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Charlie Kirk, Close Trump Ally & Friend, Shot Dead at Age 31 · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is just a sad day. A friend of mine
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Speaker 1: who I have known for well over a decade was
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Speaker 1: shot and killed. Assassinated at a college campus event in Utah.
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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was thirty one years old. He has left
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Speaker 1: behind two beautiful children and a wife, all because he
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Speaker 1: wanted to bring people together to have a grand debate
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Speaker 1: about politics. I want to be clear about this and
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Speaker 1: say not only how sad I am, because I know
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Speaker 1: Charlie personally, but how sad I am for his kids.
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Speaker 1: I've got three kids, and this is a conversation that
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Speaker 1: all of us that do this have had a lot
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Speaker 1: more recently, especially since the presidential assassination attempt, when the
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Speaker 1: president was shot in Butler and there was a real
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Speaker 1: concern over safety. There are a lot of people that
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Speaker 1: are not doing public events right now for this reason.
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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk lived by what his order was, and his
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Speaker 1: order was God, family, country. Charlie Kirk shot and killed
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Speaker 1: by some deranged individual. And it's not lost on me
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Speaker 1: that even just hours ago on TV last night, Charlie
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Speaker 1: Kirk was being attacked by name as he talked about
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Speaker 1: the killing of that young innocent girl from Ukraine, talking
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Speaker 1: about it being a racial issue because the man said
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Speaker 1: I killed I got that white girl. And what the
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Speaker 1: media do. They went after Charlie Cook saying that was
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Speaker 1: race baiting, race baiting. How dare you say that it's
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Speaker 1: not true? They said what Charlie said was a lie,
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Speaker 1: even though we have the audio of the man walking
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Speaker 1: after he killed that young girl saying, I got that
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Speaker 1: white girl. And if you want to know what makes
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Speaker 1: psychotic people do psychotic things, you tell them that what
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Speaker 1: they're seeing is a liar. You tell them that people
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Speaker 1: like Charlie Kirk and others are evil. You tell them
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler,
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Speaker 1: because you just need one. You need one guy to
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Speaker 1: take out to Charlie Kirk. You need one to take
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Speaker 1: out of Donald Trump. You know what's even more sick
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Speaker 1: is Matthew Dowd on MSNBC suggests that Charlie Kirk had
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Speaker 1: it coming, saying, quote, he is consistently pushing this sort
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Speaker 1: of hate speech aimed at certain groups. And I always
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Speaker 1: go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which
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Speaker 1: often then lead to hateful actions. You want to know
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Speaker 1: when he said that? He said that before we knew
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Speaker 1: if Charlie was alive or dead, I want you to
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Speaker 1: think about that. Donald Trump put it this way, the
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Speaker 1: great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead. No one
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Speaker 1: understood or had the heart of the youth in the
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Speaker 1: United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved
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Speaker 1: and admired by all, especially me, And now he is
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Speaker 1: no longer with us. Milania and my sympathies go out
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Speaker 1: to his beautiful wife, Erica and family. Charlie, we love you.
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Speaker 1: The President announcing the passing of Charlie Kirk and automatically
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Speaker 1: are immediately ordering that the flag at the White House
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Speaker 1: flight half mass. Charlie was a friend. Charlie was a
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Speaker 1: guy that was never going to hold back, and he
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Speaker 1: was going to keep fighting the fight. It is truly
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Speaker 1: incredible to also see how evil people are online. There
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Speaker 1: are people on social media right now, on TikTok especially
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Speaker 1: that are celebrating, celebrating the killing, the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker 1: Elon Musk retweeting Sean maguire and here's what he said.
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Speaker 1: The Left, he said, is the party of murder. Say quote.
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Speaker 1: The left lectured us for the last decade about the
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Speaker 1: dangers of violence from the right, from the assassination attempts
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Speaker 1: at President Trump to Brian Thompson, not a healthcare CEO
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Speaker 1: being murdered, now to Charlie Kirk, the danger was actually
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Speaker 1: on the left. As Elon must put it, I agree,
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Speaker 1: the left is the party of murder. When I met
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Speaker 1: Charlie for the very first time, Charlie was a young
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Speaker 1: kid who had this idea and some financial backers that
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Speaker 1: he could change this country by changing a generation. He
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Speaker 1: saw how important younger generations were to the Democratic Party
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Speaker 1: and how they indoctrinated them in schools and in colleges.
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Speaker 1: Charlie didn't go to college to do turning point, and
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Speaker 1: people attacked him for that, And then he exposed colleges
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Speaker 1: for what they actually were, radical leftist organizations that were
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Speaker 1: turning kids into hating this great country. His legacy, I promise,
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Speaker 1: is going to continue to grow. Glenn Beck put it
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Speaker 1: this way. The President's confirmed what I can. He said
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Speaker 1: what I can scarcely bring myself to say, My dear friend,
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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk is gone. In all my years, I have
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Speaker 1: spoken tens of millions of words, but tonight I have none.
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow many of his friends and his Blaze family will
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Speaker 1: join me on national radio and podcast as we try
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Speaker 1: to honor him. I pray that God grants me the
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Speaker 1: words worthy of such a man, though I know none
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Speaker 1: of us could ever truly capture the depth of his faith,
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Speaker 1: his courage, and his love for his country. Pray please
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Speaker 1: for his family. Pray for our republic, which has lost
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Speaker 1: one of its most faithful defenders. I can only imagine
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Speaker 1: the joy that must now feel his heart as he
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Speaker 1: hears those words we all long to hear. Well done,
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Speaker 1: my good and faithful survey. Charlie Cook stood up for
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Speaker 1: this country. Charlie Kirk stood up for what is so
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Speaker 1: right about America. Charlie Kirk, by the way, didn't have
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Speaker 1: to listen to opposing views. He chose to because he
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Speaker 1: believed that every voice should be heard, and that's why
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Speaker 1: he had such grand debates. Charlie Kirk is a guy
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Speaker 1: that also helped the president get elected. If you want
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Speaker 1: to know why the President was the one to announce,
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Speaker 1: it's because I think he believes he would not have
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Speaker 1: gotten reelected without Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk and we did
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Speaker 1: on the ground in swing States was truly a remarkable
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Speaker 1: was incredible, and he is a friend that was gunned
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Speaker 1: down cold blood and murder, an assassination because he was
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Speaker 1: having a grand debate on a college campus. I want
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Speaker 1: you to think about this. This is an event in Utah.
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Speaker 1: He was asking people to come to the microphone to
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Speaker 1: debate him. This is pure, demonic evil and there are
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Speaker 1: many that are going to say this and I tend
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Speaker 1: to agree with him at this point that the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party is nothing more now than a terrorist organization. They
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Speaker 1: don't denounce they stoke this type of hate and bigotry.
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Speaker 1: That's what they do and everyone needs to understand that.
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Speaker 1: I will say it over and over again. Please pray
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Speaker 1: for his beautiful wife and his beautiful children. Everyone needs
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Speaker 1: to pray for his family right now. Pray that evil
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Speaker 1: will not prevail, that his life will not be lost
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Speaker 1: in vain, but will be a life that is made,
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Speaker 1: will have a legacy that will live for centuries to come.
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Speaker 1: Take a quick break, we'll come back. It's the Been
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Speaker 1: Ferguson Show. Much more coming up.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: I want to take a moment and I want to
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Speaker 1: talk to you real quick about what you can do
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Speaker 1: to help the people in Israel. It was nearly two
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Speaker 1: years ago that the terrorists murdered more than twelve hundred
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Speaker 1: innocent Israelis and they took two hundred and fifty hostages.
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Speaker 1: Today it seems as if the cries of the dead
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Speaker 1: and dying have been drowned out by the shouts of
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Speaker 1: anti Semitism and just pure hatred, not just in America
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Speaker 1: but around the world. And the most brutal attack on
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Speaker 1: Jewish people happened. It happened since the Holocaust, and now
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Speaker 1: it's like they're trying to act like it never happened. Now.
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Speaker 1: This is where it is important for us to stand
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Speaker 1: with the people in Israel. It's a movement of love
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Speaker 1: and support for the people of Israel, and this is
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Speaker 1: where I want you to get involved. It is called
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Speaker 1: Flags of Fellowship. It's being organized by the International Fellowship
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Speaker 1: of Christians and Jews. On October fifth, you can stand
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Speaker 1: with Israel and the victims proudly. Just a few weeks away,
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Speaker 1: millions across America will prayerfully plant an Israeli flag in
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Speaker 1: honor and solidarity with the victims of October seventh, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, and stand with their grieving families. You can
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Speaker 1: be a part of this movement as well. And that's
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Speaker 1: what I love about what IFCJ does. They're making sure
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Speaker 1: that the world knows there are lots of people of
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Speaker 1: faith in this country and friends and advocates for Israel.
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Speaker 1: They're going to stand with them. You can get more
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Speaker 1: information about how you can join the Flags of Fellowship movement,
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Speaker 1: including your church. There are going to be countless churches
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Speaker 1: around the country. They're going to plant flags as well.
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Speaker 1: So all you have to do to get involved with
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Speaker 1: Flags of Fellowship movement is go to IFCJ dot org.
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Speaker 1: That's IFCJ dot org Stand with Israel October fifth, It's
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Speaker 1: just a few weeks away. And if your church you
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Speaker 1: think would want to be involved, you can also find
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Speaker 1: out more about how to get your church to be
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Speaker 1: involved on a special Sunday at IFCJ dot org. That's
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Speaker 1: if CJ dot org. The Commission of the Utah Department
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Speaker 1: of Public Safety speaking now, Bomason.
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Speaker 3: Not matched the shooting suspect and was not an accurate
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Speaker 3: person of interest. However, he has been booked into the
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Speaker 3: County jail by Utah value University Police Department for obstruction
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Speaker 3: of justice. We do still have an active investigation for
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Speaker 3: the person of interest. This incident occurred with a large
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Speaker 3: crowd around. There was one shot fired and one victim.
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Speaker 3: While the suspect is at large, We believe this was
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Speaker 3: a target of attack towards one individual.
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Speaker 4: This is a tragic moment in our state and in
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Speaker 4: our country.
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Speaker 3: As we heal, we encourage everyone who's struggling with news
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Speaker 3: of the instant to call ninety eight, our state mental
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Speaker 3: health crisis line.
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Speaker 4: In addition to that.
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Speaker 3: Our partners with the FBI will also be discussing other
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Speaker 3: ways we can communicate through the public for tips and
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Speaker 3: other information.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: On behalf of the FBI, We extend our sincerest condolences
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Speaker 2: to the family and friends of Charlie Kirk. Our thoughts
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Speaker 2: are also with the people who witness this traumatic event.
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Speaker 2: We know that what you experienced was very difficult. Our
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Speaker 2: thoughts are with you as well. As soon as we
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Speaker 2: heard about the shooting, special agents and personnel from the
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Speaker 2: Salt Lake Field Office responded immediately. We have full resources
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Speaker 2: devoted to this investigation, including tactical, operational, investigative and intelligence.
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Speaker 2: To be clear, the FBI will fully support and co
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Speaker 2: lead this investigation. Alongside with our partners. We are working
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Speaker 2: on setting up a digital medial tip line and as
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Speaker 2: soon as it's established, we'll get that information out to everyone.
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Speaker 4: I know. There's a lot of questions.
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Speaker 2: This is very much an active case, and this investigation
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Speaker 2: is in its early stages. We are following all the
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Speaker 2: leads and all the evidence. If anyone has any information,
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Speaker 2: please report it to the FBI or local lawenforcement.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 5: On behalf of President Tumanez, who we've been communicating with,
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Speaker 5: and she's on her way back right now.
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Speaker 4: I say that.
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Speaker 5: On behalf of Utah Valley University, we are shocked and
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Speaker 5: saddened by the tragic passing of Charlie Kirk. We express
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Speaker 5: our sincere condolences to the Kirk family. We agree with
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Speaker 5: our students, faculty, and staff who bore witness to this
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Speaker 5: unspeakable tragedy. He was invited by the student group Turning
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Speaker 5: Point USA to speak on our campus. We firmly believe
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Speaker 5: that UVEU is a place to share ideas and to
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Speaker 5: debate openly respectfully. Any attempt to infringe on those rights
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Speaker 5: has no place here. Would you not condone any form
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Speaker 5: of violence at UVU and seek to make our campus
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Speaker 5: a safe place for all.
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Speaker 4: Pleads and gentlemen.
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Speaker 6: Thank you for joining us on this dark and tragic occasion.
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Speaker 6: I want to thank our law enforcement officers who are
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Speaker 6: leading this investigation, starting with Chief Long and his response
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Speaker 6: here with the UVU Police Department.
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Speaker 4: We're grateful for your leadership and your.
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Speaker 6: Team, and again to the speakers that you've just heard
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Speaker 6: from who are co leading this investigation. I also want
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Speaker 6: to recognize Sheriff Mike Smith, who has been an invaluable
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Speaker 6: partner as this investigation moves forward. I've been in touch
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Speaker 6: with President Trump, with FBI Director Cash Pttel.
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Speaker 4: We are completely aligned with.
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Speaker 6: Our state and federal partners as we work through this case.
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Speaker 4: Now, this is a dark day for our state. It's
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Speaker 4: a tragic day for our nation.
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Speaker 6: And I want to be very clear that this is
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Speaker 6: a political assassination.
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Speaker 4: We are.
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Speaker 6: Celebrating two hundred and fifty years of the founding of
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Speaker 6: this great nation, that founding document, the Declaration of Independence,
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Speaker 6: That this great experiment on which we embark together two
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Speaker 6: hundred and fifty years ago, that we are endowed by
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Speaker 6: our creator with certain unalienable rights.
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Speaker 4: The first one of those is life, and today a
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Speaker 4: life was taken.
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Speaker 6: Charlie Kirk was first and foremost a husband and a dad.
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Speaker 4: To young child. He was also.
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Speaker 6: Very much politically involved, and that's why he was here
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Speaker 6: on campus. Charlie believed in the power of free speech
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Speaker 6: and debate to shape ideas and to persuade people. Historically,
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Speaker 6: our university campuses in this nation and here in the
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Speaker 6: State of Utah have been the place where truth and
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Speaker 6: ideas are formulated and debated. And that's what he does.
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Speaker 6: He comes on college campuses and he debates that as
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Speaker 6: foundational to the formation of our country, to our most
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Speaker 6: basic constitutional rights.
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Speaker 4: And when someone takes the life of a person.
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Speaker 6: Because of their ideas or their ideals, then that very
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Speaker 6: constitutional foundation is threatened. Now we have a person of
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Speaker 6: interest in custody. The investigation is ongoing, but I want
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Speaker 6: to make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this,
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Speaker 6: we will find you, we will try you, and we
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Speaker 6: will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law.
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Speaker 6: And I just want to remind people that we still
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Speaker 6: have the death penalty here in the state of Utah.
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Speaker 4: Our nation is broken. We've had.
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Speaker 6: Political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination
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Speaker 6: on the governor of Pennsylvania, and we had an attempted
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Speaker 6: assassination on a presidential candidate and former president of the
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Speaker 6: United States and now current resident of the United States.
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Speaker 6: Nothing I say can unit us as a country. Nothing
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Speaker 6: I can say right now can fix what is broken.
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Speaker 6: Nothing I can say can bring back Charlie Kirk. Our
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Speaker 6: hearts are broken.
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Speaker 4: We mourn.
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Speaker 6: With his wife, his children, his family, his friends. We
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Speaker 6: mourn as a nation. If anyone, in the sound of
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Speaker 6: my voice celebrated even a little bit at the news
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Speaker 6: of this shooting, I would beg you to look in
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Speaker 6: the mirror and to see if you can find a
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Speaker 6: better angel in there somewhere. I don't care what his
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Speaker 6: politics are. I care that he was an American. We
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Speaker 6: desperately need our country. We desperately need leaders in our country.
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Speaker 6: But more than the leaders, we just need every single
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Speaker 6: person in.
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Speaker 4: This country.
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Speaker 6: To think about where we are and where we want
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Speaker 6: to be, to ask ourselves, it is this what two
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Speaker 6: hundred and fifty years has wrought on us.
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Speaker 4: I pray that that's not the case.
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Speaker 6: I pray that those who hated what Charlie Cooks stood
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Speaker 6: for will put down their social media and their pens
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Speaker 6: and pray for his family, and that all of us,
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Speaker 6: all of us will try to find a way to
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Speaker 6: stop painting our fellow Americans.
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Speaker 4: With that, we're happy to take a few questions.
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Speaker 1: anyone I've ever met. And I don't say that because
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Speaker 1: he was assassinated by a cold blooded killer. I say
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Speaker 1: legacy will live on for I think the rest of
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Speaker 1: my life and probably than after that. People are going
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Speaker 1: by the President unit It's America on True Social that
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Speaker 1: about this all day. I'm recording this basically midnight Eastern,
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Speaker 1: and I've been talking to friends and colleagues who know him,
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Speaker 1: and all of us are so sad because we all
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Speaker 1: knew him well. I think the hardest part for me
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Speaker 1: is the fact that I know that this is a
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Speaker 1: man that loved this country but also loved his family.
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Speaker 1: He was so proud of his kids. He was so
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Speaker 1: proud to be a dad. He loved being a dad,
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Speaker 1: he loved celebrating what a family is. He loves celebrating
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Speaker 1: that he was going back to traditional way of life
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Speaker 1: with a mom and a dad and children. I am
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Speaker 1: so sad tonight for his family, for his wife, who
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Speaker 1: for years that they can watch and they can be
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Speaker 1: proud of him. And that may be the one blessing
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Speaker 1: is that they so much of his life over the
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Speaker 1: last five six seven years was put on tape. I
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Speaker 1: also get sad for this country because we lost someone
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Speaker 1: that was so dear to us. And I get sad
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Speaker 1: that we've gone off this path so far to where
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Speaker 1: the radical left and a part of it is a
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Speaker 1: terrorist organization. Now, make no mistake about that is celebrating
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Speaker 1: the killing of a man whose only crime was wanting
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Speaker 1: to bring people together for a grand debate. That's what
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Speaker 1: he did wrong. He wanted to debate the most important
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Speaker 1: issues of our day, and he wanted to sit down
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Speaker 1: with people that disagreed with him, and he wanted to
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Speaker 1: have that conversation. And that's why they killed him, because
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Speaker 1: he was so effective and so powerful by bringing facts
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Speaker 1: to a conversation and by the the way being kind
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Speaker 1: to those on the left, those that disagreed with him.
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Speaker 1: He wanted them to come to his events, he wanted
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Speaker 1: to talk to them. He gave them a microphone. It's
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Speaker 1: exactly what he was doing in Utah. Trump's assassination attempting
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Speaker 1: Butler is that we were worried that they were going
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Speaker 1: to do it again, whether I was on stage doing
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Speaker 1: an event, and so many others that do what Charlie
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Speaker 1: does in the conservative movement. It is become a very
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Speaker 1: real thing in our minds. And what they wanted to
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Speaker 1: happen to Donald Trump and Butler is exactly what happened
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Speaker 1: in Utah to Charlie Kirk. They wanted that video. They
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Speaker 1: wanted to put fear in the hearts and the minds
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Speaker 1: of other conservative fighters, other conservative warriors, because they want
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Speaker 1: to silence us. I have talked to some of the
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Speaker 1: most influential conservative leaders today on the phone and text messages,
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Speaker 1: my mentors, people that I've mentored, and one thing I
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Speaker 1: can assure you from all this is, yes, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: take more precautions. Yes we're gonna do more, but we're
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Speaker 1: not stopping. Charlie was asked recently about what he does
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Speaker 1: and what he thinks before he goes on college campuses,
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Speaker 1: and I want you to listen to what he said.
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Speaker 1: It's only forty seven forty eight seconds long, but I
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Speaker 1: want you to listen to what he says.
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Speaker 7: Before I go on to college campus. My prayer is
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Speaker 7: very simple. God used me for your will, because there's
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Speaker 7: a plan above us all. God is sovereign above all.
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Speaker 7: So what is God's plan When I go on to
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Speaker 7: college campus. I just believe I will only tell truth,
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Speaker 7: i will not compromise, and I'll love on the lost.
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Speaker 7: The specific teachings of Christ these go make disciples of
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Speaker 7: all nations. I'm trying my best to do that, and
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Speaker 7: I'm trying to do it first in this nation, because
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Speaker 7: this nation impacts every other nation on the planet. You
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Speaker 7: cannot impact the world that impacting America.
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Speaker 4: Period.
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Speaker 7: That's the way that God has designed the universe in
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Speaker 7: this particular being that as America goes, the world goes.
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Speaker 7: Jesus called us to love children, got Jesus called us
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Speaker 7: to tell truth. God Jesus called us to contest in
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Speaker 7: the public square for his purposes. I'm far more interested
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Speaker 7: in what God wants of me than what I want
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Speaker 7: from God and what God wants from me as a
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Speaker 7: life fighting for truth.
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Speaker 1: That is going to be a large part of Charlie
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Speaker 1: Kirk's legacy. The President of the United States of America
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Speaker 1: also put out a video from the Oval Office hours
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Speaker 1: after he announced that Charlie Kirk had gone to see
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Speaker 1: his Lord and Savior in heaven. Donald Trump decided to
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Speaker 1: address the nation, and I want you to hear what
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Speaker 1: the President had to say about Charlie Kirk and his
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Speaker 1: legacy to my.
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Speaker 8: Great fellow Americans. I am filled with grief and anger
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Speaker 8: at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college
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Speaker 8: campus in Utah. Charlie inspired millions in tonight, all who
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Speaker 8: knew him loved him, are united in shock and horror.
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Speaker 8: Charlie was a patriot who devoted his life to the
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Speaker 8: cause of open debate and the country that he loved
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Speaker 8: so much, the United States of America. He fought for liberty, democracy, justice,
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Speaker 8: and the American people. He's a martyr for truth and freedom,
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Speaker 8: and there has never been anyone who was so respected
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Speaker 8: by youth. Charlie was also a man of deep, deep faith,
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Speaker 8: and we take comfort in the knowledge that he is
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Speaker 8: now at peace with God in heaven. Our prayers are
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Speaker 8: with his wife, Erica, the two young beloved children, and
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Speaker 8: his entire family, who he loved more than anything in
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Speaker 8: the world. We ask God to watch over them in
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Speaker 8: this terrible hour of heartache and pain. Is a dark
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Speaker 8: moment for America. Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully engaging
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Speaker 8: with everyone in interested in good faith debate. His mission
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Speaker 8: was to bring young people into the political process, which
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Speaker 8: he did better than anybody ever, to share his love
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Speaker 8: of country, and to spread the simple words of common
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Speaker 8: sense on campuses nationwide. He championed his ideas with courage, logic, humor,
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Speaker 8: and grace. It's a long past time for all Americans
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Speaker 8: and the media to confront the fact that violence and
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Speaker 8: murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom
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Speaker 8: you disagree day after day, year after year, in the
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Speaker 8: most hateful and despicable way possible. For years, those on
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Speaker 8: the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to
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Speaker 8: Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This
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Speaker 8: kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that
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Speaker 8: we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop
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Speaker 8: right now. My administration will find each and every one
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Speaker 8: of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other
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Speaker 8: political violence, including the organizations that funded and support it,
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Speaker 8: as well as those who go after our judges, law
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Speaker 8: enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country.
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Speaker 8: From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year,
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Speaker 8: which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on
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Speaker 8: ice agents, to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive
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Speaker 8: in the streets of New York, to the shooting of
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Speaker 8: House Majority leaders Steve Scalise and three others. Radical of
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Speaker 8: political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken
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Speaker 8: too many lives. Tonight, they asked all Americans to commit
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Speaker 8: themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived
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Speaker 8: and died, the values of free speech, citizenship, the rule
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Speaker 8: of law, and the patriotic devotion and love of God.
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Speaker 8: Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who
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Speaker 8: attacked him was attacking our whole country. An assassin tried
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Speaker 8: to silence him with a bullet, but he failed, because
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Speaker 8: together we will ensure that his voice, his message, and
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Speaker 8: his legacy will live on for countless generations to come. Today,
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Speaker 8: because of this heinous act, Charlie's voice has become bigger
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Speaker 8: and grander than ever before, and it's not even close.
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Speaker 8: May God bless his memory, May God watch over his family,
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Speaker 8: and may God bless the United States of America.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I want to just end by saying two things. One,
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Speaker 1: I am so sad. I am so sad for Charlie's
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Speaker 1: family and his colleagues and his friends. I'm also incredibly angry.
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Speaker 1: I'm angry that the Left has gotten to the point
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Speaker 1: where they're inspiring people to do this with no accountability.
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Speaker 1: I may angre that they have normalized this type of
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Speaker 1: political violence. There will be more to be said about
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Speaker 1: that moving forward, I can promise you. But what I'll
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Speaker 1: say right now is this. Pray for Charlie's wife, Pray
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Speaker 1: for Charlie's children, Pray for all of them.