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The Chuck ToddCast

Full Episode - Charlie Kirk Assassinated - America Needs Some Soul Searching + America Is A Political Tinderbox Ripe For Violence

The Chuck ToddCast

iHeartPodcasts

Government, News

4.02.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Todd reflects on the political climate that led to the assassination of influencer Charlie Kirk, then sits down with Ohio congressman Greg Landsman to discuss the horrific shooting, the culpability of social media platforms to America's heated political discourse, and the geopolitical instability in the world that could lead to armed conflict.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, I'm coming on Thursday, another episode of the Chuck Toddcast.

0:04.4

I'm not going to say that this is the most enthusiastic episode in light of the tragic events in Utah, the assassination, the killing of Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist.

0:23.2

It's horrific.

0:24.7

It's sickening.

0:27.7

What's really awful about this is that it also happened on a college campus where we should be celebrating speech.

0:37.4

That's what he was doing, expressing political

0:39.9

speech, making a political argument, exactly what this country was founded on, what every college

0:46.9

campus in America embraces and should embrace.

0:56.3

And we get this violence.

1:05.0

There's, it's going to be a lot of finger pointing.

1:05.7

There already is.

1:14.3

And I think we, you know, I hope everybody realizes that when they point the finger, they're also pointing at themselves.

1:20.5

Because everybody in the political arena, we all, everybody needs to do soul searching.

1:27.9

You know, we're in a tender box of our own making.

1:34.3

Political violence is happening far too often.

1:51.6

It was just June in Minnesota when you had somebody stock state legislatures, legislators, killing them in Minnesota.

2:02.6

There's no political movement or party that is immune from what we've seen.

2:14.0

And so anybody that attempts to try to say, yeah, but on this, I'm not listening to you.

2:15.5

And you shouldn't listen to them either.

2:20.4

This is not a yeah but moment this is tragedy but there's a lot of this but um we've all let rhetoric escalate too much um it's been it's been a decade of this.

2:38.0

Okay?

2:38.2

It's been a decade.

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