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00:00Fox News alert, ABC News dropping a bomb, taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air for pinning the Charlie
00:15Kirk assassination on MAGA. This is what Kimmel said on Monday night. Listen.
00:21Some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid
00:27who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can
00:31to score political points from it. By that time, we all knew the shooter was a leftist in love with
00:38a trans man who scrawled, hey, fascist, on his bullets. ABC executives didn't take any action
00:45until today when dozens of local stations took a stand and refused to air Jimmy Kimmel Live.
00:51The program will be suspended indefinitely.
00:57Today marks one week since Charlie Kirk was gruesomely assassinated. The nation still mourning his
01:04family, his friends, his fans. Primetime had the privilege of sitting down with one of Charlie's
01:10closest friends, the vice president of the United States, J.D. Vance. It's his first interview since
01:15the assassination, and J.D. says he owes his job to Charlie. We flew out to Howell, Michigan,
01:23where the vice president toured a metal manufacturing company with a group of
01:26Turning Point students. J.D., emotional, took us back to the moment when the White House found out
01:33Charlie was dead.
01:35Mr. Vice President, thank you so much for joining us.
01:38Of course. It's good to see you.
01:39Where were you when you heard Charlie was shot?
01:42So I was in my office in the West Wing. The vice president actually has a couple of offices.
01:47There's the executive office building office and the West Wing office. I was in the West Wing,
01:52and I just finished a meeting with somebody. I'm not even sure who. And I looked at my phone,
01:57and there were a bunch of group chats. Frankly, a lot of them that Charlie was in,
02:01where they said, Charlie, praying for your brother, hope you're doing okay. And then I opened up my door,
02:06and somebody said, Charlie's been shot. And it kind of hit me like, oh, my God, this is very real.
02:11This is very serious. And, you know, what happened over the next hour or so, I'm guessing, is, you
02:17know, we knew Charlie. It's called your body guy, your special assistant, the person who's always
02:22with you. And I had a very dear friend of the West Wing who knew Charlie's body guy. And so his name is
02:27Mikey. And he called Mike and said, hey, like, what's going on? And what was really, I mean,
02:33obviously, you know, the news was discombobulated. No one knew what was actually happening. It was a
02:38very chaotic moment. But there was a brief period where we were getting good reports from the
02:44hospital. And I don't know if you were how plugged in you were to that. And so, you know, I saw the
02:49initial video. I've only seen it that one time. I refuse to watch it again. I don't want to see
02:53that happen to my friend ever again. But I initially thought terrible, terrible news. And then I started to
02:59feel kind of hopeful. And then, of course, we got the news from Mike that Charlie had passed probably
03:04about an hour before the rest of the world found out. And I was the person who walked into the Oval
03:08Office and said, Mr. President, I'm sorry, but Charlie passed. And that was a very, very tough
03:13moment. Susie Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff, was in tears. And she doesn't show emotion.
03:18She is even keel the whole way. And she was in tears. And I just gave Susie a hug. And I think all of us
03:23kind of lost it. And it felt like, you know, it felt like we were all mourning our friend before
03:28any of the politics or the thought about, you know, what a tight knee was and how influential
03:33he was to the movement. How do we possibly replace him? We were all just sad because our friend had
03:37died. And we supported each other in that moment, as you do with your friends. But man, it was a bad,
03:42bad day. When you told the president Charlie was dead, how did he take it? You know, the president
03:49is very stoic. But he was clearly upset. He just kind of went quiet and let it absorb a little bit
03:57and then just shook his head and said, man, he was a good guy. And we really loved him. And that's
04:05exactly right. That was a good thing to say. And we all just kind of had that same realization that
04:10he was a good friend, that he really loved what we were trying to do. He was a great supporter of ours.
04:15And it was a great honor to have him both as a friend and as a supporter. And frankly,
04:20I mean, Jesse, I would not be the vice president of the United States were it not for Charlie Kirk.
04:24Aside from Donald Trump, I can't think of a single person who deserves more credit,
04:28who advocated more for me, both in my Senate primary back in 2021, who advocated more for me
04:35to be the nominee as vice president, who advocated more for us to get in there,
04:39not just advocacy, but effective action and organization. I wouldn't be the vice president.
04:45I wouldn't have this job without Charlie Kirk, and I'll never forget it.
04:48Do you believe the people out in the country should watch the video? I know it's very hard
04:53to stomach. Yeah. Is it important for people to process it?
04:58Look, I go back and forth on it. I mean, look, it's my friend and it's incredibly gruesome.
05:03And what I think is maybe it's useful for everybody to see at one time because then you see what they did
05:10to Charlie Kirk. But I don't want anybody to remember Charlie Kirk and that five seconds at the
05:16end of his life. I want him to remember Charlie Kirk, the skilled debater. I want him to remember
05:20those videos, those incredible videos of him and his wife and his babies and how much he loved Erica
05:25and how much he loved those kids. I want him to remember Charlie for that. I want him to remember
05:29Charlie for the guy for when it was these kids behind me. Now, I hate to call you guys kids,
05:34but you are, you know, who would, a progressive would, would step up to the microphone at a
05:39Turning Points USA event. And some of the audience would jeer and cheer. And Charlie would say, no,
05:43no, let him speak because he's so desperately believed in this idea that we should be talking
05:47with and debating one another. So maybe see the video to understand what the far left did to
05:54Charlie Kirk. Absolutely. But that should be one fraction of 1% of your memory of Charlie Kirk.
06:0099.9% of it should be a titan of the conservative movement, a beloved friend and a dear husband and
06:06father. You brought the casket on Air Force Two back to Erica, his wife to Arizona. What was that like
06:14delivering that to her? Oh man, I'm going to try to keep it together here. One, it was a great honor.
06:20You know, as sad and as heartbreaking and as difficult as it was emotionally, I just kept on
06:26thinking what an incredible thing it is to be able to take my friend back to Phoenix, to be able to
06:31take his wife and his family, to be able to provide some just basic support and friendship in their
06:38moment of grief. What an honor to be invited into Erica's, you know, inner circle in that moment of
06:43terrible grief. And it was, it was tough though, man. I mean, I've still, and I think that this is a
06:49pretty common thing when you're grieving somebody you love. I had this moment a couple of days ago
06:54where I whip out my phone. I type in Charlie Kirk on signal. I get halfway through a text message before
07:01I realized he's not here anymore and nobody's going to receive this message. And that, that thing was so
07:07much more true in the 20 hours after he had died. And you could see that. I mean, I don't want to reveal
07:14too much about the conversation we had with Charlie and his family, but we were all kind of going through
07:18these hills and valleys together of, Oh my God, I can't believe he's gone. But then just telling
07:24stories and laughing and hugging. And it was, it was an amazing experience, but it was very sad.
07:30And it just gave me this sense of resolve that they put Charlie in this box. They put him in this box
07:37for doing the most American thing possible, which is debating and talking to people, even the people,
07:43maybe especially the people with whom you disagree. And we cannot let this incredible legacy get
07:51extinguished by an assassin. Another, a couple of the people that traveled with us, it was, it was
07:56Charlie's family and it was his wife and his parents and his sister, all incredibly kind people. But there
08:01were also a couple of Charlie's dear friends, people who were involved in TP USA. And you know what
08:05every single person, both in turning points, but also Erica said is we cannot let this die with
08:12Charlie. That was her main wish. And of course, I've talked to her since then. I'll see her
08:16on Sunday at the funeral in Arizona. She really wants this incredible, not just mission and
08:23organization, but really a movement that Charlie Kirk built to keep on going long after he's gone.
08:28I think that's the best way that we can honor him is to honor her wishes and to keep Charlie's memory
08:33alive. He touched so many people, especially young people. Yes. And as a strong Christian,
08:38will that be part of his legacy, bringing people closer to God?
08:43I think it has to be part of his legacy. I mean, how many people did I talk to in the last week who
08:48said, yeah, I'm a Christian, but I haven't been to church in three years, three months. I went to
08:52church this Sunday to pray for Charlie. Or how many people that I speak to who said, you know, I was
08:57kind of an agnostic and atheist, but I'm kind of interested in this God thing because this guy really
09:03believed that he gave his life for it. If we are true to Charlie's memory, the number one thing
09:09that people will remember about Charlie Kirk is that he was a great advocate for the Christian faith.
09:13He was thoughtful. I mean, I remember talking to Charlie, even in the last months before he died,
09:17about Catholicism and Protestantism and all of these different minutias of the Christian faith,
09:24because I said this, he loved God. And because he loved God, he wanted to understand God. And so he was
09:29constantly thinking about it. But more importantly than that, he was constantly going out and talking
09:34about it. Like you look at these Turning Points USA events and you look at the interactions he was
09:39having with people and people would say, why are you a Christian? And he would say, well, because I'm a
09:43sinner and Jesus saved me. Jesus saved my life. He wanted to be a true evangelist in the truest sense
09:50of the world and the way that St. Paul was an evangelist. And I think that has to be part of his legacy.
09:55And I've seen just in my own inner circle, people come back to the church purely because
10:03Charlie's death caused something inside them to stir. I would love to see that happen all over
10:09our country. And I think it is. That's why it feels like it's a spiritual attack. Yes. That evil
10:14showed its face. Do you believe that evil is out there and we have to confront it? You know,
10:20I've always believed that history makes a lot more sense when you both believe in God and follow God,
10:27but accept that the devil is real. And I think that evil is very much a real thing. It has a will.
10:33It has a very, it has an evil and very negative purpose, but it also clearly has people who are
10:43trying to accomplish that purpose. I think in the spiritual realm, but also in the realm that we live
10:47in every single day too. So yes, I believe that one of the takeaways of Charlie's death and of
10:53Charlie's life is that speaking the truth, what is the devil? What is evil? If not the opposite of
10:59truth and the opposite of life, they tried to extinguish Charlie's truth and extinguish Charlie's
11:05life. We cannot let them. And that is one of the great, if you look at the 2000 years of the Christian
11:10faith, one of the great lessons is that each of us have our role to play. Each of us have a particular
11:17part of the race to run. We each have something that we have to do. And then God calls us home and
11:24it's onto the next man. We are all the next man in that great journey for as long as God gives us the
11:29ability to be that next man. People are celebrating Charlie's killing. It's disgusting. They're saying he
11:34deserves to die. How do you wrap your head around that? Well, one way you wrap your head around it is
11:39disgusting evil. What kind of person looks at a grieving young mother at two beautiful young kids
11:46and feels a certain sense of celebration. And I actually think, I don't know if it's a couple
11:51people. I don't know if it's thousands of people, but I would ask you if you were the kind of person
11:56who feels joy at the death of a grieving mother and grieving children, what bad decisions have led you
12:03to where you are today? And why don't you get back on the right path? I really believe that there are
12:07people who recognize that the joy that they're feeling, the celebration they're feeling at Charlie's
12:12death is evidence of evil within them. And they have to extinguish that evil. I think that. And I've
12:19even seen some social media posts where people have said, you know, I was feeling kind of good about
12:23this guy dying. And now I realized that meant there was something wrong in me. That's another way I think
12:29that God is speaking to people through Charlie's death is these incredibly evil people celebrating it.
12:34We're seeing it. We're seeing that evil in the public eye for all to see. But I also think people
12:40are turning away from that evil because they recognize that it is so opposite of everything
12:45good and true and righteous in the world. If these evil people don't repent and continue to revel
12:51in the murder, what should be the consequence? Well, look, I think the consequence should be,
12:56by the way, justice exists for both the people who repent and ask forgiveness. Justice also exists for
13:02people who don't repent and don't ask for forgiveness. I really do hope that the person
13:06who murdered Charlie Kirk eventually accepts that what he did was evil and terrible. But we still
13:12got to have justice anyway. And I think for the people who are celebrating Charlie Kirk, look,
13:17we have a First Amendment in this country. The First Amendment protects a lot of very ugly speech.
13:22But if you celebrate Charlie's Kirk, Charlie Kirk's death, you should not be protected from being fired
13:27for being a disgusting person. If you're a university professor who benefits from American
13:32tax dollars, you should not be celebrating Charlie Kirk's death. And if you are, maybe you should
13:38lose your job or your university should face a loss of funding. If you are the kind of person who
13:44thinks that Charlie Kirk was justifiably murdered, sometimes the government can't do anything about
13:49that. But you know what can is civil society. And I've actually been gratified to see all these
13:54people standing up and saying, yes, we have free speech and yes, we have free debate.
13:59But if you're, if you're celebrating the death of a young father, you ought to pay some consequences
14:04for it. And the American people are rising up against that evil. It's a great thing to see.
14:09So the Democrats in the media are preaching unity. They're saying there's an equal amount of violence
14:14on both sides and we need to all just lower the temperature and come together. You say?
14:20It's statistically absolutely bonkers. The idea that left-wing violence and right-wing
14:26violence in 2025 in America are equal, it's preposterous. The statistics don't bear it out,
14:32Jesse. You look, you ask how many, what percentage of political liberals believe that political
14:36violence is sometimes justified? It's about one in four. If you ask young conservatives that same
14:42question, it's about one in 25, which by the way, is still too high. It should be zero. But the problem
14:47is much bigger and much more malignant on the far left. You know, I saw something, maybe it was the ADL
14:52or one of these ridiculous organizations that said that right-wing violence is as common as left-wing
14:57violence. And then you go and look at the data and you say, what is it that you're causing right-wing
15:01violence? One of the things that they called right-wing violence is literally a gang of black
15:07Americans beating up on a Mexican guy. Well, yeah, if you categorize everything under the sun as right-wing
15:13violence, you can make your point for you. But that's BS. Nobody's buying it. Look at the way
15:18they're celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. Look at the way that this assassin was radicalized by
15:23left-wing and probably trans-related stuff. Look at the way that even if you're not committing an act
15:28of violence, you were supporting those who do. You see that so much more on the far left. And I'd wish my
15:34friends who are on the left would just look themselves in the mirror and accept that they have a problem.
15:39Yes, absolutely. By all means, let's take down the temperature. But if you want to take down the
15:44temperature and you're on the left of center, the first and most important thing you can do is look
15:49in the mirror. The media is now saying the assassin may have been MAGA.
15:56Why would they lie? Well, they would lie because they can't do that simple, basic thing of looking
16:03themselves in the mirror. They can't admit that their radicalism and their craziness helped to
16:08cause this problem. Look, this is not in dispute. You talk to the shooter's mother. You talk to the
16:13shooter's father. You talk to the local district attorney. You talk to the FBI director or the
16:17deputy director of the FBI. You look at every ounce of evidence that we have, and it is clear. This is a
16:23person who grew up in a pretty normal family, actually had a pretty good home life, who was radicalized
16:30by the far left, by the social networks of the far left, by the ideas of the far left,
16:35and got so far down the path of radicalization that he killed my friend. That is not a both
16:42sides problem. My friend is dead because of left-wing political radicalization. And if you want to cut
16:47that out, then be honest about it and look yourself in the mirror. Excuse me. I know I shouldn't cuss on
16:52Fox News. That's okay. Trans-terrorism and Barack Obama. Part two of my exclusive interview with J.D.
17:02Vance. Straight ahead.
17:08Did Kirk's assassin act alone? How big of a threat is trans-terrorism? And why is Barack Obama
17:15pointing fingers? Here's part two of my exclusive with vice president J.D. Vance.
17:22The FBI is now looking into as many as 20 or more other people who may have corresponded with
17:28this assassin beforehand. There may have been foreknowledge of the shooting. If there are
17:33co-conspirators here, what kind of threat level are we talking about? Well, we don't know, Jesse,
17:39and that's why I've been so proud of Cash and the way that he's handled this investigation because
17:44he's cast as wide a net as humanly possible. And the FBI really is looking at everything. By the way,
17:50there's a lot of weird stuff out there. For example, the CEO of Discord or one of the leaders
17:54of Discord said that there were no Discord chats that involved this guy. Now we know that there
17:59were Discord chats that involved this guy. So we need to look at everything. We need to leave no stone
18:05unturned. My own attitude to this. And people will send me stuff, Jesse, you know, from the deepest,
18:10darkest corners of the internet. Some of it sounds pretty crazy, but I'll send it to Cash and I'll
18:14talk to my team because I want us to leave no stone unturned. It's the only way to honor Charlie
18:20is to get to the bottom of exactly how this person was radicalized and who else was involved in it.
18:25Now, we could find out that this person was radicalized and it was terrible and there were a lot of very
18:31evil people in his life, but they didn't have foreknowledge. We may find out that there were
18:36many, many people who were involved in helping this guy pull off the shooting. We just have to get
18:42to the bottom of it. That's what justice demands. That's what being a good friend to Charlie demands.
18:46The militant transgender movement, is that a domestic terrorist threat?
18:52If you are encouraging people to commit acts of violence against the United States government or
18:57against your fellow Americans, absolutely, you're involved in a terrorist movement.
19:00I don't know enough about that particular organization, but what you increasingly see,
19:04Jesse, is you see people in the trans community and other members of the far left who are saying
19:10they are so threatened by negative rhetoric that they must take arms and attack people. If your
19:16movement is telling you to commit acts of violence against people for speaking words that you don't like,
19:22number one, you're evil, and number two, you are engaged in a terrorist movement. And that's part
19:28of what we have to root out in the White House. And this is very important, Jesse. I've talked to a lot
19:31of people about this. I've talked to Stephen Miller probably seven times in the past two days. We are
19:37working very hard to ensure that the funding networks for left-wing violence, that the radicalization
19:44networks for left-wing violence, that if you encourage or fund your fellow Americans or anybody else
19:50to commit acts of violence because you disagree with political speech, you are going to be treated
19:56like a terrorist organization and we're going to go after you. Because Joe Biden said white supremacy
20:01was the biggest domestic terror threat. Which, of course, is absurd. The statistics don't bear that
20:05out. But if you look at what the Biden administration did against the phantom threat of white supremacy,
20:11we actually need to take some of the lessons and say if there is funding sources that is going for
20:17this stuff, if you're an NGO and you're actually funding riots and other kinds of political violence,
20:23why wouldn't we go after that? Why wouldn't we cut off those funding sources? And why wouldn't we
20:27prosecute people who engage in violence? It's interesting, Jesse. The people who are saying
20:32this is this is the shop of stuff. They're calling us Nazis for saying that if you're funding or supporting
20:38left-wing violence, you ought to pay consequences for it. It really makes you think that the left has not
20:44done any of the soul-searching it has to do to actually deal with political violence in this country.
20:48Jasmine Crockett says, yeah, she calls people Hitler, but it doesn't mean she's responsible
20:54for any violence that happens. Well, I'd ask Jasmine Crockett,
20:57what is it that you want people to do when you call them Nazis? What is it that you want them to do
21:02when you call them fascists? What is the proper response when you say that Donald Trump and JD Vance
21:08and Charlie Kirk are threatening your safety? What do you expect people to do? This rhetoric
21:14is completely out of control and it's part of this entire network of violence that exists on the far
21:20left. You dehumanize your political opponents, you fund paid activists to go and harass them and
21:26terrorize them. We've had a White House senior staffer just in the past week who has had actual
21:31representatives of the Democratic Party going around passing leaflets trying to get his neighbors to
21:37harass him and showing people where he lives, where his wife lives, where his young family lives.
21:42If that's not political violence, if that's not political harassment, I don't know what the term
21:47means. Barack Obama says your White House is dividing the country and you're exploiting Kirk's
21:53death to attack Democrats. We're not exploiting Charlie Kirk's death to do anything except for
21:59achieve justice. And I think if Barack Obama, I haven't seen that comment, Jesse, but if he said that,
22:03that's absolutely disgusting. What we're trying to do is understand how young people are getting
22:08radicalized and who is funding all of these efforts at radicalization. We saw this in the summer of
22:132020. Now, thank God that wasn't primarily actually over 20 people. Over 20 people died in their riots in
22:21the summer of 2020. That is political terrorism. But it's not just the people who are killing the cops.
22:27It's not just the people who are engaging and throwing the Molotov cocktails and the riots.
22:32Where was the money coming from? Who was organizing this violent activity? That is not going after
22:37Democrats unless by implication you're saying every single Democrat is involved in planning
22:43political violence. If that's true, then the problem isn't on Barack Obama's side. We're going
22:48to get to the bottom of the truth and we're going to stop the political violence. And we're going to
22:52do it however we have to do it, of course, within the constitutional limits that Charlie loves so much.
22:57Joe Biden's FBI investigated Turning Point, investigated Charlie Kirk.
23:03I found out a couple of days ago, Jesse, that Joe Biden's FBI investigated a dear friend of mine who's
23:08a political consultant. They were sicking law enforcement after their political opponents
23:14every single day. It's an open secret at this point. We're talking about having law enforcement
23:20go after the people who engage in and fund literal violence. And they're saying somehow
23:25that's beyond the pale, even though we know Joe Biden's FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk.
23:30Maybe they should have been investigating the networks that motivated, inspired and maybe even
23:36funded Charlie Kirk's murder. If they had Charlie Kirk might be alive today.
23:40I'm glad we have transparency. We need transparency on this trial. Do you support putting cameras in the
23:47courtroom so we can see this assassin face justice? You know, I've never thought of that, Jesse,
23:52but sure, I support transparency in all ways. I think having the trial, you know, recorded,
24:00having it on TV, that strikes me as a good idea. But the most important thing I think that we can do
24:05as a government aside from reporting and actually televising the trial is we just have to be honest
24:10with people about what we're finding. And we're really trying to do that. Look,
24:13investigations are complicated and difficult. There's a fog of war where a lot of information
24:17comes in. We're trying to screen it. I've told this to cash. I've told this to our department of
24:22justice. The most important thing that we can do is just be honest about what we're finding,
24:27how we're finding it, when we're finding it, because I think that transparency is going to give
24:31people the faith that we're doing this the right way. Well, I'd like to thank you for joining us.
24:36I know this has been a tough time. We were very close with Charlie Kirk.
24:39And I'd also like to thank our Turning Point students over here for joining us.
24:44Why don't you guys give Charlie Kirk a nice round of applause.
24:49He was a good guy, Jesse. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President.
24:52Jimmy Kimmel, suspended by ABC. Wait until you hear what Trump just said.
25:05We planned well for retirement.
25:16You are a good man.
25:40Fox News alert. President Trump's reacting to Jimmy Kimmel getting yanked off the air
26:01after pinning Kirk's assassination on MAGA. Quote, great news for America. The ratings
26:06challenged Jimmy Kimmel's show is canceled. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the
26:12courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has zero talent and worse ratings than even Colbert,
26:18if that's possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers on fake news NBC.
26:23Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC. And this just in, ABC's largest affiliate group
26:32is going to be airing a tribute to Kirk in Kimmel's time slot on Friday.
26:40And another Fox News alert. Antifa, they're officially terrorists. Trump saying this,
26:46I am pleased to inform our many USA patriots that I am designating Antifa, a sick, dangerous,
26:51radical left disaster, as a major terrorist organization. I will also be strongly
26:57recommending that those funding Antifa be thoroughly investigated.
27:04Charlie Kirk was assassinated in front of thousands and millions more saw it online.
27:09Even Charlie Sheen called it a turning point.
27:13I think for this generation, I think that's their JFK moment. I mean, seriously.
27:19He didn't demean people. He didn't ridicule people. He, he, he didn't belittle or embarrass or,
27:25or, or, or, or gotcha. He showed up, um, you know, as, as, as prepared as you could have been,
27:32as passionate as you could have been.
27:35So instead of demanding justice or honoring Kirk, the media is romanticizing the homicide.
27:41I don't think I've ever experienced a press conference in which we've read text messages
27:46that are a so fulsome, so robust, so apparently, allegedly self-incriminating. And yet on the
27:51other hand, so touching, right? With the suspect reaching out to his roommate, who is his, allegedly
27:57his boyfriend. He was trying to protect him. He kept calling him my love, my, my reason for doing
28:01this is to protect you. Um, you know, but also asking him to delete the messages and not speak
28:07to law enforcement. So there's this, this heartbreaking duality that we're seeing,
28:11uh, very tragically playing out here. It was a murder, not a tragic love story.
28:17That ABC reporter was forced to apologize. Kamala Harris's ex-boyfriend, Montel Williams,
28:22feels very passionate about the assassination. He thinks it's a poetic tale about two star-crossed
28:30lovers. Love-torn child, a kid. This is probably his first real relationship.
28:37And somebody was disparaging the person that he loved. He sat on that building for 30 minutes
28:44before he took the shot. Why did he wait until the first word, trans, came up? Then he took
28:49the shot. I think this was a emotionally stunted person who literally, I want to say it this
28:56way, just hear me, tried to defend his significant other, not trying to defend some ideology.
29:02He killed Charlie Kirk out of true love to show his trans boyfriend. He had a big heart.
29:11Can you believe this? They're basically saying you can love so hard. You might have to kill.
29:18Then suddenly Obama comes out of nowhere and points his finger at Trump.
29:22When I hear, not just our current president, but his aides, who have a history of calling political
29:39opponents, vermin, enemies, who need to be targeted, that speaks to a broader problem that we have
29:57right now. Trump, Charlie, and Scalise have all been shot. And Obama and Kimmel are pointing fingers
30:05at us. Last night, after everything about this assassin came out, CNN still wouldn't admit why he did it.
30:14We don't have a motive yet. We don't know yet. We're waiting. Obviously, we've heard what the
30:17governor's had to say with the FBI director said today. Of course we know. Come on, we don't have a motive yet.
30:21We don't have a motive yet. Really? We know what's happening with...
30:23Really? That's CNN's position. He just happened to fire the gun in celebration.
30:28I'm not arguing with you politically. I'm saying that law enforcement has not put a specific motive.
30:32You know that there's a difference of what they're putting in a legal argument than what you're
30:36talking about. And you're not even... We're not even arguing.
30:40Fox & Friends Weekend co-host, Rachel Campos-Duffy. So, Rachel, Jimmy Kimmel, suspended indefinitely.
30:46There was a big uprising among the local affiliates. They just wouldn't air his program.
30:51How long do you think he'll be out for?
30:56I don't know. I mean, listen, I think the affiliates are speaking their mind, and I think
31:01that's great. I don't like seeing people canceled over speech, over any speech. I'm a free speech
31:08absolutist. But I think in his case, the ratings have to speak as well. And I think President Trump's
31:13ex-post or truth social speaks to that. And I think that matters as well in a capitalist society,
31:20which we still are. As far as the violence, and I loved what you had to say moving into this.
31:26I mean, violence has always been the vehicle of left-wing revolution. I mean, that's what they do.
31:33They've always been able to justify evil in the name of, quote-unquote, progress. And you just have
31:40to look at the history. And it's a long history, Jesse. Go back to the French Revolution. The Bolsheviks,
31:46Mao, Stalin, Lenin, the Spanish Civil War, Castro. Just think about on campus, Jesse,
31:53how many of those leftists and hipsters were wearing Che Guevara T-shirts, that iconic T-shirt.
32:01Che Guevara was an evil communist who ordered the execution of hundreds of political prisoners just
32:09because they didn't agree with his communist ideology. This is who they are.
32:17The gay romance twist of this assassination, I did not see coming. I never thought that the media
32:25would focus on the love affair and how love conquers all. And Charlie was just a victim of true love.
32:34Where does that come from? Well, first of all, we can't, we have to talk about the elephant in the room.
32:41It is the most bizarre text message. I've never seen a young person text like this as they're on the run
32:47after executing someone. It reads more like a civil war love romance letter than it does, you know,
32:54a text message between a fugitive essentially. So that doesn't make any sense at all. But of course,
33:01the left has to lionize their killers. This is what they do. Think about who their most recent
33:09heroes have been. It's been Kilmar Obrego Garcia, a gang member who beat up his girlfriend who was
33:18trafficking minors. They even flew out to El Salvador to drink margaritas with them. Or look
33:23at George Floyd, who I think is the equivalent of what Charlie Kirk is to the conservative movement.
33:30Charlie Kirk is a hero, a decent man, a Christian man with values, a real hero. Look at George Floyd,
33:37somebody who, as you know, was a drug addict and he put a gun to a woman's stomach. This is a pregnant
33:45woman's stomach in the middle of a robbery. These are their heroes. They're violent and they're
33:51trying to justify it. And guess what, guess what, Jesse? They're not buying it anymore. The American
33:57people aren't buying it. Yeah, I remember they put the Boston bomber on the cover of Rolling Stone
34:03and glamorized them. Yes, exactly. I wonder if they're going to do that to this assassin. Yeah,
34:07we'll see. We'll see. Rachel, good to talk to you. Thank you so much for joining us.
34:11Likewise, Jesse. Is Donald Trump becoming a king?
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