This is the warning.

This is Steve Schmidt with the warning, and I have some thoughts that I'd like to share

about what's going on in the country after the terrible assassination of Charlie Kirk,

some of the responses, the online maga mob, threatening people, the thought policing that we're seeing, and the moral

cowardice of the MSNBC or MSN now president who fired Matthew Dowd for saying something that is

deeply true and is important to say.

And I think it's very, very important that we talk about that.

What Matthew Dowd said, he was constantly pushing Charlie Kirk

this sort of hate speech, aimed at certain groups.

And I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.

You can't say these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.

They were met with swift pushback and condemnation from MSNBC President Rebecca Cutler.

She said that those words were inappropriate, insensitive,

and unacceptable. And then went on, we apologize for her statements. There is no place for violence

in America, political, or otherwise. I think it is very, very important that we talk about some things

with honesty and some integrity. There are three parts to what happened around Charlie Kirk. And I, and I want to go through all of them.

And I want to start in the middle with the murder. And what we all saw online was the preciousness of life.

And in that moment, Charlie Kirk's was obliterated by an assassin.

And Charlie Kirk was a 31 year old father, and he was a husband,

and Charlie Kirk had a lot of road left in his life and I don't discount the

possibility that whatever Charlie Kirk was going to become that from my perspective much better was among the possibilities. I don't know what Charlie

Clark would have become. It was stolen by a coward's act. It should be condemned and that coward did

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