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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:02:29.000They're pre-recorded, so nobody else gets to see them, just you.
00:03:57.000And while we have a bunch of differences among the factions, when you have an event that gathers everybody together and says, here is our goal.
00:04:05.000And by the way, that person that you think you're in a Twitter fight with over there, they're actually not that terrible of a person.
00:04:21.000That's why we put so much of an emphasis on these major conferences at Turning Point, because in real life, experiences are more important than ever.
00:04:29.000When everybody's so online, when everybody's, you know, they get down these rabbit holes of this debate or this conspiracy theory or whatever.
00:04:36.000When you come together as one movement and one room and one building, I think magic happens.
00:06:25.000But everyone thought he'd also been hyping up.
00:06:28.000We had this big armada surrounding Venezuela.
00:06:31.000And then there were people, Tucker actually said he'd heard from a congressman it was going to be announcing a war.
00:06:37.000And so you just had a lot of speculation about this.
00:06:39.000And the result of it was that he's talking at primetime and all the networks and all the news outlets, they bother to cover it because you definitely want to get it if he's announcing a war.
00:06:50.000And instead he just trots out and talks about his domestic policies for the past year.
00:06:54.000It was a, it was a, listen, I, I have reason to believe that this was intentional.
00:08:40.000293. When the world looks at us next year, let them see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful to its workers, confident to its identity, certain to its destiny, and the envy of the entire globe.
00:08:56.000We are respected again like we have never been respected before.
00:09:01.000You know, you said something earlier this week.
00:09:03.000I think it was with Steve Dace, where you said you looked at China and you were like, well, China, at least, you know, is proud of itself.
00:09:09.000And I really believe that this is, when we talk about saving the West, it's about restoring our self-confidence in the greatness of our cultures and the greatness of our heritage.
00:09:20.000How much of American life is really on that fulcrum?
00:09:28.000It's especially just if you look at what really goes around in the discourse in university campuses, especially a lot of the left, but increasingly on the right too.
00:09:38.000It's just it actually frequently is dispirited and anti-American.
00:09:41.000And that's not an attitude that tolerates any sort of sacrifice for the future, sacrifice for the good of the country.
00:09:51.000If you don't love your family, you probably won't treat them well.
00:09:54.000And if you don't love your country, you probably won't treat it well either.
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00:11:29.000Blake, I want to hit this story about this really sweet lady that is, she works at Target.
00:11:37.000She's wearing a Charlie Kirk show or a Charlie Kirk shirt, a red one, because it's Target.
00:11:44.000Apparently, you were able to wear a red shirt at Target.
00:11:47.000And she gets verbally accosted by this little person.
00:11:53.000It's a time traveler from 2020, basically.
00:15:54.000And I just love that she, first of all, has the courage to wear a Charlie Kirk show at Target in California in Chino.
00:16:02.000And by the way, Chino's got a lot of wingers, right-wingers, and it's not, it's, it's not a, it's not like all of California has got no conservatives.
00:16:10.000Chino's got some conservatives, but so she's in there.
00:16:24.000So the gal on the left is the uh the woman that you know with her phone up, she went and got her, started swearing in her face.
00:16:32.000And I love that it's red v. Blue too, which is which is kind of fun.
00:16:35.000So that she's a radical progressive who goes and thinks it's cool to go harass a woman that's probably in her 60s or 70s, who's minding her own business, just working a job at Target.
00:17:08.000Thank you so much for the love you showed, Charlie.
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00:18:14.000Joining us now is the great, the wonderful, the excellent, the inquisitive Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of the Postmillennial and Human Events.
00:18:33.000It's well, tomorrow, maybe we'll just have to have you back on again, but we'll do it on set because there's lots to discuss.
00:18:42.000Libby, I noticed that you were, you know, tweeting about this, what is quickly becoming probably one of the most bungled or at least apparently incompetent investigations I've ever seen.
00:19:00.000So could you just bring us up to speed?
00:19:02.000Where are we at now and what do we need to know?
00:19:05.000Well, so far, I believe we are at nowhere.
00:19:08.000We are exactly where we were shortly after the shooting.
00:19:12.000The police don't really seem to have any leads.
00:19:14.000They don't seem to have any real information to go on.
00:19:18.000Every time you watch one of these press conferences, which they deliver every evening from Providence, they tell you how the police are not demoralized and they're doing a great job and everyone's working together.
00:19:28.000And once they crack the case, it'll crack wide open, but nothing seems to be happening.
00:19:33.000They released their first person of interest.
00:19:36.000Then there was another person of interest that they have been looking for.
00:19:39.000Then they're looking for another person of interest.
00:19:43.000They don't really give any information about it.
00:19:46.000Last night when they were being asked by the press about this person of interest, they could not even say whether or not it was a man or a woman that they were looking for.
00:19:56.000And then one thing that I found really, really shocking is that they have not even interviewed all of the students that were in the classroom at the time of the shooting.
00:20:06.000They have, they say that they have been, the police say they have been working with Brown University to get the names of those individuals and to get in contact with them, but that Brown has sent out an email to all students saying, hey, if you were in this classroom for this study session, let us know so you can talk to police.
00:20:23.000But police have not talked to all of those students and they don't even know who all of them were.
00:20:28.000And in the press conference yesterday, they wouldn't even say what kind of gun was used because they are worried that that would influence the answers of the students when they eventually get around to talking to them.
00:20:58.000Like, go, they were on the crime scene shortly after the shooting.
00:21:02.000The whole school was in shelter in place lockdown until the morning on Sunday.
00:21:08.000And they didn't stop to say, hey, let's talk to every single person in that classroom.
00:21:12.000Instead, they took in a person of interest.
00:21:14.000They went and searched his hotel room, whatever.
00:21:16.000Sunday night, that person was released.
00:21:18.000Brown had already shut down the campus till the end of the term and sent everybody home.
00:21:22.000So now all they can do is like hope that they can get out to Peoria or whatever and get in touch with the students who were in the room.
00:21:29.000And there's also indications, and this is not something police have really said, but there's indications that it was just the one student who was intentionally targeted.
00:21:38.000We don't seem to have any answers on that.
00:21:41.000And that would seem to be a huge indication of who the suspect might be if you knew who it was that they were targeting.
00:27:04.000You can look at all of the images that we have.
00:27:06.000But I think the fact of the matter is that the public would not be so interested and determined in trying to find out any information conceivable about this shooter if the police and Brown University were more forthcoming or had perhaps identified a suspect of some kind.
00:27:23.000You know, I mean, people want to know who the shooter is, who wandered onto this Brown campus, managed to get into a secure facility and opened fire on students.
00:27:37.000I know Jack Pasobic was reporting this morning that he had heard from some pretty high-level sources that Ella Cook, the vice president of the College Republicans at Brown, was indeed targeted.
00:27:48.000Now, we're not hearing that from officials.
00:28:47.000And also, if Ella Cook was directly targeted and she was targeted by, you know, someone who was affiliated with the university, because otherwise, why would they be there?
00:28:58.000You could imagine that there would have been social media chatter between that person and Ms. Cook, or that person condemning things that Ms. Cook had said, because these things don't just start when you start opening fire.
00:30:24.000You know, this, again, you've, you've chastised us a bit, Blake, for bullying the police here, but I just have, I have to play this clip because I don't doubt that Colonel Oscar Perez and the Providence Police are doing their level best.
00:30:41.000I mean, maybe I doubt it a little bit, but it might just be as good as they can do.
00:30:45.000But the incompetence is clearly visible to everybody.
00:30:48.000And there's an older clip here a couple years ago of him talking, bragging about the diversity.
00:30:53.000I mean, it just goes, like, it always happens this way.
00:31:01.000To really understand what it means to police South Providence, the West End, Oniville, the East Side of Providence, when you have an officer that responds to a call, and I'll put myself as an example of a Latino call and there's a party going on or a Puerto Rican party or a Colombian party, we tend to be loud.
00:31:21.000And so if you're not used to an understanding of what that means, you may escalate a situation that did not require an escalation.
00:31:29.000According to the FBI, you know, in 1965, we had a 90% clearance rate on homicides.
00:31:35.000The police charged a suspect in over 90% of cases, and we are down to 55% as of 2020.
00:31:56.000And they don't want to talk to the police.
00:31:57.000And all of this stuff is a symptom of like larger problems about racial animus and division that has been stoked since really since the 90s.
00:32:07.000If you care about catching criminals, most of all, you'll catch criminals.
00:32:12.000If you care about having diversity the most, you'll have a lot of diversity.
00:33:19.000The other piece of housekeeping I want to get to is that, you know, I think there's confusion about the radio part.
00:33:27.000The show will continue on Real America's Voice.
00:33:29.000This is something Charlie had actually decided before he was killed that we were going to be kind of more focused on streaming and the over the top and Real America's Voice and podcasting.
00:34:04.000I think people are confused about that.
00:34:06.000So I just want to make a clarifying point.
00:34:08.000The show is going to be the same time, same place.
00:34:11.000We're just kind of transitioning to a bit more streaming friendly format for the show and things like that, which is what Charlie wanted to do.
00:34:28.000What would you like to see happen at Amfest?
00:34:30.000I'm already getting that question a lot this morning, so I wanted to throw it to you as well.
00:34:33.000Do you think AmFest can be this moment where we kind of crystallize some things and we move into 2026 and strength?
00:34:40.000Yeah, I do hope that Amfest is an opportunity for people to come together and to coalesce on values and views.
00:34:47.000I know that it certainly has been in the past, and a lot of people are anxious to see what happens now that Charlie Kirk has been killed.
00:34:55.000I mean, you guys know better than anyone how devastating that has been personally and for the movement and for everything.
00:35:02.000Charlie had his hands pretty much on everyone.
00:35:06.000You know, he touched everything in this movement.
00:35:09.000And I think that it is up to us to continue that legacy by reaching out hands to each other without, you know, that primary person who just kind of knew everyone and knew what to say.
00:35:20.000And everyone had pretty much confidence that Charlie was always acting in good faith.
00:35:26.000I think we need to remember that and need to act in good faith with one another and just come around and say, you know, we agree on the most important things.
00:35:34.000Let's work together to solidify the strength of this country and to make this a better place.
00:35:42.000Yeah, I mean, at some point, listen, I actually think movements and coalitions get rebuilt, right?
00:35:50.000This is like Hillary Clinton did not get the same coalition that Obama when she was running.
00:35:57.000Okay, she has to rebuild her own coalition.
00:36:00.000H.W. Bush, Reagan, you could make arguments about that.
00:36:03.000Sometimes movements have to have a sifting.
00:36:54.000But we also had this idea, certainly when I was growing up that this was the greatest country in the world, that it was the greatest empire ever built.
00:37:02.000And I think we need to get back to that.
00:37:04.000And I will say, as I was flying out here yesterday from the East Coast, I saw a lot of people in Charlie's Freedom shirt and they were smiling at each other.
00:37:12.000They were strangers and they were all coming together because they all knew where each other was going and they were glad to see more people like them headed in the right direction.
00:37:20.000Well, the right direction is Phoenix, Arizona.