J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, sits down with Tucker Carlson to discuss the influence and legacy of political activist Charlie Kirk. Together, they explore the challenges facing our society, the fight against deception and division, and the importance of promoting civility and unity in turbulent times.
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Charlie Kirk Today | Vice President J.D. Vance: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk | Charlie Kirk Today | September 15, 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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- Jd vance here
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- Live from my office in the white house complex.
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- And filling in for somebody who cannot be filled in for.
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- But i'm going to try to do my best.
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- My dear friend, the great charlie kirk.
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- The last several days have been extremely hard
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- For our country.
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- They've been hard for me,
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- Hard for my family, hard for the countless people
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- In this building who knew and love charlie kirk.
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- And of course, they've been hardest,
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- Most of all for his darling wife erica
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- And their two beautiful children.
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- The thing is, every single person
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- In this building, we owe something to charlie.
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- He was a joyful warrior for our country.
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- He loved america.
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- He devoted himself tirelessly
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- To making our country a better place.
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- He was a critical part of getting donald trump elected
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- As president, getting me elected as vice president.
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- And so much of our success over the last seven months is due
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- To his efforts, his staffing, his support and his friendship.
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- Was very honored.
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- A couple of days ago, on september the 11th, 2025,
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- To fly out to utah, where charlie was shot and killed
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- To meet his wife, to meet his mom and dad, his his sister,
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- All just incredible
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- People who didn't deserve to have this happen to them.
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- And i was also honored
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- To be able to take charlie's remains from utah to arizona.
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- It was an amazing, amazing thing.
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- It was heartbreaking and it was sad and it was terrible.
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- But what an honor.
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- It was for me and my family to be welcomed in
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- To the kirk inner circle at their moment of grief.
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- There are a few things that i want to talk about
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- Just from that that moment.
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- First of all, when i first met erica, his lovely wife,
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- And such an incredibly brave soul.
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- I'm not sure if you saw her remarks after charlie died.
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- If you haven't, i would encourage you to go
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- And see them because you see this raw grief
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- And incredible courage all in the same moment.
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- And that's what we need right now.
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- We need to grieve, but we also need this courage
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- In this moment more than we've ever needed it.
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- She gave me
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- A hug and she was heartbroken as of course she would be.
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- And she said that she loved him so much.
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- And i said, erica, he loved you so much.
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- He died way too young, but he died a happy man
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- Because of you,
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- Because the family that you gave them,
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- Because the home and the life that you guys
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- Had built together.
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- And we sat for about an hour and we talked about
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- Charlie. and,
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- You know, in these moments, you don't know what to say.
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- I'm a person who
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- Literally speaks for a living, and i had no idea what to say.
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- And i didn't try to console her because how can you console
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- The person who just lost a loving husband and father?
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- But we just talked about charlie.
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- We talked about who he was.
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- We talked about some of our favorite stories.
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- We talked about some of his idiosyncrasies
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- And all the things that made charlie kirk who he was.
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- And she said something to me that i will never forget.
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- My wife was there.
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- It was just me and my wife on, on my side.
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- And then a lot of people from the turning points
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- Family, a lot of people from from charlie's family.
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- And she said to me that charlie never raised his voice,
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- That he never did her, that he was never cross
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- Or mean spirited to her.
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- And look, i am i'm a husband. i'm proud of being a husband.
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- I think that on the
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- Great balance of things, that i'm a pretty good husband,
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- But i can never say that i was never unpleasant with my wife.
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- I can never say that i've never raised my voice to my wife.
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- Like most husbands, even the good ones were
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- Sometimes imperfect, and i took for that moment that i needed
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- To be a better husband,
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- And i needed to be a better father
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- Because of all these moments that i shared.
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- Just in the last few days, the books that i've read
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- To my kids
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- Going up to their bedroom and kissing them
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- And hugging them before bed,
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- I just realized
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- That all of these moments that i get to have, charlie
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- Is not able to have them anymore.
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- And charlie's kids and his beautiful wife
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- Were not able to have them anymore.
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- And maybe the best way
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- That i can contribute, and the best way
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- That i can honor my dear
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- Friend, is to be the best husband that i can be, to be
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- The kind of husband to my wife that he was to his
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- You on a podcast
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- A couple of months back, charlie was asked about
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- How he'd want to be remembered if he died.
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- His answer
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- I want to be remembered for courage, for my faith.
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- That would be the most important thing.
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- The most important thing is my faith.
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- And that was charlie and this dark moment for our country.
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- I think that's the greatest lesson
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- Any of us can take from charlie.
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- To have faith, to have faith in the lord and to be bold
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- In how we glorify him,
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- To be bold in our pursuits as charlie was in his.
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- So that's what we're going to spend
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- A little bit of time doing this afternoon,
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- Keeping this incredible show he created, going
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- And hearing from some of the people
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- Who were so fortunate to call charlie a friend.
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- We're going to pay tribute to his courageous legacy,
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- And we're to commit to keep it forever
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- Alive.
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- In genesis
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- 12 three, god made a powerful promise
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- To abraham, the father of the jewish people.
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- I will bless those who bless you.
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- The christian bible tells us
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- That we have been grafted into god's family tree.
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- The rich olive tree of israel,
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- The very foundations of the christian faith,
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- The bible and jesus, whom christians call
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- The messiah, are deeply rooted in israel.
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- Supporting israel aligns christians with god's
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- Prophetic timeline.
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- It demonstrates our willingness to be instruments of
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- God's blessing, uplifting his chosen people,
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- And it calls us to confront and heal
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- The centuries old wounds of anti-semitism.
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- The scripture says how good and how
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- Pleasant it is when brethren dwell together.
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- You can be part of this historic movement
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- Of bringing light to our world.
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- Welcome back to the charlie kirk show.
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- Joining me now is my friend and a close friend of charlie
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- The great tucker carlson.
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- Tucker, thank you so much for being here.
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- And we have ten minutes. tucker.
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- And just to give you guys for at home
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- A little behind the scenes,
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- The producer just showed tucker a sign that said rap.
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- And tucker looked at it and said, this is expand
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- On your point, right?
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- So if we end up going 35 minutes, you'll know
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- It's not the host's fault, it's tucker carlson's fault.
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- We read what we want to read, but i had
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- You know, tucker, i think you know this.
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- And some of you know this because i wrote about it
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- On x.com.
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- But when x.com was twitter,
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- I did an interview with tucker carlson tonight
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- Show on fox news, and i got a message from a guy
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- Named charlie kirk that said, you did a great job.
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- I really liked what you said, and let's keep in touch.
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- And that began the start of my friendship with charlie kirk.
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- That was the first time i had ever communicated
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- With charlie kirk.
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- So you've known him for a long time.
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- You talked to him
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- About a lot of issues, and i want to talk in part
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- About how
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- To honor charlie's legacy, because i think that he modeled
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- Civil discourse within the right.
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- He accepted
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- There were big disagreements on all these issues,
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- But he thought we were all in the same team
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- And we could debate this stuff, but actually have a drink
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- At the end of the day and recognize
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- That we were all trying to accomplish fundamentally
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- The good of the country.
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- So i want to talk a little bit about that before i get there.
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- Just tell me about your buddy charlie kirk.
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- What was he like?
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- What did people who only know him from radio or tv
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- Not appreciate about what a good guy was?
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- That his christianity
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- Was sincere and his commitment to jesus was totally sincere.
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- And, you know, sometimes isn't, especially in public figures
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- Who throw out bible verses they don't understand
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- And stuff like that, but in his case,
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- Not speaking in particular, but in his case, and informed
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- Every single part of his life from his marriage,
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- The way he treated his children
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- To the way he treated his staff,
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- To the way he approached disagreement,
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- To the way
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- He thought of other people,
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- Which was always primarily as people first.
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- And that was,
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- You know, he was much younger than i am,
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- And i met him when he was a teenager.
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- So, i mean, he's literally the age of one of my children. so
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- It is
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- Kind of hard to take him seriously at first.
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- And over the years that i knew him,
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- You know, more than ten years, i ended up learning from him.
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- And i'm not just saying this because he's past.
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- I mean that sincerely.
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- And the main thing that i learned from him
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- Was how to disagree
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- With people on topics that you take very seriously
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- And that they take very seriously
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- Without hating them or without feeling bitterness.
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- I mean, he it wasn't, you know, if people knew
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- What was going on behind the scenes,
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- You know, there was a lot going on behind the scenes.
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- And it was intense and it was bitter.
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- And, you know, because the divide,
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- Particularly in foreign policy questions,
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- Is very real in the republican party, neocons versus
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- The realists or whatever you want to describe it.
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- He was on the real estate, for sure,
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- But he was mad at the people who disagreed with them.
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- He liked them as people.
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- He agreed with them on some things.
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- And he would always say that, you know, i agree in
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- Private he would say that in,
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- You know, i was involved in it
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- Because people were mad at him for having me
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- At his conferences or talking to me.
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- And so we had cause to talk about it
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- A lot up until he was assassinated.
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- And i was so struck the whole time, i would say, you know,
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- I would use the ugly language i'm famous for in private.
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- And he would never talk like that.
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- He was like, well,
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- You know, i agree with him on this,
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- But obviously i'm on your side in that.
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- And he just never forgot there was a person behind
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- Us, the views, and that inspired me.
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- And god commands out of us.
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- That is that's a real commitment in my opinion.
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- And he lived it.
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- That's exactly right, tucker.
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- He treated everybody with respect.
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- Him because he genuinely loved people
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- And he genuinely wanted their salvation.
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- He wanted them to have a relationship with god.
- 00:10:48.539 --> 00:10:50.241
- He wanted them to to know the truth.
- 00:10:50.241 --> 00:10:52.577
- He always treated them with respect,
- 00:10:52.577 --> 00:10:54.112
- Maybe especially when he disagreed with this.
- 00:10:54.112 --> 00:10:56.848
- And i think about this suit.
- 00:10:56.848 --> 00:10:58.349
- You talked about foreign policy.
- 00:10:58.349 --> 00:10:59.617
- That is one of the big divides on the american
- 00:10:59.617 --> 00:11:02.487
- Right right now.
- 00:11:02.487 --> 00:11:03.521
- And the thing that charlie seemed to understand
- 00:11:03.521 --> 00:11:06.557
- Intuitively
- 00:11:06.557 --> 00:11:07.759
- Is that the coalition that made donald trump the president,
- 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:11.195
- United states, and j.d.
- 00:11:11.195 --> 00:11:12.430
- Vance, the vice president, united states, it included
- 00:11:12.430 --> 00:11:15.500
- Tucker carlson, but also ben shapiro.
- 00:11:15.500 --> 00:11:18.536
- It included people who did disagree vociferously,
- 00:11:18.536 --> 00:11:21.372
- But agreed on 70 or 80% of issues.
- 00:11:21.372 --> 00:11:23.474
- And fundamentally, the question charlie would ask is,
- 00:11:23.474 --> 00:11:25.910
- If you're a good faith person and you're trying to do right,
- 00:11:25.910 --> 00:11:29.046
- Then you are part of the big ten.
- 00:11:29.046 --> 00:11:31.048
- And i think that's
- 00:11:31.048 --> 00:11:32.250
- That's something that we have to try to model together,
- 00:11:32.250 --> 00:11:34.619
- Because charlie's no longer around to do it for us.
- 00:11:34.619 --> 00:11:37.388
- And one way in particular, i was very touched by this.
- 00:11:37.388 --> 00:11:39.757
- I actually texted mark about this because, you know,
- 00:11:39.757 --> 00:11:42.260
- You very generously have put out some donation link
- 00:11:42.260 --> 00:11:45.797
- To help support charlie's family
- 00:11:45.797 --> 00:11:47.265
- And think about, you know, eric and the kids.
- 00:11:47.265 --> 00:11:49.500
- Most importantly,
- 00:11:49.500 --> 00:11:50.701
- They're grieving the loss of a dear husband and father.
- 00:11:50.701 --> 00:11:53.104
- But some of us,
- 00:11:53.104 --> 00:11:55.072
- We are going to have to step in and fill the gap to provide
- 00:11:55.072 --> 00:11:58.609
- For them in a way that charlie no longer
- 00:11:58.609 --> 00:12:00.545
- Can't because he was taken down by an assassin's bullet.
- 00:12:00.545 --> 00:12:03.447
- You know, i saw share that link was mark levin.
- 00:12:03.447 --> 00:12:06.250
- Yeah.
- 00:12:06.250 --> 00:12:07.218
- And i thought it was a really good example
- 00:12:07.218 --> 00:12:08.786
- Of how charlie was able to bring people together
- 00:12:08.786 --> 00:12:11.455
- From across our movement, so long as we were operating
- 00:12:11.455 --> 00:12:15.126
- In good faith. that was the question.
- 00:12:15.126 --> 00:12:16.861
- If you were good faith, you're on his team.
- 00:12:16.861 --> 00:12:18.629
- That is exactly right.
- 00:12:18.629 --> 00:12:19.730
- And good faith is the measure.
- 00:12:19.730 --> 00:12:21.933
- And i you know, i just i have to say,
- 00:12:21.933 --> 00:12:24.168
- I think now is exactly the wrong time
- 00:12:24.168 --> 00:12:26.404
- To appropriate the memory of someone and the
- 00:12:26.404 --> 00:12:29.607
- And the emotion that comes
- 00:12:29.607 --> 00:12:30.575
- With that, the really intense emotion
- 00:12:30.575 --> 00:12:31.943
- That all this feel and his murder
- 00:12:31.943 --> 00:12:34.178
- And use it
- 00:12:34.178 --> 00:12:35.279
- For your own parochial ends, like he stood for this,
- 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:37.882
- You know, and
- 00:12:37.882 --> 00:12:39.116
- I think the reason that charlie was able to bridge the gap,
- 00:12:39.116 --> 00:12:42.420
- Particularly in foreign policy, is because he had,
- 00:12:42.420 --> 00:12:45.356
- For example, genuine affection for israel,
- 00:12:45.356 --> 00:12:47.425
- Which he expressed to me
- 00:12:47.425 --> 00:12:48.359
- In private many, many times, like i feel
- 00:12:48.359 --> 00:12:50.962
- I don't think we should have
- 00:12:50.962 --> 00:12:52.163
- Another forever war or regime change, war against iran.
- 00:12:52.163 --> 00:12:56.400
- And i think that made complete sense to me.
- 00:12:56.400 --> 00:12:59.136
- I sort of agree with that, actually.
- 00:12:59.136 --> 00:13:01.339
- And so it allowed both sides to talk to him
- 00:13:02.273 --> 00:13:04.609
- Because they felt like this person doesn't hate me.
- 00:13:04.609 --> 00:13:06.944
- It doesn't need to get existential.
- 00:13:06.944 --> 00:13:08.446
- It's not about disliking me or some weird bigotry.
- 00:13:08.446 --> 00:13:11.382
- But i don't think it's helpful to for people to jump
- 00:13:11.382 --> 00:13:15.186
- In particularly foreign heads of state, to say,
- 00:13:15.186 --> 00:13:16.854
- This is what, you know, he lived for my cause or whatever.
- 00:13:16.854 --> 00:13:20.324
- That's disgusting. actually, don't do that.
- 00:13:20.324 --> 00:13:22.226
- That turns everybody off.
- 00:13:22.226 --> 00:13:23.527
- You don't help your own cause by doing that.
- 00:13:23.527 --> 00:13:25.329
- And it's also literally untrue.
- 00:13:25.329 --> 00:13:27.498
- So i just hope that we can continue in.
- 00:13:27.498 --> 00:13:30.835
- I'm not exaggerating the spirit that he operated in,
- 00:13:30.835 --> 00:13:34.005
- Which is one of love for other people,
- 00:13:34.005 --> 00:13:36.140
- Including people we disagree with and don't make it,
- 00:13:36.140 --> 00:13:39.877
- You know, as small bore as that, that doesn't help.
- 00:13:39.877 --> 00:13:43.481
- I think he modeled a really good way of applying
- 00:13:43.481 --> 00:13:46.884
- Pressure, of disagreeing when you do disagree,
- 00:13:46.884 --> 00:13:50.187
- But also recognizing that so long as you're
- 00:13:50.187 --> 00:13:52.323
- Operating in good faith, we're all part of the team.
- 00:13:52.323 --> 00:13:54.859
- And that's something i'm going to try to take from.
- 00:13:54.859 --> 00:13:56.460
- Charlie's legacy is not not that we're always right,
- 00:13:56.460 --> 00:13:59.430
- Not that we can't take criticism,
- 00:13:59.430 --> 00:14:01.165
- But that we all should try to work together.
- 00:14:01.165 --> 00:14:03.868
- It didn't worry me
- 00:14:03.868 --> 00:14:04.936
- Because i think your description is perfect.
- 00:14:04.936 --> 00:14:06.437
- He one of the very few who took that message,
- 00:14:06.437 --> 00:14:08.205
- And stood by it, i mean, right to the very end.
- 00:14:08.205 --> 00:14:11.242
- This cannot get bigger.
- 00:14:11.242 --> 00:14:12.543
- We don't want another regime change war.
- 00:14:12.543 --> 00:14:14.912
- But man,
- 00:14:14.912 --> 00:14:15.746
- Some of the people
- 00:14:15.746 --> 00:14:16.514
- Who send money to turning point,
- 00:14:16.514 --> 00:14:17.815
- His donors were very tough on him.
- 00:14:17.815 --> 00:14:20.351
- So tough on him that i could feel it.
- 00:14:20.351 --> 00:14:23.287
- You know,
- 00:14:23.287 --> 00:14:24.255
- I talked to him a lot in the last few months
- 00:14:24.255 --> 00:14:26.390
- And he was under enormous pressure.
- 00:14:26.390 --> 00:14:28.059
- He never bent, he never became bitter.
- 00:14:28.059 --> 00:14:30.361
- He kept his integrity to the very to the very end.
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- I wrote a story in the nation
- 00:16:15.069 --> 00:16:16.770
- Magazine about my dear friend charlie kirk.
- 00:16:16.770 --> 00:16:19.940
- Now, the nation isn't a fringe blog.
- 00:16:19.940 --> 00:16:23.077
- It's a well-funded, well-respected magazine
- 00:16:23.077 --> 00:16:26.180
- Whose publishing history goes back to the american civil war.
- 00:16:26.180 --> 00:16:30.184
- George soros open society foundation
- 00:16:30.951 --> 00:16:33.687
- Funds this magazine, as does the ford foundation
- 00:16:33.687 --> 00:16:37.324
- And many other wealthy titans
- 00:16:37.324 --> 00:16:39.359
- Of the american progressive movement.
- 00:16:39.359 --> 00:16:42.062
- The writer accuses charlie of saying, and i quote,
- 00:16:42.062 --> 00:16:46.133
- Black women do not have brain
- 00:16:46.133 --> 00:16:48.535
- Processing power to be taken seriously.
- 00:16:48.535 --> 00:16:51.538
- But if you go and watch the clip, the very clip
- 00:16:51.538 --> 00:16:54.675
- She links to you realize he never said anything
- 00:16:54.675 --> 00:16:57.644
- Like that.
- 00:16:57.644 --> 00:16:58.345
- He never uttered those words.
- 00:16:58.345 --> 00:17:00.948
- He made an argument against affirmative action as a policy.
- 00:17:00.948 --> 00:17:04.852
- He criticized
- 00:17:04.852 --> 00:17:05.953
- A specific supreme court justice as an individual.
- 00:17:05.953 --> 00:17:09.857
- He never said anything about black women.
- 00:17:09.857 --> 00:17:11.758
- As a group, he made an argument for judging people
- 00:17:11.758 --> 00:17:15.028
- Of all races and backgrounds by their own individual merits.
- 00:17:15.028 --> 00:17:19.533
- The very evidence she provides
- 00:17:20.134 --> 00:17:22.336
- This hack of a writer shows that she lied
- 00:17:22.336 --> 00:17:24.972
- About a dead man, and yet she wrote it
- 00:17:24.972 --> 00:17:28.809
- An esteemed magazine published it.
- 00:17:28.809 --> 00:17:31.345
- It made it through the editors.
- 00:17:31.345 --> 00:17:32.779
- And, of course, liberal billionaires rewarded
- 00:17:32.779 --> 00:17:36.250
- That attack.
- 00:17:36.583 --> 00:17:38.886
- Now, of course, even if charlie had uttered
- 00:17:38.886 --> 00:17:40.721
- Those words, it wouldn't mean that he deserved his fate.
- 00:17:40.721 --> 00:17:43.924
- But consider the level of propaganda at work.
- 00:17:43.924 --> 00:17:47.227
- Charlie was gunned down in broad daylight,
- 00:17:47.227 --> 00:17:50.731
- And well-funded institutions of the left lied
- 00:17:50.731 --> 00:17:54.234
- About what he said so as to justify his murder.
- 00:17:54.234 --> 00:17:58.639
- This is soulless and evil.
- 00:17:59.206 --> 00:18:02.142
- But i was struck
- 00:18:02.543 --> 00:18:03.810
- Not just by the dishonesty of the smear, but by the glee over
- 00:18:03.810 --> 00:18:07.581
- A young husband's and young father's death.
- 00:18:07.581 --> 00:18:11.818
- She says.
- 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:13.420
- He was an unrepentant racist,
- 00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:15.822
- Transphobic, homophobe and misogynist.
- 00:18:15.822 --> 00:18:20.194
- The nation wrote, who often wrapped his bigotry
- 00:18:20.194 --> 00:18:23.430
- In bible verses because there was no other way
- 00:18:23.430 --> 00:18:26.166
- To pretend that it was morally correct.
- 00:18:26.166 --> 00:18:29.603
- He had children, as do many vile people.
- 00:18:29.603 --> 00:18:33.207
- That's what they said.
- 00:18:33.207 --> 00:18:34.374
- He had children, as do many vile people.
- 00:18:34.374 --> 00:18:37.711
- Now, hours before the smear was published,
- 00:18:38.579 --> 00:18:41.481
- My wife and i had the honor of escorting
- 00:18:41.481 --> 00:18:43.817
- Charlie's body back to his home in arizona.
- 00:18:43.817 --> 00:18:46.653
- We took his wife, erica.
- 00:18:47.187 --> 00:18:49.223
- We love you,
- 00:18:49.223 --> 00:18:50.457
- His parents, his sister,
- 00:18:50.457 --> 00:18:52.626
- And a few of his best friends with us.
- 00:18:52.626 --> 00:18:55.095
- And as they offloaded charlie's casket from air force two,
- 00:18:55.095 --> 00:18:58.999
- I worried that erica would collapse with grief.
- 00:18:58.999 --> 00:19:03.136
- Now, i'm a very lucky husband to a very wonderful wife,
- 00:19:03.136 --> 00:19:07.374
- But i have never been prouder of my wife.
- 00:19:07.374 --> 00:19:09.576
- That moment, as she held erica in erica's very darkest hour.
- 00:19:09.576 --> 00:19:13.914
- And i thought of erica as i read that
- 00:19:14.648 --> 00:19:16.483
- Disgusting attack on charlie.
- 00:19:16.483 --> 00:19:18.485
- He had children, as do many vile people.
- 00:19:18.485 --> 00:19:22.923
- That's what they said about him.
- 00:19:23.657 --> 00:19:25.926
- I said the lord's prayer.
- 00:19:25.926 --> 00:19:28.595
- Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
- 00:19:28.595 --> 00:19:32.332
- Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth
- 00:19:32.332 --> 00:19:35.535
- As it is in heaven.
- 00:19:35.535 --> 00:19:37.170
- And i asked to show
- 00:19:37.638 --> 00:19:38.872
- What erica had said to her
- 00:19:38.872 --> 00:19:40.874
- Earlier in the day in a private moment,
- 00:19:40.874 --> 00:19:43.076
- And i asked erica's permission to share this.
- 00:19:43.076 --> 00:19:46.046
- My wife told me.
- 00:19:46.446 --> 00:19:48.649
- She asked me
- 00:19:48.649 --> 00:19:51.251
- For advice.
- 00:19:51.251 --> 00:19:52.986
- Erica asked me for advice on how she should tell her
- 00:19:52.986 --> 00:19:56.356
- Children that their father had been murdered.
- 00:19:56.356 --> 00:19:59.760
- She asked my wife
- 00:20:00.193 --> 00:20:01.995
- How to tell her beautiful kids that their father and my dear,
- 00:20:01.995 --> 00:20:06.900
- Very dear friend is no longer with us.
- 00:20:06.900 --> 00:20:10.304
- And as she was doing it,
- 00:20:10.837 --> 00:20:12.806
- There were people dancing on that father's grave.
- 00:20:12.806 --> 00:20:16.476
- Now, i have heard many calls in the last few days for unity
- 00:20:17.611 --> 00:20:21.882
- And for healing in the wake of charlie's assassination.
- 00:20:21.882 --> 00:20:25.085
- You have no idea how desperately i want that.
- 00:20:25.085 --> 00:20:29.022
- How gratified i was
- 00:20:29.022 --> 00:20:30.957
- When democratic friends and even former senate
- 00:20:30.957 --> 00:20:33.360
- Colleagues reached out to offer their condolences to me.
- 00:20:33.360 --> 00:20:36.897
- I'm so thankful, and i know there are so many
- 00:20:36.897 --> 00:20:39.966
- Like them all across our great country.
- 00:20:39.966 --> 00:20:43.403
- I am desperate
- 00:20:43.737 --> 00:20:45.005
- To wrap my arms around them as we all unite
- 00:20:45.005 --> 00:20:48.041
- To condemn political violence and the ideas that cause it.
- 00:20:48.041 --> 00:20:52.112
- Psalm 133 tells us, behold
- 00:20:52.679 --> 00:20:55.415
- How good and how pleasant it is
- 00:20:55.415 --> 00:20:58.552
- For brethren to dwell together in unity.
- 00:20:58.552 --> 00:21:02.622
- I'm desperate for our country to be united in condemnation
- 00:21:02.622 --> 00:21:06.827
- Of the actions and the ideas that killed my friend.
- 00:21:06.827 --> 00:21:09.563
- I want it so badly that i will tell you a difficult truth.
- 00:21:09.563 --> 00:21:14.267
- We can only have it with people who acknowledge
- 00:21:14.267 --> 00:21:17.971
- That political violence is unacceptable.
- 00:21:17.971 --> 00:21:20.507
- And when we work to dismantle the institutions that promote
- 00:21:20.507 --> 00:21:25.278
- Violence and terrorism in our own country,
- 00:21:25.278 --> 00:21:28.782
- Our government, you heard me talk to stephen miller about
- 00:21:28.782 --> 00:21:31.284
- This will be working
- 00:21:31.284 --> 00:21:32.386
- Very hard to do exactly that in the months to come.
- 00:21:32.386 --> 00:21:35.989
- We're not always going to get it right.
- 00:21:35.989 --> 00:21:37.858
- We will sometimes move more slowly than you would like.
- 00:21:37.858 --> 00:21:40.627
- We will sometimes move more slowly than i want us to,
- 00:21:40.627 --> 00:21:44.398
- But i promise you that we will explore every option
- 00:21:44.398 --> 00:21:47.601
- To bring real unity to our country
- 00:21:47.601 --> 00:21:50.470
- And stop those
- 00:21:50.470 --> 00:21:51.605
- Who would kill their
- 00:21:51.605 --> 00:21:52.739
- Fellow americans because they don't like what they say.
- 00:21:52.739 --> 00:21:55.342
- But you have a role to civil society.
- 00:21:56.143 --> 00:21:58.979
- Charlie understood this well is not just something
- 00:21:58.979 --> 00:22:02.182
- That flows from the government.
- 00:22:02.182 --> 00:22:05.285
- It flows from each and every one of us.
- 00:22:05.285 --> 00:22:09.556
- It flows from all of us.
- 00:22:09.556 --> 00:22:12.726
- So when you see someone celebrating charlie's murder,
- 00:22:12.726 --> 00:22:15.395
- Call them out in hell.
- 00:22:15.395 --> 00:22:16.897
- Call their employer.
- 00:22:16.897 --> 00:22:18.265
- We don't
- 00:22:18.265 --> 00:22:19.466
- Believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility.
- 00:22:19.466 --> 00:22:22.335
- And there is no civility in the celebration
- 00:22:22.335 --> 00:22:24.871
- Of political assassination.
- 00:22:24.871 --> 00:22:26.706
- Get involved. get involved.
- 00:22:26.706 --> 00:22:29.009
- Get involved.
- 00:22:29.009 --> 00:22:30.010
- It's the best way to honor charlie's legacy.
- 00:22:30.010 --> 00:22:32.112
- Start a chapter of tp usa
- 00:22:32.112 --> 00:22:34.414
- Or get involved in the one that already exists.
- 00:22:34.414 --> 00:22:37.017
- If you're older, volunteer for your local party.
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- Write an op ed in your local paper.
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- Run for office.
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- I can't promise you this is going to be easy.
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- I can't promise you that all of us will avoid charlie's
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- Fate.
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- I can't promise you that i will avoid charlie's fate.
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- But the
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- Way to honor him is to shine the light of truth like a torch
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- In the very darkest places.
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- Go do it.
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- We owe it to our friend to ensure that his killer
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- Is not just prosecuted, but punished.
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- And the worst punishment is not the death penalty,
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- But the knowledge that charlie's mission continues
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- After he's gone.
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- Saint paul tells us in the book of ephesians
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- To put on the full armor of god.
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- Let all of us put on that armor and commit ourselves
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- To that cause for which charlie gave his life to rebuild
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- A united states of america,
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- And to do it by telling the truth.
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- The poverty is unimaginable.
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- There are people who are struggling.
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- Those who are hungry.
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- Forgotten jews.
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- Scripture says joy can come in the morning.
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- And you can be the reason.
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- Bless these hurting children of israel.
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- Your urgent gift today of $25 will help rush
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- A survival food box filled with life saving essentials.
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- Tens of thousands of elderly holocaust survivors
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- In the former soviet union are living in extreme poverty.
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- Hungry
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- For god? the truly international
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- Fellowship of christians and jews.
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- We can bring hope.
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- It's my favorite food.
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- May you be blessed.
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