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VP JD Vance Honors his Friend Charlie Kirk · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: The Vice President of the United States of America, had
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Speaker 1: the honor of hosting the Charlie Kirk Show. He did
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Speaker 1: it from the White House Complex, and it was a
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Speaker 1: very interesting intro that I want to play for you,
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Speaker 1: as you can hear a couple of different things, one
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Speaker 1: him talk about his dear friend, but even more than that,
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Speaker 1: talking about what the media has been doing to lie
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Speaker 1: about what Charlie Kirk has said in the past, and
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Speaker 1: he's saying it's time for us to call them out
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Speaker 1: for doing that. He also talked about how many people
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Speaker 1: are attacking and celebrating Charlie Kirk and it's time, as
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Speaker 1: he described it, to call them out and even name
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Speaker 1: their employers, or better yet, tell their employers if they
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Speaker 1: have someone they're employing that is actively supporting and advocating
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Speaker 1: political violence through assassination. Here is the Vice President, Jade Vance,
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Speaker 1: in his own words, and at the beginning, you were
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Speaker 1: going to hear some music that is from the traditional
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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk intro, just to put it in context, and
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Speaker 1: then you'll hear what he says.
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Speaker 2: Shortly after Usha and I left Charlie's family and Charlie's
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Speaker 2: remains in Arizona, I wrote a story in The Nation
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Speaker 2: magazine about my dear friend Charlie Kirk. Now The Nation
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Speaker 2: isn't a fringe blog. It's a well funded, well respected
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Speaker 2: magazine whose publishing history goes back to the American Civil War.
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Speaker 2: George Soros's Open Society Foundation funds this magazine, as does
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Speaker 2: the Ford Foundation and many other wealthy titans of the
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Speaker 2: American progressive movement.
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Speaker 3: The writer accuses Charlie.
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Speaker 2: Of saying, and I quote, black women do not have
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Speaker 2: brain processing power to be taken seriously. But if you
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Speaker 2: go and watch the clip, the very clip she links to,
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Speaker 2: you realize he never said.
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Speaker 3: Anything like that.
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Speaker 2: He never uttered those words. He made an argument again
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Speaker 2: suffermative action as a policy, He criticized a specific Supreme
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Speaker 2: Court justice as an individual. He never said anything about
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Speaker 2: black women as a group.
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Speaker 3: He made an.
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Speaker 2: Argument for judging people of all races and backgrounds by
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Speaker 2: their own individual merits. The very evidence she provides, this
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Speaker 2: hack of a writer shows that she lied about a
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Speaker 2: dead man, and yet she wrote it, an esteemed magazine
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Speaker 2: published it, it made it through the editors, and of
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Speaker 2: course liberal billionaires rewarded that attack.
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Speaker 3: Now, of course, even.
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Speaker 2: If Charlie had uttered those words. It wouldn't mean that
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Speaker 2: he deserved his fate. But consider the level of propaganda
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Speaker 2: at work. Charlie was gunned down in broad daylight, and
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Speaker 2: well funded institutions of the left lied about what he
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Speaker 2: said so as to justify his murder.
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Speaker 3: This is soulless and evil.
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Speaker 2: But I was struck not just by the dishonesty of
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Speaker 2: this smear, but by the glee over a young husband's
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Speaker 2: and young father's death.
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Speaker 3: Quote she says he.
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Speaker 2: Was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist the nation wrote,
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Speaker 2: who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there
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Speaker 2: was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
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Speaker 2: He had children, as do many vile people.
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Speaker 3: That's what they said.
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Speaker 2: He had children, as do many vile people. Now, hours
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Speaker 2: before this smear was published, my wife and I had
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Speaker 2: the honor of escorting Charlie's body back to his home
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Speaker 2: in Arizona. We took his wife, Erica, we Love you,
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Speaker 2: his parents, his sister, and a few of his best
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Speaker 2: friends with us, And as they offloaded Charlie's casket from
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Speaker 2: Air Force two, I worried that Erica would collapse.
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Speaker 3: With grief.
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Speaker 2: Now, I am a very lucky husband to a very
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Speaker 2: wonderful wife. But I have never been prouder of my
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Speaker 2: wife at that moment, as she held Erica in Erica's
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Speaker 2: very darkest hour. And I thought of Erica as I
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Speaker 2: read that disgusting attack on Charlie. He had children, as
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Speaker 2: do many vile people. That's what they said about him.
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Speaker 2: I said, the Lord's prayer, our Father, who art in heaven,
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Speaker 2: how would be thy name, thy Kingdom Come? Thy will
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Speaker 2: be done on earth as it is in heaven. And
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Speaker 2: I asked Yusha what Erica had said to her earlier
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Speaker 2: in the day in a private moment, and I asked
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Speaker 2: Erica's permission to share this.
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Speaker 3: My wife told me she asked me for advice.
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Speaker 2: Erica asked me for advice on how she should tell
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Speaker 2: her children that their father had been murdered.
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Speaker 3: She asked my wife how.
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Speaker 2: To tell her beautiful kids that their father and my dear,
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Speaker 2: very dear friend is no longer with us. And as
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Speaker 2: she was doing it, there were people dancing on that
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Speaker 2: father's grave. Now, I have heard many calls in the
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Speaker 2: last few days for unity and for healing in the
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Speaker 2: wake of Charlie's assassination.
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Speaker 3: You have no.
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Speaker 2: Idea how desperately I want that, How gratified I was
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Speaker 2: when Democratic friends and even former Senate colleagues reached out
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Speaker 2: to offer their.
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Speaker 3: Condolences to me.
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Speaker 2: I'm so thankful, and I know there are so many
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Speaker 2: like them all across our great country. I am desperate
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Speaker 2: to wrap my arms around them as we all unite
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Speaker 2: to condemn political violence and the ideas that cause it.
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Speaker 2: Psalm one thirty three tells us, Behold, how good and
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Speaker 2: how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
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Speaker 2: It is like the precious ointment upon the head whole.
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Speaker 2: How badly have I craved that precious ointment in recent days?
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Speaker 2: And I believe we can have it. But first, first,
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Speaker 2: we must tell the truth. It's the only way to
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Speaker 2: honor Charlie. For what was he if not a man
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Speaker 2: who told the truth in every place, in every environment. Now,
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Speaker 2: the most important truth Charlie told is this that long ago,
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Speaker 2: a man begotten, not made, came down from heaven and
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Speaker 2: by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
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Speaker 2: and became a man.
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Speaker 3: For our sake.
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Speaker 2: He was crucified under conscious pilot and suff death, and
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Speaker 2: was buried and rose again on the third day. Charlie believed,
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Speaker 2: as I do, that all the truth he told flowed.
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Speaker 3: From that fundamental principle.
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Speaker 2: I really do believe that we can come together in
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Speaker 2: this country. I believe we must. But unity, real unity,
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Speaker 2: can be found only after climbing the mountain of truth,
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Speaker 2: and there are difficult truths we must confront in our country.
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Speaker 2: One truth is that twenty four percent of self described
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Speaker 2: quote very liberals believe it is acceptable to be happy
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Speaker 2: about the death of a political opponent, while only three
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Speaker 2: percent of self described very conservatives agree. Three percent is
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Speaker 2: too many, of course. Another truth is that twenty six
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Speaker 2: percent of young liberals believe political violence is sometimes justified,
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Speaker 2: and only seven percent of young conservatives say the same.
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Speaker 2: Again too high a number. In a country of three
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty million people. You can, of course find
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Speaker 2: one person of a given political persuasion justifying this or that,
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Speaker 2: or almost anything. But the data uh is clear people
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Speaker 2: on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate
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Speaker 2: political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If
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Speaker 2: both sides have a problem, one side has a much
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Speaker 2: bigger and malignant problem, and that is the truth We
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Speaker 2: must be told that problem has terrible consequences.
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Speaker 3: The leader of our party, Donald J.
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Speaker 2: Trump, escaped an assassin's bullet by less than an inch.
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Speaker 2: Our House majority leavers, Steven Scalise, came within seconds of
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Speaker 2: death by an assassin himself. Now the most influential conservative
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Speaker 2: activist in generations. Our friend Charlie has been murdered. This violence,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't come from nowhere.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: Any political movement, violent or not violent, is a collection
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Speaker 2: of forces. It's like a pyramid that stacks on top
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Speaker 2: one support on top of the other that I got
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Speaker 2: a foundation of donors, of activists, of journalists now, of
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Speaker 2: social media influencers, and of course of politicians. Not every
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Speaker 2: member of that pyramid would commit a murder. In fact,
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Speaker 2: over ninety nine percent I'm sure would not. But by
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Speaker 2: celebrating that murder, apologizing for it, and emphasizing not Charlie's innocence,
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Speaker 2: but the fact that he said things some didn't like,
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Speaker 2: even to the point of lying about what he actually said,
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Speaker 2: many of these people are creating an environment where things
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Speaker 2: like this are inevitably going to happen. A couple of
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Speaker 2: months ago, I had land a fundraiser in southern Californian,
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Speaker 2: since you know we'd be out there anyways. My wife
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Speaker 2: and I decided to take our kids to Disneyland one weekend.
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Speaker 2: We had fun, and to be clear, most of the
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Speaker 2: guests said very nice things or they.
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Speaker 3: Just left us alone.
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Speaker 2: But there was a loud and very minority that would
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Speaker 2: shout at my children, who were eight, five and three,
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Speaker 2: whenever they got the opportunity. You should disown your dad,
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Speaker 2: you little shit, one middleage woman yelled at my five
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Speaker 2: year old.
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Speaker 3: Tell the Secret Service.
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Speaker 2: To protect the Constitution, not your father, screamed another. Are
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Speaker 2: these women violent? Probably not. Are they deranged? Certainly? And
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Speaker 2: while our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies,
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Speaker 2: it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics
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Speaker 2: and American politics today are proud members of the far left.
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Speaker 2: After Charlie died, one of his friends and one of
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Speaker 2: our senior White House staffers, had left leaning operatives in
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Speaker 2: his neighborhood, passing out leaflets telling people what he looked
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Speaker 2: like and where he lived, encouraging neighbors to harass him
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Speaker 2: or God forbid, to do worse. While he was mourning
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Speaker 2: his dead friend, he and his wife had to worry
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Speaker 2: about the political terrorists drawing a big target on the home.
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Speaker 2: He shares with his young children that something has gone
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Speaker 2: very wrong with a lunatic fringe, a minority, but a
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Speaker 2: growing and powerful minority on the far left. There is
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Speaker 2: no unity with people who scream at children over their parents' politics.
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Speaker 3: There is no unity with someone.
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Speaker 2: Who lies about what Charlie Kirk said in order to
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Speaker 2: excuse his murder.
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Speaker 3: There is no.
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Speaker 2: Unity with someone who harasses an innocent family the day
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Speaker 2: after the father of that family lost a dear friend.
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Speaker 2: There is no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie
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Speaker 2: Kirk's assassination. And there is no unity with the people
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Speaker 2: who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these
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Speaker 2: terrorist sympathizers, who argue that Charlie Kirk, a loving husband
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Speaker 2: and father, deserved a shot to the neck because he
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Speaker 2: spoke words with which they disagree. Did you know that
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Speaker 2: the George Soros Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation,
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Speaker 2: the groups who funded that disgusting article justifying Charlie's death,
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Speaker 2: Do you know they benefit from generous tax treatment. They
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Speaker 2: are literally subsidized by you and me, the American taxpayer.
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Speaker 2: And how do they reward us by setting fire to
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Speaker 2: the house built by the American family over two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty years. I am desperate for our country to
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Speaker 2: be united in condemnation of the actions and the ideas
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Speaker 2: that killed my friend. I want it so badly that
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Speaker 2: I will tell you a difficult truth. We can only
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Speaker 2: have it with people who acknowledge that political violence is unacceptable,
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Speaker 2: and when we work to dismantle the institutions that promote
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Speaker 2: violence and terrorism in our own country. Now, our government,
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Speaker 2: you heard me talk to Stephen Miller about this, will
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Speaker 2: be working very hard to do exactly that in the
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Speaker 2: months to come. We're not always going to get it right.
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Speaker 2: We will sometimes move more slowly than you would like.
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Speaker 2: We will sometimes move more slowly than I.
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Speaker 3: Want us to.
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Speaker 2: But I promise you that we will explore every option.
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Speaker 3: To bring real unity to our country and stop those
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Speaker 3: who would kill their.
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Speaker 2: Fellow Americans because they don't like what they say.
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Speaker 3: But you have a role too.
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Speaker 2: Civil society, Charlie understood this well, is not just something
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Speaker 2: that flows from the government. It flows from each and
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Speaker 2: every one of us. It flows from all of us.
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Speaker 2: So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them
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Speaker 2: out in hell, call their employer. We don't believe in
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Speaker 2: political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there
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Speaker 2: is no civility in the celebration of political assassination. Get involved,
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Speaker 2: Get involved, Get involved. It's the best way to honor
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Speaker 2: Charlie's legacy. Start a chapter of TPUSA, or get involved
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Speaker 2: in the one that already exists.
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Speaker 3: If you're older, volunteer for.
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Speaker 2: Your local party, write an op ed in your local paper,
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Speaker 2: run for office. I can't promise you this is going
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Speaker 2: to be easy. I can't promise you that all of
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Speaker 2: us will avoid Charlie's fate. Can't promise you that I
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Speaker 2: will avoid Charlie's fate. But the way to honor him
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Speaker 2: is to shine the light of truth like a torch
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Speaker 2: in the very darkest places.
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Speaker 3: Go do it.
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Speaker 2: We owe it to our friend to ensure that his
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Speaker 2: killer is not just prosecuted.
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Speaker 3: But punished.
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Speaker 2: And the worst punishment is not the death penalty, but
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Speaker 2: the knowledge that Charlie's mission continues after he's gone. Saint
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Speaker 2: Paul tells us in the Book of Ephesians to put
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Speaker 2: on the full armor of God. Let all of us
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Speaker 2: put on that armor and commit.
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Speaker 3: Ourselves to that cause. For which Charlie gave his life to.
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Speaker 2: Rebuild a United States of America and to do it
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Speaker 2: by telling the truth. J D.
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Speaker 1: Vance giving his tribute in a speech on the Charlie
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Speaker 1: Kirk Podcast. This is a perfect example of what has
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Speaker 1: happened because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We are
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Speaker 1: also witnessing a big accountability moment in this country. Clemson University,
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Speaker 1: for example, under the microscope for vile comments by employees
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Speaker 1: plural on the assassination of Charlie Kirk is just one example.
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Speaker 1: Another one, the US Department of State has revoked the
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Speaker 1: visa for a British rapper, Bob Violin, after being in
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Speaker 1: support of Charlie Kirk's death and supporting Islamic jihad. These
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Speaker 1: are just some of the things that are changing very quickly.
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Speaker 1: A long time Washington Post columnists, for example, was fired
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Speaker 1: after justifying Charlie Kirk's assassination. Her name is Karen Adwell.
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Speaker 1: She's been a columnist at the far left Washington Post
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Speaker 1: for eleven years. She was fired over the weekend for
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Speaker 1: her words quote speaking out against political violence, radical double standards,
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Speaker 1: and America's apathy towards gunn Then she says, this is
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Speaker 1: really she said, the post accuse my measured Blue Sky
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Speaker 1: posts of being unacceptable, gross misconduct, and of endangering the
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Speaker 1: physical safety of my colleagues, which I reject, is completely false.
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Speaker 3: She says.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb and
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Speaker 1: say I think she was fired for this series of
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Speaker 1: post one author said online, including a fake quote that
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Speaker 1: justified the public execution of a thirty one year old
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Speaker 1: father and husband guilty of nothing more than wanting to debate.
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Speaker 1: She said online. Part of what keeps America so violence
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Speaker 1: is the instance that people perform care, empathy, goodness, and
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Speaker 1: absolutism for white men who espouse hatred in violence. Refusing
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Speaker 1: to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face
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Speaker 1: in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence
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Speaker 1: is not the same as violence. She also said this
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Speaker 1: that Charlie Kirk had said black women do not have
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Speaker 1: the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have
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Speaker 1: to go still a white person slot. She attributed that
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Speaker 1: to Charlie Kirk. You heard there at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: what the Vice president said. How big of a lie
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Speaker 1: that is? And yet she's angry. She got fired, and
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Speaker 1: assassination prior to that shooting taking place. Speaking to Bill Himmer,
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Speaker 1: Bongino said, not only does there appear to have been
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Speaker 1: multiple warning signs, but there were people in the suspect's network,
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Speaker 1: friends and family who had stated that he become more political.
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Speaker 1: He went on to say, I believe some of his
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Speaker 1: co workers said that he had kind of detached himself
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Speaker 1: when the topic of politics came up and walked away
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Speaker 1: from them. He added that it seems ideology had infected
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Speaker 1: him and had taken over. I want you to hear
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Speaker 1: more of what the FBI Deputy director had to say
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Speaker 1: on Fox about what we know about him, how we
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Speaker 1: were able to track him, the forensic that were involved.
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Speaker 1: Listen carefully to what he had to say.
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Speaker 5: After he fired that single fatal shot. We've got the
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Speaker 5: video of him jumping off the backside of the building.
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Speaker 5: Where is the gun when he drops fifteen feet down
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Speaker 5: to the grass below.
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Speaker 6: Well, if you look at the video, the gun is.
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Speaker 6: You'll see the back of the when you're watching the
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Speaker 6: video right there. It appears from the video here that
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Speaker 6: the gun is either in the backpack or on him
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Speaker 6: when he jumps down. This is where, by the way,
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Speaker 6: this part of the video, this is where we got
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Speaker 6: a significant portion of the forensic evidence in the case,
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Speaker 6: which we had to expedite. We had a number of assets,
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Speaker 6: including fixed wing assets, to be able to fly if
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Speaker 6: obviously Salt Lake and that specific area in provo is
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Speaker 6: not around the corner from FBI labs. It was difficult,
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Speaker 6: but we were able during that scene him grabbing that
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Speaker 6: particular side of the building and jumping down, we were
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Speaker 6: able to gather a significant amount of forensic information which
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Speaker 6: we expedited back to the lab, which was the key,
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Speaker 6: I think, piece of information that we were able to
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Speaker 6: crack this thing open.
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Speaker 5: Okay, just looking at that video, it's hard to see
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Speaker 5: the weapon and that's why the question is still obvious
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Speaker 5: to me today. Cash Betel said earlier today that he
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Speaker 5: expressed to someone that he had an opportunity to take
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Speaker 5: out the killer was going to do it. Did that
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Speaker 5: person do anything with that information?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's what we're really disturbed about.
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Speaker 6: It appears that this was communicated. You see this a
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Speaker 6: lot bill when in targeted violence cases assassination, school shootings,
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Speaker 6: where the individual expresses in advance in a good swath
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Speaker 6: of these cases his desire or her desire to do
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Speaker 6: these specific things. That appears to be the case here
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Speaker 6: as well, where the intent component was there in advance
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Speaker 6: and the target was was the target was announced in
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Speaker 6: advance prior.
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Speaker 3: Now that's the.
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Speaker 6: Part we want to know where they did they know?
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Speaker 6: And not say did they now? Bill, you have to
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Speaker 6: keep in mind, I don't want anyone to jump to
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Speaker 6: conclusions on this. There's did they say it, hear it
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Speaker 6: and think it was some kind of a joke. That's
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Speaker 6: what we're trying to find out now. But I promise you,
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Speaker 6: if there's a larger network here, we're going to get
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Speaker 6: that out to the public as soon as we can.
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Speaker 3: We really are, Okay.
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Speaker 5: The reason why this is really important to your investigation
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Speaker 5: understanding motive that I'll get to in a moment here
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Speaker 5: is that I believe that if I've got the dates
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Speaker 5: right here, that that event was announced one week before
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Speaker 5: it happened, and we've got the reporting from over the
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Speaker 5: weekend that said that the killer, the accused killer now
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Speaker 5: expressed views with his family at a dinner table, and
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Speaker 5: I don't know what the timeline is between when that
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Speaker 5: happened was it hours or was it days?
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Speaker 4: I mean, clearly it had to be at least a
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Speaker 4: couple of days, if not less. And if he also
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Speaker 4: expressed this opinion that he had an opportunity to take
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Speaker 4: our Kirk and was going to do it, well, when
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Speaker 4: was that message transmitted from this point.
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Speaker 3: That Charlie was killed.
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Speaker 6: This is the troubling part of the investigation. And as
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Speaker 6: I see it now, there appeared to have been multiple
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Speaker 6: warning signs you just laid out some of them. There
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Speaker 6: were people in his network, friends and family who had
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Speaker 6: stated that he had become more political, that he had
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Speaker 6: become at some parts. I believe some of his coworkers
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Speaker 6: had stated that he had kind of detached himself when
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Speaker 6: the topic of politics came up and walked away from them.
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Speaker 6: Family members said he'd become more political, leading us to
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Speaker 6: believe that this ideology had infected him and had taken over,
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Speaker 6: and he was just intent. It appears from the data
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Speaker 6: we've accumulated and the channel.
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Speaker 2: And that.
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Speaker 6: Note, which we have some evidence may have existed before,
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Speaker 6: based on the communications in that channel, that his target
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Speaker 6: was obviously going to be Charlie, and that people knew
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Speaker 6: in advance. The question is again, I which want to
24:53
Speaker 6: go back to what you had asked before. Did they know,
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Speaker 6: were they sure this, or did they hear this and
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Speaker 6: just write it off. That's what we're going to have
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Speaker 6: to find out, and that's what we're investigating now. Bill,
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Speaker 6: This investigation has just begun. This isn't even the beginning
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Speaker 6: of the beginning. You know, Yes, we have a subject
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Speaker 6: in custody. You know, everybody's innocential proven guilty in our
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Speaker 6: constitutional republic. However, this is not done by any stretch.
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Speaker 6: Our men and women out there in the Bureau have
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Speaker 6: worked tirelessly all week and I just got back to
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Speaker 6: d C last night, and you know, Kash and I
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Speaker 6: were out there on the scene. We walked the scene,
25:31
Speaker 6: we went through every single component of it. We saw
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Speaker 6: the evidence up close and personal, and we went out
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Speaker 6: there to be able to make command decisions with our
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Speaker 6: team on the ground. And I think the process, although
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Speaker 6: not perfect, of course, I think the process went pretty
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Speaker 6: well considered. We got him in thirty thirty three.
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Speaker 1: You listen to Bongino there, and I think one of
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Speaker 1: the things that he's also talking about is is there
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Speaker 1: accountability for those that knew or may have known what
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Speaker 1: was happening here. You go back to that key phrase.
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Speaker 1: I believe some of his coworkers say that he had
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Speaker 1: kind of attached himself, and then you move from there.
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Speaker 1: He referenced the note that Robinson allegedly left behind, pointing
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Speaker 1: that out out that it may have existed quote before,
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Speaker 1: based on communications law enforcement has recovered. He indicated the
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Speaker 1: totality of everything and makes it clear that quote his
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Speaker 1: target was obviously going to be Charlie Kirk, and that
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Speaker 1: the people around him knew that that was going to
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Speaker 1: be his target in advance. So where do you go
26:39
Speaker 1: from here? What Bongino said is the investigators are now
26:43
Speaker 1: having to look at this. Did they know, were they
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Speaker 1: sure of this? Or do they hear this and just
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Speaker 1: write it off. You put all of this together, and
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Speaker 1: then you put it back to the Utah Governor Spencer
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Speaker 1: Cox indication that Charlie Kirk's quote had not only left
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Speaker 1: leaning political beliefs, but clearly disliked Charlie Kirk and was
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Speaker 1: telling people that. So I have to say, there needs
27:12
Speaker 1: to be some sort of accountability, There has to be
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Speaker 1: some sort of obviously very good and in depth investigation.
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Speaker 3: What we also know is there's no.
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Speaker 1: Doubt that this is the guy. The FBI confirming the
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Speaker 1: DNA found at the scene of Charlie kirk'sassination's hiding spot
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Speaker 1: matches the suspect, and apparently he had confessed to his
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Speaker 1: family and to some friends, including in a chat room.
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Speaker 1: And so with a confirmation now that the DNA samples
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Speaker 1: founded the spot where Charlie Kirk's session hid positively matches
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Speaker 1: suspect now in con custody, that also is going to
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Speaker 1: move us forward on another point, and that is on.
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Speaker 3: The death penalty.
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Speaker 1: Cashpittel saying this on Fox and Friends about the DNA matching,
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Speaker 1: and I.
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Speaker 7: Can report today that the DNA hits from the towel
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Speaker 7: that was wrapped around the firearm and the DNA on
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Speaker 7: the screwdriver are positively processed for the suspect in custody.
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Speaker 1: There it is Cash Betel telling you that not only
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Speaker 1: did these suspects towel that wrapped around the assassin's weapon
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Speaker 1: match the screwdriver left on the UVA rooftop, both matched
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Speaker 1: the suspect already in custody. This is incredible work, by
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Speaker 1: the way, by the men and women in law enforcement. Robinson,
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Speaker 1: by the way, also were a note saying declaring that
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Speaker 1: he had an opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and
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Speaker 1: that he was going to take it. Patel went on
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Speaker 1: to say as well, saying, quote, we have since learned
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Speaker 1: the note, even though it was destroyed, We have found
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Speaker 1: forensic evidence of the note, and we have confirmed that
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Speaker 1: what the note said because our aggressive interview posture at
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Speaker 1: the FBI. We also know that further found on the
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Speaker 1: thirty caliber bolt action rifle with a scope believed to
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Speaker 1: have been used in the shooting is still being analyzed
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Speaker 1: to determine its links to Robinson as well. Pattel also
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Speaker 1: confirmed that Robinson is still not cooperating with investigators. I
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Speaker 1: got to say, I am very thankful for cash Hotel,
29:19
Speaker 1: for Dan Bongino, for all of the men and women
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Speaker 1: in law enforcement that have been working on this case
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Speaker 1: at the local, state and at the federal level. What
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Speaker 1: they were able to do to find him, and what
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Speaker 1: they've been able to do to make it very clear
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Speaker 1: he did. What he did is incredible police work. God
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Speaker 1: bless him for what they're doing, and God blessed Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: by the way, for making sure that he picked the
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