Hey y'all. Yesterday's episode had already been recorded and scheduled before the news of yesterday.

Tomorrow's episode has already been recorded. So I wanted to take a special moment today on this Thursday to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk, a fierce defender of the Christian faith,

a patriot in the truest sense of the word, a devoted husband to Erica, a loving father to his

two young children, a friend to so many people, including to me. In 2017, when I was brand new to media and

Charlie was already a rising star in the conservative world, he invited me to speak at Turning

Point's second annual young women's leadership summit.

And at the end of 2019, after a speech I gave it another Turning Point conference, he got me

and he asked me to meet with him and some of his staff.

And they pulled me into a room and he said, so when

are you do? Because I was three months pregnant at the time. And he asked because he wanted to see

if I would be willing to help plan and host that year's young women's leadership summit. And I said,

yes, absolutely even knowing the event was three weeks before my due date

as you can see there in that picture. I knew that if Charlie was leading it then no matter what

that it was worth doing. I am one of thousands of people who can say that charlie believed

in me he platformed me he helped shape me long before i had done anything impressive um in politics

most people are only kind to you when you can give them something in return.

And Charlie just never played that game.

He was generous to people because that's just who he was.

That's who he was to everyone.

In 2022, we spoke to Auburn students together. We fielded questions. We argued for the Christian and

conservative position on different issues. And then toward the end of our talk, a young woman came up

to the mic. She was adversarial. She was angry. She believed Charlie was racist because of things that he had said about crime,

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