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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is John Mount stilling in for JT. And we've
been spending time this morning talking about the events yesterday
in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a man who was
not ashamed to share his beliefs, to share the gospel
and go into the world no matter what it cost him,
and it cost him his life. Donald Trump weighed on
this on Truth Social yesterday. He left a four minute
(00:21):
message I wanted to play not a clip of that,
but the message in its entirety.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Here it is to my great fellow Americans.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous
assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah.
Charlie inspired millions, and tonight all who knew him and
loved him are united in shock and horror. Charlie was
a patriot who devoted his life to the cause of
(00:49):
open debate and the country that he loved so much,
the United States of America. He fought for liberty, democracy, justice,
and the American people martyr for truth and freedom, and
there has never been anyone who was so respected by youth.
Charlie was also a man of deep, deep faith, and
(01:12):
we take comfort in the knowledge that he is now
at peace with God in heaven, with his wife, Erica,
and two young beloved children, and his entire family who
he loved more than anything in the world. We ask
God to watch over them in this terrible hour of
heartache and pain.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This is a dark moment for America.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Charlie Kirk traveled the nation joyfully engaging with everyone interested
in good faith debate. His mission was to bring young
people into the political process, which he did better than
anybody ever, to share his love of country, and to
spread the simple words of common sense on campuses nationwide.
(02:00):
He championed his ideas with courage, logic, humor, and grace.
It's a long past time for all Americans and the
media to confront the fact that violence and murder are
the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree
day after day, year after year, in the most hateful
(02:22):
and despicable way possible. For years, those on the radical
left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and
the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of
rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing
in our country today and it must stop right now.
(02:47):
My administration will find each and every one of those
who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence,
including the organizations that fund it and support it, as
well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials,
and everyone else who brings order to our country. From
(03:07):
the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year,
which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on
ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive
in the streets of New York, to the shooting of
House Majority leaders Steve Scalise and three others. Radical of
political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken
(03:31):
too many lives. Tonight, I asked all Americans to commit
themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived
and died, the values of free speech, citizenship, the rule
of law, and the patriotic devotion and love of God.
Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who
(03:52):
attacked him was attacking our whole country. An assassin tried
to silence him with a bullet, but he failed, because
together we will ensure that his voice, his message, and
his legacy will live on for countless generations to come
today because of this heinous act. Charlie's voice has become
(04:13):
bigger and grander than ever.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Before, and it's not even close.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
May God bless his memory, May God watch over his family,
and may God bless the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That was Donald Trump last night on Truth Social and
he couldn't be more right on We're sharing just like
Charlie Kirk would want. We're sharing this morning how we feel.
And I want to hear from everybody whatever your thoughts
are on this two O five four three nine nine
three seven two or leave us a talkback, Mike. We
have a lot of those coming in right now. Here
(04:47):
is one of those.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
It's wild guy you got on right now, set in
a perimeter and having secret Service didn't do much for
President Trump. But this person the crowd up on that roof.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
First of all, the they posted a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Of guns and for him to crawl up two hundred
yards away or her, whoever the shooter was, they gotta
be pretty well know that they're a pretty good shot,
or they're not gonna crawl up two hundred yards away.
That looks forever away from the victim.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And I think I think you're right there. You're gonna
find out this was not. One of the interesting things
that came out was yesterday in the coverage on MSNBC,
there was there was this, There was this idiot commentator
early on, and these people who get out in front
and say this stuff and Mackenziefe, you pull us up.
This is a cut one. This was somebody on MSNBC
yesterday speculating as to who they thought the shooter was.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
We don't know any of the full details of this
that we don't know if this was a supporter shooting
their gun off in celebration or so, we have no idea.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You can cut that. Yeah, they actually thought this was
a supporter shooting their gun off and celebration of what
This is the idiocy that you get from the from
the mainstream media, from MSNBC, the commentator they put on
to try and analyze the situation. They thought it was
a Charlie Kirk supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.
This was clearly not that which tells you where you
(06:10):
should get your news and where you probably shouldn't. Because
I like to think that we at least give a
little thought to the stuff we present on the air.
We don't just put anyone on to just say the
stupidest thing in the world. As that wasn't it meant
as an expert, not like as a hey, here's here's
a random guy on the street that's supposedly an expert
who's supposed to know stuff. There's a lot of people
with a lot of crazy ideas saying a lot of
(06:30):
crazy things today. And well, we have to kind of
keep our heads about ours and really look at this
thing correctly, because you know, we can't. We can't stop
sharing our things. And I hear others saying things like, well,
you know, he shouldn't have said these things. You know
he was. He was making people mad. So what we're
gonna just like people want to ban the guns, it's
all the guns fault, it's all free speech is fault.
(06:51):
We should get rid of people people's ability to talk.
What we need to do is start arguing with words.
And sometimes when you don't have a good word, you
don't have a good argument, you argue with bullets. And
that's I guess what this guy did that He couldn't
he couldn't refute anythings. Charlie Kirk says so he's going
to refute it with a guy. Very sad day for America.
This is John Mount stilling in for JT. And we've
been spending time this morning talking about the events yesterday
in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a man who was
not ashamed to share his beliefs, to share the gospel
and go into the world no matter what it cost him,
and it cost him his life. Donald Trump weighed on
this on Truth Social yesterday. He left a four minute
(00:21):
message I wanted to play not a clip of that,
but the message in its entirety.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Here it is to my great fellow Americans.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous
assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah.
Charlie inspired millions, and tonight all who knew him and
loved him are united in shock and horror. Charlie was
a patriot who devoted his life to the cause of
(00:49):
open debate and the country that he loved so much,
the United States of America. He fought for liberty, democracy, justice,
and the American people martyr for truth and freedom, and
there has never been anyone who was so respected by youth.
Charlie was also a man of deep, deep faith, and
(01:12):
we take comfort in the knowledge that he is now
at peace with God in heaven, with his wife, Erica,
and two young beloved children, and his entire family who
he loved more than anything in the world. We ask
God to watch over them in this terrible hour of
heartache and pain.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This is a dark moment for America.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Charlie Kirk traveled the nation joyfully engaging with everyone interested
in good faith debate. His mission was to bring young
people into the political process, which he did better than
anybody ever, to share his love of country, and to
spread the simple words of common sense on campuses nationwide.
(02:00):
He championed his ideas with courage, logic, humor, and grace.
It's a long past time for all Americans and the
media to confront the fact that violence and murder are
the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree
day after day, year after year, in the most hateful
(02:22):
and despicable way possible. For years, those on the radical
left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and
the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of
rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing
in our country today and it must stop right now.
(02:47):
My administration will find each and every one of those
who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence,
including the organizations that fund it and support it, as
well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials,
and everyone else who brings order to our country. From
(03:07):
the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year,
which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on
ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive
in the streets of New York, to the shooting of
House Majority leaders Steve Scalise and three others. Radical of
political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken
(03:31):
too many lives. Tonight, I asked all Americans to commit
themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived
and died, the values of free speech, citizenship, the rule
of law, and the patriotic devotion and love of God.
Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who
(03:52):
attacked him was attacking our whole country. An assassin tried
to silence him with a bullet, but he failed, because
together we will ensure that his voice, his message, and
his legacy will live on for countless generations to come
today because of this heinous act. Charlie's voice has become
(04:13):
bigger and grander than ever.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Before, and it's not even close.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
May God bless his memory, May God watch over his family,
and may God bless the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That was Donald Trump last night on Truth Social and
he couldn't be more right on We're sharing just like
Charlie Kirk would want. We're sharing this morning how we feel.
And I want to hear from everybody whatever your thoughts
are on this two O five four three nine nine
three seven two or leave us a talkback, Mike. We
have a lot of those coming in right now. Here
(04:47):
is one of those.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
It's wild guy you got on right now, set in
a perimeter and having secret Service didn't do much for
President Trump. But this person the crowd up on that roof.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
First of all, the they posted a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Of guns and for him to crawl up two hundred
yards away or her, whoever the shooter was, they gotta
be pretty well know that they're a pretty good shot,
or they're not gonna crawl up two hundred yards away.
That looks forever away from the victim.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And I think I think you're right there. You're gonna
find out this was not. One of the interesting things
that came out was yesterday in the coverage on MSNBC,
there was there was this, There was this idiot commentator
early on, and these people who get out in front
and say this stuff and Mackenziefe, you pull us up.
This is a cut one. This was somebody on MSNBC
yesterday speculating as to who they thought the shooter was.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
We don't know any of the full details of this
that we don't know if this was a supporter shooting
their gun off in celebration or so, we have no idea.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You can cut that. Yeah, they actually thought this was
a supporter shooting their gun off and celebration of what
This is the idiocy that you get from the from
the mainstream media, from MSNBC, the commentator they put on
to try and analyze the situation. They thought it was
a Charlie Kirk supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.
This was clearly not that which tells you where you
(06:10):
should get your news and where you probably shouldn't. Because
I like to think that we at least give a
little thought to the stuff we present on the air.
We don't just put anyone on to just say the
stupidest thing in the world. As that wasn't it meant
as an expert, not like as a hey, here's here's
a random guy on the street that's supposedly an expert
who's supposed to know stuff. There's a lot of people
with a lot of crazy ideas saying a lot of
(06:30):
crazy things today. And well, we have to kind of
keep our heads about ours and really look at this
thing correctly, because you know, we can't. We can't stop
sharing our things. And I hear others saying things like, well,
you know, he shouldn't have said these things. You know
he was. He was making people mad. So what we're
gonna just like people want to ban the guns, it's
all the guns fault, it's all free speech is fault.
(06:51):
We should get rid of people people's ability to talk.
What we need to do is start arguing with words.
And sometimes when you don't have a good word, you
don't have a good argument, you argue with bullets. And
that's I guess what this guy did that He couldn't
he couldn't refute anythings. Charlie Kirk says so he's going
to refute it with a guy. Very sad day for America.
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