Andrew Colvet and Blake Neff are joined by Chris Cuomo, host of the show "News Nation" on Andrew Colvet's show, to discuss the tragic loss of Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed in broad daylight in his own home.
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00:01:09.000All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:11.000Andrew Colvet, executive producer of this show.
00:01:14.000I now am joined by Blake Neff, our not so secret weapon.
00:01:18.000And uh we're honored to have uh somebody that maybe this audience wouldn't expect us to have on the show, but it's for a very important conversation, and that is Chris Cuomo, host of Cuomo on News Nation, a show that I had the uh pleasure of going on last night and talking about some really important things.
00:01:35.000And uh, we talked after the show, and he agreed to join us right here on this show as well.
00:01:40.000So, Chris, welcome to the show, and thank you for making the time.
00:01:43.000Hey, Andrew, appreciate uh being with you.
00:01:53.000And I know that I know that you are, um, because you've expressed it to me personally and you've gone out of your way to do so.
00:02:01.000And I think that uh, you know, deserves credit to where it's due because a lot of people, you know, the f the first things they reached out to are all about business.
00:02:11.000And and uh when people come and their first their first comment is, I'm sorry for your loss, and uh, you know, I feel for you, and and you have nice things to say about Charlie, who I know we we you and he and we disagree about the politics of it all.
00:02:25.000We have a lot of different opinions and all that stuff.
00:02:27.000Um, but one thing that I noticed about you, Chris, and we talked about it a little bit last night is you know, there it there can be a lot made of the who.
00:02:37.000You know, uh who who did this, what you know, but we can agree that the what is much more clear.
00:02:46.000What killed Charlie was people, and I said this on your show, excuse me, and you reiterated it, was that somebody or maybe a group of people were still waiting on some of the details there candidly, and we want the answers, but somebody decided to pick up a gun when Charlie Kirk hit what he was about was picking up a microphone.
00:03:06.000Uh, and it is a a perfect encapsulation of an evolving fundamentalism in our country and uh the extremism that we see that is uh turbocharged by social media that is monetized uh within our politics and digital media that is capitalized on by this toxic two-party system.
00:03:29.000Uh, this is bad directionally, and what scared me most uh after the the personal feelings about the loss of such a young man who was followed by so many, and what it meant to his wife and his babies.
00:03:48.000Uh once I could get past that, what scared me the most, Andrew, was the yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but is really frightening when it comes to a moral analysis.
00:04:11.000You want to talk about Charlie's ideas, fine.
00:04:14.000Nobody wanted to do that more than Charlie did.
00:04:16.000And more than most, he did it with decency.
00:04:21.000And I'm not saying I agree with everything that he said.
00:04:23.000Charlie and I uh were very plain about our disagreements.
00:04:27.000Uh, but uh not Attacking him personally, not attacking how he tried to present himself.
00:04:34.000Uh, and the idea of his murder is an absolute low for us, and that's all it can ever be seen as it can never be mitigated, it can never be qualified.
00:04:46.000Yeah, well, it's well said, Chris, and the yeah, but was really terrifying.
00:04:51.000I mean, Blake and I were obviously we were shell-shocked, we're watching the whole world uh change Blake, you know.
00:04:58.000I I think about this often with Blake that that he was there, uh, a few feet away from Charlie.
00:05:03.000And you know, imagine our world and Blake's world as well.
00:05:07.000Uh especially imagine what we're seeing in those few hours, days after it happened, and you're seeing Congress getting into shouting matches about a prayer.
00:05:17.000You're getting you're seeing you're seeing what we saw celebration.
00:05:20.000We saw this the yeah, but what it really manifested was this immediate race I have by a lot of people that I have to find a reason I can feel okay with this.
00:05:31.000I have to find a reason actually I can decide this is a good thing.
00:05:35.000And they would fixate on the smallest you know the stuff we debunked in the episode the following week, where oh, well, actually, he said this thing about the second amendment, so you can actually dunk on Charlie for dying, or he said this thing about affirmative action.
00:05:50.000So actually, it's fine to think it was good that he was shot.
00:05:52.000And there that happens so often, and that's not even getting into the darker stuff.
00:05:56.000I mean, I got I got messages from people I personally know who were gloating in my face about it.
00:06:04.000Well, and you know how many pictures of the president's ear I've gotten where people say his ear is fine, there's no way it healed like this.
00:06:14.000There's another and my point is look, you bring me proof that they faked it, and I'll be all over it.
00:06:25.000But short of that, that would have been I don't I don't I don't even want to think about what would have happened in this country had the president been seriously injured, let alone assassinated as Charlie was.
00:06:41.000And I actually reached out to Trump right after that and said exactly that.
00:06:47.000Now, of course, the media and a lot of your friends wound up immediately weaponizing it and saying, I apologize to Trump for the media.
00:06:57.000I apologize, like I was somehow responsible for what had happened with that um evil assassin.
00:07:08.000And that's why, you know, one of the reasons I reached out a little protectively, Andrew, uh, with you, is I see that people are using the opportunity of Charlie's assassination to promote agendas that not only weren't his, but are kind of shameless and disgusting.
00:08:30.000Uh, and you know, listen, we have a sacred duty to to live up to that to harness all of this outpouring of energy of enthusiasm for patriotism, for faith, and what I believe can be a revival in this country, especially with young people, and that's what we have to do.
00:08:46.000We can't get bogged down by the the controversies.
00:08:49.000We can't get dragged down these these rabbit holes online and the the you know, and again get fixated on the who.
00:09:52.000Listen, I listen, I know that you have charted your own course after the CNN days, and I've I've been really excited to see it, especially with COVID.
00:10:00.000Uh, and you're you're you know, you say that conversation is a cure.
00:10:03.000I think Charlie would agree with that.
00:10:05.000You guys uh Charlie never actually got to go on your show.
00:10:08.000We were we were working on it behind the scenes, and I'm sad that that didn't happen, but you did get to be on with him at uh the Patrick Bet David for hours.
00:10:17.000So and he by the way, he came he came away from that, Chris, and he said, No, Chris is a really like he's a really decent guy in person, like I really enjoyed meeting him.
00:10:24.000And uh so I mean it was all all positive, positive vibes.
00:11:03.000It's that the DEI that was embedded in the DNA of that legislation wound up being used in a way uh that has been bad for the country, and that that's what he was talking about.
00:11:15.000That's what he meant, even if he didn't say it that way.
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00:12:43.000Um the second kind are the people who aren't aware that their behaviors or their words are both um are suggestive of a prejudice.
00:12:54.000That uh it's it's implicit and that they're not trying to be that way, but that's how they're raised, that's just how they think, and it's correctable.
00:13:03.000Then you have the third one, okay, which is the real problem.
00:13:08.000Racists who are proud to tell you that they are.
00:13:11.000And in my experience, if someone's a racist, they will tell you because they believe they have very good reasons for it.
00:13:19.000Um, and I see it being abused now, just like calling people on uh Nazis or saying that Trump is Hitler.
00:13:28.000You cheapen the profound nature of the world.
00:13:31.000Well, to be fair though, Chris, just to be to be fair, people have been mislabeling people as racist for, you know, i basically as long as I've been an adult, uh probably much more before that.
00:13:41.000Sometimes it ran and a lot of times they're not.
00:13:44.000It ramped up a lot in the last I would say ten, fifteen years.
00:13:58.000And what matters or should matter, it did actually doesn't matter enough, is why?
00:14:05.000The reason it's ramped up is because we're going down a road of fundamentalism.
00:14:08.000We are getting into extreme ideas and extreme belief systems.
00:14:14.000And I believe it is fed by our system, the two party system specifically, and amplified by design for profit by social media.
00:14:25.000So that now it's not that like I would love for you guys to pepper me with like, or what do you think about the you know, guns or whatever it is where you think that we disagree?
00:14:35.000And I think I think it's a really great exercise.
00:14:41.000Instead, I want to say, oh, that Andrew is a cuck, and you know, that blade is soft, and I destroyed them, and you know, I destroyed them, and I did this and I did that.
00:14:53.000And then I put it out in the clips, and that's how it is.
00:14:57.000That is it's so toxic, and people don't get it.
00:15:01.000And I say to them, just think about I say to people all the time, you think you'd say that if you were standing in front of me right now.
00:17:15.000If you're liberal, 30% of them, just about, maybe just under, maybe it's 29%, said yes, that it's justified to resort to violence to achieve political goals.
00:17:25.000There is something going on with young progressives that they think violence is somehow okay.
00:19:22.000There's no way that news nation and every other media platform that you like or dislike has a level of responsibility for what it puts out there, and the richest, most powerful media people with the largest platforms have zero fix it.
00:19:41.000Yeah, and I I would say that you know, uh, to Charlie's credit, because Charlie gets lumped in with this Charlie Kirk destroys Lib and all this stuff, and I get it.
00:19:49.000There, those videos are out there on social media.
00:19:52.000But 90%, Chris, of his interactions on campus were calm, patient.
00:19:58.000One of the most common things that we saw, especially as he got older, because he started looking at the students as like younger, younger siblings.
00:20:37.000And I get that most people don't get this because most people don't live social media the way they amplify the magnified minorities do, minority populations.
00:20:48.000So they don't really get it, but it is infecting everything they do get.
00:20:53.000And you have to stop allowing the algorithms to reward rage baiting.
00:21:00.000Yeah, it's that's I'm not allowed to do that.
00:21:02.000If I were to do that, there would be so much scrutiny of wow, all this guy does is like give you reasons to hate people.
00:21:09.000We got all we gotta, we gotta wrap it up, Chris.
00:21:12.000Uh that was that was a really interesting conversation.
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00:22:21.000So, uh, you know, I used to always notice this when uh Charlie would get to like certain segments, and he just could was like, hey, I don't even know anything about what I'm talking about here, but You guys do, so and he would like love it because it was not on him.
00:22:33.000So we're gonna be talking about uh pop culture, controversies, Taylor Swift, uh Zach Bryan, all the things, but first Mikey McCoy uh has some news for us.
00:22:44.000So obviously we announced the halftime show today.
00:22:47.000Halftime, the all-American halftime show.
00:22:51.000And so that uh initially there's a little bit of confusion because they were like, is this you know the Force Frank Corey's Asbury halftime show?
00:23:26.000So just to put you know, for clarity's sake here, I about literally ten minutes ago I just jumped off a call with Corey, and um it was a great phone call.
00:23:34.000He's an amazing guy, great follower of Christ, does so much to bring people back to the Lord.
00:23:41.000And it was an amazing phone call, 30 minutes long, and our desire is to partner.
00:23:45.000Our desire is to proclaim the name of Jesus.
00:23:53.000And so it sounds like we're gonna be building a bridge there.
00:23:56.000Oh, well, we can't get a hold of ourselves.
00:24:00.000But listen, the good news is is that like people that love Jesus, people that are concerned about the things of the Lord, um there is no friction.
00:24:09.000There is only only linking arms and um I mean, that has been Erica's one guiding principle.
00:24:16.000Well, there's been a few, but like one of the main ones is that we want to make heaven crowded, we want to see revival, we want to see uh the name of Jesus made great in our land again.
00:24:25.000And so that was a really positive step.
00:24:30.000I knew nothing that there was like like competing things.
00:24:33.000I think I was complet I was w wonderfully oblivious.
00:24:36.000What's most important is that it wasn't even anyone's specific ideas was the American public saying we want something different than what we're given, and a lot of amazing people from turning point events, Corey, what whatever they're trying to put on, a lot of amazing people are trying to make that happen, and we all want to do it together.
00:24:54.000Yeah, and I think this goes back to the fact that Bad Bunny was just a bad choice.
00:24:57.000Um a lot of people that really love this country, like Blake Neff was like, I'm not gonna stream Bad Bunny music.
00:25:08.000I have literally never heard of Bad Bunny until and I'll just add this A Court of Three Strings isn't easily broken.
00:25:13.000And so the more of us that partner together, you know, to to fight for what we believe in, is the stronger we are.
00:25:19.000Yeah, and listen, this doesn't have to be a partisan thing, this doesn't have to be a political thing.
00:25:23.000This is just like there is a sense of what America is, there's a sense about what faith family and freedom mean to people, and we just want to we want to do that.
00:25:29.000That's the way we want to do family freedom, less booty cheeks on a halftime show, more believers, less sexual anarchy, booty cheeks believers.
00:26:10.000That but now she has a new album out, and uh Daisy's going to tell us there's like very interesting developments in how the Swift is.
00:26:17.000Well, we did talk about this once already.
00:26:18.000So she talks about just wanting to have the white picket fence in the family.
00:26:21.000Well, so that's which we thought was good.
00:26:23.000That was the day after it had come out.
00:26:25.000And so the online chatter hadn't really started yet.
00:26:30.000But since then, that's been uh almost it's been a week since it came out, almost a week since we had that conversation, and she is getting cancelled by her own side.
00:26:41.000She people have found a lot of different lyrics that are microaggression, microaggression.
00:26:47.000This reminds me this reminds me of when uh that Z gal from uh the Unf America tour uh was trying to like counter Charlie and Turning Point, and then she got canceled by her own team for microaggressions.
00:27:00.000So there are a couple things that are going on.
00:27:02.000One people are upset saying that Taylor is uh one of the quotes that I saw was that she has given the alt-right their conservative agenda on a silver platter.
00:27:13.000Because she's talking about how she wants to get married and have kids.
00:27:16.000People use that term like in the most idiotic ways.
00:27:19.000And then separately, she's getting uh slammed for her racist.
00:29:17.000Out of context, people taking your words and twisting them and we have- I think that happened a few times with Charlie talking about Taylor.
00:29:30.000Taylor Swift has revealed herself to be resentful of black women, or at least deeply insecure when it comes to comparing herself to black women.
00:29:38.000In the song Opalite, Taylor is referencing Travis Kelsey's ex-girlfriend Kayla Nicole.
00:29:42.000The lyrics of Opalite include you were dancing through the lightning strikes, sleepless in the onyx night.
00:29:49.000So Taylor is not only using the lyrics in the song to talk about how she is so much better for Travis than his ex-girlfriend is, but she is choosing to do that using the imagery of Onyx, which is typically black, and opalite, which is typically white.
00:30:05.000So it it gets even it gets even worse, Taylor's apparent racism because she has in Wish list, the song that we talked about last week, she says she wants to have a bunch of kids with Travis and have the whole block looking like you, which is clearly Taylor saying that she wants her entire block to look white and not obviously not her saying she wants to have so many kids with her fiance who she's in love with that she wants a bunch of mini mini themes running around.
00:30:30.000But no, she's very clearly being racist by that one.
00:30:33.000Another one which was took me a lot longer to understand.
00:30:37.000In her song Eldest Daughter, she says, I'm not a bad B. We can interpret what that means.
00:30:43.000I'm not a savage, which that is a microaggression.
00:30:46.000I think we're showing pictures up on the screen of people responding to that saying that Taylor is showing her racism by saying that because those are she is comparing herself to his ex again, who we know is black.
00:31:02.000Blake Blake, how many times do does a progressive need to get burned by the insane progressive people before they learn that the you do not make common cause?
00:31:14.000Evidence I've seen from when I have investigated this is unfortunately it is infinity.
00:31:19.000Some people can like just be humiliated over and over, like massively hated, and they'll just they'll never quite.
00:31:26.000But how did I know that you were never like that in?
00:31:29.000So it's also what I think is so crazy about this because in in her song Cancelled, which one of the videos mentioned, it's about how she likes her friends better being canceled.
00:31:35.000It's widely speculative that's about Brittany Mahomes who has been associated with conservative principles, the alt-right movement.
00:31:46.000We should and Well, speaking of the alt-right move, or do you have a sorry I didn't remember?
00:31:50.000Well, I was just gonna say I think this is so crazy that people are saying that Taylor is so MAGA coded in this album because Taylor is every single election has come out and endorsed a Democrat.
00:33:06.000Making number one that, and number two, an album about like an idealized form of like what is a typical American family, ideally, of like living in a suburb, being in a monogamous relationship, getting peace and joy, and basically just kind of being a housewife.
00:35:15.000But Blake and I's last text exchange with Charlie was about monogamy.
00:35:19.000And we're talking about how it's very advanced civilizational tech, how good it is for culture, how it directs male energy towards the building of families, the building of businesses, the uh building of civilization.
00:35:31.000Uh it's just a when when I heard him say monogamy, Republican value, I was like, how did how did like obviously good things become partisan things?
00:35:42.000Well, it would become a partisan thing if one of the sides was against good things and like things because they were disgusting and bad.
00:35:49.000It's never been more clear that they are just they're saying from this Taylor Swift album, which I think is crazy, that's where they're coming to this conclusion from that they are against settling down and having a faith.
00:35:59.000I think we should do an experiment where like you take really left-wing insane people and you just do exposure therapy, like hook them up to some devices to measure them, and then just show them like a photo of a nuclear family with two children under age five and just see if like if they have this like visceral disgust reaction.
00:36:17.000Because at this point I suspect you would, and I think we need to research this.
00:36:20.000We should bring back wife swap, but it's like a complete conservative normal trad wife family with some blue haired, blue-haired 20-year-old girl living in the city.
00:36:34.000This is normalizing uh patently insane people and we need to actually return to the t taboo culture of yesteryear.
00:36:43.000All we want, we don't want handmaid's tale, we just want the nineties.
00:37:11.000All right, we have more pop culture controversies, including Zach Bryan.
00:37:15.000Uh what's the neck what's the next controversy we need to be educated on?
00:37:19.000Zach Bryan posted a snippet of a song and he captioned it, The Fading of the Red, White, and Blue.
00:37:26.000And in this song, his lyrics are an ice is going to come bust down your door, try to build a house, no one builds no more, but I got a telephone.
00:37:36.000The kids are all scared and all alone.
00:37:39.000So Zach Bryan already is just not a good guy.
00:38:19.000Um in this story, yes, she I like I don't think she's a fan of us in any way, but she very publicly has said that he offered her twelve million dollars to go away to never talk about him publicly again.
00:38:36.000Not 12 million dollars, but he's been married to he was um in the military, was married, got divorced, and is now a very successful country singer, but Brianna Chicken Fry did not take the money and has been speaking or has spoken about everything they're turning down twelve million dollars to publicly hate on someone is some pretty nuclear level hatred.
00:39:02.000He and he's always been pretty liberal, especially after all the Bud Light stuff happened.
00:39:06.000I want to say that he the uh the we were conservatives were canceling Bud Light, and I think he pretty publicly said Bud Light was going to be the soul beer he drank on his tour.
00:39:41.000I told you how to make it the first thing that I saw when I so I enter the arena and uh he's it's kind of done in the round, so he kind of moves around, he kind of points to all directions.
00:39:53.000And uh the first thing I noticed is that he had heels like on his shoes.
00:39:58.000Of course, like this, like there were like bono heels he used to do that too.
00:40:01.000Uh and he's legit, he's just a very tiny person.
00:40:34.000Oh, he got He got arrested for interfering with a traffic stop, and he told the officer, I'm just 20 uh I'm just a twenty-seven-year-old kid, man.
00:40:58.000I hope he understands how completely disrespectful that song is, not just to law enforcement, but to this country, to every single individual that has ever stood up and fought for our freedoms.
00:41:08.000He just compromised it all by putting out a product such as that.
00:41:12.000That attacks individuals who are just trying to make our streets safe.
00:41:17.000So Zach, um, I didn't listen to your music.
00:41:21.000Today that makes me very happy that I never once gave you a single penny uh to enrich your lifestyle if you truly believe what that song stands for.
00:41:28.000But I am gonna go out and probably download some Jason Aldean songs, John Rich songs, so party, kid rock, any of those guys, those guys know what it means to stand up for Freedom.
00:42:10.000He responded and said that this song is actually about his love for the country, and anyone that's using it as a weapon proves how divided we all truly are.