Erika Kirk Forgives Her Husband's Assassin
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
First, they reflect on Sunday’s memorial service for Charlie Kirk and the emotional moment when his widow, Erika Kirk, publicly forgave the “young man” who murdered her husband earlier this month. Jim calls it “one of the most profoundly Christian moments” we’ve ever witnessed in public life.
Next, they slam Prime Minister Keir Starmer for effectively rewarding Hamas terrorism by formally recognizing a Palestinian state. Starmer insists this will remove Hamas from power, and reform the Palestinian Authority. Of course, he also blames Israel for the humanitarian problems in Gaza. Bottom line: he's not helping.
Finally, they examine two recent instances of possible political violence where authorities seem to be confused about motive when the facts aren't very fuzzy. They discuss the California man who fired shots at the ABC affiliate in Sacramento and the guy who opened fire at a New Hampshire country club. In the latter incident, the gunman reportedly yelled "Free Palestine" before opening fire, but officials say it's unlikely that's what caused him to shoot people. Really?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.5 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, really glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:16.5 | We hope you had a terrific weekend. |
| 0:18.7 | And we hope you're glad to be here because we got a lot to talk about today. |
| 0:21.9 | Big news in terms of potentially, it certainly seems like it, politically motivated violence again, two different instances, both aiming in the same direction, no pun intended. |
| 0:33.2 | We've also got Kier Starrmer, as he foreshadowed, declaring a Palestinian state, formerly recognizing one anyway. |
| 0:41.8 | And we're headed to the UN General Assembly opening this week, so there's some shenanigans going on there. |
| 0:47.2 | But we start, Jim, with yesterday's memorial service for Charlie Kirk at the home of the Arizona Cardinals. |
| 0:53.8 | It lasted about five hours. |
| 0:56.2 | Lots of different speakers, lots of different musical acts, as J.D. Vant said in his comments, |
| 1:01.6 | a lot of people expected a funeral. |
| 1:03.4 | It kind of turned into a revival. |
| 1:05.4 | It was fascinating to watch so many people talk openly about their faith as a Christian |
| 1:10.5 | who wants to make sure people |
| 1:11.6 | get the gospel right. |
| 1:13.0 | I was a little bit, I'm not sure you got it there a couple of times, but Charlie Kirk's |
| 1:17.9 | mentor, Frank Turrick, did a great job on that, saying that, you know, it's nothing Charlie |
| 1:22.3 | Kirk did that he's in heaven. |
| 1:23.9 | It's because he trusted in the sacrifice that Jesus made, so that could not have been clear. For all the cabinet members and vice president and President Trump that spoke, I think |
| 1:32.9 | the thing everybody's talking about today are the comments of Erica Kirk, Charlie's widow, |
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