It's Thursday, September 11th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show that can't really think of anything funny to say right now.

On today's show, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells us how she really feels about

former President Joe Biden's re-election bid in an excerpt from her upcoming book.

And NASA works to answer the question.

Is there a life on Mars?

But let's start with some truly horrible news.

Today to approximately 1220 mountain standard time.

Political influencer Charlie Kirk was shot at an event at the Utah Valley University.

He was taken by private vehicle to Timpanooga's hospital, where he later passed.

On Wednesday, 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an on-campus event about an hour south of Salt Lake City.

He was there as part of his American comeback tour, an event series produced by Turning Point USA, the right-wing organization he founded when he was 18 years old.

I want to be clear that this is a rapidly developing story.

The assassination is being investigated by local and campus police, as well as the FBI and the Utah Department of Public

Safety. Again, I want to be clear. At the time of this recording on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern,

no suspect is in custody and no motive has been determined, even though local politicians

have stated this was an act of political violence.

But political violence is evil, not just because murder is evil, but also because political violence begets political violence.

And we've seen that trend over and over and over again in recent years.

From the January 6th Capitol riot to two assassination attempts against

President Donald Trump, to the murder of a Minnesota legislator and her husband just a few weeks

ago. Let me say that again. Political violence makes more political violence more likely.

Here's Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox speaking on Wednesday.

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