It's Friday, September 12th.

I'm Jane Koston, and this is Whataday, the show that learned today that octopuses,

yes, octopuses, not octopi, use all of their eight limbs in different ways.

They use their front forearms for exploring and their back forearms for movement.

Just a fun little fact for you to use at your next octopus-themed dinner party.

On today's show, the Federal Trade Commission takes a look at the potential harm AI chatbots have on children.

And the British government fires its ambassador to the United States for his extremely not

great emails to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

But let's start with the latest updates on the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

At the time of this recording at 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, the search for a suspect continues.

The FBI released some grainy photos of a person of interest wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, all in black,

in the hopes it might trigger tips or other information from the public. The Bureau also said

it had recovered a bolt-action rifle that may have been used in the shooting. With no suspect in custody, no motive has

been established either. And let's be incredibly clear. As of this moment, we still do not know why

someone shot and killed Charlie Kirk. Still, that has not stopped many, many people, quite loudly and

with a whole lot of certainty from characterizing his murder

as an act of left-wing political violence. That includes President Donald Trump, who said this

Wednesday night. For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like

Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals, this kind of rhetoric

is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must

stop right now. Several congressional Republicans echoed similar sentiments, accusing Democrats of contributing to a culture that led to Kirk's death.

This, despite Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson trying to, as he told reporters, quote, turned the temperature down.

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