living.

00:32:47.000 It has a heart.

00:32:47.000 If it's not living, how does it have a heartbeat?

00:32:50.000 Because a fetus is like a parasite. 0.95

00:32:52.000 It lives off the mom. 1.00

00:32:54.000 You think babies are parasites. 1.00

00:32:57.000 Fetuses. 0.97

00:32:58.000 Right, but a fetus literally is just a word for a human being.

00:33:01.000 It's a stage of development.

00:33:03.000 Before it's born.

00:33:04.000 Right, but have you ever been to a fetus shower? 0.56

00:33:07.000 Why do they call it a baby shower, not a fetus shower? 0.99

00:33:10.000 Well, yes, it's a baby, but it depends on what the mother was.

00:33:13.000 Oh, so it is a baby, not a fetus.

00:33:14.000 Got it.

00:33:17.000 Again, Charlie got really, really good at this.

00:33:19.000 One of his best debates recently, he spoke at Oxford on DEI.

00:33:23.000 He was terrific.

00:33:26.000 Even though America's constitution explicitly forbids racial discrimination, our government ordered people to do it anyway. 0.99

00:33:33.000 People were denied jobs and denied promotions.

00:33:35.000 Kids were shut out of universities based on the color of their skin rather than their ability.

00:33:40.000 Companies were denied federal contracts because their owners didn't look a certain way.

00:33:44.000 People who didn't discriminate enough in hiring could be sued by the government.

00:33:47.000 Every company in America lived in fear of their government deciding to target them for offenses against DEI.

00:33:54.000 Trump has ordered DEI to be torn down.

00:33:58.000 But I want him to tear it down faster.

00:34:00.000 I want every university told that they're losing all federal dollars immediately if they don't stop racial discrimination.

00:34:06.000 I want the Department of Justice to start auditing, auditing every federal contractor to find DEI and shut off contracts immediately wherever we find it.

00:34:15.000 This is a kind of cancer that cannot be phased out.

00:34:18.000 It must be ripped out from the core.

00:34:21.000 And of course, Charlie wasn't just an individual.

00:34:23.000 He built an incredibly powerful organization.

00:34:25.000 CPUSA, when it first started, might have had a budget of a million bucks.

00:34:28.000 I believe that they raised 130 million dollars last year.

00:34:31.000 One of the most powerful political organizations in America.

00:34:35.000 Not just with these gigantic campus events.

00:34:37.000 And they were gigantic.

00:34:38.000 And I've spoken at a bunch of TP USA events.

00:34:40.000 You're talking about like stadium-filling events.

00:34:42.000 Charlie could get out of crowd, his organization could get out of crowd like no one else in America.

00:34:46.000 Here, for example, is a TPUSA event at Texas AM.

00:34:50.000 This is from April.

00:34:51.000 Is this kind of crowd?

00:34:53.000 is this kind of thing from Charlie's TPUSA.

00:34:56.000 Again, This is the organization that Charlie built from scratch.

00:35:12.000 And of course, Charlie had a truly massive impact on election 2024.

00:35:16.000 Because he got young people out to vote because he changed their minds.

00:35:20.000 Young people went Republican, moved toward the Republican Party by double digits, by double, particularly young men, but young women as well.

00:35:28.000 One of the most moving videos of Charlie, and I remember he and I talked about this actually.

00:35:31.000 We 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.

00:35:38.000 This is on election night, which I think was, you know, one of the highlights of Charlie's life for sure.

00:35:44.000 Fox News decides Donald Trump is president of the United States.

00:35:50.000 We've got our Republic back, folks.

00:35:55.000 Let's go.

00:35:56.000 everybody should remember this moment look I'm going to echo Charlie from earlier Remember where you were when this happened.

00:36:09.000 Remember where you were when you realized that the unit party and all these, you know, just the establishment.

00:36:16.000 You said it's time to actually participate, and look what you guys have done.

00:36:21.000 And if anyone deserves to get tears in his eyes, it's Charlie.

00:36:25.000 I think we all agree.

00:36:30.000 No one has worked harder than Charlie.

00:36:32.000 We gotta hear some words here from you, Charlie.

00:36:34.000 You put all this together, my man.

00:36:36.000 Let's hear it.

00:36:36.000 I I am just humbled by God.

00:36:39.000 It's all good.

00:36:41.000 It's all good.

00:36:42.000 God alone.

00:36:44.000 God alone.

00:36:48.000 This isn't desk has it.

00:36:50.000 Pennsylvania.

00:36:51.000 It's gone.

00:36:53.000 His beginning.

00:36:56.000 Well, fairly recently, Charlie was asked how he wanted to be remembered on the iced coffee hour, and his answer is quite beautiful.

00:37:05.000 If everything completely goes away, how do you want to be remembered?

00:37:10.000 If I die, everything just goes away.

00:37:13.000 How would you if you could be associated with one thing, how would you want to be remembered?

00:37:17.000 I want to be I want to be remembered for for courage for my faith.

00:37:21.000 That would be the most important thing.

00:37:23.000 most important thing is my faith in my life.

00:37:30.000 Well, what went wrong here in America?

00:37:33.000 I think Charlie summed it up well himself.

00:37:35.000 There's a tweet, April 7th, 2025.

00:37:39.000 And Charlie tweeted that there's an assassination culture that had emerged.

00:37:48.000 Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk.

00:37:52.000 55% said the same about Donald Trump.

00:37:54.000 In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangion.

00:37:58.000 The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy.

00:38:00.000 Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response.

00:38:06.000 This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence in mayhem for years on end.

00:38:11.000 The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.

00:38:18.000 That is that is not wrong.

00:38:20.000 That is not wrong.

00:38:22.000 And 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.

00:38:31.000 They shot Charlie.

00:38:33.000 A very specific person shot Charlie with a very specific ideology.

00:38:37.000 An ideology enabled by a very specific permission structure, an ideological permission structure.

00:38:43.000 And we need to trace all of that so that we can extirpate it.

00:38:46.000 It is not enough to just say they whatsoever.

00:38:48.000 We need to say who they are.

00:38:50.000 It was the shooter. 0.97

00:38:51.000 It was the people who continue to claim that if you say basically true things about men and women, that you are a genocidal maniac. 0.97

00:38:59.000 It is the people who say that if you agree with Donald Trump, then you are a Nazi. 0.70

00:39:03.000 You turned up the temperature on this.

00:39:07.000 It is not just a generic turn down the temperature thing.

00:39:10.000 It's not enough to just say that.

00:39:12.000 Everyone 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.

00:39:35.000 The media response yesterday, large parts of it were predictably awful.

00:39:39.000 MSNBC's Matt Dowd got himself fired for this particular take, as all of this was developing yesterday.

00:39:46.000 But 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.

00:40:00.000 And I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.

00:40:08.000 And I think that's the environment we're in that people just you can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.

00:40:20.000 And that's the unfortunate environment we're in.

00:40:24.000 I mean, what an awful, awful take.

00:40:26.000 He ended up losing his job for that, as well he should have.

00:40:29.000 The basic idea that Charlie had it coming, that he does he deserved what happened to him because of the speech in which he engaged.

00:40:35.000 That wouldn't even be true if Charlie were saying extreme things.

00:40:38.000 But he is not he never said anything remotely like that.

00:40:44.000 Not 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.

00:41:00.000 This 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.

00:41:08.000 Before we label people deadly threats, we should be very careful about whom we label.

00:41:11.000 The left has not been capable careful about this.

00:41:14.000 Many people on the left have not been careful about this at all.

00:41:16.000 And they've incentivized what is a rising tide of violence that makes it nearly impossible to speak freely in the country.

00:41:25.000 If Charlie Kirk can get shot, anyone can get shot for speaking their mind.

00:41:29.000 That is where we are.

00:41:31.000 That 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.

00:41:51.000 And I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country.

00:41:55.000 I think the president's rhetoric often foments it.

00:41:57.000 We've seen the January 6th rioters who clearly have tripped a new era of political violence.

00:42:15.000 Why 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?

00:42:23.000 Why do you not do that?

00:42:25.000 Why do you not do that?

00:42:26.000 And 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.

00:42:35.000 I just don't see it.

00:42:37.000 When 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.

00:42:51.000 I I I've yet to see tremendous celebration of something similar from the from the online right.

00:42:58.000 I just I I'm not seeing it.

00:42:59.000 If it's there, it ought to be condemned.

00:43:02.000 But 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.

00:43:14.000 Alexander Casar Cortez did her usual routine, she blamed it on gun violence. 0.53

00:43:18.000 The problem is not guns.

00:43:20.000 The problem is evil people who believe they can use guns to kill people because they are engaging in free speech.

00:43:26.000 AOC tweeted the scourge of gun violence and political violence must end.

00:43:30.000 The shooting of Charlie Kirk is the latest incident of this chaos.

00:43:32.000 It must stop.

00:43:33.000 We cannot go down this road.

00:43:34.000 There is no place for it in America.

00:43:36.000 We wish for his recovery.

00:43:37.000 That was of course before Charlie had died.

00:43:40.000 The um scourge of gun violence and political violence must end.

00:43:43.000 Thank you for those absolutely meaningless words.

00:43:46.000 Truly meaningless.

00:43:47.000 Yesterday, 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.

00:43:56.000 Lauren 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. 0.65

00:44:09.000 Just ridiculous. 0.79

00:44:13.000 Here we go.

00:44:15.000 The 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.

00:44:28.000 What purpose of the gentlelady from Colorado rise? 0.99

00:44:33.000 shh People shouting, no, what the hell is wrong with you? 0.98

00:44:50.000 Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you? 0.98

00:44:52.000 Let's let's let's wait a minute. 0.98

00:44:55.000 Wait a minute.

00:44:56.000 The House will be in order.

00:44:57.000 The House will be in order.

00:44:58.000 Shh.

00:45:01.000 The house will be in order.

00:45:03.000 Shh.

00:45:11.000 We the House will be in order.

00:45:19.000 We we will join proof.

00:45:22.000 Oh my gosh.

00:45:22.000 If he can't stop.

00:45:23.000 I mean the chair lays.

00:45:28.000 Gavin Newsom, who had done an actual podcast with Charlie, put out a tweet condemning political violence.

00:45:33.000 He said, the attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, violent and reprehensible.

00:45:36.000 In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in every form.

00:45:39.000 Again, that's that's all very nice.

00:45:42.000 What 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.

00:45:52.000 Not every political point of view does that.

00:45:54.000 Not every political movement does that.

00:45:56.000 Disagreeing on tax structures does not create the incentive structure for political violence.

00:46:01.000 Saying 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.

00:46:14.000 That is a permission structure.

00:46:15.000 And if you back that, you are backing the permission structure for assassination.

00:46:20.000 That is what you are doing.

00:46:22.000 This is why I'm going to take it under advisement.

00:46:24.000 When Zoran Mamdani, who has created so many permission structures for various types of violence, it is beyond reckoning.

00:46:30.000 I don't believe you.

00:46:31.000 When 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.

00:46:37.000 I don't believe you believe that.

00:46:39.000 And 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.

00:46:47.000 The same person who is fine with globalize the antifada, literally a call for violence, is now saying that political violence has no.

00:46:55.000 I don't believe you.

00:46:55.000 I think you are just saying the words.

00:46:58.000 The FBI in Salt Lake City has released a picture of a person that they are looking for right now.

00:47:07.000 They need your help.

00:47:07.000 That is why I'm showing this picture.

00:47:09.000 They 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.

00:47:18.000 The 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.

00:47:40.000 Could be an American eagle in front of an American flag.

00:47:43.000 Little bit difficult to see.

00:47:48.000 If this is indeed the shooter, um, the goal of that person would be to blend in with the crowd.

00:47:53.000 Apparently, the shooter in this particular case had spec'd out the terrain, had plotted an escape point.

00:48:04.000 That is why the person is not in custody as of yet.

00:48:09.000 That is this person will be found, this person will be tried, this person will be executed, as well they should.

00:48:18.000 As well they should.

00:48:19.000 I just want to go back to my friend Charlie for a moment.

00:48:24.000 Thank you.

00:48:28.000 Charlie was, again, a good man.

00:48:33.000 I knew Charlie, I watched Charlie grow from a boy into a man.

00:48:36.000 I watched that happen.

00:48:37.000 I watched him go from 18 to 31.

00:48:39.000 We were all privileged to know Charlie, to watch Charlie work, to watch him build.

00:48:43.000 He was a builder, he was a lion, a lion of a human being.

00:48:47.000 He was engaged in the hardest business, which is the pragmatic growth of coalitional politics, that is super difficult.

00:48:54.000 It really is.

00:48:55.000 And people aren't going to agree with every decision that's made along the way or every view expressed.

00:48:59.000 What 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.

00:49:08.000 Expressing truth in public places through open and honest debate with people who disagree.

00:49:15.000 That is the thing they're going to build statues of Charlie Kirk for.

00:49:18.000 And they should.

00:49:19.000 And it's unbelievable we have to talk to talk about Charlie using the past tense.

00:49:28.000 It's unbelievable and horrifying in every possible way.

00:49:33.000 Yesterday on the show, later in the day, so for those who didn't have a chance to listen, I read Psalm 23 for Charlie.

00:49:40.000 I want to do that again here.

00:49:43.000 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

00:49:45.000 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

00:49:48.000 He leadeth me beside the still waters.

00:49:49.000 He restoreth my soul.

00:49:51.000 He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

00:49:54.000 Yea, 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.

00:50:00.000 Thou prepares a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.

00:50:03.000 Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over.

00:50:06.000 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

00:50:14.000 As I said yesterday, Charlie will be dwelling in the house of the Lord forever.

00:50:17.000 He was a good man.

00:50:19.000 He's a good man who leaves behind a beautiful family.

00:50:25.000 And 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.

00:50:34.000 When 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.

00:50:47.000 And that's what you're seeing today.

00:50:48.000 The 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.

00:51:17.000 And 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.

00:51:33.000 He 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.

00:51:42.000 There's a prayer that we do at Jewish funerals that I want to read as well.

00:51:47.000 It's called Kelmale Rachimim. 0.91

00:51:49.000 Not going to read it in Hebrew.

00:51:56.000 Grant 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.

00:52:11.000 May his repose be in paradise.

00:52:14.000 May the Lord of mercy bring him under the cover of his wings forever.

00:52:18.000 May his soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life.

00:52:20.000 May the Lord be his possession, and may he rest in peace.

00:52:24.000 I mean, now it's still up to us.

00:52:30.000 I saw a lot of rumors online today.

00:52:33.000 I was made aware of this by my team.

00:52:35.000 That I'm that I canceled some sort of college tour. 0.99

00:52:38.000 That's bullshit. 0.99

00:52:39.000 I saw those rumors. 1.00

00:52:41.000 They are false.

00:52:42.000 I will be coming to college campuses, many of them this year.

00:52:45.000 So will we all, I am sure, because we're Americans, and we're not going to be deterred.

00:52:53.000 Charlie's voice is not silent.

00:52:57.000 We're going to pick up that bloodstained microphone where Charlie left it.

00:53:01.000 And 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.

00:53:17.000 We are not going to stop.

00:53:18.000 And I have two words. 1.00

00:53:20.000 Fuck you. 1.00

00:53:23.000 We will not stop telling the truth. 1.00

00:53:25.000 We will never stop telling the truth.

00:53:27.000 We will never stop debating and discussing.

00:53:30.000 We will never stop standing up for what America is and for what she should be.

00:53:35.000 And we will never let Charlie Kirk's voice die.

00:53:40.000 Goodbye to my friend Charlie Kirk.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 11, 2025

UNTHINKABLE: Charlie Kirk, 31, Assassinated

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