Kari Lake: Charlie Kirk’s Faith & Legacy Will Outlive His Assassins

[00:00] in a way towards them, towards the left.

[00:02] And what they've actually done is

[00:04] invigorated the the the movement that

[00:06] Charlie started. It will continue in

[00:09] multiples in droves. And we played a

[00:11] sound bite yesterday of Charlie saying,

[00:13] "Take take one of us down, 10 will come

[00:15] at you even stronger." And that was pre

[00:17] that was from June of 2024.

[00:20] >> June of 2024. Almost like he saw this

[00:23] coming. All right, Steve. Um, thank you.

[00:25] I thank you.

[00:26] >> Uh, we'll take it from here, my friend.

[00:28] >> All right, folks. Uh, Friday 4 pm

[00:30] markets are closed. Just take a quick

[00:31] look. This is not something we want to

[00:34] do, but something we should do. Uh, we

[00:37] will get to Charlie Kirk in just a

[00:38] moment. I promise you. Dow down 273.

[00:40] NASDAQ the other way up a little bit, up

[00:42] about 100 points or so. Gold up a good

[00:46] amount, $3,684 now. Gold sitting, oil up

[00:49] a bit. And very good news in the crypto

[00:52] markets. If there's anything we can say

[00:54] good news is about Bitcoin 116,000

[00:58] almost 117,000 now Ethereum 4600 pushing

[01:02] back towards that 5,000 high uh XRP and

[01:05] others CRO you guys asked about CRO said

[01:08] we're going to talk about it flat to

[01:10] down a little bit. All right. Um let's

[01:12] take a listen. Do we have a sound bite

[01:13] right Mad Dog or Ben? Do we have a sound

[01:15] bite of President Trump? Yeah. Let's

[01:16] roll a sound bite of Trump from this

[01:18] morning on Fox and Friends. I think uh

[01:21] with a high degree of certainty we have

[01:23] him

[01:24] >> in custody right in custody. Uh everyone

[01:28] did a great job. We worked with the

[01:30] local police, the governor, everybody

[01:32] did a great job. father went to a US

[01:36] marshal who was fantastic by the way and

[01:39] the person was involved with law

[01:40] enforcement but was a person of faith a

[01:43] minister and brought him to a US marshal

[01:48] who was fantastic and the father

[01:51] convinced the son and this is it and

[01:54] again I'm always subject to be corrected

[01:56] but you know I'm just giving you based

[01:58] on what I'm hearing

[01:59] >> yeah like I said that was President

[02:00] Trump this morning at Fox and friends

[02:01] saying that they believe they have

[02:02] Charlie Kirk's murder murder. Joining me

[02:04] to discuss the latest on Charlie Kirk's

[02:06] assassination is the acting chief

[02:08] executive officer at the United States

[02:09] Agency for Global Media, Carrie Lake,

[02:12] who has posted on X that not even his

[02:14] death can stop the seeds that Charlie

[02:16] planted from growing. Carrie Lake, thank

[02:18] you for joining us. My dear Carrie, uh

[02:20] the circumstances are are rough. A lot

[02:23] of uh broken hearts certainly around

[02:25] here. Arizona, Charlie lived in Arizona.

[02:29] You're in Arizona. give us just give

[02:31] your your reaction and we'll we'll dig a

[02:33] little bit deeper into you know what we

[02:35] 48 hours or so after the assassination

[02:38] but but just give us your first

[02:39] reaction. Well, you know, we're so proud

[02:42] to say that Charlie is in Arizona and

[02:44] even though he was born in Chicago,

[02:46] Arizona has a lot of transplants. And I

[02:49] I believe that Charlie Kirk is Arizona's

[02:51] favorite son. And we're proud of him and

[02:53] we're proud of what he accomplished,

[02:54] what he built in Arizona. And it was may

[02:58] have been, you know, started in a small

[02:59] garage in Chicago. He moved it to

[03:01] Arizona. But this is worldwide. This is

[03:04] worldwide. Charlie Kirk not only is a

[03:07] political icon for what he accomplished

[03:10] in especially waking up a young

[03:12] generation and frankly their parents and

[03:14] grandparents but more importantly what

[03:17] he did as you know an an evangelical. He

[03:21] never planned to become an evangelical,

[03:22] but his faith was so strong. He and

[03:25] Erica's faith was so strong that he

[03:26] started to work to spread the good news

[03:29] of the gospel. And as he did that, more

[03:32] and more people were showing up. And he

[03:34] brought so many people either back to

[03:36] their faith or for the first time had

[03:38] them opening a Bible and professing

[03:40] their uh their love for Jesus. And I

[03:43] just was talking to a friend of mine who

[03:44] was involved in the transition team for

[03:46] this administration. And Charlie was

[03:48] very active in the transition team as

[03:50] well. And as they were working really

[03:52] hard trying to build President Trump's

[03:54] administration, Charlie was in the room

[03:56] with him and he said, I wrote it down.

[03:58] He said to my friend, "Hey, Colton, do

[04:02] you know that Jesus is your Lord and

[04:04] Savior?"

[04:05] And Colton said, "Well, yeah, of course

[04:08] I do, Charlie." But he was always always

[04:11] looking to make sure that souls were

[04:13] being saved because what really matters

[04:15] is that moment as he said when you have

[04:18] that final judgment and I I believe that

[04:20] that moment when when Charlie met met

[04:24] God met Jesus um that it went well for

[04:26] him.

[04:27] >> And so Charlie's legacy is massive. It's

[04:30] massive when it comes to this political

[04:31] movement turning point. It's only going

[04:33] to grow bigger and stronger. what he's

[04:35] left when it comes to bringing people

[04:38] back to faith is is so something we

[04:40] could never measure. And then his two

[04:43] children are his legacy. His little

[04:45] daughter Gigi and his son who's just

[04:47] turned one. Beautiful pictures of of

[04:49] Charlie with his kids and his wife, his

[04:52] amazing wife who we all love, Erica. It

[04:55] that is the the legacy that he will

[04:57] leave. And I know that even though

[04:59] they're so young and they may not have a

[05:00] lot of memories of their dad, there will

[05:02] be so many people around them constantly

[05:05] reminding them how incredible and

[05:07] important their father was and how much

[05:09] he loved them.

[05:09] >> All right, let let's turn to u we have a

[05:11] sound bite from with Cash Patel and the

[05:14] governor of Utah. I believe it's the

[05:16] governor. Can you roll that soundbite,

[05:17] please?

[05:18] >> At approximately 8:00 p.m. where at my

[05:21] direction, the FBI released a

[05:22] never-before-seen video of the suspect.

[05:25] We also released new images to the

[05:28] public of the suspect.

[05:31] And just last night,

[05:33] the suspect was taken into custody at 10

[05:35] p.m. local time.

[05:38] In less than 36 hours, 33 to be precise,

[05:42] thanks to the full weight of the federal

[05:44] government and leading out with the

[05:46] partners here in the state of Utah and

[05:48] Governor Cox, the suspect was h

[05:50] apprehended in historic time period. And

[05:52] so the way it went is Trump this morning

[05:54] on uh on Fox and Friends announced that

[05:56] they had a suspect in in custody. No one

[05:59] had heard that before. There was

[06:00] supposed to be a press conference at

[06:02] 9:00. That was delayed cuz Trump stayed

[06:04] on with Fox and Friends past that. They

[06:06] waited and then they announced the

[06:07] suspect is I'm not even going to say his

[06:09] name is 22-y old male. There he is right

[06:11] there. Um that's the guy. And now is the

[06:15] task of finding the motive. Carrie and

[06:18] this is the real and for me I was here.

[06:20] We did this live. We delivered the the

[06:22] the horrible news live right here on

[06:23] this show um about 4:18 4:15 or so on

[06:27] Wednesday. Um

[06:30] for that man to get away that fast, it

[06:32] it just felt like there were more than

[06:34] just one deranged lunatic with a rifle.

[06:37] It felt like there was there was more

[06:39] people involved. What are your sense?

[06:40] What are your thoughts? What are you

[06:41] hearing?

[06:45] If there were more than one one person

[06:47] involved in this, whoever took out the

[06:50] life and and took Charlie from us, um

[06:53] seemed to be a trained sniper, somebody

[06:55] who who was very good with a weapon, who

[06:57] knows how to operate one. And so I don't

[07:00] know uh any particulars other than what

[07:02] we um are hearing from Cash and the

[07:06] investigation. And I wouldn't even want

[07:07] to speculate right now, but I I do know

[07:10] that um the constant name calling that

[07:14] has been happening, you know, calling

[07:16] Charlie and his followers and frankly

[07:18] MAGA folks who love our country Nazis

[07:21] and Hitler and racist and xenophobic and

[07:25] you name it. um that that affects people

[07:28] especially young minds. It starts to

[07:30] seep into young minds and they start to

[07:31] build hatred and Charlie was didn't have

[07:34] a hateful bone in his body. He wanted to

[07:37] debate. I mean, I can't think of

[07:39] anything less violent than talking and

[07:41] debating and um you know, so I think the

[07:45] tone coming from the other side has been

[07:48] so vicious that it's affected so many

[07:50] young minds and I don't know what was

[07:52] going on in this young person's mind,

[07:54] but it must have been filled with

[07:56] absolute uh darkness and hatred. And

[07:58] that that's heartbreaking for me because

[08:01] I don't want to see any young person

[08:03] filled with that kind of hatred. So, and

[08:05] I posed this question Wednesday when

[08:07] this happened. By the way, I'm on the

[08:09] board uh of TPUSA and I I'm just living.

[08:12] I I'm just I'm I'm sorry. I'm pissed.

[08:14] I'm not I'm not grieving right now. I'm

[08:16] just I stages of grief. I just fast

[08:18] forward right to to anger and that's

[08:20] where I'm sitting. And then I think I

[08:22] think whoever did this, if the motive

[08:24] was to change history by taking out a

[08:25] very uh um a man who's

[08:35] mistaken because this will only

[08:36] encourage 100 Charlie Kirks going

[08:39] forward. Anyway, let me I digress.

[08:41] >> Well, I I agree with you. I I I I

[08:43] believe Charlie was destined to be a

[08:45] president and maybe sooner rather than

[08:47] later. I think he was going to be the

[08:50] youngest president of the United States.

[08:52] He had not only the incredible common

[08:56] sense ideology, a love for country, he

[08:59] had the mechanism to make that happen.

[09:01] He he put on so many of the Trump

[09:04] rallies through turning point action. He

[09:06] has the ground game, the army of

[09:09] patriotic young people and their parents

[09:11] and grandparents who are political

[09:14] activists thanks to him. They know how

[09:16] to knock doors. they know how to get

[09:17] politically involved. He has the social

[09:20] media to do it and he has a media

[09:22] platform that is hugely successful.

[09:25] That's a threat to a lot of people.

[09:27] That's a very big threat. And let me

[09:29] tell you, the the nasty evil people uh

[09:32] that in in some ways run our world. If

[09:36] they could have stopped President Trump

[09:37] when he before he ran for president and

[09:40] they could go back in time and do that,

[09:41] you better believe they would have

[09:43] stopped him. And I think they're looking

[09:44] at people who have the potential to be a

[09:46] second Trump type and a younger

[09:49] generation and they don't want people

[09:50] like Charlie. They don't want people

[09:52] like Charlie to be around.

[09:54] >> Carrie, I'm going to ask you this and I

[09:55] pretty much ask every guest since this

[09:57] happened. How how can we coexist

[10:02] when one side would rather murder and

[10:05] eliminate the other side than to have a

[10:08] respectful

[10:09] elevated debate about the things that

[10:11] the way the country should go? How are

[10:13] we supposed to coexist with that side?

[10:16] >> Well, what we do is we don't let them

[10:18] shut us up. We don't let them silence

[10:20] us. These people who are cheering at

[10:23] Charlie's assassination

[10:25] are depraved and despicable. Their soul

[10:28] is is gone. And so, we don't let people

[10:31] like that silence us, keep us from

[10:33] loving our country and doing what's

[10:35] right. We can never allow that to

[10:37] happen. And so I think uh you know

[10:39] trying to kumbaya with somebody who has

[10:43] such a dark soul like that is wrong. We

[10:45] have done nothing wrong. This movement

[10:47] is built on love for country. It's built

[10:50] on love for one another and it's built

[10:52] on patriotism. And there is not a darn

[10:55] thing wrong with that. The people who've

[10:57] been messaging and falsely messaging us

[11:00] and saying that we're hateful and we're

[11:02] we're bad people. That is where the

[11:05] problem lies and that's got to stop and

[11:07] that's the legacy media who has been

[11:10] trying to make President Trump, people

[11:12] like Charlie Kirk, even myself

[11:14] non-persons just try to create such a a

[11:19] false uh character assass a character

[11:22] assassination by putting out false uh

[11:24] you know personality traits that don't

[11:26] exist to make people hate the MAGA

[11:29] movement is uh it's disgusting and it's

[11:31] got to stop.

[11:32] >> All right, let's uh let's do this.

[11:33] Carrie, can you stay with us uh for the

[11:35] break and and come back and we'll talk a

[11:36] little bit more about the aftermath of

[11:38] of of what's going on. All right, folks.

[11:40] Carrie Lake will come back with us after

[11:42] the break. We'll be back two and a half

[11:43] minutes.

[11:46] >> Everybody needs to pray for Charlie Kirk

[11:48] right now.

[11:49] >> He is a voice of reason out there that

[11:52] has been gunned down for daring to be an

[11:54] American, to tell the truth, to believe

[11:57] in free speech, and to believe in this

[11:59] country.

[12:00] >> Charlie loves his family dearly. He

[12:03] loves his country dearly.

[12:06] >> Please pray for the Kirk family. This is

[12:08] a really devastating thing that

[12:10] happened.

[12:12] >> We must all pray for Charlie Kirk who

[12:15] has been shot. A great guy from top to

[12:17] bottom. God bless him.

[12:20] >> He believed strongly that uh we could

[12:22] solve a lot of our differences with just

[12:24] a good old-fashioned conversation.

[12:26] >> He was shot for speaking the truth. He

[12:28] was shot for speaking his mind. He was

[12:31] shot for defending the Constitution.

[12:33] >> John Solomon's reporting uh on just the

[12:35] news that he's he's passed. Yes. Is this

[12:38] what I'm hearing? Yes. Can I get here?

[12:39] >> I mean yes. Yes.

[12:41] >> My prayers are for Erica, for her

[12:43] children, for his family.

[12:48] >> I pray that his his parents

[12:52] uh would feel that presence of the Lord

[12:55] that only only the Lord can feel.

[13:00] We cannot let all the great things that

[13:03] Charlie Kirk did be wasted

[13:06] because of some act of violence. He

[13:09] didn't hate people. He didn't even hate

[13:11] liberals. He just hated intolerance. And

[13:14] um it is a painful ir irony that he may

[13:17] have died at the hands of some

[13:18] intolerant person.

[13:19] >> He was fighting not just for his own

[13:22] young children, but for all of our

[13:24] children. When America needed a hero,

[13:26] God sent us a Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk

[13:29] is a casualty of the political war going

[13:31] on in this country. He was gunned down

[13:32] in cold blood. Gun down in cold blood.

[13:35] And you have to have steely resolve

[13:37] about this.