Andrew Kolvet, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh: September 17, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

September 17, 2025 | 26:2

Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and Ben Shapiro mourn the tragic assassination of their beloved friend and colleague, Charlie Kirk. As they reflect on his remarkable leadership, charisma, and ability to unite people, they grapple with feelings of shock, anger, and a deep sense of loss. They vow to carry on Charlie's legacy by continuing his mission of political and values-based outreach, inspiring millions to embrace conservative principles and work towards a better, more united future for America. Together, they honor and remember the extraordinary impact of a man taken too soon.

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Charlie Kirk Today | Andrew Kolvet, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh: September 17, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today | September 17, 2025
  • Brought to you in part by the
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  • International fellowship of christians and jews.
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  • Everybody,
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  • Welcome to the charlie kirk show.
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  • Im andrew colbert, executive producer of this show.
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  • I am joined by some very.
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  • Your friends of charlie.
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  • And, of course, they need no introduction.
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  • That would be in no particular order.
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  • From my right to left, matt walsh,
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  • Michael knowles and ben shapiro.
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  • Matt, first to you,
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  • Tell me what happened
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  • In your heart, in that in those first moments
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  • Or or however you want to do this,
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  • What charlie meant to you, however you want to take this.
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  • But those first moments meant a lot to me,
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  • So i would love to just let me into that.
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  • That headspace.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Well, first of all, thanks for allowing us to do this.
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  • It's obviously a great, a great, honor,
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  • As well as, of course,
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  • In the midst of this, of this great tragedy, i think,
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  • You know, charlie was a great man.
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  • He was a patriot.
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  • He was, you know, he loved god.
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  • He loved his family, all that came through.
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  • But the word that keeps coming to my mind
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  • When i think about charlie is, it's like.
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  • It's the word that i used after i met charlie
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  • The first time and i called my wife,
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  • And it's just impressive.
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  • He was an impressive guy.
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  • And that was.
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  • That's the thought that i had when i, when i met him.
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  • And i knew he was impressive based on his work.
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  • But just meeting him in person, he's just
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  • This really impressive guy.
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  • And he, he did something
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  • That i don't think anyone else can do,
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  • Certainly in this business, and that he was this compelling,
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  • Incredible, charismatic speaker,
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  • But also this force, behind the scenes and organizing.
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  • We built this incredible institution. now,
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  • In this
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  • Business, there are
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  • Some people who can be personalities
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  • And can talk in front of the camera.
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  • Although i think no one did it as well as charlie.
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  • And then there are people
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  • Who are kind of the organizers behind the scenes.
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  • I don't know anyone who was an a-plus talent in both areas.
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  • And yet charlie was, which is why
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  • You kind of hear
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  • This conversation now, which is inevitable about,
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  • Well, who's going to replace charlie,
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  • Who's going to be the new charlie kirk and i?
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  • And i am truly sorry to say that the answer is nobody.
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  • Yeah, there is no new charlie kirk.
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  • It's just like
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  • When rush limbaugh died
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  • And there was a conversation about who's the new rush.
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  • There is no new rush.
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  • You only get one rush in your lifetime.
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  • You only get one charlie kirk.
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  • We're blessed to have charlie once,
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  • And we're not going to have him again.
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  • Now, all the rest of us can try to pick up the legacy and,
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  • And, and live out his legacy and carry it forward,
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  • Which we will, but we can't be charlie.
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  • Charlie kirk.
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  • And i think that's why you mentioned the anger.
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  • That was just like
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  • Millions of other people when i.
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  • I'll never forget where i was when i, when i first
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  • Saw and heard about this, i was sitting in my car,
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  • Is about to walk into a coffee shop
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  • And just get a cup of coffee and i, got a text from someone
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  • Saying, what's going on with charlie kirk?
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  • And then i went on twitter and i'm looking around
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  • And there's all this.
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  • You know,
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  • At the time it was kind of felt like rumors or something,
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  • And i didn't i wasn't sure i, i started
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  • Text was texting michael and then
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  • And then i heard about a shooting.
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  • And in the back of my mind, i kind of was
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  • I was concerned,
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  • But i wasn't that concerned because i thought, well,
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  • There's no way.
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  • What do they can't kill charlie kirk?
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  • It's just like, it can't happen.
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  • That cannot happen.
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  • And then, and i'll never forget,
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  • Just kind of frantically
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  • Scrolling around texting, what the hell's going on?
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  • And, and, and, and the video of,
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  • The video just popped up on
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  • The screen and i saw it, and, i'll never
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  • Unsee it.
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  • And, i just put my phone down,
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  • And i was filled with,
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  • Grief shock.
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  • But but rage.
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  • Just overwhelming anger.
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  • And i felt that
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  • Ever since that moment, it hasn't gone away.
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  • In fact, my anger is only intensified.
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  • And there's a lot of reasons for it was a horrible atrocity.
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  • What was done to him?
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  • Anger for his family,
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  • Most of all, anger for a lot of people, but also
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  • Anger for the country.
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  • Because you you took someone from us.
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  • From all of us.
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  • That's why
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  • I think there's this outpour, this just incredible outpouring
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  • Of of mourning and grief
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  • Is because we all feel it, whether you knew him or not,
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  • Whether you were friends or not.
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  • We all feel
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  • That you took some something from us.
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  • You took someone from us that we that we needed.
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  • And you had no right to do that.
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  • Which is why
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  • We could talk about the grief in the morning and all of that.
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  • And we should.
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  • But we also need to talk about justice.
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  • Jd vance is, you know, a monologue
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  • Towards the end of
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  • His of the show yesterday, i thought it was tremendous.
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  • And and before that, i also want
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  • To say that that, erica's speech.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Was i honestly believe,
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  • One of the greatest speeches i've ever seen anyone give.
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  • And i think it's one of the great speeches ever delivered
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  • When you consider the circumstances.
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  • But then also just the message and, and and look,
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  • Erica was under no obligation
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  • To give the country what it needs.
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  • You know,
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  • Erica could just go out there and say how she feels, and it's
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  • Our obligation to comfort her and to be there for her.
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  • And yet she did, in fact, give the country what it needs.
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  • Yeah, because she didn't she she didn't give us,
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  • She didn't
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  • Withhold the anger like we saw that she is.
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  • She is angry and she wants justice for her husband.
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  • Righteous loving anger. anger.
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  • That's that's rooted in the love
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  • That she has for her children and her husband.
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  • And i think it was so beautiful
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  • And important for us to see that.
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  • And, yeah, guess what?
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  • She did it right where you're sitting.
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  • That's where that the the erica kirk speech happened.
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  • We put the podium right where your chair is.
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  • We have a, a short break.
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  • Thank you for that. that was amazing.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • Welcome back to the charlie kirk show.
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  • As we remember, our friend and the host of this show,
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  • Who's, by the way, his chair is empty.
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  • Nobody could ever fill it.
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  • And, we are honored by our friends presence.
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  • Matt walsh, michael knowles, ben shapiro,
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  • Guys, i'm going to look over here.
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  • What do you remember about charlie?
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  • You know,
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  • The first thing you say on the show is,
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  • I want to i want to make sure each of you
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  • Has, your own moment for this.
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  • So, we'll start with you.
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  • Well, look, it's hitting everyone.
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  • Obviously, it's
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  • Hitting millions of people who never met the guy,
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  • But who felt very,
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  • Very close to him because they were with him
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  • All day in their pockets and reels.
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  • And, for those of us
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  • Who were friends with him for many years,
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  • You know, it hits in a personal way,
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  • In the same way that it hits
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  • When any family member or friend dies, i realized,
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  • Which is that part of what you're mourning
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  • Is not just the person, but you're mourning this future
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  • That you had imagined for the person and with the person.
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  • And i think that's especially true with charlie,
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  • Because this is not in any way hyperbolic.
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  • Everybody who knew charlie
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  • Knew this guy was going to be the president, i think.
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  • I don't think i'm being hyperbolic at all.
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  • I know you just meet the guy and or you just
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  • See him from afar
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  • And you say,
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  • This guy is going to be president
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  • For all the reasons that you were mentioning matt earlier,
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  • Not only did he kill it in front of the camera
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  • And on the stage and but he was this unbelievable
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  • Operative organizer, extremely effective political figure
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  • Behind the scenes. and he just had it.
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  • I just don't know.
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  • He just had greater skill and talent
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  • Than any other political figure of our generation.
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  • And so you say, well, he's going to be president.
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  • And when when it happened,
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  • You know, i was texting my wife and she texted me, she said,
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  • Do you see do you see what happened?
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  • I said, yeah, yeah.
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  • She said, it can't that can't have happened.
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  • It she goes, i know i saw it, we all saw it.
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  • I actually didn't see the video, thank god.
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  • But she said we all saw it.
  • 00:10:08.832 --> 00:10:10.434
  • And so we know it happened and yet it couldn't have happened.
  • 00:10:10.434 --> 00:10:13.670
  • And i think that that's the feeling that a lot of us have.
  • 00:10:13.670 --> 00:10:16.039
  • And obviously charlie would have known more than anybody,
  • 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:19.710
  • Nobody has promised tomorrow.
  • 00:10:19.710 --> 00:10:21.378
  • He understood the risks of a public life.
  • 00:10:21.378 --> 00:10:23.647
  • He understood better
  • 00:10:23.647 --> 00:10:24.481
  • Than most people that the condition
  • 00:10:24.481 --> 00:10:26.116
  • That the country is in right now.
  • 00:10:26.116 --> 00:10:28.118
  • But i think this is what really drives at home because,
  • 00:10:28.118 --> 00:10:30.987
  • As you know,
  • 00:10:31.321 --> 00:10:32.522
  • We don't need to even dignify them with much discussion.
  • 00:10:32.522 --> 00:10:34.858
  • But there have been
  • 00:10:34.858 --> 00:10:36.059
  • Some very hideous responses to charlie's assassination,
  • 00:10:36.059 --> 00:10:40.097
  • Not only from fringe lunatics, which you get all the time,
  • 00:10:40.097 --> 00:10:43.100
  • But from mainstream voices, from normal voices,
  • 00:10:43.100 --> 00:10:45.435
  • From the person you went to third grade
  • 00:10:45.435 --> 00:10:46.970
  • With on facebook and from, elite media outlets.
  • 00:10:46.970 --> 00:10:50.674
  • And i think that was, that really shakes a lot of
  • 00:10:50.674 --> 00:10:53.877
  • People because charlie, being the premier political
  • 00:10:53.877 --> 00:10:57.681
  • Talent of our generation, being so generous, so gracious,
  • 00:10:57.681 --> 00:11:02.052
  • So constantly charitable, being so totally mainstream,
  • 00:11:02.052 --> 00:11:07.457
  • I think a lot of people see
  • 00:11:08.058 --> 00:11:09.459
  • Then more not only this good man,
  • 00:11:09.459 --> 00:11:11.061
  • This innocent man who was who was murdered,
  • 00:11:11.061 --> 00:11:13.096
  • But they say
  • 00:11:13.096 --> 00:11:14.164
  • Man would half the country cheer it if something
  • 00:11:14.164 --> 00:11:16.566
  • Happened to me too,
  • 00:11:16.566 --> 00:11:17.634
  • Or to my brother, or to what would my coworkers do?
  • 00:11:17.634 --> 00:11:19.836
  • You know, there's this recognition that,
  • 00:11:19.836 --> 00:11:22.706
  • People are feeling two things.
  • 00:11:22.706 --> 00:11:24.574
  • One, they
  • 00:11:24.574 --> 00:11:25.475
  • Everyone who's never even met
  • 00:11:25.475 --> 00:11:27.077
  • Charlie is feeling
  • 00:11:27.077 --> 00:11:28.178
  • This personal loss, but also this political loss.
  • 00:11:28.178 --> 00:11:31.948
  • We feel that something about our political
  • 00:11:31.948 --> 00:11:34.384
  • Order has gone down with this guy
  • 00:11:34.384 --> 00:11:36.052
  • Who who was the best example of it.
  • 00:11:36.052 --> 00:11:38.321
  • And it's why people are not going
  • 00:11:38.321 --> 00:11:39.723
  • To get over it for a long time,
  • 00:11:39.723 --> 00:11:41.057
  • Nor should they get over it, because it really has to
  • 00:11:41.057 --> 00:11:43.727
  • Impel action.
  • 00:11:43.727 --> 00:11:44.628
  • We cannot continue in this way.
  • 00:11:44.628 --> 00:11:46.663
  • And the people who are who are undermining the very,
  • 00:11:46.663 --> 00:11:50.000
  • Basic foundations of our country
  • 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.702
  • And of our society,
  • 00:11:52.702 --> 00:11:54.004
  • They need to be punished for it in a just and prudent
  • 00:11:54.004 --> 00:11:57.107
  • And lawful way.
  • 00:11:57.107 --> 00:11:58.041
  • But they
  • 00:11:58.041 --> 00:11:59.209
  • They need to be discouraged and suppressed because we
  • 00:11:59.209 --> 00:12:02.145
  • Cannot tolerate this.
  • 00:12:02.145 --> 00:12:04.080
  • Yeah.
  • 00:12:04.314 --> 00:12:04.648
  • I, i love
  • 00:12:04.648 --> 00:12:06.750
  • What you
  • 00:12:06.750 --> 00:12:07.517
  • Said there and i, i'm just struck
  • 00:12:07.517 --> 00:12:08.451
  • And we don't have to get into this now.
  • 00:12:08.451 --> 00:12:10.620
  • But, you know, there was news this morning
  • 00:12:10.620 --> 00:12:12.823
  • That the charges against luigi maggio had been downgraded.
  • 00:12:12.823 --> 00:12:16.626
  • And he's now
  • 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:19.462
  • There's no option for life without parole.
  • 00:12:19.462 --> 00:12:21.865
  • So there's a chance that this assassin i hadn't heard.
  • 00:12:21.865 --> 00:12:24.901
  • Yes, this assassin degree
  • 00:12:24.901 --> 00:12:27.671
  • Could be released at some point.
  • 00:12:27.671 --> 00:12:30.240
  • And he's a young guy.
  • 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:31.174
  • So, yes, in theory, this man might walk
  • 00:12:31.174 --> 00:12:33.777
  • The streets free again.
  • 00:12:33.777 --> 00:12:34.878
  • This is so utterly outrageous and infuriating to me.
  • 00:12:34.878 --> 00:12:39.549
  • And that's,
  • 00:12:39.549 --> 00:12:40.217
  • You know, i fired off a tweet
  • 00:12:40.217 --> 00:12:41.551
  • This morning about it because i was i was like,
  • 00:12:41.551 --> 00:12:44.054
  • You know, do you not understand the moment that we are in.
  • 00:12:44.054 --> 00:12:46.556
  • How dare you?
  • 00:12:46.556 --> 00:12:48.091
  • Now, if
  • 00:12:48.091 --> 00:12:48.825
  • If you're the judge
  • 00:12:48.825 --> 00:12:49.926
  • And you think this is the way you're going to go,
  • 00:12:49.926 --> 00:12:51.228
  • At least kick the can a week or two.
  • 00:12:51.228 --> 00:12:53.530
  • Yeah, but to spit in our face. yes.
  • 00:12:53.530 --> 00:12:56.933
  • So i get enraged by that.
  • 00:12:57.500 --> 00:13:00.403
  • And, anyway, so we've we're running
  • 00:13:00.403 --> 00:13:03.139
  • We've got about a minute here left.
  • 00:13:03.139 --> 00:13:04.441
  • So, ben, i you've been so patient.
  • 00:13:04.441 --> 00:13:06.443
  • You guys look great.
  • 00:13:06.443 --> 00:13:07.410
  • He talks the fastest as well. exactly.
  • 00:13:07.410 --> 00:13:09.479
  • Yeah.
  • 00:13:09.479 --> 00:13:10.747
  • So you get a minute now, ben, because i know you can do it.
  • 00:13:10.747 --> 00:13:11.548
  • That.
  • 00:13:11.548 --> 00:13:11.848
  • Yeah.
  • 00:13:11.848 --> 00:13:11.915
  • Yeah.
  • 00:13:12.148 --> 00:13:12.749
  • No, but i
  • 00:13:12.749 --> 00:13:13.850
  • This is why you guys all host your own shows, right?
  • 00:13:13.850 --> 00:13:15.318
  • Because you've just monologue done me.
  • 00:13:15.318 --> 00:13:16.953
  • No, we will have an actual discussion here coming up,
  • 00:13:16.953 --> 00:13:19.890
  • But i want to.
  • 00:13:19.890 --> 00:13:20.957
  • I want to make sure we we don't, shortchange ben.
  • 00:13:20.957 --> 00:13:23.393
  • Because, candidly, when i first started working
  • 00:13:23.393 --> 00:13:26.663
  • With charlie, i mean, ben, you were.
  • 00:13:26.663 --> 00:13:30.000
  • You were the campus guy.
  • 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.135
  • And, it's interesting how everything evolved, but,
  • 00:13:32.135 --> 00:13:35.672
  • You know, we looked up to you
  • 00:13:35.672 --> 00:13:36.806
  • And what you were doing so much.
  • 00:13:36.806 --> 00:13:38.308
  • And i remember actually meeting with you with charlie
  • 00:13:38.308 --> 00:13:41.912
  • In, you know, ventura boulevard, in los angeles.
  • 00:13:41.912 --> 00:13:45.482
  • And, you know, it's many moons ago, but,
  • 00:13:45.482 --> 00:13:48.385
  • You know, we're fondly
  • 00:13:48.852 --> 00:13:49.552
  • Remembering them now
  • 00:13:49.552 --> 00:13:50.553
  • Because, it's how it's how this whole community
  • 00:13:50.553 --> 00:13:52.822
  • Community was knit together. so we'll be back.
  • 00:13:52.822 --> 00:13:55.125
  • The charlie kirk show with matt walsh,
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  • Andrew corvette here.
  • 00:15:37.293 --> 00:15:38.962
  • Executive producer of the charlie kirk show, joined by,
  • 00:15:38.962 --> 00:15:42.232
  • Our friends matt walsh, michael knowles, ben shapiro,
  • 00:15:42.232 --> 00:15:45.535
  • Ben the.
  • 00:15:45.535 --> 00:15:47.137
  • Finally.
  • 00:15:47.137 --> 00:15:48.004
  • You guys, i feel bad is at 933 here.
  • 00:15:48.004 --> 00:15:50.507
  • Not at all.
  • 00:15:50.507 --> 00:15:51.007
  • I mean, it's, but.
  • 00:15:51.007 --> 00:15:52.275
  • Yeah, please, that i think the thing
  • 00:15:52.275 --> 00:15:54.978
  • For all of us about charlie is that
  • 00:15:54.978 --> 00:15:57.714
  • Everyone felt charlie's used the word innocent earlier.
  • 00:15:57.714 --> 00:16:01.518
  • Michael, it wasn't just that he was innocent
  • 00:16:01.518 --> 00:16:02.786
  • In the sense, obviously, that he was an innocent person.
  • 00:16:02.786 --> 00:16:05.255
  • He was truly innocent at heart.
  • 00:16:05.255 --> 00:16:07.690
  • Charlie didn't change from the time that i knew him
  • 00:16:07.690 --> 00:16:09.993
  • At 18 years old.
  • 00:16:09.993 --> 00:16:11.227
  • I mean, the first time i met charlie,
  • 00:16:11.227 --> 00:16:12.328
  • And i've talked about this before
  • 00:16:12.328 --> 00:16:13.530
  • Was the breakers in palm beach, and he was walking around.
  • 00:16:13.530 --> 00:16:16.132
  • He had just started
  • 00:16:16.132 --> 00:16:17.167
  • Turning point
  • 00:16:17.167 --> 00:16:18.168
  • And he was like very scrawny at the time,
  • 00:16:18.168 --> 00:16:20.537
  • The very tall beanpole.
  • 00:16:20.537 --> 00:16:22.305
  • And he was just a bundle of energy, which never stopped.
  • 00:16:22.305 --> 00:16:25.809
  • I mean, legitimately endless levels of energy.
  • 00:16:25.809 --> 00:16:28.044
  • If you're talking about meeting charlie,
  • 00:16:28.044 --> 00:16:29.913
  • Charlie was just energetic all the time.
  • 00:16:29.913 --> 00:16:31.948
  • All the time. i don't know where it came from.
  • 00:16:31.948 --> 00:16:33.716
  • And he was walking around the breakers as a kid
  • 00:16:33.716 --> 00:16:38.088
  • Trying to gather donors.
  • 00:16:38.088 --> 00:16:39.856
  • And he came up to me as mr.
  • 00:16:39.856 --> 00:16:40.924
  • Shapiro, you know, great to meet you.
  • 00:16:40.924 --> 00:16:43.126
  • And it like, i want you to be him. mr..
  • 00:16:43.126 --> 00:16:45.795
  • I was like 28.
  • 00:16:45.795 --> 00:16:46.696
  • Right.
  • 00:16:46.696 --> 00:16:47.797
  • And charlie was 18 and, and and charlie, i met him.
  • 00:16:47.797 --> 00:16:51.768
  • I said that that guy is going to be the head of the rnc.
  • 00:16:51.768 --> 00:16:54.270
  • Like, there's just no doubt.
  • 00:16:54.270 --> 00:16:55.605
  • And as i've said that early,
  • 00:16:55.605 --> 00:16:57.240
  • The first meeting,
  • 00:16:57.240 --> 00:16:58.341
  • The first meeting right off the bat,
  • 00:16:58.341 --> 00:16:59.409
  • You could tell because
  • 00:16:59.409 --> 00:17:00.810
  • This is the thing about charlie,
  • 00:17:00.810 --> 00:17:01.978
  • The way that people know charlie
  • 00:17:01.978 --> 00:17:04.013
  • As this unbelievably
  • 00:17:04.013 --> 00:17:05.081
  • Talented debater and a terrific broadcaster
  • 00:17:05.081 --> 00:17:08.017
  • And an unbelievably clear advocate for his values
  • 00:17:08.017 --> 00:17:11.588
  • And for biblical values and for truth,
  • 00:17:11.588 --> 00:17:13.389
  • And the reason that legitimately
  • 00:17:13.389 --> 00:17:14.791
  • Tens of millions of people are mourning him.
  • 00:17:14.791 --> 00:17:16.226
  • And i mean, i should just say from a jewish perspective,
  • 00:17:16.226 --> 00:17:20.230
  • Every synagogue that that i know of did
  • 00:17:20.230 --> 00:17:23.900
  • A tribute to charlie kirk
  • 00:17:23.900 --> 00:17:25.802
  • Over the weekend, on shabbat,
  • 00:17:25.802 --> 00:17:27.403
  • They stopped the services to do tributes to charlie,
  • 00:17:27.403 --> 00:17:29.772
  • Which is an amazing testament to who charlie was.
  • 00:17:29.772 --> 00:17:32.942
  • But you could tell that early that charlie.
  • 00:17:32.942 --> 00:17:35.411
  • The thing is, charlie got good at those things.
  • 00:17:35.411 --> 00:17:37.981
  • The thing charlie was always amazing at,
  • 00:17:37.981 --> 00:17:39.782
  • The thing he had an inherent talent
  • 00:17:39.782 --> 00:17:41.050
  • For was coalition building.
  • 00:17:41.050 --> 00:17:42.452
  • He was always an unbelievably great coalition builder.
  • 00:17:42.452 --> 00:17:45.054
  • I mean, it's something actually that
  • 00:17:45.054 --> 00:17:45.989
  • Tucker talked about yesterday
  • 00:17:45.989 --> 00:17:47.590
  • On g-d's show, and that's and that's an amazing thing.
  • 00:17:47.590 --> 00:17:50.894
  • I mean, this is a fractious coalition
  • 00:17:50.894 --> 00:17:53.429
  • And america is a fractious country.
  • 00:17:53.429 --> 00:17:55.064
  • And to have somebody with the ability
  • 00:17:55.064 --> 00:17:57.267
  • And to dedicate his time and effort to actually building
  • 00:17:57.267 --> 00:17:59.369
  • Those coalitions is really tough, to the point where,
  • 00:17:59.369 --> 00:18:01.771
  • You know, he's able to bring together people who can,
  • 00:18:01.771 --> 00:18:04.541
  • You know, disagree on an enormous number of things
  • 00:18:04.541 --> 00:18:07.644
  • And still point their ships in the same direction.
  • 00:18:07.644 --> 00:18:11.014
  • And tucker carlson, i talked on friday.
  • 00:18:11.014 --> 00:18:12.882
  • Okay.
  • 00:18:12.882 --> 00:18:13.883
  • Now everybody knows that the tucker and i have,
  • 00:18:13.883 --> 00:18:15.185
  • You know, had our disagreements and have our disagreements
  • 00:18:15.185 --> 00:18:17.253
  • About an enormous number of policy issues.
  • 00:18:17.253 --> 00:18:19.389
  • And i'm sure
  • 00:18:19.389 --> 00:18:19.989
  • At some point
  • 00:18:19.989 --> 00:18:20.924
  • We'll we'll publicly discuss those issues
  • 00:18:20.924 --> 00:18:22.025
  • And talk about our differences and all that.
  • 00:18:22.025 --> 00:18:24.194
  • But that doesn't matter,
  • 00:18:24.194 --> 00:18:25.562
  • Because we're going to point our ships
  • 00:18:25.562 --> 00:18:27.630
  • In the direction that charlie wanted those ships
  • 00:18:27.630 --> 00:18:30.200
  • To be pointed, which is in the direction
  • 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:32.001
  • Of making the country stronger and better.
  • 00:18:32.001 --> 00:18:35.004
  • And that's that was charlie's gift.
  • 00:18:35.004 --> 00:18:37.307
  • That was the thing that charlie was,
  • 00:18:37.307 --> 00:18:38.408
  • Was amazing at he innate talent for that.
  • 00:18:38.408 --> 00:18:40.109
  • All the other stuff i watched him
  • 00:18:40.109 --> 00:18:41.511
  • Cultivate over the course of 13 years.
  • 00:18:41.511 --> 00:18:43.513
  • Right.
  • 00:18:43.513 --> 00:18:44.347
  • I watched him get good at debate.
  • 00:18:44.347 --> 00:18:46.182
  • I watched him become a charismatic speaker,
  • 00:18:46.182 --> 00:18:48.985
  • And charlie was not a naturally charismatic speaker.
  • 00:18:48.985 --> 00:18:50.853
  • He became, that is, that is an unbelievable
  • 00:18:50.853 --> 00:18:53.089
  • Skill to be able to
  • 00:18:53.089 --> 00:18:54.157
  • To actually better yourself in all of these ways
  • 00:18:54.157 --> 00:18:56.159
  • And get better every day at doing them.
  • 00:18:56.159 --> 00:18:58.261
  • So by the time that
  • 00:18:58.261 --> 00:18:59.262
  • This horrifying act of evil happened,
  • 00:18:59.262 --> 00:19:02.065
  • He was just the best there was at it.
  • 00:19:02.065 --> 00:19:04.234
  • That that is just an incredible testament
  • 00:19:04.234 --> 00:19:06.936
  • To not only the amount of determination
  • 00:19:06.936 --> 00:19:09.305
  • And energy and grit that charlie put into things,
  • 00:19:09.305 --> 00:19:12.008
  • And that rolled off him every time you met him.
  • 00:19:12.008 --> 00:19:13.443
  • He was just again
  • 00:19:13.443 --> 00:19:14.477
  • Bouncing around the room every time you met him,
  • 00:19:14.477 --> 00:19:15.511
  • Because he had another thing
  • 00:19:15.511 --> 00:19:16.646
  • To do, another thing to do in the fact that a normie
  • 00:19:16.646 --> 00:19:20.083
  • Can change the world that way.
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  • I mean, that's what charlie was.
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  • He was saying normal, good, innocent things.
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  • The kinds of things that you want
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  • Your children to grow up with.
  • 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:30.660
  • The kind of i'm going to show my kids videos of charlie and
  • 00:19:30.660 --> 00:19:34.697
  • My kids are like 11 and four, and they range from 11 to 2.
  • 00:19:34.697 --> 00:19:39.002
  • I can show them charlie kirk video.
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  • You know charlie,
  • 00:19:40.303 --> 00:19:41.271
  • Charlie used to always check us and say, no.
  • 00:19:41.271 --> 00:19:44.607
  • Like if we were had some content idea and you go,
  • 00:19:44.607 --> 00:19:46.876
  • There's ten year olds watching.
  • 00:19:46.876 --> 00:19:48.544
  • There's 14 year olds watching.
  • 00:19:48.544 --> 00:19:50.179
  • Always remember he brought in.
  • 00:19:50.179 --> 00:19:51.848
  • He brought an innocence to the world, but an innocence
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  • With a level of sophistication and how to approach the world.
  • 00:19:53.916 --> 00:19:56.386
  • And that is that is so difficult to do
  • 00:19:56.386 --> 00:19:58.521
  • Because people who are innocent tend not to know
  • 00:19:58.521 --> 00:20:00.456
  • How to do the other thing, the activism thing
  • 00:20:00.456 --> 00:20:02.625
  • And the coalition building thing.
  • 00:20:02.625 --> 00:20:04.193
  • He's a funny tool athlete, unbelievable.
  • 00:20:04.193 --> 00:20:06.296
  • Like truly amazing and
  • 00:20:06.296 --> 00:20:07.897
  • And developed tools that weren't
  • 00:20:07.897 --> 00:20:09.666
  • Even in his arsenal at the beginning.
  • 00:20:09.666 --> 00:20:10.933
  • This is why,
  • 00:20:10.933 --> 00:20:12.001
  • You know, people talk about charlie being talented
  • 00:20:12.001 --> 00:20:14.237
  • And they think the talent is a sort of compliment.
  • 00:20:14.237 --> 00:20:16.773
  • A lot of people are born talented
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  • And a lot of different things.
  • 00:20:18.107 --> 00:20:19.509
  • Charlie was born talented at a great many things.
  • 00:20:19.509 --> 00:20:21.577
  • And then there are the things
  • 00:20:21.577 --> 00:20:22.745
  • That he legitimately made himself the best in the world.
  • 00:20:22.745 --> 00:20:25.515
  • And that was an inspiration to people, too,
  • 00:20:25.515 --> 00:20:27.016
  • Because if you go back and you just watch the sort of
  • 00:20:27.016 --> 00:20:29.585
  • Arc of his career and his trajectory, which,
  • 00:20:29.585 --> 00:20:31.788
  • As michael says, was going to lead
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  • To the white house, i mean, like no one,
  • 00:20:33.189 --> 00:20:34.324
  • No one believes any different.
  • 00:20:34.324 --> 00:20:35.692
  • If you if you watch that arc,
  • 00:20:36.326 --> 00:20:38.194
  • The ability to continue to improve his own trajectory
  • 00:20:38.194 --> 00:20:43.132
  • By becoming
  • 00:20:43.132 --> 00:20:44.100
  • That's part of the tragedy is he was getting
  • 00:20:44.100 --> 00:20:46.502
  • Better at everything and he was already the best.
  • 00:20:46.502 --> 00:20:49.372
  • He was getting better at all those things.
  • 00:20:49.372 --> 00:20:50.740
  • And that's that's an amazing that's an unbelievable thing.
  • 00:20:50.740 --> 00:20:53.976
  • And that's what was taken from us.
  • 00:20:53.976 --> 00:20:55.611
  • And the other thing is that you just to kind of close out
  • 00:20:55.611 --> 00:20:59.315
  • My monologue, you know, you know, that
  • 00:20:59.315 --> 00:21:03.619
  • It wasn't just that i received,
  • 00:21:04.253 --> 00:21:05.755
  • You know, messages from everybody.
  • 00:21:05.755 --> 00:21:08.391
  • We all received messages from everybody.
  • 00:21:08.391 --> 00:21:10.026
  • Because if you knew charlie, even tangentially,
  • 00:21:10.026 --> 00:21:12.128
  • Everybody knew how affected you were by charlie's death.
  • 00:21:12.128 --> 00:21:15.264
  • It wasn't just that i received messages
  • 00:21:15.264 --> 00:21:16.499
  • From all over the world from, obviously,
  • 00:21:16.499 --> 00:21:18.735
  • You know, friends in argentina and in britain and in canada
  • 00:21:18.735 --> 00:21:22.405
  • And tons from israel, obviously,
  • 00:21:22.405 --> 00:21:23.639
  • Because charlie, of course,
  • 00:21:23.639 --> 00:21:24.440
  • Was publicly extremely pro-israel.
  • 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:26.309
  • Not not just not just that.
  • 00:21:26.309 --> 00:21:28.344
  • I got messages from people who are
  • 00:21:28.344 --> 00:21:31.114
  • Very prominent figures who are liberal,
  • 00:21:31.114 --> 00:21:34.517
  • Who were deeply disturbed and upset
  • 00:21:34.517 --> 00:21:38.087
  • And who and who are not.
  • 00:21:38.621 --> 00:21:41.090
  • I don't want to say that everybody who disagrees with us
  • 00:21:41.090 --> 00:21:44.861
  • Politically is is a person
  • 00:21:44.861 --> 00:21:47.563
  • Who celebrated charlie's death, because that's not true.
  • 00:21:47.563 --> 00:21:50.500
  • This is the opportunity that charlie provides.
  • 00:21:50.500 --> 00:21:52.168
  • What charlie was about was opening doors.
  • 00:21:52.168 --> 00:21:54.003
  • So all those kids he was talking to on campus,
  • 00:21:54.003 --> 00:21:55.972
  • So many of those kids became conservative, became god.
  • 00:21:55.972 --> 00:21:59.041
  • Viewers went to church on sunday because of trump,
  • 00:21:59.041 --> 00:22:01.444
  • And they weren't people who already were on charlie side.
  • 00:22:01.444 --> 00:22:03.980
  • Right. that was that was charlie.
  • 00:22:03.980 --> 00:22:05.148
  • He took a bunch of people
  • 00:22:05.148 --> 00:22:06.315
  • Who weren't going to go to church last sunday,
  • 00:22:06.315 --> 00:22:07.817
  • And they all went to church last sunday, right?
  • 00:22:07.817 --> 00:22:09.752
  • The church pews from everything i'm hearing were
  • 00:22:09.752 --> 00:22:11.621
  • Were overflowing. yeah, overflowing.
  • 00:22:11.621 --> 00:22:13.189
  • You know, like he said, make heaven, make heaven crowded.
  • 00:22:13.189 --> 00:22:16.025
  • Charlie, i knew i saw the charlie effect at church
  • 00:22:16.025 --> 00:22:19.162
  • Because i'm sitting there.
  • 00:22:19.162 --> 00:22:20.396
  • We're kind of a buttoned up, more traditional parish guys.
  • 00:22:20.396 --> 00:22:22.665
  • We're shocking.
  • 00:22:22.665 --> 00:22:23.866
  • I know you're not a lot of tank tops, but i look around,
  • 00:22:23.866 --> 00:22:26.369
  • I look around,
  • 00:22:26.369 --> 00:22:27.303
  • And there were sweatpants and t shirts,
  • 00:22:27.303 --> 00:22:29.472
  • And i was so happy to see the sweatpants and t shirts.
  • 00:22:29.472 --> 00:22:31.941
  • I knew every single one of them was there for charlie.
  • 00:22:31.941 --> 00:22:34.110
  • And so i think that we shouldn't just use this as a
  • 00:22:34.110 --> 00:22:36.813
  • As an opportunity to mobilize on behalf of the things
  • 00:22:36.813 --> 00:22:39.415
  • That charlie believed to carry forward his legacy,
  • 00:22:39.415 --> 00:22:41.350
  • His legacy was going to people we disagree with,
  • 00:22:41.350 --> 00:22:44.120
  • And getting those people to realize
  • 00:22:44.120 --> 00:22:47.457
  • That charlie's principles were right.
  • 00:22:47.457 --> 00:22:49.892
  • Right.
  • 00:22:50.092 --> 00:22:51.160
  • That's that's the unbelievable legacy that he leaves.
  • 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:53.663
  • Because, again, being murdered in the way that he was doing
  • 00:22:53.663 --> 00:22:56.732
  • The thing that charlie
  • 00:22:56.732 --> 00:22:58.034
  • Was all about doing outreach, he was doing outreach, right?
  • 00:22:58.034 --> 00:23:00.937
  • Religious outreach.
  • 00:23:00.937 --> 00:23:01.904
  • He was talking about christ in the question
  • 00:23:01.904 --> 00:23:03.973
  • Before he was killed, raising religious outreach.
  • 00:23:03.973 --> 00:23:05.475
  • He's doing political outreach, values
  • 00:23:05.475 --> 00:23:07.109
  • Outreach, biblically based outreach,
  • 00:23:07.109 --> 00:23:09.111
  • And he convinced literally millions of young people
  • 00:23:09.111 --> 00:23:11.681
  • To move to the other side of the political aisle.
  • 00:23:11.681 --> 00:23:14.851
  • And so i think there's an opportunity to
  • 00:23:14.851 --> 00:23:16.519
  • To make people make that choice,
  • 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:18.054
  • Make that choice,
  • 00:23:18.054 --> 00:23:19.188
  • Choose between the demons who are celebrating
  • 00:23:19.188 --> 00:23:21.557
  • Charlie's death,
  • 00:23:21.557 --> 00:23:23.226
  • And the rest of us
  • 00:23:23.226 --> 00:23:24.160
  • Who would like to have a functional country
  • 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:25.728
  • Where we can talk to one another. for that.
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