Sage Steele Reflects on Charlie Kirk Memorial Service Where Erika Kirk Forgave Husband's Assassin

[00:00] Sage Steel uh joins us now to talk about

[00:02] this. Sage, you were there yesterday. Um

[00:04] it's an event that's that's been mocked

[00:06] by so many on the left and vilified by

[00:08] so many of the left. What did we watch

[00:10] yesterday? We watched a lot of people

[00:12] say goodbye and we watched the wife of

[00:15] Charlie Kirk forgive her husband's

[00:17] assassin. Your thoughts?

[00:19] Which was by far to me the most

[00:21] poignant, memorable, special moment that

[00:25] took me by surprise. And I do know Erica

[00:27] a little bit. And for as incredible as

[00:30] she is, I I guess I hadn't thought of

[00:32] her getting to that point yet, 11 days

[00:35] after the murder of her husband and the

[00:38] father of her children. So to me, you

[00:40] talk about teaching the world, lessons,

[00:44] a lesson in how we are choosing, most

[00:47] importantly, she is choosing to handle

[00:50] the worst possible situation. You know,

[00:53] you were there. You know how 100,000

[00:55] people packed inside and just outside

[00:58] that stadium in another stadium that

[00:59] they rented out as well. It took us two

[01:01] and a half, three hours, Rob, to get

[01:03] from the hotel downtown out to the

[01:05] stadium in Glendale.

[01:07] Not one car was honking their horn.

[01:10] People were smiling. People were kind.

[01:12] People were waving along with their

[01:13] sadness as they waited in line for hours

[01:15] and hours. Some of them camping out the

[01:17] night before. This picture you're

[01:19] showing right there, that is the

[01:21] difference between us and them. And I

[01:23] hate to separate like that, but we must

[01:25] in this case because I have personally

[01:27] never been part of anything like that in

[01:29] my life where I felt such sadness, but

[01:32] peace and joy. Um, maybe I'm giving too

[01:36] much information here, but you know, as

[01:38] a Catholic, I've always been like we're

[01:41] quite often taught to just, you know, we

[01:43] pray quietly, we do things on our own.

[01:45] That was the first time I've been in a

[01:47] building where I raised my hands up

[01:49] along with everyone else who was

[01:51] praising God and singing those gospel

[01:52] songs. So, um, that's what I'm trying to

[01:55] focus on right now is the beauty that

[01:58] you and I got to experience and millions

[02:00] of others watching at home and streaming

[02:03] instead of the ugliness that the left

[02:05] continues to choose to focus on, to

[02:08] choose to divide. for CNN to bring

[02:10] Jasmine Crockett on on that day to say

[02:13] the vile things she said about Charlie

[02:15] Kirk. Those are choices. We are going to

[02:18] choose to do the the the right thing in

[02:21] this case, which is to lead with

[02:22] kindness and do what Charlie would want

[02:24] us to do. To listen to them and say,

[02:25] "Okay, you do you. We're going to handle

[02:28] it what we believe is the right way, the

[02:30] way Jesus would want us to."

[02:32] Yeah. Yeah. I It You're so right. And I

[02:37] I just it was to me I I looked at it as

[02:39] you look at the right and you look at

[02:41] the left in this country. And that was

[02:42] what what the what most would say was a

[02:45] very conservative crowd, right? I mean I

[02:46] I think the media would label that like

[02:48] a they'd label that alt-right. They'd

[02:49] label that something horrific. You know

[02:51] how they would describe what we saw

[02:52] yesterday. It was a lot of people

[02:53] praying. You look at what that crowd

[02:55] looks like. Imagine a stadium full of

[02:57] the far left and what that stadium would

[03:00] look like and and and what kind of

[03:01] activities and behaviors you would be

[03:03] seeing. It's so wild to me that that

[03:05] people can view what we saw yesterday as

[03:07] some kind of a threat or some or as

[03:10] something bad or something toxic. Uh I I

[03:12] mean I thought it was I thought it was

[03:14] and I'm not a very religious person, but

[03:15] I thought that was just an a beautiful

[03:16] event. It was full of of God and prayer

[03:20] and and song and and things like that,

[03:22] but it was beautiful and and I don't

[03:23] know how anybody could be threatened by

[03:25] that.

[03:25] I I'm so glad you said that. You have to

[03:27] wonder what is in the souls of those

[03:29] people who look at it and people in

[03:31] prominent positions with big followings

[03:32] saying look it looks like a Nazi

[03:34] convention. Like are you serious? If it

[03:36] bothers you that much please just don't

[03:39] watch. I don't think we even Rob need to

[03:40] picture a stadium full of of those

[03:42] people. I think we've seen enough of it

[03:45] in Portland, in Detroit, in Chicago, and

[03:49] Minneapolis, and all of these cities

[03:51] over the last five, six years and

[03:53] beyond, where when things didn't go

[03:55] their way on any level, much lesser

[03:58] levels, frankly, the assassination of

[04:00] someone like Charlie Kirk or someone

[04:01] that would have been on their side, what

[04:02] do they do?

[04:04] They riot. They loot. They hurt others

[04:08] others. They destroy. And that is what I

[04:10] mean by the difference. This is also

[04:12] what happens when people feel

[04:14] threatened, which they do right now

[04:16] because they realize, "Oh my goodness,

[04:17] have we pushed it too far, instead of

[04:20] acknowledging that, looking in the

[04:21] mirror and maybe saying, "Hey, let's

[04:23] come back to the middle." Tim Walls said

[04:25] has said this for a very long time last

[04:27] summer after President Trump got shot.

[04:29] We need to tone down the rhetoric. But

[04:30] what happens a week later, they're

[04:32] saying Nazi all over again. We must

[04:34] separate ourselves from that ugliness

[04:36] while doing what? doing what we did

[04:38] yesterday, which is kindness and praise

[04:41] and gratitude and trying to be better

[04:42] and to lead.

[04:44] Well said. Well said, Sage. Good to see

[04:47] you. Thanks so much.

[04:48] Thanks, Rob.

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