Charlie Kirk would have been president. His friends knew it, his admirers knew it, and his enemies knew it.

I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Nulls show. We have a lot to get to today, and it's not going to be anything that any of the other TV news shows are talking about.

It's going to be personal, and it's going to be political. We're not going to focus on all

the negative. There will be a time for that. There will be a time for the reaction to the reactions

that we're not going to forget about that. That time will come. But today is not that day.

We're going to focus on grief. We're going to focus on mourning. We're going to

focus on what Charlie means. We're going to focus on the honors that have come to him from the

president, from other presidents, from Yankee Stadium, for goodness sakes. We're going to get to

all of that. I wrote a little obituary for Charlie on social media,

which you can find.

It's on the daily website too.

And when I think about the guy, not just as my friend, but as a political figure,

that's the point I keep coming back to.

Everyone believed in this guy. Everyone believed this guy would be president. I first met Charlie

many years ago. The first time we met, I was in a green room at Fox News in Los Angeles, tiny

little green room, you know, a little bureau there. And it's three o'clock in, four o'clock in the morning. I lived in L.A. So I should have been used to waking up. I was doing that TV show a lot. And I'm half asleep in the chair. And Charlie walks in. This is the first time I've ever met him in person. And Charlie comes in, probably off some flight on a different time. And he's just bouncing off the walls, just full of energy. Hey,

my... met him in person. And Charlie comes in, probably off some flight on a different time. And he's just bouncing off the walls, just full of energy. Hey, Michael, that's that about just wants to talk about everything. He just understood. He was, we were talking about politics, talking about practical politics at that time, you know, in the early days of Trump. We were talking about policy, just everything, four o'clock in the morning.

I say, hey, buddy, it's nice to meet you.

But, you know, come on.

I'm trying to sleep here.

Just absolute boundless energy.

He looked the part.

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