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President Trump speaks at Charlie Kirk Memorial · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: Well, I want to thank you very much. Lee.
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Speaker 2: We've been there from the beginning with us leaa, we
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Speaker 2: appreciate it. Nobody can sing that song like Lee Greenwood.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Lee very much for being here.
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Speaker 2: And his voice has not changed, you know, pretty amazing.
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Speaker 1: And a special thank you to Erica, because today.
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Speaker 2: America is a nation in grief, a nation in shock,
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Speaker 2: and a nation in morning. Less than two weeks ago,
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Speaker 2: our country was robbed of one of the brightest lights
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Speaker 2: of our times, a giant of his generation and above all,
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Speaker 2: a devoted husband, father's son, Christian and patriot.
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Speaker 1: Charles James Kirk.
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Speaker 2: Was murdered by a radicalized, cold blooded monster for speaking
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Speaker 2: the truth that was in his heart. He was violently
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Speaker 2: killed because he spoke for freedom and justice, for God
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Speaker 2: and country, for reason and for common sense. He was
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Speaker 2: assassinated because he lived bravely, he lied boldly, and he
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Speaker 2: argued brilliantly without apology.
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Speaker 1: He did what was right for our nation.
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Speaker 2: And so on that terrible day September tenth, twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 2: our greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal.
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Speaker 1: He's a martyr now for America freedom.
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Speaker 2: I know I speak for everyone here today when I
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Speaker 2: say that none of us will ever forget Charlie Kirk,
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Speaker 2: and neither now will he, Because while Charlie has been
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Speaker 2: reunited with his creator in heaven, his voice on earth
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Speaker 2: will echo through the generations, and his name will live
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Speaker 2: forever in the eternal chronicle of America's greatest patriots.
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Speaker 1: He will live forever.
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Speaker 2: To Charlie's incredible and beautiful widow, Erica, we know the
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Speaker 2: weight of this monumental loss is almost unbearable. But even
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Speaker 2: in the midst of heartache and pain too great to
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Speaker 2: even fathom, you have somehow found the strength and deep
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Speaker 2: faith to be a comfort to millions and millions of people.
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Speaker 2: And thank you very much, Erica, Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Today an entire nation wraps its loving arms around you,
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Speaker 2: and beautiful children.
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Speaker 1: We share your immense and overwhelming sorrow, and.
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Speaker 2: We vow that we will do everything we can to
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Speaker 2: ensure that your children grow up in a land where
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Speaker 2: their father is honored and revered as a great American hero.
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Speaker 1: That's what he is. To Charlie's parents who lost.
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Speaker 2: Their beloved son, and to the entire Kirk family, we
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Speaker 2: know that no words can ever be enough to fill
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Speaker 2: the void he leaves behind.
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Speaker 1: That's the void that just can't be filled.
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Speaker 2: But I hope the extraordinary outpouring of emotion over these
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Speaker 2: past eleven days has comforted you with the knowledge that
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Speaker 2: your son brought more good and love into this world
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Speaker 2: than is thirty one one short years than most people,
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Speaker 2: even very very successful people, can bring in a lifetime.
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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk loved America with everything he had, and as
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Speaker 2: we can see so clearly today, America loved Charlie Kirk, and.
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Speaker 1: He could always draw a big crowd. Look at this today,
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Speaker 1: Look at what's gone on. This is a big crowd
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Speaker 1: here today. We have the Vice President of the United States, JD. Vans.
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Speaker 2: We have the Speaker of the US House of Representatives,
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Speaker 2: Mike Johnson. We have countless members of the United States Senate.
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Speaker 2: And I'm I'm sorry, I'm not going to introduce you,
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Speaker 2: but I'll be up here. They're all over the place,
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Speaker 2: and likewise the House of Representatives, they're all over this
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Speaker 2: big stadium. This is not an arena. This is a stadium.
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Speaker 2: Our great cabinet and this stadi impact with rafters of people.
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Speaker 2: Not to mention the one across the street, that also
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Speaker 2: has tens of thousands of people, and they're watching us
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Speaker 2: on screen right now, and I'm sorry we couldn't get
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Speaker 2: you in.
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Speaker 1: If anybody would like to give up your seat, please
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Speaker 1: walk across the straight.
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Speaker 2: But this is like an old time revival, isn't it
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Speaker 2: an old time revival? For millions of Americans, especially young people,
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Speaker 2: it is agonizing and unthinkable to say goodbye to a
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Speaker 2: patriot whose heart still had so much to give it
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Speaker 2: so much.
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Speaker 1: Raised in the suburbs.
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Speaker 2: Of Chicago, Charlie was filled with the patriotic spirit from
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Speaker 2: his youth, and he was an all American and everything
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Speaker 2: he did and one of the last things he said
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Speaker 2: to me is, please, sir, save Chicago.
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Speaker 1: We're going to do that. We're going to save Chicago
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Speaker 1: from horrible crime.
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Speaker 2: In high school, he was the quarterback of the football
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Speaker 2: team and the captain of the basketball team. He's a
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Speaker 2: good athlete. A lot of people don't know that about Charlie.
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Speaker 2: He was an eagle scout who spent his school lunch
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Speaker 2: breaks listening to another champion for liberty, somebody that he
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Speaker 2: greatly admired.
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Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh.
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Speaker 2: But what was even more important to Charlie than politics
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Speaker 2: and service was the choice he made in the fifth grade,
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Speaker 2: which he called the most important decision of his life,
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Speaker 2: to become a Christian and a follower of his savior,
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Inspired by faith and his love of freedom,
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Speaker 2: Charlie did something remarkable when he was just eighteen years old,
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Speaker 2: on the advice of a mentor who told him to
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Speaker 2: put off going to college because he was doing so well,
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Speaker 2: he devoted his life to converting young people to the
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Speaker 2: conservative cause.
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Speaker 1: How did he do? Take a look? How did he do?
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Speaker 1: In twenty twelve, two.
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Speaker 2: Days after graduating high school, with just eighteen hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: in his pocket, the young man from Illinois, who no
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Speaker 2: one had ever heard of, started an organization whose grand
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Speaker 2: ambitions were captured in its name.
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Speaker 1: Turning Point USA.
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Speaker 2: Great name, and I have a feeling it's going to
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Speaker 2: be bigger and better than ever before. Does that make sense?
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Speaker 2: It's going to be bigger and better than ever before.
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Speaker 2: Look at what's happening. Twelve years ago, Charlie walked onto
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Speaker 2: his first college campus, the very liberal University of Wisconsin
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Speaker 2: at Madison. He set up a card table and put
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Speaker 2: up a sign with three words big government sucks. Could
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Speaker 2: you believe that that's Charlie. That day, Charlie talked to
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Speaker 2: every student who approached him, most of whom were probably
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Speaker 2: quite a bit older than he was. Finally, after many hours,
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Speaker 2: he found the first ever Turning Point chapter leader. His
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Speaker 2: first year out of high school, Charlie traveled three hundred days,
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Speaker 2: raising money and taking his message to campuses all over
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Speaker 2: the country. He lived out of his parents' basement, and
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Speaker 2: they actually loved having him there.
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Speaker 1: Loved They loved Charlie.
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Speaker 2: Everybody loved Charlie and on the couches of friends and supporters.
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Speaker 1: He lived off couches for two years, three years.
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Speaker 2: Then life started getting a little bit different, but he
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Speaker 2: was always the same. For five years, he refused to
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Speaker 2: take a paycheck, but day after day he worked from
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Speaker 2: five am in the morning till eleven pm in the evening.
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Speaker 2: Always his staff remembers that he wore Walmart jeans and
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Speaker 2: T shirts from the good.
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Speaker 1: Will store, Remember the good Will store.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't easy, but Charlie wasn't in it for money
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Speaker 2: at all, never has been. Money was never his thing.
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Speaker 2: He was always in it for the mission. As he
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Speaker 2: liked to say, even back then, we have a country
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Speaker 2: to save.
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Speaker 1: Just what he did, call me all the time, Sir.
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Speaker 2: We have our country to say, I said, Charlie, thanks
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Speaker 2: very much for telling me that.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Charlie volunteered from my twenty sixteen campaign and traveled the nation.
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Speaker 1: With my son Don Eric. I got to know him very.
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Speaker 2: Well, and so immediately that Charlie was actually a master builder,
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Speaker 2: master builder of people. It was Charlie who first started
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Speaker 2: organizing young black conservatives hungry for support and leadership.
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Speaker 1: It was Charlie who stood.
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Speaker 2: Up for persecuted Christians and Jews on college campuses.
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Speaker 1: It was Charlie who helped bring online.
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Speaker 2: Censorship, free speech, and cancel culture to the four of
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Speaker 2: our political debate.
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Speaker 1: He was right up there with me.
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Speaker 2: It was Charlie who helped unite MAGA and you know
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Speaker 2: Whatha is that's right, make America healthy again. And tomorrow
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Speaker 2: we're going to have one of the biggest announcement really medically,
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Speaker 2: I think in the history of our country. We're going
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Speaker 2: to be doing it with Bobby and Oz and all
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Speaker 2: of the professionals. I think you're going to find it
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Speaker 2: to be amazing. I think we found an answer to autism.
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Speaker 2: How about that autism. Tomorrow, we're going to be talking
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Speaker 2: in the Oval Office in the White House about autism,
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Speaker 2: how it happens, so we won't let it happen anymore,
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Speaker 2: and how to get at least somewhat better when you
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Speaker 2: have it, so that parents can help their child, their
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Speaker 2: beautiful child.
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Speaker 1: That's a big one. I've I've been bugging.
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Speaker 2: Everybody over there get the answer to that. You know,
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Speaker 2: twenty years ago, one in ten thousand were born with autism.
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Speaker 2: Twenty years ago, the most recent survey says one in twelve.
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Speaker 1: How bad is that?
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Speaker 2: That's for young boys, baby boys, but also girls a
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Speaker 2: little bit better, it's about one in twenty.
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Speaker 1: But we can't because obviously there was something.
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Speaker 2: Really wrong, and we think we know what that is.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be I think.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be one of the most important news conferences.
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Speaker 1: I'll ever have, and I look so forward to it.
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Speaker 2: And you know who else looked forward to it because
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Speaker 2: he knew I tell him a little bit about what
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Speaker 2: was going on, was Charlie. He would have been front
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Speaker 2: row center. Believe me, we'll be missing him tomorrow. It
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Speaker 2: was such a big deal for him too. He brought
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Speaker 2: together Donald Trump, Bobby Kennedy right here in the great
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Speaker 2: state of Arizona one year ago.
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Speaker 1: Remember that, What a night, what a day that was.
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Speaker 2: And it was Charlie who was among the first to
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Speaker 2: speak to me about a man from Ohio by the
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Speaker 2: name of J.
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Speaker 1: Dvence. Have you ever heard of him? So in a
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Speaker 1: good job.
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Speaker 2: But Charlie would often call me sometimes the night before
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Speaker 2: a big event.
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Speaker 1: The other side of the.
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Speaker 2: Country, and it asked me and say, do you think
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Speaker 2: you could come and speak at the event the following day? Right,
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Speaker 2: I'd say, Charlie, I give me a break. I'm the
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Speaker 2: President of the United States. You want me to travel
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Speaker 2: four hours by play? And you know sometimes I did it.
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Speaker 2: He was a very good guy. He was a very
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Speaker 2: convincing guy. He didn't stop, but he would ask for
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Speaker 2: things like that, sir, could you be tomorrow in California?
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Speaker 2: They said, Charlie, give me a break please. He just
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Speaker 2: wouldn't stop, and he succeeded. But I almost always went
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Speaker 2: because you never wanted to let Charlie down. He worked
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Speaker 2: so hard. You just didn't want to let him down.
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Speaker 2: I felt guilty. He'd make me feel very guilty. As president,
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Speaker 2: many people asked me for things but Arlie was one
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Speaker 2: of the few who always gave more than he took.
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Speaker 1: He was a giver much more than a taker.
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Speaker 2: And no matter how big Charlie became, no one was
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Speaker 2: too small for him to notice.
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Speaker 1: He was good to everybody didn't matter.
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Speaker 2: Several years ago, a fourth grader is Charlie to appear
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Speaker 2: on his podcast, which was probably only watched by the
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Speaker 2: parents of that.
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Speaker 1: Fourth grader, and Charlie, who.
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Speaker 2: Was actually pretty hot at the time, to be honest,
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Speaker 2: he agreed, and the boy asked for advice. Charlie replied,
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Speaker 2: the left, the left. I call it the radical left.
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Speaker 2: I call it sometimes the radical left lunatics.
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Speaker 1: But Charlie didn't say that. He called it the left.
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Speaker 1: He was probably right, but I can't help it.
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Speaker 2: I can't know, yea, So he said, the left, radical
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Speaker 2: left lenitics may have all the money in the world,
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Speaker 2: but they can never outwork me. I will wake up
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Speaker 2: as early as I need to about himself. I will
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Speaker 2: stay up as late as I need to, and I
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Speaker 2: will never stop fighting for our country. And he did
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Speaker 2: this until his dying breadth. That's what he was doing.
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Speaker 2: That's what he was doing.
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Speaker 1: Think of it. Wow, what a horrible moment.
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Speaker 2: I was in the Oval office when I heard they
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Speaker 2: came in, and it was like a surreal experience, a terrible,
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Speaker 2: terrible I had some very big people in the Oval office,
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Speaker 2: and I was in the midst of a very important
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Speaker 2: conversation for our country, big people, the biggest, and I said,
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Speaker 2: you have to leave now. When they told me that,
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Speaker 2: they told me in front of a group of very
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Speaker 2: powerful people, I said, you have to leave now, right now, please,
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Speaker 2: right now, you have to leave.
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Speaker 1: Go.
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Speaker 2: By his own determination and skill, Charlie Kirk built turning
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Speaker 2: point from his humble beginnings, the beginnings that nobody believed
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Speaker 2: could ever end up something like this into a great
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Speaker 2: movement and a juggernaut of American politics. And you know,
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Speaker 2: we have a massive stadium loaded up with people. But
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Speaker 2: he got tremendous crowds before he had this kind of
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Speaker 2: horrible news and before we.
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Speaker 1: Had to hear what happened so terribly.
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Speaker 2: He delivered more than two hundred and fifty speeches a
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Speaker 2: year at over two hundred colleges and universities, and that was.
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Speaker 1: At a time when it was not really vogue to go.
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Speaker 2: To colleges and universities if you were a conservative.
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Speaker 1: It really took great courage.
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Speaker 2: And we used to talk and I said, you know,
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Speaker 2: I think they're much more conservative than we know. He agreed,
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Speaker 2: but it just wasn't something that was happening, because the
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Speaker 2: radical left would do.
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Speaker 1: Very bad things, very dangerously.
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Speaker 2: But Charlie set up chapters on two two hundred campuses
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Speaker 2: and spoke at more than one thousand churches. He launched
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Speaker 2: a podcast and radio show that grew to an audience
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Speaker 2: of one million Americans a day, one of the bigger
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Speaker 2: shows on radio. And Charlie didn't just bring young people
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Speaker 2: into the movement all of a sudden, it started to
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Speaker 2: grow by leaps and bounds.
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Speaker 1: By twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: We won more young people than any Republican candidate in
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Speaker 2: the history of our country, including for the first time.
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Speaker 1: A majority of males under thirty. Can you believe it?
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Speaker 2: Remember when Republican presidential candidates.
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Speaker 1: Would get four percent.
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Speaker 2: Now we did unbelievably with young people, and he was
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Speaker 2: a big, big factor.
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Speaker 1: Unbelievable. But he made me work for it. Sure, you
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Speaker 1: have to make a speech here, you have to make
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Speaker 1: a speech there.
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Speaker 2: But we did it, and we won, and our country
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Speaker 2: is doing unbelievably.
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Speaker 1: Well, now we.
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Speaker 2: Had a country that was dead one year ago, and
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Speaker 2: now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world,
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Speaker 2: and Charlie helped us make it that one of the
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Speaker 2: great people.
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Speaker 1: But through it all, the core of.
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Speaker 2: Charlie's message and his basic method never changed.
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Speaker 1: It never really changed. He's stayed the same person.
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Speaker 2: Also, at every campus event, Charlie asked the people who
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Speaker 2: disagreed with him to come forward, and instead of silencing them,
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Speaker 2: he handed them a microphone and let them speak. And
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Speaker 2: he'd convinced so many of them it was pretty amazing
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Speaker 2: thing to watch. Actually, s before Charlie arrived on campus
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Speaker 2: the day he was assassinated, as staff member texted him
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Speaker 2: that there were many critics and students who were opposed
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Speaker 2: to his views and rather strenuously in the crowd, and
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Speaker 2: that actually made him feel good because he wanted to
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Speaker 2: convince them he understood.
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Speaker 1: He really did. He understood what was right, and he
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Speaker 1: was right about that. A lot of it was based
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Speaker 1: on common sense, by the way.
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Speaker 2: Charlie wrote back to the staff member saying, I'm not
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Speaker 2: here to fight them. I want to know them and
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Speaker 2: love them, and i want to reach them and try
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Speaker 2: and lead them into a great way of life in
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Speaker 2: our country. In that private moment on his dying day,
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Speaker 2: we find everything we need to know.
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Speaker 1: About who Charlie Kirk truly was.
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Speaker 2: He was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great,
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Speaker 2: great purpose.
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Speaker 1: He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best
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Speaker 1: for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie.
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Speaker 2: I hate my opponent and I don't want the best
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Speaker 2: for them.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I am sorry Erica.
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Speaker 2: But now Erica can talk to me and the whole
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Speaker 2: group and maybe they can convince me that that's not right.
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Speaker 2: But I can't stand my opponent. Charlie's angry looking that
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Speaker 2: he's angry at me. That he wasn't interested in demonizing anyone.
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Speaker 2: He was interested in persuading everyone to the ideas and
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Speaker 2: principles he believed were good, right and true. Before each appearance,
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Speaker 2: he prayed these words, God, used me for your will.
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Speaker 2: Always said the same thing, use me for your will.
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Speaker 1: And that is exactly what God did. When you think,
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did.
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Speaker 2: The more success Charlie had, and he was getting more
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Speaker 2: and more successful, the more dangerous his mission became.
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Speaker 1: On campuses all over the country.
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Speaker 2: His quest for open dialogue was met with menacing hate.
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Speaker 2: There were bomb threats, pulled fire alarms, and countless rage
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Speaker 2: filled radicals who tried to shout him down.
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Speaker 1: It was nasty. I used to say, Jollie, this is
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Speaker 1: nasty stuff you're doing. At what event?
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Speaker 2: Police had to build barricades to protect students from an
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Speaker 2: angry mob of thugs. Many of these people, by the way,
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Speaker 2: are paid a lot of money to do this. They're agitators.
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Speaker 2: They're paid agitators. Remember that when you see they all
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Speaker 2: have the same beautifully printed sign. Every sign is identical,
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Speaker 2: comes out of.
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Speaker 1: A top level print shop.
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Speaker 2: That's not the signs that are made in somebody's basement.
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Speaker 1: Those are paid for by very bad people.
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Speaker 2: And hopefully we're going to be finding out through the
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Speaker 2: DOJ who those people are. At another college, Antifa terra
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Speaker 2: shattered windows, through rocks and tried to storm the building
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Speaker 2: where Charlie was speaking.
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Speaker 1: It was a really bad one.
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Speaker 2: Often dozens of police officers were needed to prevent left
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Speaker 2: wing violence, and the.
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Speaker 1: Violence comes largely from the left.
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Speaker 2: You don't hear that from too many people, do you,
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Speaker 2: And virtually every day for years before he was murdered.
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Speaker 1: Charlie received these horrible death threats. People don't know. I
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Speaker 1: used to talk to him about it. He said, I
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Speaker 1: got some threats.
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Speaker 2: He always felt that when they actually made the threat,
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Speaker 2: they were not the ones to worry about, the ones
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Speaker 2: to worry about the ones that don't make the threats.
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Speaker 2: I think you know what I mean. He knew the risk,
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Speaker 2: but he and I shared a certain motto. Never back
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Speaker 2: down and never ever surrendered. Just don't rendered, never back down.
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Speaker 1: He believed in it so strongly, so struggle and he's right.
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Speaker 1: He's totally He's totally right. The radicals and their allies
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Speaker 1: in the media, sometimes referred to as my son said the.
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Speaker 2: Fake news media tried to silence Charlie for a simple
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Speaker 2: reason because he was winning, and he was winning big.
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Speaker 2: He was taking over college campuses, colleges that had in
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Speaker 2: theory only very liberal or is they like to say progressive.
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Speaker 2: I call him liberal, but they like to call themselves.
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Speaker 2: It's such a beautiful word progressive. They're the opposite of
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Speaker 2: progressive if you think about it. But they were really nasty,
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Speaker 2: and he would go into these colleges all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: within two years, three years, they turned into bastions of conservatism.
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Speaker 1: It was really quite.
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Speaker 2: Amazing to see they lied about him because they did
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Speaker 2: not want you to listen to him or to learn
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Speaker 2: from him, because what he was talking about and even
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Speaker 2: preaching made so much sense.
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Speaker 1: Everywhere he went.
25:06
Speaker 2: He won the debates, he won the hearts, he won
25:08
Speaker 2: the minds, and yes, he won the elections for people.
25:10
Speaker 2: He helped us, he helped other people. We won the
25:13
Speaker 2: biggest election in the history of our country.
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Speaker 1: I believe.
25:23
Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk was, without a doubt, among the most influential
25:27
Speaker 2: figures and the most important election in the history of
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Speaker 2: our country, the election of Oh that beautiful day November fifth,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.
25:36
Speaker 1: Do you remember that day? It was nine months ago.
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Speaker 1: What a day that was.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we had a pretty good day in the
25:48
Speaker 2: first one, and I must tell you on the second one,
25:51
Speaker 2: we had a phenomenal day.
25:54
Speaker 1: But a lot of bad things happened. And now that's
25:57
Speaker 1: not even questioned.
26:00
Speaker 2: Like dogs, But we got them back, didn't weha got
26:04
Speaker 2: them back. But we owe Charlie a profound and eternal
26:11
Speaker 2: debt of gratitude. Now, just like Charlie and ericam a
26:16
Speaker 2: turning point hot we are looking at a country that
26:20
Speaker 2: has the chance to.
26:23
Speaker 1: Attain a level like never before.
26:26
Speaker 2: Tariffs are making us rich again, richer than anybody.
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Speaker 1: Ever thought was possible.
26:32
Speaker 2: And the only one challenging them are people that hate
26:36
Speaker 2: our country or foreign countries that are paying a price
26:39
Speaker 2: because they did the same thing.
26:40
Speaker 1: To us for years. They took advantage of us.
26:42
Speaker 2: But we're we're making money, we're becoming richer and richer,
26:50
Speaker 2: and we're taking care of our people better and better
26:53
Speaker 2: when we do that, and we can take care of
26:54
Speaker 2: other countries better and better.
26:56
Speaker 1: But we're doing unbelievably well. The tariffs have been a hole.
27:00
Speaker 2: The election was big, but the tariffs because of the
27:04
Speaker 2: election came in and remember other nations do that to us.
27:08
Speaker 2: And Charlie understood that. He saw the money, he saw
27:11
Speaker 2: I was coming into our country and we can use
27:13
Speaker 2: that for Medicare, medicaire, social security, all of these things
27:18
Speaker 2: that we fight so hard for. And that's exactly what's happening.
27:22
Speaker 2: The numbers are incredible. When the news finally came out
27:26
Speaker 2: on election night last November that the race was officially
27:30
Speaker 2: one came.
27:31
Speaker 1: Out pretty early in the night.
27:34
Speaker 2: Charlie was live on camera in that moment, he was
27:38
Speaker 2: overcome with emotion. I've never seen him like this. He
27:40
Speaker 2: was so happy. For a long while he said nothing.
27:44
Speaker 2: His eyes were filled with tears, and then he buried
27:46
Speaker 2: his face in his hands and he started crying. That
27:50
Speaker 2: wasn't that Charlie I knew, But in thinking about it,
27:54
Speaker 2: it actually was the Charlie I knew because he had
27:56
Speaker 2: a tremendous heart. He just wanted what was good for
27:59
Speaker 2: our country was going in such a horrible direction.
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Speaker 1: Lovingly, Eric, and this was so beautiful.
28:06
Speaker 2: Erica put a Maga hat on to cover his bowed head.
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Speaker 1: I like that very much. Maga we love? Does everybody love? Maga?
28:15
Speaker 1: Make America great again?
28:22
Speaker 2: When Joe Biden used to get up, remember the speeches,
28:25
Speaker 2: we will stop Mega, we will stop Mega. You know,
28:29
Speaker 2: he could barely get the words out we will stop,
28:33
Speaker 2: I said, can somebody inform him the Maga means make
28:36
Speaker 2: America great again?
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Speaker 1: How do you say you're going to stop it? And
28:41
Speaker 1: Charlie understood that.
28:42
Speaker 2: When Charlie finally looked up and spoke, he smiled through
28:45
Speaker 2: the watery eyes and simply said, I am humbled by
28:50
Speaker 2: God's grace. That was his statement that night. I was
28:53
Speaker 2: watching him. I was very impressed.
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Speaker 1: Actually, it showed he had a big heart.
29:00
Speaker 2: Every single American should take a long, hard look at
29:03
Speaker 2: the twisted soul and dark spirit of anyone who would
29:07
Speaker 2: want to kill a young man.
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Speaker 1: As good as Charlie. To kill anybody, but to kill
29:13
Speaker 1: a man like this. He didn't deserve this. He didn't
29:16
Speaker 1: deserve this.
29:17
Speaker 2: Our country didn't deserve this, and anyone who would make
29:21
Speaker 2: excuses for it are just out of their mind. Charlie's
29:26
Speaker 2: murder was not just an attack on one man or
29:30
Speaker 2: one movement.
29:31
Speaker 1: It was an attack on our entire nation. That was a.
29:35
Speaker 2: Horrible attack on the United States of America. It was
29:40
Speaker 2: an assault on our most sacred liberties and God given rights.
29:43
Speaker 2: The gun was pointed at him, but the bullet was
29:46
Speaker 2: aimed at all of us.
29:47
Speaker 1: That bullet was aimed at every one of us.
29:50
Speaker 2: Indeed, Charlie was killed for expressing the very ideas that
29:54
Speaker 2: virtually everyone in this arena and.
29:56
Speaker 1: Most other places throughout.
29:58
Speaker 2: Our country deeply believed in. But the assassin failed to
30:03
Speaker 2: his quest. Because Charlie's message has not been silenced.
30:07
Speaker 1: It now is.
30:08
Speaker 2: Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And it's
30:13
Speaker 2: not even close, and it's rare that such a thing happens.
30:21
Speaker 2: But Charlie is bigger today than he was. Think about
30:24
Speaker 2: it just two weeks ago. He's bigger today than he
30:28
Speaker 2: was two weeks ago. Now, that may not help his
30:31
Speaker 2: friends and loved ones, of which there are so many,
30:34
Speaker 2: and may not help Eric and those beautiful children who
30:39
Speaker 2: have to suffer so horribly through this moment, but they
30:42
Speaker 2: know it's true. He's bigger now than ever before. And
30:47
Speaker 2: he's eternal. He's eternal, and I just want to say
30:52
Speaker 2: we love him. And he's looking down at us.
30:53
Speaker 1: Right now and he say, Wow, that's a great crowd.
30:58
Speaker 2: Say that's a great crowd. And it's a great crowd
31:06
Speaker 2: of patriots. But that's why I will soon award Charlie
31:12
Speaker 2: the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
31:17
Speaker 1: It's the highest civilian honor.
31:32
Speaker 2: And we will do the ceremony at our beautiful White
31:35
Speaker 2: House in a very safe Washington, DC.
31:39
Speaker 1: A place that Charlie truly revered.
31:42
Speaker 2: You know, we stopped the crime in Washington took twelve days.
31:47
Speaker 2: Now you can go to restaurants, you can walk down
31:50
Speaker 2: the middle of the street with your wife, You can
31:53
Speaker 2: have your wife walk alone down the middle of the street.
31:55
Speaker 1: She's going to be in good shape.
31:57
Speaker 2: What a difference, what a different friend's good management really makes.
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Speaker 1: But I'm so proud of that. Washington, DC, you know,
32:05
Speaker 1: is one of the.
32:06
Speaker 2: Worst in the nation, in the world, and now it's
32:09
Speaker 2: considered a very safe city. And it's also I passed
32:14
Speaker 2: it yesterday. I went through it and the lawns are good.
32:18
Speaker 1: It's like a different place.
32:20
Speaker 2: It's like that ten Sagon, the threats agon, the gangs
32:23
Speaker 2: aren't there. We got rid of you know, we took
32:27
Speaker 2: out fifteen hundred career criminals. Fifteen hundred If you have
32:31
Speaker 2: three career criminals, that can make a big difference.
32:35
Speaker 1: But I'm so proud of Washington, DC.
32:38
Speaker 2: And now we're going into Memphis and we'll get that
32:41
Speaker 2: one straightened out fast.
32:42
Speaker 1: And then we're going into some others.
32:44
Speaker 2: But we're going to go to Chicago, and we're going
32:47
Speaker 2: to have Charlie very much in mind when we go
32:49
Speaker 2: into Chicago.
32:50
Speaker 1: And we'll get that one straightened out.
32:52
Speaker 2: You have an incompetent governor who he thinks it's okay
32:56
Speaker 2: when eleven people get murdered over the weekend. He thinks
33:00
Speaker 2: you don't have any crime. When eleven people get murdered
33:03
Speaker 2: and twenty eight people get shot, he says, he's got crime. Now.
33:07
Speaker 1: They they don't have it.
33:09
Speaker 2: Under control, but we'll have it under control very quickly.
33:12
Speaker 2: So we're going to be doing that. And Charlie loved
33:14
Speaker 2: what we were doing. He was so proud of what happened.
33:16
Speaker 2: He was there to see it. He so proud of
33:18
Speaker 2: what happened in Washington, DC. As you know, the depraved
33:23
Speaker 2: assassin who planned and executed Charlie's killing has been arrested
33:29
Speaker 2: and charged with capital murder. God willing he will receive
33:33
Speaker 2: the full and ultimate punishment for.
33:35
Speaker 1: His horrific crime. It's a terrible thing.
33:41
Speaker 2: Because you can't let that happen. You can't let that happen,
33:45
Speaker 2: can't let it happen to a country. The Department of
33:49
Speaker 2: Justice is also investigating networks of radical left maniacs who fund, organize, fuel,
33:56
Speaker 2: and perpetrate political violence.
33:58
Speaker 1: And we think we know who many of them are.
34:02
Speaker 2: But law enforcement can only be the beginning of our
34:05
Speaker 2: response to Charlie's murder. Over the last eleven days, we
34:10
Speaker 2: have heard stories of commentators, influencers, and others in our
34:16
Speaker 2: society who greeted his assassination with sick approval, excuses or
34:21
Speaker 2: even jubilation.
34:23
Speaker 1: You've heard that, so I I couldn't believe it.
34:26
Speaker 2: Some of the very same people who spent the last
34:28
Speaker 2: eight years trying to sit in moral judgment of anyone
34:31
Speaker 2: who disagreed with them about politics suddenly started cheering for
34:36
Speaker 2: a murder.
34:38
Speaker 1: Incredible, you know the names.
34:41
Speaker 2: They're major losers.
34:43
Speaker 1: By the way, that.
34:45
Speaker 2: Will be proven out in a short period of time.
34:49
Speaker 2: Some of the very people who call you a hater
34:51
Speaker 2: for using the wrong pronoun were filled with lee at
34:55
Speaker 2: the killing of a father with two beautiful young children.
35:00
Speaker 2: And the same commentators who this week are screaming fascism
35:04
Speaker 2: over canceled late night TV show where the anchor had
35:09
Speaker 2: no talent and no ratings last week, we're implying that
35:14
Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk deserved what happened to him. No side in
35:20
Speaker 2: American politics has a monopoly undisturbed or misguided people. But
35:26
Speaker 2: there's one part of our political community which believes they
35:29
Speaker 2: have a monopoly on truth, goodness, and virtue and concludes
35:32
Speaker 2: they have also a monopoly on power, thought and speech. Well,
35:37
Speaker 2: that's not happening anymore. We've turned that corner very quickly, tragically.
35:42
Speaker 2: Atrocities of this kind and kind that we saw in Utah,
35:46
Speaker 2: of all places, are the eventual consequence of that kind
35:50
Speaker 2: of thinking. If speech is violence, then some are bound
35:54
Speaker 2: to conclude that violence is justified to stop speech.
35:59
Speaker 1: And we're not going to let that be justified.
36:01
Speaker 2: The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced
36:05
Speaker 2: is not a pillar of our democracy. In many ways,
36:09
Speaker 2: it's the basis of our entire society. It's the right
36:14
Speaker 2: and inheritance of every free American, the greatest legacy of
36:18
Speaker 2: the Enlightenment, and among the most treasured achievements of civilization.
36:24
Speaker 2: We will defend it at all costs, and we will
36:27
Speaker 2: carry forward the torch of liberty that Charlie Kirk held
36:30
Speaker 2: so proud and so high. He was so proud, and
36:34
Speaker 2: he did hold that torch high. We will never ever
36:37
Speaker 2: let it fail. We will never let it fail. But
36:42
Speaker 2: we're going to raise it higher than ever before. It's
36:46
Speaker 2: going to be raised, and this is the beginning. Perhaps
36:49
Speaker 2: it should be no surprise that Charlie, who spent his
36:52
Speaker 2: life speaking with the critics of these traditions, ultimately became
36:55
Speaker 2: convinced that we needed not just a political realignment, but
36:59
Speaker 2: a spiritual reawakening. We did, and we have to bring
37:04
Speaker 2: back religion to America because without borders, law and order,
37:08
Speaker 2: and religion, you really don't have a country anymore.
37:11
Speaker 1: We want religion brought back to America.
37:16
Speaker 2: We want to bring God back into our beautiful USA.
37:19
Speaker 1: Like never before. We want God back.
37:27
Speaker 2: Charlie would have been so pleased to hear his friends
37:30
Speaker 2: and colleagues today giving testimony and giving glory to God.
37:36
Speaker 2: Within minutes of the gunshot and Utah. Millions of Americans
37:40
Speaker 2: young and old heard the news and dropped to their
37:43
Speaker 2: knees and started praying, even many who rarely pray to
37:47
Speaker 2: ask God for America.
37:48
Speaker 1: Please God save Charlie.
37:51
Speaker 2: But although Charlie's time with us on Earth has ended,
37:55
Speaker 2: those prayers for a miracle have already been answered.
37:59
Speaker 1: Look at what's happening. Look at what's happening.
38:03
Speaker 2: In the day since Charlie's death, we have seen how
38:06
Speaker 2: his legacy has touched so many millions around the world.
38:11
Speaker 2: In Calgary, Countada, thousands gathered at city Hall to sing
38:15
Speaker 2: the American national anthem and raise.
38:18
Speaker 1: Up posters with the name Charlie Kirk.
38:22
Speaker 2: In Seoul, South Korea, crowds gathered to wave American flags
38:26
Speaker 2: and shout.
38:28
Speaker 1: We are for Charlie Kirk.
38:31
Speaker 2: His memory has been honored in the streets of Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, Sydney, Madrid, London,
38:38
Speaker 2: tel Aviv, and all over the world.
38:43
Speaker 1: So beautiful to watch.
38:48
Speaker 2: A man as far away as rural Australia texted a pastor,
38:52
Speaker 2: I'm going to come to church tomorrow for the first
38:55
Speaker 2: time ever. The pastor is, why is that? The man
38:59
Speaker 2: replied because of Charlie Kirk.
39:01
Speaker 1: Can you imagine?
39:03
Speaker 2: The lesson of Charlie's life is that you should never
39:06
Speaker 2: underestimate what one person can do with a good heart,
39:11
Speaker 2: a righteous cause, a cheerful.
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Speaker 1: Spirit, and the will to fight, fight.
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Speaker 2: Fight, have to fight saving our country. And Charlie's a
39:26
Speaker 2: big factor, such a big factor. Charlie Kirk started with
39:30
Speaker 2: only an idea to change minds on college campuses, and
39:34
Speaker 2: instead he ended up with a far greater achievement, changing history,
39:40
Speaker 2: changed history. Today, Charlie Kirk rests in glory in heaven
39:46
Speaker 2: for all eternity. He has gone from speaking on campuses
39:50
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin to kneeling at the Throne of God where
39:54
Speaker 2: he is right now.
40:00
Speaker 1: We grieve.
40:02
Speaker 2: For the friend and leader that we have lost, but
40:06
Speaker 2: we go forward, strengthened by his faith and bolstered by
40:10
Speaker 2: his courage, and inspired by his example, to defend the
40:14
Speaker 2: country he lived for, for the freedoms he died for,
40:18
Speaker 2: and the values in which he so deeply believed. He
40:21
Speaker 2: believed in, values that we should all believe in. Charlie
40:26
Speaker 2: created something very special. It's called Turning Point USA, and
40:30
Speaker 2: under the leadership and love of Erica, it will become
40:34
Speaker 2: bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
40:44
Speaker 1: So Charlie, we all want to thank you.
40:47
Speaker 2: We want to say a very loud God bless you, Charlie.
40:51
Speaker 2: God bless you for what you've done is credible. And
40:55
Speaker 2: God bless Erica and the children. God bless the United
40:59
Speaker 2: Slime States of America.
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Speaker 1: And could I ask Erica please come out, Erica, please
41:05
Speaker 1: come out.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you very much, everybody, thank you very much,
42:11
Speaker 3: and good luck.
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Speaker 1: God be with you. Thank you,