Danks Reacts Live to Patrick Bet-David's Account of Learning That Charlie Kirk Had Died

[00:00] Charlie Kirk was shot and killed today,

[00:03] September 10th, 2025, after being shot

[00:07] at an event in Utah. Here's what we know

[00:09] so far. So, as you can see here on the

[00:12] Associated Press live updates, Charlie

[00:14] Kirk has died after being shot at an

[00:17] event in Utah. And this is so sad. It is

[00:21] so terrible. one of our own Americans.

[00:24] You know, despite what all the political

[00:26] riffraff that's been going on around

[00:27] this man, he's still an American and

[00:31] he's still one of our politicians and

[00:33] he's still one of our speakers and our

[00:35] activists at any agenda. He's still

[00:39] trying to fight for the good of America.

[00:41] And what happens? AP says, "Here's what

[00:44] we know so far. The victim, 31-year-old

[00:46] Kirk, personified the pugnacious

[00:49] populist conservatism that has taken

[00:51] over the Republican party in the age of

[00:53] Trump. He launched his organization

[00:56] Turning Point USA in 2012, targeting

[00:59] younger people and venturing onto

[01:01] liberal liberalleaning college campuses

[01:04] where many GOP activists were nervous to

[01:06] tread. The shooter authorities are still

[01:09] searching for. The mayor says a person

[01:13] who was taken into custody custody at

[01:16] Utah Valley University was not the

[01:18] suspect according to a person familiar

[01:20] with the investigation and was not

[01:22] authorized to speak publicly. It was not

[01:24] clear if authorities were still

[01:25] searching the campus for a suspect.

[01:28] The location Kirk was speaking at a

[01:30] debate hosted by TPUSA. The event at UVU

[01:33] had been met with divided opinions on

[01:36] campus. An online petition called for

[01:38] university administrators to bar Kirk

[01:41] from appearing received nearly 1,000

[01:44] signatures. The university issued a

[01:46] statement last week citing First

[01:47] Amendment rights and affirming its

[01:48] commitment to free speech, intellectual

[01:50] inquiry, and constructive dialogue.

[01:53] Updates take time. Compiling accurate

[01:55] and thorough information. So, I came

[01:57] across I was just, you know, getting on

[02:00] doing some research for actually my next

[02:02] video. I didn't expect it to be anything

[02:04] like this. And um I came and saw this in

[02:09] my in my um thread on YouTube. And when

[02:13] I saw what the title said, Charlie Kirk

[02:16] dead after UVU shooting, I just I

[02:19] couldn't believe it. I thought it was a

[02:20] hoax. But I haven't watched this yet.

[02:23] This is my reaction in true time. It

[02:26] literally went live 10 minutes ago.

[02:28] Let's watch it together and see what PBD

[02:30] says. from 60 plus countries. Tony

[02:33] Robbins is on stage for the last three

[02:35] hours. I'm backstage.

[02:38] I get word he gets.

[02:39] >> Oh, and by the way, what he's talking

[02:40] about, what he's talking about is he's

[02:44] having his vault conference. Tony

[02:46] Robbins is there speaking and he gets

[02:48] the news that Charlie Kirk is shot.

[02:51] >> Any time, the crew were sitting in the

[02:53] back. Family's there. Dylan's there. And

[02:57] uh

[02:58] you we're seeing the reports of you know

[03:02] he's critical condition but he's got a

[03:04] pulse. They got him. It's going to be

[03:05] fine.

[03:07] And then I hit the stage and when I'm

[03:09] going on the stage,

[03:11] Kelly gives me the mic. Security gets me

[03:14] on the stage.

[03:16] I shake hands with Tony. We make our

[03:18] announcement. Tony heads back. The song

[03:22] Ton 20's playing at the time is a song

[03:25] played in Gladiator.

[03:27] If you know the song, you know which one

[03:29] I'm talking about.

[03:31] And Gladiator is a movie I've seen God

[03:32] knows how many times from 43 minutes on

[03:34] because this is a man, this is a very

[03:36] emotional movie when you see that, you

[03:38] know, he wants to seek his vengeance or

[03:41] he wants to get justice or he wants to

[03:43] go out there and be able to get what he

[03:45] wanted to get for what they did to his

[03:47] family. I'm on stage.

[03:50] Vinnie comes to the left while I'm on

[03:53] stage just to call Tom up to come and

[03:56] pray for Charlie to recover and heal.

[04:00] Vinnie comes, gives me the hand signal.

[04:03] I said, "What do you mean?" He says,

[04:05] "It's done." Then Kelly comes to the

[04:07] front. She's the runner for me, telling

[04:10] me everything that I need to do. And she

[04:12] says, "He's dead." The shooter, we've

[04:15] all seen a picture of the shooter. Rob,

[04:16] if you want to show the picture of the

[04:17] shooter that they're showing us. They

[04:18] say this is the shooter and he's telling

[04:20] me kill telling everybody kill me kill

[04:22] me take me do all the stuff that he's

[04:23] saying and then other reports are coming

[04:25] saying this isn't the shooter he's the

[04:27] psy I hope he makes it if he doesn't

[04:30] make it here's another story of somebody

[04:32] that's you know another story of John F.

[04:36] Kennedy got shot and then hey, was it

[04:38] really him? Was it Oswald? Was it

[04:39] somebody else? Same story with RFK. Same

[04:43] story with everybody else. I hope this

[04:45] guy's alive because at least we'll be

[04:47] able to find out if he is the guy or

[04:48] not. And if it's somebody else, if

[04:50] you've seen the video, not the one from

[04:52] the distance, if you saw the video, the

[04:53] closeup, that's when you knew the way

[04:57] the neck fell and the blood started

[04:59] gushing out the second at him, you knew

[05:01] this wasn't good. Elon Musk even tweeted

[05:04] saying, "I hope he makes it, but that

[05:05] shot didn't look good." Now, here's

[05:07] what's wild. You hear MSNBC, some hosts

[05:11] are saying, "We don't know who the

[05:12] shooter was. It could have been friendly

[05:14] fire from the people that are even on

[05:16] his own side. Nobody knows who shot him.

[05:18] Rob, I don't know if you have that

[05:19] clip." All these things that are

[05:21] circulating. If you got that clip, Rob,

[05:22] if you can play it, you hear the

[05:24] reporter from MSNBC saying the fact that

[05:27] it may be friendly fire. What do you

[05:28] mean it may be friendly fire? Who the

[05:30] hell says it may be friendly fire? Why

[05:32] would you even say like somebody's going

[05:32] to

[05:33] >> You just emphasize we don't know any the

[05:35] full details of this. We don't know if

[05:37] this was a supporter shooting their gun

[05:39] off in celebration or so we have no idea

[05:42] >> words.

[05:43] Did it mute again, Rob, or no?

[05:45] >> Okay. No, it's okay. If you go on

[05:50] if you go on X and if we look at the

[05:53] most trending words right now, trending

[05:55] topics right now on X, this is one

[05:58] platform. It's not all the platforms.

[05:59] It's the first place I go to. Let me see

[06:01] what the world is thinking about. Number

[06:03] one trending word, Charlie Kirk. Number

[06:06] two, MSNBC. Number three, May God.

[06:11] Number four, Democrats. Five, Jesus.

[06:14] Six, evil. Seven, Minnesota. Eight,

[06:16] violence, liberals, Heavenly Father. And

[06:18] you go all the way down to number 14,

[06:21] it's civil war.

[06:23] Then you go on some uh profiles on X and

[06:26] you'll see certain people celebrating.

[06:28] They're happy. Thank God. All these

[06:30] other messages. Some other people are

[06:32] saying, "This is it. We're gonna take

[06:35] the streets. It's going to be civil war.

[06:37] It's gonna They can't do this to us."

[06:40] If you believe in God,

[06:43] you know, at the end of the day, he's

[06:46] going to handle these types of

[06:47] situation.

[06:49] The president tweeted twice on Truth

[06:52] Social. First one was about the fact

[06:54] that he was shot and hopes he feels

[06:56] better. And then the second one is the

[06:58] final one that says, "The great and even

[07:00] legendary Charlie Kirk is dead. No one

[07:02] understood or had the heart of the youth

[07:04] in the US uh better than Charlie Kirk.

[07:07] He was loved and admired by all,

[07:09] especially me. And now is he is no

[07:10] longer with us. Melania, my sympathies

[07:13] go out to his beautiful wife Erica and

[07:15] family. Charlie, we love you." This just

[07:18] came out a few minutes ago.

[07:22] What this made me think about as we're

[07:24] going through this next phase is

[07:28] I'm at this event, security comes up to

[07:30] me, we got thousands of people. How do

[07:33] you want to handle this?

[07:35] Do you want to go out there? Do you want

[07:37] us to do this? Do you want us to do

[07:39] that? I said, "No, we're going out

[07:40] there. No problem." Why? The enemy wants

[07:42] you to be afraid.

[07:44] The enemy wants you to back down. The

[07:46] enemy wants you to be worried, buckled,

[07:48] you know, oh my god, your knees are

[07:49] buckled, nervous. Oh, what's going to

[07:51] take place? No. The enemy also wants to

[07:53] divide. You think most of America hates

[07:58] each other the way some of these

[07:59] trending topics are being made on X? No.

[08:02] Most of us agree with about 80% of

[08:05] issues in life. I would say 90% of

[08:07] people agree with 80% of issues in life.

[08:10] Most of us do. Family values, finance,

[08:14] you have dreams, health, America. Most

[08:17] of us do. Unfortunately, the 10% that

[08:20] may not, they are so loud and obnoxious

[08:22] that you think it's more than them. And

[08:25] sometimes it makes you seem like, well,

[08:26] maybe they're right and I'm not. But

[08:29] this is a very, very,

[08:31] very, very interesting time. You're

[08:34] almost speechless for moments like this.

[08:35] You don't know what to say. Charlie was

[08:38] someone's son. He was someone's father.

[08:41] He's got a kid. He's got a family.

[08:44] Beautiful wife, Erica. This is them

[08:48] celebrating. All he was talking about

[08:50] his values of how to make your family

[08:52] better, have more kids, America's

[08:54] awesome, freedom of speech. Nothing

[08:57] crazy. He didn't say Joe Biden is

[08:59] Hitler. He didn't say the opposing side

[09:02] is the enemy. He didn't say, "Hey, every

[09:05] other word with every other person on

[09:06] the opposing side is that." No. So, I

[09:09] hope that while this event is taking

[09:12] place, excite you, excite them. You're

[09:14] like, "Oh my god, let me go do

[09:15] something." about them. Boom. I feel

[09:17] like I'm going to be a hero taking this

[09:18] guy out. Now, who knows who this person

[09:20] was? This could have been planned. This

[09:23] could have been an accident. This could

[09:24] have been a oneman show. This could have

[09:25] been a fun. We have no clue. It's too

[09:27] early to jump to conclusion of what

[09:29] happened. But the reality of it is

[09:32] Charlie Kirk who every single time we

[09:35] had him on the podcast, we had him out

[09:37] at our insurance conference multiple

[09:39] times where I spoke at the Afest event

[09:42] in Arizona that he would host with all

[09:44] these young kids. Every time you were

[09:46] around him, he was a class act. We're

[09:49] talking about it earlier with one of our

[09:51] guys, Eric,

[09:54] and he said, 'What do you think's going

[09:55] to happen with all the young kids that

[09:58] follow Charlie? I said, to me, it's very

[10:01] simple.

[10:03] How many people do you know

[10:06] that watch Charlie's content and debates

[10:08] for over 100 hours? I put five million

[10:11] people worldwide.

[10:14] How many people you think this was their

[10:16] role model? A 14-year-old kid, a

[10:19] 10-year-old kid, an 18-year-old kid, a

[10:22] 25-y old kid. How many people looked up

[10:24] to this guy?

[10:26] So, as much as it may seem like that

[10:28] temporarily the enemy won,

[10:31] I think this is going to backfire on the

[10:33] enemy

[10:34] >> because the loss of Charlie and the

[10:36] example he left behind is going to lead

[10:39] to many of them that going to look up to

[10:42] him saying, "I'm going to be the next

[10:43] guy." And you're going to see the

[10:44] exponential growth of the values and

[10:47] principles that he shared go to a whole

[10:49] different level. So wherever you are,

[10:51] whatever you're doing, my encouragement

[10:54] in the military, they used to say stay

[10:55] alert, stay alive, be alert. We're being

[10:58] a little bit more cautious than we've

[11:00] ever been before, but we're not going to

[11:02] be afraid. We live in the greatest

[11:04] country in the world with the greatest

[11:06] values, the greatest opportunity, and

[11:08] we're going to keep doing our part. And

[11:10] for those of you guys that are also

[11:11] shocked like I was, we're going to go

[11:14] through this process together. And um

[11:19] I am naturally optimistic because I put

[11:21] my faith on a man upstairs

[11:24] individually. Without him, I'm extremely

[11:27] concerned, but with him, I am extremely

[11:31] optimistic.

[11:32] >> We just started getting word just a

[11:34] couple of moments ago um that Charlie

[11:38] Kirk has been shot. Uh we have very few

[11:41] details um so far coming in on this. uh

[11:44] were dependent on witnesses at

[11:48] okay

[11:51] Utah Valley University. um and he was

[11:56] speaking in front of a crowd and in that

[11:58] moment and correct me if I'm wrong, he

[12:00] was speaking about um obviously trans

[12:03] issues in the country today uh when

[12:06] ashot or shots rang out and we can now

[12:09] confirm via Jason Chaffitz who was at

[12:12] the event uh at Utah Valley University

[12:14] that shots rang out as Charlie was

[12:16] talking about transgender mass

[12:18] shootings.

[12:20] um uh per Jason Chaffitz, a witness

[12:23] there says he can't say that he saw

[12:25] blood um but he um saw him get he can't

[12:30] say also that he saw him get shot but he

[12:32] did hear the gunshot ring out uh and he

[12:34] was watching Charlie and then he fell

[12:37] back and to the left. We're giving you

[12:40] exactly the details we have from a

[12:42] firsthand account. Jason Chaffit's um

[12:45] what's that?

[12:47] Okay, Utah Valley University. Obviously,

[12:49] we are praying for Charlie Kirk uh as we

[12:52] do get word of this. Nicole Parker was

[12:54] with us earlier. We're bringing her back

[12:55] on this. Uh bear with us as we're just

[12:58] getting these brand new details. Uh we

[13:00] pray that he is okay. All that we know

[13:02] right now uh is that shots rang out. He

[13:05] was um apparently shot as he fell back

[13:08] after Jason Chaffitz described the sound

[13:10] of the gunfire. Uh we're waiting on more

[13:13] details.

[13:14] >> This is absolutely terrible. My heart

[13:17] goes out to the family, wife, kids,

[13:20] everybody that is a fan of his. I go out

[13:23] to you. I pray for you and his family

[13:26] and everybody around us now in the

[13:28] political atmosphere. We need to be

[13:30] careful. We can't let this scare us

[13:33] though. And what PBD said is right. This

[13:35] is only going to exacerbate the people

[13:38] that want to have a voice, the people

[13:40] that just like Kirk had a something to

[13:44] say. And when you silence somebody that

[13:47] a lot of people identify with, it

[13:50] exacerbates and it exponentially grows

[13:53] that agenda and that narrative because

[13:56] people are there ready to deploy that

[14:01] mindset. And when you take the leader

[14:03] away, somebody else is going to step up.

[14:06] Leave a comment down below. Let me know

[14:07] what you think of this whole entire

[14:09] thing. It's sad to see. God bless. I'll

[14:13] see you in the next one. on the beat.

[14:14] >> They call me unlock.

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