Hello, and I'm Dana Perino, along with Kaylee McEnany, Jessica Tarlov, Jesse Waters, and Will Kane.

It's 5 o'clock in New York City. Actually, we're on Long Island, and this is the five. And we are live at the Patriot Awards coming to you from the TILA Center in New York.

And we've got some of our favorite people in the house tonight. So we have, that would be our audience.

You can applaud for yourself.

Thank you so much.

And tonight we are going to honor the unsung heroes from the first responders to military members to the people making a difference in their communities.

And First Lady, Melania Trump, is the Patriot of the Year for her political and humanitarian work.

And there's a brand new honor.

Erica Kirk will receive the first ever Charlie Kirk Legacy Award, marking her husband's incredible life and work.

Jesse Waters spoke to her in an interview last night.

By that time, the video was everywhere.

How do you process that?

I never saw the video.

I never will see it.

I never want to see it.

There's certain things you see in your life that you can never unsee.

There's certain things you see in your life that mark your soul forever.

I don't want my husband's public assassination to be something I ever see.

I don't want my kids to ever see that.

And for people who actually enjoy watching that,

which is quite literally sick.

It was truly a masterful interview that Jesse did,

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