September 12, 2025 • 33 mins
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Unity and Support: Despite the tragedy, we emphasize how people from different walks of life—including leaders, families, communities, and even international figures—came together to honor and support Charlie Kirk’s family. This shows resilience and solidarity.
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Moments of Compassion: The description of the Vice President and Second Lady personally comforting Charlie’s widow and escorting his casket reflects deep humanity and respect. Small gestures of kindness are portrayed as powerful “little miracles.”
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Commitment to Justice: The law enforcement community is shown working tirelessly with transparency, dedication, and collaboration to find the perpetrator. The huge public response with thousands of tips demonstrates people’s willingness to help.
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Strength in Adversity: The message that “we will not be silent” and that Charlie’s influence has made “millions strong” conveys inspiration, courage, and determination to continue his legacy.
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Faith and Healing: Several parts of the podcast frame the tragedy as an opportunity for God to bring good out of evil, giving people a sense of hope and purpose in the face of grief.
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Global Recognition: Leaders around the world, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, expressed admiration for Charlie, highlighting the far-reaching positive impact of his life and values.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thursday was a really tough day. It was a tough
day to watch the reality set in of what had
happened and the hours before, we watched the Vice President
in the second Lady of the United States of America
fly to Utah to then help the family of Charlie
Kirk take Charlie home to Phoenix, Arizona, where they live.
(00:26):
We watched the Vice President of the United States of
America carrious casket. We watched the wife of the Vice
President hold her hand the now widow of Charlie Kirk.
We watched them touch down in Phoenix, and we see
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the little and hear the little miracles that are happening,
happening all along the way. Phoenix Air Traffic Control send
a message to Charlie Kirk after landing in Arizona. And
here's what they said on the visual people No.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Fifteen many five and exam when people were here.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I don't know what he thinks that the life
he picks up with a success.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well home, Charlie, you didn't deserve it.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
May God bless your family.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Welcome home, Charlie, you didn't deserve it. May God bless
your family. The world lost an incredible man, and so
many are grieving the loss of Charlie. I'm one of them.
Because of how many people and how many lives that
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he touched. We are saying many that are standing up
and saying we will not be silent. You have made
us ten million strong. There are so many on the
left that have celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Yet
there are so many that are standing up for what
is right. There are so many that are standing there
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and loving Charlie and his family, loving Erica as the
second lady whose advance hold the hand as they stepped
off Air Force two with Charlie's casket arriving, and moving
that casket to the chapel where he will be. These
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are the things that people will remember as we do
come together. I want to tell you that I think
this is one of those moments where you can see
God using evil for good, more than that assassin could
ever imagine. The White House Chief of Staff talk to
(02:57):
my good friend Scott Jennings today on his show, and
I want you to hear what Susie Wilds had to
say about what she told her staff at the White House.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I just want to ask you, I mean you're around
the president, you were around him during the campaign, you
interact with people in public settings. Is it safe in
America right now for an outspoken conservative? I mean, obviously
the president survived a couple of assassination attempts, and Charlie's
no longer with us. How are you processing that question today?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
I think we have to recognize that America has become
a violent place. It's one of the reasons the president
is so committed to a safe district of Columbia, and
as we've had great, great results there. But Marco Rubio
yesterday said, you know, what I think is going on
is that there are embers out there and they're starting
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to burn. And I thought that was a very good
way of looking at the atmospherics. We have a lot
of high profile people here that engage publicly and in
the media, and they say things others might not like.
So I called everybody in before they went home last
night and said, go home, hug your children, hug your spouse,
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be careful, take precautions, and don't let your voice get softer.
Charlie would want everybody to speak as they had been
and more so that's sort of the way we feel
here and he was very close to many of us,
and even those that were not his good friends, we
know him. He was so much help in the campaign,
(04:35):
So you know, there's no question there's a sadness here.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles talking to her
staff who are rattled at the White House over this.
We also have an update from the FBI, and they
gave a update late in the evening last night, and
I want you to hear exactly what they had to say.
Is someone you're asking about this, who is he? How
(05:03):
do he get away? How do we not know where
he is right now? Some of those questions were answered.
I want you to hear what was said earlier.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Listen, day Governor will kick it off.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for joining us
here tonight. We appreciate the media and the partnership we
have with you in helping from out to the public
so that we can we can catch this assassin and
and hold him accountable. We are going to share a
(05:38):
portion of a video and that we have of the
of the suspect, as well as some new stills. Those
have already been released, but we want to make sure
that they get as much attention as possible so that
we can get help from from the public in tracking
down this this this evil human being.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
So we're going to we're going to queue up the
video right now.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Show that I've asked Commissioner Beau Mason if he would
narrate to you what is happening in this video.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Thank you, Governor Beau Mason, Commissioner for the Utah Department
of Public Safety. If you look up to the top left,
you'll see the building where the shooter was proned out
in the top left corner. We'll go ahead and play
that video on narrate as we.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
So.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Here you see the suspect grand behind that upper upper building.
He's going to come out on the right, moves to
this far right corner. As he does, he's going to
climb off the edge and then drop down to the ground.
As he did that, he left some palm impressions. There's
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some smudget some places we're looking to collect DNA.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
There's a shoe imprint where we will leave.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
The suspect is clearly identified as wearing Converse tennis shoes. Again,
we'll replay that against you can get another view of that.
It's important to note his black T shirt, his black pants,
and there appears to be some white on the soles
of those Converse tennis shoes. Those are all identifiable items
that we're looking for. In the stills that are going
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to follow this, you're going to see a very distinctive
T shirt with an American flag and appears to have
an eagle on it. There's also a baseball cap with
a triangle on it, and a pair of sunglasses, all distinctive,
all things that we would ask the public to look
for and try to identify if they know someone who
has those items, who has been seen wearing those items.
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We're looking for all that information. Here you see the
suspect after dropping off the building, he moved around across
this grass area around the parking lot. We're going to
pan to the right after he crosses the street. This
is where he moves over into the wooded area. This
is the video evidence that we utilize to track his
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movements and to locate that firearm in that wooded area.
Following the discovery of this evidence, good you want to
go to the stills. So here's the still photographs I mentioned.
These have been enhanced, so these are slightly different than
what we introduced earlier. Please play close attention to the
T shirt, like I said, very distinctive with that American
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flag and that eagle, the hat with the triangle, and
the sunglasses.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
If you'll go to the next picture, please.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
The backpack as well, all identifying features that we're hoping
the public can help us identify and lead us to
this suspect. Next picture, and again there's a better picture
of the hat with that triangle logo, and again the
T shirt, blue jeans, and you get a good look
at those Converse tennis shoes as well. We have pushed
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these out, we'll continue to push these out, and we
just asked for the public cooperation. Through the public, the
tips that have been coming in are what are giving
us our next leads and enabling us to continue to
further this investigation. We've had great cooperation from the public
and we're continuing to ask for that as we move forward.
Thank you, and I'll turn time back over to Governor Cox.
(09:18):
Thank you so much. Commissioner Mason. I want to I
want to thank Director Patel and his team. It's great
to have them on the ground with us tonight. We've
had several briefings and he's had an opportunity to walk
the crime scene. We appreciate our local law enforcement here again,
we have Mike Smith, who is the county sheriff.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Here, we have.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
All of our local chiefs of police that are here
as well, all working hand in hand with the state
and with the FBI as we as we move forward
with this investigation. Now just give you a little more.
We will not be taking any questions at this time.
We're giving you the latest information we have, being as
transparent with everything that we have. But I do want
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to share a couple things that I think are important.
We cannot do our job without the public's help. Right now,
the public has answered our call for action. So far,
we've received more than seven thousand leads and tips. I
would just note that the FBI hasn't received this many
digital media tips from the public since.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
The Boston marathon bombing.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
This case also highlights the dedication of our law enforcement community.
We have twenty federal, state, and local law enforcement partners
that are working shoulder to shoulder to find the person
who committed this horrific crime. With their support, we've completed
nearly two hundred interviews, as you're aware, as has already
been reported. The FBI is offering a one hundred thousand
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dollars reward for information leading to the identification and arrest
of the person responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk.
We also continue to implore the public to support this
investigation and come forward with any information.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
We are truly hopeful that this.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Video and new photos will lead to even more tips
we are processing. We have an incredible team, a state
and federal team working together to process those tips. We
are going out in tandem to interview any potential person
of interest or suspects. But we need again, we need
as many as much help as we can possibly get.
Any videos or photos that you might have the public
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should be submitted to our digital media tip line, which
is www dot FBI dot gov. Forward slash Utah Valley
shooting all lowercase. Again, that is FBI dot gov forward
slash Utah Valley shooting all lowercase. You can also provide
general tips about the shooting by calling one eight hundred
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call FBI, that's one eight hundred c a l L FBI,
or at tips dot FBI dot gov. This is I
would just say, this is not just so local matter
here in Utah. We have people all over the country
that are helping to bring this perpetrator to justice for
Charlie Kirk and his family.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And we'll just add as.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well that as was mentioned, there is there is a
lot of forensic evidence that is being processed right now
at both the State Lab and the and federal labs
and Federal Lab in on the East Coast, so we
are working in tandem together. I would also just add
a word of note for for those for those people
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who are spending so much time on social media. I
think Charlie said it best that when when things get bad,
we should put our phones down and spend a little
time with our families. There is a tremendous amount of disinformation.
We are tracking our our team, the State team, and
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I'm sure the federal team as well. What we're seeing
is our adversaries want violence.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
China.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
We have bots from Russia, China all over the world
that are trying to instill disinformation and encourage violence. I
would encourage you to ignore those, to turn off those streams,
and to spend a little more time with our families.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
We desperately need some healing.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We'll have more to say about that in the days
and weeks to come. More than anything, we are going
to catch this person. Last thing I will just say
is we've been working with our attorneys getting everything that
we need affidavits ready so that we can pursue the
death penalty in this case, and that will happen here.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
In the state of Utah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Again, to the public, to those who are grieving, thank
you for your prayers. I know we are feeling those prayers.
I know the Kirk family is feeling those prayers as well.
We pray that God will bless our nation at this
very dark time. We can start healing by finding this
perpetrator and holding him accountable, and we need your help
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to do that.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We will obviously keep you updated here on any breaking
news that we get as soon as we get it.
I want to finally just also let you know what
the President's mindset is right now. A reporter asked the
President today, are you concerned for your own safety? It
is the question that I and anyone else as a
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conservative in this movement, are asking themselves about our own
safety right now. Every one of us has been rattled
by this, and every one of us is saying the
same thing. Are we safe. How do we make sure
that we are safe as possible? The President asked the
same question, Are you concerned about your own safety? And
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I want you to hear what the President said.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Not really.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
I'm really concerned for our country.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
We have a great country.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
We have a i'd a left group.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Of lunatics out there, just absolute lunatics, and we're going to.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Get that problem solved.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm only concerned for the country. I'm only concerned for
the country. I'm not really concerned about my own safety.
That is the embodiment of a man that is clearly
going to carry on the legacy of Charlie Kirk and
a man that he is going to honor as well.
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for you on what is happening with the manhunt uh
for the assassin of Charliekirk. The FBI has released a
person of interest picture. It is up on social media.
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I have stuck it on all of my social media
pages seeking the public's help and locating and finding this individual.
The FBI office in Salt Lake City released the photo
of the person of interest in connection with the Charliekirk
assassination and made it very simple. If you know who
this person is, they want you to call the eight
hundred call FBI in line. It's literally one eight hundred
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call FBI. They also have digital media tips as well
at FBI dot gov slash Utah Valley shooting and you
can do that there again. If you see this person,
go oh my gosh, I know who it is. They
are asking for your help. What we also know is
that the Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Mo Mason
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spoke at the press conference instead the shooter appears to
be of college age. He stressed that authorities worked through
the night and we're able to find photos and videos
of the suspect on various cameras. They during the same
press conference, the FBI Special Agent in charge know that
law enforcement had recovered the rifle which they believe was
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used to shoot Charlie Kirk. They described the rifle as
a bolt action rifle, meaning that you use a bolt
and it's one round in and you click it, and
they found it in a wooded area. There's also a
new report as we speak right now from the Wall
Street Journal suggesting that the ammunition found not only in
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the chamber apparently of the rifle, but also on the rifle.
Believe the assassin used words that were engraved with transgender messages.
Now you may ask yourself a question. Why is that significant, Well,
Charlie was actually shot when he was answering a question
on transgender shooters, and so there is a real connection there.
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We are also hearing from world leaders, not just President
Donald Trump, who has spoken out about this, and the
Vice President also is going to Utah and going to
be picking up the family of Charlie Kirk, his wife
and children and relatives and taking Charlie's casket back to Arizona.
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We've learned that, but there are leaders around the world
now now that are talking about what happened to Charlie Kirk.
One of those is the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nette Yahoo. Now,
Charlie was a protector of Israel. He was very much
like me, where he was proud to be an ally
and to stand with the Jewish people. I wear if
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you see me on TV, I wear a pen that
is the US flag, and it's right next to the
Israeli flag, and I keep wearing it because every time
I'm on TV, it irritates people and the hate and
bigotry comes out. And I want to shine a light
on the standing and the unity that we need to
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have with Israel. And that is absolutely what Charlie Kirk
stood for as well, and net Yahoo was on Newsmax
with Greta Ancestrum. He had actually been on there recently
with her, and I want you to hear what he
had to say about Charlie.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Mister Prime Minister.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Very nice to talk to you against sir, but I
didn't dream that I'd be talking to you so soon
since the last time we spoke.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Well, the circumstances are tragic, and as you can imagine, Greta,
I want to say a farewell to a great human being,
a great friend of Israel, a great champion of Judeo
Christian civilization, and a champion of free speech, free debate, freedom,
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Charlie kirk Is. His loss is terrible and we grieve
for him, for his wife, Erica, for his two beautiful children,
and for the many, many, many people who will not
hear his voice. His legacy, yes, but his unique voice
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that's gone.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
You know, I'm you didn't just read about him. You
actually knew him. He wrote you a very personal letter
in May and I think you just spoke to him recently,
am I right?
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Yes, he did?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You know?
Speaker 8 (22:04):
He wrote me this letter and I think May second
and he says, one of my greatest joys as a
Christian is advocating for Israel and forming alliances to defend
your del Christian civilization. That's in a nutshell, Charlie. And
then I called him a few weeks ago and I said, so, Charlie,
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why didn't you come and visit us? And he said, well,
I'm going to and we were going to fix a date,
and that's not going to take place.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
An emotional benjaminette Yahu there. And I think anyone that
had traded text messages or phone calls with Charlie in
recent days and weeks is just shocked still to the
core by what has happened. I also want to address
a question that's been asked to me a lot and
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in the last twenty four hours, not just by by family,
but friends and also others that I work with, and
that is the real concern over safety for anyone that's
out there doing anything like what Charlie did. There is
very real concern, and there are different things that will
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be done. I will be doing different things things differently
and the way that I move and the way that
I do things and the way that I do TV
appearances because there is a real sense of not fear,
I think reality that they're that the there is a
wing now of the Democratic Party that is in essence
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of terrorist organization, and they will be inspired by what
just happened. The number of people that cheered on the
assassination of Charlie Kirk is poison that is clearly poisoned
well in a way that I don't even think I
realized how bad it was. And I deal with this
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every day every time that I go on TV. The
number of people that write horrible things online is ever
since twenty sixteen, is just constant, Like I kind of
laugh and smirk and just whatever. You've got to have
thic skin to do this. And there's so many others.
But the most shocking part of all of this is
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just the vitriol and the hate and the celebration of
the death of Charlie Kirk. And it's something we need
to talk about. The hate that we are witnessing is
at a level of a cancer that I am still
taken aback by.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I'll give you an example. You may know that the
It's a show that's on Fox TMZ. They always report
big news when it happens, and they get you know,
it's it's like the National Enquirer, but with like fat
pace and more reality. Are the first ones that report
people that die and scandals and sports and all sorts
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of things. And when there's things that happen they're tragic.
There a lot of people go to them TMZ. Yesterday
when Charlie Kirk, when the news was breaking of his death,
the live feed was up and they have now come
out and been forced just publicly shamed. I don't think
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they actually really care. I want to make that clear,
but they've now been forced to apologize because the staff
on the video you can hear erupting into clapping, cheering
and laughter after it was reported that Charlie Kirk was dead.
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The Daily Mail put it this way. TMZ has been
forced to apologize after stafters burst into laughter the moment
Charlie Kirk's death was announced during an unflattering live Now,
to be clear, the people in the room, they didn't know.
I guess that they were going out live. The Entertainment
News out had found itself in hot water while reporting
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on the gory death of the MAGA Firebrand on Wednesday.
While Harvey Levin, the guy Who's famous for TMZ and Charles.
I don't even know what the hell the other guy's
last name is. We're discussing the thirty one year old
Turning Point USA founder assassination. Laughter erupted in the background.
Levin remained stoic as he broke the news to the
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live audience, but viewers were sickened by what they heard
during the live stream quote. Employees were heard cheering, clamping,
and celebrating just thirty seconds before announcing Charlie Kirk's death.
One user on x said they laughed and applauded the
cold blooded murder of a husband and a father on
a public broadcast like it was some kind of sick joke,
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before handing it off to Harvey. Conservative internet person personality
Laura Lumer called the incident disgusting, shameful and dis disgusting
behavior by TMZ. Charlie's a husband, a father. He was
murdering cold blood. The worst part is about these two
individuals who are famous for getting into this type of
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smut and profiting off of other people's worst days in
their lives, is that no one has dropped the show.
TMZ then was forced to put out what I could
call a cover your ass statement. We want to make
it clear that these cheers were a reaction to a
high speed chase happening in California. This was prior to
and not related to, Charlie Kirk's death. By the way,
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I want to make it clear, I don't believe that
that's what they put out. Then TMZ later put out
this video trying to cover themselves.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
We were live streaming all day during this tragedy when
something happened in our office. As we were reporting the
assassination of Charli Arley Kirk, there were some people in
the back room, away from your newsdesk here who were
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watching a car chase and they were laughing. They were clapping,
and you could hear it out here. And we want
to make a couple of things clear. One is that
I know these people and they were not laughing. They
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were not reacting that way about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
They were not They would not work here if they did.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And that being said, we acknowledged that it was horrible
timing and for that we are sorry.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
We apologize. We apologize it.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
You had to hear that, and I get why if
you're watching the stream, you may have felt that that's
what the laughter was about. We assure you it was
not about that, but it was horrible timing. And by
the way, I get it too, and he gets it
because we listened as we we're talking.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
You can go back and look on the stream.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I actually walked off camera to go back and find
out what the hell was going on because it was
inappropriate for the laughter at that time, but no one
was laughing about the Charlie Kirk tragedy.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Nevertheless, we apologize for the way it sounded.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I'm just going to be clear, I don't believe this
for a second. I think this is a cover your
abs moment. I think the timing and the idea that
this was you're covering those two stories same time and
people weren't aware of what was going on is just
completely and utterly insane, and it is really sad. It
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also makes me incredibly angry that this is where we
are now, where people are saying things like this and
celebrating it this way. There are people that are also
blaming Donald Trump for Charlie Kirk's death, which is also insanity.
(30:03):
Jim Acosta, former guy at CNN, he had a guest
on his show today, and I want you to hear
what he had to say on Charlie Kirk. Listen to
his words carefully.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Yeah, I mean, there's exploitation going on of his death,
and it's happening on the right, and it's absolutely disgraceful,
and it's sending us down a course where more people
are probably going to get hurt. And I mean that
to me is that's where I kind of held my
breath yesterday. Is that, you know, I think we're now
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in a moment and there's not a whole lot you
and I can do about this. Mike, you and I
can talk about this until we're blue in the face
or right in the face or whatever. There's not a
whole hell a lot we can do to stop what
is now I think happening, which is we're going to
be in this eye for an eye moment. People on
the far right are going to use this moment. You
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already have the State Department earlier today saying that quote unquote,
foreigners need to watch what they say. And Trump is
talking about retribution. I mean, if you read between the
lines of what he said last night, you know, screwed
Jesse Waters and what he said, you read between the
lines of what Trump said last night. He's talking about
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revenge and retribution.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
This is what the newsrooms are filled with. Jim Acosta
is no different than he was when he was at
the White House saying there's exploitation going on of his death.
It's happening on the right and it's absolutely disgraceful. You
guys can't turn it off for five seconds and just
say that this is a horrific tragedy and we should
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maybe come together. Instead, you want to use it to
go after conservatives. They weren't done there by the way
his guests said, quote people like Jesse Waters, they don't
give a blank about Charlie Kirk. And then he said,
I'm not going to sugarcoat who Charlie Kirk was. They
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are celebrating his death, they are celebrating the shooter. They
are advocating with a rhetoric for more of this to happen,
Which goes back to the point that I said earlier
about some people that reached out to me. There is
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a real fear, There is a real concern. There is
a real worry for all of us that do what
we do that this is going to happen again, and
I would say, pray for all of the people that
you know that do this. Pray for all of them
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for their safety and their security, because you can hear
in the clips that I just played for you there
is a terrorist group of the Democratic Party that is
wanting more of this to happen, and they're acting like
this is just the beginning and not the end. And
it's sick and it's perverted and it's evil, and we're
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witnessing it play out on social media and on TV
as we speak. Hug your kids, Hug your family, Tell
the people around you that you love, that you love them,
and do it often. We'll see you back here tomorrow.
Thursday was a really tough day. It was a tough
day to watch the reality set in of what had
happened and the hours before, we watched the Vice President
in the second Lady of the United States of America
fly to Utah to then help the family of Charlie
Kirk take Charlie home to Phoenix, Arizona, where they live.
(00:26):
We watched the Vice President of the United States of
America carrious casket. We watched the wife of the Vice
President hold her hand the now widow of Charlie Kirk.
We watched them touch down in Phoenix, and we see
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the little and hear the little miracles that are happening,
happening all along the way. Phoenix Air Traffic Control send
a message to Charlie Kirk after landing in Arizona. And
here's what they said on the visual people No.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Fifteen many five and exam when people were here.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I don't know what he thinks that the life
he picks up with a success.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well home, Charlie, you didn't deserve it.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
May God bless your family.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Welcome home, Charlie, you didn't deserve it. May God bless
your family. The world lost an incredible man, and so
many are grieving the loss of Charlie. I'm one of them.
Because of how many people and how many lives that
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he touched. We are saying many that are standing up
and saying we will not be silent. You have made
us ten million strong. There are so many on the
left that have celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Yet
there are so many that are standing up for what
is right. There are so many that are standing there
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and loving Charlie and his family, loving Erica as the
second lady whose advance hold the hand as they stepped
off Air Force two with Charlie's casket arriving, and moving
that casket to the chapel where he will be. These
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are the things that people will remember as we do
come together. I want to tell you that I think
this is one of those moments where you can see
God using evil for good, more than that assassin could
ever imagine. The White House Chief of Staff talk to
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my good friend Scott Jennings today on his show, and
I want you to hear what Susie Wilds had to
say about what she told her staff at the White House.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I just want to ask you, I mean you're around
the president, you were around him during the campaign, you
interact with people in public settings. Is it safe in
America right now for an outspoken conservative? I mean, obviously
the president survived a couple of assassination attempts, and Charlie's
no longer with us. How are you processing that question today?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
I think we have to recognize that America has become
a violent place. It's one of the reasons the president
is so committed to a safe district of Columbia, and
as we've had great, great results there. But Marco Rubio
yesterday said, you know, what I think is going on
is that there are embers out there and they're starting
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to burn. And I thought that was a very good
way of looking at the atmospherics. We have a lot
of high profile people here that engage publicly and in
the media, and they say things others might not like.
So I called everybody in before they went home last
night and said, go home, hug your children, hug your spouse,
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be careful, take precautions, and don't let your voice get softer.
Charlie would want everybody to speak as they had been
and more so that's sort of the way we feel
here and he was very close to many of us,
and even those that were not his good friends, we
know him. He was so much help in the campaign,
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So you know, there's no question there's a sadness here.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles talking to her
staff who are rattled at the White House over this.
We also have an update from the FBI, and they
gave a update late in the evening last night, and
I want you to hear exactly what they had to say.
Is someone you're asking about this, who is he? How
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do he get away? How do we not know where
he is right now? Some of those questions were answered.
I want you to hear what was said earlier.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Listen, day Governor will kick it off.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for joining us
here tonight. We appreciate the media and the partnership we
have with you in helping from out to the public
so that we can we can catch this assassin and
and hold him accountable. We are going to share a
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portion of a video and that we have of the
of the suspect, as well as some new stills. Those
have already been released, but we want to make sure
that they get as much attention as possible so that
we can get help from from the public in tracking
down this this this evil human being.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
So we're going to we're going to queue up the
video right now.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Show that I've asked Commissioner Beau Mason if he would
narrate to you what is happening in this video.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Thank you, Governor Beau Mason, Commissioner for the Utah Department
of Public Safety. If you look up to the top left,
you'll see the building where the shooter was proned out
in the top left corner. We'll go ahead and play
that video on narrate as we.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
So.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Here you see the suspect grand behind that upper upper building.
He's going to come out on the right, moves to
this far right corner. As he does, he's going to
climb off the edge and then drop down to the ground.
As he did that, he left some palm impressions. There's
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some smudget some places we're looking to collect DNA.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
There's a shoe imprint where we will leave.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
The suspect is clearly identified as wearing Converse tennis shoes. Again,
we'll replay that against you can get another view of that.
It's important to note his black T shirt, his black pants,
and there appears to be some white on the soles
of those Converse tennis shoes. Those are all identifiable items
that we're looking for. In the stills that are going
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to follow this, you're going to see a very distinctive
T shirt with an American flag and appears to have
an eagle on it. There's also a baseball cap with
a triangle on it, and a pair of sunglasses, all distinctive,
all things that we would ask the public to look
for and try to identify if they know someone who
has those items, who has been seen wearing those items.
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We're looking for all that information. Here you see the
suspect after dropping off the building, he moved around across
this grass area around the parking lot. We're going to
pan to the right after he crosses the street. This
is where he moves over into the wooded area. This
is the video evidence that we utilize to track his
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movements and to locate that firearm in that wooded area.
Following the discovery of this evidence, good you want to
go to the stills. So here's the still photographs I mentioned.
These have been enhanced, so these are slightly different than
what we introduced earlier. Please play close attention to the
T shirt, like I said, very distinctive with that American
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flag and that eagle, the hat with the triangle, and
the sunglasses.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
If you'll go to the next picture, please.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
The backpack as well, all identifying features that we're hoping
the public can help us identify and lead us to
this suspect. Next picture, and again there's a better picture
of the hat with that triangle logo, and again the
T shirt, blue jeans, and you get a good look
at those Converse tennis shoes as well. We have pushed
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these out, we'll continue to push these out, and we
just asked for the public cooperation. Through the public, the
tips that have been coming in are what are giving
us our next leads and enabling us to continue to
further this investigation. We've had great cooperation from the public
and we're continuing to ask for that as we move forward.
Thank you, and I'll turn time back over to Governor Cox.
(09:18):
Thank you so much. Commissioner Mason. I want to I
want to thank Director Patel and his team. It's great
to have them on the ground with us tonight. We've
had several briefings and he's had an opportunity to walk
the crime scene. We appreciate our local law enforcement here again,
we have Mike Smith, who is the county sheriff.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Here, we have.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
All of our local chiefs of police that are here
as well, all working hand in hand with the state
and with the FBI as we as we move forward
with this investigation. Now just give you a little more.
We will not be taking any questions at this time.
We're giving you the latest information we have, being as
transparent with everything that we have. But I do want
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to share a couple things that I think are important.
We cannot do our job without the public's help. Right now,
the public has answered our call for action. So far,
we've received more than seven thousand leads and tips. I
would just note that the FBI hasn't received this many
digital media tips from the public since.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
The Boston marathon bombing.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
This case also highlights the dedication of our law enforcement community.
We have twenty federal, state, and local law enforcement partners
that are working shoulder to shoulder to find the person
who committed this horrific crime. With their support, we've completed
nearly two hundred interviews, as you're aware, as has already
been reported. The FBI is offering a one hundred thousand
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dollars reward for information leading to the identification and arrest
of the person responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk.
We also continue to implore the public to support this
investigation and come forward with any information.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
We are truly hopeful that this.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Video and new photos will lead to even more tips
we are processing. We have an incredible team, a state
and federal team working together to process those tips. We
are going out in tandem to interview any potential person
of interest or suspects. But we need again, we need
as many as much help as we can possibly get.
Any videos or photos that you might have the public
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should be submitted to our digital media tip line, which
is www dot FBI dot gov. Forward slash Utah Valley
shooting all lowercase. Again, that is FBI dot gov forward
slash Utah Valley shooting all lowercase. You can also provide
general tips about the shooting by calling one eight hundred
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call FBI, that's one eight hundred c a l L FBI,
or at tips dot FBI dot gov. This is I
would just say, this is not just so local matter
here in Utah. We have people all over the country
that are helping to bring this perpetrator to justice for
Charlie Kirk and his family.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And we'll just add as.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well that as was mentioned, there is there is a
lot of forensic evidence that is being processed right now
at both the State Lab and the and federal labs
and Federal Lab in on the East Coast, so we
are working in tandem together. I would also just add
a word of note for for those for those people
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who are spending so much time on social media. I
think Charlie said it best that when when things get bad,
we should put our phones down and spend a little
time with our families. There is a tremendous amount of disinformation.
We are tracking our our team, the State team, and
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I'm sure the federal team as well. What we're seeing
is our adversaries want violence.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
China.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
We have bots from Russia, China all over the world
that are trying to instill disinformation and encourage violence. I
would encourage you to ignore those, to turn off those streams,
and to spend a little more time with our families.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
We desperately need some healing.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We'll have more to say about that in the days
and weeks to come. More than anything, we are going
to catch this person. Last thing I will just say
is we've been working with our attorneys getting everything that
we need affidavits ready so that we can pursue the
death penalty in this case, and that will happen here.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
In the state of Utah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Again, to the public, to those who are grieving, thank
you for your prayers. I know we are feeling those prayers.
I know the Kirk family is feeling those prayers as well.
We pray that God will bless our nation at this
very dark time. We can start healing by finding this
perpetrator and holding him accountable, and we need your help
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to do that.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We will obviously keep you updated here on any breaking
news that we get as soon as we get it.
I want to finally just also let you know what
the President's mindset is right now. A reporter asked the
President today, are you concerned for your own safety? It
is the question that I and anyone else as a
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conservative in this movement, are asking themselves about our own
safety right now. Every one of us has been rattled
by this, and every one of us is saying the
same thing. Are we safe. How do we make sure
that we are safe as possible? The President asked the
same question, Are you concerned about your own safety? And
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I want you to hear what the President said.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Not really.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
I'm really concerned for our country.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
We have a great country.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
We have a i'd a left group.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Of lunatics out there, just absolute lunatics, and we're going to.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Get that problem solved.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm only concerned for the country. I'm only concerned for
the country. I'm not really concerned about my own safety.
That is the embodiment of a man that is clearly
going to carry on the legacy of Charlie Kirk and
a man that he is going to honor as well.
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for you on what is happening with the manhunt uh
for the assassin of Charliekirk. The FBI has released a
person of interest picture. It is up on social media.
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I have stuck it on all of my social media
pages seeking the public's help and locating and finding this individual.
The FBI office in Salt Lake City released the photo
of the person of interest in connection with the Charliekirk
assassination and made it very simple. If you know who
this person is, they want you to call the eight
hundred call FBI in line. It's literally one eight hundred
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call FBI. They also have digital media tips as well
at FBI dot gov slash Utah Valley shooting and you
can do that there again. If you see this person,
go oh my gosh, I know who it is. They
are asking for your help. What we also know is
that the Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Mo Mason
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spoke at the press conference instead the shooter appears to
be of college age. He stressed that authorities worked through
the night and we're able to find photos and videos
of the suspect on various cameras. They during the same
press conference, the FBI Special Agent in charge know that
law enforcement had recovered the rifle which they believe was
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used to shoot Charlie Kirk. They described the rifle as
a bolt action rifle, meaning that you use a bolt
and it's one round in and you click it, and
they found it in a wooded area. There's also a
new report as we speak right now from the Wall
Street Journal suggesting that the ammunition found not only in
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the chamber apparently of the rifle, but also on the rifle.
Believe the assassin used words that were engraved with transgender messages.
Now you may ask yourself a question. Why is that significant, Well,
Charlie was actually shot when he was answering a question
on transgender shooters, and so there is a real connection there.
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We are also hearing from world leaders, not just President
Donald Trump, who has spoken out about this, and the
Vice President also is going to Utah and going to
be picking up the family of Charlie Kirk, his wife
and children and relatives and taking Charlie's casket back to Arizona.
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We've learned that, but there are leaders around the world
now now that are talking about what happened to Charlie Kirk.
One of those is the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nette Yahoo. Now,
Charlie was a protector of Israel. He was very much
like me, where he was proud to be an ally
and to stand with the Jewish people. I wear if
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you see me on TV, I wear a pen that
is the US flag, and it's right next to the
Israeli flag, and I keep wearing it because every time
I'm on TV, it irritates people and the hate and
bigotry comes out. And I want to shine a light
on the standing and the unity that we need to
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have with Israel. And that is absolutely what Charlie Kirk
stood for as well, and net Yahoo was on Newsmax
with Greta Ancestrum. He had actually been on there recently
with her, and I want you to hear what he
had to say about Charlie.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Mister Prime Minister.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Very nice to talk to you against sir, but I
didn't dream that I'd be talking to you so soon
since the last time we spoke.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Well, the circumstances are tragic, and as you can imagine, Greta,
I want to say a farewell to a great human being,
a great friend of Israel, a great champion of Judeo
Christian civilization, and a champion of free speech, free debate, freedom,
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Charlie kirk Is. His loss is terrible and we grieve
for him, for his wife, Erica, for his two beautiful children,
and for the many, many, many people who will not
hear his voice. His legacy, yes, but his unique voice
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that's gone.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
You know, I'm you didn't just read about him. You
actually knew him. He wrote you a very personal letter
in May and I think you just spoke to him recently,
am I right?
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Yes, he did?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You know?
Speaker 8 (22:04):
He wrote me this letter and I think May second
and he says, one of my greatest joys as a
Christian is advocating for Israel and forming alliances to defend
your del Christian civilization. That's in a nutshell, Charlie. And
then I called him a few weeks ago and I said, so, Charlie,
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why didn't you come and visit us? And he said, well,
I'm going to and we were going to fix a date,
and that's not going to take place.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
An emotional benjaminette Yahu there. And I think anyone that
had traded text messages or phone calls with Charlie in
recent days and weeks is just shocked still to the
core by what has happened. I also want to address
a question that's been asked to me a lot and
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in the last twenty four hours, not just by by family,
but friends and also others that I work with, and
that is the real concern over safety for anyone that's
out there doing anything like what Charlie did. There is
very real concern, and there are different things that will
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be done. I will be doing different things things differently
and the way that I move and the way that
I do things and the way that I do TV
appearances because there is a real sense of not fear,
I think reality that they're that the there is a
wing now of the Democratic Party that is in essence
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of terrorist organization, and they will be inspired by what
just happened. The number of people that cheered on the
assassination of Charlie Kirk is poison that is clearly poisoned
well in a way that I don't even think I
realized how bad it was. And I deal with this
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every day every time that I go on TV. The
number of people that write horrible things online is ever
since twenty sixteen, is just constant, Like I kind of
laugh and smirk and just whatever. You've got to have
thic skin to do this. And there's so many others.
But the most shocking part of all of this is
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just the vitriol and the hate and the celebration of
the death of Charlie Kirk. And it's something we need
to talk about. The hate that we are witnessing is
at a level of a cancer that I am still
taken aback by.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I'll give you an example. You may know that the
It's a show that's on Fox TMZ. They always report
big news when it happens, and they get you know,
it's it's like the National Enquirer, but with like fat
pace and more reality. Are the first ones that report
people that die and scandals and sports and all sorts
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of things. And when there's things that happen they're tragic.
There a lot of people go to them TMZ. Yesterday
when Charlie Kirk, when the news was breaking of his death,
the live feed was up and they have now come
out and been forced just publicly shamed. I don't think
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they actually really care. I want to make that clear,
but they've now been forced to apologize because the staff
on the video you can hear erupting into clapping, cheering
and laughter after it was reported that Charlie Kirk was dead.
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The Daily Mail put it this way. TMZ has been
forced to apologize after stafters burst into laughter the moment
Charlie Kirk's death was announced during an unflattering live Now,
to be clear, the people in the room, they didn't know.
I guess that they were going out live. The Entertainment
News out had found itself in hot water while reporting
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on the gory death of the MAGA Firebrand on Wednesday.
While Harvey Levin, the guy Who's famous for TMZ and Charles.
I don't even know what the hell the other guy's
last name is. We're discussing the thirty one year old
Turning Point USA founder assassination. Laughter erupted in the background.
Levin remained stoic as he broke the news to the
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live audience, but viewers were sickened by what they heard
during the live stream quote. Employees were heard cheering, clamping,
and celebrating just thirty seconds before announcing Charlie Kirk's death.
One user on x said they laughed and applauded the
cold blooded murder of a husband and a father on
a public broadcast like it was some kind of sick joke,
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before handing it off to Harvey. Conservative internet person personality
Laura Lumer called the incident disgusting, shameful and dis disgusting
behavior by TMZ. Charlie's a husband, a father. He was
murdering cold blood. The worst part is about these two
individuals who are famous for getting into this type of
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smut and profiting off of other people's worst days in
their lives, is that no one has dropped the show.
TMZ then was forced to put out what I could
call a cover your ass statement. We want to make
it clear that these cheers were a reaction to a
high speed chase happening in California. This was prior to
and not related to, Charlie Kirk's death. By the way,
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I want to make it clear, I don't believe that
that's what they put out. Then TMZ later put out
this video trying to cover themselves.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
We were live streaming all day during this tragedy when
something happened in our office. As we were reporting the
assassination of Charli Arley Kirk, there were some people in
the back room, away from your newsdesk here who were
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watching a car chase and they were laughing. They were clapping,
and you could hear it out here. And we want
to make a couple of things clear. One is that
I know these people and they were not laughing. They
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were not reacting that way about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
They were not They would not work here if they did.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And that being said, we acknowledged that it was horrible
timing and for that we are sorry.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
We apologize. We apologize it.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
You had to hear that, and I get why if
you're watching the stream, you may have felt that that's
what the laughter was about. We assure you it was
not about that, but it was horrible timing. And by
the way, I get it too, and he gets it
because we listened as we we're talking.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
You can go back and look on the stream.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I actually walked off camera to go back and find
out what the hell was going on because it was
inappropriate for the laughter at that time, but no one
was laughing about the Charlie Kirk tragedy.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Nevertheless, we apologize for the way it sounded.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I'm just going to be clear, I don't believe this
for a second. I think this is a cover your
abs moment. I think the timing and the idea that
this was you're covering those two stories same time and
people weren't aware of what was going on is just
completely and utterly insane, and it is really sad. It
(29:42):
also makes me incredibly angry that this is where we
are now, where people are saying things like this and
celebrating it this way. There are people that are also
blaming Donald Trump for Charlie Kirk's death, which is also insanity.
(30:03):
Jim Acosta, former guy at CNN, he had a guest
on his show today, and I want you to hear
what he had to say on Charlie Kirk. Listen to
his words carefully.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Yeah, I mean, there's exploitation going on of his death,
and it's happening on the right, and it's absolutely disgraceful,
and it's sending us down a course where more people
are probably going to get hurt. And I mean that
to me is that's where I kind of held my
breath yesterday. Is that, you know, I think we're now
(30:38):
in a moment and there's not a whole lot you
and I can do about this. Mike, you and I
can talk about this until we're blue in the face
or right in the face or whatever. There's not a
whole hell a lot we can do to stop what
is now I think happening, which is we're going to
be in this eye for an eye moment. People on
the far right are going to use this moment. You
(30:58):
already have the State Department earlier today saying that quote unquote,
foreigners need to watch what they say. And Trump is
talking about retribution. I mean, if you read between the
lines of what he said last night, you know, screwed
Jesse Waters and what he said, you read between the
lines of what Trump said last night. He's talking about
(31:18):
revenge and retribution.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
This is what the newsrooms are filled with. Jim Acosta
is no different than he was when he was at
the White House saying there's exploitation going on of his death.
It's happening on the right and it's absolutely disgraceful. You
guys can't turn it off for five seconds and just
say that this is a horrific tragedy and we should
(31:43):
maybe come together. Instead, you want to use it to
go after conservatives. They weren't done there by the way
his guests said, quote people like Jesse Waters, they don't
give a blank about Charlie Kirk. And then he said,
I'm not going to sugarcoat who Charlie Kirk was. They
(32:03):
are celebrating his death, they are celebrating the shooter. They
are advocating with a rhetoric for more of this to happen,
Which goes back to the point that I said earlier
about some people that reached out to me. There is
(32:25):
a real fear, There is a real concern. There is
a real worry for all of us that do what
we do that this is going to happen again, and
I would say, pray for all of the people that
you know that do this. Pray for all of them
(32:46):
for their safety and their security, because you can hear
in the clips that I just played for you there
is a terrorist group of the Democratic Party that is
wanting more of this to happen, and they're acting like
this is just the beginning and not the end. And
it's sick and it's perverted and it's evil, and we're
(33:10):
witnessing it play out on social media and on TV
as we speak. Hug your kids, Hug your family, Tell
the people around you that you love, that you love them,
and do it often. We'll see you back here tomorrow.
Host
Ben Ferguson
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