Hasan Piker Reacts in Real Time to Charlie Kirk's Shooting and Confirmed Death on Stream

[00:00] Trump announced his death. The great and

[00:02] even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead. No

[00:04] one understood or had the heart of the

[00:05] youth in the United States of America

[00:08] better than Charlie. He was loved and

[00:09] admired by all, especially me. And now

[00:12] he's no longer with us. That's uh that's

[00:14] as close to an official confirmation as

[00:16] you're going to get. He's dead. Disavow

[00:19] quickly and vehemently for your own

[00:20] safety. Yeah. No, dude. What the do you

[00:22] mean? Of course. I don't think you guys

[00:24] understand. I was supposed to debate him

[00:26] in a public setting like a month from

[00:28] now. What the is happening? Mike Lee, I

[00:32] am tracking the situation at Utah Valley

[00:33] University closely. Please join me in

[00:35] praying for Charlie Kirk and the

[00:36] students gathered there. How is this?

[00:38] How is it? Shots fired at Charlie Kirk

[00:40] event at Utah Valley University. Shots

[00:41] have been fired at Charlie Kirk event at

[00:42] Utah Valley University. Footage from the

[00:43] scene showed event goers screaming as

[00:45] shots rang out on Wednesday. People at

[00:47] the event took to social media to share

[00:48] details of the moment someone opened

[00:50] fire at the conservatives event. Kirk

[00:51] published a post on X just minutes

[00:52] before reports of the shooting emerged.

[00:55] What the is going on? Before we had a

[00:57] flag and we had the best shot. Holy

[01:03] [Applause]

[01:10] >> Desireette is reporting he was shot.

[01:12] Okay, Desireette News now reporting

[01:14] Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event. Charlie

[01:16] Kirk, this is a breaking news story.

[01:17] We'll be updated. Charlie Kirk was shot

[01:18] at an event at Utah Valley University in

[01:21] Oram, Utah on Wednesday. Bystanders

[01:22] report seeing Kirk shot. Jesus Christ,

[01:25] dude. Oh my god. Bison report seeing

[01:28] Kirk shot near his neck during a Q&A

[01:30] with students. What the is happening,

[01:33] brother?

[01:37] >> Oh,

[01:39] dude.

[01:41] You hear a shot, you hear the crack of a

[01:43] shot and then you hear you hear his head

[01:47] just crack back right after. And um I

[01:51] think it the I think what the people are

[01:53] saying is correct that he might have

[01:56] been shot in the neck. Oh my god. This

[01:59] about quickly and vehemently for your

[02:00] own safety. Yeah. No [ __ ] dude. What

[02:02] the do you mean? Of course. I don't

[02:04] think you guys understand. I was

[02:05] supposed to debate him in a public

[02:07] setting like a month from now.

[02:09] Obviously, aside from the principle of

[02:11] it all. Yeah. No [ __ ] It's also for my

[02:14] own personal safety as well. I'm also, I

[02:17] don't know if you guys know this, but

[02:18] I'm also a public figure who does

[02:21] political commentary who was supposed to

[02:23] debate Charlie Kirk in a public setting

[02:25] at Dartmouth University a month from

[02:27] now. I assume it's not going to happen.

[02:29] Now, obviously, we have no additional

[02:32] evidence or no news beyond the fact that

[02:34] the police have already said that it was

[02:35] a single shot that was fired uh at UVU

[02:39] police said he gets shot in the neck and

[02:43] the the uh the the campus police

[02:46] statement on it was single shot fired

[02:49] against event speaker uh and the shooter

[02:51] has been uh the suspect has been

[02:53] apprehended. So, there is a closeup.

[02:55] There is a closer uh uh footage of

[02:58] Charlie Kart getting shot in the neck

[03:00] here as well where you can Oh, he's

[03:02] dead. Oh my god, he's definitely dead.

[03:04] Oh my god. I can't believe I just saw

[03:06] that. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh, he

[03:09] definitely got shot in the neck. Oh my

[03:10] god. Oh yeah. No, I I that that footage

[03:14] that you do not want to see that. You do

[03:16] not want to see that. You do not want to

[03:17] see that. That footage that footage the

[03:19] close-up footage shows very clearly

[03:21] immediately blood pouring out of his

[03:22] jugular. He gets shot in the neck. Blood

[03:25] pouring out of his jugular. Like an an

[03:28] unimaginable amount of blood pouring out

[03:30] of his jugular. There is very very

[03:32] little chance that he uh survived that.

[03:34] I don't know. I don't know if he did,

[03:36] but it doesn't seem like it. Oh my god,

[03:40] that was devastating. Holy. I really I I

[03:44] don't know what to say. Oh my lord. Oh

[03:47] Jesus Christ. Holy. America is so

[03:51] absolutely it. Do not watch the video if

[03:54] you have not seen the video. Do not like

[03:57] the reason why I watched it is because I

[03:58] wanted to see the reason why I watched

[04:00] it is because I had to confirm whether

[04:02] or not this was a real incident. I'm

[04:04] telling you, avoid it. It is one of the

[04:07] most [ __ ] up things you could possibly

[04:09] see. I mean, look, I I I cover Israel

[04:12] genocide every day. I see I see charred

[04:14] children. I see I see children carrying

[04:17] their their dead parents in in trash

[04:19] bags to the hospital every day. It still

[04:21] is a little different at least from my

[04:23] perspective I think because I you know

[04:26] this is a person who uh does what I do

[04:29] but you know on the opposing side I was

[04:31] supposed to debate him at Dartmouth

[04:32] University 15 days from now in a public

[04:35] event in a public setting. I go out to

[04:38] public settings like this all the time.

[04:40] So there's a there's a level of

[04:41] closeness in in that regard because of

[04:44] because of the nature of of of what I

[04:47] do. I mean, look, I I have a policy of

[04:49] not living in fear and uh you know, I I

[04:52] but we'll see. We'll I might have to

[04:54] reconfigure certain things. This is this

[04:57] is insane. I' I never thought I would

[04:59] see something like this.

[05:00] >> Rifle, was it a handgun?

[05:01] >> But I guess if there's one country where

[05:02] something like this could happen, it's

[05:04] this one. Um I'm like, this is obviously

[05:07] always this is obviously always a fear

[05:09] in especially in the United States of

[05:11] America. There is not I mean I don't

[05:13] know what the [ __ ] to say, dude. I don't

[05:14] know what the to say other than uh

[05:17] America is an incredibly violent country

[05:19] and it's getting even more violent uh

[05:21] every every day. It's one of the most

[05:23] insane This is one of the most insane

[05:25] things I've seen. The scourge of gun

[05:27] violence and political violence must

[05:28] end. The shooting of Charlie Kirk is the

[05:29] latest incident of this chaos and it

[05:31] must stop. We cannot go down this road.

[05:33] There's no place for it in America. We

[05:34] wish for his recovery. Why was Luigi's

[05:36] shooting celebrated? But this is tragic.

[05:38] Uh couple different reasons. I think uh

[05:41] there are a lot of people who have some

[05:44] semblance of like parasocial connection

[05:45] to Charlie Kirk which as as weird as it

[05:48] sounds. It's a public event. It is at a

[05:51] school and Charlie Kirk is not seen as

[05:54] uh as someone who is like responsible

[05:56] for the social murder of tens of

[06:00] thousands of Americans. You know what I

[06:01] mean? So those are probably some of the

[06:03] reasons why. And for the record, there

[06:05] are a ton of people celebrating this as

[06:08] well. I'm I'm not for obvious reasons. I

[06:11] think you I think people here have the

[06:13] capacity to understand why. It's just

[06:15] like I'm going to keep repeating this

[06:16] over and over again, but like this is

[06:19] the ultimate fear for a political

[06:21] commentator. This is it. This is the

[06:23] thing that you don't want happening.

[06:25] This is the thing that you never want

[06:26] happening. This is what a lot of people

[06:28] fantasize happening to me all the time

[06:31] and say they will do to me all theing

[06:33] time. Obviously, especially when it

[06:35] especially because it's Charlie Kirk,

[06:37] someone who I have who I know

[06:38] personally. I'm not, you know, fond of

[06:40] his worldview obviously, but someone who

[06:42] I have debated in public settings

[06:45] numerous occasions since 2015 and also

[06:49] someone who I was slated to debate at

[06:51] Dartmouth University 2 weeks from now.

[06:53] Do you understand? Trump announced his

[06:55] death. The great and even legendary

[06:57] Charlie Kirk is dead. No one understood

[06:59] or had the heart of the youth in the

[07:00] United States of America better than

[07:02] Charlie. He was loved and admired by

[07:04] all, especially me. And now he's no

[07:06] longer with us. Melania, and my

[07:09] sympathies go out to his beautiful wife,

[07:10] Erica, and family. Charlie, we love you.

[07:13] That's it. Trump had to be the one who

[07:15] to announce this. That's uh that's as

[07:18] close to an official confirmation as

[07:19] you're going to get. He's dead.

[07:21] >> Him. I want to show you there was a

[07:23] moment of silence on the House floor in

[07:25] Washington for Charlie Kirk uh just

[07:27] moments ago. bipartisan uh calls to calm

[07:31] uh this down, to bring the rhetoric down

[07:34] in this country. Again, there was a

[07:36] moment of silence uh that came.

[07:38] >> Dude, by the way, right-wingers saying,

[07:40] "Oh, we got to tone down the rhetoric

[07:42] once again is an insane statement here."

[07:46] Okay, it's like people who perhaps are

[07:48] most responsible for setting up an an

[07:52] environment where violence and

[07:54] instability is the norm for everyday

[07:56] Americans. people who have set up an

[07:58] environment where there is just no

[08:00] solution to unlimited gun violence every

[08:03] single day. Where parents send their

[08:05] children to school and there's no

[08:06] guarantee of their safety. And some

[08:09] experience exactly what the Republicans

[08:11] the fear and anger that the Republicans

[08:13] are currently experiencing because they

[08:14] knew Charlie Kirk. Regular people

[08:16] experience that unfortunately all too

[08:19] all too frequently. Meanwhile, while

[08:21] they're talking about toning down the

[08:22] rhetoric of violence, Elon Musk, the

[08:24] owner of this website, took no time,

[08:27] like didn't even wait for the

[08:28] confirmation of Charlie Ker's death to

[08:30] immediately go, "The left is the party

[08:31] of murder. Two months ago, a

[08:34] psychopathic right-winger, a far-right

[08:36] evangelical Christian, had a hit list of

[08:40] numerous Democrat politicians. He went

[08:43] into the homes of Democrat politicians

[08:45] in the state of Minnesota, and he shot

[08:47] and killed two. And he tried to kill

[08:49] more. And these guys immediately said,

[08:51] "Oh, he was a leftist. He was actually

[08:53] Tim Waltz's guy. He was Tim Waltz's top

[08:55] guy." Made no sense. Tim Walt was

[08:57] literally a part of the assassination

[08:58] hit list. And people still ran along

[09:01] with that narrative. There's no

[09:03] confirmation of the shooters ideological

[09:05] background or whatever. None of that.

[09:07] But that doesn't stop these demons from

[09:09] immediately saying, "Oh, it's the left

[09:10] that's doing this. It's the left that's

[09:12] doing this. It must be a leftist that

[09:13] did this." So spare me the [ __ ]

[09:15] [ __ ] about toning down the rhetoric

[09:16] when this is the common meta. It's so

[09:19] ridiculous, man. Yeah, there was just a

[09:21] story about an American Israeli sniper

[09:23] admitting to killing multiple civilians

[09:24] in Gaza and no one cared. Yeah. Dude

[09:26] from Neapville, Illinois flew out, had

[09:29] his family fundraised so he could get

[09:31] weapons to kill children that he openly

[09:34] said he did in Gaza. Doesn't even reach

[09:36] a blip. That kind of violence, by the

[09:39] way, does inevitably come back here.

[09:42] That's my point. My point is America is

[09:45] an incredibly violent nation all around

[09:47] the world. We are so violent. We're a

[09:49] constant presence, a constant force

[09:51] everywhere that has a tendency to

[09:53] normalize these kinds of incidents here

[09:55] as well. Video posted on social media

[09:57] shows the moment Charlie Kirk was shot

[09:58] in the seconds leading to the incident.

[09:59] Kirk was being asked questions about

[10:00] mass shootings in America. Do you know

[10:02] how many mass shooters there have been

[10:04] in America in the last 10 years? A

[10:05] person asks. Counting or not counting

[10:07] gang violence? Kirk responds right

[10:08] before he is shot. That right there,

[10:11] that right there is is America perfectly

[10:14] described. Because the irony, the the

[10:17] dark irony of this this sequence of

[10:19] events, it is that mentality that stops

[10:22] people from even seeking the truth about

[10:25] how or seeking solutions on how we could

[10:27] stop gun violence in this god country.

[10:30] And in the process of actively uh

[10:33] continuing to debate the importance of

[10:36] of having every American be armed to the

[10:38] god teeth, Charlie Kirk got shot by

[10:40] another American that was armed to the

[10:42] teeth and now he's dead. It is pretty

[10:44] crazy, however, that yes, the I mean

[10:47] Charlie Kirk had on numerous occasions,

[10:49] not just in 2023, numerous occasions had

[10:52] said gun deaths are unfortunately worth

[10:53] it to keep the Second Amendment. The

[10:55] person who inevitably advocated for his

[10:57] own demise. I don't know if we'll ever

[11:00] actually I don't know if we'll ever

[11:02] actually get Republicans to understand

[11:03] this. I just don't think I don't think

[11:05] they will. I don't think they'll

[11:06] understand it. They didn't understand it

[11:08] when Steve Scaliz was shot at the

[11:10] congressional baseball game. They didn't

[11:12] care about it. Steve Scaliz himself

[11:14] personally continued to be a strong

[11:16] advocate for freedom to purchase

[11:18] weapons. They didn't understand the

[11:19] dangers of CO when Herman Kaine died.

[11:22] They just don't care. I don't know. Part

[11:23] of me thinks that they will try, the

[11:25] Republicans will try to use this as an

[11:27] opportunity to do insane. Part of me

[11:30] worries about part of me worries about

[11:32] the the uh vengeance quest that I

[11:34] suspect some people will uh go on in the

[11:37] aftermath of this. And I of course

[11:38] recognize that, you know, this is this

[11:41] puts, you know, a lot of people that I

[11:43] know in and even myself in in the

[11:45] crosshairs. But beyond that, beyond the

[11:47] the adventurists and uh people on a

[11:51] vengeance quest that might choose to

[11:52] take matters in their own hands, there's

[11:54] also obviously the administration and

[11:56] what they will use what they will do in

[11:59] the in the aftermath of this incident.

[12:00] Also worrisome. But yeah.