'Real Time' Crowd Goes Quiet as Bill Maher & Ben Shapiro Have a Tense Exchange About Charlie Kirk

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks about "Real Time with Bill Maher" host Bill Maher getting into a tense exchange with Ben Shapiro over the recent reporting suggesting that Tyler Robinson's assassination of Charlie Kirk was informed by a leftist ideology; Utah Governor Spencer Cox confirming to CNN's Dana Bash that Tyler Robinson did have a romantic partner who is a man who is transitioning to a female; a resurfaced clip of the time that "The View's" Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg were forced to read a legal note after they falsely tried to say that Charlie Kirk welcomed neo-nazis into a Turning Point USA event; Hasan Piker's numerous calls to murder political opponents coming to light; Tulsi Gabbard's touching message at a Charlie Kirk vigil; Ben Shapiro's brutal message for people who think that he will will curtail his speaking engagements in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder; Ben Shapiro getting Bill Maher and the "Real Time with Bill Maher" crowd to go silent with a simple question about the real origins of his moral code; and much more.

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0:00.0	Previously on the Ruby. Yeah, let's get you on board. I've always been a gut player for better or for worst. You are a Christian conservative. That's correct. Three words. And it drives them so crazy. Oh. I say, God is real. And I find no contradiction between my Christian worldview and my political philosophy. All right, guys, it is September 15th, 2025.
0:45.3	I'm Dave Rubin. This is The Rubin Report. You know where we're streaming. Thank you for
0:48.4	subscribing. Welcome to all the new viewers. A awful lot of views over the weekend for all the
0:52.8	wrong reasons. but welcome to
0:55.2	everybody and for those of you that have been with us for a long time you know
0:58.5	that my general position on this show is to do it in as humorful and sarcastic
1:04.7	and silly a way as possible and I'm not exactly sure how that's gonna go today
1:10.8	or for the foreseeable future because there's just so much here obviously it's deep as way as possible. And I'm not exactly sure how that's gonna go today
1:11.0	or for the foreseeable future,
1:12.4	because there's just so much here.
1:14.2	Obviously, it's deeply personal to me.
1:16.4	It's deeply personal to many of you guys,
1:18.6	whether you met Charlie once or went to a turning point thing,
1:21.7	where you just watched him forever,
1:23.3	you know, that called open that we just showed right there.
1:26.0	That I think was from 2018, beginning of 2018.
1:29.0	We had just met a few weeks before in 2017.
1:32.0	We were going through all of our old videos
1:34.5	with Charlie over the weekend,
1:36.0	and we'll be releasing certain behind-the-scenes things
1:39.0	and some other stuff.
1:40.8	You know, it's been just like an unbelievably difficult couple days for, really
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