Bill O'Reilly Reports on Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom Ceremony at the White House Rose Garden

[00:00] talking points memo. Let's get to

[00:02] reality. Today

[00:05] is a Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom

[00:08] ceremony yesterday. So, I was there as a

[00:11] reporter. I told you I was going to be

[00:13] there. I was not a participant.

[00:16] Okay. Um the difference is the

[00:18] participants were sitting uh up front

[00:22] and they were there in an emotional

[00:25] capacity. I was not. I was there in a

[00:28] repatorial capacity. I was in the back.

[00:30] Um, and some very interesting things

[00:32] happened. We'll tell you about some of

[00:34] them at the end of the program. Um, but

[00:37] I was reporting on what was taking place

[00:40] because it was so unique. Medal of

[00:44] Freedom is not given out very much and

[00:47] this terrible assassination of Mr. Kirk

[00:50] startled the whole country.

[00:53] And I think that President Trump is very

[00:56] compassionate

[00:57] to uh honor Mr. Kirk, even if you don't

[01:00] agree with him, okay? And I don't agree

[01:03] with everything that Charlie Kirk said.

[01:06] Nobody did, but to honor him on his

[01:09] birthday

[01:11] um

[01:12] uh in front of his wife and and family

[01:15] members. And Trump had to come back from

[01:18] Charm Shake, Egypt in a very strenuous

[01:21] flight to do that.

[01:23] He could have put this off to Friday,

[01:24] but he he wanted to do it on his

[01:26] birthday. I just thought that was noble.

[01:28] I mean, it's just me, I guess. Uh, we're

[01:30] in the Rose Garden. It's brand new. Um,

[01:34] it's nice. Okay. What I like was that

[01:37] the all the presidential portraits are

[01:40] up. Um, even the guys that Trump doesn't

[01:43] like on the side when you walk down to

[01:46] the Oval Office. And I like it. I think

[01:49] that's a good honor for the country.

[01:51] Good tradition.

[01:52] Okay, so the ceremony ran a little bit

[01:55] more than an hour and uh you know, as

[01:57] Mr. Trump does, he bloiated for a good

[02:00] time. Um here's uh one of the

[02:03] highlights. Go. As I said, on the day

[02:06] that he was assassinated, Charlie Kirk

[02:08] was a martyr for truth and for freedom.

[02:13] And from Socrates to think and to St.

[02:17] Peter from Abraham Lincoln to Martin

[02:19] Luther King. Those who change history

[02:22] the most and he really did have always

[02:25] risked their lives for causes they were

[02:28] put on earth to defend. He was put on

[02:31] earth to do exactly what he was doing.

[02:33] He didn't want to waste time.

[02:36] >> Okay. Um Erica Kirk the widow was

[02:41] extremely eloquent.

[02:43] Woman is gift. She going to carry on. uh

[02:47] Mr. Kirk's legacy and uh Turning Point

[02:50] USA is now being run by her.

[02:54] So her speech was very very emotional.

[02:58] Roll it.

[02:59] >> But that never stopped me from telling

[03:01] him. I told him every single year. I

[03:02] said, "Baby,

[03:04] I love your birthday." I said, "Because

[03:07] it's the day that God knew the world

[03:08] couldn't go another day without you.

[03:16] And so the rhythm of our usual birthday

[03:19] celebration for him was

[03:22] mint ice, mint chocolate chip ice cream.

[03:24] He only had it twice a year on his

[03:26] birthday in 4th of July.

[03:30] And um and then after that it was back

[03:35] to work as usual. But last year, his one

[03:38] birthday wish was to see the Oregon

[03:40] Ducks play the Ohio State. And they won.

[03:44] Oregon won that night. And it was by far

[03:46] one of the most memorable nights of his

[03:47] birthday experience of his life until

[03:51] today.

[03:53] And so honestly, President Trump, I have

[03:57] spent seven and a half years trying to

[03:59] find the perfect birthday gift for

[04:01] Charlie.

[04:03] And it's so difficult. And those of you

[04:04] that have spouses or loved ones, you

[04:06] know how difficult it is sometimes to

[04:08] buy a gift for someone that you love

[04:10] because he wasn't a materialistic man.

[04:12] So that also did not help. But now I can

[04:15] say with confidence, Mr. President, that

[04:17] you have given him the best birthday

[04:19] gift he could ever have.

[04:24] >> So very heartfelt. Um the crowd is all

[04:27] Republican, no Democratic politicians, a

[04:30] bunch of Republican Congress people and

[04:32] senators. uh pundits for Fox News uh

[04:35] primarily.

[04:37] Um there wasn't any uh counter media or

[04:41] any kind of you know the Democrats

[04:44] stayed away just so you know. Um the

[04:47] press was respectful there and uh the

[04:51] coverage of it was respectful uh except

[04:54] for MS now. Uh they just ignored it

[04:57] totally. And yeah, look, you know what

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[06:06] analysis

[06:08] about this Cardinal Dolan Ben Jealous uh

[06:11] controversy involving Charlie Kirk on my

[06:16] YouTube channel. That's youtube.com/bill

[06:22] O'Reilly. And the reason I'm not doing

[06:24] it on the no spin news is I need 12

[06:27] minutes to put the context because it's

[06:31] very complicated. Ben Jealous, former

[06:34] head of the NAACP,

[06:36] attacked uh Timothy Cardinal Dolan of

[06:39] New York City after uh the cardinal said

[06:42] nice things about Jolly Kirk. So jealous

[06:44] thinks uh Kirk is a racist and all that

[06:48] to get into that kind of a volatile

[06:50] situation. I had to very precise all

[06:53] right research number one which I have

[06:56] and then I had to have sound bites to

[06:58] illustrate what actually happened. We're

[07:02] talking about the death of an illegal uh

[07:04] migrant, okay, who was killed by ICE.

[07:07] We're talking about uh affirmative

[07:09] action and former first lady Michelle

[07:11] Obama and others. Okay. Uh serious. So,

[07:17] I didn't want to put it into a mix. I

[07:20] wanted to stand alone. I'm sorry if it's

[07:22] an inconvenience, but our YouTube

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[07:39] do two or three of these a week. But it

[07:42] I'm taking this very very seriously.

[07:45] Uh so that's why I did it that way. And

[07:48] that's the memo.