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Next Up with Mark Halperin

The True Impact of Charlie Kirk's Legacy and Mission, with Gen Z College Leaders and Isabel Brown

Next Up with Mark Halperin

MK Media

News, Daily News, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On today’s special episode of Next Up with Mark Halperin, Mark has the conversation about Charlie Kirk’s assassination that no one else is having – with the people most directly shaped by his life and death yet largely overlooked in the national coverage: the college students whose futures he transformed. Mark sits down with Turning Point USA leaders from campuses across the country to reflect on Charlie Kirk’s life, his assassination, and the impact it has had on their own journeys. They offer candid and powerful accounts of what Charlie meant to them, the challenges they’ve faced on campus since his death, and how their experiences echo those of millions of peers nationwide. They also describe how his example shaped their approach to leadership – teaching them to argue with respect rather than anger and to fight for a moral revival – in stark contrast to the dominant media narrative that paints his supporters as hateful or vengeful. The Daily Wire’s Isabel Brown also joins Mark to reflect on her close friendship with Charlie and the mentorship that shaped her career. She shares intimate stories of his guidance, the lessons he instilled in young conservatives, and how his mission continues to inspire her and others to carry the torch forward. Special thanks to TPUSA, Sidonia Cecco, Theo Grabill, Emma Arns, and Isabel Brown. Chapter: For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 262-454-0503 or go to https://askchapter.org/mark Disclaimer: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and standalone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don't directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all your options. Delta Rescue: Visit https://DeltaRescue.org to learn more

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0:00.0

Welcome to Next Up, all you Nexters. It's Thursday. You know what that means. It's time for another

0:07.7

episode of this program. I'm Mark Halperin, editor-in-chief of the live interactive video platform

0:13.0

two-way, host of this program. Today's program is going to be a little bit different than usual.

0:18.0

Normally, I do a long monologue here, my reported monologue telling you

0:21.3

my perspective and reporting on something in the news. But today, it's going to be different.

0:27.2

I continue to be struck by how little we're hearing the voice of Charlie Kirk on video.

0:34.4

It's available. Of course, you can watch it all on YouTube, but in news coverage and programs like this, I feel like we should hear for more from Charlie. But I also feel we should hear from more people who've been affected by Charlie's life. There's so many things going on around the country that are meant to commemorate and honor him, including the resumption of the college

0:54.8

tour that was so important to him. Here's something from an event earlier this week in Utah at the

1:01.0

state, of course, where Charlie was assassinated, a turning point USA event where the crowd made

1:06.4

clear what and who was on their mind. Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie.

1:14.6

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie.

1:19.6

So there's a lot of people energized by the aftermath of the assassination

1:24.6

who want so much to honor him and to think about what

1:28.8

Fraterning Point USA for the movement, what comes next?

1:32.3

Before I tell you about our special guest today, I want to tell you about why they're here.

1:37.0

They're here because of an email I got from an extra last week.

1:41.5

This was from Jen in Colorado who wrote in and said the cheat had a realization.

1:47.7

Jen wrote, this is the first loss that many of Charlie's devotees have suffered.

1:52.6

Knowing how it's still affecting me, Jen wrote, a middle-aged mom, I can only imagine how it is

1:58.4

affecting the younger generation who felt like they knew him because they saw him every day on their social media feed.

2:06.7

So that got us thinking.

2:08.9

We haven't heard in any great detail, maybe a short sound bite, but nothing beyond that from so many of the young people around the country who were inspired

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