Newly revealed text messages between Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin and the suspect's trans-identifying boyfriend explain a lot about the suspect's state of mind before and after the shooting.

In fact, they explain a little bit too much. We will get to how.

Then, amid a nationwide crisis of left-wing political violence, a New York judge drops the top

two charges against alleged left-wing terrorist Luigi Mangione. Finally, Attorney General Pambandi

has conservative scratching their heads as she promises to crack down on so-called hate speech.

I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

Thank you. Hate Speech. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to the show.

A number of you have been asking about something for the past few days, and I was not able to give an answer previously, but now I can.

You know, I was out in Phoenix yesterday, visiting our friends at TPSA and filling in for Charlie's show. I think Charlie is going to have friends filling in for his show for the foreseeable future because he still has this big radio show

and they have to do the show. So the bright side of that is that Charlie had about a hundred

billion friends, like real friends, and so

there will be people filling in for that, and it was great honor and privilege to be able to do it

yesterday. While I was out there, I was able to get some clarity on something that a number of

you've asked me about.

Charlie and I were scheduled to speak together on campus at the University of Minneapolis this coming Monday. And so when Charlie was murdered, my, not my first thought, probably my

15th or 16th thought was, well, I guess the tour is canceled. I guess all of his speaking tour

and his friends joining him on the tour and including my speech. And then I thought, well,

actually, maybe it's not because I sure know Charlie would not want to back down from anything.

And I know TPSA probably wouldn't want to back down. But anyway, I wanted to get guidance from them first. So I spoke yesterday with TPSA, and they 100% want the speaking

tour to go on. And I agree with that. I think that's totally right. The left wants to silence us,

and we should not give them the

satisfaction. Charlie certainly would not. TPSA will not, and so Charlie's speaking tour will go on,

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