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Speaker 6: I just started getting word just a couple of moments
ago that Charlie Kirk has been shot. We have very
few details so far coming in on this. We're depending
on witnesses out Okay Utah Valley University. And he was
speaking in front of a crowd and in that moment
and correct me if I'm wrong. He was speaking about
obviously trans issues in the country today when a shot
or shots rang out, And we can now confirm via
Jason Chafitz, who was at the event at Utah Valley University,
that shots rang out as Charlie was talking about transgender
mass shootings. Per Jason Chafits, a witness there, says he
can't say that he saw blood, but he saw him
get He can't say that also that he saw him
get shot, but he did hear the gunshot ring out.
Speaker 7: He's also a controversial figure at times. He goes into
these various college campuses, pushes conservative issues, gets into back
and heated back and forth often with these students on
these college campuses. But of course none of that is violent,
as you know.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. By the way, it is the
Wednesday edition of Buston's Rush Hour. Here Charlie Kirk has
been shot in the neck. There was blood, There was
lots of blood. There's a close up of the assassination attempt.
So far, it is an assassination attempt that is almost
too graphic to watch, but it is on the internet.
People have their cameras out, as they do in many
many events, almost every event these days. Already that second
cut we played from CNN. He's being called all sorts
of adjectives to describe him divisive, figuring that he's none
of that. He is a remarkable young man thirty one
years old. And I met Charlie when he was in
his twenties, when he was just starting out out Turning Point, USA.
And he was at one of his donors' houses in
the West Palm Beach area and I was invited over.
And also we had a film crew with us from
Bispack Review at the time, and they did an interview
with him, and Charlie was just young and outstanding and amazing,
and Turning Point had not even grown to what it
has become now. It was in its infancy then Turning
Point Charlie Kirk did what many people in the Republican
Party were afraid to do, to actually go to the
hot beds of liberalism, to college campuses and talk with
people and engage people to talk with him. He didn't
just do way stand on the stage and point his
finger and give a speech and leave. He and this
is what he was doing today was it was you
could see the tent, the open area, despite all the
hatred directed him, and you can see this and that
this is not uncommon. Turning Point in USA now has millions,
grew into an organization of started with hundreds and then thousands,
and then tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands,
and now millions of people are aware of it, if
not active members of it. And he grew that organization
and had events, has events around the country where he
brings I've spoken at Turning Point events in the past
where he brings voices to speak. But Charlie himself goes
on campuses and speaks with people, not to them, with them,
and you have seen, I have seen. The news doesn't
cover it because it's not in their narrative. The outrage
among leftist college kids who have done everything from turnover
Turning Point tables on the campus to threaten them, to
active violence against some of the kids that work and
young people that work with Turning Point. So violence with
members of Turning Point is nothing new. They have been
subjected to violence from leftists and it goes unreported because
it's not important in the liberal narrative. How violent so
many young leftists are who have the because their ideas
are being challenged, and nothing more other than that, because
they think they have the right to express themselves and
have their own ideas, but no one else has a
right to express contrary ideas. The latest word that we
have from Charlie. About Charlie is a little bit hopeful.
I shared one of the more close up videos of
him being shot with a friend of mine and she
immediately sent me back a text and said, oh my god,
he's not going to make it. This is horrible. You
could just it is horrific, folks, It is horrific. New
York Times is saying and other news outlets that he
was shot in the neck and you can imagine that
the blood just poured out of his body. And I'm
sorry to be so graphic, but it did, and he
of course had jerked back. It reminded any of us
who are old enough, old enough, it reminded us in
a way of the Kennedy. I don't even want to
talk about that, because poor Jacqueline Kennedy. That's still a scene,
an image that is just part of the consciousness that
will not ever go away during this lifetime. But there
are reports coming in that Charlie is still among the
land of the living, that he was rushed, of course,
to a trauma center, and supposedly right now some reports
are saying that he's taking blood transfusions because he did
lose a lot of blood. He's in critical, very critical condition,
but he is still here among us. A video shows
him older man in hand on his knees. There are
some people that have said they have identified the subject.
I'm not going to go with it. It's not been confirmed,
and I don't want to give any misinformation. Some Democrats
in this country, like California Governor Garvin Newsom, who is
saying the attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, violent, reprehensible.
Donald Trump, of course, has waded early asking for prayers
for Charlie Kirk, as the Vice President, J. D. Vance
and so many others. Mike Lee of Utah, this happened,
as you know, as you heard in Utah. But of
course there are networks like MSNBC that to me don't
deserve to even stay on the air. And I don't
know how they do. They have And I'll just say
that because cut twenty two Carlos of things that you're
hearing like this.
Speaker 8: In which a shooting like this happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, again, emphasize what you just emphasize.
Speaker 9: We don't know any spoke details of this that we
don't know if this was the supporter or shooting their
gun off in celebration or so we have no idea that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't know whether it's a shooting their gun
off in celebration. No, nobody was celebrating. Cut nineteen, cut nineteen,
that one two from MSNBC.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're showing by the way our affiliate in Utah
and the aftermath of the shooting, you could see people
running away pretty quickly, as you would imagine they would
do at gunshots. The FBI Director Cash Fattel has weighed
in on this. He just tweeted the following We're closely
monitoring reports of the tragic shooting involving Charlie Kirk at
Utah Valley University. Our thoughts are with Charlie, his loved ones,
and everyone affected. Agents will be on the scene quickly,
and the FBI stands in full support of the ongoing
response and the investigation. Charlie Kirk is a divisive figure, polarizing,
lightning rob whatever term you want to use.
Speaker 9: Why Well, he's one of maga's most prominent voices online.
He hosts a mere daily podcast. He opines on almost everything.
He's been very closely aligned with the President since his
initial run for office in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen and
his ties to Trump really elevated his own brand. He
was really quite young as an activist when the President
launched his initial campaign, and he has kind of ridden
along with MAGA since twenty sixteen and built up a massive,
massive brand of his own. His group has brought in
tons and tons of money.
Speaker 1: Friends, we're getting some word who just has it now?
Just the news, just the news, John Solomon. Have we
had it confirmed anywhere else? We're just looking. Okay, well,
just keep me posted on this. I'm not going to
go with that yet until we have another confirmation, ladies
and gentlemen. There was also a story, a report on
PMSNBC saying that Trump was going to use this, He's
going to use this and how he's going to use it,
which is just totally inappropriate. So anyway, that's where we
are going to take a brief break. My friend's horrible,
horrible news day, and we will keep you posting on it.
I'm not going to go with any reports that are
coming in that I cannot confirm from multiple sources, just
because of the seriousness of all of this. I've been
given a report in my ear that I'm just going
to hold on to for the Moment, James Goldlan snurtly
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Speaker 1: Nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 1: The Birds released this one on this day in nineteen
sixty five. They began I'm sorry, not released it. They
began recording this song. It became, of course their biggest
along with mister Tambourine Man, but this was bigger than that.
This was their defining record. James Goldlan's sternly here with
you what I said now I was. There are other
things that are going on in social media. We've been
tracking them in real time. Some people have let me
just put it like this, there's a lot of unconfirmed
news out there, and so I'm not going with anything
that hasn't been confirmed by other sources, by sources that,
by the way, I trust. But there are a lot
of also comments being made about Charlie on PMSNBC and
some of the other networks, and these labels that are
put on Charlie Kirk by some of the commentators here.
I doubt whether many of these commentators have had the
privilege of speaking with Charlie Kirk. I doubt whether any
of them listen to any of his broadcasts. Doubt whether
any of them have ever attended a TPUSA event, be
it an event with the students or one of the
events with one of their fundraising events. I've attended both.
And Turning Point USA is about this. They're about the
America that many of us knew they are about. And
what do I mean by that? I mean the America
that was an optimistic view of this nation, an optimistic
view of America, what it was and what it could be.
One of the things that I loved about going to
Turning Point events was you see all kinds of people.
You see kids, from young people, I don't want to
call them kids, young adults, from every walk of life
and strata in America. And I mean that. You know,
you can see some from the very privileged to the
not so privileged. You see the black, you see the white,
you see the Hispanic, you see every This organization attracted
young people who wanted to feel like it was good
to feel positive about the country that they lived in,
and the country that they were going to become the
future leaders and citizens of normalcy. These people were not
angry and upset with the world for just being in America.
They were grateful to be in America and patriotic and
this is I think one of the keys to why
it grew so much. So. They leftist today calling Charlie
Kirk Oh, he's divisive. No, he was not divisive from
that point of view, inclusive. What was divisive to them
is that he was going against the liberal ideology, and
anytime you do that, you are called divisive. It wasn't divisive.
James Goldan and isn't divisive. I'm not talking about him
in the past tense. He isn't divisive. We're coming back.
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Speaker 1: All right, just let me bring you up to speed
with what's happening here. I'm not gonna go with some
news reports that are reporting very very sad news and
you can imagine what because I'm waiting for confirmation and
the latest confirmation I had from some of the other
news courses was that as of seven minutes ago, Charlie
was still in critical condition. There were other reports surfacing
out there that that is not the case. I'm not
going to go with those reports and make any call
until we can be sure of what news here. But
this is of course a very very difficult, difficult day.
Kamala Harris, who was in the news herself today, Kamala
released excerpts from her book are starting to come out,
and in one of them, Goodness Me, Amala Harris pretty
much calls a decision for Biden to continue staying in
back in before he passes towards her reckless decision. So
she's kind of torched. Yes, I'm aware of aware those
people are texting me. Yes, I'm aware of where those
sources are. But I'm not going to go with anything
until I have it totally confirmed by multiple sources period. Anyway,
Kamala Harris has decided that now she's going to torch
the bidens apparently and say it was reckless for Joe
Biden to stay in. Some of the elected officials in
the United States, how making comments on Charlie's Pete Boudajag,
former Transportation secretary. Political violence must always be totally rejected.
Praying for him and all who may have been injured
or impacted. A lot of people are being impacted, and
I'm not being critical of Pete buddhajet statements by saying,
just Clara, it's yeah, so many people are impacted by this.
Mentioned to you, Gavin Newsom, the attack on Charlie Kirk
is discussing violent reprehensible in the United States of America.
We must reject political violence in every form. Well, the
left has been having a frenzy ever since Donald Trump
got in office. He survived, as you know, two assassination attempts,
and there are calls urging for his death every single day.
In fact, it was just over a week ago that
Tim Walls, who ran for vice president, was making fun
of a meme that was calling for Donald Trump's death
or this hoax that he had that Donald Trump had died,
and Tim Wilts was joking, although someday we'll get that
new someday, someday, Ron DeSantis, the way to resolve political
disputes is not through violence. The way to do that
is to ask questions, debate an attack on the idea
that we resolved these things through reasoned debate and elections.
Jd Vance, Dear God, protect Charlie in his darkest hour.
That was jd Vance is rarely prime. Minister Benjamin Netsunyahoo
has waited and says he's praying for Charlie Kirk. New
York City Mery candidates around Mandamie horror by the shooting
of Charlie Kirk at a college you've in Utah. Political
violence has no place in our country, Pritzker. The attack
on Charlie Kirk is horrifying. Political violence has no place
in this country and should never become the normal. I'm
sending my sympathies to his family and friends at this time.
You notice there are lots of things that I notice
here that I'm just not going to say. I noticed
some of the things that are not being said as
many of you I'm sure notice as well. Whatever the
case may be with this folks, there have been there
has been, and I talked about this in the culture.
The culture that is part of social media in this
country is almost you have to if you are a
participant in social media, if you're on it every day,
there are some days when you really just want to
rent off after you've been online, because it's just so
some of the things that you see are so vile.
I talked about that very briefly earlier this week when
people were commenting on the racial aspects that were coming
out after the horrific, horrific stabbing to death of Arena Zarutska.
And yeah, there were some racist remarks, but no more
than a comment on any other day in social media.
They're a violent remarks. In fact, we had lined up
today others of what should happen with Chicago now that
the federal government is in Chicago. There is violence and
threats of violence all over social media, and then there's
no attempt that I can see of reigning that in.
Violence has become very much a part of the American
political system, all of these politicians saying there's no place
for violence. There's no place for violence when you go
on the college campuses of America if you are pro life.
We've seen the violence. The left won't acknowledge it. Those
people that are brave enough to go on, including many
of the Turning Point USA people college campuses around the
country with their brochures, with their and I don't say
this in a demeaning term propaganda with their story, with
their messages. They've been subjected to for years, having their
tables overturned, having people try to punch them out because
they dare speak the truth about these issues from either
a religious, spiritual perspective or from their own perspectives to
express their opinions. Violence has long been a part of
political speech in America. If you are on the right
side of these issues, if you are on quote unquote
the right wing side of these issues, quote, violence has
been acceptable if you are in Portland, Oregon, and you
are considered Just recently, a conservative reporter was beaten up
up in Portland, surrounded by a group of Antifa. It's
all over this social media news. It never made it
to mainstream media news because it's ignored. That kind of
violence is ignored by them. Antifa has been committing violence
since the nineteen nineties. If you go back, you can
see when a lot of this started was in Seattle
nineteen ninety eight ninety nine, the wt the World Trade Organization,
came and these leftists tore that city up, and that
was the beginning of this wave of Antifa, this wave
of violence, and it has never ceased. Portland has been
under attack now political violence for over two years, and
not even the federal government under Trump has dared so
far to go in and clean out that rat's nest
of political violence. The same people that are today telling
us that violence has no place in America, America's political system.
I just want to remind you. Last week we heard
from Brandon Johnson who was standing in front of a crowd,
the mayor of Chicago, demanding that the residents of Chicago
defend their life. And he was doing everything in a
manner of speaking as calling for political violence against ice,
against the federal government. Michelle wou and Boston uses the
same kind of rhetoric. Karen Bass uses the same kind
of rhetoric. So Donald Trump has not posted it. Donald Trump,
ladies and gentlemen, and we're looking to confirm this. Donald
Trump has posted. What we've been telling you, what I haven't.
I haven't been telling, but I've been alluding to. What
does do you see the the posts there Donald Trump
has posted apparently on true social When did you get that?
Let me just go on truth cut right now and
just in real time, my friends, Let's just take a
quick break here, and I'm gonna just check all this
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Speaker 1: Birthday to Day, the eighty years old today, jose Feliciano,
just one of the greats. My friends, are this from
President Trump. The great, even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead.
No one understood I had the heart of the youth
in the United States of America better than Charlie. He
was loved and admired by all, especially me, And now
he is no longer with us. Millennia and my sympathies
go out to his beautiful wife, Erica and family. Charlie.
We love you. Doctor Michelas has just texted me as well.
He said, severing the internal chartic artery has a very
high mortality rate, so the way that the blood shot
out of him means it was a direct hit to
the chartic artery is just not survivable. This is perhaps,
I don't know, folks. It is devastating that's the word
that so many people are using. Devastating, heartbreaking, there's some
anger one that this is one comment that I just
read is that a friend of mine who said, we're
in a civil war and this is just one of
the latest blows in that civil war. What an awful
time in America is another one. It's just hitting people
so very hard because Charlie was so young, is so young,
thirty one years old. And look what he accomplished. Charlie
Cook did for the right. What we have seen very
few people that have organized an entire movement without being
a part of the internal political process. He was an
outsider when he began a kid in his twenties, going
on college campuses, talking to students and built that. And
one of the things that I think for everyone that
is mourning Charlie Kirk and I am one of them,
I think we should want to see Turning Point continue
their work as legacy to Charlie and other young people
step up. When you have a people, when you have
a person that has so much charisma, so much knowledge,
so much still you know, I talked to Charlie and
I will just tell you and I can't even tell
you how disappointed. I am. I told Charlie a long
time ago, and I remember going in and talking to
Rush about Charlie. I said to him, Rush, you got
I just told him there's this kid out here that
is just doing and Russia heard about it from him
from someone else, as he told me. You know, someone
else mentioned him to me too. I said, this kid
out here, Charlie Kirk, you gotta this kid is doing
amazing work. And Rush had told me then that one
of his other friends had told him about Charlie Kirk.
Wasn't soon after that that he met Charlie. But one
of the things that I said to Russian, now remember it.
I said, Rush, this kid has potential to be president
one day of the United States. He's young, he's bright,
he's in his twenties, but he's already got this skill
at organizing people and being able to frame it. And
look at all the work that he's done on so
many campuses, and now he has been cut down in
his youth. I suppose that we will all wait and
hear what the quote unquote motive of this person was
that took Charlie's life. Doesn't matter. The act of evil
has been done, and Charlie Kirk has been taken from us,
from this world, from his organization, from his family, from
his friends, from everything that he worked for, because someone
did not want his voice to be heard. So the
thing to respond is to make sure that Charlie's voice
is heard, to make sure that Charlie is not forgotten,
that this organization that he founded continues. But we should
also have a sense of gratitude that Charlie Kirk lived
in these times and was able to accomplish so much.
What a sad day in America. And yes, your thoughts,
your prayers to the family of Charlie Kirk. James Goldman
the very sad Wednesday edition of Bosners Rush Hour this afternoon.
May God bless and protect each and every one of you,
your family and your loved ones. Love and gratitude for
you being here with me, allowing me to be with
you my friends. God willing we are back tomorrow. Until then,
I bid you I do bye.
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