1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:01,560 Speaker 1: It is. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 2: It is my great dishonor to be the person that 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 2: says this and breaks this to you on television. But 4 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 2: President Donald Trump is announcing on true social the great 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 2: and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead. No one understood 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 2: or had the heart of the youth in the United 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 2: States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,159 Speaker 2: admired by all, especially me, and now he is no 9 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 2: longer with us. Malania and my sympathies go out to 10 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,319 Speaker 2: his beautiful wife, Erica and his family. Charlie, we love you. 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 2: This is a forty seven Morning Update special edition with 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson. 13 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 3: It is Thursday morning. It is nice to have you 14 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 3: with us on the forty seven Morning Update. And there's 15 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 3: only one thing we're going to be talking about today, 16 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 3: and that is the life and the legacy of an 17 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 3: incredible young man, Charlie Kirk, who have had the honor 18 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 3: of knowing for over a decade. Charlie's mission field was 19 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 3: college campuses. His mission field was to have grand bates. 20 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 3: He understood something that many others didn't, which is the 21 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 3: Left had taken hold of an entire generation of young 22 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 3: people in this country and they were turning them against God. 23 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 3: They were turning him against prayer. They were turning him 24 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 3: against pride in this country. They were turning them away 25 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 3: away from families. They were turning them away from having children. 26 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 3: They were turning them away from marriage, being a husband 27 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 3: or a wife, a mother or a father. And he 28 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 3: decided he was going to do something about it, and 29 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 3: he started an organization called Turning Point. I remember meeting 30 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 3: Charlie for the very first time and we had breakfast together. 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 3: When he was trying to start Turning Point. There was 32 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 3: people like myself and Ben Shapiro and others that had 33 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 3: done kind of the college campus thing and had been 34 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 3: the young general of Conservatives, and he wanted to be 35 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 3: that next generation. In my O Mai was he. He's 36 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 3: had more of an impact on the younger generation for 37 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 3: conservatives than anyone I've ever met. And I don't say 38 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 3: that because he was assassinated by a cold blooded killer. 39 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 3: I say that because the truth Charlie Kirk was a 40 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 3: hero whose legacy will live on for I think the 41 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 3: rest of my life and probably than after that. People 42 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 3: are going to remember Charlie Kirk. They're going to remember 43 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 3: where they were when they found out that he was shot. 44 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 3: They're going to remember where they were when it was 45 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 3: announced by the President United States of America on true 46 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 3: social that he had died. This is so hard. I've 47 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,239 Speaker 3: been talking about this all day. I'm recording this at 48 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 3: basically midnight Eastern, and I've been talking to friends and 49 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 3: colleagues who know him, and all of us are so 50 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 3: sad because we all knew him well. I think the 51 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 3: hardest part for me is the fact that I know 52 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 3: that this was a man that loved this country but 53 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 3: also loved his family. He was so proud of his kids. 54 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 3: He was so proud to be a dad. He loved 55 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 3: being a dad. He loved celebrating what a family is. 56 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 3: He loved celebrating that he was going back to traditional 57 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 3: way of life with a mom and a dad and children. 58 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 3: I am so sad tonight for his family, for his wife, 59 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 3: who is so sweet, for his children that are going 60 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 3: to grow up without their father. They're going to have 61 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 3: videos for years that they can watch and they can 62 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 3: be proud of him. And that may be the one 63 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 3: blessing is that they so much of his life over 64 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 3: the last five six seven years was put on tape. 65 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 3: I also get sad for this country because we lost 66 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: someone that was so dear to us, and I get 67 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 3: sad that we've gone all off this pass so far 68 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 3: to where the radical left and a part of it 69 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 3: is a terrorist organization. Now, make no mistake about that. 70 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 3: Is celebrating the killing of a man whose only crime 71 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 3: was wanting to bring people together for a grand debate. 72 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 3: That's what he did wrong. He wanted to debate the 73 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 3: most important issues of our day, and he wanted to 74 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 3: sit down with people that disagreed with him, and he 75 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 3: wanted to have that conversation. And that's why they killed him, 76 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 3: because he was so effective and so powerful by bringing 77 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 3: facts to a conversation and by the way being kind 78 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 3: to those on the left, those that disagreed with him. 79 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 3: He wanted them to come to his events, he wanted 80 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 3: to talk to them. He gave them a microphone. It's 81 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 3: exactly what he was doing in Utah. Trump's assassination attempting 82 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 3: Butler is that we were worried that they were going 83 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 3: to do it again, whether I was on stage doing 84 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 3: an event, and so many others that do what Charlie 85 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 3: does in the conservative movement, it is become a very 86 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 3: real thing in our minds, and what they wanted to 87 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 3: happen to Donald Trump and Butler is exactly what happened 88 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 3: in Utah to Charlie Kirk. They wanted that video. They 89 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 3: wanted to put fear in the hearts and the minds 90 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 3: of other conservative fighters, other conservative warriors, because they want 91 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 3: to silence us. I have talked to some of the 92 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 3: most influential conservative leaders today on the phone and in 93 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 3: text messages, my mentors, people that I've mentored, and one 94 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 3: thing I can assure you from all this is, yes, 95 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 3: we're gonna take more precautions. Yes we're gonna do more, 96 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 3: but we're not stopping. Charlie was asked recently about what 97 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 3: he does and what he thinks before he goes on 98 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 3: college campuses, and I want you to listen to what 99 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 3: he said. It's only forty seven forty eight seconds long, 100 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 3: but I want you to listen to what he says. 101 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 4: Before I go to college campus. My prayer is very simple, God, 102 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,679 Speaker 4: use me for your willy because there's a plan above 103 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 4: us all. God is sovereign above all, So what is 104 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 4: God's plan when I go on to college campus. I 105 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 4: just believe I will only tell truth. I will not compromise, 106 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 4: and I'll love on the last the specific teachings of Christ. 107 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 4: This go make disciples of all nations. I'm trying my 108 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 4: best to do that, and I'm trying to do it 109 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 4: first in this nation, because this nation impacts every other 110 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 4: nation on the planet. You cannot impact the world that 111 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 4: impacting America. Period. That's the way that God has designed 112 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 4: the universe in this particular being that as America goes, 113 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 4: the world goes. Jesus called us to love children, got 114 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 4: Jesus called us to tell truth. 115 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: God. 116 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 4: Jesus called us to contest in the public square for 117 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 4: his purposes. I'm far more interested in what God wants 118 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 4: of me than what I want from God, and what 119 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 4: God wants from me as a fighting for truth. 120 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 3: That is going to be a large part of Charlie 121 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 3: Kirk's legacy. The President of the United States of America 122 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 3: also put out a video from the Oval Office hours 123 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 3: after he announced that Charlie Kirk had gone to see 124 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 3: his Lord and Savior in heaven. Donald Trump decided to 125 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 3: address the nation, and I want you to hear what 126 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 3: the President had to say about Charlie Kirk and his legacy. 127 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: To my great fellow Americans. 128 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 5: I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous 129 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 5: assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah. 130 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: Charlie inspired millions, and tonight. 131 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 5: All who knew him and loved him are united in 132 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 5: shock and horror. Charlie was a patriot who devoted his 133 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 5: life to the cause of open debate and the country 134 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 5: that he loved so much, the United States of America. 135 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 5: He fought for liberty, democracy, justice, and the American people. 136 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 5: He's a martyr for truth and freedom, and there has 137 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 5: never been anyone who was so respected by youth. Charlie 138 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 5: was also a man of deep, deep faith, and we 139 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 5: take comfort in the knowledge that he is now at 140 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 5: peace with God in Heaven. Our prayers are with his wife, Erica, 141 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 5: the two young, beloved children, and his entire family, who. 142 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: He loved more than anything in the world. 143 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 5: We ask God to watch over them in this terrible 144 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 5: hour of heartache and pain. 145 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: This is a dark moment for America. 146 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 5: Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully engaging with everyone interested 147 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 5: in good faith debate. His mission was to bring young 148 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 5: people into the political process, which he did better than 149 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 5: anybody ever To share his love of country and to 150 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 5: spread the simple words of common sense. 151 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: On campuses and wide. 152 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 5: He championed his ideas with courage, logic, humor, and grace. 153 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 5: It's a long past time for all Americans and the 154 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 5: media to confront the fact that violence and murder are 155 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 5: the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree, 156 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 5: day after day, year after year, in the most hateful 157 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 5: and despicable way possible. For years, those on the radical 158 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 5: left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and 159 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 5: the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of 160 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 5: rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing 161 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 5: in our country today, and it must stop right now. 162 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 5: My administration will find each and every one of those 163 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 5: who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, 164 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 5: including the organizations that fund it and support it, as 165 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 5: well as those who go in after our judges, law 166 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 5: enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country. 167 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 5: From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, 168 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 5: which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on 169 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 5: ice agents, to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive 170 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 5: in the streets of New York to the shooting of 171 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 5: House Majority leaders Steve Scalise and three others. Radical of 172 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 5: political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken 173 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 5: too many lives. Tonight, they asked all Americans to commit 174 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 5: themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived 175 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 5: and died, the values of free speech, citizenship, the rule 176 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 5: of law, and the patriotic devotion and love of God. 177 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 5: Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who 178 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 5: attacked him was attacking our whole country. An assassin tried 179 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 5: to silence him with a bullet, but he failed, because 180 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,679 Speaker 5: together we will ensure that his voice, his message, and 181 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 5: his legacy will live on for countless generations to come. Today, 182 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,319 Speaker 5: because of this heinous act, Charlie's voice has become bigger 183 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 5: and grander than ever before, and it's not even close. 184 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 5: May God bless his memory, May God watch over his family, 185 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,079 Speaker 5: and may God bless the United States of America. 186 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: Thank you. 187 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 3: I want to just end by saying two things. One, 188 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 3: I am so sad. I am so sad for Charlie's 189 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 3: family and his colleagues and his friends. I'm also incredibly angry. 190 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 3: I'm angry that the left has gotten to the point 191 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 3: where they're inspiring people to do this with no accountability. 192 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:55,119 Speaker 3: I'm angry that they have normalized this type of political violence. 193 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 3: There will be more to be said about that moving forward, 194 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 3: promise you. But what I'll say right now is this. 195 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 3: Pray for Charlie's wife, Pray for Charlie's children, Pray for 196 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 3: all of them, and I'll see you back here tomorrow.