Josh Hawley Reflects on Charlie Kirk's Faith, Legacy, and the Poisonous Hate That Took His Life

[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.