Tucker Carlson Reveals Why Erika Kirk Is Uniquely Prepared to Lead Turning Point USA

[00:00] Charlie's wife.

[00:00] Yes.

[00:01] Erica Kirk. Um, and I joked yesterday or

[00:04] Yeah. on thought crime. I got a little

[00:06] You guys You guys razed me about it, but

[00:07] I was quoting Blake and because it came

[00:09] out. It was just this like amazing thing

[00:11] and I I I should know better than to air

[00:15] private conversations publicly, but

[00:16] Blake Erica was referenced and Blake

[00:19] just goes, "What a woman,

[00:22] dude. She's unbelievable.

[00:23] She's amazing.

[00:24] I was in Phoenix flying to Phoenix for

[00:26] something else and Charlie texted me on

[00:28] the plane and said, "I heard you coming

[00:29] to Phoenix." cuz he knew everybody. I

[00:30] was like, "How do you know that?" He

[00:32] goes, "Do you have time for lunch?"

[00:33] "Yes." I had nothing to do with him. Was

[00:35] not here for Turning Point at all. And

[00:36] so I meet him at lunch with his

[00:38] girlfriend, Erica. And he wants me to

[00:40] introduce me to her. And I called Susie,

[00:42] my wife, after and I was like, cuz my

[00:44] long-standing view has been, you know,

[00:46] it's critical. Like, I really believe in

[00:48] marriage, but not for like syrupy

[00:50] reasons. Like, I think it really

[00:51] matters. I was like, that chick is a

[00:54] star. I mean, she was just like, "No,

[00:58] this is what's true." And that's not

[01:00] true. I mean, she is tough is not

[01:03] exactly the right word cuz it's from

[01:05] love. It's from Christian faith. It's

[01:07] from faith in Jesus. But it like Oh,

[01:10] man. Oh my gosh. unwavering.

[01:14] And and uh you want to know a crazy You

[01:16] want to know a crazy thing I just

[01:17] realized last night?

[01:19] So

[01:21] Andrew Breitbart dies in 2012. that

[01:25] March 1st

[01:26] that inspires Charlie Kirk to start

[01:28] Turning Point USA in 2012.

[01:31] Guess what else happened in 2012? And we

[01:34] talk about people getting prepared in

[01:35] these little like nuggets that you you

[01:37] think about. I just realized this. Erica

[01:39] Kirk won Miss Arizona in 2012 and hung

[01:44] out with Donald Trump in 2012 because of

[01:46] that.

[01:47] I know. And so I don't know there there

[01:49] are no coincidences and it but you can

[01:51] just see how God was preparing them and

[01:54] and you know Erica as well you know

[01:57] Erica grew up with a single mom.

[02:00] Yeah.

[02:01] And so

[02:04] you know obviously

[02:06] he wanted Charlie's kids to know their

[02:08] father in a deep and profound personal

[02:11] way. But Erica is uniquely even in the

[02:14] midst of that tragedy is uniquely able

[02:17] to navigate that even just conceptually

[02:19] and emotionally something I've talked to

[02:21] her about and it's it's powerful even

[02:23] hearing her as she's working these

[02:25] pieces out and I again I don't want to

[02:27] share too much privately. So they said

[02:28] this publicly and I just love it and I

[02:31] shared this on Twitter uh X the other

[02:34] day and it went viral. So uh let's go

[02:36] ahead and play cut uh 19. One of my

[02:38] favorite interactions seeing Charlie and

[02:40] Erica.

[02:41] My wife joins us, Erica Kirk. The

[02:43] beautiful, legendary Erica.

[02:45] I love you so much.

[02:46] I love you.

[02:47] You're my best friend.

[02:48] Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. We

[02:49] have asked the audience for questions.

[02:51] You pick one.

[02:52] Who is more conservative and why?

[02:54] Erica.

[02:56] Yes.

[02:57] By far. Not even close. I am a moderate

[03:01] compared to Erica.

[03:03] Andrew always jokes that once you got

[03:04] married to me, you got more base.

[03:06] That's true. That is true. No, Erica is

[03:09] very conservative. Do do you think

[03:11] having kids made you more conservative?

[03:13] 100%.

[03:14] Which I didn't think was possible,

[03:18] but 100%. Absolutely.

[03:20] And do you think

[03:21] And a better wife.

[03:22] Mhm.

[03:24] Boy, that's the realest thing ever. It's

[03:26] hard to talk about your marriage because

[03:27] no one believes you. Of course, because

[03:30] it's like it's your wife. You can't say

[03:31] anything bad. But like I just know for a

[03:33] fact that that's true.

[03:34] It's really true.

[03:35] Yeah.

[03:37] Yeah. And by the way, I should note

[03:39] because I can't control myself that

[03:40] there was a picture of them in Maine,

[03:42] which they loved.

[03:44] That makes me sad.

[03:45] Yeah. Well, Charlie was a bad He was bad

[03:47] at vacations.

[03:48] Yeah. Terrible at vacation.

[03:50] So, he was in Maine this summer on

[03:52] vacation and he was I just loved how it

[03:55] kept like, "Oh, well, okay. Fox and

[03:57] Friends want me wants me to guess. So,

[03:58] so we're going to take the weekend like

[03:59] the best days of the vacation, you know,

[04:01] where he could actually maybe and Erica

[04:03] was just totally game for it." She was

[04:05] like, "Cool. Oh, let's go to New York.

[04:06] No, they came to my house and I He's

[04:08] like, I want to buy a house here. I was

[04:09] like, oh, you

[04:11] got to. The state needs you. It's good.

[04:14] You know, that I'm sorry that they

[04:16] didn't, but

[04:17] it's just been amazing to hear her talk

[04:19] about, you know, not just their

[04:21] relationship, but like how as a, you

[04:23] know, how they both viewed marriage.

[04:25] And, you know, we were saying the last

[04:27] the last exchange I had with Charlie by

[04:30] text message just on the way to the

[04:32] event, he was uh what what are the best

[04:36] arguments for monogamy? And it gets back

[04:37] to that, you know, the Christian

[04:38] civilization stuff we talked about cuz

[04:40] he loved all the takes I'd give him

[04:42] where I'm like, yeah, you know,

[04:44] Christian marriage is in the Bible, but

[04:45] it it's also this like secret weapon

[04:47] that made the West great. And like

[04:49] countries that follow Christian

[04:51] marriage, like they're amazing, they

[04:53] excel, they improve, they get better,

[04:55] they have harmony between men and women

[04:57] far more than any other civilization. He

[04:59] loved all of that. And so I was rattling

[05:01] all that off. And I think the last thing

[05:02] I got from him is he like hearted a list

[05:04] that I posted

[05:05] and 10 minutes later he was on the

[05:08] stage.

[05:09] Yeah. And yeah, that was those I I've

[05:11] looked back at those cuz those were I

[05:12] was on that text chain and I was chiming

[05:13] in and they were the last text that I

[05:15] exchanged with them too and it was like

[05:16] 30 minutes before it happened and yeah,

[05:19] we were talking about marriage. It's a

[05:22] that is when they talk about you hearing

[05:24] Erica talk about it where she she'll say

[05:26] stuff that sounds unbelievable to you.

[05:28] you know, they'll pe She's like, "People

[05:30] would ask me, you know, did you get mad

[05:32] at Charlie cuz he traveled so much and

[05:33] was doing so many things?" And she's

[05:35] like, "No, I didn't." And it was because

[05:38] we were on the same team. We were on the

[05:41] same mission. And I would have never

[05:43] wanted to in any way be hindering from

[05:46] him executing God's mission. And he

[05:48] would have never wanted to fail in any

[05:50] way in me executing the mission God gave

[05:53] me. But she was but when he was present,

[05:56] you know, he he practiced Shabbat not

[05:58] because he's Jewish, but because he

[06:00] needed sort of a a discipline to follow.

[06:03] And so from sundown on uh on Friday,

[06:06] really all of Saturday, it was like he

[06:08] was off. He turned you couldn't call

[06:10] him, you couldn't get a hold of him. I

[06:12] mean, there was ways if an emergency

[06:14] happened that I could get a hold of him,

[06:15] but and it was legit.

[06:16] But it was legit. You'd see the wave of

[06:18] him like reading the things you sent on

[06:20] like Friday night or Saturday night and

[06:22] finally

[06:22] blowing you up on Sunday when I try to

[06:24] go to church. All of a sudden Charlie's

[06:25] back on and it was just like, you know,

[06:27] and um but but he he gave that time so

[06:30] purely and fully to his wife and kids

[06:34] and Erica absorbed every moment of that.

[06:37] And I you know I told this story

[06:39] yesterday and I I do want to like

[06:40] clarify something because apparently

[06:43] people took it the wrong way. But the

[06:46] night it happened, she got a call from a

[06:49] very important person. And that very

[06:51] important person, I'm not going to say

[06:53] who, it maybe isn't who you think, but

[06:54] it's a very important person, but asked

[06:58] like I, you know, I just have to ask

[07:01] like like what do you know? And he

[07:04] wasn't talking about some conspiracy

[07:05] theory. We didn't even they hadn't even

[07:08] got that the shooter at this point.

[07:10] That's a fair question.

[07:10] He was asking what do you know about

[07:13] Turning Point? What do you know about

[07:14] what Charlie was doing politically? What

[07:16] do you know about the donors? What do

[07:18] you know? What do you know? Like, what

[07:20] are we working? What's our starting

[07:21] point here?

[07:23] And she said back, I know everything.

[07:27] Thank God because Charlie would spend

[07:30] they would walk and they would talk and

[07:32] they they would religiously they would

[07:34] walk cuz Charlie hurt his back. He

[07:35] couldn't run anymore. He used to run

[07:36] like 7 to 10 miles a day. When I first

[07:38] started working with Charlie, he would

[07:39] just be gone running and he hurt his

[07:41] back, he couldn't do it. So, they would

[07:42] walk together. And if you ever walked

[07:44] with Charlie, the guy could keep a pace.

[07:45] The guy with big long legs, you know,

[07:47] just and and they would talk and they

[07:50] would lay in bed and they would talk and

[07:52] he told he she was his vault and she

[07:55] knows everything.

[07:57] She has the same spirit. So when when

[07:59] that was announced, I heard that she was

[08:02] taking over. I was just h I was just

[08:04] elated. It's not attack on anyone else

[08:06] by the way or a reference to any of the

[08:08] interessine battles currently going on.

[08:11] um which I'm trying to not think about.

[08:14] It's just the the fact the provable fact

[08:16] that she had the same spirit and the

[08:18] same goals, same mission that he had.

[08:20] That is just true.

[08:22] She's more based.

[08:25] Let me I just want it without you know

[08:27] whatever but getting into it. But I just

[08:29] want to affirm that. I just saw that

[08:31] recently yet again. And uh I'm just so

[08:34] thankful that she's taking over because

[08:36] it's it's a big deal. I saw Trump on

[08:39] Monday. He said, "I couldn't got elected

[08:40] without Charlie Kirk." And I, you know,

[08:42] he's not prone to say things like that.

[08:43] He meant it. Wow. Yeah.