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Bulwark Takes

A Widow Preaches Love. Stephen Miller Embraces Hate.

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Andrew Egger take on the stark contrasts at Charlie Kirk’s funeral — Erika Kirk’s forgiveness, Donald Trump’s unseriousness, Stephen Miller’s fury, and Tucker Carlson’s odd dog whistle.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's me, Sam Stein. I'm managing Eric to Bullwork, joined by Andrew Eggers, author of Morning Shots.

0:04.1

We're here tonight, Sunday night, 9, 10 p.m. We're going to be talking about Charlie Kirk's

0:08.9

memorial service. It was at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, which Andrew reminded me a couple

0:13.9

seconds ago. It was home for the Arizona Cardinals. Pact House, overflowing crowd.

0:20.5

Say what you will about Turning Point USA.

0:23.4

They put on a hell of an event.

0:26.2

Very short notice,

0:27.5

quite the,

0:28.6

quite the event.

0:29.2

It was incredibly well attended.

0:31.6

All the Republican luminaries were there.

0:33.7

Basically,

0:34.2

the entire cabinet was there with House and Senate leadership to Elon Musk was there.

0:41.3

Actually, come to think of it like weird, like succession line issues potentially there with the speaker, the president and the vice president.

0:50.2

But that's not really worth discussing because there were a couple takeaways.

0:53.8

One was really good, really moving and incredibly

0:58.7

devastating speech from Erica Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow. And then the

1:04.6

other was just a series of otherwise interesting, highly

1:09.9

political, and then kind of borderline odd, if not fully odd

1:15.2

speeches from some of the other luminaries.

1:17.2

I want to start with a good because it was really, it was honestly a moving speech.

1:23.1

Erica Kirk gets up there.

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