It is Tuesday, September 16th.

This is the warning.

In our country, it's in big trouble.

Yesterday, the American people were witness to a disgrace without precedent.

There are some things that need to be said, and I will do my best to say them clearly.

Charlie Kirk, during his public ministry, divided the United States.

He humiliated and he degraded people.

He did not stand for the proposition that we are all created equal.

He stood for the idea that some are above others, more equal than others. And he went about his

business, not trying to spread reason, not embracing dissent, but engaged in a type of

performance theater that sought to punch down. Charlie Kirk's legacy is not something that at the moment of his

assassination was particularly interesting. It was enough to deplore the killing, to say that it has

no place in a free and democratic society, that the killer had no right to steal from Charlie Kirk's children, from his wife, from his family,

Charlie Kirk's life. It was not his. The author of Charlie Kirk's life was the Supreme

Judge of the Universe, not some hate-filled 22-year-old. Charlie Kirk, when I look at his life from the perspective of midlife, had many, many years,

including in those years was the possibility from my perspective that he would have

turned his perspectives around and seen something that helped him grow up.

But that was taken away in an instant.

And I'll say this, if I had an employee and on their social media account in public

was celebrating the death of this young man, I would fire them immediately.

Because I wouldn't trust their judgment.

I wouldn't trust their decency and their morality. I would know

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