What Charlie Kirk Assassination Reveals About Dems and Media, and Kamala's Book Tour Flops, w/ McCain & Ferguson
Next Up with Mark Halperin
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody. This is Next up. |
| 0:04.0 | Grateful to you all for being here. |
| 0:06.0 | I met so many Nexters when I was in Arizona over the weekend, |
| 0:10.0 | covering the memorial service for Charlie Kirk and had an extraordinary experience hearing from folks about their appreciation for the program. |
| 0:18.0 | And of course, experiencing through their eyes what not just |
| 0:23.2 | Sunday was like but the entire experience of grappling with the assassination of Charlie Kirk and |
| 0:28.6 | the aftermath. So we're going to talk about what's next up for the country, for both political |
| 0:34.3 | parties and for people around. Again, I'm Mark Halpern, editor-in-chief of the |
| 0:39.3 | live interactive video platform two-way host of this program where I try to bring you my |
| 0:43.8 | exclusive reporting from around the country, around the world, analysis of all the top news |
| 0:47.8 | and all the stories that matter most so we can all try to figure out together what's going to |
| 0:52.8 | happen next up. Joining us today on the program |
| 0:55.5 | two super smart people who've been here and and who i like talking to so much megan mccane of |
| 1:01.0 | citizen mcane my colleague on two way and bed ferguson host of the ben ferguson podcast also |
| 1:06.5 | co-hosts the verdict with ted cruz they'll both be here. We'll talk about Charlie Kirk and how |
| 1:11.5 | the country's grappling with that and also about Kamala Harris and her book tour and then |
| 1:15.7 | some other political stuff with the two of them. I'm looking forward to that. But first, |
| 1:20.4 | my reported monologue, I did spend the weekend in Arizona going to what was an extraordinary |
| 1:26.9 | event in so many ways. |
| 1:29.3 | And I've been trying to understand what happened, how Charlie Kirk could have been assassinated. |
| 1:37.3 | And some of that is just a practical question of how someone who'd received so many death threats, |
| 1:43.3 | how someone who knew the dangers many death threats, how someone who knew |
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