My friend Charlie Kirk yesterday was gunned down in Cobleau dead at the age of 31.

And, you know, it's incredibly difficult to broadcast on days like this to talk about this.

We talked about it yesterday, live as the aftermath was happening.

It's truly horrifying in every possible way for it to be horrifying.

It's horrifying for the country.

It's horrifying for people who knew Charlie.

It's horrifying mostly for his family.

And of course, yeah, there's nothing to say about the horror for Charlie himself.

Charlie was a religious person, which means

that he's with the Lord now. He's with God right now. But for the rest of us, who have to deal with

the fallout and who have to witness the pain left behind, it is truly horrific. I'm going to

read you what I wrote on Twitter yesterday about Charlie. I wrote, like all of you, I'm utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today. It's unimaginable to write these words. I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined, I immediately turned to a friend and said that kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day. Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his biblical values. All of us will miss him. I can't imagine the pain of his beautiful young family. We must all pray for them. We must pick up the baton where Charlie left it fighting for the things. He believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America in America, where good people can speak truth and to be passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie's family, and I weep for my country today. Most of all, I weep for Charlie.

The horror of the videos, which we are not going to show, because Charlie should never be

remembered the way that his killer would like for him to be remembered as a victim of a bullet.

He should be remembered as fully alive as he was. I'm not sure I've ever known a more energetic human being than Charlie Kirk.

As I say, in that post, I met Charlie when he was 18 years old.

I was working at the David Horwood's Freedom Center at the time.

I was 28.

Charlie was 18.

And he was walking around, meeting with donors, trying to gin up support for an organization,

a little organization called

Turning Point. And I remember, as I say, turning to Jeremy boring and saying to Jeremy,

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