00:00This is unacceptable. It's so tragic.
00:03And he touched a lot of people and a lot of people's hearts.
00:08You're going to hear a lot more about that in the next hour and in the coming hours here on Fox News.
00:13His first television hit, Greg Gutfeld, was Fox News, Fox and Friends in 2012, believe it or not.
00:20So we've known the young man for a long time and may he rest in peace.
00:24Yeah, he's, I've known him for probably 10 years.
00:28I mean, it's hard to gather your thoughts beyond just horror.
00:34So instead, I mean, you know, Charlie was such a force of nature.
00:41He was brilliant and he was funny.
00:44But what scared people was his persuasiveness.
00:48The only way to take him down because he could persuade you so strongly was to kill him.
00:53You know, and the shock and despair that we are feeling, and I mean, we as in shared by everyone at home and around this table and in this building, it's a testament to the impact of Charlie's friendship and his bravery and his character.
01:09And it's so deep a wound that we all feel it's because it feels like he's one of us.
01:17He's he's part of us because he was such genuinely a patriot and a great person.
01:23So how do you how do you work through this stuff?
01:26You know, it's not about him or me.
01:28It's us, the viewers, you are us.
01:31What do we do?
01:33Well, you still do what you always do, but you do more of it.
01:36You stand up, you speak up and you share the risk.
01:40Right now, you are recoiling, but you have to come back and return stronger, more fortified and more resilient.
01:48What is.
01:50Ironic, fittingly, I guess, is that this is a turning point.
01:53You know, if you believe in Charlie, you've got to believe in yourself because he believed in you.
01:59You know, this isn't over.
02:01This is the beginning.
02:02And Charlie's power just got released in all of us.
02:05He's going to be bigger now than he ever was in this chaotic planet.
02:09He made us all bigger.
02:11So I think that if you're at home and you're feeling bad, don't just just get through it.
02:18And remember that he would want you to get stronger and not back down.
02:25Jesse, before I go to you, Trump, President Trump has announced that the flags will fly at half mass for Charlie Kirk until Sunday evening at 6 p.m.
02:37I know you knew him well, too.
02:38Yeah, we're sick.
02:40We're sad.
02:40We're angry and we're resolute.
02:43And we're going to avenge Charlie's death in the way Charlie would want it to be avenged.
02:48He was such a beautiful boy.
02:52He was an American boy and he was incredibly positive.
02:58He was full of energy and life and he made politics fun.
03:03You see it at his events when things blow up and the music plays.
03:09And we haven't had that in a very long time in this country.
03:13Every time he did a hit on my show, he would text me afterwards.
03:17Thank you, Jesse.
03:18I really appreciate having you on.
03:21And my daughter loved him.
03:23I mean, she's 13 years old.
03:25This is a man who touched an entire generation of Americans and electrified them and made them patriots.
03:32And this is not a controversial person.
03:35This is not a polarizing guy, a divisive person, a firebrand that he's being described as in the media.
03:45This is like a guy that you have a barbecue with at your summer house.
03:51This is the kind of guy, if you came back with your daughter, you'd say, thank God, we got a good one.
03:57He's a great athlete.
03:58He's a great person.
04:00He's a great Christian.
04:02You see his family out there.
04:04He had his kids not facing the photos because he wanted to protect them because he knew how evil people were.
04:10So when he goes out to these college campuses, he's not provoking anybody.
04:15He's like Socrates.
04:16He asks questions and he does it with a smile.
04:20And there's nothing controversial about saying socialism is worse than capitalism.
04:26Men and women are different.
04:28Let's put America first because that's all he was about, putting America first.
04:33And as Greg said, this hits differently because Charlie was one of us and Trump gets hit in the ear.
04:43Charlie gets shot dead.
04:46They came after Kavanaugh with a rifle to his neighborhood.
04:50They went after Musk's cars.
04:52They just shot two Jews outside the embassy.
04:56Think about it.
04:57Scalise got shot, barely survived.
05:00It's happening.
05:00You've got trans shooters.
05:02You've got riots in L.A.
05:04They are at war with us.
05:07Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us.
05:11What are we going to do about it?
05:12How much political violence are we going to tolerate?
05:16And that's the question we're just going to have to ask ourselves.
05:19Now, Charlie would want us to put as much pressure on these people as possible.
05:26Dana nailed it.
05:27This is unacceptable and has to stop.
05:30And it has to stop now.
05:32And everybody's accountable.
05:34And we're watching what they're saying on television.
05:37And who's saying what?
05:38The politicians and the media and all these rats out there.
05:43This can never happen again.
05:45It ends now.
05:46Greg's right again.
05:48This is a turning point.
05:49And we know which direction we're going.
05:51And we know which direction we're going.
05:52Turning point used so appropriately there.
05:54This is also in.
05:56Joe Biden has posted on X a statement.
05:58He said, there is no place in our country for this kind of violence.
06:00It must end now.
06:01Jill and I are praying for Charlie Kirk's family and loved ones.
06:05I'm sure to have many more of these statements to come through.
06:08Harold, you also knew Charlie Kirk.
06:11I met Charlie a few times.
06:13First off, my condolences and prayers to his family.
06:17This is a young dad.
06:19The kind of pain that his wife has to be experiencing as she is channeling her own kids.
06:26She should know she'll be lifting in my family's prayers tonight.
06:28You all have said it.
06:31This is horrifying.
06:33It's profoundly sad.
06:35A 31, 32-year-old young man.
06:37I know he was born in 1993.
06:38I don't know his exact birthday.
06:40But he'd been 32 this year if he wasn't already.
06:44We, I don't know all the details about the shooter or any of those things.
06:49I'm sure we will learn and rightly learn.
06:51But our, our infatuation with our own politics and our own ideas causes us, I think, to drown
07:02in these, these thoughts and these justifications.
07:04I've read some things and seen some things that people have said today who have talked
07:09about Charlie's politics in a way that it sounds as if they are trying to, to, to bring
07:16some understanding or justification for this.
07:19There's no justification for this.
07:21Charlie and I didn't agree on a lot of politics, a lot of the paths to solve political problems.
07:28But I viewed his thoughts and ideas as ways to try to help make my thoughts and ideas
07:33better.
07:34Politics at its best is that.
07:37We're going to hear a lot over the coming days on, on both sides, those who adored Charlie
07:43and his politics, those who did not like Charlie, did not like his politics.
07:47But there's, there's no place in our country.
07:50There's no place, if you love America, if you love freedom, if you indeed want to make
07:54America, whatever side you sit on, Democrat or Republican, the greatest nation in the world
07:59and believe it is, you can't in any way defend this or justify this.
08:05I, I close where I started.
08:06My thought, I don't know Erica, but my thoughts and prayers to her and to those, to his daughter
08:11and to his son.
08:14Free speech lives high in your list of priorities, Kennedy.
08:18Absolutely.
08:19And you think about all of us go out there and we want to meet the public.
08:22We want to speak.
08:23We want to speak our minds.
08:25We are fortunate enough to have been given a microphone and this medium to talk about
08:31ideas and amplify what we believe is right.
08:35It is okay to be polarizing.
08:37It is okay to be a lightning rod.
08:39It is okay for people to disagree with you.
08:42It is not okay to take someone's life.
08:44And, you know, there are people who have tried to justify what happened based on the reaction
08:51that Charlie Kirk stirred in people.
08:54I will tell you this, as Jesse said, his daughter loved Charlie Kirk.
08:59My daughter is a junior in college.
09:02A lot of them only get their news from TikTok and they all know who Charlie Kirk is because
09:08using the Socratic method, he has confronted the sophistry of socialism and progressivism
09:15on college campuses.
09:17That was his life's work and they all knew who he was.
09:21And as they shared those videos, many of those young people questioned their beliefs, maybe
09:26for the first time in their lives.
09:29And it's okay to do that as well.
09:31And I hope they continue to do that.
09:34And that his shadow resonates for generations of people who are able to sit down with those
09:41they disagree with and have a conversation with them and confront them with the inadequacies
09:47of their arguments, hoping that they come to the side that Charlie Kirk lived and believed
09:54was right.
09:55And he did it with good cheer, a happy warrior.
