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01:36 Tech Prosperity Deal Strengthens U.S.-UK Ties
04:23 Trump Designates Antifa Major Terrorist Organization
06:41 Trump: Putin 'Really let me Down' Over War in Ukraine
09:00 Aid Truck Driver Opens Fire, Kill 2 Israelis
12:35 Students Return to Utah Valley University
16:04 ABC Halts 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' After Charlie Kirk Remarks
19:47 Citizens React: 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Show Suspended
22:22 FBI: Family Says Suspect Subscribed to Left Wing Ideology
33:23 Suspected Stalker Kills Three PA Police Officers
34:08 $153B in Profits: Illegal Marijuana Industry in U.S.
36:42 1 Month Since Federal Takeover of DC
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12:35 Students Return to Utah Valley University
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19:47 Citizens React: 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Show Suspended
22:22 FBI: Family Says Suspect Subscribed to Left Wing Ideology
33:23 Suspected Stalker Kills Three PA Police Officers
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36:42 1 Month Since Federal Takeover of DC
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00:00Welcome to NTD Evening News.
00:04Our top story tonight, President Trump bids farewell to the British royal family
00:08and meets Prime Minister Keir Starmer for a day of business.
00:11The two leaders sign a tech deal worth billions of dollars.
00:14Plus, the president makes a major announcement about Antifa.
00:18Malcolm Hudson and Mario Otsu have more on day two of Trump's second state visit to the UK.
00:24During that visit, President Trump says he's been let down by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
00:28Aryan Posdar has more on Trump's latest comments on the war in Ukraine.
00:34A truck driver carrying humanitarian aid shot and killed two Israelis in the West Bank.
00:40Meanwhile, a cell phone blackout across the Gaza Strip signals a possible escalation of Israeli ground operations.
00:47Jason Perry reports.
00:49Turning Point USA elects Charlie Kirk's widow Erica to be their new CEO and chair.
00:54And Utah Valley University reopens after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on campus last week.
01:01With an increased presence of law enforcement on patrol.
01:04Jack Bradley is there.
01:06ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel live over the comedian's comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
01:11Daniel Monaghan has more on the network's decision
01:13and what Vice President J.D. Vance says about people celebrating Kirk's death.
01:18This is NTD Evening News.
01:30Live from our global headquarters in New York City, here's Tiffany Meyer.
01:34Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight.
01:40With President Trump now on his way back from the UK, the tech prosperity deal between the U.S. and Britain
01:45is set to deepen historical and ancestral ties with hundreds of billions of dollars in investment.
01:51Britain is set to gain capital and infrastructure, while the U.S. seeks to draw from British creativity and innovation.
01:58NTD's international correspondent Malcolm Hudson has more for us from London.
02:02President Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hailed the deepening of their two nations' special relationship,
02:09saying a raft of deals worth some $340 billion had made those bonds unbreakable.
02:15Seven decades after British genius Alan Turing pioneered the field,
02:21this agreement will also help America and our British allies dominate the future of artificial intelligence.
02:28For Starmer, securing record levels of U.S. investment has validated his offer to Trump of an unprecedented second state visit.
02:37Seeing investments in the technology, finance and energy sectors, Trump has said he wants the U.S. to win the global AI race.
02:44With China the only real challenger in the space, Britain has chosen to align with its ally to secure the building of data centres and supercomputers.
02:53And just look at what we're achieving today together.
02:57The deals and investment that you're announcing today break all records.
03:04What a day.
03:05The investment is intended to help combine U.S. strengths in building AI infrastructure, capabilities and capital,
03:12with British innovation and creativity coming out of its universities, start-ups and major companies.
03:17Speaking at a business reception in London, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick explained the America First philosophy.
03:25He said it means America needs to get its house in order to be the richest and greatest nation on earth.
03:31We wear on our shoulders the light of capitalism, the light of freedom and the expectation that we will help the rest of the world.
03:45He told the reception that if the U.K. had followed America's lead with lighter regulations to enhance investments.
03:52The investments announced today would have been five times larger from the technology companies.
04:03That would have taken the investment to around $1.7 trillion instead of $340 billion.
04:09But Lutnick said the U.S. tech companies are afraid the U.K. is following Europe with tougher regulations,
04:16saying he hopes the U.K. follows America's path instead.
04:20Malcolm Hudson, NTD News, London.
04:23On the second day of his historic state visit, President Trump announcing a major move against Antifa.
04:29This whole, the president says his administration's been working to retake a base in Afghanistan from Taliban control.
04:36Entity's Mario Otsu has more from the White House.
04:39I told him, I said, Charlie, I think you have a good shot someday at being president.
04:44President Trump, on his historic second state visit to the U.K.,
04:48is thanking the British citizens who offered condolences after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
04:53But I hope that together our nations can lead a movement to defend the glorious traditions of freedom on both sides of the Atlantic.
05:00This, as the president announces, he's designating Antifa as a major terrorist organization.
05:06We're going to do a big thing with respect to Antifa.
05:09It's a sick group. I mean, very, very sick group.
05:12Antifa causes tremendous incitement.
05:15They're throwing bricks at cars of ICE and Border Patrol.
05:20While Antifa claims to oppose fascism, its members, often wearing all-black clothing and masks,
05:26have come under scrutiny for doxing and intimidation.
05:29The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on groups it says are fueling political violence.
05:35We have some pretty radical groups and they got away with murder.
05:38And in a moment of dissent, President Trump says he disagrees with Prime Minister Keir Starmer's expected move to recognize the Palestinian state.
05:46One of our few disagreements, actually.
05:48Although both leaders condemn Hamas.
05:50They're a terrorist organization who can have no part in any future governance in Palestine.
05:58And what happened?
05:59With President Trump saying he wants all the hostages back immediately.
06:03And for the first time, the president says his administration is trying to retake Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan
06:09after it fell into Taliban control after the 2021 U.S. withdrawal.
06:14We gave it to him for nothing.
06:16We're trying to get it back, by the way.
06:18As you know, it's an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.
06:22The president is back in Washington, D.C. tonight.
06:25And tomorrow, he's expected to talk to Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping
06:29and finalize a TikTok deal that could allow American investors to own the app and keep it alive in the U.S.
06:37Reporting from the White House, Mario Tzu, NTD News.
06:40President Trump says that Russian President Vladimir Putin has let him down.
06:46Bringing about peace in Ukraine is taking longer than Trump initially expected.
06:50NTD's international correspondent Arian Posdar has the latest on Trump's peace efforts.
06:56Because of my relationship with President Putin, but he's let me down.
07:00He's really let me down.
07:02President Trump is in the U.K. on Thursday, saying he's disappointed in Russian President Vladimir Putin.
07:09According to Trump, the U.S. managed to end various conflicts since he returned to office,
07:14for example, the fighting in the Congo.
07:17But Trump says he thought the easiest to end would be the Ukraine war, which turned out not to be the case.
07:23On Thursday, the president was asked whether his negotiations with Putin had reached a dead end.
07:28Well, he has let me down. I mean, he's killing many people, and he's losing more people than he's, you know, than he's killing.
07:36I mean, frankly, the Russian soldiers are being killed at a higher rate than the Ukrainian soldiers.
07:42Trump and Putin met in Alaska last month.
07:44It was their first direct meeting since Trump returned to office.
07:48But peace efforts haven't made notable progress since the summit.
07:52Trump was now asked if he's willing to impose further sanctions on Russia.
07:56The president pointed to a fact he's been mentioning often recently, that Europe should first stop buying oil from Russia.
08:04I'm willing to do other things, but not when the people that I'm fighting for are buying oil from Russia.
08:11If the oil price comes down, very simply, Russia will settle.
08:15The European Union is already looking at ways to phase out imports of Russian oil and gas by 2028.
08:21This week, the president of the European Commission had a phone call with Trump discussing those plans.
08:28She then said the EU would propose speeding up the phase-out of Russian fossil fuel imports.
08:33Later on Thursday, Trump further explained his stance while speaking with Fox News.
08:38When I saw that they were buying oil from Russia, I mean, I'm supposed to be coming in with the United States.
08:43And they were doing it quietly and slyly.
08:46And you can't do that, you know, if you're going to win, you're going to have to not buy oil from Russia.
08:51Trump often says that high oil prices are indirectly funding the war against Ukraine.
08:57Arian Pashtar, NTD News.
09:00In the Middle East, a truck driver carrying humanitarian aid opened fire on civilians in the West Bank, killing two Israelis.
09:08Meanwhile, Internet and phone service was cut off across the Gaza Strip.
09:12Some see it as a sign that Israel's ground operations would soon escalate.
09:17NTD's Jason Perry has the update.
09:20On Thursday, Israeli authorities blocked off roads in the West Bank near Jordan.
09:25And they closed the Al-Nbi crossing, which is the only crossing where Palestinians in the West Bank can cross into Jordan.
09:32Officials said a man driving a truck carrying humanitarian aid from Jordan opened fire and killed two Israelis in an apparent terrorist attack.
09:41And the terrorist was killed by Israeli security forces.
09:45Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, was meeting with the prime minister of Fiji when he broke the news.
09:50It's not an easy day.
09:52We just now, Israeli citizens were shot on their bridge with Jordan because terrorists want to derail our relations with Jordan.
10:01We send our heartfelt condolences to the families.
10:04This comes as Fiji just opened an embassy in Jerusalem.
10:08I was privileged to have met one of the hostages that was released earlier at NOAA.
10:18Met her in Washington earlier this year.
10:20Bless you.
10:21And on the same day, Israeli media reported that an attack drone that was launched from Yemen landed near a hotel in Israel.
10:29The drone's impact caused some damage, but no casualties were reported.
10:33Israeli forces have also been keeping a close eye on the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon.
10:40Israel reported striking multiple weapon storage facilities belonging to the Radwan Force, an elite operations unit of Hezbollah.
10:49The facilities were located in the center of populated areas, but Israel said they took steps to mitigate harm to civilians.
10:56Also on Thursday, smoke was seen rising near the shore of Gaza City after residents said Israeli forces struck the area.
11:05Local residents also said that Israeli tanks were seen in Gaza City, and at the same time, internet and phone service was cut off across the Gaza Strip.
11:14Some see it as a sign that ground operations would soon escalate, and that terrorists using cell phones would no longer be able to communicate with each other.
11:23And at the same time, the main hospital in Gaza City continues to operate.
11:28This is the emergency department.
11:30I have had to operate on patients as an anesthetist and bring them out here to recover.
11:35There are patients here who have been staying here for 24 hours with no dressing changes, and they're the simple ones who are not going to be looked after.
11:42Meanwhile, four Israeli soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as Israel tries to defeat the Hamas terrorist group and return the hostages.
11:52Jason Perry, NTD News.
11:55Coming up, Turning Point USA elects Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, to be their new CEO and chair.
12:01And Utah Valley University reopens after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on campus last week with an increased presence of law enforcement on patrol.
12:10Jack Bradley has the latest.
12:12And ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel live over the comedian's comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
12:18And Vice President J.D. Vance weighs in on people celebrating the young father's death.
12:23Daniel Wanahan reports when we come back.
12:25Welcome back.
12:36I'm Tiffany Meyer.
12:37Students are returning to Utah Valley University after conservative leader Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on the campus last week in front of thousands.
12:46NTD's Jack Bradley has more from the university.
12:49Students are returning to campus at Utah Valley University.
12:53As large memorials are set up, there are flags, flowers, and pictures of Charlie Kirk.
12:59And where he was speaking, there's a massive American flag hanging.
13:02Students can be seen writing messages with chalk all across the campus about the legacy Kirk left behind.
13:08There are also some mental health signs and stations set up throughout the campus for the students.
13:13It seems everyone here has been impacted.
13:16And I spoke earlier to one student who said he didn't like Charlie Kirk before the shooting.
13:20But afterwards, he started watching more of Kirk's videos online.
13:24And then he changed his mind.
13:26I did not like listening to him.
13:30I did not.
13:30From a distance, I thought he was just being contentious.
13:35Literally, that bull was fired.
13:37Everyone changed.
13:38He's there with Abraham Lincoln.
13:41Abraham Lincoln was assassinated for his political beliefs.
13:44Abraham Lincoln tried to mend the gap.
13:46He tried to unite people.
13:48Charlie, I now know for myself, after listening to reports of him, not what other people have said about him,
13:55how he treated other people that were different than him, who believed differently than him.
14:01He treated them with respect.
14:02He was consistent.
14:03The humanity in him is worth remembering because we're all humans.
14:08Many students tell me that this is not a normal day on campus as there are many empty classrooms
14:13with some teachers recording their classes to allow students to miss in person for a couple weeks
14:18while others are holding their classes entirely online.
14:22People are kind of coming together.
14:23People are mourning, you know.
14:25There's not a whole lot of, like, fighting right now.
14:28It's just...
14:28Everyone's talking about it.
14:29It's kind of impossible to be here and not talk about it.
14:33It feels like a lot of people realize very suddenly that life is short and precious,
14:39and we do have a lot of differences, but it's better to unite.
14:45It's been really nice seeing how everyone's come together despite the different political beliefs,
14:49and Charlie Kirk made it clear that his first duty was to God, and then his duty after that was to his family,
14:55and then obviously to politics after that.
14:57And I think we need more people that have their priorities in the divine, in God,
15:03and that they have a priority to establishing a family unit dedicated to God.
15:07Meanwhile, the organization that Charlie Kirk founded, Turning Point USA, will now be headed by his wife, Erica Kirk.
15:15The organization said that Kirk told many executives that this is what he would have wanted in the event of his death.
15:20If you thought that my husband's mission was powerful before, you have no idea.
15:29The organization said in a statement that the attempt to destroy Charlie's work
15:33will become our chance to make it more powerful and enduring than ever before.
15:38Reporting from Orem, Utah, Jack Bradley, NTD News.
15:43And this Sunday, NTD will present a live special coverage of Turning Point USA's memorial service
15:48for the late Charlie Kirk, a life of faith and conviction.
15:52President Trump and many others are scheduled to speak at the event.
15:55Join Steve Lance and myself for our pre- and post-memorial coverage,
16:00starting at 12 p.m. Eastern, only on NTD.
16:04And a late-night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, has been taken off the air indefinitely.
16:09ABC made the announcement yesterday following sharp backlash over Kimmel's controversial remarks
16:15about the assassination of Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk.
16:18NTD's Daniel Monaghan has more, including a wave of firings tied to insensitive reactions to Kirk's death.
16:28ABC says it's pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live from its schedule after the comedian's comments
16:33about Charlie Kirk's assassination sparked outrage.
16:36Kimmel referenced suspect Tyler Robinson in a monologue on ABC.
16:40The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them
16:47and doing everything they can to score political points from it.
16:51The suspect's mom says he became increasingly concerned about gay and transgender rights over the last year.
16:58Sinclair Broadcasting has announced that its ABC affiliates will now air a special tribute to Kirk
17:03in Kimmel's former time slot.
17:05Meanwhile, Nexstar Media Group, which operates 32 ABC affiliates, announced it will no longer carry the show,
17:12calling Kimmel's remarks offensive and insensitive at a critical time in the national political discourse.
17:19FCC Chairman Brendan Carr also weighed in during an interview with commentator Benny Johnson.
17:24In some quarters, there's a very concerted effort to try to lie to the American people.
17:32Carr says Kimmel appears to be trying to play into the narrative that Kirk's assassin was MAGA or Republican-motivated.
17:39And if that's what happened here with his conduct, that is really, really sick.
17:43President Trump reacted to the news on True Social, writing,
17:47congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.
17:51Meanwhile, an ABC reporter has apologized after describing text messages authorities say were exchanged
17:58between Charlie Kirk's alleged murderer and the man's boyfriend as very touching.
18:03Matt Gutman wrote on X that he was trying to underscore the jarring contrast
18:07between the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk and the personal disturbing texts.
18:13During the ABC broadcast, Gutman said the messages were, quote,
18:17Very touching, in a way that I think many of us didn't expect.
18:20A very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the suspect himself,
18:26with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him my love.
18:31Vice President J.D. Vance also weighed in, condemning individuals who publicly celebrated Kirk's death,
18:37speaking on Fox News.
18:38If you were the kind of person who feels joy at the death of a grieving mother and grieving children,
18:45what bad decisions have led you to where you are today?
18:49And why don't you get back on the right path?
18:52Vance says he's been glad to see civil society stand up
18:55and say there are consequences for celebrating the death of a young dad.
19:00We have a First Amendment in this country.
19:02The First Amendment protects a lot of very ugly speech.
19:05But if you celebrate Charlie Kirk's death, you should not be protected from being fired for being a disgusting person.
19:12That sentiment is playing out across the country.
19:16Multiple people have lost their jobs over posts related to Kirk's assassination.
19:20Auburn University confirmed several employees were terminated for posts described as hurtful, insensitive,
19:27and completely at odds with Auburn's values.
19:30Clemson University dismissed two faculty members,
19:33Florida Atlantic and the University of Miami reprimanded staff.
19:37And at Ball State University, the Director of Health Promotion and Advocacy was fired after a post she made about Kirk's death.
19:44Daniel Monahan, NTD News.
19:47And how do everyday Americans feel about Jimmy Kimmel's show being pulled?
19:51NTD's Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in D.C. to hear from the people.
19:55What was your initial feeling upon seeing what happened to Charlie Kirk last week?
19:59Sadness. Sadness that somebody lost their life over just the right to free speech.
20:05Yeah. And then, of course, she'd become angry. How come our nation has gotten to that point?
20:10An individual who's speaking freely about his beliefs and what core values are important to him
20:16and trying to instill a movement in the entire country can experience such a violent, gruesome act that was undeserved and extremely selfish.
20:28One thing I think about, because I'm the father of three daughters,
20:30about 20 years from now, Charlie Kirk's daughter is going to walk down the aisle.
20:35And rather than having Charlie there with her in what could be her most wonderful day,
20:42there's either going to be no one there or it'll be someone other than her biological father.
20:47Unfortunately, that seems to be where we are in this country where, you know,
20:51people can't, you know, share ideas and disagreements without erupting into some kind of hatred and violence.
20:59And what are your thoughts on this whole thing about Jimmy Kimmel getting taken off air?
21:01I think that free speech is amazing. That's why we have the beautiful gift of living in America.
21:09But I think that with free speech, you're not free from the consequences of free speech.
21:14When you are not employed by yourself and you work for any corporation,
21:20that you have to keep in mind that there will be a consequence for your opinion.
21:24I understand that there are certain responsibilities in that case, but based on what he said,
21:28he was completely wrong. But at the same time, I think it was improper to cancel him.
21:33To me, he just straight up lied. You know, he said that was a MAGA related and that had nothing to do with that.
21:40I mean, even his own parents said that he had been left leaning and he had been radicalized.
21:45So for him to come out and have that audience and to straight up lie, it was reprehensible.
21:51The media has kind of fallen in my eyes. I don't try and fall because it's just a lot of it just gets so lost.
21:58It'd be nice something like where some Jimmy Kimmel saying this horrible stuff get confronted.
22:03These guys kind of, I think, get a certain feel for like they're untouchable.
22:08And then you realize, oh, maybe I can be replaced.
22:11Be replaced with any other funny person any other time.
22:14And so, you know, Jimmy's one of them that obviously felt like maybe he could do whatever he wants and then nope.
22:22And earlier this week, NTD's Don Ma spoke to Taylor Hawthorne from the Independent Women's Forum
22:27and Colin Wright of Reality's Last Stand about how calling for political violence
22:32has become normalized from certain groups and individuals on the left.
22:37Taylor, let me start with you today.
22:39There appears to be a rising normalization of violence in certain left political wing circles.
22:48There's evidence of extremism in this latest shooting.
22:51And we could look back to at the George Floyd riots to see how violence was justified by so-called social justice advocates.
22:58How did we get here?
23:00I want to make a very important point that I don't see a lot of people talking about.
23:05And this is a point that I'm innately aware of because of my work at Young America's Foundation years ago.
23:11But this is not a new concept and this is not a new reality.
23:14The left has been calling people in the right Nazis and fascists since Barry Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan.
23:21So this is not a new concept.
23:22It's just unfortunately where we are now.
23:26Colin, what do you think about all this?
23:28How did we get here?
23:29So, I mean, I agree this is kind of a long history, but I think there's been an upsurge in this in probably the last decade that we haven't seen before.
23:40So in the early 2010s, this is when I first started seeing this sort of extreme rhetoric on college campuses when I was attending UC Davis, for example.
23:49This was mostly from many like activist oriented students.
23:53I just remember extreme labels like sexist, racist, white supremacist, even Nazi and fascist just being applied across the board, totally willy nilly to individuals with just very minor views, questioning left wing narratives about the gender wage gap or open borders policies, things like that.
24:11But this also went really virally mainstream, I think, in 2017, where we had the actual racist Richard Spencer get get punched in the face when he was out in public.
24:21And this spurred the whole is it OK to punch a Nazi sort of question that went around the country.
24:26And many on the left said yes.
24:28But then many of us also warned that, well, we don't really trust the left to maintain rigid definitions of things because, you know, right now they can't really define what a woman is anymore.
24:38Their definitions tend to expand.
24:39And so Nazi became fascist, fascist became just this general term for anyone that kind of disagrees with us on anything.
24:48And many people like Barry Weiss, they warned against this stuff.
24:50So our youth have been steeped in this type of rhetoric for about a decade now.
24:55And I think we're really seeing the fruits of that because this is parroted in many big political campaigns as well, just calling the opponents Nazis.
25:03So when when young people hear that Nazis are the worst thing in the world, they're genocidal and that half the country is supporting of Nazis, we really shouldn't be surprised when people take that seriously and take matters into their own hands and grab a gun.
25:17Taylor. So you said that this has been happening for a while now.
25:20But do you think this time is different?
25:22You know, you have a very prominent person being shot in the neck and in front of thousands.
25:28And on social media, you can find users celebrating his death.
25:31I think on the right, we're generally not people who make a big fuss about a lot of things.
25:37We want to believe our beliefs and we want to protect our families and our communities.
25:41And I think the reason that it feels different now is because we have hit a boiling point where this is not appropriate anymore.
25:47And it's not something that those of us on the right are going to stand for any longer.
25:51You cannot assassinate someone because their words hurt your feelings.
25:54You cannot assassinate someone, period.
25:57But we have got to get to a point where left, right and center, that is rhetoric that we all can agree with and understand that you cannot die for promoting Western values of democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, expression, individualism.
26:12These things are things that are core tenets of our personality and who we are as Americans and who the rest of the world should strive to be and also looks to us to set an example as.
26:22So, do you see this as something that is perhaps amplified by social media, Colin?
26:33Because, you know, the things that's happening on social media, these comments, you know, sometimes they're so terrible.
26:41I have a hard time imagining, you know, in real life, a person saying this to another person to their face.
26:48So talk to us about the role that social media is playing in all of this.
26:53I think it's playing an absolutely massive role in all of this because, you know, before in the past, when you had crazy extreme views, it might be hard to actually find others who agree with you.
27:05Now we have, you know, we have social media, you know, X, we have Blue Sky, there's Parler.
27:12Basically, you can just go wherever you want to these little internet enclaves that are completely sealed off ideologically from the outside.
27:21So they're not getting any pushback from other people.
27:23They're allowed to just fester and feed off one another in these communities.
27:26And so whenever someone says something extreme, there's no one to say, hey, that's actually extreme.
27:32It's all just self-reinforcing.
27:34And so this is what we're seeing now.
27:35We're seeing just this sectioning off of people into these ideological bubbles.
27:40There's zero crosstalk.
27:41And when there's no one using words to communicate with one another, words are all we have to bridge that gap between violence.
27:50And so when the words are off the table, that's when the bullets begin to fly.
27:54And I think that's kind of what we're seeing right now.
27:56Taylor, can I get a response to what you just heard?
28:01Yeah, I mean, I studied journalism and media trends in college.
28:04And, you know, my professors, albeit more leftist, warned about this even 10, 15 years ago, that this is a path we were going down if we didn't have baseline taxonomies about what some of these things meant, what these words meant, how we used them, the respect that we chose to show each other.
28:23And don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that we on the right need to bend a knee and just, you know, simply only pray for people.
28:32There are responsibilities and duties that we have as Americans to vocalize our opinion and to answer a call when it is given to us.
28:40But I do think that we need to come together and get to a point where we can understand and agree that this is wrong and there is a person behind that screen.
28:50I think Charlie Kirk was a perfect example of someone who wasn't afraid to come out from behind the screen and communicate to people about things that he disagreed with.
29:00And the thing that he said that just stays stuck in my head is a society or a relationship or, you know, any kind of dynamic that doesn't communicate is where you start getting into trouble and where you crumble.
29:13I grew up in the Middle East and I have so many fun, fun, great, fond memories of my time in the Middle East.
29:20I'd moved back there in a heartbeat. But we did not have freedom of expression.
29:25We did not have these ideals. My modern world history textbooks had the pages about the Holocaust ripped out of them.
29:32And I think that that's incredibly, incredibly important for Americans who haven't traveled abroad to understand that that could be us.
29:41You know, it's it's incredibly arrogant of us to think that could never be us just because of the principles that we have and what we currently employ.
29:49But it can be us if good men and good women do nothing.
29:52You know, Colin, Charlie Kirk would have these debates on college campuses and sometimes they can get really heated.
30:01You can disagree with him. That's fine. If you want to have influence like he did, you you open your own platform.
30:08You do your own research. You bring counter arguments.
30:10You go to college campuses if you want to, like Charlie Kirk did.
30:14I would imagine you would get plenty of support regardless of what you stood for.
30:19What you don't do is shoot that person in the neck and I believe in front of his kids and wife.
30:28I agree. I mean, college campuses have somehow become some of the most anti free speech locations on the planet, especially in the Western Western world now,
30:38where they historically have been some of the most open venues for free speech.
30:44Charlie Kirk has been trying to push back against that, as I have over the last, you know, seven to 10 years of speaking on controversial issues.
30:52And he was doing it the right way. He was going to college campuses where you should be exposed to other views, where you should have your beliefs challenged,
31:00where you should be just, you know, you should be caused to think about things in a deep, deep way.
31:06This is what universities are supposed to be. It's supposed to be like this, this community of scholars who are debating and uncovering truth.
31:14Universities have really got off their mission of being disseminators of truth into organizations that discover truth and foster communication to discover truth.
31:24And they've just really kind of bent to this orthodoxy where they silence opponents.
31:28So it's extremely sad. But I think, you know, we just need to take Charlie's leave.
31:33We need to pick up where he left off, because, again, if we just say we're not going to go on campuses and talk anymore, well, they win.
31:40And then we're not talking. And this is when violence begins to escalate.
31:43So we can't let it get to that point.
31:46OK, Taylor, we just have about 30 seconds here.
31:49And if there's any bright spot here, it would be the thousands of people that are showing up for vigils for Charlie this weekend.
31:58Any comments on that?
32:00I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the vigil at the Kennedy Center last night in Washington, D.C.
32:05It was an incredible display of people.
32:08I met several people on the left who actually attended who just wanted to show reverence to Charlie's legacy
32:14and what this means for us as a nation moving forward and how we need to band together
32:20and even in our ideological debates, be willing to have a discussion.
32:24I actually got this little votive candle that's above me while we were there.
32:29And I put it on my bookshelf back here to remind me every time I go on air
32:32and any time I'm writing something about why I'm doing what I'm doing
32:35and what we're doing as a community to try to make sure that we save this great nation.
32:41OK, Taylor, Colin, thank you so much both for coming on today.
32:49Coming up, it's been one month since President Trump took federal control over Washington, D.C.
32:53as part of his crackdown on crime.
32:56Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are now examining those efforts.
32:59Jason Blair has the highlights from today's hearing.
33:02And criminal networks linked to the Chinese Communist Party
33:05have one of the most secure and sophisticated communication systems in the U.S.
33:10That's according to a House subcommittee hearing today.
33:13Luis Martinez reports when we come back.
33:23Welcome back.
33:24I'm Tiffany Meyer, a suspected stalker shot and killed three police officers yesterday afternoon
33:30as they responded to a call in southern Pennsylvania.
33:33Authorities say the suspect had been waiting in his ex-girlfriend's home
33:37to ambush the first responders.
33:39York County District Attorney Tim Barker said the shooter immediately opened fire.
33:44A fourth officer was wounded and remains hospitalized.
33:48Police killed the suspect, 24-year-old Matthew James Ruth, at the scene.
33:52Another officer was killed in York County in February
33:55when a man armed with a pistol and zip ties took hostages at a hospital's intensive care unit.
34:02Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro responded to the shooting,
34:04saying, quote,
34:05Congress today examined the influence that the Chinese Communist Party
34:13has over criminal networks in North America.
34:15Our Washington correspondent, Luis Eduardo Martinez, has the details.
34:20Criminal organizations, the best ones are the hardest to catch.
34:24They have a proficiency of layering in camouflage.
34:27They've become so successful, as to exactly what you said,
34:30because they're being controlled by the top echelon of Chinese organized crimes.
34:35The illegal market of marijuana in the United States
34:37produces approximately $153 billion worth of profits
34:41for transnational criminal organizations.
34:44And CCP-linked Chinese nationals have taken over the money laundering
34:48and production aspect of this criminal enterprise in the U.S.
34:52Let's paint the picture together.
34:53A group of Chinese nationals affiliated with a foreign criminal organization
34:58crosses the southern border, makes their way into rural Oklahoma.
35:03With them are workers who have been lured under the false promise of good jobs in the United States.
35:09In a matter of days, this newly purchased land becomes the site of a large-scale illegal marijuana grow operation.
35:15It is estimated that during the previous administration, some 200,000 Chinese nationals entered the United States illegally.
35:23And CCP-linked Chinese nationals use WeChat, which is beyond the reach of the U.S. authorities,
35:29to create sophisticated criminal networks.
35:31Being the Chinese suppliers of precursor chemicals used in fentanyl production in Mexico,
35:36becoming the primary money launderers for the Mexican cartels,
35:40which have been recently designated as FTOs, human trafficking networks,
35:45global operations that corrupt government authorities, wildlife trafficking networks,
35:51and of course, Chinese-controlled marijuana cultivation.
35:54CCP-linked criminal networks have reduced the cost of money laundering for Mexican cartels
35:59from 10% of profits to 2% of profits.
36:02Despite the success rate in border protection and law enforcement of the Trump administration,
36:06house Democrats have blamed the president for the proliferation of these criminal networks.
36:11Trump's occupation of America's largest city is reducing the federal government's ability
36:19to pursue serious, complex crimes.
36:25It's important to know that the Trump administration has designated Mexican cartels
36:29as foreign terrorist organizations, unleashing the use of the Department of War
36:33and its assets to tackle these criminal networks.
36:36Reporting from Washington, D.C., Luis Eduardo Martinez, NTD News.
36:42It's been 30 days since President Trump took federal control of D.C. police
36:47as part of a crackdown on crime.
36:49Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser testified before House lawmakers about the effort.
36:53NTD correspondent Jason Blair has the highlights.
36:57Since President Trump mobilized the National Guard
36:59and took control of the Metropolitan Police Department,
37:01violent crime has decreased 39 percent, robberies are down 57 percent,
37:07and carjackings are down 75 percent.
37:10President Trump is obsessed with trying to run Washington, D.C.
37:15And if President Trump wants to run Washington, D.C.,
37:18he should resign as president and run for mayor.
37:21A week after the end of President Donald Trump's one-month takeover of law enforcement
37:25in Washington, D.C., House Oversight Committee lawmakers bring in D.C. officials,
37:31including the D.C. mayor, to examine the effort.
37:34Mayor Bowser says that crime has been dropping over the past few years.
37:37In each of the past two years, we have driven down crime.
37:41In 2023, we finished the year 35 percent down.
37:45Last year, we finished the year, I believe, 24 percent down.
37:49And all throughout this year, we were driving down to more than a 20 percent decrease in violent crime.
37:55Many committee Republicans described long-term issues with juvenile crime in D.C.
38:01So in 2021, two teenage girls brutally murdered their Uber driver.
38:04They literally called the Uber, they lured him in, they ran over him with his own car,
38:08and when they turn 21, they will be let out.
38:11So they're going to get three, four, five years for murdering someone intentionally.
38:14As well as underreported crime.
38:16So we have highly credible reports and evidence that crime data in D.C. has been underreported,
38:22and there could be very likely a conspiracy to cook the books.
38:25And many committee Democrats didn't like how the Trump administration's
38:29federal takeover of D.C. law enforcement played out.
38:32Let's see how this money is being used.
38:35Trump says it's for fighting crime.
38:37But here's a guardsman carrying trash.
38:40Here's a guardsman mowing the lawn.
38:44Here's a very nice gentleman, a guardsman carrying a leaf blower.
38:49Honorable work, certainly.
38:51But this is not why the taxpayers fund the National Guard.
38:55I had one person tell me that their kids play soccer on the weekends,
38:59and they had National Guardsmen at their soccer practice just hanging out,
39:02and the kids got scared.
39:04And looking ahead, during the hearing, a motion to subpoena FCC Chairman Brendan Carr
39:08to come testify before the committee was tabled,
39:11after the committee chairman and ranking members said that they would meet
39:14to discuss bringing Carr in to testify without the motion.
39:18This is following ABC's decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel Live,
39:23citing Kimmel's remarks regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
39:27Reporting from Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News.
39:32Coming up, Ticketmaster and Live Nation are facing a major lawsuit
39:36from the Federal Trade Commission.
39:38They're accused of raising ticket prices and working with scalpers.
39:41Christina Corona reports when we return.
39:44Welcome back.
39:53I'm Tiffany Meyer.
39:54The Federal Trade Commission is suing Ticketmaster and Live Nation,
39:57accusing them of inflating ticket prices and working with scalpers.
40:02Seven other states have joined the lawsuit.
40:04NTD's Christina Corona has more on the story.
40:07The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster
40:11and its parent company, Live Nation, the Beverly Hill-based firms are accused
40:15of deceiving artists and fans about ticket resales.
40:19The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Federal Court, claims the companies work with scalpers
40:24who illegally bought tickets in bulk to boost profits.
40:27The FTC says seven other states have joined the case.
40:31The complaint also says that Ticketmaster and Live Nation advertised lower prices,
40:36but fans had to pay more at checkout.
40:37The companies also claim to have strict limits on ticket sales,
40:41but brokers easily bought extra tickets and then resold them for higher prices.
40:46The FTC says this has cost fans millions and prevented artists from keeping ticket prices affordable.
40:52FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said live entertainment should be accessible to families,
40:57not priced out of reach.
40:59Ticketmaster controls about 80% of major venue ticketing,
41:03and consumers spent more than $82 billion on its platform from 2019 to 2024.
41:09The FTC and the states are asking the court to impose civil penalties
41:13and require Ticketmaster to provide additional monetary relief to consumers.
41:18Ticketmaster and Live Nation have not yet responded to requests for comment.
41:22Reporting from the city of Almani, Christina Corona, NTD News.
41:26Haley's half of America's youth are using AI chatbot companions as friends,
41:31and the implications are troubling.
41:34Tonight on Capitol Report with Steve Lance,
41:36here from Mitch Prinstein, Chief of Psychology, Strategy and Integration
41:39for the American Psychological Association.
41:42Tune in at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.
41:45And that's all for today's news.
41:46For around-the-clock coverage, visit us at NTD.com slash live
41:50or download our NTD app.
41:52Thanks for tuning in.
41:53I'm Tiffany Meyer.
41:54Good night.
41:56Good night.
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