Speaker 1: Tonight, we continue our coverage of the death and life
Speaker 1: and legacy of Charlie Kirk. Will go inside the manhunt
Speaker 1: to see whether or not his killers will be found
Speaker 1: and held accountable.
Speaker 2: Rahem Cassam of the National.
Speaker 1: Pulses here, and we'll stop in with Daniel Baldwin at
Speaker 1: the White House where they're getting constant information about how
Speaker 1: to hold the killer or killers accountable. We've also got
Speaker 1: a report from the activist community. Stefano Forte is the
Speaker 1: president of the New York Young Republican Club, and he
Speaker 1: will share how folks are trying to live the legacy
Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk in their politics and their free speech
Speaker 1: and in their activism.
Speaker 2: It's all on the Matt Gates Show.
Speaker 3: Let's do this.
Speaker 2: Shaking up Washington, d C. We're breaking the fever.
Speaker 4: Do you haven't watch this guy on television.
Speaker 5: It's like a machine.
Speaker 2: He's great.
Speaker 1: Matt Gates, as we join you tonight, we are on
Speaker 1: assignment in Washington, d C. And this is a place
Speaker 1: where Maga is indeed in mourning. As I have chatted
Speaker 1: with my friends throughout the administration, so many had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to serve President Trump on the campaign trail or
Speaker 1: in government in some part because of Charlie Kirk. Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk ran a massive organization, Turning Point USA and Turning
Speaker 1: Point Action, and that became the theaer system for people
Speaker 1: who would ultimately lead precinct walks, organized for caucuses, recruit volunteers,
Speaker 1: host fundraisers, share information online, and build out the incredible
Speaker 1: magasphere of information domain warfare that allowed President Trump to
Speaker 1: prevail in the electoral contest against Kamala Harris. Charlie Kirk
Speaker 1: was one of President Trump's closest friends and advisors. I
Speaker 1: recall frequently during the tough times of the Trump campaign
Speaker 1: during COVID, when we were concerned about whether or not
Speaker 1: gatherings would allow us to share our message, it was
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk in the state of Arizona who held a
Speaker 1: triumphant return rally for President Trump. It was also the
Speaker 1: Turning Point organization that gave President Trump opportunities to be
Speaker 1: able to connect with young people about their prospects for
Speaker 1: a brighter future. It was a future dimmed by the
Speaker 1: Biden administration as regulations, taxes, sanctuary policies reduced what we
Speaker 1: believed we could be in the economy, of the future.
Speaker 1: Now that future has been shaped by Charlie Kirk, even
Speaker 1: in his passing. It's been shaped by the activists he trained,
Speaker 1: by the people in government he mentored, and by a
Speaker 1: president whose side he stood by. To say how important
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was to President Trump. He was one of
Speaker 1: the people the President regularly consulted about who would be
Speaker 1: his running mate, and Charlie Kirk was indeed on the
Speaker 1: side of JD. Vance who was ultimately selected. It was
Speaker 1: the Vice President on Air Force two who went and
Speaker 1: picked up Charlie Kirk's body in Utah and returned it
Speaker 1: to Arizona, where we expect there to be a really
Speaker 1: remarkable celebration of life that will go on for some time.
Speaker 1: President Trump was at the nine to eleven and he
Speaker 1: shared his words on Charlie Charlie Kirk while awarding Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Speaker 2: Take a listen.
Speaker 6: Before we begin, let me express the horror and grief
Speaker 6: so many Americans at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 6: I felt Charlie was a giant of his generation, a
Speaker 6: champion of liberty and an inspiration to millions and millions
Speaker 6: of people. Our prayers are with his wonderful wife, Eric
Speaker 6: and his beautiful children. Fantastic people they are. We miss
Speaker 6: him greatly. Yet I have no doubt that Charlie's voice
Speaker 6: and the courage he put into the hearts of countless people,
Speaker 6: especially young people, will live on. I'm pleased to announce
Speaker 6: that I will soon be awarding Charlie Kirk posthumously the
Speaker 6: Presidential Medal of Freedom. The date of the ceremony will
Speaker 6: be announced, and I can only guarantee you one thing
Speaker 6: that we will have a very big crowd, very very big.
Speaker 1: I can tell justin listening to my friend the President's voice,
Speaker 1: how sad he is about this, how much it has
Speaker 1: touched him, and the First Lady, and all who are
Speaker 1: working for the country right now in the West Wing.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this about Charlie Kirk. He and
Speaker 1: I spoke frequently about life and death. In the last
Speaker 1: several weeks. I would even seek parenting advice for him.
Speaker 1: He gave good advice on diapers and the importance of
Speaker 1: spending time with your children even before they can really
Speaker 1: react to your presence in a fulsome way. Charlie Kirk
Speaker 1: did not fear death. We talked about the risks associated
Speaker 1: with our advocacy and our politics. Sometimes we talked about
Speaker 1: those things in the context of the outdoor rallies that
Speaker 1: Charlie would hold. I would do what I could to
Speaker 1: not hold outdoor rallies, but at times they were unavoidable
Speaker 1: in the place of the context, and I would ask
Speaker 1: Charlie whether or not he believed he would be safe
Speaker 1: at these things, and in a way that I knew
Speaker 1: he was sincere. He told me that he knew everything
Speaker 1: would go according to God's plan with his life. He
Speaker 1: knew there were risks associated with the work he was doing.
Speaker 1: He would give his signature grin and say that he
Speaker 1: know he picked such a wonderful mother for his children
Speaker 1: that they would be okay if anything terrible happened to him.
Speaker 1: And those conversations have been running in my mind constantly
Speaker 1: since the news of his death. Another person who Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk helped out a great deal during the confirmation process
Speaker 1: during the transition, another friend of his in the media
Speaker 1: space previously is now our Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth,
Speaker 1: who shared some comforting words regarding the passing of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 7: Life example and even death of Christ follower and American
Speaker 7: patriot Charlie Kirk. Give me hope, sheer courage, no matter
Speaker 7: the arena. Charlie, we love you. We know that you
Speaker 7: have heard the Lord's words. Well done, good and faithful servant.
Speaker 2: Full heart, clear eyes.
Speaker 7: Like those on nine to eleven, You will never be forgotten.
Speaker 1: We are learning everything we can about the ongoing manhunt
Speaker 1: as this grief continues to lay over so many of
Speaker 1: us in the MAGA movement. The authorities believe that there
Speaker 1: is a person of interest and they are sharing information
Speaker 1: regarding the physical appearance. Let's get that person of interest
Speaker 1: screen on our full screen if we can, and that's
Speaker 1: something that certainly has drawn the attention of many. And
Speaker 1: we a wait to see whether or not that person
Speaker 1: of interest is indeed a target and whether or not
Speaker 1: our authorities have the opportunity to speak with that person.
Speaker 1: But we do know there were two other individuals who
Speaker 1: were detained at some point who have subsequently been released,
Speaker 1: and so it appears we may be in for the
Speaker 1: long haul on this investigation. There were a number of
Speaker 1: lawmakers who are our chief Capitol Hill correspondent John Hines
Speaker 1: caught up with today who reacted to Charlie Kirk's passing
Speaker 1: Take a listen.
Speaker 8: Charlie Kirk was a force, a tremendous and articulate spokesman
Speaker 8: for what is good and honorable. What an impact he
Speaker 8: was having on our young people. And for the coward
Speaker 8: that took his life. You know, I just there's no
Speaker 8: words to describe the disgust that I feel for that individual.
Speaker 8: But Kirk is just an amazing man. And what a
Speaker 8: loss loss to his family, friends, and the country.
Speaker 2: He is a great man.
Speaker 9: At thirty one years of age, he leaves an enormous
Speaker 9: legacy and retired generation that has been reintroduced to those
Speaker 9: principles of individual liberty, constitutionally limited government, and personal responsibility.
Speaker 9: It created the greatest nation in the history of the world.
Speaker 9: He advanced the cause of democracy more than anybody that
Speaker 9: I know, and paid a terrible price. We owe him
Speaker 9: an enormous.
Speaker 10: Debt of gratitude.
Speaker 9: As historians look back on this period, I think it
Speaker 9: will look to voices like Charlie Kirks as those who
Speaker 9: charted a better course for America.
Speaker 11: It's a very sad day, I take it wasn't the passing.
Speaker 11: It was an assassination. It was just a flat out
Speaker 11: assassination of a man. He's got a wife, he's got kids.
Speaker 11: If you you know, he was very respectful whenever he spoke.
Speaker 11: Just a sad day.
Speaker 1: There are a number of visuals that have been held
Speaker 1: there around the country as people who hadn't even met
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk were grief stricken by the news of his assassination.
Speaker 1: We'll check on those vigils now.
Speaker 12: Is with the memory of Charlie Kirk and his sacrifice
Speaker 12: for liberty and with the supreme faith in Christ our.
Speaker 3: King, that we stand in.
Speaker 12: The face of evil, ready to do battle for the Lord.
Speaker 1: The vigils in remembrance of Charlie Kirk's life. The celebrations
Speaker 1: of his life will be ongoing. Matter of fact, in
Speaker 1: Florida's first congressional district in Milton, Florida, they'll be a
Speaker 1: gathering on Saturday. Folks can find out the information on
Speaker 1: my social media at former Rep.
Speaker 2: Matt Gates.
Speaker 1: I'll be there with my grieving friends who see the
Speaker 1: impact of Charlie and all he's done. And this also
Speaker 1: brings into focus broader questions about political violence and about
Speaker 1: death threats. Last evening, we had longtime political consultant and
Speaker 1: presidential historian Roger Stone on our program. He had this
Speaker 1: to say about the political climate of violence today.
Speaker 4: Matt knows what this is like. You know, you have
Speaker 4: no idea what it's like to get death threats every
Speaker 4: single day, by email, by text, on social media. I
Speaker 4: don't talk about it because they don't want to generate copycats.
Speaker 4: But if you're outspoken, you're subjected to this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to becoming detail.
Speaker 4: It silence us. If the idea is to silence us,
Speaker 4: that's not going to work.
Speaker 1: No, it never silenced Charlie Kirk. You showed a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of courage. Roger Stone makes a good point. There's
Speaker 1: often this tension that arises when there are terrible death threats.
Speaker 1: If you talk about those things, they didn't happen. More often,
Speaker 1: if you don't talk about them, you aren't able to
Speaker 1: activate sufficient outrage to be able to make this not acceptable.
Speaker 1: People have to be able to resolve their disputes in
Speaker 1: far more productive ways, and we have a lot to
Speaker 1: learn about the motivations in this particular event. But I
Speaker 1: don't immediately leap to the conclusion that this is someone
Speaker 1: who just hated conservatives, because many were.
Speaker 2: Gathered that day.
Speaker 1: And what we know about the gun that we believe
Speaker 1: was acquired by the authorities is that this was a single.
Speaker 2: Bolt action rifle.
Speaker 3: This was one bullet.
Speaker 2: This wasn't somebody who was.
Speaker 1: Out there just spraying their outrage through some sort of
Speaker 1: high capacity magazine. We also see that this person obviously
Speaker 1: had an escape plan. The comparisons to Butler Pennsylvania seemed
Speaker 1: deeply misplaced to me, because Butler Pennsylvania, this was someone
Speaker 1: who obviously was ready to give their life in this
Speaker 1: twisted desire to see President Trump killed. Here, you did
Speaker 1: not have such a sacrificial endeavor. It was more pristine,
Speaker 1: it was more surgical. It was more precise and awful
Speaker 1: and tragic and mind numbing all at once. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: that is a clue that is important. And we certainly
Speaker 1: know that Charlie Kirk was someone who weighed in on
Speaker 1: a number of very important issues, and he was a
Speaker 1: powerful person, and some people want to extinguish that power,
Speaker 1: And so much of what is being discussed regarding our
Speaker 1: friend Charlie Kirk now relates to what he indeed has
Speaker 1: done mobilizing and organizing people. But I wonder whether or
Speaker 1: not Charlie Kirk's death had something to do with the
Speaker 1: work that he did when folks weren't watching the work
Speaker 1: that he did to ensure that President Trump had all
Speaker 1: of the support necessary to make reasonable decisions that serve
Speaker 1: the American people. And look, presidents are often bombarded by
Speaker 1: people who want this or that. Oftentimes they're acting in
Speaker 1: their own pecuniary interest. But Charlie Kirk had a way
Speaker 1: to have the president's back. He had a way to
Speaker 1: ensure that the president had the opportunity to be the
Speaker 1: very best version of himself. And we all always want
Speaker 1: that of our own selves and of those who assume
Speaker 1: mantles of power. And when Charlie would talk to people
Speaker 1: in the press, or in Congress or the Senate, or
Speaker 1: in the cabinet, he had a way of aligning interests
Speaker 1: that we're going to be discussing tonight with his longtime friend,
Speaker 1: my longtime friend, the publisher of the National Pulse, Rahem Cassam,
Speaker 1: And it's our expectation that that'll give us an opportunity
Speaker 1: to really delve into the depth of this man and
Speaker 1: his impact on Washington, d C. It was an impact
Speaker 1: that has felt even in his passing, and there will
Speaker 1: be a lot of time for us in the coming
Speaker 1: days and in the coming weeks to talk about where
Speaker 1: Turning Point goes, where the door knocking effort goes for
Speaker 1: the Republican Party. In a lot of ways, Turning Point
Speaker 1: USA did the work that the Republican Party traditional establishment
Speaker 1: infrastructure didn't do, wasn't built to do, couldn't do. And
Speaker 1: in that way it is an irreplaceable thing in the
Speaker 1: success strategy for the America First Movement to have a
Speaker 1: vibrant Turning Point. I can share with you that I've
Speaker 1: spoken with a number of the senior executives at Turning Point,
Speaker 1: and while it is hard at times for them to
Speaker 1: even formulate words through the grief, they remain committed to
Speaker 1: the mission. Every single person knows that if Charlie Kirk
Speaker 1: were here to give comment on the passing of Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 1: he would say keep fighting, keep organizing, keep speaking out,
Speaker 1: and that we are not going to win the same
Speaker 1: way the other side will. Our ideas have to be better,
Speaker 1: arguments have to be sharper, and we have to be
Speaker 1: able to convey these things with a sense of inviting
Speaker 1: and warmth and if our politics is always so off
Speaker 1: putting to people and lacks charm, then it is not
Speaker 1: a growth asset class.
Speaker 2: And we have grown as a movement.
Speaker 1: We've grown in a number of demographics, but none more
Speaker 1: so than the young people who Charlie dedicated so much
Speaker 1: of his time too, and who he wanted to bring
Speaker 1: aboard this great turning point in our country. We'll be
Speaker 1: back in moments with Daniel Baldwin, Raheem Cassam and Stefano Forte.
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Speaker 1: We wanted to bring you right to the reaction from
Speaker 1: the White House on this day to so many things
Speaker 1: that are going on from nine to eleven to the
Speaker 1: continued morning of our friend, Charlie Kirk, and we bring
Speaker 1: in for the conversation Daniel Baldwin, our chief White House correspondent.
Speaker 2: One American News.
Speaker 1: Daniel, Every friend of mine, every colleague at the White
Speaker 1: House remains deeply sad today. Some are telling me that
Speaker 1: even focusing on anything other than the loss of their
Speaker 1: friend is hard to do. What are you sensing from
Speaker 1: the White House as it relates to the passing of
Speaker 1: the great Charlie.
Speaker 14: Kirk, Matt, Everyone's walking around with the dark cloud over
Speaker 14: themselves today. That's what it feels like. It feels like
Speaker 14: a nightmare. Everyone here is gutted. Everyone here works with
Speaker 14: the administration is just torn apart by what happened. It
Speaker 14: feels like a nightmare. And that's speaking personally. That's speaking
Speaker 14: to people who work for the president. One of the
Speaker 14: officials that it feels like they lost one of their own,
Speaker 14: and how could you focus on anything else at this
Speaker 14: point in time. This is a dark, dark, dark moment
Speaker 14: for the country. And I know Charlie was a personal
Speaker 14: friend of yours, So I want to say I'm sorry
Speaker 14: for your loss, Matt. And of course we're praying for
Speaker 14: Charlie here at One American News. I know the White
Speaker 14: House is doing the same. The Vice President vote a
Speaker 14: beautiful post on X last night, and we spoke with
Speaker 14: the President today for a good couple of minutes, and
Speaker 14: his message is basically that the Turning Point family is strong.
Speaker 14: He has a lot of love for them. Charlie was
Speaker 14: an incredible man. He had the pulse of the youth
Speaker 14: in this country unlike anyone else. And to any of
Speaker 14: the young Americans who feel like they lost their political voice,
Speaker 14: he said, to hang in there, and now is the
Speaker 14: time to be brave and let your voice be heard.
Speaker 14: So that seems to be the message from the President
Speaker 14: here today and what again, is a very dark dark
Speaker 14: hour for this country.
Speaker 1: I've spent a lot of time speaking at Turning Point campuses.
Speaker 1: I've got friends and contacts who built Turning Point chapters
Speaker 1: and gone on to careers in and out of politics.
Speaker 1: And yes, that is a feeling that is premating from
Speaker 1: the White House throughout the country. And Daniel, you spoke
Speaker 1: to the President about his conversations with Erica Kirk, the
Speaker 1: widow of Charlie Kirk. What did the President have to
Speaker 1: share with you about that?
Speaker 14: He said he had a lengthy conversation. She's just devastated,
Speaker 14: just wrecked, absolutely devastated. And it's easy to look at
Speaker 14: Charlie and say, well, he's a major influential figure in
Speaker 14: conservative politics, politics in general, someone who had a lot
Speaker 14: of people here. A lot of reporters have come up
Speaker 14: to me and said that they believed that Charlie Kirk
Speaker 14: had a presidential run in his future. Multiple people have
Speaker 14: said that to me today, So that sort of tells
Speaker 14: you what reporters have thought about him, Matt. But at
Speaker 14: the bottom line was he is a husband, He has
Speaker 14: a father to a two beautiful young children, and that's
Speaker 14: what this absolute savage ripped away from his family. And
Speaker 14: the President, of course, understands grief and the need to
Speaker 14: be there for people better than most, and he had
Speaker 14: a lengthy conversation with Charlie's wife and was likely there
Speaker 14: for her and heard her, and he just reiterated that
Speaker 14: message to the Turning Point family that the White House
Speaker 14: stands with them in their hour of grief, and that
Speaker 14: Charlie was a titan of a man, and that his
Speaker 14: voice will go on for decades and generations to come
Speaker 14: in the president and this White House will help make
Speaker 14: sure of that meant.
Speaker 1: You make such a good point about how President Trump
Speaker 1: has always approach to grief just as a human being.
Speaker 2: We've heard the stories in.
Speaker 1: The past when Robert Craft's wife died, he would regularly
Speaker 1: call Robert Craft and comfort him through those very difficult moments.
Speaker 1: When the Japanese leader Sinjo Abe was executed, President Trump
Speaker 1: kept in touch with his widow, just to create a
Speaker 1: human connection and to show deep empathy. President Trump knows
Speaker 1: Erica Kirk well. He's dined with Charlie and Erica kirktt
Speaker 1: on a number of occasions at mar Lago, at Bedminster,
Speaker 1: around the country, at Charlie's turning point events, and so
Speaker 1: they have a close relationship, and I would expect that
Speaker 1: they would continue to keep in touch.
Speaker 3: Daniel.
Speaker 1: The other real challenge here is that so many people
Speaker 1: in the administration tasked with conducting this man hunt bringing
Speaker 1: the person or people responsible for this to justice.
Speaker 2: They're friends of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 1: The FBI director is close personal friends with Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 1: Pambondi and Charlie Kirk are very close. What are you
Speaker 1: learning from the White House about how the President and
Speaker 1: the team there is being kept abreast of this investigation
Speaker 1: that appears to be very hot and still ongoing.
Speaker 14: It's hot and it's ongoing, met but their laser focused
Speaker 14: at the bottom, the bottom, like the end of the day.
Speaker 14: These are professionals, right, They're professionals, and they understand that
Speaker 14: they have a job to do, and they have a
Speaker 14: job to need to do right by Charlie and by
Speaker 14: his family, and that means bringing this killer to justice,
Speaker 14: in locating whoever that killer may be, in making sure
Speaker 14: that the punishment is appropriate for what happened. Right the
Speaker 14: presidents of they're making great progress.
Speaker 2: And he also said.
Speaker 14: That he had a pretty good idea about what the
Speaker 14: killer's intention was. He didn't really needed to imagine or
Speaker 14: make that much of an extrapolation understand what the killer's
Speaker 14: intention was, but he was going to keep that close
Speaker 14: to the vest. And obviously the entire country, regardless of
Speaker 14: your political affiliation, is waiting for this killer and the suspect,
Speaker 14: the person of interest to be apprehended and brought to justice,
Speaker 14: which is appropriate. We heard the governor of Utah say
Speaker 14: that the death penalty still exists in the state of
Speaker 14: Utah on matt so that could be something as well,
Speaker 14: and just a tagging back off that point you made
Speaker 14: about the President being there for people. That's been a
Speaker 14: continued trend about his political career, especially.
Speaker 3: Since he left office.
Speaker 14: His comeback was kickstarted by being there in East Palestine
Speaker 14: during that train derailment. He and the Vice president. That
Speaker 14: was the first moment that they really were together in action.
Speaker 14: And when he first got back into office, Matt his
Speaker 14: first trip was to North Carolina to see the victims
Speaker 14: of Hurricane Helen, to California the victims of the wildfire.
Speaker 14: He was down at Camp Mystic in text. So the
Speaker 14: President understands that when people are grieving sometimes the best
Speaker 14: thing you can do is just be there for them
Speaker 14: and let them known that you are there and you
Speaker 14: hear them and you're there for them. And it's quite
Speaker 14: a powerful personality trait that not many people have, but
Speaker 14: the President has proven time and time again that he
Speaker 14: does possess it and he understands people the way that
Speaker 14: you were talking about. And I just think that's a
Speaker 14: really important point that can't be lost here, and that
Speaker 14: he is going to make sure that he is there
Speaker 14: for Charlie's family and the Turning Point family, and that's
Speaker 14: I just think he can't emphasize that point enough.
Speaker 1: You've really outlined well the layers of grief here that exist. Again,
Speaker 1: you mentioned on our air your wife works a Turning Point,
Speaker 1: and so you have visibility here not only as our
Speaker 1: excellent journalist at the White House, but also as a
Speaker 1: husband and someone who sees the way. The Turning Board
Speaker 1: organization has inspired so many and platformed so many talents
Speaker 1: throughout the years. And there's the grief at the White House,
Speaker 1: there's the grief at the Turning Point team. There's grief
Speaker 1: all around the chapters. And I have been contacted by
Speaker 1: people who never met Charlie Kirk, who didn't know Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 1: but who feel such a sense of sadness and loss,
Speaker 1: and they, you know, they have been so kind to
Speaker 1: me just to express their understanding that this was a
Speaker 1: very special man doing incredible things. I would concur with
Speaker 1: all of those reporters, Daniel, that Charlie Kirk who would
Speaker 1: have been a future presidential aspirant and likely a future
Speaker 1: president of the United States, and we would have been
Speaker 1: the better for it. It's very hard to find comfort
Speaker 1: in these times, but we hope that it's part of
Speaker 1: God's plan in a positive way, and we hope that
Speaker 1: there are better days ahead for the folks at the
Speaker 1: White House who have incredible work to do, but certainly
Speaker 1: the dark cloud you mentioned is still over them. Daniel Baldwin,
Speaker 1: any final words on your observations at the White House.
Speaker 14: The last thing I would say, Matt is you know this,
Speaker 14: and I think you would affirm what I'm about to say.
Speaker 14: I've covered Turning Point events again, my wife works returning point.
Speaker 14: I have never met a Turning Point employee that didn't
Speaker 14: love Charlie Kirk, that didn't love him, didn't believe in him,
Speaker 14: didn't love waking up and going to work for him.
Speaker 14: And I just think that speaks volumes about the person
Speaker 14: he was, the type of faith and excitement that he inspired,
Speaker 14: the positivity and he did things the right way, and
Speaker 14: I think that just says a lot about him as
Speaker 14: a man.
Speaker 1: Indeed, Daniel Baldwin, our chief White House correspondent, I hope
Speaker 1: when we speak next it'll be on better terms and
Speaker 1: happier days. Appreciate you joining the programmers, thanks and coming up.
Speaker 1: I'll be joined by Receive Raheem Cassam of the National Pulse.
Speaker 1: Raheem Cassam also a very close personal friend of Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk and someone who understands the contours of our movement
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Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 1: I'm joined now by the editor in chief, founder and
Speaker 1: Minister of Propaganda at the National Polse my good friend
Speaker 1: Rahem Cassam.
Speaker 2: Raheem, thanks for being here.
Speaker 1: I wish it were under different circumstances.
Speaker 2: When you lose someone.
Speaker 1: Who matters to you, you tend to go through the
Speaker 1: different frames in your memory of your experiences with them.
Speaker 1: And I had to scratch my head for a moment
Speaker 1: and remember where I first met Charlie Kirk and it
Speaker 1: was actually with you at the Union Pub. I think
Speaker 1: that you and I were grabbing a Guinness and Charlie wasn't.
Speaker 1: But we were younger men. In twenty seventeen, we had
Speaker 1: all of this optimism about unified Republican control of Washington after.
Speaker 2: All of those Obama years.
Speaker 1: There was this energy turning point was one of a
Speaker 1: installation of organizations here in Washington, but had not achieved
Speaker 1: the primacy that we've seen it achieve in the last
Speaker 1: few election cycles. And so maybe just before we get
Speaker 1: into everything that happened, reflect on how you came to
Speaker 1: know Charlie Kirk and what you've observed of the of
Speaker 1: the incredible legacy he's led.
Speaker 3: He's left on us, Matt there and thank you for
Speaker 3: having me. You know, there aren't a lot of people
Speaker 3: in life that you come across that you feel like
Speaker 3: can inspire you kind of with a wave of their hand, right,
Speaker 3: you know, doing Charlie's show all the time, as I
Speaker 3: would seeing him at all the events, you know, he
Speaker 3: always got down to brass tacks, but he was always
Speaker 3: incredibly kind about it and incredibly motivating about it. And
Speaker 3: you know a lot of people that come through Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. Are grifters and hustlers, and they're just sort
Speaker 3: of trying to pitch them and make a name for
Speaker 3: themselves and you know, get themselves a seat somewhere or something.
Speaker 3: And when I first met Charlie, I sort of thought, right,
Speaker 3: who's this guy?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 3: What does he want? What is he trying to do?
Speaker 3: What's his angle? And it became abundantly clear to me
Speaker 3: very quickly that this is somebody who and you know,
Speaker 3: you know me for long enough, you know, I regard
Speaker 3: myself as a true believer. I sort of throw myself
Speaker 3: in front of as many buses as humanly possible to
Speaker 3: try and get to try and move the cause forward, right,
Speaker 3: And became abundantly clear to me that this guy was that,
Speaker 3: but to a scale that I had never seen before.
Speaker 3: You know, was he was true to his faith. He
Speaker 3: was true to his beliefs and family, was true to
Speaker 3: you know, this belief system that actually America's best days
Speaker 3: are not behind it, America's best days are in front
Speaker 3: of it. And he set his face like flint, achieving
Speaker 3: that day after day. I've never seen somebody, you know,
Speaker 3: perhaps barring the President, with more energy, with more stituitiveness,
Speaker 3: with more ability to go out there every single day
Speaker 3: and fight for the causes he believed in, and did
Speaker 3: it with a plumb right, did it with style, did
Speaker 3: it with verve, did it with kindness, did it welcoming.
Speaker 3: Even when I got into the most raheme type of
Speaker 3: nonsensical fights with people as I wont to do, Charlie
Speaker 3: would always somehow manage to take my side, you know,
Speaker 3: like we have a place for you here. And that's
Speaker 3: how he was with everyone. Everybody he encountered. He would
Speaker 3: welcome them into his milieu and he would tell them, look,
Speaker 3: we have a place for you here. We can find
Speaker 3: work for you here. I agree with you on this.
Speaker 3: We may disagree on that, but hey, we will work
Speaker 3: together to get the right things done. Reflecting on this
Speaker 3: terrorist atrocity, domestic terrorist atrocity of assassination in the last
Speaker 3: twenty four hours, you know, I sort of you know,
Speaker 3: I'm British, so we have a bit of a stiff
Speaker 3: upper lip about such things and sort of geffoor to myself, like, actually,
Speaker 3: the grand irony of Charlie being the target here is
Speaker 3: he was the person that actually wanted everyone's voices heard.
Speaker 3: He was the one who went out there and actually
Speaker 3: encouraged people to speak their minds, whether or not they
Speaker 3: agreed with him. The fact that they would target him
Speaker 3: for something like this sort of tells you about a
Speaker 3: lack of accommodation that is now there in American politics.
Speaker 1: That might be right, Raheem, but I don't know that
Speaker 1: it is. I don't know that this was domestic terrorism.
Speaker 2: I really don't.
Speaker 1: It might have been, and I don't know if Charlie
Speaker 1: was targeted because he was platforming free speech. I mean,
Speaker 1: here's what I keep coming back to, almost obsessively. One
Speaker 1: bullet on a bolt action rifle. Like if this was
Speaker 1: some person who had a gripe with free speech as
Speaker 1: a concept, they would have sprayed bullets like the Mandalay
Speaker 1: Bay shooter. If this was somebody who hated conservatives, they
Speaker 1: would have had a munition system there. They would have
Speaker 1: taken out more than one of them. Like to me,
Speaker 1: this reads as the targeted assassination of Charlie Kirk. And
Speaker 1: I am not a position to make a judgment as
Speaker 1: to whether or not that was a foreign actor, a
Speaker 1: domestic actor, a person targeting because of his beliefs or
Speaker 1: his operational capability.
Speaker 2: And that's what you just laid out for our audience.
Speaker 2: If you watch like.
Speaker 1: Fox News right now, I think you're getting a lot
Speaker 1: of people saying Charlie was this great organizer of young people.
Speaker 1: And he was, and that was important. But what you
Speaker 1: just described is so rare in this town. Someone who
Speaker 1: can seek out the true believers, because we know each
Speaker 1: other by our work, by our fruit. He sought out
Speaker 1: true believers, and then he put them in places where
Speaker 1: together we were advancing the movement.
Speaker 2: People like Donald.
Speaker 1: Trump, jd Vance, Cash, Patel, Pam BONDI wonderful people who
Speaker 1: are working in this administration. And I think that what
Speaker 1: is being undersold about Charlie's legacy is what you just
Speaker 1: put an excellent fine point on. He wasn't just our
Speaker 1: movements a great grassroots organizer.
Speaker 2: He was someone who, at.
Speaker 1: A very high level knew how to align interests and
Speaker 1: make progress.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I completely take your point. I suppose when I
Speaker 3: say domestic, I just mean it happened here right like
Speaker 3: it's we don't we don't know what the what the
Speaker 3: original impetus was behind this, And it's perfectly perfectly reasonable
Speaker 3: to suggest that there may be external line actors involved here.
Speaker 3: I mean, like you say, the way it was carried
Speaker 3: out is not necessarily what we've seen before from from
Speaker 3: domestic actors. Right.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, It's just such a key point that I
Speaker 1: have to I have to draw a fine point on it.
Speaker 2: Those who are like, oh, this is just like button Butler.
Speaker 2: That is not my tick, Butler.
Speaker 1: They caught the person, and Butler that person was spraying
Speaker 1: bullets around. You know here, this looks a lot more precise,
Speaker 1: doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it does. There are counterpoints to it.
Speaker 3: Without getting too grizzly about it, is that you know,
Speaker 3: I suppose you know, trained marksmen don't aim for the neck,
Speaker 3: you know, you don't. You don't know if you're getting
Speaker 3: a kill shot that way. But it's mo yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: for sure, for sure. And I suppose all of these
Speaker 3: things are fair game to be argued out. What I
Speaker 3: will say is this, I think we can both agree
Speaker 3: on the fact at least that somebody out there feared
Speaker 3: him being president one day. So absolutely somebody out there
Speaker 3: feared that he would be a full fledged America first
Speaker 3: president one day. And then actually, whether you are a
Speaker 3: domestic nut job or you're a foreign actor, who is
Speaker 3: entirely reliant on having the United States in your pocket
Speaker 3: on certain things. You're a problem, and so I completely
Speaker 3: take your point. You know, we shall see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the people who are doing that work are
Speaker 1: dealing with this compounding pressure of caring deeply about Charlie
Speaker 1: but then having to find the killer and hold them accountable.
Speaker 2: You know Cash Betel very well.
Speaker 1: We know that Cash is very close to Charlie. I
Speaker 1: have sent him every warm message I can, just knowing
Speaker 1: how excruciating this must be for him. What advice would
Speaker 1: you give the people in this administration task with very
Speaker 1: real things right now, who are feeling the weight of
Speaker 1: this loss.
Speaker 3: Do as Charlie would have wanted you to do. You
Speaker 3: know what, Charlie was really amazing at and it was
Speaker 3: especially pertinent to me when I was sort of sitting
Speaker 3: in the brakes on his show, waiting to go on
Speaker 3: with him, and he'd sort of hit me with a
Speaker 3: line and say, so what do you think about this?
Speaker 3: And I go this end he goes, yeah, great, okay,
Speaker 3: so let's do it, but let's make sure there's action
Speaker 3: on the back end of it, right, Like, we're not
Speaker 3: just here to talk, We're here to actually achieve things,
Speaker 3: and there will be a lot of people out there
Speaker 3: wringing their hands. Right now, who what do we do?
Speaker 3: How do we bring the country together? Where's unity? I
Speaker 3: actually think you need to move with a certain level
Speaker 3: of prejudice here and say, you know, whatever has happened here,
Speaker 3: However we come to the conclusion of what's happened here,
Speaker 3: we are going to draw a very firm line under this.
Speaker 3: This cannot happen on American soil. It cannot happen to
Speaker 3: people like Charlie Kirk, It cannot happen ever. Again, you
Speaker 3: and I know we go through this all the time,
Speaker 3: worry about our personal securities. Right, we're out there all
Speaker 3: the time. We're at speeches, we're at public events, we're
Speaker 3: in the middle of the street. You know, I remember
Speaker 3: when you were in Manhattan in the midst of the
Speaker 3: Britney Spears thing. Right, You're just in an open environment,
Speaker 3: in open forum, and anything can happen, and we have
Speaker 3: to park those things to aside. Consequences be damned. We're
Speaker 3: out there to do a job, right, And that's what
Speaker 3: he did time and time again. He was convinced that
Speaker 3: if you actually get the young people in America to
Speaker 3: believe in a certain thing and see the right way
Speaker 3: that America had a bright future ahead of it, and
Speaker 3: somebody out there wanted that to stop.
Speaker 1: And it is a throwback in a way to the
Speaker 1: old whistle stop approach to politics, where the train would
Speaker 1: stop in each town and the folks would come around
Speaker 1: and there'd be debate, discourse, and then onto the next town.
Speaker 1: And in Washington there's a whole industry built to get
Speaker 1: you away from that. Right do telephone town halls ensure
Speaker 1: your separation from the people. One, because that's how the
Speaker 1: lobbyists and special interests get control over you.
Speaker 2: But two, like you know, the staff.
Speaker 1: Of members of Congress are worried oftentimes, or the staff
Speaker 1: of prominent people like Charlie Kirk that they may be harmed.
Speaker 2: You and I have been to dozens of rallies together.
Speaker 1: We've organized them, we've attended them, we've been speaking at them,
Speaker 1: and there is always this tension raheem where you want
Speaker 1: to have that closeness to the audience. You want to
Speaker 1: be able them to see, you know, when your blood
Speaker 1: vessels bulge and when your eyes get all tensed up.
Speaker 2: But at the same time there are.
Speaker 1: These security concerns, and when I talked to Charlie about them,
Speaker 1: he was aware of them, but it was more the consequences.
Speaker 1: Be damned, I have to go do this. This is
Speaker 1: the only way to do this. I can't be riding
Speaker 1: around in a popemobile. Do you think that this event
Speaker 1: is going to change the way people are thinking about
Speaker 1: the retail whistle stop way of politics?
Speaker 3: It already has. I mean, I've heard over the last
Speaker 3: twenty four hours so many people saying, all right, well,
Speaker 3: we're not going to do this anymore. We're not going
Speaker 3: to go there anymore. We're not going to And more
Speaker 3: important than the audience seeing us, right, is that we
Speaker 3: see them, because that's how we stop ourselves being captured
Speaker 3: by vested interest in the city. You know, I can
Speaker 3: walk outside and throw a stone and hit about fifty
Speaker 3: lobbyists if I was right, But actually meeting ordinary people
Speaker 3: and hearing their concerns, I mean, that's what I'm here for.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm a populist. That's why I believe that,
Speaker 3: you know, in a people first approach to politics, and
Speaker 3: if that gets stopped, then actually you do have just
Speaker 3: a completely trapped politics. That's what's going on in my country.
Speaker 3: You know, the reason that Sir Kir Starmer is out
Speaker 3: of touch with the British public isn't just because Keir
Speaker 3: Starmer is an awful human being or a globalist or
Speaker 3: whatever it is. It's because he doesn't have the ability.
Speaker 3: They've been told that they're not allowed to go out
Speaker 3: and meet with real people and hear their concerns and
Speaker 3: all of that. That's the getter wization of the people
Speaker 3: at the upper echelons of politics, and this is designed designed,
Speaker 3: this attack to cut that off.
Speaker 1: You make an interesting point for people who will just
Speaker 1: see this news about Charlie and figure he was a
Speaker 1: right wing figure, a conservative figure. Identifying him as a
Speaker 1: populist is more accurate because that is where Charlie charts.
Speaker 2: On the magosphere.
Speaker 1: He is not part of the corporatized you know, invade everywhere,
Speaker 1: invite everyone side. He was for tough immigration restrictions. He
Speaker 1: was for a limited US deployment of troops and materiel all.
Speaker 2: Around the world.
Speaker 1: Where do you chart the movement now broadly in that
Speaker 1: Are we looking each day more and more like the
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk version of the Republican Party or is it
Speaker 1: the kind of John Thune Paul Ryan, Mike Johnson version
Speaker 1: that seems to have the reigns of power.
Speaker 3: More well besides, you know, besides his grossroots organizing, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, you know, you can never sing enough
Speaker 3: praises about. I remember going to see pas back in
Speaker 3: the day, and he's eclipsed to them by some measure, right,
Speaker 3: and and and and you know, Seapac was sort of
Speaker 3: once a year in d C. And what Charlie was
Speaker 3: doing was not just all across nation, but actually all
Speaker 3: around the world. Right.
Speaker 1: Seapack is like Republican Woodstock Turning Point was like Republican Coachella.
Speaker 2: It's probably the way we.
Speaker 3: Were all around the world. And the reason that so
Speaker 3: many people are pouring out and support in London, in Brussels,
Speaker 3: in Brazil, and El Salvador in Korea, all across because
Speaker 3: Charlie permeated the whole world, right, not just the andosphere,
Speaker 3: not just the Western world, the entire world in doing
Speaker 3: what he wants to do and and and spreading those
Speaker 3: beliefs and those messages, and I, you know, we My
Speaker 3: problem is I love a lot of things that this
Speaker 3: administration is doing, okay, but there are a lot of
Speaker 3: things where I can see, especially on anti trust stuff
Speaker 3: and things at DJ and whatever that actually they are
Speaker 3: ending up rolling over to big corporate America or doing deals.
Speaker 1: Well, there are people who are working against President and
Speaker 1: Trump stated goals and objectives which we dealt with the
Speaker 1: first time. And it's way less acute now but still present.
Speaker 3: But it's still there. And that is another one of
Speaker 3: the reasons that somebody or whatever wanted Charlie off the
Speaker 3: map here because he would always drag us back to
Speaker 3: first principles. He would always make sure and not in
Speaker 3: a harsh way either. He did it with kindness and
Speaker 3: he did it and he looked in your eye and
Speaker 3: he said, listen, I know where you're coming from, but
Speaker 3: this is where we are and this is why we're there.
Speaker 3: And immediately that dissipated everything. Now we don't have that.
Speaker 3: But you know, I took a walk around the National
Speaker 3: Mall this morning and I looked around at the flags
Speaker 3: at half miles and I thought to myself, man, there
Speaker 3: needs to be monuments to Charlie Kirk all around the country,
Speaker 3: but actually we all need to be monuments to Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2: No, it's a great point.
Speaker 1: And as I was mourning just with my wife, you know,
Speaker 1: she said, Matt, He's created, you know, tens of thousands
Speaker 1: more Charlie Kirks through his work. And it's not often
Speaker 1: a thirty one year old gets to see their life's
Speaker 1: work done. I mean, when you were organizing Brexit, you
Speaker 1: had to tap into the angst of young people. But
Speaker 1: when I was growing up as a conservative in this country,
Speaker 1: if you were young and conservative, you just kept your mouth.
Speaker 2: Shut about it.
Speaker 1: And you're the Republican Party just wanted young people to
Speaker 1: not vote. And Charlie, though he died and was taken
Speaker 1: from us at too young of an age, his life's
Speaker 1: work was done.
Speaker 2: He turned it.
Speaker 1: The young people went from predominantly liberal to now this
Speaker 1: under thirty Cohort is one of the major contributing factors
Speaker 1: to President Trump's coalition. Is that durable beyond Charlie's life.
Speaker 3: I think Charlie's work in shores that is durable. I
Speaker 3: do think he created tens of thousands of Charlie Cook's
Speaker 3: and I do think, you know, firstly, without him, I
Speaker 3: would never be able to sit here and say anything
Speaker 3: like that about anybody else. I mean, I think you
Speaker 3: and I can both admit that we didn't have that.
Speaker 2: No, that's not us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, and so now okay, look, we're also in
Speaker 3: the morning, it's fresh and whatever. But it is our
Speaker 3: job to look down the pike here and go okay,
Speaker 3: now the next leaders have to step up, right, It's
Speaker 3: next man up and that will happen.
Speaker 1: And that's what Charlie would encourage. Final question for you,
Speaker 1: what are you going to be following at the National
Speaker 1: Pulse out of this story, whether it's the investigation, the
Speaker 1: direction of the movement, how Turning Point is nurtured to
Speaker 1: its future in the absence of its founder and leader.
Speaker 1: What can folks find at the National polse dot com.
Speaker 3: But my immediate concern is obviously for his family and
Speaker 3: his colleagues, right, and if people are looking for something
Speaker 3: they can do out there. I have no stake in
Speaker 3: Turning Point. I'm not involved in that group. But I
Speaker 3: think what people can do out there, at the bare
Speaker 3: minimum is fund that group, support that group, help them
Speaker 3: through this trauma that they're going through, and get engaged
Speaker 3: and involved with that. When they do their annual Freedom
Speaker 3: America Fest in Descent in Arizona. Everybody should feel like
Speaker 3: they have to attend and flood the zone and be
Speaker 3: there and get involved and be a part of that.
Speaker 3: So you know, if there can be some thing that
Speaker 3: comes out of all of this, it is taking that,
Speaker 3: you know, there's already a thirteen thousand strong, massive event,
Speaker 3: and putting that on speed boosters, right, putting that really
Speaker 3: in the limelight, and saying, not only is this going
Speaker 3: to be a commemoration of his life, but it will
Speaker 3: be us all going there and making sure that none
Speaker 3: of this it's certainly his death was in vain.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for coming by. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your friendship. I know how much Charlie valued your
Speaker 1: role in the movement. At times when he was doing
Speaker 1: that operating work, you know, he'd say, get this information
Speaker 1: to Raheem, He'll know what to.
Speaker 2: Do with it.
Speaker 1: So you know it was he saw this tremendous skill
Speaker 1: in what you do to get the truth out to people.
Speaker 1: And we'll continue to do that here one American News.
Speaker 1: I know you will at the National Pulse. Raheem, the founder,
Speaker 1: editor in chief the National Pulse, thanks for being with us,
Speaker 1: Thank you man, and coming up, we'll be joined by
Speaker 1: Stefano Forte of the New York Republican Club. He'll give
Speaker 1: us perspective as to how activists around the country are
Speaker 1: reflecting on this news and what their plans are ahead.
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Speaker 1: We're back tonight with a perspective across the activist ecosystem
Speaker 1: in the Republican Party and on the right. And we're
Speaker 1: joined now by Stefano Forte, who is the president of
Speaker 1: the New York On Republican Club A Stefano. So many
Speaker 1: of the young people who have come into politics in
Speaker 1: you know, the last half decade have done so with
Speaker 1: some inspiration or encouragement or interaction with the Turning Point organization.
Speaker 1: How are folks at the New York and Republican Club
Speaker 1: reacting to this news about Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 15: First off, Matt, thank you for having me on. Our
Speaker 15: club is absolutely reeling. Charlie Kirk was an inspiration for
Speaker 15: so many within my organization. Many of us learned to
Speaker 15: love Charlie Kirk through these devices, to love the conservative
Speaker 15: movement through Charlie Kirk's message, and many of us are
Speaker 15: just absolutely shattered, and we're saying what comes next? And
Speaker 15: I think the answer to that comes when they tried
Speaker 15: to gun down our President, Donald J. Trump, when he
Speaker 15: came back up with a fist in the air and
Speaker 15: he said, fight, fight, fight, And that is what we
Speaker 15: intend to do. We are all Charlie Kirk. Now, each
Speaker 15: and every one of us needs to go out there
Speaker 15: and needs to spread that message that Charlie had. It's
Speaker 15: a sad day in America. Flags are being flown at
Speaker 15: half mast everywhere, and members of the New York and
Speaker 15: Republican Club are absolutely reeling.
Speaker 1: I thought about your club when I got this news,
Speaker 1: because more than any other activist organization in the Young
Speaker 1: Republican ecosystem, you guys get out there in the streets,
Speaker 1: You hold rallies, press conferences. You stand outside of Gracie Mansion.
Speaker 1: You are not an indoor version of Republican activists. You
Speaker 1: are the outdoor version of Republican activists. And just maybe
Speaker 1: give my viewers a sense of what you encounter out
Speaker 1: there and how noxious and caustic people can be when
Speaker 1: others are just exercising their free speech.
Speaker 15: Yeah, our club is not a indoor country club. Our
Speaker 15: club is one that gets to the streets, knocks on doors,
Speaker 15: changes voters' minds. This is truly a club that was
Speaker 15: inspired by Charlie Kirk turning point in their message. When
Speaker 15: we go out onto the streets, ninety nine percent of
Speaker 15: our interactions are great. People want an alternative here in
Speaker 15: New York. They're begging for an alternative here in New York.
Speaker 15: We've won seats here in New York. But then every
Speaker 15: once in a while you get the radical left lunatics,
Speaker 15: and at the end of the day, many of these
Speaker 15: people are criminal in nature and violent, as we saw
Speaker 15: in the case of Charlie Kirk. It's absolutely disgusting and
Speaker 15: we intend on hitting the streets tomorrow. We are going
Speaker 15: to be having a vigil for Charlie at Madison Square
Speaker 15: Park at seven o'clock. It's all over the club social media.
Speaker 15: We just posted about it, and we want to go
Speaker 15: out there and we want to spread this message that
Speaker 15: we are all Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 15: We are not backing down, We are not afraid. We
Speaker 15: are here to fight.
Speaker 1: There is a fighting spirit that emerges from conservatives that
Speaker 1: are in captive blue cities, and I saw that in Charlie.
Speaker 1: Charlie was a guy who grew up outside of Chicago.
Speaker 1: He always hoped that he could save Chicago, save Illinois.
Speaker 1: That state, you know, really went the wrong direction pretty fast.
Speaker 2: And so Charlie.
Speaker 1: Went in, like many, found a fruitful opportunity in the
Speaker 1: Sun Belt to grow his organization and to expand his politics.
Speaker 1: But I do think there's a resilience that comes from
Speaker 1: being a conservative in a place like Chicago or New
Speaker 1: York or Los Angeles that maybe isn't present if you're
Speaker 1: out in the Bible Belt or in the Sun Belt.
Speaker 1: Tell my audience a little bit about what that takes
Speaker 1: of a person to be a Republican or a conservative
Speaker 1: in a major metro area.
Speaker 3: Look, we're New Yorkers.
Speaker 15: We're not backing down. This is our home. It takes
Speaker 15: a lot to be a conservative here in New York.
Speaker 15: But you know what, we're pushing this state more and
Speaker 15: more to the right. If you look at the gains
Speaker 15: that President Trump had in this state, they were overwhelming
Speaker 15: swings to the right. We helped host a rally for
Speaker 15: him in the Bronx, where I believe it was about
Speaker 15: thirty percent swing towards the right. We were all there
Speaker 15: at Madison Square Garden. We called it the Battle of
Speaker 15: Madison Square Garden because we were holding the crowds back,
Speaker 15: bringing them in and it was an amazing time. And look,
Speaker 15: we do not want to leave New York. We want
Speaker 15: to save New York City. We have a mayor on
Speaker 15: the wake of nine to eleven. This city is about
Speaker 15: to elect a radical socialist Islamist in this city. It
Speaker 15: is incredibly dangerous what is happening here. And I got
Speaker 15: to tell you, Charlie was a very, very big inspiration
Speaker 15: for this club. I went to America Fest and one
Speaker 15: of the first speakers I ever saw at America Fest
Speaker 15: was Congressman Matt Gates and it inspired me. There were
Speaker 15: speakers there and I said, I want to go back
Speaker 15: and I want to get involved. And we had the
Speaker 15: New York Young Republican Club to go back to and
Speaker 15: build and grow. We're up to two two thousand members
Speaker 15: of this club. We're going strong. We keep electing more
Speaker 15: and more candidates, and Charlie is a really big reason
Speaker 15: for that. And he helped us show that grit and
Speaker 15: that fighting attitude when he would go on these college campuses.
Speaker 15: That's enemy territory. We are behind enemy lines. We are
Speaker 15: the Navy Seals, we're the Marines of this Republican movement,
Speaker 15: and we are ready to knock on doors and keep winning,
Speaker 15: even in a blue city like New York.
Speaker 1: Well, it heartens me in our discussion that the folks
Speaker 1: who are often at the tip of the spear in
Speaker 1: the New York and Republican Club continue to wear the
Speaker 1: armor of God and where that is a badge of honor.
Speaker 1: Stefano Forte, please give my condolences to all of your
Speaker 1: tremendous activists and know that help's going to be on
Speaker 1: the way. We're going to get through this and the
Speaker 1: best days are still ahead.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 15: Thank you, Matt, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And we'll be right back with some closing thoughts in
Speaker 1: just a moment and stay right here on One American News.
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Speaker 5: Ever, if everything completely goes away, how do you want
Speaker 5: to be remembered? If I die, everything just goes away?
Speaker 5: How would you if you could be associated with one thing,
Speaker 5: how would you want to be remembered.
Speaker 14: Be I want to be remembered for courage from my faith.
Speaker 10: That would be the most important thing.
Speaker 14: Most important thing is my faith in my life.
Speaker 1: It's not often people get asked the question how they'd
Speaker 1: like to be remembered so close in proximity to the
Speaker 1: time in which they must be remembered. But indeed, we
Speaker 1: remember Charlie Kirk. We will continue to remember him, and
Speaker 1: our coverage of the murder, the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 1: and the ongoing manhunt to hold the killer or killers
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