A Nation Mourns: Remembering Charlie Kirk After a Devastating Loss That Shook America

[00:00] There are very few things in my life

[00:03] that have shaken me to my core like this

[00:06] past week has. I I tend to I don't know

[00:10] what it is, but I tend to believe I'm

[00:12] this invincible person. Uh that no

[00:15] weapon formed against me shall prosper.

[00:18] Um but man, I I'm so shaken. It's I'm in

[00:23] my pajamas. I clearly have no makeup on.

[00:25] It's the middle of the night. I can't

[00:26] sleep. Uh today is 9/11. Uh so it goes

[00:32] without saying, God bless our first

[00:33] responders. God bless the people uh who

[00:36] risk it all, who put their lives on the

[00:38] line, the nearly 3,000 who died 24 years

[00:41] ago to the day. Uh 9/11 in 2001, it it

[00:47] was an attack from the outside. But

[00:50] today, I was one years old at the time,

[00:53] right? Of course, there's not clear

[00:54] memory of what this day was like, but I

[00:57] can speak to the memory I feel today uh

[01:00] on September 11th of 2025.

[01:04] Uh this is an attack from within. What

[01:07] we are facing, what we are seeing, but

[01:09] not thousands uh well over thousands,

[01:13] millions have died because of the harm,

[01:16] the destructive policies, the rhetoric

[01:19] that we have seen be used uh certainly

[01:21] over these these past few years. But

[01:23] today

[01:25] uh I I feel the weight of it. I feel it.

[01:28] It has it has culminated has what feels

[01:30] like reached a point of of a climax. I I

[01:35] just I don't have words. I can't sleep.

[01:37] It's the middle of the night right now.

[01:40] Uh can't sleep. Uh I I'm I mean it goes

[01:44] without saying what I'm referring to.

[01:46] I've lost a friend, a mentor, the person

[01:50] I go to that I mean the intellectual

[01:54] mind and genius that is Charlie Kirk. I

[01:56] mean, the generational talent I I I

[01:58] truthfully believe that his impact, his

[02:02] impact alone as one person, what he's

[02:03] been able to do through Turning Point,

[02:06] uh, which I'm a very, very proud

[02:07] contributor of. I talk about it on this

[02:09] show all the time. Uh, what he's been

[02:11] able to do is transform a nation, revive

[02:15] a culture, a culture of young people,

[02:18] people just like me. He he has revol

[02:21] revolutionized so many young patriots,

[02:24] so many young Christians.

[02:26] Uh, I lost a friend and a mentor. Erica

[02:29] lost her husband. I I mean, I can't help

[02:32] but think about her. This is one of the

[02:33] most kind and compassionate women you

[02:37] could possibly imagine. Uh, this was her

[02:41] greatest fear. I mean, we had talked

[02:43] about it. This is her greatest fear. I

[02:46] won't go into the details there. Two

[02:47] children lost their fathers. uh they

[02:50] will be haunted forever by the videos

[02:53] that can't be scrubbed from social

[02:55] media. Those videos will live on.

[02:57] They're so young. Uh some of their fond

[03:00] memories now, those may not live on, but

[03:03] these videos do. Uh this nation has lost

[03:08] the best and most effective, most

[03:11] influential activists it's ever had. Uh

[03:15] and I'm not even just talking about a

[03:17] conservative activist. I'm talking about

[03:18] on both sides. Uh Charlie had the work

[03:22] ethic of no one I had ever met in my

[03:25] entire life. Uh his willingness, there

[03:29] was no complaining when you're around

[03:30] Charlie. He was traveling the world, not

[03:32] just the nation. He was in South Korea.

[03:34] I mean, last week he was in Oxford in

[03:37] the UK a few weeks ago. I mean this this

[03:40] is a this is a man who traveled the

[03:42] world to speak number one and proclaim

[03:45] the name of the Lord but of course to

[03:47] speak the truth as it pertains to

[03:50] ideology what is harmful what makes a

[03:54] nation prosperous this is uh this is

[03:57] really hard and and as it's now to have

[04:01] no information on the killer uh the

[04:04] assassin the political assassin who

[04:06] roams free a really terrifying thought

[04:09] I'm I'm really reluctant to admit it. Um

[04:11] I I'm I'm hesitant to say, but it's

[04:15] true. I'm I'm I'm afraid. I started this

[04:18] by saying I I feel as if typically I'm a

[04:22] pretty invincible person. Bulletproof,

[04:25] right? I I think watching what happened

[04:27] to Trump uh last year, of course, that

[04:30] was hard, but you don't want to say it's

[04:33] expected, but this is the man who's

[04:34] going to be president of the United

[04:36] States. At this point, he had already

[04:37] been the president. You can almost

[04:39] expect for lunatics, and that's what

[04:41] these people are. They're evil, soulless

[04:44] ghouls,

[04:45] um, you can expect for those people,

[04:48] right? I mean, if someone wants you dead

[04:50] and they're willing to lose their life,

[04:52] I mean, there's there's only so much you

[04:54] can do to prevent this. So, of course,

[04:56] the events that that took place in

[04:58] Butler, Pennsylvania shook me, but that

[05:01] was Trump. Charlie, this is really

[05:04] different. I'm afraid. I am

[05:08] like I'm I feel like my head has to be

[05:10] on a swivel. Um the amount of texts that

[05:15] I've received, I mean thousands the past

[05:18] 24 hours of people telling me to be

[05:21] vigilant, be aware, be safe, don't leave

[05:23] my house, don't go outside. The threats

[05:25] that I have received,

[05:27] we don't have to live like this. We

[05:30] shouldn't have to live like this in fear

[05:33] of speaking the truth raw and

[05:37] unfiltered. I I mean, I'm talking things

[05:39] like men and women are different. I'm

[05:42] talking things like borders, you you

[05:44] can't have a a nation without secure

[05:47] borders. Things like crime and how it's

[05:49] a bad thing. Uh I I mean citing

[05:53] statistics I I there there are so many

[05:57] oh just just thoughts um and concerns

[06:00] that I have. This is what I do. Go to

[06:02] campuses, high school campuses, college

[06:04] campuses. You you speak to you engage

[06:07] with you mobilize the youth. Again, no

[06:09] one did that better than Charlie Kirk.

[06:10] I've been on about a hundred different

[06:12] campuses or so. It's what I do. I go to

[06:15] these venues. I've been in these

[06:16] settings with Charlie. I mean, not long

[06:18] ago, we were back at San Francisco State

[06:20] University. And to speak to the violence

[06:22] and the vitriol that the that the other

[06:24] side purports that that is seeping from

[06:28] from every orifice and pour of their

[06:31] body. That is where I was held hostage.

[06:34] It could have been any one of us. What

[06:37] happened to Charlie? I would have been

[06:39] there with him this week when he was

[06:42] fatally shot if I weren't this far along

[06:44] in my pregnancy. Um, where do we go from

[06:48] here? I ask that genuinely. It's not a

[06:51] rhetorical question. I I genuinely ask.

[06:54] Our society is so so so sick and so

[06:58] broken. Uh, the truth is so hated. I I

[07:02] just don't know how you coexist with a a

[07:05] a group of people who genuinely want to

[07:08] and will. They've proven that they will

[07:11] kill you for disagreeing with them

[07:14] politically. And that that's precisely

[07:15] what has happened here to Charlie Kirk.

[07:18] Uh he was killed. They killed a man. A

[07:22] again a father, a husband, a Christian,

[07:26] two young kids. His wife is left

[07:28] widowed. Again, she's just one of the

[07:30] most amazing women texting me the

[07:32] morning of uh asking me about baby and

[07:35] the pregnancy and how everything's

[07:36] going. Uh asking me for my address. I

[07:39] can only imagine they wanted to send a

[07:40] gift. I I I mean they did this to him

[07:46] because they disagreed with him

[07:47] politically. They knew there was no one

[07:49] like Charlie Kirk again on either side.

[07:52] They knew they had to get him. Uh if

[07:55] they couldn't get Trump, which they

[07:57] tried that, too. The next best thing was

[07:59] Charlie Kirk. Uh everyone knew it. If

[08:02] you spent any amount of time, obviously

[08:04] watching Charlie online, but any amount

[08:06] of time with Charlie in person, you knew

[08:09] there was no doubt in your mind that he

[08:11] would become the president one day. I I

[08:13] mean, that's how intelligent, that's how

[08:15] personable, that's how authentic and

[08:17] genuine he was. He knew everything on

[08:20] every topic. Man, I'm I'm This is the

[08:24] devil.

[08:26] He is real. He is alive. He walks this

[08:29] earth. He has his claws in the minds of

[08:33] so so many. There's no doubt uh that the

[08:37] enemy is hard at work. I've seen it on

[08:42] Tik Tok X some of the comments from the

[08:46] deranged

[08:48] I mean it it's hard to call them people

[08:50] truthfully don't they don't feel like

[08:52] people you would imagine um with the

[08:55] word people uh there's certain things

[08:58] that come with that one of those being a

[09:00] soul these people don't have souls uh

[09:03] the response that we have seen the

[09:05] celebration

[09:07] uh from these ghouls

[09:10] Um it has left me entirely at the feet

[09:14] of Jesus. Um surrendering everything

[09:18] again asking the question where do we

[09:20] go? What do we need to do? What can I do

[09:23] as a Christian myself as a person who

[09:25] cares deeply about this nation? As a

[09:27] woman who is a wife about to bring a

[09:30] life into this world at any day now,

[09:33] what do we do? I don't know if I have a

[09:36] good answer for that, but I do know

[09:38] this. Uh, evil will not have the final

[09:42] word. Uh, one day, and I I desperately

[09:45] hope it's soon. I really do. Uh, God

[09:49] will make everything right. Uh, but

[09:52] until then, we pray. uh we weep with his

[09:57] family, we mourn with his family, we

[09:58] grieve with them, we love them, we keep

[10:00] fighting uh knowing that victory in the

[10:05] end, it has already been won. Uh, of

[10:09] course, we talk about this war, this war

[10:12] on woke, these cultural battles and and

[10:14] we've seen lots of wins there, but they

[10:17] don't matter much uh because the eternal

[10:19] war has already been won. Uh I'm so

[10:23] grateful. I I think that's really like

[10:25] the the thing keeping me is I mean any

[10:28] amount of grounded is knowing that

[10:30] Charlie knew Jesus. Uh knowing that that

[10:34] he was a man who fought for the hope and

[10:36] the promise of eternal life. Nothing of

[10:37] this world mattered to Charlie. Of

[10:39] course he loved his family. Of course he

[10:41] loved this nation. He loved the truth.

[10:44] But he was fighting for eternal life.

[10:45] And so my message to

[10:49] I mean everyone listening to this is to

[10:52] take up the cross uh is to live a life

[10:56] like Charlie Kirk did to live a

[10:58] Christlike life. Um there's a couple

[11:01] verses that come to mind. Uh I mean

[11:05] again this is just entirely off the

[11:07] cuff. I haven't prepared anything. I

[11:09] don't I I'm I've been up for hours just

[11:11] thinking in constant prayer. Um, but a

[11:15] couple verses I feel like have been put

[11:16] on my heart. One of those being

[11:18] Ephesians 5:11, which is take no part in

[11:19] the evil works of darkness, but instead

[11:21] expose them. I mean, that's the

[11:23] embodiment of Charlie Kirk. Um, that is

[11:27] exactly and precisely what he did was

[11:29] expose, hold a mirror up to people. He

[11:31] did nothing other than sit at a table.

[11:34] Well, he did a lot beyond that, but I'm

[11:36] talking on these college venues, these

[11:38] college campuses, he would sit at a

[11:39] table and and simply ask people to prove

[11:43] him wrong.

[11:45] What better place to do it? Uh these

[11:48] these campuses

[11:50] uh institutes of higher education, at

[11:52] least that's what they pride themselves

[11:53] on, where where intellectual debate

[11:56] should be encouraged, not stifled or

[11:59] shot down.

[12:00] Um, man, another verse is Matthew 10:28.

[12:05] Uh, this is one I said uh just yesterday

[12:07] on on Sean Hannity. I don't have the

[12:09] words. I don't think I will have the

[12:11] words for a really long time. Uh, I

[12:12] mean, again, these these last few days,

[12:13] just the sheer weight of evil has been

[12:14] really, really heavy across this nation,

[12:16] across this world. This transcends

[12:17] borders. Like I said, it could have been

[12:19] any one of us. They killed Charlie

[12:22] because he was he put himself out there.

[12:26] He was willing to go into the belly of

[12:27] the beast. Something not a lot of people

[12:30] are willing to do to put himself in

[12:33] front of a camera uh to speak into a

[12:36] microphone. That's why they got him uh

[12:39] is because he was out there. But they

[12:41] they killed him for his views that I

[12:44] hold that I imagine most of you watching

[12:48] this hold. It could have been any single

[12:51] one of us. It didn't feel right uh not

[12:55] making a tribute to him, to his family,

[12:58] to the work that he has done. I mean,

[13:00] again, uh he's done more for my

[13:04] generation than anyone ever in in my

[13:08] lifetime as it pertains to the

[13:10] political, social, cultural war. uh what

[13:14] he did I I mean he created

[13:18] so many firsttime MAGA voters and his

[13:21] goal he would tell you this if you

[13:22] talked to him uh was to turn those

[13:24] firsttime voters following the 2024

[13:26] election into lifelong conservatives. He

[13:28] made MAGA uh cool. He did. Um I don't

[13:34] think again Donald Trump would be

[13:35] president without Charlie Kirk. I really

[13:38] don't. That's how profound his impact

[13:41] has been. We live in a time where things

[13:44] are constantly moving forward. Trump

[13:47] moves with such efficiency. There's a

[13:49] new headline every single day. Uh we

[13:51] can't even get to some of the the

[13:52] newsworthy breaking things because

[13:55] there's so much going on. Uh I hope that

[14:00] Charlie and his legacy uh will not be

[14:04] overlooked. It's again it's it's almost

[14:07] inevitable when there's so much good and

[14:09] bad happening. Uh but I was watching the

[14:13] news uh when the story broke, learning

[14:16] about the the political violence and I

[14:19] was reminded of the Tesla fire bomb

[14:20] because I had forgotten about that

[14:22] entirely. Like it it slipped my mind

[14:24] that that had happened because again we

[14:27] are inundated with stories of tragedies.

[14:31] I mean this past week as I said the the

[14:33] the weight of evil, the beautiful young

[14:36] innocent Ukrainian refugee who lost her

[14:39] life. There was nothing she could have

[14:42] done to prevent that. All she did was

[14:44] get on the the public transportation,

[14:47] sit down, and I mean, a minute and a

[14:50] half later, she was dead. Uh, no

[14:54] forewarning

[14:56] that no amount of situational awareness

[14:59] really could have prepared her for that.

[15:01] I was thinking to myself, I actually

[15:03] made a video I posted on my social media

[15:05] talking about how women specifically

[15:07] should number one get their concealed

[15:08] carry. Uh how they should purchase a

[15:10] legally purchase a firearm, how they

[15:12] should practice, practice, practice, be

[15:13] confident in your abilities. Uh handling

[15:16] a gun, understand the the mechanism, the

[15:19] the dynamic, what you do in a stressful

[15:21] situation. If your gun gets jammed, uh

[15:24] uh working on precision with your aim

[15:26] and your fire and your accur accuracy,

[15:28] all these things. Uh, step number four,

[15:30] carry that gun with you everywhere you

[15:32] go. And five, be willing to defend

[15:33] yourself, but that wouldn't have helped.

[15:35] A gun wouldn't have helped that woman.

[15:38] Uh, now this this week, it it just is it

[15:41] almost feels too much to bear. And I

[15:44] don't know. I don't know. I mean, I'm

[15:46] scheduled for campuses all throughout

[15:49] the fall. Again, some of those were

[15:51] supposed to be with Charlie. Uh, I don't

[15:56] know what we do. The picture in my mind

[15:59] is of course Trump standing up with his

[16:01] fists in the air saying fight.

[16:03] Uh but today is a dark day. I've seen

[16:07] people on the other side saying now is

[16:09] the time for a conversation. We need to

[16:11] to be able to discuss these things. You

[16:13] don't get to say that anymore because

[16:16] guess what? You killed the guy who did

[16:18] that. You killed the guy who had the

[16:20] conversations who wanted to discuss

[16:22] things. I I just the virtue signaling uh

[16:26] what we saw on the House floor that that

[16:29] will forever be one of the most

[16:30] despicable

[16:32] acts that lacked decorum in human

[16:35] decency that that I've ever seen. Uh

[16:38] where Lauren Boowbert uh yesterday

[16:41] stands up uh asked for a moment of

[16:43] prayer for Charlie after learning of

[16:46] this incident. And you have Democrats,

[16:47] people like Jasmine Crockett, you could

[16:49] visibly hear her screeching, "No, no,

[16:53] we're not going to pray for him." Don't

[16:55] forget what happened in Minnesota a few

[16:58] weeks ago where a trans shooter

[17:00] innocently took the lives of of children

[17:03] and then cowardly took his own life. Um,

[17:07] we had people, Democratic elected

[17:08] officials, people like Gavin Newsome,

[17:10] the mayor of Minneapolis, etc., etc.,

[17:13] Jins Saki who went on to say that I mean

[17:16] to condemn prayer to say that prayer is

[17:18] not enough enough with your prayers stop

[17:21] the prayers. Of course, I understand the

[17:24] sentiment of needing action, which we

[17:26] have seen from the Trump administration

[17:29] investigating uh how SSRIs or or

[17:32] anti-depressants or or any sort of drug

[17:36] pertaining to the mental illnesses that

[17:39] these people so clearly have have on I

[17:43] guess the link the connection between

[17:45] those SSRIs and violence. Like we are

[17:47] seeing action, but the answer isn't to

[17:50] get rid of guns. and Charlie Kirk would

[17:52] tell you the exact same thing. Uh, God

[17:57] bless our first responders. God bless uh

[17:59] our US military members, our service

[18:01] members, the people on the front lines.

[18:04] Uh, I guess what I want to tell you all,

[18:08] invest in a flag. Spend a couple

[18:10] hundred, right? I I don't know. It's a

[18:13] couple hundred bucks. I just I got one

[18:14] for my birthday this year. That was my

[18:16] husband's birthday present to me was a

[18:18] 25- ft flag pole to stand out in in the

[18:22] front of our house to be planted and

[18:24] stand tall and proudly. I encourage

[18:27] every American

[18:30] who whose heart beats for this nation,

[18:33] for God, for the truth to buy a flag

[18:35] pole, put it out in front of your house

[18:38] and fly it high. Uh it was really hard

[18:44] yesterday pulling my flag to half mass

[18:48] where we'll stay until the 14th as

[18:51] ordered. Um but ma'am that that's what

[18:54] we should do. Watch the response from

[18:56] your neighbors. Get a good glimpse of of

[19:00] who feels

[19:02] uh offended or hurt or victimized by you

[19:06] flying a flag. But I encourage everyone

[19:09] to do that. Uh Charlie would love to see

[19:13] that. Our prayers are with his family.

[19:16] Our prayers are with his kids. Um Lord,

[19:20] we know that you are are near to the

[19:24] brokenhearted. Uh but wrap your arms

[19:27] around the people who who watched

[19:30] Charlie, who knew him, who loved him.

[19:32] Comfort them, provide them with with

[19:34] strength.

[19:36] um in ways that I guess words cannot

[19:41] ease their pain with your presence,

[19:43] which we know um we know that you do,

[19:47] Charlie. We know your body is is without

[19:50] a pulse. Uh is cold to the touch, but we

[19:54] know that your soul lives on. Uh and I I

[19:57] vow personally and I know there are

[20:00] millions of others uh who will as well.

[20:04] We vow to continue your legacy. Uh I

[20:07] believe it's fitting your organization,

[20:10] an organization again that I proudly

[20:13] uh work for.

[20:16] Uh, I believe it's fitting it's named

[20:18] turning point. Uh, I believe that that's

[20:22] exactly what this is is a turning point

[20:25] for this nation. It's a turning point

[20:27] for me personally. It really is. Uh, I

[20:30] surrender. I surrender everything. Uh,

[20:33] I'm at the feet of Jesus. And so, uh,

[20:37] prayers be with you guys. it didn't feel

[20:39] right to continue on uh without

[20:41] addressing

[20:43] uh what a dear friend, a mentor, uh a

[20:46] person who I would go to for political,

[20:49] relational, spiritual, it didn't matter.

[20:51] This was a person who he knew everything

[20:54] so I could go to him for any advice, any

[20:56] guidance that I needed. And I did. Um

[21:01] Lord be be with us.

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