WEBVTT - Remembering our Friend, the Great Charlie Kirk 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:01.440 Welcome. 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:04.440 It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:06.440 It's nice to have you with us wherever you are 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:08.960 around the country. And this is one of those just 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.559 somber shows. Senator, you and I actually have not gotten 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.320 to talk since the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, a 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.880 dear friend of both of ours. You've known him for 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.759 over a decade, like I have. You've broken bread with Charlie. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.120 We have actually done Verdict live at Turning Point events 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.840 down in Florida. You've spoken at other Turning Point events 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.680 as I have as well. I saw him not too 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.360 long ago and we just talked about our kids. And 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.519 I think about his kids, and I think about his 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.440 wife and this tragedy, and it makes me so sad 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.400 that this is where we are in this country, that 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.199 there are people that believe that this is the way 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.440 to do things. And I want to get your reaction 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.360 to that as well. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:02.840 Look this, I'm heartbroken. Charlie was a good friend. As 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.680 you noted, I've known Charlie for over a decade. I 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.760 met him when he was eighteen years old. He was 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.520 a young kid. He was coming out of Chicago. He 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.080 was just starting turning point. He had this vision. He 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.720 had this vision for energizing young people, and he was 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.840 as an eighteen year old, Charlie was impressive. You could 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.360 see how smart he was, You could see how driven 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:30.959 he was. You could see the clarity that a vision 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.720 that he had. He knew exactly what he wanted to 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.000 do to energize young people, and it was something that 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.200 when he first started talking about it, a lot of 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.440 people disbelieved him. I got to say this week, this 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.960 week was a really hard week. It was number one. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.080 It was the anniversary of nine to eleven, and that 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.000 is a national tragedy that you and I both both 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:59.000 lived through and lost friends in nine to eleven. But 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:05.160 then this out of nowhere watching first seeing the tweet 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:10.480 of shots fired, and then Charlie Kirk shot, and then 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.840 the fog of misinformation. I'll tell you, as soon as 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.840 I saw just the tweet that he may have been shot, 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.840 I pulled up my phone and texted him and I 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.400 just just said, hey, man, are you are you okay? 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.280 I'm praying for you right now. And I didn't know 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.080 then if he was. It's hard to tell when the 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.280 first tweet goes out, what the truth is and what 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.079 was not. I was obviously hoping maybe there'd been a 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.160 shot fired, but it had missed him. It wasn't clear 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:36.720 he had been hit at the time, so I was 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.840 really hoping i'd get a text back, yeah I'm fine, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.480 I'm here. Obviously I did not get a response to that. 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.799 You know, I talked to Charlie just a few weeks ago, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:54.360 and it's I got to say, what happened. It is evil, 0:02:54.840 --> 0:03:01.680 it is wrong. Just about everyone I know is really 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.280 shaken up by it. I will say. One of the 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:10.600 worst parts when it happened pretty quickly, the video got 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.320 out there on X of his being shot in the throat, 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.560 and it was I'm sure you've seen the video, it's 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.200 a graphic video and on X for me, it was 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.359 on AutoPlay, so like I kept seeing the same thing 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.720 over and over and over again, Like you couldn't look 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.520 at X without seeing it auto play. I don't think 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.560 in my life I've ever seen a friend of mine 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:40.119 be killed. And the afternoon had happened, I watched him 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:45.560 shot and killed over and over and over again, and 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:52.480 it's just screwed up. I mean, he was extraordinary and 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.360 he leaves a big legacy and on verdict. Today, we're 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.080 going to talk about that legacy. We're going to talk 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.360 about who Charlie Kirk was. We're going to talk about 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.320 what he meant to me, to you, what he meant 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.360 to millions across the country, and and and and what 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.400 I gotta say, Ben, what the hell is wrong with 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.680 this country that you have lunatics who say, I don't 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.320 like what you're saying, I don't like your politics, and 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.560 so I'm going to murder you. I mean this, this 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:28.320 played out almost exactly like the attempted assassination of President 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.200 Trump and Butler with with with a gunman with a 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.320 rifle on a roof. And and had President Trump had 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.839 had his head been two inches to the side, he 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:43.600 would have been killed that day. And and Charlie, was 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.720 it it it it, it's it's beyond horrific. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:49.080 Yeah, it is. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.400 It is a moment that I I wish I could 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.800 never remember. But you you, and you said it the 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.280 best way. It was there you saw it. You watched 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.920 one of your friends get gunned down, whole blooded murder, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.560 assassinated in this way. And it is something that, as 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.640 you said, what is wrong in this country where we 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.680 can't have a grand debate of grand ideas, and that 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.160 is what Charlie's legacy was all about. 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And he started this 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.760 years ago by himself, with one guy recording and him 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.760 sitting at it at a card table at university campuses, 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.559 and it turned into something where three thousand people, for example, 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.280 showed up in Utah. It changed college campuses with turning 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.200 point groups that were out there, and that is his legacy. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.560 And part of I think what the big lie has 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.480 been is that he somehow was this aggressive, in your 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.040 face guy that is literally not his mission in life 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.320 at all. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.400 Yeah, a lot of folks in the media, a lot 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:23.240 of Democrats, are trying to portray him as somehow extreme. Look, 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.880 probably the thing that most characterized Charlie was his willingness 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.720 and eagerness to engage in conversation with those who disagreed 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.560 with them, and to engage using compassion, listening to them, 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.800 understanding them, treating them with dignity, treating them with respect. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.160 That's something we need a whole lot more of. It's 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.800 something we try to do on verdict. But Charlie did 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:47.640 it every single day. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.199 Senator, you were mentioning that the media tried to turn 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.400 him into something he wasn't. And this is a individual, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.640 a man that wanted to have a debate, and he 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.959 wanted to fight for the hearts and minds of young people. 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:00.760 Yeah. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.880 Look, Charlie was. He was brilliant. Uh, he was bold 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.880 and courageous. It takes guts. It takes guts to go 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.360 on to college campuses with with screaming leftists who would 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.079 berate him, who would yell at him. That that takes 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.480 real courage. Most people are assaulting to times. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.640 By the way, people don't realize that he had things 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.520 thrown on him, drinks, things thrown at him. He was 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.600 assaulted countless times on college campuses, and he kept going back. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.880 He was convinced that the mission was important. I still 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:38.200 remember sitting in my friend's living room with that earnest 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.360 eighteen year old when he talked about a vision that 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.960 that you know, and this is thirteen years ago, where 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.120 a lot of young people at the time, it wasn't 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.680 cool to be conservative. You know, Barack Obama was president, 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.560 he was hip, he was cool, and Charlie had a 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.720 vision that that that that he wanted to make it 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.319 cool to love liberty. He wanted to make it cool 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.199 to believe in the Constitution, to believe in the First Amendment. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.520 He wanted to make it cool to love your country 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.680 and and and that was his vision was there from 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.959 day one. A lot of people disbelieved him, but he 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.840 also he he he approached it with with a with 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.120 a winsome spirit. Charlie was always smiling. Yeah, he was 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.040 thirty one years old when he was killed. He's he's 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.079 a husband and a dad of two little kids and 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.319 his wife, Erica. His his kids are one and four 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.600 and and his children will never know their dad. That 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.680 they will know the legacy of their dad. They will 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:41.120 know how it is extraordinary he was. That they will 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:46.840 know that he touched and changed literally millions of people's lives. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:53.560 But but this deranged gunman in one instant made it 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.160 that those children will never get to to have a 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:01.000 conversation and know their father growing up. He leaves behind 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:08.120 his widowed wife, and it's I will say, it is crushing, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.880 I can tell you. So when we heard the news 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.560 and we didn't know, we didn't know what his condition was, 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.400 and early on Fox News was reporting that he's in 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.760 the hospital. He's in critical condition, but he's in the hospital, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.040 so we were hoping he's all right. I called Heidi, 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.800 so Heidi knows knew Charlie very well also, and I 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.880 called her and she was just stunned. She was just 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.800 sitting there staring in disbelief at the television. And actually 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.120 the two of us called a dear friend of ours 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.160 named Ali, who's whose living room we met Charlie. And 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.680 Ali is the one who introduced us to Charlie thirteen 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:48.000 years ago. And Ali is a strong believer, a strong Christian, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.520 and I'll tell you, the three of us just on 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:54.240 the phone just began praying for our friend, and we 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.800 were in tears, and we were praying for him, and 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.439 we were praying that God would save him and and 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.880 that that prayer did not come to pass. But we 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:08.280 were all just just in shock and disbelieve but I 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.719 want to say this also, when you look at all 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:17.320 of Charlie's characteristics, one that was most extraordinary was he 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.800 he was a deeply believing Christian. His faith was real, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.480 it mattered to him. And and he was a voice 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.840 for the gospel and and and Charlie is is with 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.280 Jesus in Heaven right now, and and and his his 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:40.160 role of presenting the good news of the Gospel with 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:45.480 intelligence and joy, that was a powerful legacy. And I 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.000 got to say, there are very very few people in 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.559 particular who were doing that and and spreading the gospel 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.400 to young people. You have pastors and churches, but Charlie's 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.200 mission was reaching a whole lot of people who might 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.600 never go to a church. And and and that's a legacy. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:06.720 That's a legacy. Actually, I want to play a clip 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.959 of Charlie talking about how he wants to be remembered. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.960 Give a listen to Charlie when he's asked that question, you. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:15.600 Want to be remembered? 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.960 If I die, everything just goes away. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.440 How would you if you could be associated with one thing, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.199 how would you want to be remembered. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.880 To be I want to be remembered for courage, for 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.319 my faith, that would be the most important thing. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:28.520 Most of you know. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.760 There wasn't a time center on college campuses that he 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.040 wasn't talking about as faith. In fact, I'll go back 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.440 to the first time I ever had breakfast. Charlie asked 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.080 me to have breakfast with him. We were at a 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.959 Sea Pack event. It was about probably thirteen years ago, 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.760 as I was doing the math and we sat down 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.800 and he was like, hey, I know you've done a 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.680 lot of college speaking. I feel like we've lost this generation. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.520 I feel like that the left owns them and they're 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.000 in doctoring them on our college campuses. I'm actually thinking 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.800 about not going to college because of this mission, and 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.480 I feel like what God put me on earth to do? 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:05.640 And he said what do you think of that? And 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.199 I looked at him and I smiled. I was like, Charlie, 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.360 I don't know you, but you can always go back 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.199 to college. You can go to college at fifty or 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:17.360 sixty or seventy. What you're talking about doing is something 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.600 that I think is more important right now than you 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:24.640 going to college. And he was such a faith forward person, 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.760 even at eighteen years old, and it goes back to 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.520 what you were talking about. He lived it and you 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:31.840 knew what he believed in. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.600 Yeah, he never did graduate from college, but he touched 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.400 enormous number of college students and changed their lives. I 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.280 want you to listen to Charlie on Bill Maher talking 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.120 about his faith, because this is really powerful. Give a listen. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.440 Is risen? He has risen. Indeed, Bill, why do we 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:49.800 say that in the present tense? 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.480 Because it is a constant truth in our life. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.920 He is risen. I always noticed that that that was 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.000 interesting to me, that. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:58.440 It was a really important question. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:14:59.360 Actually it is. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.080 Tell me, well, because the fact that he has risen 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.800 transcends time. It's not just in the present sense, it's 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.600 that of all time. That promise is accessible to all 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.920 of us, and so it's a proclamation to all people. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.840 Because if you said that he was risen, it's like 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.960 it's just merely a historical event. It almost underplays the 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:19.800 metaphysics of it. 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:27.280 I'm just always fascinated the way, really really fine intellectual 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:33.000 minds employed themselves for the purpose of arguing things that 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:34.080 are so inarguable. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.000 It's almost that's almost it's almost it does because it's 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.880 it's almost like it it's almost like a challenge, like 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.800 I'm so smart that I can make this thing which 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.280 is so stupid it seems. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.880 Like, but you get where I'm coming from. 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.000 I'm going to take something that is so anti intellectual, 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.080 even though I can argue like an intel. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.360 Ever, but you have to acknowledge even the greatest minds 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.480 of history have been mesmerized by the scriptures. Isaac Newton, 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.600 Thomas aquinas well. Isaac Newton wrote more about biblical prophecy 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.880 than even physics. And so there's something about the scriptures 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.240 that are intellectual that does push your limits. And that's 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.760 what I think is so beautiful about our faith, as 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.320 it can be accessible to everyone but also infinitely nourishing 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:21.040 and exploration. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.560 Charlie Kirk spraying the Gospel to Bill Maher, that's not 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.280 something that many people can say, and he did it 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.000 in such a kind and respectful manner, even as Bill 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.280 Maher was almost mocking his belief in God. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.080 Yeah look, look, I mean it wasn't almost Bill was 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.040 mocking it. And you and I both know Bill Maher 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.360 he is a brilliant man in his own right. But 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.400 mar is not a Christian. He's an atheist, and he 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.240 proudly proclaims that he's an atheist and he has deep 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.040 skepticism of faith across the board. And Charlie went on 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.760 his show and talked with him, and you're right, talked 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.800 with him with passion, but also talked in a way 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:06.720 that was accessible. And actually the clip we just played, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.679 the way I found it right now is when I 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.280 saw it online. I texted Charlie at the time and 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.560 I texted that clip back at him and I just said, 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:21.640 this was beautifully done, bravo, and it it and and 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.960 that was just just another day with Charlie. That that's 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:29.080 what he was doing. Every day. He was making people think. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:34.320 But he was was also look the proposition that he 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.280 was defending the phrase he has risen, And Bill Maher 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.359 was saying, well, why is is in the present tense? 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.040 And and and Charlie's message is because Jesus is in 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.000 the prison present tense, because it is a fact today 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.040 in our life. It didn't happen just two thousand years ago. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:57.040 He has risen today. And that message Charlie could deliver it. 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.560 There were people who were watching Bill Maher who again 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.400 might ever go to church, might never hear the gospel, 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.280 and yet that they would hear it from Charlie, and 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.000 they'd hear it delivered in a way that that that 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.679 that would make an impression. And and you know, the 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.920 Bible talks about about planting seeds, and some seeds fall 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.840 on rocky soil, and some seeds fall on on on 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.280 shallow soil. But some seeds fall on good soil, and 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.920 they take purpose that they take root and grow. And 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.280 and that's a parable Jesus tells uh uh and and 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.960 and what what Charlie was doing there and what he 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.800 did every day is planted seeds and and and many 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.160 of those seeds landed on on fertile ground and took root. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.840 And and the number of people whose lives Charlie touched 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.680 we will never know, but it is easily in the millions. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:49.240 You know. 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:51.480 One of the things that he did that was I 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:56.240 think incredible was be an advocate for families, for getting married, 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.000 for having children. I want to get into that, being 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.880 a dad, being a dad, for being a good dad, 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.000 being a president, dad, being there for your kids. 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Charlie Kirk was 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.320 a guy that was a massive advocate for getting married, 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.480 being equally yoked, marrying the love of your life, having 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:14.240 a family, being involved in that family, leading a family, 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:19.119 a good husband, being a biblically leader in the household. 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:20.359 And he was. 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:23.960 He would say that to college kids, don't add garbage 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.000 to your life, don't be out of here partying and 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.040 acting a fool and doing stupid things like you can 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.320 do things great things now at eighteen nineteen, twenty twenty one, 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:34.600 you have to wait till you're forty to get it together. 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.400 Don't add baggage to your life. And I love that 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:38.680 that's part of his message. 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:41.560 Look, I want to read to you a text I 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:43.879 got from a good friend of mine named Dan, and 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:46.440 he sent me a text, and he said, I first 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:50.920 met Charlie at your dear Valley retreat in October twenty fifteen. 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:56.120 I was so impressed and taken by his vision of 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:59.719 bringing conservative values to college campuses that I was an 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:02.760 early funder and introduced him to many others who had 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:07.200 greater capacity than me. We stayed in touch. I mentored 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:11.600 him until his knowledge exceeded my own, and I saw 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:18.040