September 10, 2025 • 46 mins
Sean covers the tragic news of the shooting of Conservative talk show host Charlie Kirk. This tragedy has hit hard across all political spectrums!
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All right, Thank you, Scott Channon, Thanks to all of
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It is eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn, if
you want to be a part of the program. The
video that I have just watched, it's this is this
is very hard to talk about. Right away, Charlie Kirk
turning point, USA is shot at an event in Utah.
(01:46):
Uh and I just saw a close up video of it,
and it was devastating. It was it looked like he
got shot in his neck and the level of the
amount of blood that was it was like right in
the carotid artery. It was it was I don't even
(02:08):
want to describe it. I've known Charlie for a long time.
He is a great American. He's a He's such a good, kind,
wonderful person. We've had some of the best conversations in
life about what he does and conservatism and media. It's
got We were actually scheduled to get together for dinner
(02:30):
in the very near future. I'm praying we'll start out
this program. If everybody could just say a prayer for Charlie.
What I am seeing online is just devastating, And you know,
our hope is that obviously an event like this, that
he does these events around the country. Even we have
(02:53):
even had conversations about security in the past, and he's
you know, he goes into hostile environments on college campuses.
Wouldn't expect it in Utah necessarily, which is definitely more conservative,
and it's very painful to hear. It is painful to watch.
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It is painful to see, and our prayers are with him.
And I just got off the phone, is you know,
with Jason Chaffits. He was at the event. He'll be calling.
He's on Fox right now, he'll be calling in. As
a matter of fact, let's put up Jason, he was
a witness to this today. Let's put it up on
(03:38):
the Fox coverage.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Of this didn't happen. Charlie has some security in front
of him, but you got the sense that the shot
came kind of straight at him, and I don't think
there would be many vantage points too far away because
he was under an awning. It's a bright sun, a
(04:00):
beautiful summer, you know, end of summer day in Utah,
and I just hope and pray that somehow, someway he
survives this.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Jason, we're just looking at the video of Charlie tossing hats.
It's a gorgeous day. As you just said, huge smile
on his face, which is his usual his usual composure,
and he's getting up onto that stage. This is the
kind of thing and everyone can see it in the
upper hand right hand side of the screen right now
that he does he brings a lot of energy, a
(04:31):
lot of vitality, a lot of very astute conversation and
analysis of the state of the country. And he climbed
up on that stage like he always does and started
taking questions. I just want to give the full statement.
It's a short statement, and I know we're going to
hear more from President Trump as we get more information,
(04:52):
but this is this is the full statement. He said.
We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot.
A great guy from top to bottom. God bless him,
and President Trump knows what it's like to be shot at.
He was the subject of two assassination attempts that were
(05:12):
thankfully averted. One obviously hit his ear, and in this case,
we're seeing something that looks much more serious. I think
is fair to say at this point, as we wait
for more information about how Charlie is doing, you so
give us a sense of this space, Jason. We're there
(05:34):
security checkpoints on the way in here. You know what
was it like in terms of who could get in?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So in that.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Shot, I was standing to Charlie's or off to the right.
I wasn't right next to him, like I said, I
was up on the balcony. I had traded messages with
Charlie prior to the event. I you know, when he
announced he was coming, I was excited, told him we
want to come see him. Then I sent him text saying, hey,
hope I can see afterwards. Our family loves Charlie to
get you know, see them again. Look this is classes
(06:05):
are now back in session. Kids can come and go.
I would say that it's if I had guess, ninety
five percent local students. Like I said, it's our state's
largest university. There were some members that weren't students that
were there, but very few, no security checkpoints. It's a
very open campus. It's very much a commuter campus. Come
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on or. Utah is one of the safest places on
the planet, and so we just don't have these types
of things. We don't have murders, let alone shootings, let
alone something of this magnitude. And like I said, there
was a light police presence. I'm sure I hope there
were some undercover people. Charlie has his own bit of security,
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but not to deal with you know, a couple thousand
people that were there to see Charlie. They had microphone
challenges because there were so many people. They couldn't get
all the volume that they wanted. People are having a
hard time hearing. But I think when this story is
written it, I don't think it was a coincidence that
the shot rang out. When you get a question about
(07:09):
transgender mass shootings, maybe I'll hopefully I'm wrong. People, I'll
probably criticized for jumping to conclusions, but I'm just telling you.
In the thirty minutes or so, I thought, Wow, I
don't think that's a coincidence. But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So Jason Sorry, that's Jason Chase, the chaf It's on
the Fox News channel. He'll be checking in with us
throughout the program today. By the way of any any
of you listening on our affiliate that is out in
Salt Lake City, or any of our affiliates in Utah,
and any of you were at the event, we'd love
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to hear from you. This is not a time, by
the way, for people to call in and be jackasses.
Our prayers are are with Charlie. He's got two young children,
he's been married I think about four or five years.
He loves his family, loves his country. President Trump just
put out as you heard there, we must all pray
(08:07):
for Charlie Kirk who has been shot. A great guy
from top to bottom. God bless him. Joining us now
our friend Rod Arquette, he's with the Rotten Greg Show
on our affiliate out There, weekdays four to seven locally
Talk radio one oh five nine knrs. We've been friends
for a long time.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Rod.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I know you're on the ground there. I know you
probably have talked to a lot of people. We've all
seen most of us that have any access to social
media have seen that close up shot. It is I
am I'm in a status shock right now, and really,
to be honest with you, very upset for Charlie and
his family. It's upsetting to see something like that. I
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know we talk about violence all the time, we read
about violence all the time. We know evil exists, and
then to see it, you know, for to hit home
this closely is very painful.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
It is very painful, Sean, And you know, you look
at that video and you're just done. We just saw
the video a couple of days ago about the attack
in Charlotte, and now we see this today and we
asked ourselves, what on earth is going on? There was
a huge you've seen the video, a huge crowd of
people there who wanted to hear what Charlie said. He
is truly, I think, a pioneer. He has done more,
(09:24):
I think, in many respects throughout this country to reach
out to young people, to hear their concerns, to express
his own conservative values as to what he believes in
and what he thinks this nation should be, and to
have something like this happen. Like I said, there was
a huge ground as a beautiful day here, you know,
and he was doing what he typically does at these events.
He's up in front of a microphone taking questions from people,
(09:46):
and as Jason Chafis was just saying, you know, the
shot came directly in front of him, so you know,
and with this a big campus is the largest in
the state. Is Jason was just saying, you know, there
are a lot of people you can see in the crowd,
people wearing Trump hats, Maga hat supporting him. But also
the media over the last several weeks in this state,
john have been raising questions about him coming here and
(10:09):
raising questions calling him a controversial figure as they do.
And you know, you don't know if that's connected in
any way, but it is shocking just to see what
has happened at Utah Valley University.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
As you said, one of the well, well, what's shocking
a conservative on a college campus. I mean, he's the
founder and CEO of Turning Point USA. It's a nonprofit
and it's dedicated to informing and giving options and information
to young people, rallying, organizing, empowering students to advocate for
principles of freedom, free markets, limited government. You know, if
(10:45):
you look at the impact that Charlie has had, it's massive.
I would argue had a big impact on the twenty
twenty four election. You know, he's been to more than
thirty five hundred high schools and college campuses in all
fifty states. They have over three hundred and fifty full
time I'M staff members. I know he does have security.
Jason even referenced that security was there. But in a
(11:07):
crowd with that size, a couple thousand people at least,
I don't know if you can ever really keep anybody safe.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
Yeah, really easily a couple thousand people. And what a
what a warrior this guy was, you know, going on
these college campuses, and most college campuses tend to be
very liberal and willing to sit down and take questions
and have discussions, and then to have something like this happen.
I mean, it's tragic. This is not what this country
is all about, but unfortunately that's what it's starting to
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turn into. And you're right, he had security. The security
was just I could tell to his right and left.
And for this to happen, it's just it's tragic. And
all we can do is hope for the beans, for
certainly for Charlie and for loving family.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I know he's and he's got two young kids. He's
he's not been married very long. I looked it up.
I think he's been married a little over four years,
four and a half years, somewhere in that area. But
they did have a very big impact. And I know,
you know, I know the people in Utah really really well.
And you know, I remember when you know, the years
that I was part of Stadium of Fire and I
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was the MC multiple years in a row. Then there
are people on the hard left that fought to get
me out and kicked me out and they fired me.
I wouldn't you know? Utah is known as a very
conservative state, and but evil exist everywhere.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Yeah, can I can I correct it? I think someone
referred to this A couple of weeks ago. I heard
on another show someone calling it the bluest red state
in the country. And unfortunately, I think it's kind of
headed in that direction. And we're doing everything weekend to
fight that and to share those conservative values. But things
are changing here Sean, and unfortunately it's an example of
that today, unfortunately, a tragic example.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Well remember I don't know if you remember back in
the day, but when I debated the mayor of Salt
Lake who was a Democrat, what was the name, Rocky whatever?
Speaker 9 (12:56):
And Rocky Anderson, Rocky Anderson.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Right, I went out there became the most watched debate
and I'm like, how did a Democrat get elected as
mayor of Salt Lake City? So what you are saying,
there are pockets of this in every state now. And
one of the things that President Trump has been focusing
on when he discusses crime and the issues of crime,
you know in Chicago and New York City, in LA
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and San Francisco and Chicago all these other places, He's like, Okay,
if you don't want the help and support, and we
saw how effective the help and support was in d C,
then I'll send it to red states that have blue
cities run by blue mayors, democratic mayors. Excuse me, and
they want the help. They're asking for the help. We'll
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give them the help if you don't want it. But
we know that lives can be saved, and policing is
obviously critical. But I don't know how you how you
ever really factor in the element of evil, on the
element of sick twisted ugly. You know people with dark
you know, dark parts of their soul that could do
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something like this. Rod, if you can hang in there.
Michael is in Utah, was at the university, saw what happened. Michael,
thanks for calling in. By the way, if anyone did
witness this, and by the way, please there's not a
time for phone calls. I'm asking you for the sake
of Charlie and his family, and for the sake of
people that are looking for real information. I would just
(14:25):
urge you to please restrain yourself and maybe do a
little bit of introspection and thoughts and prayers. Some of
the comments Linda has been reading online and telling me
about her just atrocious. Michael, thanks for checking in with us.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Hi Sean, Yeah, we're in the UVU parking lot. Right now.
Looks like they have the whole place on lockdown. We've
been in the car for about an hour. Nobody's moving.
We were about three rows up my wife and I.
It was one shot. They shot Charlie right in the neck,
so much blood, and I grabbed my wife and it
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was just a mad dash to get out of there.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I there is a very close up video somebody was
taking and at the moment of impact, I mean it
was like a gusher. I mean the blood came, I
mean just gushing out of his neck and it's a
frightening scene to see it. I can only imagine what
his poor wife is thinking at this moment, knowing the
(15:28):
seriousness of this, this attack against him, and this assassination
attempt against him. And that's why, you know, our prayers
are with him and his family. And uh do you
did you notice if police were able to quickly get
and paramedics if they were there, if were they able
to quickly attend to him.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes, they did.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
In fact, when we were running, we kind of went
the wrong way and we saw the man in custody.
We accidentally went to the police entrance kind of in
the corner of the campus there and they did have
the man.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
This is the older guy with blue the blue shirt. Yes,
that's online.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Yes, that's him.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
We saw, we saw him.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well, you know, at this point, he's believed to be
the shooter. I would imagine that there are eyewitnesses that
will confirm that inn the you know, in the minutes
and hours to come, as we continue our coverage. Michael,
I'm grateful that you called. Thanks for listening to K
and R S. We appreciate it. Back to Rod Ourquet,
I know a lot of a lot of people that
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listened to K and RS out in Utah and listen
to you and listen to me. Big fans of Charlie's
I mean, young people really love them. And this took place,
you know, this Utah Valley University. I mean they had
a very big crowd there.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
Yes, they you know, he was you know, it'd been
it had been talked about for quite some time that
who's coming. As a matter of fact, he was scheduled
to make a second appearance here, John, I think later
this month up at the University of Utah. So you know,
he is very very popular here. As a matter of fact,
I just want to share with you my co host
Ry Hughes just shared the video of Charlie being shot.
(17:12):
That's unbelievable video. I had not seen it as of yet,
and that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You're talking about the close up shot that I'm referring
to shot.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Yeah, yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
If you could stay with us. I do got to
take a quick break here. We'll come back if you're
just joining us. Charlie Kirkishman shot during a Utah Valley
University speech. We don't know his current condition. We do
know President Trump has commented asking the country for prayers.
We'll have more of our coverage as we continue our
prayers with Charlie, his family and you know, hoping for
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his survival and quick recovery.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
Sean Nity.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
All Right, prestations along the Sean Hannity Show Radio network.
Please know that we are going to skip the bottom
of the hour break. If you're just joining us, we
have some very very sad, personal, tragic news. Our friend
Charlie kirk has been shot. He was at an event
at Utah Valley University giving a speech.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
There.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
When you look at the videos that are online, one
in particular that was very close to the shooting, it
is horrible to watch, and our thoughts are many, many
prayers are with him. He's got a young family. He's
been married about four four and a half years. He
has two young children. President Trump writing on truths Social
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We must all pray for Charlie Kirk. He's been shot.
A great guy top to bottom. God bless him. Eric
Trump is with us, he knows him well. He played.
He wanted your father to win in the worst way.
I mean, he was so passionate about everything he did,
going to university after university, hostile environment after hostile environment
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around the country. He did so much to help get
young people involved in the conservative movement. I just all
our prayers and thoughts are with him and his family
right now and praying that he will be okay.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Well, well, we're certainly playing praying for him. There's no
better guy. I've spoken a thousand I mean a thousand
turning point events over the years and other events with him. Sewn.
I remember the first time he came into the Trump organization.
This was in twenty sixteen, you know, kind of mid
campaign cycle, and he had just started, you know, a
couple of years earlier, he had started from his college
dorm room. What is now turning point USA and was
turned into one of the greatest kind of youth movements
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in American history, right right on the back of my
father and make America great again. They were fighting for
the same thing. And he was telling me about all
his plans, how he was growing a campus by campus
and this was before Charlie was a known name, and
he was telling me about it. And I'll never forget
the passion. I mean, I think I was the first
Trump that met him. I'll never forget the passion. The
guy showed me in a small conference room in the
back of our offices. Somebody made the introduction, and man died.
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That guy fight. He fought like hell every single day
for our movement. He fought like hell for this country.
He fought like hell for our thought, you know, for
my father. He fought like hell for a youth that
were being in doctrinated in this country and being just
steered in horrible directions by college campuses. And and by
the way, he built a following. I mean, you look
at the event, and you look at that horrible video
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that you just reference, but you see the love out
there with these these young people who are cheering. They
want to be a part of politics that you know,
they're wearing American flags and they love this country and
they love our nation and they love everything about America.
And you know, I mean, this is this is the
best of the next generation. They're there to see a
guy that they admire or a guy who you represented
the youth of this country, and you know, and then
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some psychopathic you know, you know guy puts a bullet
in his neck, and you know, and Charlie's obviously struggling
for his life right now. It's it's unthinkable. I mean,
it's absolutely unthinkable, and frankly for me and I think
for our entire family, it's deja vous. Back to bult Her,
you know, what was it, you know, less than fourteen
months ago right now, where they tried to do the
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exact same thing to my father. I mean, this is
the radical left, you know, this is what they tried
to do in my father, not once, but multiple times,
including the one at you know, the golf course in
Palm Beach, and you know, it's it's you know, this
is what you get. This is the tolerant left in
this country who just you know, fires rifles to people
in large crowds when when they don't like somebody's voice.
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It's it's it's really unthinkable.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
We've had conversations privately and I'm not going to bring
all of it publicly, but we have talked a lot
about if you are in the public eye and you
are a conservative, you take a strong position and it
can transcend politics. I mean, you have some lunatics on
on either side of the aisle, and in all fairness,
but and you know, unlike the left, we're not going
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to rush, you know, to judgment and say, oh, this
is because of so and so said this, that that's
the game that they play. But you know, you the
reality is and you've experienced it more than others. I
know you're in the process of writing a book. I
don't know when you're going to release the book of
all that you and your family have been through. And
(22:34):
I watched it up close and personal, Eric, and they
wanted to destroy you and your father and your family.
You have a prosecutor and a da running on one
platform to get one man, your father, one family, the
Trump family, one organization, the Trump organization. And it was nobody, nobody,
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nobody said a word on the left. This is this
is just unacceptable. Nobody ever speaks up and says, you
know what, that's not how justice is supposed to work
in America. There's all they knew is they had this rage,
and they justified their rage just because they disagreed with
your father politically. And you know all that you've lived through,
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all that your wife has lived through, all that your
brother has lived through, your brothers, your sister has lived through.
You know Malani has lived through. You guys have been
through hell and back.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Sean, I talk all about this in my book. I
just released it two days ago. It's called Under Siege,
and this is exactly what it is. We are under siege.
I mean, they tried everything they could to destroy our family,
bankrupt us, put us out of business, right, and then
they tried to kill my father multiple times. And look
what they tried to do to Steve Scalice, right, you know,
the majority leader for the House of Representatives, right, I
mean they shot him as well. And now look what
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they did with this unbelievable young guy who had his
entire life ahead of him. We know his wife, we
know his kids. You know, they put a bullet in
this guy's neck. I mean, this is what they're doing,
and you still have joy reading other people out there
are who are saying that the whole Butler thing, you know,
or trying to somehow suggest that the whole Butler thing
is is rigged, was was was a setup, was a
(24:13):
sympathy play. I mean, every single day you hear another
one of these conspiracy theories from these people. I mean,
it's hard to believe it's real, but this is exactly
I mean, this is exactly why I named my book
what I named it, under siege, right, because that's what
they do to us. They put us under siege. They
try and surround us, they try and destroy us. They
try and come after families, They try and come after
influential people. They you know, under under every imaginable scenario, right,
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they'll try and impeach you. They'll try and pull you
off of ballots. They'll leave you know, wage legal law fair,
they'll weaponize DA's, the weaponize you know, ags and states.
You know, they'll silence you. They'll try and strip away
your voice. They'll throw you off of Twitter and next,
you know, and Facebook and Instagram and all the other platforms,
and you know, and then when all of that doesn't
work and when they fail time and time again across
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every district in the country. You know, guess what they
try and do. They resort to physical violence. And you've
seen that. I mean you saw it again, you know
at the golf course where somebody was hiding in a
bush trying to you know, shoot my father with n AK
forty seven. You saw it in Butler, Pennsylvania. You saw
it with Steve, and now you're seeing it with Charlie Kirk.
And I mean, these people will stop it absolutely nothing.
And I know what you're saying. I mean, I never
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like to pre judge who people are and what their
motivations and intentions. But you know, you don't really see it.
On the other side, it feels like over the last
several years that this is very one directional and frankly
as scary as hell.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know, we've had many, many discussions because I've I've
been very upfront with you and I've I've had many
conversations with other family members about your personal safety and security.
And I know that you take you go through great
pains to stay safe and secure. But it's it's horrible.
(25:53):
I mean, it's not like we wake up every day
and thinking, oh, Okay, well I'm gonna target and I'm
I'm going to change my lifestyle. You per certainly you're
not like that. Laura's not like that, your father's not
like that. But you do have to take measures in
this environment, you know, to protect yourself and your family.
And it's just unbelievable. When is the book coming out?
(26:15):
Because I think people really need to know the inside story.
I was talking to you and Laura one night, and
you would describeing you just spend hours, you know, going
over and writing a chapter. You're writing every word yourself,
which is kind of rare for people to write books.
And you were just going through and every single detail
of every single thing you had to live through and
(26:36):
then watch your father live through it. I mean, how
you haven't aged, you know, a thousand years. I don't know.
I really don't.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Well, Sean, my father sent me the ForWord, He did
the whole forward to the book, and he read it
and he sent it to me, Larry fifteen minutes before
this happened. The misks is kind of hard to believe.
And I do I go into I go into the backstory. Butler,
I mean, you know, I've grown up in the competitive
shooting world in my entire life. It's just something that
I know, probably better than anything else in my life.
And I go into a lot of Butler and how
I think it's an absolute travesty that that could possibly happen.
(27:05):
I mean, how does a madman get on a roof
at one hundred and thirty yards? You know, I mean
talk about a failure of the eighth floor of the
Sacred Service and Kimberly Cheetle and and and Dei and
everything that you've been talking about your show.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You mean when she said it was a slope roof,
that's not a slope roof. It was we're gonna put
everybody on the inside, not on the outside perimeter. I mean,
you can't even it's unimaginable, how stupid on.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
That my five at a scale in two seconds. But
the point of everything that I'm saying when I write
about this in in under Stage, I mean, the point
of everything that you know that I'm saying is this
is exactly what these individuals want. I mean, they would
love my father to be Joe Biden. They would love
Charlie Kirk to be Joe Biden. Where he heights in
a basement totally out of sight and totally ineffective. You know,
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the only reason we won is I was on every
stage in Iowa and in South Carolina, and you know,
Nevada and New Hampshire. I was out there in my
bush pits of people no different than the ones that
you just saw Charlie kirk and every single day, and
it was the only way we could communicate our message
to the masses. They want us to be petrified. They
never want us to see the light of day. They
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never want us to go out and stand on stage
and make our voices heard. You know, this is exactly
what these people want, and this is part of them
silencing us. This is part of us being under siege.
This is point in case the book that I just
wrote and that we just published two days ago, exactly this.
This is the see Sean, this is the intent right
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by silence people by any means humanly possible. And it's
freaking tragic. The guy's got young children, he's got a
beautiful wife, he just got married. You know, the guy
would have been one of the great political leaders in
this country for decades to come, and a madman shoots him,
you know, in the middle.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Of I'm praying that he still will be We don't know.
Breiitbart did give an update saying a well connected source
telling Breitbart News that Charlie Kirk is alive at the
hospital receiving you know, a number of blood transfusions. By
the way, the FBI director Cash Mattel, the Attorney General
Pam BONDI report FBI and atf R on the scene,
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you know. And I will tell you I'm not I'm
not gonna really give it any I don't want to
give attention to people that are attention seekers. But the vile, horrible, nasty,
you know, evil messages. I mean, social media is like
a cancer. I mean, these keyboard warriors and the naked
are in their underwear and their basement with anonymity and
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the things that they will say. I don't know if
they think that they're funny. I don't know if they
really experience joy when when somebody gets which gets shot
like this. He's got a family, he's got a young
wife and a young and two young kids. And I
will tell you he's fearless. He was every single event
that that Charlie has done. He goes in the hostile environment,
(29:55):
after hostile environment, after hostile environment, which you often did
as well, would all of us do.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Sure, that's what makes everybody love him, and but look
at look at so many of the people on the
other side. I mean, it was what two years ago
that Kathy Griffin was holding my father's a you know,
an image of my father severed head and posting that
all over the place, right, she was holding it by
the hair, and you know, a cut off image of like,
that's what these people do. They have half of them
promote this violence every single day, and and that's what's
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so scary. I mean, we need composure in this world.
We need young people to go out and voice political
opinions on both sides of the aisle without getting hurt,
without bodily harm. I mean, we're so much better than
this as a country. And it's just hard to believe that,
you know that this is what we're seeing in modern
day politics. There's too many of these again, you know
they're there. I can how four off the top of
my head in the last twenty four months before between
(30:45):
Scalice and my father twice. And obviously you know this
today and it has to stop, Sewan. This is it's
not American and it's just it's it's impossible to believe
that this could possibly be the state of the you know,
the greatest superpower anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You know is you know this, this is you know Charlie.
And Charlie showed incredible courage and bravery by doing all
the events that he's been doing. He's a real patriot.
He I know, he loves you, and he loves your family,
and he loves your dad a lot. When I went
to interview your dad at the White House, I ran
into him. We spend quite a lot of time together.
(31:19):
We converse with each other, text with each other. We're
scheduled to have dinner in the near future, your dad,
if you're just joining us. By the way, Charlie Kirk
Turning Point, USA has been hit with a bullet from
a range as he was beginning his speech at Utah
Valley University. And there is a video of a close
(31:43):
up a close up video of the of the shot
that's hitting him, and it looks like a gusher coming
out of his neck, which scares the living daylights out
of me, because blood is poorn out of you that quickly.
The only if there's any silver lining in it is
that there were a lot of it was a big
law enforcement presence. He did have security. Hopefully there were
(32:04):
paramedics there, people that could do triage, because that's what
he would need in a situation like that. Eric, We
really appreciate your time. Did you say you published the book,
because we're just talking a week and a half ago
that you had finished a chapter.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
We announced the book. It's on pre order right now
on Amazon never where that you buy books, and you
know everything that in New York Times and everybody's going
to do to hold it back, but it's it's amazing
to put my heart and soul into it. But it
speaks directly to where we are right now. When we
watch this about Charlie, it speaks this is what the
siege is all about. This is what the radical left does.
This is what they've done to us, our family and
(32:43):
what they're doing to people and our party, and it's disgusting.
And our heart has to pray for Charlie and his
family because he's got an amazing family.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And well, look at what your dad has been trying
to do. Your dad was able to drop violent you know,
the homicide rate dramatically, all the crime in d C
goes down dramatically. There's ways to restore law and order
and safety and security, which I argue Eric is a
prerequisite if you want to pursue happiness in America. And
(33:11):
here your father is offering to help out violent cities
like Chicago. In the last two weekends, over nearly eighty
people shot and nearly twenty people dead, and all he
gets back in return is anger from a bitter mayor
who's never lifted a finger to stopped the violence, and
an angry want to be president governor do nothing governor
(33:34):
that is angry that your father will do the job
that they themselves won't do. They just don't seem to care.
And I don't understand the mindset Sean.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
My father did in Washington, d C. When no Democrat
has been able to do in an eighty year period
of time. In three weeks, he cleaned up the city,
not only the graffiti, not only the homeless camps, but
literally stopped all murder. I mean, think about in Chicago,
how many how many moms, how many dads, how many brothers,
how many sisters you know lose their sons and daughters
and brothers every single week. Think about the tragic hole.
(34:10):
And you have Pritzker who doesn't give a damn. He
doesn't give a damn as he lives in his mansion,
you know, somewhere in the suburbs. It's so horribly tragic,
and yet my father's saying every single day, Listen, we
can stop the senseless killing. We can stop what just
happened to Charlie. You know, let us do it. Let
us help you. Know, this isn't a Republican issue, this
isn't a democratic issue. Let us come in, let us
help you. We've proven the recipe, we've seen the story,
(34:33):
we've seen this movie and how it works and how
we can be effective. Let us help you. And they
turn it down. They turn it down because of their egos.
They turn it down because they don't want to be embarrassed.
They turn it down because, I mean, it is it's
so tragic. It's it's so sad, and it's so tragic
because every single weekend, when fifteen people die in the
streets of Chicago, ninety nine percent of those deaths are
(34:57):
one hundred percent avoidable. If they just let my father
in there and do what he's done in DC, and
and they don't give a damn. They don't care about
their citizens. They don't care about the you know, the residents.
You know, they care about one thing and that's and
that's power and maintaining positions. And it's it's deeply corrupt,
and it's it's deeply sad. And I don't think this
country is going to stand for it anymore. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
It's time for it to end, as it's got to.
Eric Trump, by the way, and you want to talk
about one family, one man, his father, but also him
and his family, and Don and his family, and Avanka
and his family, and Tiffany and her family, and even
Baron's been attacked. Maloney has been attacked. Under siege is
(35:40):
an understatement anyway, Eric, We appreciate you taking time our
prayers with Charlie at this hour. And I know you
are very close friends with him as I am, and
I think the world of them, and we're just praying
for a speedy recovery, full recovery for him at this moment.
I hope everybody prays for him.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Absolutely. Thanks Sean, all.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Right, my friend, thanks, thank you. All right. We do
have people calling in again. I'm just going to urge,
you know, please if you want to call in the
program and you actually there and you saw something, we
will put you on. This does become a moment in
live radio where people act stupid and pull pranks on
(36:20):
the host. You're not pulling a prank on anybody. An
innocent father of two young children was just shot. I
asked you to please keep that in mind. Isaac in Utah, Isaac,
thanks for checking in with you at the event.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yes, I was there with my daughter.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Tell me what you saw.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
So we were on the balcony probably about twenty twenty
five yards above him, and about twenty minutes into it,
we heard the shot and it just shocked everybody, and
about three seconds later everybody started running or dropping to
the ground. The cops were yelling at us to get
on the ground, so we did, and then about thirty
(37:02):
seconds later we crawled out to some of the hallways
that we could get into to try to get out
of there, and we came outside on the other side
of this building where we saw three cops that were
dragging the suspect out. It looks like they had pulled
(37:24):
his pants down so we couldn't run.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
It was just the older guy in the blue shirt
that's on social media.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yes, it was. Everybody was yelling at him from the sides,
just disgusted. It was just a sick, disgusting feeling with
the whole event.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, I'm sure it's been difficult. Did you see any
like the close up video that was taken by somebody
and it has been posted on social media? Did you
see that from your location or no?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
No, we were behind that. We were above and behind Charlie,
so he was shooting in our direction that we were
just above him, so we didn't see the actual.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
It looked like a couple of thousand, few thousand people
were there, which is typical Charlie's events. He gets a
lot of people to show up, and he's doing a
lot of good. He's done so much good in advancing
conservatism among young people. He's done a phenomenal job, he
really has. And again our prayers for a speedy recovery. Isaac.
Thank you for checking in. We appreciate it. And for
(38:33):
all the people that are out there, I'm sure you're
all pretty shaken up at all of this. John is
in Utah. John, thanks for checking in listening on our
affiliate k NRS. How are you.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
How are you doing, John, I wish I was doing better,
to be very honest, I mean, my heart's in my stomach.
I'm just you know, I'm pretty shaken up by this.
I hate to see he's such a good man now
probably fighting for his life. Based on the video that
I saw.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
I hear you on that. My my seventeen year old
nephew was there. He's someone who really looks up to
Charlie Kirk, like a lot of us, and he was
fairly close to him as he was sitting close and
he's pretty shaken up about it. My dad's ore talking
(39:23):
to him now, trying to calm him down. I mean,
just being in the midst of a shooting and then seeing,
you know, someone who really looks up to being shot.
It just it really upsets me that somebody can be
so insane over politics that they decided to take a
person's life, and then it happens in my own state,
(39:44):
in Salt Lake in Utah, or we're not we're predominantly
red here, and it just upsets me.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
It should. I mean, I'm sure a lot of people
are shaken up, you know. One of the things that
and by the way, for station along the Sean Hannity
Show Radio Network. We will not be taking our usual
break here. We'll take our heartbreak at fifty six fifty two,
leading into the top of the hour. We will continue
our coverage if you're just joining us. Talking Point USA
founder CEO director Charlie Kirk has been shot during a
(40:17):
Utah Valley University speech. The video of the shooting is online.
It is extraordinarily graphic. I'm very angry. I'm reading reports.
Sweet baby James is handing this to me, you know,
some of the things that are you know, And I
ask everybody listening to this program to please pray for
Charlie as he was shot in the neck. The video
(40:41):
is very clear, it was he lost a lot of
blood immediately. It was like a it was shooting out
of his neck, you know. And then I read on Breitbart,
you know. Guest on MSDNC speculates that the assailant may
be a supporter shooting their gun off and celebrates are
(41:01):
they really that that dark and stupid?
Speaker 10 (41:05):
You know?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
And ms DNC's Katie Terror immediately disrespects Kirk by describing
him as a polarizing figure. You can't put aside politics
for five seconds. You know using this, you know, worrying
the Trump administration will use this shooting as a justification.
How long do you want How long do you think
it's going to be until they start blaming guns and
(41:27):
they'll race to that anyway, Oh you have the tape,
play it.
Speaker 8 (41:31):
Charlie Kirk is a divisive figure, polarizing, lightning rob whatever
term you want to use.
Speaker 11 (41:36):
Why Well, he's one of maga's most prominent voices online.
He hosts in Your Daily podcast. He opines on almost everything.
He's been very closely aligned with the president since his
initial run for office in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, and
his ties to Trump really elevated his own brand. He
was really quite young as an activist when the president
(41:57):
launched his initial campaign, and he has kind of written
along with MAGA since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
As we were just.
Speaker 8 (42:04):
Talking about a moment ago with with Allan after one
of the DOGE employees, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Want to I really don't want to hear any more
of this. It's honestly, it's it's so callous, heartless soulss.
Speaker 7 (42:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
One of the things I've been saying about the Democratic Party,
Remember they wouldn't stand for Lake and Riley's family or
not Joscelyn Nungary's family. Is they lost their heart, their conscience,
and their soul. I mean, if a young, you know,
outspoken liberal that goes on college campus has got shot today,
I'd be saying our prayers are with them, not that hard.
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Tyler is in Utah listening on K and RS. What's up, Tyler?
If were you at the.
Speaker 12 (42:46):
Event, Hi, yeah, I was. I was a little bit closer,
was pretty close to the tent. You know, I was there.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Tell us what you saw.
Speaker 12 (42:59):
Me and my dad were to I was actually supposed
to go by myself, so I'm really really glad that
my dad was with me. They didn't do any kind
of security checks, nothing at all. There was no ambulances
on site. There was I only saw two or three
cops at best. But there were thousands of plump, thousands
of people. And Charlie had only gotten to his second question,
like he had just started, you know, his performance. So
(43:23):
he got into a second question and right before he
went to answer second question, put his mic down and
he was wearing a white shirt and he just kind
of fell forward and he blood absolutely everywhere, and you know,
people were laying on the ground room and was freaking out,
and my dad was laying on top of somebody. Someone
was laying on top of me. And after a couple
of minute ites everyone just kind of started screaming and
(43:44):
running and leaving as fast as they could, and I
think they just carried Charlie to his car and he
was just bleeding out pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Were there people that Did you see anybody that looked
like a paramedic that was able to get to him?
Speaker 12 (43:58):
No? No, it looked like it was his own staff
that picked him up and carried him out. There were
no paramedics inside that I saw. I saw one or
two police officers at matt There was no There was
barely any security whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
But the blood was really really gushing out of his neck.
That Did you see anybody put any type of pressure
on that neck?
Speaker 12 (44:19):
Absolutely no. He kind of fell forward. It almost looks
like it hit his spine where he couldn't sit up,
so he fell forward and then quickly fell off of
his chair and the blood was just just everywhere, all
over him, all over the floors, absolutely everywhere, and then
carried him out. I looked like his own team carried
him out as quick as possible.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I know, Tyler, I can hear the emotion in your voice.
It's not something a young woman like yourself should have
to live through it and have to witness. We do
appreciate you sharing what you saw with our audience. So
praying for Charlie, Praying for you and your dad, and
I'm glad your dad was there with you as well.
Really really tough Dakota in Missouri, Dakota. We got about
(45:01):
a minute. It's all yours.
Speaker 10 (45:05):
Hey, Sean, a long time listener, first time caller. But
this is about, uh, this is going to be about Charlie.
I'd just like to share some prayer and words of
faith over the whole situation above being a activist for
the conservative movement, he was a man of God, he's
(45:26):
a man of faith, he's a father, he's a husband,
and he's impacted a lot of lives in a very
positive manner. And I would just pray that God would
guide the hands of the doctors and the emergency responders,
everybody involved, that they would give them the wisdom, the knowledge,
the skill to do what's needed to protect his life
(45:50):
and bring him back home to his wife and his kids,
and that he would be able to rise up from
this and continue to continue to be an impactful, positive
movement for God and Christianity and the values they're within.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
And of course it's really really, really really thoughtful and timely,
and all our prayers are with him and his wife,
his family, the doctors that are obviously working on him now,
and we're praying for his very survival at this hour.
We'll have more on this developing story. Charlie Kirk shot
in Utah next
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Speaker 1 (01:20):
All right, Thank you, Scott Channon, Thanks to all of
you for being with us. Right down our toll free number.
It is eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn, if
you want to be a part of the program. The
video that I have just watched, it's this is this
is very hard to talk about. Right away, Charlie Kirk
turning point, USA is shot at an event in Utah.
(01:46):
Uh and I just saw a close up video of it,
and it was devastating. It was it looked like he
got shot in his neck and the level of the
amount of blood that was it was like right in
the carotid artery. It was it was I don't even
(02:08):
want to describe it. I've known Charlie for a long time.
He is a great American. He's a He's such a good, kind,
wonderful person. We've had some of the best conversations in
life about what he does and conservatism and media. It's
got We were actually scheduled to get together for dinner
(02:30):
in the very near future. I'm praying we'll start out
this program. If everybody could just say a prayer for Charlie.
What I am seeing online is just devastating, And you know,
our hope is that obviously an event like this, that
he does these events around the country. Even we have
(02:53):
even had conversations about security in the past, and he's
you know, he goes into hostile environments on college campuses.
Wouldn't expect it in Utah necessarily, which is definitely more conservative,
and it's very painful to hear. It is painful to watch.
(03:18):
It is painful to see, and our prayers are with him.
And I just got off the phone, is you know,
with Jason Chaffits. He was at the event. He'll be calling.
He's on Fox right now, he'll be calling in. As
a matter of fact, let's put up Jason, he was
a witness to this today. Let's put it up on
(03:38):
the Fox coverage.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Of this didn't happen. Charlie has some security in front
of him, but you got the sense that the shot
came kind of straight at him, and I don't think
there would be many vantage points too far away because
he was under an awning. It's a bright sun, a
(04:00):
beautiful summer, you know, end of summer day in Utah,
and I just hope and pray that somehow, someway he
survives this.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Jason, we're just looking at the video of Charlie tossing hats.
It's a gorgeous day. As you just said, huge smile
on his face, which is his usual his usual composure,
and he's getting up onto that stage. This is the
kind of thing and everyone can see it in the
upper hand right hand side of the screen right now
that he does he brings a lot of energy, a
(04:31):
lot of vitality, a lot of very astute conversation and
analysis of the state of the country. And he climbed
up on that stage like he always does and started
taking questions. I just want to give the full statement.
It's a short statement, and I know we're going to
hear more from President Trump as we get more information,
(04:52):
but this is this is the full statement. He said.
We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot.
A great guy from top to bottom. God bless him,
and President Trump knows what it's like to be shot at.
He was the subject of two assassination attempts that were
(05:12):
thankfully averted. One obviously hit his ear, and in this case,
we're seeing something that looks much more serious. I think
is fair to say at this point, as we wait
for more information about how Charlie is doing, you so
give us a sense of this space, Jason. We're there
(05:34):
security checkpoints on the way in here. You know what
was it like in terms of who could get in?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So in that.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Shot, I was standing to Charlie's or off to the right.
I wasn't right next to him, like I said, I
was up on the balcony. I had traded messages with
Charlie prior to the event. I you know, when he
announced he was coming, I was excited, told him we
want to come see him. Then I sent him text saying, hey,
hope I can see afterwards. Our family loves Charlie to
get you know, see them again. Look this is classes
(06:05):
are now back in session. Kids can come and go.
I would say that it's if I had guess, ninety
five percent local students. Like I said, it's our state's
largest university. There were some members that weren't students that
were there, but very few, no security checkpoints. It's a
very open campus. It's very much a commuter campus. Come
(06:28):
on or. Utah is one of the safest places on
the planet, and so we just don't have these types
of things. We don't have murders, let alone shootings, let
alone something of this magnitude. And like I said, there
was a light police presence. I'm sure I hope there
were some undercover people. Charlie has his own bit of security,
(06:49):
but not to deal with you know, a couple thousand
people that were there to see Charlie. They had microphone
challenges because there were so many people. They couldn't get
all the volume that they wanted. People are having a
hard time hearing. But I think when this story is
written it, I don't think it was a coincidence that
the shot rang out. When you get a question about
(07:09):
transgender mass shootings, maybe I'll hopefully I'm wrong. People, I'll
probably criticized for jumping to conclusions, but I'm just telling you.
In the thirty minutes or so, I thought, Wow, I
don't think that's a coincidence. But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So Jason Sorry, that's Jason Chase, the chaf It's on
the Fox News channel. He'll be checking in with us
throughout the program today. By the way of any any
of you listening on our affiliate that is out in
Salt Lake City, or any of our affiliates in Utah,
and any of you were at the event, we'd love
(07:45):
to hear from you. This is not a time, by
the way, for people to call in and be jackasses.
Our prayers are are with Charlie. He's got two young children,
he's been married I think about four or five years.
He loves his family, loves his country. President Trump just
put out as you heard there, we must all pray
(08:07):
for Charlie Kirk who has been shot. A great guy
from top to bottom. God bless him. Joining us now
our friend Rod Arquette, he's with the Rotten Greg Show
on our affiliate out There, weekdays four to seven locally
Talk radio one oh five nine knrs. We've been friends
for a long time.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Rod.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I know you're on the ground there. I know you
probably have talked to a lot of people. We've all
seen most of us that have any access to social
media have seen that close up shot. It is I
am I'm in a status shock right now, and really,
to be honest with you, very upset for Charlie and
his family. It's upsetting to see something like that. I
(08:51):
know we talk about violence all the time, we read
about violence all the time. We know evil exists, and
then to see it, you know, for to hit home
this closely is very painful.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
It is very painful, Sean, And you know, you look
at that video and you're just done. We just saw
the video a couple of days ago about the attack
in Charlotte, and now we see this today and we
asked ourselves, what on earth is going on? There was
a huge you've seen the video, a huge crowd of
people there who wanted to hear what Charlie said. He
is truly, I think, a pioneer. He has done more,
(09:24):
I think, in many respects throughout this country to reach
out to young people, to hear their concerns, to express
his own conservative values as to what he believes in
and what he thinks this nation should be, and to
have something like this happen. Like I said, there was
a huge ground as a beautiful day here, you know,
and he was doing what he typically does at these events.
He's up in front of a microphone taking questions from people,
(09:46):
and as Jason Chafis was just saying, you know, the
shot came directly in front of him, so you know,
and with this a big campus is the largest in
the state. Is Jason was just saying, you know, there
are a lot of people you can see in the crowd,
people wearing Trump hats, Maga hat supporting him. But also
the media over the last several weeks in this state,
john have been raising questions about him coming here and
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raising questions calling him a controversial figure as they do.
And you know, you don't know if that's connected in
any way, but it is shocking just to see what
has happened at Utah Valley University.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
As you said, one of the well, well, what's shocking
a conservative on a college campus. I mean, he's the
founder and CEO of Turning Point USA. It's a nonprofit
and it's dedicated to informing and giving options and information
to young people, rallying, organizing, empowering students to advocate for
principles of freedom, free markets, limited government. You know, if
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you look at the impact that Charlie has had, it's massive.
I would argue had a big impact on the twenty
twenty four election. You know, he's been to more than
thirty five hundred high schools and college campuses in all
fifty states. They have over three hundred and fifty full
time I'M staff members. I know he does have security.
Jason even referenced that security was there. But in a
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crowd with that size, a couple thousand people at least,
I don't know if you can ever really keep anybody safe.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
Yeah, really easily a couple thousand people. And what a
what a warrior this guy was, you know, going on
these college campuses, and most college campuses tend to be
very liberal and willing to sit down and take questions
and have discussions, and then to have something like this happen.
I mean, it's tragic. This is not what this country
is all about, but unfortunately that's what it's starting to
(11:35):
turn into. And you're right, he had security. The security
was just I could tell to his right and left.
And for this to happen, it's just it's tragic. And
all we can do is hope for the beans, for
certainly for Charlie and for loving family.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I know he's and he's got two young kids. He's
he's not been married very long. I looked it up.
I think he's been married a little over four years,
four and a half years, somewhere in that area. But
they did have a very big impact. And I know,
you know, I know the people in Utah really really well.
And you know, I remember when you know, the years
that I was part of Stadium of Fire and I
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was the MC multiple years in a row. Then there
are people on the hard left that fought to get
me out and kicked me out and they fired me.
I wouldn't you know? Utah is known as a very
conservative state, and but evil exist everywhere.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Yeah, can I can I correct it? I think someone
referred to this A couple of weeks ago. I heard
on another show someone calling it the bluest red state
in the country. And unfortunately, I think it's kind of
headed in that direction. And we're doing everything weekend to
fight that and to share those conservative values. But things
are changing here Sean, and unfortunately it's an example of
that today, unfortunately, a tragic example.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Well remember I don't know if you remember back in
the day, but when I debated the mayor of Salt
Lake who was a Democrat, what was the name, Rocky whatever?
Speaker 9 (12:56):
And Rocky Anderson, Rocky Anderson.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Right, I went out there became the most watched debate
and I'm like, how did a Democrat get elected as
mayor of Salt Lake City? So what you are saying,
there are pockets of this in every state now. And
one of the things that President Trump has been focusing
on when he discusses crime and the issues of crime,
you know in Chicago and New York City, in LA
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and San Francisco and Chicago all these other places, He's like, Okay,
if you don't want the help and support, and we
saw how effective the help and support was in d C,
then I'll send it to red states that have blue
cities run by blue mayors, democratic mayors. Excuse me, and
they want the help. They're asking for the help. We'll
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give them the help if you don't want it. But
we know that lives can be saved, and policing is
obviously critical. But I don't know how you how you
ever really factor in the element of evil, on the
element of sick twisted ugly. You know people with dark
you know, dark parts of their soul that could do
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something like this. Rod, if you can hang in there.
Michael is in Utah, was at the university, saw what happened. Michael,
thanks for calling in. By the way, if anyone did
witness this, and by the way, please there's not a
time for phone calls. I'm asking you for the sake
of Charlie and his family, and for the sake of
people that are looking for real information. I would just
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urge you to please restrain yourself and maybe do a
little bit of introspection and thoughts and prayers. Some of
the comments Linda has been reading online and telling me
about her just atrocious. Michael, thanks for checking in with us.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Hi Sean, Yeah, we're in the UVU parking lot. Right now.
Looks like they have the whole place on lockdown. We've
been in the car for about an hour. Nobody's moving.
We were about three rows up my wife and I.
It was one shot. They shot Charlie right in the neck,
so much blood, and I grabbed my wife and it
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was just a mad dash to get out of there.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I there is a very close up video somebody was
taking and at the moment of impact, I mean it
was like a gusher. I mean the blood came, I
mean just gushing out of his neck and it's a
frightening scene to see it. I can only imagine what
his poor wife is thinking at this moment, knowing the
(15:28):
seriousness of this, this attack against him, and this assassination
attempt against him. And that's why, you know, our prayers
are with him and his family. And uh do you
did you notice if police were able to quickly get
and paramedics if they were there, if were they able
to quickly attend to him.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes, they did.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
In fact, when we were running, we kind of went
the wrong way and we saw the man in custody.
We accidentally went to the police entrance kind of in
the corner of the campus there and they did have
the man.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
This is the older guy with blue the blue shirt. Yes,
that's online.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Yes, that's him.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
We saw, we saw him.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well, you know, at this point, he's believed to be
the shooter. I would imagine that there are eyewitnesses that
will confirm that inn the you know, in the minutes
and hours to come, as we continue our coverage. Michael,
I'm grateful that you called. Thanks for listening to K
and R S. We appreciate it. Back to Rod Ourquet,
I know a lot of a lot of people that
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listened to K and RS out in Utah and listen
to you and listen to me. Big fans of Charlie's
I mean, young people really love them. And this took place,
you know, this Utah Valley University. I mean they had
a very big crowd there.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
Yes, they you know, he was you know, it'd been
it had been talked about for quite some time that
who's coming. As a matter of fact, he was scheduled
to make a second appearance here, John, I think later
this month up at the University of Utah. So you know,
he is very very popular here. As a matter of fact,
I just want to share with you my co host
Ry Hughes just shared the video of Charlie being shot.
(17:12):
That's unbelievable video. I had not seen it as of yet,
and that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You're talking about the close up shot that I'm referring
to shot.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Yeah, yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
If you could stay with us. I do got to
take a quick break here. We'll come back if you're
just joining us. Charlie Kirkishman shot during a Utah Valley
University speech. We don't know his current condition. We do
know President Trump has commented asking the country for prayers.
We'll have more of our coverage as we continue our
prayers with Charlie, his family and you know, hoping for
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his survival and quick recovery.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
Sean Nity.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
All Right, prestations along the Sean Hannity Show Radio network.
Please know that we are going to skip the bottom
of the hour break. If you're just joining us, we
have some very very sad, personal, tragic news. Our friend
Charlie kirk has been shot. He was at an event
at Utah Valley University giving a speech.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
There.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
When you look at the videos that are online, one
in particular that was very close to the shooting, it
is horrible to watch, and our thoughts are many, many
prayers are with him. He's got a young family. He's
been married about four four and a half years. He
has two young children. President Trump writing on truths Social
(19:01):
We must all pray for Charlie Kirk. He's been shot.
A great guy top to bottom. God bless him. Eric
Trump is with us, he knows him well. He played.
He wanted your father to win in the worst way.
I mean, he was so passionate about everything he did,
going to university after university, hostile environment after hostile environment
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around the country. He did so much to help get
young people involved in the conservative movement. I just all
our prayers and thoughts are with him and his family
right now and praying that he will be okay.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Well, well, we're certainly playing praying for him. There's no
better guy. I've spoken a thousand I mean a thousand
turning point events over the years and other events with him. Sewn.
I remember the first time he came into the Trump organization.
This was in twenty sixteen, you know, kind of mid
campaign cycle, and he had just started, you know, a
couple of years earlier, he had started from his college
dorm room. What is now turning point USA and was
turned into one of the greatest kind of youth movements
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in American history, right right on the back of my
father and make America great again. They were fighting for
the same thing. And he was telling me about all
his plans, how he was growing a campus by campus
and this was before Charlie was a known name, and
he was telling me about it. And I'll never forget
the passion. I mean, I think I was the first
Trump that met him. I'll never forget the passion. The
guy showed me in a small conference room in the
back of our offices. Somebody made the introduction, and man died.
(20:22):
That guy fight. He fought like hell every single day
for our movement. He fought like hell for this country.
He fought like hell for our thought, you know, for
my father. He fought like hell for a youth that
were being in doctrinated in this country and being just
steered in horrible directions by college campuses. And and by
the way, he built a following. I mean, you look
at the event, and you look at that horrible video
(20:43):
that you just reference, but you see the love out
there with these these young people who are cheering. They
want to be a part of politics that you know,
they're wearing American flags and they love this country and
they love our nation and they love everything about America.
And you know, I mean, this is this is the
best of the next generation. They're there to see a
guy that they admire or a guy who you represented
the youth of this country, and you know, and then
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some psychopathic you know, you know guy puts a bullet
in his neck, and you know, and Charlie's obviously struggling
for his life right now. It's it's unthinkable. I mean,
it's absolutely unthinkable, and frankly for me and I think
for our entire family, it's deja vous. Back to bult Her,
you know, what was it, you know, less than fourteen
months ago right now, where they tried to do the
(21:24):
exact same thing to my father. I mean, this is
the radical left, you know, this is what they tried
to do in my father, not once, but multiple times,
including the one at you know, the golf course in
Palm Beach, and you know, it's it's you know, this
is what you get. This is the tolerant left in
this country who just you know, fires rifles to people
in large crowds when when they don't like somebody's voice.
(21:46):
It's it's it's really unthinkable.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
We've had conversations privately and I'm not going to bring
all of it publicly, but we have talked a lot
about if you are in the public eye and you
are a conservative, you take a strong position and it
can transcend politics. I mean, you have some lunatics on
on either side of the aisle, and in all fairness,
but and you know, unlike the left, we're not going
(22:12):
to rush, you know, to judgment and say, oh, this
is because of so and so said this, that that's
the game that they play. But you know, you the
reality is and you've experienced it more than others. I
know you're in the process of writing a book. I
don't know when you're going to release the book of
all that you and your family have been through. And
(22:34):
I watched it up close and personal, Eric, and they
wanted to destroy you and your father and your family.
You have a prosecutor and a da running on one
platform to get one man, your father, one family, the
Trump family, one organization, the Trump organization. And it was nobody, nobody,
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nobody said a word on the left. This is this
is just unacceptable. Nobody ever speaks up and says, you
know what, that's not how justice is supposed to work
in America. There's all they knew is they had this rage,
and they justified their rage just because they disagreed with
your father politically. And you know all that you've lived through,
(23:19):
all that your wife has lived through, all that your
brother has lived through, your brothers, your sister has lived through.
You know Malani has lived through. You guys have been
through hell and back.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Sean, I talk all about this in my book. I
just released it two days ago. It's called Under Siege,
and this is exactly what it is. We are under siege.
I mean, they tried everything they could to destroy our family,
bankrupt us, put us out of business, right, and then
they tried to kill my father multiple times. And look
what they tried to do to Steve Scalice, right, you know,
the majority leader for the House of Representatives, right, I
mean they shot him as well. And now look what
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they did with this unbelievable young guy who had his
entire life ahead of him. We know his wife, we
know his kids. You know, they put a bullet in
this guy's neck. I mean, this is what they're doing,
and you still have joy reading other people out there
are who are saying that the whole Butler thing, you know,
or trying to somehow suggest that the whole Butler thing
is is rigged, was was was a setup, was a
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sympathy play. I mean, every single day you hear another
one of these conspiracy theories from these people. I mean,
it's hard to believe it's real, but this is exactly
I mean, this is exactly why I named my book
what I named it, under siege, right, because that's what
they do to us. They put us under siege. They
try and surround us, they try and destroy us. They
try and come after families, They try and come after
influential people. They you know, under under every imaginable scenario, right,
(24:37):
they'll try and impeach you. They'll try and pull you
off of ballots. They'll leave you know, wage legal law fair,
they'll weaponize DA's, the weaponize you know, ags and states.
You know, they'll silence you. They'll try and strip away
your voice. They'll throw you off of Twitter and next,
you know, and Facebook and Instagram and all the other platforms,
and you know, and then when all of that doesn't
work and when they fail time and time again across
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every district in the country. You know, guess what they
try and do. They resort to physical violence. And you've
seen that. I mean you saw it again, you know
at the golf course where somebody was hiding in a
bush trying to you know, shoot my father with n AK
forty seven. You saw it in Butler, Pennsylvania. You saw
it with Steve, and now you're seeing it with Charlie Kirk.
And I mean, these people will stop it absolutely nothing.
And I know what you're saying. I mean, I never
(25:20):
like to pre judge who people are and what their
motivations and intentions. But you know, you don't really see it.
On the other side, it feels like over the last
several years that this is very one directional and frankly
as scary as hell.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know, we've had many, many discussions because I've I've
been very upfront with you and I've I've had many
conversations with other family members about your personal safety and security.
And I know that you take you go through great
pains to stay safe and secure. But it's it's horrible.
(25:53):
I mean, it's not like we wake up every day
and thinking, oh, Okay, well I'm gonna target and I'm
I'm going to change my lifestyle. You per certainly you're
not like that. Laura's not like that, your father's not
like that. But you do have to take measures in
this environment, you know, to protect yourself and your family.
And it's just unbelievable. When is the book coming out?
(26:15):
Because I think people really need to know the inside story.
I was talking to you and Laura one night, and
you would describeing you just spend hours, you know, going
over and writing a chapter. You're writing every word yourself,
which is kind of rare for people to write books.
And you were just going through and every single detail
of every single thing you had to live through and
(26:36):
then watch your father live through it. I mean, how
you haven't aged, you know, a thousand years. I don't know.
I really don't.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Well, Sean, my father sent me the ForWord, He did
the whole forward to the book, and he read it
and he sent it to me, Larry fifteen minutes before
this happened. The misks is kind of hard to believe.
And I do I go into I go into the backstory. Butler,
I mean, you know, I've grown up in the competitive
shooting world in my entire life. It's just something that
I know, probably better than anything else in my life.
And I go into a lot of Butler and how
I think it's an absolute travesty that that could possibly happen.
(27:05):
I mean, how does a madman get on a roof
at one hundred and thirty yards? You know, I mean
talk about a failure of the eighth floor of the
Sacred Service and Kimberly Cheetle and and and Dei and
everything that you've been talking about your show.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You mean when she said it was a slope roof,
that's not a slope roof. It was we're gonna put
everybody on the inside, not on the outside perimeter. I mean,
you can't even it's unimaginable, how stupid on.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
That my five at a scale in two seconds. But
the point of everything that I'm saying when I write
about this in in under Stage, I mean, the point
of everything that you know that I'm saying is this
is exactly what these individuals want. I mean, they would
love my father to be Joe Biden. They would love
Charlie Kirk to be Joe Biden. Where he heights in
a basement totally out of sight and totally ineffective. You know,
(27:49):
the only reason we won is I was on every
stage in Iowa and in South Carolina, and you know,
Nevada and New Hampshire. I was out there in my
bush pits of people no different than the ones that
you just saw Charlie kirk and every single day, and
it was the only way we could communicate our message
to the masses. They want us to be petrified. They
never want us to see the light of day. They
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never want us to go out and stand on stage
and make our voices heard. You know, this is exactly
what these people want, and this is part of them
silencing us. This is part of us being under siege.
This is point in case the book that I just
wrote and that we just published two days ago, exactly this.
This is the see Sean, this is the intent right
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by silence people by any means humanly possible. And it's
freaking tragic. The guy's got young children, he's got a
beautiful wife, he just got married. You know, the guy
would have been one of the great political leaders in
this country for decades to come, and a madman shoots him,
you know, in the middle.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Of I'm praying that he still will be We don't know.
Breiitbart did give an update saying a well connected source
telling Breitbart News that Charlie Kirk is alive at the
hospital receiving you know, a number of blood transfusions. By
the way, the FBI director Cash Mattel, the Attorney General
Pam BONDI report FBI and atf R on the scene,
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you know. And I will tell you I'm not I'm
not gonna really give it any I don't want to
give attention to people that are attention seekers. But the vile, horrible, nasty,
you know, evil messages. I mean, social media is like
a cancer. I mean, these keyboard warriors and the naked
are in their underwear and their basement with anonymity and
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the things that they will say. I don't know if
they think that they're funny. I don't know if they
really experience joy when when somebody gets which gets shot
like this. He's got a family, he's got a young
wife and a young and two young kids. And I
will tell you he's fearless. He was every single event
that that Charlie has done. He goes in the hostile environment,
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after hostile environment, after hostile environment, which you often did
as well, would all of us do.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Sure, that's what makes everybody love him, and but look
at look at so many of the people on the
other side. I mean, it was what two years ago
that Kathy Griffin was holding my father's a you know,
an image of my father severed head and posting that
all over the place, right, she was holding it by
the hair, and you know, a cut off image of like,
that's what these people do. They have half of them
promote this violence every single day, and and that's what's
(30:23):
so scary. I mean, we need composure in this world.
We need young people to go out and voice political
opinions on both sides of the aisle without getting hurt,
without bodily harm. I mean, we're so much better than
this as a country. And it's just hard to believe that,
you know that this is what we're seeing in modern
day politics. There's too many of these again, you know
they're there. I can how four off the top of
my head in the last twenty four months before between
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Scalice and my father twice. And obviously you know this
today and it has to stop, Sewan. This is it's
not American and it's just it's it's impossible to believe
that this could possibly be the state of the you know,
the greatest superpower anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You know is you know this, this is you know Charlie.
And Charlie showed incredible courage and bravery by doing all
the events that he's been doing. He's a real patriot.
He I know, he loves you, and he loves your family,
and he loves your dad a lot. When I went
to interview your dad at the White House, I ran
into him. We spend quite a lot of time together.
(31:19):
We converse with each other, text with each other. We're
scheduled to have dinner in the near future, your dad,
if you're just joining us. By the way, Charlie Kirk
Turning Point, USA has been hit with a bullet from
a range as he was beginning his speech at Utah
Valley University. And there is a video of a close
(31:43):
up a close up video of the of the shot
that's hitting him, and it looks like a gusher coming
out of his neck, which scares the living daylights out
of me, because blood is poorn out of you that quickly.
The only if there's any silver lining in it is
that there were a lot of it was a big
law enforcement presence. He did have security. Hopefully there were
(32:04):
paramedics there, people that could do triage, because that's what
he would need in a situation like that. Eric, We
really appreciate your time. Did you say you published the book,
because we're just talking a week and a half ago
that you had finished a chapter.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
We announced the book. It's on pre order right now
on Amazon never where that you buy books, and you
know everything that in New York Times and everybody's going
to do to hold it back, but it's it's amazing
to put my heart and soul into it. But it
speaks directly to where we are right now. When we
watch this about Charlie, it speaks this is what the
siege is all about. This is what the radical left does.
This is what they've done to us, our family and
(32:43):
what they're doing to people and our party, and it's disgusting.
And our heart has to pray for Charlie and his
family because he's got an amazing family.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And well, look at what your dad has been trying
to do. Your dad was able to drop violent you know,
the homicide rate dramatically, all the crime in d C
goes down dramatically. There's ways to restore law and order
and safety and security, which I argue Eric is a
prerequisite if you want to pursue happiness in America. And
(33:11):
here your father is offering to help out violent cities
like Chicago. In the last two weekends, over nearly eighty
people shot and nearly twenty people dead, and all he
gets back in return is anger from a bitter mayor
who's never lifted a finger to stopped the violence, and
an angry want to be president governor do nothing governor
(33:34):
that is angry that your father will do the job
that they themselves won't do. They just don't seem to care.
And I don't understand the mindset Sean.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
My father did in Washington, d C. When no Democrat
has been able to do in an eighty year period
of time. In three weeks, he cleaned up the city,
not only the graffiti, not only the homeless camps, but
literally stopped all murder. I mean, think about in Chicago,
how many how many moms, how many dads, how many brothers,
how many sisters you know lose their sons and daughters
and brothers every single week. Think about the tragic hole.
(34:10):
And you have Pritzker who doesn't give a damn. He
doesn't give a damn as he lives in his mansion,
you know, somewhere in the suburbs. It's so horribly tragic,
and yet my father's saying every single day, Listen, we
can stop the senseless killing. We can stop what just
happened to Charlie. You know, let us do it. Let
us help you. Know, this isn't a Republican issue, this
isn't a democratic issue. Let us come in, let us
help you. We've proven the recipe, we've seen the story,
(34:33):
we've seen this movie and how it works and how
we can be effective. Let us help you. And they
turn it down. They turn it down because of their egos.
They turn it down because they don't want to be embarrassed.
They turn it down because, I mean, it is it's
so tragic. It's it's so sad, and it's so tragic
because every single weekend, when fifteen people die in the
streets of Chicago, ninety nine percent of those deaths are
(34:57):
one hundred percent avoidable. If they just let my father
in there and do what he's done in DC, and
and they don't give a damn. They don't care about
their citizens. They don't care about the you know, the residents.
You know, they care about one thing and that's and
that's power and maintaining positions. And it's it's deeply corrupt,
and it's it's deeply sad. And I don't think this
country is going to stand for it anymore. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
It's time for it to end, as it's got to.
Eric Trump, by the way, and you want to talk
about one family, one man, his father, but also him
and his family, and Don and his family, and Avanka
and his family, and Tiffany and her family, and even
Baron's been attacked. Maloney has been attacked. Under siege is
(35:40):
an understatement anyway, Eric, We appreciate you taking time our
prayers with Charlie at this hour. And I know you
are very close friends with him as I am, and
I think the world of them, and we're just praying
for a speedy recovery, full recovery for him at this moment.
I hope everybody prays for him.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Absolutely. Thanks Sean, all.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Right, my friend, thanks, thank you. All right. We do
have people calling in again. I'm just going to urge,
you know, please if you want to call in the
program and you actually there and you saw something, we
will put you on. This does become a moment in
live radio where people act stupid and pull pranks on
(36:20):
the host. You're not pulling a prank on anybody. An
innocent father of two young children was just shot. I
asked you to please keep that in mind. Isaac in Utah, Isaac,
thanks for checking in with you at the event.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yes, I was there with my daughter.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Tell me what you saw.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
So we were on the balcony probably about twenty twenty
five yards above him, and about twenty minutes into it,
we heard the shot and it just shocked everybody, and
about three seconds later everybody started running or dropping to
the ground. The cops were yelling at us to get
on the ground, so we did, and then about thirty
(37:02):
seconds later we crawled out to some of the hallways
that we could get into to try to get out
of there, and we came outside on the other side
of this building where we saw three cops that were
dragging the suspect out. It looks like they had pulled
(37:24):
his pants down so we couldn't run.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
It was just the older guy in the blue shirt
that's on social media.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yes, it was. Everybody was yelling at him from the sides,
just disgusted. It was just a sick, disgusting feeling with
the whole event.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, I'm sure it's been difficult. Did you see any
like the close up video that was taken by somebody
and it has been posted on social media? Did you
see that from your location or no?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
No, we were behind that. We were above and behind Charlie,
so he was shooting in our direction that we were
just above him, so we didn't see the actual.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
It looked like a couple of thousand, few thousand people
were there, which is typical Charlie's events. He gets a
lot of people to show up, and he's doing a
lot of good. He's done so much good in advancing
conservatism among young people. He's done a phenomenal job, he
really has. And again our prayers for a speedy recovery. Isaac.
Thank you for checking in. We appreciate it. And for
(38:33):
all the people that are out there, I'm sure you're
all pretty shaken up at all of this. John is
in Utah. John, thanks for checking in listening on our
affiliate k NRS. How are you.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
How are you doing, John, I wish I was doing better,
to be very honest, I mean, my heart's in my stomach.
I'm just you know, I'm pretty shaken up by this.
I hate to see he's such a good man now
probably fighting for his life. Based on the video that
I saw.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
I hear you on that. My my seventeen year old
nephew was there. He's someone who really looks up to
Charlie Kirk, like a lot of us, and he was
fairly close to him as he was sitting close and
he's pretty shaken up about it. My dad's ore talking
(39:23):
to him now, trying to calm him down. I mean,
just being in the midst of a shooting and then seeing,
you know, someone who really looks up to being shot.
It just it really upsets me that somebody can be
so insane over politics that they decided to take a
person's life, and then it happens in my own state,
(39:44):
in Salt Lake in Utah, or we're not we're predominantly
red here, and it just upsets me.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
It should. I mean, I'm sure a lot of people
are shaken up, you know. One of the things that
and by the way, for station along the Sean Hannity
Show Radio Network. We will not be taking our usual
break here. We'll take our heartbreak at fifty six fifty two,
leading into the top of the hour. We will continue
our coverage if you're just joining us. Talking Point USA
founder CEO director Charlie Kirk has been shot during a
(40:17):
Utah Valley University speech. The video of the shooting is online.
It is extraordinarily graphic. I'm very angry. I'm reading reports.
Sweet baby James is handing this to me, you know,
some of the things that are you know, And I
ask everybody listening to this program to please pray for
Charlie as he was shot in the neck. The video
(40:41):
is very clear, it was he lost a lot of
blood immediately. It was like a it was shooting out
of his neck, you know. And then I read on Breitbart,
you know. Guest on MSDNC speculates that the assailant may
be a supporter shooting their gun off and celebrates are
(41:01):
they really that that dark and stupid?
Speaker 10 (41:05):
You know?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
And ms DNC's Katie Terror immediately disrespects Kirk by describing
him as a polarizing figure. You can't put aside politics
for five seconds. You know using this, you know, worrying
the Trump administration will use this shooting as a justification.
How long do you want How long do you think
it's going to be until they start blaming guns and
(41:27):
they'll race to that anyway, Oh you have the tape,
play it.
Speaker 8 (41:31):
Charlie Kirk is a divisive figure, polarizing, lightning rob whatever
term you want to use.
Speaker 11 (41:36):
Why Well, he's one of maga's most prominent voices online.
He hosts in Your Daily podcast. He opines on almost everything.
He's been very closely aligned with the president since his
initial run for office in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, and
his ties to Trump really elevated his own brand. He
was really quite young as an activist when the president
(41:57):
launched his initial campaign, and he has kind of written
along with MAGA since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
As we were just.
Speaker 8 (42:04):
Talking about a moment ago with with Allan after one
of the DOGE employees, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Want to I really don't want to hear any more
of this. It's honestly, it's it's so callous, heartless soulss.
Speaker 7 (42:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
One of the things I've been saying about the Democratic Party,
Remember they wouldn't stand for Lake and Riley's family or
not Joscelyn Nungary's family. Is they lost their heart, their conscience,
and their soul. I mean, if a young, you know,
outspoken liberal that goes on college campus has got shot today,
I'd be saying our prayers are with them, not that hard.
(42:41):
Tyler is in Utah listening on K and RS. What's up, Tyler?
If were you at the.
Speaker 12 (42:46):
Event, Hi, yeah, I was. I was a little bit closer,
was pretty close to the tent. You know, I was there.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Tell us what you saw.
Speaker 12 (42:59):
Me and my dad were to I was actually supposed
to go by myself, so I'm really really glad that
my dad was with me. They didn't do any kind
of security checks, nothing at all. There was no ambulances
on site. There was I only saw two or three
cops at best. But there were thousands of plump, thousands
of people. And Charlie had only gotten to his second question,
like he had just started, you know, his performance. So
(43:23):
he got into a second question and right before he
went to answer second question, put his mic down and
he was wearing a white shirt and he just kind
of fell forward and he blood absolutely everywhere, and you know,
people were laying on the ground room and was freaking out,
and my dad was laying on top of somebody. Someone
was laying on top of me. And after a couple
of minute ites everyone just kind of started screaming and
(43:44):
running and leaving as fast as they could, and I
think they just carried Charlie to his car and he
was just bleeding out pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Were there people that Did you see anybody that looked
like a paramedic that was able to get to him?
Speaker 12 (43:58):
No? No, it looked like it was his own staff
that picked him up and carried him out. There were
no paramedics inside that I saw. I saw one or
two police officers at matt There was no There was
barely any security whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
But the blood was really really gushing out of his neck.
That Did you see anybody put any type of pressure
on that neck?
Speaker 12 (44:19):
Absolutely no. He kind of fell forward. It almost looks
like it hit his spine where he couldn't sit up,
so he fell forward and then quickly fell off of
his chair and the blood was just just everywhere, all
over him, all over the floors, absolutely everywhere, and then
carried him out. I looked like his own team carried
him out as quick as possible.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I know, Tyler, I can hear the emotion in your voice.
It's not something a young woman like yourself should have
to live through it and have to witness. We do
appreciate you sharing what you saw with our audience. So
praying for Charlie, Praying for you and your dad, and
I'm glad your dad was there with you as well.
Really really tough Dakota in Missouri, Dakota. We got about
(45:01):
a minute. It's all yours.
Speaker 10 (45:05):
Hey, Sean, a long time listener, first time caller. But
this is about, uh, this is going to be about Charlie.
I'd just like to share some prayer and words of
faith over the whole situation above being a activist for
the conservative movement, he was a man of God, he's
(45:26):
a man of faith, he's a father, he's a husband,
and he's impacted a lot of lives in a very
positive manner. And I would just pray that God would
guide the hands of the doctors and the emergency responders,
everybody involved, that they would give them the wisdom, the knowledge,
the skill to do what's needed to protect his life
(45:50):
and bring him back home to his wife and his kids,
and that he would be able to rise up from
this and continue to continue to be an impactful, positive
movement for God and Christianity and the values they're within.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
And of course it's really really, really really thoughtful and timely,
and all our prayers are with him and his wife,
his family, the doctors that are obviously working on him now,
and we're praying for his very survival at this hour.
We'll have more on this developing story. Charlie Kirk shot
in Utah next
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