Anchoring His Life In Christ: Hawley Reflects On Charlie Kirk's Greatest Legacy

[00:01] CHARLIE HAD AND WE SHOULD

[00:02] CONTINUE THAT AS WELL.

[00:03] CONGRESSMAN, THANK YOU AS

[00:05] ALWAYS.

[00:05] CHARLIE WAS A STRONG

[00:07] BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIAN.

[00:07] HE DID NOT SHY AWAY FROM

[00:09] SPEAKING ABOUT HIS FAITH.

[00:12] >> NINE OUT OF 13 ORIGINAL

[00:15] REQUIRED YOU TO BE IN CHRISTIAN

[00:17] TO SERVE IN GOVERNMENT.

[00:19] ALL 13 OUT OF 13 DECLARED

[00:22] DECLARATION OF FAITH.

[00:23] # OUT OF 13 PROTESTANT.

[00:26] STILL CATHOLIC REQUIRED.

[00:30] BIBLE BELIEVING TURN ATTENDING

[00:32] CHRISTIANS.

[00:32] LAST PARAGRAPH OF THE

[00:34] DECLARATION READS AS A PRAYER.

[00:36] WE APPEAL TO THE SUPREME JUDGE

[00:37] OF THE UNIVERSE.

[00:38] WHO IS THE JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE

[00:39] JESUS CHRIST IT SAYS IN

[00:41] REVELATION THAT JESUS WILL JUDGE

[00:42] THE EARTH ON HIS THROWN.

[00:44] IN T DECLARATION THEY WERE

[00:46] PRAYING TO CHRIST OUR LORD AS A

[00:48] PRAYER VERY SPECIFICALLY.

[00:52] >> Laura: HERE WITH ME IS

[00:54] MISSOURI SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY.

[00:56] YOU WERE CLOSE, AS WERE SO MANY

[00:58] SENATORS AND CONGRESSMAN TO

[01:00] CHARLIE KIRK.

[01:01] HIS UNABASHED WILLINGNESS TO

[01:06] TALK ABOUT UNCOMFORTABLE ISSUES

[01:08] AND FAITH IS SOMETIMES

[01:10] UNCOMFORTABLE FOR PEOPLE.

[01:11] HE SAID NO, NO, NO.

[01:13] IT'S -- THE BEST THING TO HAVE

[01:15] BELIEVED.

[01:17] IT'S AWESOME LET ME TELL YOU WHY

[01:21] I BELIEVE AND TELL ME WHAT YOU

[01:22] THINK.

[01:22] OHIO IMPORTANT IS THAT

[01:24] ONE-ON-ONE ENGAGEMENT AND THE

[01:24] SHARING OF FAITH AS HE DID ON

[01:26] THAT PODCAST?

[01:28] >> HUGE, I MEAN, HUGELY

[01:29] IMPORTANT, LAURA.

[01:30] I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE ONE OF

[01:31] HIS GREATEST LEGACIES, I WAS

[01:33] THINKING TODAY.

[01:34] I THINK MY FAVORITE MEMORY WITH

[01:36] CHARLIE, I HAVE KNOWN HIM NOW

[01:38] ALMOST 10 YEARS.

[01:39] MY FAVORITE MOMMIRY WITH HIM IS

[01:40] WHEN HE INVITED ME OUT TO DREAM

[01:43] CITY CHURCH IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA.

[01:44] WILL YOU COME OUT TO THIS CHURCH

[01:46] AND WILL YOU SPEAK WITH THEM AND

[01:48] SIT AND TALK WITH ME AND LET'S

[01:52] SING SOME HYMNS TOGETHER AND

[01:54] WORSHIP JESUS TOGETHER AND WILL

[01:55] YOU TALK TO THEM ABOUT YOUR

[01:56] FAITH?

[01:56] I SAID ABSOLUTELY I WOULD LOVE.

[01:57] TO SAY TO ME THAT JUST

[02:00] INCAPSULATED CHARLIE.

[02:00] HE WANTED EVERYBODY WHAT HE

[02:02] BELIEVED IN AND WHAT ANCHORED

[02:03] HIS LIFE.

[02:04] AS YOU SAID, LAURA, HE WASN'T

[02:05] AFRAID.

[02:06] HE LIVED A CONSEQUENTIAL LIFE

[02:07] BECAUSE HE WASN'T AFRAID TO TALK

[02:09] ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER

[02:13] MOST HE HOPE THAT'S WHAT WE TAKE

[02:14] AWAY FROM HIS LIFE AND LEGACY.

[02:16] IT'S JUST GOING TO REVERBERATE,

[02:19] LAW ENFORCEMENT.

[02:20] >> Laura: THE VICIOUSNESS OF THE

[02:21] LEFT, EVEN IN THE AFTERMATH OF A

[02:24] POLITICAL ASSASSINATION AND THE

[02:26] COMMENTS, THERE WAS -- YOU KNOW,

[02:27] THERE WAS A COMMENT EARLY ON BY

[02:31] PRITZKER, WE WILL QUEUE IT UP,

[02:32] JUST TONE DEAF, AGAIN, TONE

[02:34] DEAF, THIS IS ALL LEGACY -- THE

[02:37] IMPLICATION BEING THIS IS THE

[02:40] LEGACY OF CURRENT DAYS THAT ARE

[02:42] DOMINATED BY DONALD TRUMP.

[02:43] I THINK WE HAVE THE SOUNDBITE,

[02:45] LET'S WATCH.

[02:45] >> I WANT TO EXPRESS MY SYMPATHY

[02:48] TO CHARLIE KIRK FAMILY AND TO

[02:50] CHARLIE KIRK WHO, OBVIOUSLY,

[02:51] BECOME A TARGET FOR SOMEBODY.

[02:53] I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S

[02:54] POLITICAL VIOLENCE BECAUSE I

[02:54] DON'T KNOW WHO DID IT.

[02:56] THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE

[02:57] FOMENTING IT IN THIS COUNTRY.

[02:59] I THINK THE PRESIDENT'S RHETORIC

[03:01] OFTEN FOMENTS IT.

[03:02] WE HAVE SEEN THE JANUARY 6TH

[03:06] RIOTERS WHO CLEARLY, YOU KNOW,

[03:10] HAVE TRIPPED A NEW ERA OF

[03:13] POLITICAL VIOLENCE.

[03:18] >> Laura: UNBELIEVABLE?

[03:18] THE DEMOCRATS THINK HE IS A

[03:21] PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER.

[03:22] >> I JUST CAN'T EXPRESS HOW

[03:25] SICKENING I FIND LISTENING TO

[03:26] EVERY SYLLABLE OF THAT.

[03:27] I MEAN, IT IS REPREHENSIBLE.

[03:30] JUST REPREHENSIBLE.

[03:31] AND YOU SAID IT EARLIER, LAURA.

[03:33] THE REASON THAT THE LEFT HATED

[03:34] CHARLIE SO MUCH.

[03:35] HE WENT OUT AND CONFRONTED THEM

[03:37] WITH FACTS AND GOOD CHEER.

[03:38] DO YOU KNOW WHAT?

[03:39] HE LOVED LIFE.

[03:40] HE LOVED LIFE HE KNEW WHO HE

[03:42] WAS.

[03:42] BECAUSE HE KNEW WHO HIS GOD WAS.

[03:44] BECAUSE HE WAS A HAPPY MAN,

[03:47] HAPPILY MARRIED WITH BEAUTIFUL

[03:48] CHILDREN.

[03:48] THEY HATED HIM FOR THAT THEY

[03:50] STL L HATE HIM FOR THAT WE GOT

[03:51] TO GET OVER THAT HATE IN

[03:53] AMERICA.

[03:53] IT IS POISONING THIS COUNTRY THE

[03:57] LET IS POISONING THIS COUNTRY

[03:58] WITH THIS HATE.

[03:58] I HOPE PEOPLE WILL WAKE UP AND

[04:00] SEE THIS.

[04:00] LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED TO CHARLIE

[04:02] KIRK AND SAY WAIT A MINUTE,

[04:03] THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY

[04:05] WRONG WITH HERE.

[04:05] IT IS TIME TO TURN THE PAGE ON

[04:08] THIS ATTEMPT TO AL-QAEDA TO THE

[04:10] COUNTRILY DID IS WHAT THE LEFT

[04:11] IS DOING HERE WITH THIS

[04:13] POISONOUS, POISONOUS HATE.

[04:14] IT'S TIME TO START GETTING BACK

[04:15] TO THE THIAT WE BELIEVE IN

[04:18] TOGETHER.

[04:18] >> Laura: AND ALL THE GOODNESS

[04:19] OF THIS COUNTRY.

[04:19] THE BLESSINGS THAT LIBERTY, THAT

[04:22] WAS SO -- YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DIED,

[04:26] BLED, SUFFERED FOR 250 YEARS AGO

[04:29] AND CENTURIES AFTERWARD AND

[04:31] STILL TO THIS DAY, I WOULD SAY

[04:33] CHARLIE IS A MODERN DAY PATRIOT.

[04:37] HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THIS

[04:38] COUNTRY.

[04:38] HE WASN'T IN UNIFORM BUT IN HIS

[04:40] OWN WAY HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS

[04:42] COUNTRY.

CHARLIE HAD AND WE SHOULD CONTINUE THAT AS WELL. CONGRESSMAN, THANK YOU AS ALWAYS. CHARLIE WAS A STRONG BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIAN. HE DID NOT SHY AWAY FROM SPEAKING ABOUT HIS FAITH. >> NINE OUT OF 13 ORIGINAL REQUIRED YOU TO BE IN CHRISTIAN TO SERVE IN GOVERNMENT. ALL 13 OUT OF 13 DECLARED DECLARATION OF FAITH. # OUT OF 13 PROTESTANT. STILL CATHOLIC REQUIRED. BIBLE BELIEVING TURN ATTENDING CHRISTIANS. LAST PARAGRAPH OF THE DECLARATION READS AS A PRAYER. WE APPEAL TO THE SUPREME JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE. WHO IS THE JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE JESUS CHRIST IT SAYS IN REVELATION THAT JESUS WILL JUDGE THE EARTH ON HIS THROWN. IN T DECLARATION THEY WERE PRAYING TO CHRIST OUR LORD AS A PRAYER VERY SPECIFICALLY. >> Laura: HERE WITH ME IS MISSOURI SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY. YOU WERE CLOSE, AS WERE SO MANY SENATORS AND CONGRESSMAN TO CHARLIE KIRK. HIS UNABASHED WILLINGNESS TO TALK ABOUT UNCOMFORTABLE ISSUES AND FAITH IS SOMETIMES UNCOMFORTABLE FOR PEOPLE. HE SAID NO, NO, NO. IT'S -- THE BEST THING TO HAVE BELIEVED. IT'S AWESOME LET ME TELL YOU WHY I BELIEVE AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK. OHIO IMPORTANT IS THAT ONE-ON-ONE ENGAGEMENT AND THE SHARING OF FAITH AS HE DID ON THAT PODCAST? >> HUGE, I MEAN, HUGELY IMPORTANT, LAURA. I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE ONE OF HIS GREATEST LEGACIES, I WAS THINKING TODAY. I THINK MY FAVORITE MEMORY WITH CHARLIE, I HAVE KNOWN HIM NOW ALMOST 10 YEARS. MY FAVORITE MOMMIRY WITH HIM IS WHEN HE INVITED ME OUT TO DREAM CITY CHURCH IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA. WILL YOU COME OUT TO THIS CHURCH AND WILL YOU SPEAK WITH THEM AND SIT AND TALK WITH ME AND LET'S SING SOME HYMNS TOGETHER AND WORSHIP JESUS TOGETHER AND WILL YOU TALK TO THEM ABOUT YOUR FAITH? I SAID ABSOLUTELY I WOULD LOVE. TO SAY TO ME THAT JUST INCAPSULATED CHARLIE. HE WANTED EVERYBODY WHAT HE BELIEVED IN AND WHAT ANCHORED HIS LIFE. AS YOU SAID, LAURA, HE WASN'T AFRAID. HE LIVED A CONSEQUENTIAL LIFE BECAUSE HE WASN'T AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST HE HOPE THAT'S WHAT WE TAKE AWAY FROM HIS LIFE AND LEGACY. IT'S JUST GOING TO REVERBERATE, LAW ENFORCEMENT. >> Laura: THE VICIOUSNESS OF THE LEFT, EVEN IN THE AFTERMATH OF A POLITICAL ASSASSINATION AND THE COMMENTS, THERE WAS -- YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A COMMENT EARLY ON BY PRITZKER, WE WILL QUEUE IT UP, JUST TONE DEAF, AGAIN, TONE DEAF, THIS IS ALL LEGACY -- THE IMPLICATION BEING THIS IS THE LEGACY OF CURRENT DAYS THAT ARE DOMINATED BY DONALD TRUMP. I THINK WE HAVE THE SOUNDBITE, LET'S WATCH. >> I WANT TO EXPRESS MY SYMPATHY TO CHARLIE KIRK FAMILY AND TO CHARLIE KIRK WHO, OBVIOUSLY, BECOME A TARGET FOR SOMEBODY. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S POLITICAL VIOLENCE BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHO DID IT. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE FOMENTING IT IN THIS COUNTRY. I THINK THE PRESIDENT'S RHETORIC OFTEN FOMENTS IT. WE HAVE SEEN THE JANUARY 6TH RIOTERS WHO CLEARLY, YOU KNOW, HAVE TRIPPED A NEW ERA OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE. >> Laura: UNBELIEVABLE? THE DEMOCRATS THINK HE IS A PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER. >> I JUST CAN'T EXPRESS HOW SICKENING I FIND LISTENING TO EVERY SYLLABLE OF THAT. I MEAN, IT IS REPREHENSIBLE. JUST REPREHENSIBLE. AND YOU SAID IT EARLIER, LAURA. THE REASON THAT THE LEFT HATED CHARLIE SO MUCH. HE WENT OUT AND CONFRONTED THEM WITH FACTS AND GOOD CHEER. DO YOU KNOW WHAT? HE LOVED LIFE. HE LOVED LIFE HE KNEW WHO HE WAS. BECAUSE HE KNEW WHO HIS GOD WAS. BECAUSE HE WAS A HAPPY MAN, HAPPILY MARRIED WITH BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN. THEY HATED HIM FOR THAT THEY STL L HATE HIM FOR THAT WE GOT TO GET OVER THAT HATE IN AMERICA. IT IS POISONING THIS COUNTRY THE LET IS POISONING THIS COUNTRY WITH THIS HATE. I HOPE PEOPLE WILL WAKE UP AND SEE THIS. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED TO CHARLIE KIRK AND SAY WAIT A MINUTE, THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH HERE. IT IS TIME TO TURN THE PAGE ON THIS ATTEMPT TO AL-QAEDA TO THE COUNTRILY DID IS WHAT THE LEFT IS DOING HERE WITH THIS POISONOUS, POISONOUS HATE. IT'S TIME TO START GETTING BACK TO THE THIAT WE BELIEVE IN TOGETHER. >> Laura: AND ALL THE GOODNESS OF THIS COUNTRY. THE BLESSINGS THAT LIBERTY, THAT WAS SO -- YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DIED, BLED, SUFFERED FOR 250 YEARS AGO AND CENTURIES AFTERWARD AND STILL TO THIS DAY, I WOULD SAY CHARLIE IS A MODERN DAY PATRIOT. HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THIS COUNTRY. HE WASN'T IN UNIFORM BUT IN HIS OWN WAY HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY.