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Neocons Leading the Charge Against Questions
Dave Smith addresses a troubling pattern he's observed since Charlie Kirk's death: the very neoconservative figures whom Kirk openly opposed are now the loudest voices demanding that people stop asking questions about his death. Smith points out the irony that Kirk had been an open enemy of the neocons, even inviting Smith himself to Turning Point USA events—not because the kids at TPUSA grew up loving Dave Smith, but because Kirk wanted the audience to hear views he substantially agreed with.
Smith emphasizes that he knows this because he talked to Kirk about these issues extensively over the years. The fact that neocons—whom Kirk at best didn't trust and mostly really didn't like—are now leading the charge on shutting down inquiry strikes both Smith and Tucker Carlson as deeply suspicious.
Sharing Private Text Messages to Counter Legacy Hijacking
Smith reveals that he made the unusual decision to share private text messages from Kirk, acknowledging it's a weird thing to do and that he received some pushback for it. He explains that part of his motivation was Candace Owens asking him to, as she had lost someone she was very close to. But another major factor was watching figures like Benjamin Netanyahu and Josh Hammer immediately trying to hijack Kirk's legacy.
Smith expresses particular disgust at Josh Hammer's conduct, noting that Hammer did three interviews immediately after Kirk's death. The only reason anyone was interviewing Hammer was because he was in Kirk's circle, and every single time Hammer mentioned how much Kirk loved his book. Smith finds this behavior appalling, saying it's the most disgusting thing he's ever seen—essentially using Kirk's death to sell books.
Kirk's Evolution on Foreign Policy
Smith shares that right before Kirk died, Kirk called him and said something remarkable: "Man, I just wish everyone would listen to your podcast." Smith released this information because people were trying to claim there was no daylight between Kirk's positions and those of hardline pro-Israel neoconservatives like Ben Shapiro.
Smith reveals that Kirk texted him after his debate with Douglas Murray, saying he thought Smith did a great job and stating something along the lines of "believe it or not, I really didn't disagree with almost anything you said." Smith pointedly notes that Ben Shapiro wasn't sending him that kind of text message, making clear there was significant daylight between Kirk's evolving views and the neoconservative establishment.
Tucker Carlson confirms there was genuine hostility between Kirk and these figures—not just disagreement, but real tension. While Carlson clarifies he's not saying Kirk hated them as people, he emphasizes that Kirk did not agree with their positions at all.
Rejection of War With Iran and America First Principles
Carlson states definitively that Kirk certainly didn't agree with war with Iran. He also notes Kirk's complicated relationship with some Christian Zionist leaders. While Kirk loved Israel as a country, Carlson says Kirk had a complicated theology that Carlson didn't fully understand and still doesn't. However, Kirk flat-out rejected the idea that you would put another country before your own.
Carlson describes some of the Christian Zionist leaders as very aggressive, sharklike, very money-oriented and pushy, and says Kirk started talking about this openly. Kirk talked about it with Carlson privately a lot, and also discussed it publicly on Megyn Kelly's show. Kirk received strong reactions from a mixture of both Jewish Zionists like the figures Smith mentioned, as well as from evangelical leaders he grew up with.
Carlson confirms Kirk was upset with specific people and that they discussed it at length. Carlson says he could name names of who Kirk was upset with but won't because Kirk is gone. He expresses discomfort even talking about this but says he's offended by where the narrative around Kirk's legacy is going.
Every Murder Deserves Full Investigation
Carlson pivots to what he sees as the core issue: every American has an interest in every murder getting solved—not just getting solved, but fully solved. If you have a government agency shutting down a legitimate line of inquiry, at the very least you have to answer the question of why they're doing that.
Carlson references Joe Kent, who has said in public multiple times, including to Carlson, that the FBI shut down any effort to look into international connections within days of the killing. Carlson argues someone should ask the FBI why they did that, but no one seems willing to ask.
The FBI's Credibility Problem
Smith addresses his exchanges with Dan Bongino on social media, noting that people were trying to get Bongino to debate him. Smith explains that Bongino can't debate him and can't ever do a difficult interview again for the rest of his life because he's ended by one question.
Smith lays out the question: Bongino looked the American people in the eyes and swore that he had seen proof that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. It's now been declassified by an act of Congress. Smith challenges Bongino to tell everyone what proof he saw, noting it's all declassified now except for a few exceptions related to national security or harm to victims. Smith asks how it could possibly be any of those exceptions for Bongino to simply tell people what he saw that made him comfortable enough to swear he had seen proof Epstein killed himself.
Smith specifically calls out Kash Patel and Dan Bongino on this issue, suggesting their credibility on questions of government investigation is severely compromised.
Certainty About Epstein's Murder
Carlson interjects with an important caveat about epistemology: while we say we know things, he always adds the caveat "to the extent you can know things." He acknowledges he's thought he's known many things and turned out to be wrong, so he could be wrong about this too.
However, Carlson states he believes he can say with certainty that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. He emphasizes this is sincere—if you could x-ray his heart, you would find that he believes with total certainty Epstein was murdered and that people in the US government knew he was murdered.
Carlson makes clear he doesn't want that to be true, but he believes it is true. He says it's going to take a lot of evidence to show him that's false—he's always open to countervailing evidence because he's mindful of his capacity for being wrong, but his current belief is firm.
Pattern of Shutting Down Legitimate Questions
The conversation reveals a troubling pattern: government agencies and political figures shutting down legitimate lines of inquiry into high-profile deaths and suspicious circumstances. Whether it's the FBI closing international investigations into Kirk's death within days, or former government officials claiming to have seen proof of Epstein's suicide that they refuse to share even after declassification, the pattern suggests a systematic effort to prevent Americans from getting answers to legitimate questions.
Both Carlson and Smith express that everyone should be afraid of institutions that operate this way, and that fear is precisely why so few people are willing to ask the hard questions. The implication is clear: if you're afraid to ask questions about how someone died, especially someone as prominent as Charlie Kirk, then you're living under a system where truth matters less than power.
Video Transcript
[00:00] certain questions have to be answered no
[00:01] matter who's asking them, right?
[00:03] >> Yeah.
[00:04] >> One of the questions I still can't
[00:06] answer is why is it that all the neocons
[00:11] are the ones leading the screaming and
[00:13] anyone who asked questions about Charlie
[00:14] Kirk's death when Charlie Kirk was an
[00:16] enemy of the neocons like open enemy of
[00:20] the neocons invited you to TPUSA like
[00:23] you don't invite and he didn't it's not
[00:25] because the kids at TP USA are like oh I
[00:27] grew up loving Dave Smith.
[00:28] >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's I I said that
[00:30] I've said this on other shows, too, but
[00:31] I said this uh to you that it's like
[00:32] there was something about inviting, you
[00:34] know, inviting you or Megan Kelly. It's
[00:36] >> on Fox
[00:38] and huge famous stars on Fox News. It's
[00:41] not just like someone on Fox News like
[00:43] two of the biggest.
[00:43] >> There's no reason to invite you to a
[00:45] Turning Point event unless he wants the
[00:47] kids in the audience to hear your views,
[00:50] which he did because he subsidally
[00:51] agreed with them. And I would know
[00:53] because I talked to him about this a
[00:54] lot, like a lot a lot over years. So for
[00:56] the neocons
[00:58] whom he at best didn't trust and mostly
[01:02] really didn't like. I never talk about
[01:04] what I think Charlie thought because it
[01:05] feels so weird because he's gone. But I
[01:07] just have to say this.
[01:08] >> They're the ones leading the charge on
[01:10] shut up. Don't ask any questions. Like
[01:13] you tell me what this is. Well,
[01:15] >> and I'm not going to take orders from
[01:16] them. Who are these people anyway? This
[01:18] is the same reason why this is the
[01:20] reason why I I read that text message
[01:22] that he uh he sent me and it was because
[01:26] well part of it was because Candace
[01:27] asked and I'm friends with Candace and
[01:29] she was very she lost someone she was
[01:30] very close to. Um but part of it was
[01:32] that
[01:33] >> you know cuz it's a weird thing to do.
[01:34] It's a weird thing to share private text
[01:36] messages with anyone especially someone
[01:38] who just died. And I got some push back
[01:40] for that and I understand why like I get
[01:41] their point. Maybe I shouldn't have done
[01:43] that. I'm not sure. But, you know, it
[01:44] was the thing where like Netanyahu
[01:46] immediately is trying to hijack his
[01:48] legacy. Josh Hammer and all these guys
[01:49] are immediately trying to hijack his.
[01:51] And so, it's kind of like
[01:52] >> selling their books by literally, dude,
[01:55] it's the most disgusting thing I've ever
[01:56] seen in my life. Josh Hammer did three
[01:58] interviews immediately after. The only
[01:59] reason anyone's interviewing him is cuz
[02:00] he was friends with Charlie Ker. He was
[02:02] close around his circle or whatever. And
[02:05] every single time he mentioned how much
[02:06] Charlie loved his book,
[02:08] >> it's like Jesus, dude. I mean, I just
[02:10] could never imagine getting everybody
[02:13] The last
[02:13] >> Charlie was friends with Josh Ham,
[02:14] right?
[02:14] >> Well, okay. Well, he he had him in his
[02:16] circles or whatever his handler or
[02:18] whatever it was. But, you know, I
[02:20] remember, you know, right before Charlie
[02:21] uh died, he called me and he said, "Man,
[02:23] I just wish everyone would listen to
[02:24] your podcast." It's like, this is so
[02:27] crazy of a thing to say. But the reason
[02:29] I I release that is because I'm like,
[02:30] look, I don't know exactly where Charlie
[02:32] was on his evolution on this topic.
[02:34] Obviously, he had at one point been a
[02:37] diehard pro-Israel guy, but a lot of
[02:39] people were that and then kind of woke
[02:40] up over the last couple years. But I
[02:42] know that he texted me after my debate
[02:44] with Douglas Murray that he said he
[02:46] thought I did a great job and he really
[02:48] did. He said something like I read it
[02:49] verbatim on my show, but he said
[02:51] something like, "I believe it or not, I
[02:52] really didn't disagree with almost
[02:54] anything you said." And I'm just saying
[02:56] Ben Shapiro wasn't sending me that text.
[02:58] No. So for people to try to pretend
[02:59] there was no daylight between the two of
[03:01] them is just not true.
[03:04] >> No, there was hostility,
[03:06] >> right?
[03:06] >> Big time. And not just with, you know,
[03:09] those guys. Yeah. hostility. I mean, I I
[03:12] don't want to overstate it. I'm not
[03:13] saying he hated them as people, but I
[03:15] mean, he did not agree at all and
[03:17] >> certainly didn't agree with war with
[03:18] Iran
[03:20] >> at all and with also honestly some of
[03:23] the Christian Zionist leaders. I mean,
[03:26] Charles was very he loved Israel as a
[03:28] country for sure. And I think he had a
[03:30] complicated theology which I did not
[03:31] fully understand and still don't fully
[03:33] understand. But, um, the idea that you
[03:35] would put another country before your
[03:37] own, like he just rejected that flat
[03:38] out. And some of those some of the
[03:41] Christian Zionist leadersmen are very
[03:43] aggressive and sharklike and very
[03:45] moneyoriented and pushy.
[03:48] >> And he started talking about that
[03:49] openly.
[03:50] >> He talked about it with me a lot.
[03:51] >> Yeah. Well, he talked about it on Megan
[03:52] Kelly's show. I mean, talked about the
[03:54] reaction he got
[03:56] from Well, maybe not from the
[03:57] evangelical.
[03:58] >> It was it was a mix it was a mixture.
[03:59] Yeah. Yeah. probably a mix of both
[04:01] >> of, you know, Jewish Zionists like um
[04:04] like the guys you mentioned, but also
[04:05] the people he grew up with who were
[04:07] evangelical leaders and he was upset
[04:11] with them. I mean, I talked to him about
[04:12] it at length. It's I could name names
[04:14] with who he was upset. I'm not going to,
[04:15] but cuz he's gone. But yeah, that's just
[04:18] real. And I don't know. I I don't even
[04:21] like talking about this, but I'm just
[04:23] offended by where this is going. And the
[04:25] bottom line is every American has an
[04:27] interest in every murder getting solved.
[04:30] And not just in getting solved, but
[04:32] fully solved.
[04:33] >> Yeah.
[04:33] >> And if you have a government agency
[04:35] that's shutting down a legitimate line
[04:37] of inquiry, at very least you have to
[04:40] answer the question, why are you doing
[04:41] that? And they and Joe Kent has said in
[04:43] public multiple times, including to me,
[04:45] the FBI shut down any effort to look
[04:49] into international connections here
[04:50] within days of the killing. So, someone
[04:54] should ask the FBI like, "Why'd you do
[04:56] that?"
[04:57] >> And no one seems willing to ask.
[04:59] >> And look, we also know what we know
[05:02] about this FBI, uh, who I just could not
[05:05] be more disgusted with. And, you know,
[05:07] um, I know you saw when
[05:09] >> everyone's afraid of them. Well, when
[05:10] Dan Bonino was talking all types of
[05:13] to me on Twitter or whatever, but it's
[05:15] it's like, look, man, you just
[05:19] you you know, there was a thing where
[05:20] people were saying uh they were trying
[05:22] to goat Dan Bonino into debating me
[05:24] because he was talking about me and
[05:26] you know, as I was I think I responded
[05:27] in kind. Um, but the thing is like he
[05:31] can't Dan Bonino, not only can he not
[05:34] come debate me, Dan Bonino can't ever do
[05:37] a difficult interview ever again for the
[05:39] rest of his life because he's ended in
[05:41] one question. I literally one question
[05:44] ends it. I just go, "Hey, okay, so you
[05:46] looked the American people in the eyes
[05:48] and you swore that you had seen the
[05:51] proof that Jeffrey Epstein killed
[05:52] himself." Well, it's been declassified
[05:54] by an act of Congress now. So, go ahead
[05:56] and tell us what you see.
[05:58] What's the proof? It's all declassified
[06:00] now there. What? It doesn't It doesn't
[06:03] What are the the few exceptions in the
[06:05] rule? If it's national security or if it
[06:07] harms the victims or something like
[06:09] that. How would it possibly be any of
[06:10] those for you to just tell me what you
[06:12] saw that made you comfortable enough to
[06:14] go out there and swear that you had seen
[06:17] proof that he killed himself? Cash
[06:19] Patel, Dan Bonino, any But these guys
[06:21] specifically, and this is one of the big
[06:23] things I think that
[06:24] >> I just want to interject. I'm not this
[06:25] is not aimed at anyone in particular but
[06:27] >> um you know we say we know things but I
[06:30] would always add the caveat to the
[06:32] extent you can know things like I
[06:33] thought I've known many things I've
[06:35] turned out to be wrong
[06:37] >> you know so I could be wrong but this is
[06:39] sincere I believe I can say with
[06:41] certainty that Jeffrey Epstein was
[06:43] murdered
[06:45] >> so I so I mean but of course I'm always
[06:47] open to counterveailing evidence always
[06:49] because I'm mindful of my capacity for
[06:51] being wrong but I can say if you could
[06:53] x-ray my heart, you would find that I
[06:55] believe with total certainty he was
[06:57] murdered and the people in the US
[06:58] government knew that he was murdered.
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