Andrew Colvett, Blake Neff, and Alex Marlow discuss the day after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in Las Vegas. They discuss a video of Charlie's friend Mikey being attacked online, and the possibility of a mass shooter being on the loose.
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00:01:09.000I'm Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this fine show, joined by Blake Neff and Alex Marlow.
00:01:14.000Alex Marlow, of course, of Breitbart News and also host of the Alex Marlowe show, which we are going to have you tell us more about, Alex.
00:01:22.000But first, we got to do a little addressing of a video that went viral this weekend.
00:01:30.000And it's a video of Charlie's chief of staff.
00:01:33.000We made the decision that we wanted to address this head-on because, you know, candidly, there's so much intrigue.
00:02:17.000The video, without going way into it, is by, I can't even remember the guy's name.
00:02:21.000Someone made a video that is attacking Mikey, Charlie's friend, Charlie's chief of staff, a guy all of us know, a guy who we've seen on the show here the last few weeks.
00:02:30.000They are attacking him, claiming, based on a few seconds of clips, that he allegedly has like a nonchalant or calm reaction to Charlie's murder.
00:02:41.000And I'm just going to be blunt about this.
00:02:42.000This is a extremely disgusting attack.
00:02:45.000And I can speak to that because I was there when it happened and I was next to Mikey when it happened.
00:02:51.000And what I can say is, again, I can't say every single thing that happened, but I want to talk about this specific narrow thing.
00:03:43.000I remember even running past, both of us going past the, you know, the SUV that we came in on and me thinking, should I get in that car and then thinking, no, that's a really stupid thing to do.
00:04:28.000He's a very happy guy almost all of the time.
00:04:31.000And I'll never forget what I saw because it was clear in the moment that he was profoundly freaked out.
00:04:39.000What I'll always remember is the way his lip was quivering, which I'd never seen before.
00:04:43.000And you very rarely see from someone that he was freaking out.
00:04:47.000And then I think he literally said to me, I might be imagining this, but I think what he literally said was he was looking around and then he says, I need to call Erica.
00:04:57.000And then he takes his phone and he begins calling Erica.
00:05:02.000And I don't want to disclose how that call unfolded, but he did that.
00:05:05.000This, you know, your mind extends all of this, but that is happening within a minute of all of this occurring.
00:05:43.000And I guess it's just, it's very disgusting for me as someone who witnessed this, who saw Mikey hugely distressed and then step up in the moment because after that was called, that call was over, I saw Mikey get total mastery of himself that he realized he had to step up in this situation.
00:06:01.000And he, from that point, he was like, he was like a general directing a battle where he was, you know, grabbing people and saying, okay, we need to get to the hospital and we need to do these things.
00:06:13.000I need to get in here to get information so that I can get it to get it to Erica.
00:06:17.000And when we learned he was dead, he came out and he told us.
00:06:21.000And then he says, and he says, now none of you can say anything that you've heard because it is Erica's not going to hear about this from anyone except me.
00:06:29.000I've just been thrown into this 10 minutes ago, but there's a suggestion online that Mikey, Charlie's chief of staff, one of the most sincere people you'd ever meet, brilliant, Christian, kind, everyone he ever met in his entire life, couldn't hurt a fly, was part of a conspiracy to murder Charlie.
00:06:55.000I think a lot of this mindset just sort of fuels itself.
00:07:00.000It's sort of addictive in the same way a lot of social media stuff is addictive or in the way like, honestly, something like pornography is addictive or something.
00:07:08.000Like they get really, they almost get a high off of like the idea of like that they're doing something that's daring or out there.
00:08:39.000He drilled that into Mikey's brain so that when this moment of trauma happened, that he turned around and he knew he had to do it.
00:08:47.000And by the way, last thing, because this is part of the video allegations here, is that they think they're alleging that he was on the phone immediately.
00:08:55.000He was taking social videos, which he would send to our group chat, which we would then put on Charlie's social while the event was happening so you could see like the crowd come in or his interactions.
00:09:04.000And we were only two questions into this event.
00:09:06.000So he was still getting it out to all the chats he needed to do, which he did at every event.
00:09:11.000He turns around and it was so blaringly loud, I'm told.
00:09:14.000You would know this better than I, but this is what I'm told.
00:09:18.000put his fingers in his ear but his phone was still in his hand he walks away and he's not even not even walk i want it because Because people are talking about that.
00:09:27.000The way it was is we had a cordoned off area with rates so you couldn't had controlled access.
00:09:33.000All the people, when this happens, they all get the idea we should leave before we are shot.
00:09:38.000And so there's a little narrow gap that I think people, it's not really walking.
00:09:42.000It's that everyone has to slow up to get through this little narrow choke point to get out of the area.
00:09:48.000Anyways, well, the point is he walks briskly.
00:09:50.000I don't even care if he's walking, running, whatever, because, again, the most traumatic thing you could imagine had just happened to him.
00:10:01.000I cannot imagine what was going through your guys' head being on the scene and seeing it and knowing, again, the security guys are jumping in.
00:10:08.000He turns, and he, like, I'm telling you, Mikey that day turned into a general on a field marshaling the troops going.
00:10:15.000But like for a second there, obviously he didn't know what to do.
00:10:18.000And then he clicked into gear eventually.
00:10:21.000Mikey was a heroic figure on that day.
00:10:24.000And I just, I really want anyone who finds like these narratives attacking him to be remotely credible to really, really stop and think about what you are doing.
00:10:32.000Because what you are doing is bad and it is gross and it is a choice.
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00:12:25.000Well, you know, before we get to this Venezuelan topic, I do think it's interesting that you, you know, you were hired by Andrew Breitbart.
00:12:51.000I mean, if you want to chime in on that, because that's completely outrageous.
00:12:56.000And it's sad that there's such a market for this content because it's completely, completely counterproductive to our shared goals of defeating the left, going after Mikey.
00:13:08.000It occurred to me while we were talking about that.
00:13:10.000It's like, you know, the political assassination and the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk, but it was an assassination.
00:13:17.000It was the highest profile political assassination since the 60s in this country.
00:13:22.000And what's really sad is that it's followed on the footsteps of it are the attempts by some, not by all.
00:13:28.000I don't want to like overblow this, by the way.
00:13:30.000I think the amount of love and the outpouring of support for the show, for Turning Point, for Erica, for all of us that have been around this has been tremendous.
00:13:39.000Really, like you've seen the most beautiful part of humanity.
00:13:44.000He happened to be one of my best friends, guy we spent every day with.
00:13:49.000And so the sad part is, is that that assassination has led to the character assassination of some of the people closest to Charlie that loved him most, that he hand-selected in these roles because he trusted them.
00:14:01.000And again, I try, like, and I, again, I try and be generous, Blake, because I do know that, like, we live in a certain era where we've learned to distrust the authorities.
00:14:13.000And by the way, a lot of these authorities have earned our distrust, whether it be COVID or whatever.
00:14:20.000And they do, Charlie was such a monumental figure, and this was such a public moment and such a tragedy that I know that essentially the world is grieving still, and the movement is grieving still.
00:14:33.000And people want answers, and they want to get to the bottom of it.
00:14:36.000And so I'm just trying to give grace for people.
00:14:43.000Listen, your voice is just important as mine, but there is like a combination here of understanding that people, there is the click chasers and the cloud chasers, I get that.
00:14:51.000But there are people, and they message me that have legitimate questions and they have legitimate things.
00:14:59.000What I want to emphasize is like it is, we have a moral, you have a moral responsibility to think things through seriously, to use your reason.
00:15:10.000And a lot of really wild theorizing is a product of people being lazy in their thinking.
00:15:17.000And it's very easy to be lazy about things where, you know, maybe it's not your own well-being on the line, where you're not really having to commit anything.
00:15:24.000And you'll see that a lot, where people who have normal lives and can make normal decisions in their own life will believe truly wild things about stuff that's far away from them.
00:15:33.000And I would encourage people who are buying to this truly deranged and hurtful stuff to think about that, to reasonably think.
00:15:41.000Do you really think it is remotely reasonable or plausible that Charlie's best friends, his chief of staff, the co-hosts of his show, his wife, people on his, like people who he spent years with conspired in a vast thing to have him assassinated for Underpants Gnome's like weird reasoning?
00:16:00.000Like there's no plausible reason for any of this.
00:16:37.000And I would just ask people to remember that because of this, even if they're just asking questions, there are a lot of unwell people out there who respond to this sort of thing by sending incredibly hurtful emails or showing up outside people's homes, doing incredibly gross behavior.
00:16:53.000And some of those people are probably just generally unwell.
00:16:57.000But you have to remember, unwell people are greatly influenced by the things they hear around them.
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00:18:44.000The military has now launched 10 attacks, killing more than 40 people against these suspected drug smuggling boats, as you just referenced.
00:18:54.000Is the United States at war with Venezuela, Mr. Secretary?
00:19:58.000So I hope Maduro would leave peacefully, but I don't think he's going to stay around much longer.
00:20:06.000Now, so, but to give some context to this, because it has been building up for a while.
00:20:10.000So, yes, we're doing those airstrikes on, I guess I drugs, undrug boats, alleged drug boats.
00:20:17.000And, you know, we've, you know, I remember, you know, we've expressed some concern about that, just in the sense, you have to acknowledge, if they mess that up even once and blow up innocent people, it's catastrophically bad.
00:20:28.000Bad for America and, you know, bad just objectively, morally.
00:20:57.000So it's like sending troops to Kuwait before Iraq or something like that.
00:21:00.000We've also, and this is the really big one, is we've deployed the USS Gerald Ford, one of our carriers, with its strike group.
00:21:07.000So a full carrier strike group, the guys we normally have in the Persian Gulf off the coast of China.
00:21:13.000We've deployed that carrier group to the Caribbean.
00:21:16.000And if we're sending a carrier strike group to the Caribbean, there's basically only one thing it could be for, which is potential military action against basically either Venezuela or Cuba.
00:21:26.000And it doesn't seem like we're about to do anything to Cuba.
00:21:28.000All of our gestures have been against Venezuela.
00:21:31.000Now, the justification for that, the Trump administration obviously has, we've labeled their government illegitimate.
00:25:51.000And by the way, playing in the back of my head is the fact that the opposition leader in Venezuela just dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump.
00:25:58.000So think about that as you're doing the calculus in your head.
00:26:01.000But Trump has a fixation on killing drug dealers.
00:26:05.000He goes over to Asia or Singapore and they treat drug crimes much more strictly.
00:26:12.000Japan treats drug crimes much more strictly, right?
00:26:15.000So here's the thing: Trump wants to emulate those countries that he looks up to and believes that they treat drug dealers appropriately because he sees what's happening with fentanyl, where it kills hundreds of thousands of Americans over the last couple of years.
00:27:13.000And I think we are in a bit of a rock and a hard place because Mexico is paying us lip service that they are getting serious about cracking down on drugs.
00:27:21.000So to invade and launch an attack in Mexico is much more politically fraught, Alex.
00:27:45.000I got to say, Maduro, I think, went to the same Toastmaster school as AOC.
00:27:51.000I felt like the same cadence for the speech.
00:27:54.000But overall, it's just, do you believe Trump's peace-through strength approach is credible, where he does these sporadic bombings, he picks targets where it's sort of like an 80-20 is going to have approval of, well, do you really mind if he bombs a few drug dealers?
00:28:13.000For me, he's been fully credible on this because we now have five years of foreign policy for him, and he's hit it out of the park every time.
00:28:19.000But I understand if you're just really focused solely on we got to keep America out of foreign entanglements, you should be concerned every time.
00:28:35.000Like, obviously, I do not want a ground invasion in Venezuela, okay?
00:28:38.000But there are about 48 different options between boots on the ground, ground invasion, and Maduro no longer being in power in a really important country, actually, in a country that has forced a lot of immigration into states like Florida and New York.
00:28:53.000I mean, there's a ton of Venezuelans in there.
00:30:51.000But I'm also getting inside the psychology of President Trump, where he hates drugs, right?
00:30:56.000He hates drugs and he wants to stop them.
00:30:58.000And I believe that they have credible evidence to understand that there's a large amount that are actually coming through Venezuela, whether they're being trafficked up through Cuba or something as a go-between, as a way station.
00:31:09.000But just Trump wants to get rid of this scourge in the Western Hemisphere.
00:31:14.000Now, Lindsey Graham's going to poke him and prod him and push him forward.
00:31:18.000And I think he's going to show restraint.
00:31:19.000And I think that's what the message that we have to be sending both online and on shows like this is like, please, we do not want another foreign entanglement.
00:31:26.000But I do believe there's about 40 different options here before we get to something that we would be like, you know, that would ruin his batting average, so to speak, Alex.
00:31:34.000Yeah, I wanted to hear Blake flesh out his point about the Florida law because I think that's interesting.
00:31:38.000And you got to keep an eye on that stuff.
00:31:39.000Well, you know, you just, it's worth remembering that we have a very, very Floridian government.
00:31:47.000You know, the State Department is, we've got Marco Rubio's Floridian.
00:32:26.000They've given us a lot of support, but it does mean that it can shape our outlook, that they might really fixate on this particular issue that is less, that is less compelling to the rest of the country.
00:32:39.000And it can just be what they marinate in.
00:32:42.000The same way that people in D.C., you get a lot of our war hawk people because they just marinate in a pro-intervention, kind of pro-military, industrial, complex environment that makes them more inclined towards thinking, oh, yeah, we can solve our problems in the Middle East by dropping these bombs, by overthrowing this government.
00:33:00.000And I think you have a good point that, yeah, Trump really despises the drug dealers.
00:33:05.000He sees this Venezuelan government as linked to that.
00:33:08.000And if he can remove it, he can mitigate the problem.
00:33:10.000But I will remind everyone that nothing causes more drug smuggling to happen than pure anarchy.
00:33:16.000We overthrew the Taliban, which had a little bit, which basically blew up all of the opium and heroin coming out of Afghanistan.
00:33:22.000We took out Gaddafi, and then Libya became this endless supply of migrants sailing into Europe.
00:33:29.000So if you pulverize the Venezuelan government, do you just end up where there's anarchy in Venezuela, so even more drugs are coming out of there?
00:33:37.000Maybe you cause even more Venezuelans to flee the country, and then they end up in all these different places.
00:33:43.000I want to keep building this out probably tomorrow with you, Alex and Blake.
00:33:48.000There is something happening to the American psyche where we are seeing a bifurcation of what reality looks like for either side.
00:33:56.000And I think it just depends on what algorithm you find yourself on.
00:34:01.000And we saw this with what happened with Charlie, right?
00:34:04.000It's like there is a certain percentage of the population that is really convinced of the most awful doomerism imaginable from the American left.
00:34:14.000They see it, you know, on MSNBC, CNN, then it goes into Reddit, and then it goes into these Discord chats, and they literally think that they are fighting Nazis.
00:34:22.000And there was a video that went viral over the weekend about an American liberal who's fleeing to Canada.
00:34:29.000And this thing goes on for like five minutes.
00:34:44.000We are just literally minutes away from the border to Canada as we flee the U.S. Who would have thought at age 60 that this would be our day in our plan and in our actions?
00:35:02.000We just feel so scrutinized and so silenced and so being portrayed as enemies within and being portrayed as domestic terrorists.
00:35:18.000He hit the ground running in January, the day he was inaugurated.
00:35:23.000So what's striking to me about this clip, right, is you remember that famous Joe Biden speech, Alex, where the red in the background, he's talking about MAGA extremists and the number one threat to America is these white supremacists.
00:35:36.000So we were villainized and otherized and told that we were the existential threat to our country.
00:35:43.000But yet this guy thinks that it's our side that's doing it to him.
00:36:38.000He can say if he wants, but I don't care.
00:36:39.000I don't think about these people a lot until you hear the TikTok clips.
00:36:42.000But in a post-Charlie Kirk assassination world, we need a lot less tolerance, this type of language, and the disparaging of our country when it's the left that has this violent streak and they're the ones who are taking out our field generals.
00:36:53.000Oh, I totally agree with that, by the way.
00:36:56.000I mean, in a post-Charlie world, and by the way, every poll indicates that the left is the party, the side that is embracing violence.
00:37:04.000Our side, actually, I'm so proud of this.
00:37:06.000And I give Charlie so much credit for this, that the youngest conservatives, self-described conservatives, are basically the most peaceful group.
00:37:58.000Man, it's just people really want to like, they almost want to live in more interesting times than they do, which is surprising because we live in pretty interesting times as this.
00:38:10.000And frankly, it's weird to say, pretty entertaining.