The Devastating Loss of Charlie Kirk and the Legacy He Leaves Behind, with Megyn Kelly
Next Up with Mark Halperin
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to NextUp. I'm Mark Kalper, editor-in-chief of two-way host of this program Nextop. |
| 0:07.2 | And somber for all of us here, just a couple days ago in the last episode, I was sitting in this chair talking to Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:15.5 | And now he's gone. And we're going to spend this episode trying to grapple with that. |
| 0:20.3 | We'll review some of my past |
| 0:21.8 | conversations with him. We'll talk about the moment of political violence and joining us in a moment, |
| 0:26.5 | Megan Kelly, host the Megan Kelly show, a good friend of Charlie's and no person I'd rather speak to |
| 0:31.0 | about what all this means and what we do next, then Megan, and then Robert Pape of the University of |
| 0:36.4 | Chicago. We'll talk about threats, my reported monologue on what made Charlie Megan and then Robert Pape of the University of Chicago will talk about threats my |
| 0:38.3 | reported monologue on what made Charlie special and then again highlights from some of the past |
| 0:43.6 | conversations I had with him which I'll tell you why they meant so much to me and I hope to people |
| 0:48.4 | who got to watch them and listen to them but first Megan Kelly Megan and I spoke yesterday on her |
| 0:53.8 | program during breaking |
| 0:55.3 | news of the story. And as I said, there's no one who's better understands what Charlie |
| 1:00.0 | meant to the conservative movement and what kind of person he was then Megan. And Megan, thank you |
| 1:04.7 | for making time. |
| 1:05.5 | Of course, Mark. Thanks for doing our show yesterday while it was all unfolding. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.6 | My big project now is to try to deal with what's coming, which is the anger that you and I know is felt by so many people. |
| 1:18.9 | We know who knew Charlie. |
| 1:20.0 | They're sad, of course, but a lot of anger. |
| 1:22.3 | And from talking to folks yesterday overnight, a lot of that comes from a feeling that the |
| 1:26.6 | left doesn't get why Charlie |
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