Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for listening to another podcast.

We're going to do this one a little bit differently.

It is Wednesday night, September the 10th, just a few hours after yet another act of political violence, or at least the shooting of a political figure, public figure in the United States, Charlie Kirk, assassinated in Utah, speaking to a group of students.

I was actually unwittingly on the phone at the time of the shooting.

Of course, I didn't know about it till later, like everybody else heard about it later.

But when I looked back at kind of where I was at that time, I was on the phone with a Democrat

friend of mine, former elected official here in South Carolina, who was also a commentator on another cable news

network. We've been friends for over a decade. We had no way of knowing that Charlie Kirk

or anyone else would be shot or had been shot. The news broke later.

But I did wonder, how can an older white Republican have such a good relationship with a younger

black Democrat?

Never a crossword between us and the whole time we know one another. And yet some others literally kill another person over real or perceived political differences.

So I know I'm doing what I don't like to do, which is making assumptions.

I'm assuming this was politically motivated. On the one hand,

it matters. On the other hand, Charlie Kirk was murdered regardless of the motivation.

We don't know, or at least I don't know at the time that I am speaking, perhaps. There will be clarity on that in the

next 24 to 48 hours, but it was a political event. Charlie Kirk was a prominent political

figure. The most common question I got in the aftermath is, what is this world coming to?

It's the same thing we ask when presidents are shot or shot at.

It's the same thing we ask when a crazed man attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer.

Same thing.

We ask after Stevie Scalise and others were shot, practicing for a congressional baseball guy.

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